The Reading Nook

Obviously, this list will be updated as the year goes on. My year started January 5, 2008. Audiobooks are indicated in parentheses. Links are to LibraryThing.

January Reads

1. The Cottagers, Marshall N. Klimasewiski (my review)
2. The Night Watch, Sarah Waters (audiobook)
3. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain (my review)
4. Tyrants, Marshall N. Klimasewiski (my review)
5. Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Antonia Fraser (my review)
6. The Story of Forgetting, Stefan Merrill Block (my review)
7. Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights, adapted from Richard F. Burton’s translation by Jack Zipes (my review)
8. Arabian Nights & Days, Naguib Mahfouz (my review)
   The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, John Barth (abandoned–my thoughts here and here)
9. Dancing to “Almendra”, Mayra Montero (my review)

February Reads

1. The Quincunx, Charles Palliser (my review)
2. Lost and Found, Carolyn Parkhurst (my review)
3. Persepolis 2, Marjane Satrapi (my review)
4. Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, Lisa Jardine (my review)
5. London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd (my review)
6. Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon (my review)
7. Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (my review)
8. The Gathering, Anne Enright (my review)

March Reads

1. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding (my review)
2. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde (audiobook) (my review)
3. Fieldwork, Mischa Berlinski (my review)
4. The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
5. Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling (audiobook)
7. John Adams, David McCullough
8. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

April Reads

1. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie (my review)
2. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, Mary S. Lovell
3. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Nathaniel Philbrick (my review)
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (audiobook)
5. Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra
6. The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim (audiobook)

May Reads

1. Strange Ways (Of fremde Vegn) Rokhl Faygenberg (my review)
2. Love Marriage, V.V. Ganeshananthan (my review)
3. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
4. Couldn’t Keep it to Myself, Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
5. Music and Silence, Rose Tremain
6. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie (audiobook)
7. Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates

June Reads

1. Hip: The History by John Leland
2. Homeland by Sam Lipsyte
3. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
4. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. They Call Me Naughty Lola, David Rose, ed.
6. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
7. The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
8. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (audiobook, abandoned)
9. Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
10. A Short HIstory of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
11. Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett
12. Harbor by Lorraine Adams
13. The Girl at the Lion d’Or by Sebastian Faulks
14. Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale
15. The Giant, O’Brien by Hilary Mantel

July Reads

1. The River King by Alice Hoffman
2. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin (audiobook)
3. The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
4. Small Island by Andrea Levy
5. The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
6. Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
7. Old Filth by Jane Gardam
8. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
9. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (audiobook)
10. The Colour by Rose Tremain
11. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
12. Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
13. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

August Reads

1. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
2. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
3. Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
4. The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
5. The United States of Arugula by David Kamp
6. The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell (audiobook)
7. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis