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If you write, you've got to
read. That's the rule.
On any given day, I can
choose between two newspapers, six magazines, three
newsletters, four hundred contemporary online lit mags, or thirty
shelves of hard cover books and a box of perfectly good hand-me-down
paperbacks.
I usually have a few going at
the same time and one on CD for the car. Add in my growing
addiction for quirky and amusing blogs and bizarre websites, I
figure I must read four to seven hours a day.
But it's the books that count
in the long run, isn't it? And sure, some books are for
research, some for assigned book club reads, some because a friend
shoved it on me and said. "Here. Read this. You'll love it," and
since I stink at lying, I have to read it.
Some I bought at the library
book sale or ordered with gift certificates or brought home because
I thought I was "supposed" to read them, like when you meet the
author and feel you owe them at least a few hours of your day.
Most of these books I really,
really liked and yes, I finished them all.
Books
2008
Glimmer Train Stories
Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
A Poisoned Season, Tasha Alexander
Bleeding Hearts, Ian Rankin
The People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Ten Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini
Seeing me Naked, Liza Palmer
The Granta New Book of The
American Short Story
The Woods, Harlen Coben
Tin House #34
The Blue Door, David Fulmer
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Keep, Jennifer Egan
Someday This Pain Will Be
Useful To You, Peter Cameron
The Girls Guide to Hunting and
Fishing, Melissa Bank
Bad Bad, Chelsey Minnis
Osprey Island, Thisbe Nissen
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth
Gilbert
Blue Diary, Alice Hoffman
Fence, Fall- Winter
2007-08
Yes Master, Michael Earl
Craig
Tin House #35
Days of the Endless Corvette,
Man Martin
House of Meetings, Martin Amis
The Pillars of the
Earth, Ken Follett
Reading Like a Writer,
Francine Prose
Earthly Pleasures, Karen
Neches
The Romance Readers Book Club,
Julie L. Cannon
The Pulpwood Queen's Guide to
Life, Kathy Patrick
In
process/queued up:
Naming the World
From Where you Dream
Burning Down the House
McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes
Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman
The Memory of Water, Karen White
Jernigan, David Gates
The Ten Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer
Books
2007
The Lincoln Lawyer,
Michael Connelly ****
Limitations, Scott Turow **
I like you, Amy Sedaris ****
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho ***
Self Storage, Gayle Brandeis ***
Queen of Broken Hearts, Cassandra
King **
Tin House 30 ****
Novel Voices, ed. by Jennifer
Levasseur & Kevin Rabalais ***
Stray, Sheri Joseph ***
Skylight Confessions, Alice Hoffman****
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim
Edwards ****
Savannah Breeze, Mary Kay Andrews
****
Kabul Beauty School, Deborah
Rodriguez **
The Land of Mango Sunsets, Dorothea
Benton Frank**
TINHOUSE #31 ***
gods in Alabama, Joshilyn Jackson
****
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter
****
Beach Music, Pat Conroy ***
Romanov's Prophecy, Steve Berry **
Tale of 2 Sisters, Anna Maxted **
Soloman and Lord, Paul Levine ****
Savannah Blues, Mary Kay Andrews ****
East of Eden, John
Steinbeck ****
Between the Tides, Patti
Callahan Henry **
To The Power of Three, Laura Lippman
****
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane
Setterfield ****
Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier ***
If Truth Be Told, Lynda Fitzgerald **
Sweet Home Carolina, T. Lynn Ocean
***
Seek The Living, Ashley Warwick ****
Cold Rock River, J.L. Miles ***
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen ****
TIN HOUSE #32
Carol Shields Collected Stories,
Carol Shields
Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Madmen in Work Shirts, George
Singleton
Confesssions of a Recovering Slut,
Hollis Gillespie
The Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in
New England, Brock Clarke
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming,
Joshilyn Jackson
Tooth and Claw, TC Boyle
Tin House #33
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammet
Books 2006
The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew
Sean Greer
Runaway, Alice Munro
A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana
Gabaldon
The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
i am no one you know,
Joyce Carol Oates
The Memory Of Running,
Ron McLarty
The Love Wife, Gish Jen
Life Studies, Susan
Vreeland
Novel, George Singleton
Anansi Boys, Neil
Gaiman
Teacher Man, Frank
McCourt
She Got Up off the Couch,
Haven Kimmel
Little Children, Tom
Perrotta
The Girl In Hyacinth,
Susan Vreeland
The Book Thief, Markus
Zusak
Best Short Stories 2005,
edited by Michael Chabon
Rampart Street, David
Fulmer
In the Hand of Dante,
Nick Tosches
The Tenth Circle, Jodie
Picoult
When Light Breaks, Patti
Callahan Henry
Blue Gold, Clive
Cussler
On Beauty, Zadie Smith
Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Baby Proof, Emily
Giffin
Possible Side Effects,
Augusten Burroughs
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Soul Circus, George
Pelecanos
One Mississippi, Mark
Childress
The Diviners, Rick
Moody
Tin
House 26
Tin House 27
Tin
House 28
Tin
House 29
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Amy
Krouse Rosenthal
The Whole World Over, Julia Glass
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel,
Amy Hempel
The Widow of the South, Robert Hicks
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
Reversible Errors, Scott Turow
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
The Last Girls, Lee
Smith
Books 2005
The Kite Runner, Khaled
Hosseini
Where I'm Calling From,
Raymond Carver
The Davinci Code, Dan
Brown
Everything is Illuminated,
Jonathan Safran Foer
The Same Sweet Girls,
Cassandra King
The Canterbury Tales,
Geoffrey Chaucer
Light on Snow,
Anita Shreve
Snobs, Julian
Fellowes
The Cabinet of Curiosities,
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Close Range, Annie
Proulx
The Handyman,
Carolyn See
Island Trilogy, Gordon
Korman
Bringing Down the
House, Ben Mezrich
Plan B, Anne
Lamott
The Red Hat Club Rides Again,
Haywood Smith
The Corrections,
Jonathan Franzen
Bhagavad-Gita, As It Is,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami prabhupāda
One False Move, Harlan
Coben
Something Borrowed,
Emily Giffin
Don't Move, Margaret
Mazzantini
The Vanished Man,
Jeffrey Deaver
Where the River Runs,
Patti Callahan Henry
The 9/11 Omission Report,
David Ray Griffin
The Color of Light, Karen
White
This Boy's Life, Tobias
Wolff
Self-editing for
fiction writers, Browne and King
The O. Henry Prize Stories,
2005
Rumi, The Book of Love,
Translated by Coleman Barks
The Broker, John Grisham
The Paris Review Book of
Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal...
The History of Love,
Nicole Krauss
The Boy Who Loved Anne
Frank, Ellen Feldman
Broken For You,
Stephanie Kallos
Blood work,
Michael Connelly
Goodbye Jimmy Choo,
Annie Saunders
The Woodsman's Daughter,
Gywn Hyman Rubio
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
Oryx and Crake, Margaret
Atwood
Willful Creatures, Aimee
Bender
Girls' Poker Night, Jill
A. Davis
The City of Falling Angels,
John Berendt
Sweetwater Creek, Anne
Rivers Siddons
For Women Only, Shaunti
Feldhahn
Chasing the Devil's Tail,
David Fulmer
Jass, David Fulmer
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
The Time Traveler's Wife,
Audrey Neffenegger
The Innocent, Harlen Coben,
Bel Canto, Anne Patchett
Spook, Mary Roach
Something Blue, Emily
Giffin
Never Let Me Go,
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Rabbit Factory,
Larry Brown
Books 2004
wintering , Kate Moses
The Whore's Child,
Richard Russo
Midnight in the Garden of
Good and Evil, John Berendt
Elegance, Kathleen
Tessaro
The Bride Stripped Bare,
Anonymous
What We Won't Do, Brock
Clarke
Sam the Cat,
Matthew Klam
Conversations with my Agent,
Rob Long
King Suckerman, George
Pelecanos
Riding the Rap, Elmore
Leonard
Cold Mountain, Charles
Frazier
The Secret History,
Donna Tartt
When the Finch Rises,
Jack Riggs
How to Be Alone,
Jonathan Franzen
Light Years, James
Salter
The Miracle Life of Edgar
Mint, Brady Udall
Small Town, Lawrence
Block
Aloft, Chang-rae Lee
The Vendetta Defense,
Lisa Scottoline
Blue Shoe, Anne Lamott
Caramelo, Sandra
Cisneros
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Creating Fiction,
Checkoway
The Devil in the White City,
Erik Larson
Personal Injuries, Scott
Turow
Fortresses of Savannah,
John Walker Guss
The Tortilla Curtain,
T.C. Boyle
Getting Mother's Body,
Suzan-Lori Parks
Europe From A Backpack,
edited by Mark Pearson
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,
ZZ Packer
Pavilion of Women, Pearl
S. Buck
The Prosecution, D.W.
Buffa
In the River Sweet,
Patricia Henley
Middlesex, Jeffrey
Eugenides
Peace Like a River,
Leif Enger
Fatal Treasure, Jedwin
Smith
Stranger than Fiction,
Chuck Palahniuk
Wonderland, Michael
Bamberger
I Love Everybody, Laurie
Notaro
CivilWarLand in bad decline,
George Saunders
Mary Telfair, The Life and
Legacy of a Nineteenth Century Woman, Charles J. Johnson, Jr.
Yoga For People Who Can't Be
Bothered To Do It, Geoff Dyer
Bleachy-haired Honky Bitch,
Hollis Gillespie
Genesis, Jim Crace
Losing the Moon, Patti
Callahan Henry
Foul Matter, Martha
Grimes
Be Like Water, Joseph
Cardillo
Candy Freak, Steve
Almond
One Hundred Years of
Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
A Perfect Evil,
Alex Kava
The Dive From Clausen's Pier,
Ann Packer
Playing With Boys, Alisa
Valdes-Rodriguez
Larry's Party, Carol Shields
Early Leaving, Judy
Goldman
The Father's Club,
Jon Katz
Best American Short Stories
of 2004, Lorrie Moore, Editor
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