*****Swann's Way, I Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1, by Marcel Proust

Magnificent! An Impressionistic work of art with a poetic beauty rarely achieved in literature. 

Books Read: January 1, 2018 - June 31, 2018

***Everything Here is Beautiful, by Mira T. Lee, 2018, American Fiction

***Straying,  by Molly McCloskey, 2018, American Fiction 

*****The Things We Don't Do, by Andrés Neuman, 2014, Spanish Literature 

*****Chronicle of the Murdered House, by Lúcio Cardoso, 1959, Brazilian Literature 

***Gun Love, by Jennifer Clement, 2018, American Fiction

****The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante, 2015, Italian Literature

*****Those Who  Leave and Those who Stay, The Neapolitan Novels, Book 3, by Elena Ferrante, 2014, Italian Literature

*****Marjorie Morningstar, by  Herman Wouk, 1955, American Literature 


*****Mourning, by Eduardo Halfon, 2018, Latin American Literature

*****The Story of a New Name, The Neapolitan Novels, Book 2, by Elena Ferrante, 2013, Italian Literature

***An American Marriage , by Tayari Jones, 2018, American Fiction 

****My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, The Neopolitan Novels, Book 1, by Elena Ferrante, 2011, Italian Literature 

*** A Piece of the World, by Christina Baker Kline, 2017, Historical Fiction , American 

*****The House of Broken Angels, by Luis Alberto Urrea, 2018, Mexican-American Literature 

****Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman,the Man Who Killed John Lennon, by Jack  Jones, 1992, Biography

**Loquela by Carlos Labbé,  2015, Spanish Literature 

****The Distance Between Us, A Memoir, by Reyna Grande, 2012, Mexican American Memoir

*A Reliable Wife,  by Robert Goolrick, 2009, American Fiction

*****Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng, 2017, Contemporary American Literature

*****Brief Encounters With Che Guevara: Stories,  by Ben Fountain,  2007, Contemporary American Literature  

****Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, 2017, Contemporary American Literature 

***House of Rougeaux, by Jenny Jaeckel, African-American-Canadian Literature,  2018

****The Great Alone,  by Kristin Hannah, 2018, Contemporary American  Literature 

****The Decay of the Angel-Sea of Fertility,  No. 4, by Yukio Mishima, 1974, Japanese Literature

*****Sing, Unburied , Sing, by Jesmyn Ward, 2017, African American Literature 

*****The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead,  2016, American Literature

***Reading The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore,  2016, Historical Fiction

*****Madame Zero, by Sarah Hall, 2017, British Literature

*****Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada, 1947 (2009 In English), German Literature

****Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid, 2017, Pakistani Literature