What I Read

Don’t you wish you had kept record of every book you’ve ever read? I suppose some forward thinking souls have actually done that. I’m not one of them. But I am going to try to keep updated this list of books I’m reading, or re-reading.

You can see more books I’ve read on my read shelf at: Linda Cassidy-Lewis's book recommendations, favorite quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)

Some of my favorite books on writing are listed on my For Writers page.

Currently reading:

  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (short stories)
  • Devotion by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
  • Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton

September 2010

  • Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozah Dumas (memoir)

August 2010

  • The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman

June/July 2010

  • If I Love You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black (short stories)
  • Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn (short stories)

April/May 2010

  • Bloodroot by Amy Greene (novel)
  • Herb’s Pajamas by Abigail Thomas (short stories)
  • Bitter, Sweet by Laura Best (YA novel)

February 2010

  • An Actual Life by Abigail Thomas (novel)

January 2010

  • Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler (novel)
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (novel)
  • On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner (non-fiction)

October 2009

  • On Writing by Stephen King (non-fiction)

Aug/Sep 2009

  • Columbine by Dave Cullen (non-fiction)
  • The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House (non-fiction)

July 2009

  • Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler (novel)
  • Oral History by Lee Smith (novel)

June 2009

  • Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor (non-fiction)
  • Glimmer Train Short Stories, #70 (stories)

May 2009:

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (novel)
  • Gap Creek by Robert Morgan (novel)

April 2009:

  • The Sweet In-Between by Sheri Reynolds (novel)
  • The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (novel)
  • Jesus: The Evidence by Ian Wilson (non-fiction)

March 2009:

  • A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor (short stories)
  • Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (novel)
  • To See and See Again by Tara Bahrampour (biography)

February 2009:

  • We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson (novella)
  • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (novel)
  • Glimmer Train Short Stories, #69 (stories)
  • Surviving Nashville by Stacy Barton (short stories)
  • Tara Road by Maeve Binchy (novel)

January 2009:

  • Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout (novel)
  • On Writing by Stephen King (non-fiction)
  • Little Children by Tom Perotta (novel)
  • Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden (non-fiction)

4 Responses to What I Read

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  2. cynthia says:

    Linda, I love seeing your list. For some reason, I’ve never clicked over here. I hope you’re enjoying Robin’s book. It’s #6 in O Magazine’s list of summer reads: http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Summer-Reading-List-Summer-Books/6.

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