Ariana’s Reading
Ariana’s Reading
2010
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
- Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
- Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon
- Sun Storm by Asa Larsson
- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
- Ooku #1 – The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga
- The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
- Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
- War Dances by Sherman Alexie
- Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
- Original Sin by P. D. James
- The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
2009
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow
The Pyramid by Henning Mankell
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
Cast Member Confidential: A Disneyfied Memoir by Chris Mitchell
Bonk by Mary Roach
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Food, Inc. edited by Karl Weber
Half in Love by Maile Meloy
Last Days of Socrates by Plato
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
after the quake by Haruki Murakami
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (current read-aloud & Banned Books Week accidental selection)
The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Bird by Bird by Anne LaMott
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich (avail. 10/13)
Double Take: A Memoir by Kevin Connolly (avail. October)
The Meaning of Matthew by Judy Shepard
The Cruel Stars of the Night by Kjell Eriksson
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
The Soloist by Steve Lopez
Lowboy by John Wray
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Who knew this was so funny? I’m reading this to my ten-year-old, and I think we’re enjoying it equally.
Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan by Ali Eteraz (coming out in October). Great story, well-told. I’m loving this.
New Kings of Nonfiction edited by Ira Glass
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (new translation by Julie Rose just out in paperback by Modern Library)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Firewall by Henning Mankell
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (sequel to The Hunger Games)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson
The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
D’Aulaire’s Norse Myths
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Darling Jim by Christian Moerk
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid
Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin (sequel to The Janissary Tree)
Descartes Bones by Russell Shorto
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (highly!)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
