Wednesday, January 1, 2020

2019 Books Read

 ****Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman, 2017, Swedish Literature 

****Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains, by Cassie Chambers, 2020, American Memoir 

*****The Sudden Travelor, by Sarah Hall, 2019, English Literature 

***Ordinary Girls: a Memoir, by Jaquira Díaz, 2019. American Memoir

***Florida, by Lauren Groff, 2018, American Fiction 

*****The Translators Bride, by João Reis, Portuguese Literature,  2019

****The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead,  2019, American Literature 

****The Sparsholt Affair,  by Alan Hollinghurst, 2017 English Literature 

*****Daring to Drive, A  Saudi Woman's Awakening, by Manal Al-Sharif, 2017, Saudi Arabian Literature 

****The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer, 2013, American Fiction

***The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott,  2019, Historical Fiction 

****Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson, 2016, American Literature 

*****To Keep the Sun Alive, by Rabeah Ghaffari, 2018, Iranian 

*****The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,  by Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 1997, French Memoir

*****In Life We are Briefly Gorgeous,  by Ocean Vuong,  2019, Vietnamese-American Literature 

*****Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl,
American Literature, 2006

****Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli, 2019, Mexican Literature 

***The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick DeWitt, 2012, Canadian Literature

*****A Dance to the Music of Time, 2nd Movement  by Anthony Powell,  1957, English Literature

****The Quiet American,  by Graham Greene,  1955, British Literature 

*****From the Shadows,  by Juan José Millás, 2019, Spanish Literature 

**In Pieces, by Sally Fields,  
2018, American Memoir

****Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013, Nigerian Literature 

****Fly Girls,  by Keith O'Brien, 2018, American History 

****Where the Crawdads Singby Delia Owen's, 2018, American Literature 

***Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee, 2017, Korean Literature 

****The Fisherman,  by Chigozie Obioma, 2015, Nigerian Literature 

***Bogota 39: New Voices From Latin America, Various Authors
2018, Latin American Literature

****Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah, 2016, South African Memoir

***Mohawk, by Richard Russo, 1986, American Literature 

***Maid, Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive, by Stephanie Land, 2019, Memoir 

*****Things That Fall From the Sky, Selja Ahava, 2019, Finnish Literature

****City of Jasmine,  by Olga Grjasnowa, 2019 German Literature


****There There, by Tommy Orange, 2018, Native American Literature


**Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler, 2018, American Literature


*****The White Book, by Han King, 2018, Korean Literature

****My Sister, a Serial Killer,  a Novel, by Oyinkan Braithwaite, 2018, African/Nigerian Literature 

***Camino Island, by John Grisham, 2017, American Fiction

*****The Temple of the Golden Pavilion,  by Yukio Mishima, 1956, Japanese Literature 

****A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne, 2018, Irish Literature 

****My Life on the Road, by Gloria Steinem, 2015, Autobiography

****Becoming, by Michelle Obama, 2018, American Autobiography 

****Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America, by Elise Hooper, 2019, Biography 

*****Friday Black, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyan, African-American Literature,  2018

*****Hunger, by Knut Hamsun, 1890, Norwegian Literature

****Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan,  2018, Canadian Literature