Reads

I started this reading list in 2013 prior to leaving for my Peace Corps journey. And if I’m being honest I just find books and put them on the list as I am reading them instead of buying book off of this list. Which might be cheating… but I get distracted, okay?

As long as we’re on the honesty train, I would like to confess that I’m currently sitting on the floor updating this page surrounded by about 15 new books. There are worse things.

Anyway, here it is for your pleasure (or fodder to fuel your hate fire, whatever your deal is).

To Read:
Her, Christa Parravani
After Visiting Friends, Michael Hainey
The Book of my Lives, Aleksander Hermon
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell
The Yinahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, Anton DiSclafani
Queen of the Air, Dean Jensen
A Guide to Being Born, Ramona Ausubel
Ways of Going Home, Alejandro Zambra
Poems to Learn by Heart, Caroline Kennedy
Pacific, Tom Drury
The Dark Road, Ma Jian
The Liar’s Gospel, Nomi Alderman
Americanah, Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
The Map of My Dead Pilots, Colleen Mondor
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain
Tomas Riveras Complete Works, Ed. Julian Aolivares
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, Frank Stanford
A Map of Tulsa, Benjamin Lytal
The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls
Norwegian by Night, Derek MIller
The Use and Abuse of Literature, Marjorie Garber
She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy
Harlem is Nowhere, Sharifa Rhides-Pitts
The Three Weissmans of Westport, Cathleen Schine
Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom
Girls in White Dresses, Jennifer Close
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling
Looking for Alaska, John Green
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Toby Young
Dear Diary, Lesley Arfin
The Collected Poems of Audre Lord, Audre Lord
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
The Liars Club, Mary Karr
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath*
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien*
Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea, Elie Wiesel*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky*
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, David Sedaris*
Selected Poems and Prefaces, William Wordsworth (ed. Jack Stillinger)*
Selected Letters of Charlotte Bronte, ed. Margaret Smith*
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie*
Charming Billy, Alice McDermott*
Vintage Munro, Alice Munro*
Europe in Sepia, Dubravka Ugresic*
Love That Dog, Sharon Creech*
Lend Me Your Character, Dubravka Ugresic*
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugresic*
The Ministry of Pain, Dubravka Ugresic*
(* in my library, waiting to be read)

Currently Reading:
Wise Women: A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage, and Beauty, Joyce Tenneson

Read:
2014
The Supernatural Ways of Royalty, Kris Vallotton & Bill Johnson
Edgar Allen Poe’s Complete Poetical Works, ed. John H. Ingram
Community Profiling Study of IDP Settlements in Georgia, United Nations World Food Programme
The Concept of Social Housing Development in Georgia, Natia Jokhadze
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Saving Wishes, G.J. Walker-Smith
Bridesmaid Lotto, Rachel Astor
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
2015
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
Yes Please, Amy Poehler
The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning
I Am Like I Am, Kensel Tucker (my great grandpa)
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
2016
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cider House Rules, John Irving
Longbourn, Jo Baker
The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Out of Africa, Karen Blixen
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, Ayana Mathis
A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons, George R. R. Martin
Mother Can You Not?, Kate Siegel
2017
Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Paying the Price, Sara Goldrick-Rab
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Italians, John Hooper
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
The Nest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho