30 December 2013

DECEMBER 2013

GOOD WEB LINKS

100 Must Read Works of Southern Literature
http://bookriot.com/2013/12/30/100-must-read-works-southern-literature/

Tournament of Books Long List
http://www.themorningnews.org/post/the-tob-x-long-listhttp://www.themorningnews.org/post/the-tob-x-long-list

 So far, from the list I have read :

All That Is by James Salter x
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout **
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra **
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King **
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell **
The Flamethrowes by Rachel Kushner X
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi ***
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt **
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride **
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid ****
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson *****
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri ***
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood ***
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert x
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ****
Tenth of December by George Saunders ****
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann **
You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt **

On the Kindle, to be read :

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hild by Nicola Griffith
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill