A: Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye B: Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures C: Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief D: Don DeLillo, The Names E: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex F: Ian Frazier, Gone to New York: Adventures in the City G: Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things (2/26) H: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises I: John Irving, The World According to Garp J: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man K: Nicole Krauss, The History of Love L: Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn M: Yann Martel, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1/09) N: Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran O: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion P: Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev Q: R: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things S: Susan Sontag, In America T: Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble (5/14) U: John Updike, The Centaur V: Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli W: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway X: Y: Z: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
A little late in getting my list together, but here goes! It's definitely subject to change, but my chances of sticking with it are better if I have a solid list from the start. Still having trouble with Q, X, and Y...
I just finished Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life ...I'd recommend it for a Q if you don't find another. (And she has a few novels, too.) I didn't realize when I put it on my list that it was a long essay rather than a full-length book, but it very eloquently spoke of how books fill an important place in life. I came away with even more books I want to read.
And I really liked My Name is Asher Lev and the follow up.
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B: Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
C: Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
D: Don DeLillo, The Names
E: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
F: Ian Frazier, Gone to New York: Adventures in the City
G: Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things (2/26)
H: Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
I: John Irving, The World According to Garp
J: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
K: Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
L: Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
M: Yann Martel, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1/09)
N: Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
O: Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
P: Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
Q:
R: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
S: Susan Sontag, In America
T: Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble (5/14)
U: John Updike, The Centaur
V: Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
W: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
X:
Y:
Z: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We