My To Read List: Fiction
- The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness by Joel ben Izzy
Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell- Shadow Family by Miyuki Miyabe
- The Watcher in the Pine by Rebecca Pawel
- The Geographer’s Library and The Coroner’s Lunch by Jon Fasman
Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Enchantment, Past Watch by Orson Card (rec. by Phil S.)- Two Ninas by Neil Turitz (a distant relation of mine, though he doesn’t know it) I can’t find the book, but I have ordered the DVD for $3.03! Turns out it wasn’t a book at all. The movie was pretty good!
- The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
- 1000 years of GoodPrayers by Yiyun Li
- Run by Ann Patchett
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett- Ya-Yas in Bloom by Wells
- A Woman of Substance (and 4 sequels) by Bradford
- Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
- Eleanor vs. Ike by Robin Gerber (rec. by Julie)
- North River by Pete Hamill
- Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (author of the Frances books for kids) Started but did not finish. I don’t usually like books written in weird English.
- The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles (cultural clashes with Plains Indians in mid-nineteenth-century Texas)
- March, Year of Wonders (about the plague), People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (rec. by Helen)
- The Road and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (rec. by Helen)
- The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (recommended by Beth; historical fantasy)
- Elizabeth Enright, Gone Away Lake (recommended by Beth; children’s lit)
- Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings and other historical fiction
- Cynthia Rylant, I Had Seen Castles and A Couple of Kooks (rec. by Margaret France)
- Mako Yoshikawa, One Hundred and One Ways, Bantam 1999, A Japanese American woman tells the story of her geisha grandmother…
- Gus Lee, China Boy, PS3562.E3524C47 1991 (McKeldin Lib.), a Chinese boy’s adjustment to Western culture
- Otohiko Kaga, Riding the East Wind: A Novel of War and Peace translated from the Japanese by Ian Hideo Levy “helps fill a void in our understanding of what it was really like to live in Japan during the dark years of World War II” (Kunio Francis Tanabe, The Washington Post Book World)
- Gail Godwin, Evensong
- Robert Hellenga, The Sixteen Pleasures (rec. by Carol)
- Emma Donoghue, Room (Wash. Post review here)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, The People of the Book, March
- Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog
