Wednesday, July 7, 2021

2021 Books Read 01/01/2021-12/31/2021

*****The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World, by Laura Messina, 2020, Italian Literature 

*****In the Shawdow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust, 1920, French Literature

****The Sentence, by Louise Erdich, 2021, American Indian Literature 

*****Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor, 1971, British Literature

****The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles,  2021, American Literature 

***The Impudent Ones, by Marguerite Duras, 1943, French  Literature 

****This Tender Land,  by William Kent Krueger,  2019, American Literature 

*****To Be a Man, by Nicole Krauss, 2021 American Literature 

***Things We Lost to the Water, by Eric Nguyen, 2021, American Literature 

****Look at Us, by T.L. Toma, 2021, American Literature 

****The Days of Abandonment, by Elena Ferrante, 2005, Italian Literature

*****The Makioka Sisters, by Junichiro Tanizaki, 1957, Japanese Literature 

***Bewildermentby Richard Powers, 2021 American Literature 

****This Mournable Body, by Tsitsi Dangarembga,  2018, ZimbabweanLiterature

****Department of Speculation,  by Jenny Offill, 2014, American Literature 

*****Curl, by T.O. Bobe, 2019, Romanian Literature 

***Madonna in a Fur Coat, by Sabahattin Ali, 1943, Turkish Literature 

*****Sugar Street, by Naguib Mahfouz, 1957, Arabic Literature 

****Intimacies, by Katie  Kitamura, 2021, American Literature 

*****The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai, 2018, American Literature

*****Palace of Desire, by Naguib Mahfouz, 1957, Arabic Literature

****Brooklyn, by Colm Toíbín, 2009, Irish Literature 

*****The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emeze, 2020, Nigerian Literature 

****The Arrangements by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,  2016, Nigerian Literature 

**** The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, 1984, Mexican - American literature

****The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah, 2021, American Fiction

***Diary of a Rapist,  by Evan S. Connell, 1966, American Literature 

*****The Engagement, by Georges Simenon, 1933, French Literature 

*****Notes on Grief, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2021, Nigerian Literature

*****Palace Walk,  by Naguib Mahfouz, 1956, Arabic Literature 

****Whereabouts, by Jhumpa Lahari, 2021, American Literature

****Small Country: A Novel, by Gaël Faye, 2016, French-Rwandan Literature 

*****Some New Ambushby Cary Davies, 2007, Welsh Literature 

****Great Grandma Webster, by Caroline Blackwood,  1977, Anglo-Irish Literature 

*****The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Cesares, 1940, Argentinian Literature

***In Watermelon Sugar, by Richard Brautigan, 1968, American Literature 

****Artemisia, by Alexandra Lapierre, 1998, French Literature

*****Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardino Evaristo, 2019, British Literature

*****Variations on the body, by Maria Ospina, 2021, Columbian Literature 

***Heaven, A Novel, by Mieko Kawakami,  2⁰9, Japanese Literature 

*****Like a Sword Wound, Ottomon Quartet, Book 1, by Ahmet Altan, 1997, Turkish Literature

****The Widow, by Georges Simenon, 1942, Belgian Literature

**Miao Dao, by Joyce Carol Oates, 2018, American Fiction 

****Of Women and Salt, by Gabriela Garcia, 2021, American Literature 

****The Night Watchman,  by Louise Erdich, 2020, American Indian Literature 

****Offshore, by Penelope Fitzgerald,  1979, British Literature 

****Eleven Sooty Dreams, by Manuela Draeger, 2019, French Literature 

****Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo, 2019, American Biography 

*****Narcisse on a Tightrope, by Olivier Targowla, 1989, French Literature

****Ere the Cock Crows, by Jens Bjørneboe, 1952, Norwegian Literature 

****Seven, by Farzana Doctor, 2020, Canadian Fiction

*****Love Like Water, Love Like Fire, by Mikhail Iossel,  2021, Russian Literature 

****The Sonderberg Case, by Elie Wiesel, 2008, Romanian-American Literature

*****A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement,  by Anthony  Powell1960's, British Literature 

***The Silent Patient,  by Alex Michaelides, 2019, American Mystery 

***The Consequences of Love, by Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia, 2008, African Literature 

***I Remember You,  by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, 2012, Icelandic Fiction

****The Perfect Nanny, by Leela Shimano, 2016, French Literature 

*****Garden by the Sea, by Mercè Rodorea, 1967, Catalanian Literature 

****A Burning, by Megha Majumdar, 2020, Indian Literature 

***Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall,  by Ishiguro Kazuo, 2009, British Literature 

****Dinner at the Center of the Earth, by Nathan Englander, 2017, Jewish  American Literature 

*****Such Small Hands, by Andres Barbs, 2017, Spanish Literature 

****Hunger, A Novella and Stories, by, Lan Samantha Chang,  2000, Chinese-American Literature

***Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge, 2020, American Fiction

****Lie With Me, by Philippe Besson, 2017, French Literature

****Autumn,  by Karl Ove Knausgård, 2015, Norwegian Literature 

*****Die, My Love, by Arianna Harwicz, 2017, Argentinean Literature 

****Codex 1962: A Trilogy,  by Sjón, 2018, Icelandic Literature

****Burnt Sugar, by Avni Doshi, 2021 Indian American Literature 

****Straight From the Horses Mouth, by Maryse Alaoui, 2020, Moroccan Literature 

****Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel, 2021, American-Columbian Literature 

*****Wild Swans,  Three Daughters of China,  by Jung Chang, 1991, Chinese Memoir 

***Creatures of Passage, by Morowa Yejide, 2021, American Literature

****Deacon King Kong,  by James McBride, 2020, American Literature 

*****The Agony and the Ecstasy, A Biographical Novel of Michelangeloby Irving Stone, 1961, Biography

****Tokyo Ueno Station, by Miri Yú, 2020, Japanese Literature

*****Pew, by Catherine Lacey, 2020, American Literature

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