Top Ten books for August reading

Nearly all fiction this month but a good mix of genres:

  • Michael Connelly’s The Scarecrow, a sequel to The Poet
  • Home by Marilynne Robinson – my second
  • The Women by T. Coraghessan Boyle – I have been waiting for this for so long
  • Elmore Leonard’s Road Dogs – my first for a few years
  • Amos Oz’s Rhyming Life and Death – looks daunting but I should try
  • Nami Mun’s Miles from Nowhere – the reviews have been outstanding
  • Will It Be Funny, Tomorrow?: Misadventures in Music by Stephen Cummings – local music history and local history
  • Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson – a novel about the Vietnam war fiasco, borrowed from my son
  • The second of Hilary Spurling’s two-part biography, Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
  • Runner by Thomas Perry – fast-paced fugitive crime fiction
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One Comment

  1. Posted August 6, 2009 at 10:37 pm | Permalink

    Some good books here – haven’t read them all – will have to make a note of these!

    Thanks

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