Jeanne's Writing Desk

What I'm Reading

Train Shots, Vanessa Blakeslee
La Desperada, Patricia Burroughs
The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
The Fire in Fiction, Donald Maass
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
White Dog Fell From the Sky, Eleanor Morse
The Art Forger, B.A. Shapiro
American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War, Carole Gallagher
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
The Book of Jotham, Arthur Powers
Haints, Clint McCown
The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, Flannery O'Connor
The Memory Palace, Mira Bartok
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
Attack of the Copula Spiders, Doug Glover
The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
No Permanent Scars, Micheal Hemery
Nobody Wakes Up Pretty, Diane Lefer
The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George
1Q84, Haruki Murakami
In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop, Steve Kowit
The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
While I Was Gone, Sue Miller
Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
The Borrower, Rebecca Makkai
Area 51, Annie Jacobsen
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh
Away, Amy Bloom
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Wings, Aprilynne Pike
Quiet Americans, Erika Dreifus
Quarantine, Jim Crace
Bound, Antonya Nelson
Yellowcake, Ann Cummins
Yellow Dirt, Judy Pasternak
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Leonardo's Swans, Karen Essex
Let Their Spirits Dance, Stella Pope Duarte
Putrefaction Live, Warren Perkins
Three Junes, Julia Glass
The Blessing Next to the Wound, Hector Aristizabal and Diane Lefer
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Pilate's Wife, Antoinette May
My Name is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott
A Voice in the Wind, Francine Rivers
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Conformist, Alberto Moravia
Lying in Bed, J.D. Landis
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen
I Was Amelia Earhart, Jane Mendelsohn
Lit: A Memoir, Mary Karr
Parting the Veil: Stories from a Mormon Imagination, Phyllis Barber
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
An Imaginary Life, David Malouf
Barrabas, Par Lagerkvist
On Moral Fiction, John Gardner
Prophecy of the Sisters, Michelle Zink
A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
Christ in Concrete, Pietro DiDonato
Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age, Jeff Gomez
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
Kepler: A Novel, John Banville
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
Do Over!, Robin Hemley
The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts
A Good Scent from A Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler
World Without End, Ken Follet
The Mover of Bones, Robert Vivian
The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever
Darkness, Dacia Maraini
Women in Their Beds: Selected Stories, Gina Berriault
Best American Short Stories 2008
Follies: New Stories, Ann Beattie
Cathedral, Raymond Carver
"The Enormous Radio," John Cheever
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Toddler Hunting, Taeko Kono
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Half A Heart, Rosellen Brown
The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
Precious, Douglas Glover
Love, Ruth: A Son's Memoir, Charles Candler Lovett
Fault Line, Laurie Alberts
Squandering the Blue, Kate Braverman
How Late it Was, How Late, James Kelman
Shot in the Heart, Mikal Gilmore
Checkpoint, Nicholson Baker
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg
I Get On the Bus, Reginald McKnight
Children of the New World, Assia Djebar
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks
Asylum, Patrick McGrath
The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Libra, Don DeLillo

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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