Month: January 2018
books I read in 2017
In reverse chronological order, roughly:
Camilla Gibb, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life
Dai Sijie, Once on Moonless Night
Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed
Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers
Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Carol Shields, Dressing up for the Carnival
Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, This Accident of Being Lost
Lisa Moore, Alligator
Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
James Gould Cozzens, Children & Others
Jose Saramago, Cain
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Margaret Atwood, the Year of the Flood
Robert A. Heinlein, Red Planet
Tatjana Soli, the Lotus Eaters
Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests
Miriam Toews, An Uncomplicated Kindness
Thomson Highway, the Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tracy K Smith, Life on Mars
Aimee Laberge, Where the River Narrows
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
Lindy West, Shrill
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
Carol Shields, Unless
Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Milan Kundera, Ignorance
William Faulkner, Light in August
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury* (re-read)
David J Haskins, Who Killed Mr. Moonlight
Anita Brookner, Brief Lives
Anuradha Roy, An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of
Harriet Jacobs, Life of a Slave Girl
Timothy Findley, You Went Away