A compilation of books I’ve read and reviewed on my blog.
Literary Notes #18: a focus on classics and future classics
-The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
-Dracula by Bram Stoker
-Beowulf: a comparison of editions translated by Kevin Holland-Crossley and Seamus Heaney
-The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
-Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
-The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough
-The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
-The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
-Love Wins by Rob Bell
-The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
-The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
-My Life in France by Julia Childs
-Uncommon Decency by Richard Mouw
-Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero
-Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Erix Metaxas
-Book Lust to Go by Nancy Pearl
-For You, Mom. Finally by Ruth Reichl
-Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
-Super Natural Cooking by Heidi Swanson
-Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
-Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
-From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
-How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic
-The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
-The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
-Burying the Bones by Hilary Spurling
The Amnesty International Imprisoned Writers Series
-No Child
-The Island by Victoria Hislop
-Olive Kitteridge by Elisabeth Strout
-Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
-The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
-The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
-Howard’s End by E. M. Forester
-The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
-Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
-The Help by Kathryn Stockett
-Paris, The Biography of a City by Colin Jones
-St. Petersburg DK Eyewitness Guide
-French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David
-A Table in Provence, Classic Recipes from the South of France by Leslie Forbes
-Graham Greene Country by Paul Hogarth
-David Gentleman’s London
-The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
-Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
-Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
-Abba’s Child by Brennan Manning
-Simple Sewing by Lotta Jansdotter
-The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
-In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
-When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
-Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
-MicMacs
-In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
-The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
-Food, Inc.
-Dominion by Matthew Scully
-Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
-Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
-Gilead and Home by Marilynne Robinson
-Rosie by Anne Lamott
-The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Burbery
-The Brothers K by David James Duncan
-The River Why by David James Duncan
-The Rich are Different by Sosan Howatch
-A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
-The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
-The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
-The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
-Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
-Reaching Out by Henri J. M. Nouwen
-Three Cups of Tea
-A Hundred and One Days
-The Bookseller of Kabul
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Books! Books! Beautiful Books!
-1215: The Year of the Magna Carta by Danny Danziger and John Gillingham
-Fidelity, Five Stories by Wendell Berry
-Edinburgh, Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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