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:

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)