A cauldron of genres and styles:
- American Journeys by Don Watson – I’m deliberately reading this past its period of currency
- The Women by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson – Vietnam
- Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 – am partway through
- American Rust by Philipp Meyer – more heartland distopia
- The Arms Maker of Berlin by Dan Fesperman – the only thriller this month
- Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones – I will, I will, I will read this
- China Miéville’s The City & the City- sci-fi noir
- In the Company of Crows and Ravens, a study of these fascinating creatures by naturalists John Marzluff and Tony Angell
- An intriguing novel, Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man