I Wanna Read . . . Eventually

Just some books I haven’t read that I’ve been wanting to.  They are listed in no particular order.  If I see a book I think sounds interesting, I add it to the list.  Any suggestions?  Or opinions?

Fiction:

  • The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb
  • The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
  • Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
  • Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
  • Forecast by Jane Tara
  • The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
  • Saints at the River by Ron Rash
  • One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
  • The World Made Straight by Ron Rash
  • Eve: A Novel of the First Woman by Elissa Elliott
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • Eternal Pleasure by Nina Bangs
  • The Women by T. Coraghessa Boyle
  • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (2009 Pulitzer Prize)
  • The General In His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
  • A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
  • All Other Nights by Dara Horn
  • The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Infidel  by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  • The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
  • Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant
  • Things I’ve Been Silent About:  Memories by Azar Nafisi
  • Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Dracula the Un-dead by Ian Holt and Dacre Stoker
  • The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events that Shaped Our Earth by Walter Alvarez
  • The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison
  •  The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World by J. P. Mallory and Dennis Q. Adams
  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language:  How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony
  • Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization by Ian Wilson
  • The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe
  • The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans by Esteban E. Sarmiento
  • Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
  • Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich 
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  • The Wet Nurse’s Tale  by Erica Eisdorfer
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  1. 2009 April 30
    viktoryian permalink

    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind- the book is great. Did you watch the movie? It sucks..
    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov- it´s great! Very brave for its time..
    Interesting blog! I love reading too, so I found some interesting names and books I´d like to check up on your blog. :)

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