summer reading
July 9th, 2006 by herichon
Been reading a lot lately. I thought I’d take a minute to summarize what I’ve recently finished and what’s on deck. (I’ll come back and put links together, and maybe some further comments, at some point.)
Finished:
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson (as apparent by the excerpts below)
The Contortionist’s Handbook, by Craig Clevenger
Survivor, by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk
Nymphomation, by Jeff Noon
Getting Things Done, by David Allen
The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained (by various authors)
On deck:
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Wilhelm Reich in Hell, by Robert Anton Wilson
The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
Jumper, by Steven Gould
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (again)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester
Needle in the Groove, by Jeff Noon
The Giving Plague, by David Brin
Jennifer Government, by Max Barry
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
As you can see I’ve got my work cut out for me. If anyone has suggestions for new things to add to the list, please feel free to share.