Books Read July 1 - December 31, 2017

***Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue, 2017, audiobook, African Literature

*****Down Below, by Leonora Carrington, 1987, Mexican and English Literature, 1988

****Reading Haven, by Ruth Gruber,  1983, American Autobiography

*****The Dinner,  by Herman Koch, 2013, audiobook,  Dutch Literature 

*****The Nothing, by Hanif Kureishi, 2017, LibraryThing.com Early Review,  British Literature 

****This Side of Brightness,  by Colum McCann, 1997, Irish Literature  

*****TransAtlantic by Colum McCann, 2013, Irish Literature   

*****Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann,  2009, Irish Literature 

*A great and Godly Adventure,  The Pilgrim 's and the Myth of the First Thanksgiving, by Godfrey Hodgson, 2006, American History 

*****A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amory Townes, 2016, audiobook,  American Literature

*****Thirteen Ways of Looking, by Colum McCann, 2015, Irish Literature 

****Hold Still, A Memoir With Photographs, by Sally Mann, 2015, American Memoir

***The Boat Runner, by Devin Murphy, 2017, LibraryThing.com Early Review, American Literature 

***The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See, 2017, audiobook, American Chinese Literature

****Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa, 2017, translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts, LibraryThing.com Early Reviewer, Japanese Literature 

****Tirza,, by Arnold Grunberg, 2006, translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett, Dutch Literature

****When Nietzsche Wept, by Irvin Donna. Yalom, 1992, American Literature 

****A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness, 2011, Young Adult Fiction  

*****Fortunes of War, The Balkan Trilogy, by Olivia Manning, 1960, English Literature

**Small Great Things, by Jody Picoult, 2016, American Fiction 

***A Painted House by John Grisham, 2001, audiobook,  American Fiction

****Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship, by Michelle Kuo, 2017, LibraryThing.com Early Review, American Memoir 

*****Chronicles of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua, 1995, translated from the Chinese by Andrew F. Jones, Chinese Literature 

***Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, 2016, American Literature 

***Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami, audio book, 2017, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, Japanese Literature

Currently Reading Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, by Samuel Richardson, 1748, (from 2014 Reading List), English Literature