My Current Books-To-Read List
So, one of the most depressing things about being in grad school is discovering by word-of-mouth all these awesome books I need to read but don’t have the time to read. Me cries :’(
Below is a list of all the books I want to read but probably won’t get to read because I’ll run out of life first. What’s even sadder is this list is bound to keep growing. These are all the findings/recommendations/veteran to-reads I have from 2013 alone:
Tenth of December, George Saunders
In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines, Stanley Karnow
Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick
Where Angels Fear to Tread, E.M. Forster
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History, Tony Mendez & Matt Baglio
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Above All Things, Tanis Rideout
Wings of Glass, Gina Holmes
The Accursed, Joyce Carol Oates
Them, Joyce Carol Oates
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, Denise Kiernan
Lord of Publishing: A Memoir, Sterling Lord
Zoo Station, A Memoir: The Story of Christiane F., Christiane F., trans. Christina Cartwright
Her, Christa Parravani
The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild, Hannah Rothschild
Fever, Mary Beth Keane
In the Body of the World, Eve Ensler
We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy & Molly Melching
The Invisible Girls, Sarah Thebarge
Someday, Someday, Maybe, Lauren Graham
My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein
Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green & David Levithan
The Maze Runner, James Dashner
The Faraway Nearby, Rebecca Solnit
Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
Brother, I’m Dying, Edwidge Danticat
This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
I’ll Be Seeing You, Suzanne Hayes & Loretta Nyhan
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
The Sea, the Sea, Iris Murdoch
Fox Girl, Nora Okja Keller
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Heroin/e, Cheryl Strayed
Torched, Cheryl Strayed
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
With or Without You, Domenica Ruta
Goodbye to All That, Sari Botton
The Meat and Spirit Plain, Selah Saterstrom
The Magic Kingdom, Stanley Elkin
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr
To Shoe and to Tell, Phillip Lopate
Portrait Inside My Head, Phillip Lopate
Angels, Denis Johnson
The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison
Elect H. Mouse State Judge, Nelly Reifler
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Michael Ondaatje
Far Tortuga, Peter Matthiessen
Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg
