Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

2016 in Review

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Jan.)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lapore (Feb.)
Ugly Girls, by Lindsay Hunter (April)
How to Build a Girl, Caitlin Moran (June)
The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman (July)
Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit (Sept)
The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood (Nov.)







Thursday, March 3, 2016

2014 In Review

Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jennifer Lawson
Tenth of December, George Saunders
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowel
Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Gilbraith
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

2015 in review

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan (Jan)
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler (Feb)
Bad Feminist, Roxanne Gay (April)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (May)
The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink (June)
On Immunity, Eula Biss (July)
Tampa, Alissa Nutting (Oct.)
Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell (Dec.)


Sunday, January 5, 2014

2013 History

This is How You Lose Her, Juno Diaz
The Book Thief, Markus Zusack
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
NW, Zadie Smith
Bridget Jones 1 & 2, Helen Fielding
Scruples, Judith Krantz
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver

Sunday, January 1, 2012

2011 History

Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Crossing California, Adam Langer
We the Living, Ayn Rand
Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer
Poetry Magazine 
Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart

2010 History

Satanic Verses 
The Catcher in the Rye 
Feed 
Methland 
Breathe, Eyes, Memory 
Generation A 
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters

2009 History

Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
Brazen, Susan Johnson
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen
Maps and Legends, Michael Chabon
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

2008 History

Payback, Margaret Atwood
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
Willful Creatures, by Aimee Bender
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs
Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer

2012 History

The Rules of Civility, Amor Towels
After Henry, Joan Didion
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Suzanne
Race, Studs Terkle
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeannette Winterson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenedies