| What
I've been reading lately . . . |
| Materials for research or class
preparation don't count, of course. Listed below, in |
| reverse chronological order,
are some of the best books that I've read recently. |
| Want to recommend a book to me?
Send me an e-mail! |
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| Since November
1999: |
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| A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers. |
| The Case
of Emily V., by Keith Oatley. |
| My Dark Places,
by James Ellroy. |
| A Stained
White Radiance, by James Lee Burke (recommended by J. J. Reilly at
Holy Cross). |
| Charming
Billy, by Alice McDermott. |
| Kaaterskill
Falls, by Allegra Hoffmann. |
| My Sister
Life, by Maria Flook.. |
| Blue at the
Mizzen, by Patrick O'Brien. |
| Love in a
Dead Language, by Lee Siegel. |
| Harry Potter
and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling. |
| The Manikin,
by Joanna Scott (a prizewinning fellow alumna of Brown's Graduate Writing
Program). |
| Nabokov's
Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, by Kurt Johnson
and Steve Coates. |
| Mirror, Mirror
on the Wall: Women Writers Explore their Favorite Fairy Tales, ed.
by Kate Bernheimer. |
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