Reading List

Below is a list of what the book club I am in has read since I joined three years ago. The stars are for the books that I really loved. The others are interesting reads as well, but the ones that are starred are the books that sort of reached out and grabbed me.

The Crimson Petal & The White Michael Faber
Beginner’s Luck Laura Pedersen
The Riders Tim Winton
*Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke
*Man and Boy Tony Parsons
Liars & Saints Maile Meloy
*I am Madame X Gioia Diliberto
*The Other Boleyn Girl Philippa Gregory
*Cane River Lalita Tademy
*Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Three Junes Julia Glass
*Devil In the White City Eric Larson
**The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
Running With Scissors Augusten Burroughs
The Photograph Penelope Lively
Caramba! A Tale Told in Turns of the Card Nina Marie Martinez
A Secret Word Jennifer Paddock
The True Confessions of Max Tivoli Andrew Sean Greer
The Book of Salt Monique Truong
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver
*Rich Part of Life Jim Kokoris
A Painted House John Grisham
*The Wife Meg Wolitzer
When the Messenger is Hot Elizabeth Crane
*History of Love: A Novel Nicole Krauss
The Secret History Donna Tartt
Cast of Shadows Kevin Guilfoile
*The Cape Ann Faith Sullivan
The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls
*Crossing California Adam Langer
*Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Bel Canto Anne Patchett
A Million Little Pieces James Frey
*In Cold Blood Truman Capote
*The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. Sandra Gulland
Babylon Sisters Pearl Cleage (This month)