Nina's Reading Blog

Comments on books I am reading/listening to

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

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