I'm always delighted by their varied tastes (rarely does more than one person nominate the same book) and invariably I find more books to add to my "to read" list.
What favourites would you add to this list?
Fiction
The Book of Getting Even, by Benjamin Taylor
Careless in Red, by Elizabeth George
Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge
Falling, by Anne Simpson
The Flying Troutmans, by Miriam Toews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Maryanne Shaffer
An Incomplete Revenge, by Maisie Winspear
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories From Chekhov to Munro, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Private Patient, by P.D. James
Quintet, by Douglas Arthur Brown
Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden
Nonfiction
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, by Rose George
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germaphobia and Laser Hair Removal, by Laurie Notaro
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Mattered, James W. Douglass
Little Nothings: The Curse of the Umbrella, by Lewis Trondheim
The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner, by Jay Rayner
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, by Pico Iyer
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Story of an Owl and His Girl, by Stacey OBrien
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Everyday Scent in Everyday Life, by Avery Gilbert
When You Are Engulfed By Flames, by David Sedaris
Fiction
The Book of Getting Even, by Benjamin Taylor
Careless in Red, by Elizabeth George
Deaf Sentence, by David Lodge
Falling, by Anne Simpson
The Flying Troutmans, by Miriam Toews
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Maryanne Shaffer
An Incomplete Revenge, by Maisie Winspear
My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories From Chekhov to Munro, edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Private Patient, by P.D. James
Quintet, by Douglas Arthur Brown
Through Black Spruce, by Joseph Boyden
Nonfiction
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, by Rose George
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germaphobia and Laser Hair Removal, by Laurie Notaro
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Mattered, James W. Douglass
Little Nothings: The Curse of the Umbrella, by Lewis Trondheim
The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner, by Jay Rayner
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, by Pico Iyer
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Story of an Owl and His Girl, by Stacey OBrien
What the Nose Knows: The Science of Everyday Scent in Everyday Life, by Avery Gilbert
When You Are Engulfed By Flames, by David Sedaris
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I really enjoyed the non fiction title,The Black Grizzly at Whiskey Creek, by Sid Marty.
ReplyDeleteNot only does the author recount the harrowing facts, he also speculates as to what the bear the was thinking, similar to Stephen King's Cujo. It is surprisingly effective.
For non-fiction what about The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester. It received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and if it's anything like his earlier title, The Professor and the Madman, it is bound to be excellent.
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad to see Falling by Anne Simpson on the list. I recently read this and thought it was a beautiful book. The author lives in Antigonish.
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