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