NEW REVIEW	CURRENT LISTINGS
	Fiction New Books The Broker by John Grisham (another fun pop/law book) The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (if you like vampire mythology) The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (quirky and well-written) I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Bonfire of the Vanities on a college campus) The Kite Runner (excellent, though not a laugh riot) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (simply wonderful fiction) Reading Lolita In Tehran (part history, part love of literature) Small Miracles by Yitta Halberstam & Judith Leventhal (non-fiction) Until I Find You by John Irving ( characters pursue tattoos, wrestling, theater and music) Books On Tape The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (a reporter depicts a family in Afghanistan) The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (unusual British fantasy detective novel; part of a trilogy) Isak Dineson by Judith Thurman (good bio on the author of "Out of Africa") Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (the life of young Teddy Roosevelt) The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 1776 by David McCullough (he makes history come alive) To the Last Man by Zane Grey (I just love these Westerns; maybe it's because Nappy love Z. Grey?) West With the Night by Beryl Markham (this woman writer should be a classic up there with Hemingway and Fitzgerald) Past Books Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund* All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Oprah) Atonement by Ian McEwan* Bel Canto by Ann Patchett* Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer) Blood Work by Michael Connelly (crime fiction) Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (Oprah) Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Pulitzer) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Color Purple by Alice Walker (Pulitzer) Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Pulitzer) Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Pulitzer) Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (Oprah) The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time by Mark Haddon* The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (not great literature, but a page-turner) Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (light reading) Gap Creek by Robert Morgan (Oprah) Girl With Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier The Good Earth by Pearl Buck (Oprah) The Hours by Michael Cunningham* House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III Ironweed by William Kennedy (Pulitzer) The Last Girls by Lee Smith (Good Morning America Book Club) The Life of Pi by Yann Martel* Like Water Like Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty (Pulitzer)* The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Good Morning America Book Club)* Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscaar Hijuelos (Pulitzer) Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser (Pulitzer) Master & Commander by Patrick O’Brian (first in a series of 21; I’ve now read 17)* Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Midwives by Chris Bohjalian (Oprah) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Oprah)* Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Possession by A. S. Byatt The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay (made into a mediocre movie) Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishigura The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Good Morning America Book Club) Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (Oprah) Stones From the River by Ursual Hegi (Oprah) Waiting by Ha Jin White Oleander by Janet Fitch White Teeth by Zadie Smith* Non-Fiction Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt The Devil In the White City by Erik Larson* Dude, Where’s My Country by Michael Moore John Adams by David McCullough* Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand* Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris Truman by David McCullough Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom Wild Swans (Three Daughters of China) by Jung Chang Youth Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (book recording read by the fantastic actor Jim Dale) Holes by Louis Sachar (My sister and nephews say the movie is great, too.) Note: *Asterisks indicate a particular favorite As you can see, I have a strong preference for fiction. I read quite a bit of non-fiction, but I only include those books that have general interest. I may start a separate category for those wanting to read theater and music books. I sometimes note book awards and book club selections if I’m aware of them, but this is by no means a comprehensive list.