I Read

Don’t you wish you had kept record of every book you’ve ever read? I suppose some foreward 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, this year. Some of my favorite books on writing are listed on my For Writers page.

Currently reading:

  • The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb (novel)
  • 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 (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 (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)

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