Summer reading

With a lighter class load for the summer and the library I work for closed on Fridays during July and August, I’m hoping to get a lot of reading done in the next few months. Spending all of my time around books and bibliophiles, as well as reading a lot of book abstracts for collection development has made me itchy to read more. I miss reading whole books in one leisurely sitting like I used to during undergraduate.

My list so far:

1. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
2. Pacific – Tom Drury*
3. A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki*
4. A Month in the Country – J.L. Carr
5. Year Zero – Rob Reid
6. The Lifespan of a Fact – John D’Agata
7. By Blood – Ellen Ullman
8. How a Person Should Be? – Shelia Heti
9. Hard Rain Falling – Don Carpenter
10. Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States – Bill Bryson
11. Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian – Avi Steinberg
12. The Ten Thousand Things – Maria Dermoût
13. Far North – Marcel Theroux
14. The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs
15. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
16. Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
17. The Illusion of Separateness – Simon Van Booy
18. After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story – Michael Hainey

*New books by favorite authors

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