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I've tried to confine my enthusiasm to the books I loved the very best, though it's often a tough choice.
 
2009

American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
After the Fire, a Still, Small Voice, by Evie Wylde
I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
City of Thieves, by David Benioff

2010

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Interrogative Mood, by Padgett Powell 
Homer and Langley, by E.L. Doctorow 
The Financial Lives of the Poets, by Jess Walter 
Requiem, Mass., by John Dufresne 
Lean On Pete, by Willy Vlautin

2011

Peace like a River, by Leif Enger 
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, by Maile Chapman 
Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon 
Solar, by Ian McEwan
Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray 
Room, by Emma Donoghue 
We the Animals, by Justin Torres  












 
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Julia

Sometimes I read a lot, sometimes a little, but I can't go a day without reading. I lean toward literary fiction, though I also like memoirs (the dysfunctional family kind). And I'm always on the prowl for really well-written chick lit and YA. I'm keeping track of what I've read, and what's still on my list, and posting small reviews and some side notes about authors.


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award winners I'd like to have read

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my (endless) reading list

Stardust, Neil Gaiman
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,
Ransom Riggs
Spook Country, William Gibson
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie
In Zanesville, Jo Ann Beard
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Drown, Juno Diaz
Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
In the Wake, Per Petterson
Generation X, Douglas Coupland
Generation A, Douglas Coupland
Legend of a Suicide, David Vann
The Illumination, Kevin Brockmeier
Jernigan, David Gates
The Leftovers
, Tom Perrotta
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (KG)
That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo
Marsha Mellow & Me, Maria Beaumont
Staying Alive, Matt Beaumont
Blind Submission, Debra Ginsberg
Waiting, Debra Ginsberg
Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
Tales from the Town of Widows: And Chronicles from the Land of Men, James Canon (DD)
Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way, by Ruth Reichl
Dani Noir, Nova Ren Suma
The Insufficiency of Maps, Nora Pierce (DD)
Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson
The March, E.L. Doctorow (TG)
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated, Alison Arngrim
The Zero, Jess Walter
My Abandonment, Peter Rock
Don't Sleep with Your Drummer, Jen Sincero
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
Great House, Nicole Krauss
The Hidden Reality, Brian Green
Hello Kitty Must Die, Angela S. Choi
The House of Sleep, Jonathon Coe
The Last American Man, Elizabeth Gilbert
Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrew Niffenegger
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Wells Tower
I Was Told There'd Be Cake, Sloane Crosley
Numb, Sean Ferrell
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Helen Simonson
The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E.M. Delafield
Zazen, Vanessa Veselka
Big Girl Small, Rachel DeWoskin
Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir, Lidia Yuknavitch
State of Wonder, Anne Patchett
Aloft, Chang-rea Lee
Shades of Grey, by Jasper Fford

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