Top Twelve Best Reads or Re-Reads of 2011
1. Nabokov: Vol I The American Years;
Vol II The Russian Years - Brian Boyd
2. Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens
3. Townie - Andre Dubus III
4. Thoughts Without Cigarettes - Oscar Hijueles
5. The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst
6. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
7. Humiliation - Wayne Koestenbaum
8. Interviews and Encounters with Stanley
Kunitz - ed. Stanley Moss
9. How Fiction Works - James Wood
10. Lytton Strachey - Michael Holyoyd
11. A Widow's Story - Joyce Carol Oates
12. Elizabeth Bishop and The New
Yorker - ed. Joelle Biele
Worst Two Books Read or Re-read in 2011
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Sempre Susan - Sigrid Nunez
oh I love such lists!
ReplyDelete'n think of the books that perhaps know you'll pick them up in the coming year...all those pageturning moments..joy oh joy
Joyce Carol Oates: We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.