Whenever someone recommends a book to me I say “Ok. I’ll put it on my list.” Well here is my list. I don’t think it will put an end to the endless pieces of scrap paper with titles scribbled on them, but at least I can’t lose this list!
Fiction
Gravity – Leanne Lieberman
Marcelo in the Real World – Francisco Stork
Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta
If I Stay – Gayle Forman
Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry
Boys in the Trees – Mary Swan
Someone to Run With – David Grossman
Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
Strange Happenings – Avi
Confessions of a Teen Sleuth ~ Chelsea Cain
Pride of Baghdad – Brian Vaughan
Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
Story of the Treasure Seekers – Nesbitt
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran – Eric Emmanuel Schmitt
Incantation – Alice Hoffman
Brother’s Karamozov – Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
Book of Chameleons – Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Librarians of Alexandria: Tale of Two Sisters – Alessandra Lavagnino
Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Gate of the Sun – Elias Khoury
Requiem, MA – John Dufresne
Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin
Bird Artist – Howard Norman
The Arrival – Shaun Tan
Blood Kin – Ceridwen Dovey
The Case of the Exploding Mangoes – Mohammed Hanif
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone – Sasa Stanisic
Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
Heretic’s Daughter – Kathleen Kent
Toss of a Lemon – Padma Viswanathan
Non-Fiction
Books – Larry McMurtry
Bend the Rules Sewing – Amy Karol
How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children’s Books – Joan Bodger
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy – Leonard Marcus
Flower Confidential – Amy Stewart
Truck: A Love Story ~ Michael Perry
Wanderlust: A History of Walking ~ Rebecca Solnit
Classes on Modern Poets and the art of poetry ~ James Dickey
Robbing the Bees ~ Holley Bishop
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read – Pierre Bayard
Art of Fiction – John Gardner
Berryman’s Shakespeare – John Berryman
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Jean-Domonique Bauby
Comfort – Ann Hood
Palestine Inside Out – Saree Makdisi
Vertical Garden – Patrick Blanc
Ambivalence – Jonathan Garfinkel
Far Appalachia – Noah Adams
Life of the Skies – Jonathan Rosen
Métro Stop Paris: An Underground History of the City of Light – Gregor Dallas
Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland – Barbara Sjoholm
Voyage of the Turtle: in pursuit of the Earth’s last dinosaur ~ Carl Safina
Eye of the Albatross: visions of hope and survival ~ Carl Safina
Poetry
Republic of Poetry – Martin Espada
Charles Olson – Maximus Poems
Anne Bradstreet
John Berryman – Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, Dream Songs
W.S. Di Piero – Chinese Apples
Matt Donovan – Vellum
Bin Ramke -Tendril
Lisa Williams – Woman Reading to the Sea
Unmentionables – Beth Ann Fennelly
Parenting
Unconditional Love – Alfie Kohn
Power of Play – David Elkind
New York Times Essential Library: Children’s Movies
Nurture the Nature – Michael Gurian
The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain – Louis Cozolino
First Art: Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos
