Mike's 2009 reads

[Mike]

1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

2. Maximum City:Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta

[Mike]

3.A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

4.The Little Girl and the Cigarette by Benoit Duteurtre

[Mike]

5.2666 by Roberto Bolano.

[Samara]

Hey Mike,
How did you like 2666? I saw it on Amazon and was intrigued...

[Mike]

Samara wrote: "Hey Mike,
How did you like 2666? I saw it on Amazon and was intrigued..."

It was fantastic. I haven't felt so absorbed by a novel in years.

[Mike]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Mike]

7. The Best American Magazine Articles of 2008

[Mike]

8. Final Salute by Jim Sheeler

[Mike]

9. An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us.

[Mike]

10. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

[Mary Todd]

Mary Todd is out of roses...so here's an orchid! congrats on your first ten!

[Mike]

Mary Todd wrote: "Mary Todd is out of roses...so here's an orchid! congrats on your first ten!"

Thanks. :)

[Mike]

11. The Safety of Objects by A.M. Homes

[Mike]

12. The Pushcart Prize 2006

[Mike]

13. War Trash by Ha Jin

[Mike]

14.The Best American Poetry 2006

[Mike]

15. The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

[Melanie]

Hi Just-
What did you think of The Brief History of the Dead?

[Mike]

I enjoyed it. It was a quick read, fast paced, very entertaining. I'd give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.

[Mike]

16: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006

[Mike]

17: Collected Poems by Donald Justice

[Mike]

18: Desire by Frank Bidart

[Mike]

19: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

[Mike]

20: Star Dust by Frank Bidart

[Mike]

21: Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard

[Mike]

22:Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

[Mike]

23:Vice by Ai