Here’s a list of what I’ve been reading lately.
(titles with an asterisk have been read for a class, those with a tilde were audio versions)
- The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
- Gay Men Don’t Get Fat by Simon Doonan
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness~
- A Lost Lady by Willa Cather*
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
- The Real Life of an Internist~
- The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
- Quicksand by Nella Larson*
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers~
- The Traveler’s Calendar by Daniel Mark Epstein
- Winter Numbers by Marilyn Hacker
- The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban by Sarah Chayes*
- Passing by Nella Larson*
- The Truth About Witchcraft Today by Scott Cunningham*
- The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot*
- Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan by Whitney Azoy*
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
- A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie King
- The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury by David Gadd
- The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
- The Poet’s Companion by Kim Addonizio
- Women for Hire by Alain Corbin*
- A Letter of Mary by Laurie King
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
- Surprised by Oxford by Carolyn Weber
- Tales from the Head’s Room: Life at a London Primary School by Mike Kent
- Pure by Julianna Baggott
- The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern by Carla Hesse*
- Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier by David Edwards*
- Women in the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution by Joan Landes*
- Only for a Fortnight by Sue Read
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- Descent into Chaos by Ahmid Rashid*
- Your MBA Game Plan by Omari Bouknight
- Only Paradoxes to Offer by Joan W. Scott*
- Reign of Virtue by Miranda Pollard*
- The Storyteller’s Daughter by Saira Shah
- Life After College by Jenny Blake
- The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O’Melveny
- The English American by Alison Larkin~
- The Dressmakers of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon*
- Gilt by Katherine Longshore
- Lipstick in Afghanistan by Roberta Gately*
- Confessions of Son of Sam by David Abrahamsen
- P.S. Longer Letter Later by Paula Danzinger and A.M. Martin
- Fast Cars, Clean Bodies by Kristin Ross
- Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock
- Matched by Ally Condie
- City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
- Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowan
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
- Before Taliban by David Edwards*
- The Dirt by Lori Culwell
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway*
- Evernight by Claudia Gray
- Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald*
- Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran~
- Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
- The Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano*
- Daughters of Witching Hill by Mary Sharratt
- All For Love by John Dryden*
- Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner*
- Yoga Bitch by Suzanne Morrison
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- One Cool Friend by Toni Buzzeo
- Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
- The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault
- The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams
- Divergent by Veronica Roth
- City of Women by David Gillham
- When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier*
- Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson by Lyndsay Faye
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton*
- Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole*
- We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis*
- Secret Letters by Leah Scheier
- Insurgent by Veronica Roth
- Tyrell by Coe Booth*
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie*
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Paleoist by Nell Stephenson
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak*
- Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography by Andrew Helpher*
- They Called Themselves the KKK by Susan Bartoletti*
- Crossed by Ally Condie
- French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Billon
- Paris in Love by Eloisa James
- Bringing up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
- Mexican White-Boy by Matt de la Pena*
- Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier*
- Looking for Alaska by John Green*
- The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon*
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan~
- How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn