2011 Reading List – Reverie 2011 – Day 17

Readings

Head Off and Split – Nikky Finney

The Chameleon Couch – Yusef Komunyakaa

Here, Bullet & Phantom Noise – Brian Turner

You Know When the Men Are Gone – Siobhan Fallon

Back in the World & The Barracks Thief – Tobias Wolff

The Mrs. Dalloway Reader – Virginia Woolf/Francine Prose

The Half-Known World of Fiction  Robert Boswell

A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan

Going Away Shoes – Jill McCorkle

All the Living – C.E. Morgan

The Vietnam Reader – Stewart O’Nan

The Book of Salt – Monique Truong

Inside Out and Back Again – Thannha Lai

The Buddha in the Attic – Julie Otsuka

Long, Last, Happy – Barry Hannah

Blue Nights – Joan Didion

The Empty Family – Colm Tobin

The Family Fang – Kevin Wilson

Dirty One – Michael Graves

Bossypants – Tina Fey

Just Kids – Patti Smith

and more...

 

Re-readings

 

On Becoming a Novelist – John Gardner

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf’s

Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich

Dien Cai Dau and Warhorses – Yusef Komunyakaa

The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

Monkeys – Susan Minot

and more...

 

And hundreds of short stories

 in literary reviews, anthologies, contest queues, writing workshops, and story collections

The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011

So many books, so little time...  

Haruki Murakami, Julie Otsuka, Charles Baxter, Leah Hager Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Tessa Hadley, Tom Perotta, Téa Obreht, Denis Johnson, Barry Hannah - such a nice list of authors. To see the others along with their book's titles, follow the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2011.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=AR-E-FB-SM-LIN-OHN-112111-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click