A big thanks to all the writers who work tirelessly at this lonesome trade. Without you I wouldn’t see the world in the myriad of ways you show me. You challenge my perception, make me empathetic, inspire anger and laughter, and sometimes you make me cry. But mostly you make me feel and think and think again. What on earth would I do without all of you?
Non-fiction
Dispatches by Michael Herr
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Trouble With Islam Today: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change by Irshad Manji
Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth
Tuesday’s With Morrie by Mitch Album
Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Monster by Sanyika Shakur aka Monster Kody Scott
Things They Carried by Tim O’brien
Fiction
Half-blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Solar by Ian McEwan
The Cellist of Sarajevo: Steven Galloway
White Oleander by Janet Fitch Guest blogpost by Savannah Morin
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrug
The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou (2011)
Room Emma Donoghue (Guest review Savannah Morin)
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Adulterer by Richard Wright
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric Emmanuel Schmitt
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Tolz
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name) by Lawrence Hill
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth May
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
She May Not Leave by Fay Weldon
Deniro’s Game by Rawi Hage
A Child in Time by Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Skids by Cathleen With
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffran Foer
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovksy
My Great Reads 2010
Miscellanea
Poem of the Week: Ocean Ghazal by Alison McGhee
Poem of the Week: June the Horse by Jim Harrison
Poem of the Week: Roofmen by Patricia Fargnoli
Poem of the Week: Two Countries by Naomi Shihab Nye
Poem of the Week: Little Horse by W.S. Merwin
Poem of the Week: Then I Walked Through the World by Leah Goldberg
Poem of the Week: The Woman Who Shoveled the Sidewalk by Stanley Plumly
Poem of the Week: A Time Past by Denise Levertov
Poem of the Week: Autumn Begins in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio by James Wright
Poem of the Week: A Poem for Emily by Miller Williams
Poem of the Week: Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali
Poem of the Week: From New Hampshire by Rosanna Warren
Poem of the Week: Letter to Laundry on the Line by Russ Kesler
Poem of the Week: Invisible Work by Alison Luterman
Poem of the Week: Fog by Dorianne Laux
Poem of the Week: The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
Moods: Variation II
Poem of the Week: “High Tide” by John Hodgen
Poem of the Week: “Help” by Arthur Vogelsang
YouTube – I’m Reading a Book by Julian Smith
Poem of the Week: “The Times” by Lucille Clifton
Poem of the Week: The Snow Mass Cycle: Retreat by Stephen Dunn
Stanley Fish on The Current: Requiem for a Sentence
onehundredonebooks wonderful book blog!
Poem of the Week: “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” Rainer Maria Wilke
Poem of the Week: Color Theory by Eric Leigh
The Story of Birdie and How He Was Almost Saved By a Spatula
