Summer break is almost here. There is one week left in the semester. After that, I am free!!!!!!! I am free to leave my view of the beautiful Flatirons in Boulder, CO. I am free to stare at the ocean in South Carolina. I am free to visit family in North Carolina. I may work in a little extra travel somewhere else before the summer is over. Excited. It's the best word to sum up my feelings, but travel is not the only reason.
Summer is also the time for pleasure reading. I have a good stack of books ready to go, but they will not fill the void. So I took a list of the top 100 books in the past ten years, and I pruned it down to 29 that I would love to read. The problem is that I can't afford to buy them all, and I love writing in my books too much to borrow one from the library. I need help. Below is my list, can anyone recommend or warn me against any of the following:
1) The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by Jon Ronson
2) The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
3) How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
4) I'll Be Right There
by Kyung-Sook Shin
5) The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by Tom Reiss
6) Everything I Never Told You: by Celeste Ng
7) The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
8) Redeployment
by Phil Klay
9) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
by Robin Sloan
10) The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
11) We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
12) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
13) Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
14) Men We Reaped: A Memoir
by Jesmyn Ward
15) Before I Fall
by Lauren Oliver
16) Submergence
by J. M. Ledgard
17) Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
18) The Good Lord Bird
by James McBride
19) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
20) Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
by Jeff VanderMeer
21) Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
22) 11/22/63
by Stephen King
23) Boy, Snow, Bird
by Helen Oyeyemi
24) Cleopatra: A Life
by Stacy Schiff
25) Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell
26) People Who Eat
Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets
of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
by Richard Lloyd Parry
27) Skippy Dies
by Paul Murray
28) Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
29) Open City
by Teju Cole
I look forward to your recommendations. You can leave them here, my inbox, or facebook.
Friday, April 24, 2015
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