Well the critics have chimed in and another year of many books I haven’t read, and though I’m reading fewer each year this will still help with my Christmas list for next year. Last year’s list added a couple to my shelf. And of course stay tuned for what I did read this last year.
- The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende – PW
- In the Country by Mia Alvar – HP, PW
- A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson – Ti
- Trashed by Derf Backderf – EW
- A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball – HP
- The State We’re In by Ann Beattie – PW
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty – HP, NYT, PW
- A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin – FW, NYT, PW, EW
- The Dust that Falls from Dreams by Louis de Bernieres – Ti
- Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg – Am
- Memory Theater by Simon Critchley – PW
- Outline by Rachel Cusk – FW, NYT
- The Meursault by Kamel Daoud – PW, Ti
- Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick Dewitt – Ti
- The Green Road by Anne Enright – PW
- Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum – HP
- The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante – FW, Am, HP, NYT, PW, Ti
- The Turner House by Angela Flournoy – PW, EW
- Purity by Jonathan Franzen – Am
- Binary Star by Sarah Gerard – FW
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff – Am, HP, Ti
- City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg – Am
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah – Am
- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro – HP
- Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson – HP, Ti
- Counternarratives by John Keene – FW
- Get in Trouble by Kelly Link – Ti
- You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman – HP
- Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas by Christian Kracht – HP
- The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch by Daniel Kraus – EW
- Beauty Is a Wound/Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan – FW
- Get In Trouble by Kelly Link – FW
- The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli – HP
- The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra – HP
- Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann – Am
- Circling the Sun by Paula McLain – Am
- Against the Country by Ben Metcalf – FW
- The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray – Ti
- The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North – FW
- Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich – Am
- Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont – HP
- The Door by Magda Szabo – NYT
- The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard – HP
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson – Ti
- Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal – Am
- The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson – EW
- A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler – Am
- Dietland by Sarai Walker – EW
- Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins – HP
- The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams – HP
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara – Am, HP
- The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch – HP
- Mislaid by Nell Zink – FW
Am – Amazon, FW – Jonathon Sturgeon and Sarah Seltzer for Flavorwire, HP – Huffington Post, NYT – New York Times, Ti – Time Magazine, WP – Washington Post
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