Books Bought & Read (March 2011)

Books Bought

  1. Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures - Julie Marie Wade
  2. The Best Poems of the English Language - Harold Bloom, ed.
  3. Writing New York: A Literary Anthology - Phillip Lopate, ed.
  4. Insomnia Diary - Bob Hicok
  5. Selected Poems - Amy Lowell
  6. The Ultimate French Review and Practice
  7. The Second Common Reader - Virginia Woolf
  8. Neon Vernacular - Yusef Komunyakaa
  9. Shakespeare and Modern Culture - Marjorie Garber
  10. Words for Empty and Words for Full - Bob Hicok
  11. The Wild Iris - Louise Glück
  12. Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell
  13. Manhood for Amateurs - Michael Chabon
  14. The Discomfort Zone - Jonathan Franzen
  15. The Lie that Tells a Truth - John Dufresne
  16. The Best American Essays 1999 - Edward Hoagland, ed.
  17. The Making of a Sonnet - Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, ed.
  18. Sex and the River Styx - Edward Hoagland
  19. Late Wife - Claudia Emerson
  20. Behind My Eyes - Li-Young Lee
  21. New and Selected Poems: Volume One - Mary Oliver
  22. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  23. The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells

Books Bought on the Kindle

  1. Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin
  2. Something Blue - Emily Giffin
  3. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Books Read

  1. A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen (9 March)
  2. Summer and Smoke - Tennessee Williams (13 March)
  3. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare (16 March)
  4. Something Borrowed - Emily Giffin (19 March)
  5. Something Blue - Emily Giffin (28 March)
  6. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (31 March)

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Books Bought & Read (February 2011)

Books Bought

  1. The Lost Origins of the Essay - John D’Agata, ed.
  2. I Just Lately Started Buying Wings - Kim Dana Kupperman
  3. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely - Claudia Rankine
  4. A Widow’s Story - Joyce Carol Oates
  5. The Art of Time in Memoir - Sven Birkerts
  6. The Stranger Manual - Catie Rosemurgy
  7. Strike Sparks - Sharon Olds
  8. The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
  9. Just Kids - Patti Smith
  10. If I Stay - Gayle Forman
  11. 100 Love Sonnets - Pablo Neruda
  12. Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
  13. Selected Poems - William Carlos Williams
  14. Ariel - Sylvia Plath
  15. The Art & Craft of Playwriting - Jeffrey Hatcher
  16. ABC of Reading - Ezra Pound
  17. Delirium - Lauren Oliver
  18. BFF (Just as Long as We’re Together & Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson) - Judy Blume
  19. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  20. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
  21. Totally, Tenderly, Tragically - Phillip Lopate
  22. Crimes of the Heart - Beth Henley
  23. Selected Poems - Carl Sandburg
  24. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor - Sally Fitzgerald, ed.

Books Bought on the Kindle

  1. Devil’s Food Cake Murder - Joanne Fluke

Books Read

  1. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins (12 February)
  2. The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson (25 February)

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Books Bought & Read (January 2011)

Books Bought

  1. Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
  2. The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1 - Lee Gutkind, ed.
  3. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative - H. Porter Abbott
  4. The Eloquent Short Story - Lucy Rosenthal
  5. Making Shapely Fiction - Jerome Stern
  6. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (both volumes) - Jahan Ramazani, ed.
  7. Walden (Library of America) - Henry David Thoreau
  8. The Turn of the Screw and Aspern Papers (Penguin) - Henry James
  9. Mythology - Edith Hamilton
  10. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Routledge Study Guide - Alex Tickell
  11. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (Continuum Contemporaries) - Julie Mullaney
  12. Twelfth Night (Dover Thrift) - William Shakespeare
  13. The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
  14. Catching Fire (hardback) - Suzanne Collins
  15. Mockingjay (hardback) - Suzanne Collins
  16. View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems - Wislawa Szymborska
  17. Working on a New Play - Edward M. Cohen
  18. A Writer’s Diary - Virginia Woolf
  19. Power Politics - Arundhati Roy
  20. United States: Essays 1952-1992 - Gore Vidal
  21. Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir - Sonya Huber

Books Bought on Kindle

  1. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
  2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

    Books Read

    1. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (2 January)
    2. Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies (30 January)

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