My To Read List: Fiction

 

• Allende, Isabel: The Japanese Lover (A WWII love story of a Polish woman and a Japanese man)
• Alyan, Hala, Salt  Houses
• Backman, Fredrik, A Man Called Ove (rec. by Holly Dilatush)
• Bailey, Martine: An Appetite for Violets (a literary feast for lovers of historical fiction, complete with recipes)
• Barnes, Kim, In the Kingdom of Men
• Beatty, Paul: The Sellout (a novel about racism, recommended by Margot)
• ben Izzy, Joel: The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
• Binchy, Maeve, Evening Class
• Card, Orson: Speaker for the Dead, Enchantment, Past Watch (rec. by Phil S.)
• Dunnett, Dorothy: The Game of Kings and other historical fiction
• Enright, Elizabeth: Gone Away Lake (recommended by Beth; children’s lit)
• Fasman, Jon: The Geographer’s Library and The Coroner’s Lunch
• Flanery, Patrick: Fallen Land
• Galbraith, Robert (aka J. K. Rowling): The Cuckoo’s Calling
• George, Nina: The Little Paris Bookshop
• Gerber, Robin: Eleanor vs. Ike  (rec. by Julie)
• Gilbert, Elizabeth: The Signature of All Things
• Gloss, Molly: Hearts of Horses 
• Godwin, Gail: Father Melancholy’s Daughter
• Hannah, Kristin: The Nightingale (2 sisters embark on separate dangerous paths toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France)
• Hawkins, Paula: The Girl on the Train
• Hill, Lawrence, Someone Knows My Name (aka The Book of Negroes or Aminata)
• Hislop, Victoria: The Island (rec. by Litsa B)
• Holsinger, Bruce: A Burnable Book and The Invention of Fire (novels set in 14th-century London)
• Israel, Steve: The Global War on Morris (reviewed by Karen Heller in WP Style 1/7/15)
• Jiles, Paulette: The Color of Lightning  (cultural clashes with Plains Indians in mid-nineteenth-century Texas)
• Kaga, Otohiko:  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)
• Kostova, Elizabeth, The Swan Thieves
• Lethem, Jonathan: Dissident Gardens
• Lewis, Sinclair: It Can’t Happen Here (fascism in the US)
• Li, Yiyun, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short stories, The Vagrants, Kinder Than Solitude
• Mbue, Imbolo: Behold the Dreamers (The trials and tribulations of a young Cameroonian couple and their attempts to build a life in the U.S. PEN/Faulkner Award winner)
• McCarthy, Cormac: All the Pretty Horses  (rec. by Helen)
• Michaels, Ann: Fugitive Pieces
• Miyabe, Misuke: Shadow Family 
• Oyeyemi, Helen: Boy, Snow, Bird
• Pamuk, Orhan: My Name Is Red (recommended by Linda Sarigol) and A Strangeness in My Mind
• Pears, Iain: An Instance of the Fingerpost (historical mystery)
• Picoult, Jodi: Small Great Things (A poignant story about parental love, friendship, and loss)
• Rayburn, Deanna: A Curious Beginning (An intrepid adventuress in Victorian England thwarts her own abduction.)
• Roy, Arundhati: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (added 6.5.17)
• Rylant,  Cynthia: A Couple of Kooks (rec. by Margaret France)
• Sciascia, Leonardo: To Each His Own (mystery set in Sicily)
• See, Lisa: Dreams of Joy and The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
• Shafak, Elif, The Architect’s Apprentice  (set in 16th century Ottoman Empire) and other novels
• Shem, Samuel (pseudonym of Stephen Bergman) House of God (recommended by Dimitri Balatsias)
• Silver, Elizabeth: The Execution of Noah P.
• Suri, Manil: The City of Devi, Wash. Post review
• Tartt, Donna: The Goldfinch (different people gave mixed reviews)
• Thomas, Matthew: We Are Not Ourselves
• Toibin, Colm: Brooklyn (A young Irish woman starts a new life in NYC)
• Turner, Megan Whalen: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia (recommended by Beth; historical fantasy)
• Walton, Jo, My Real Children
• Wells, Rebecca: Ya-Yas in Bloom
• Yoshikawa, Mako: One Hundred and One Ways, Bantam 1999, A Japanese American woman tells the story of her geisha grandmother…
• Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief (mystery, Holocaust)

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