With my family at the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in August |
You can also refer to best books lists back to 2001 here. Enjoy! (This is cross-posted in Marie's Book Garden.)
Fiction
1. A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki: Canadian novelist finds a
diary of a Japanese girl washed up on the beach…loved this lyrical, spiritual
tale and got to see Ozeki read from the book
2. The Sleeping Dictionary, Sujata Massey: Pom loses her family in a
tsunami, and her life takes many difficult courses around Indian independence (another
one of my favorite authors)
3. Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Eli Brown: England, 1819…female pirate
kidnaps a male chef…great foodie adventure!
4. And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini: vivid landscape and
complex, multilayered, and interesting characters
5. The Street of a Thousand
Blossoms, Gail Tsukiyama: sweeping,
WWII-era story of two orphaned brothers in Japan
6. The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith: J.K. Rowling’s new
detective novel—worth a read!
7. Major Pettigrew's Last
Stand, Helen Simonson: stiff
English major and Pakistani shop keeper fall in love
8. In the Woods,
Tana French: Irish literary detective novel
9. Bruised, Sarah Skilton; young adult fiction
10. Cross Currents, John Shors; takes place in Thai desert
island struck by the tsunami
11. The Burning, Jane Casey; another Irish detective novel
12. Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear: historical detective
novel
13. The Little Book, Selden Edwards: time travel in Austria
14. The Chosen One, Carol Lynch Williams: young adult fiction
15. The Miracle Life of Edgar
Mint, Brady Udall: coming
of age novel of abandoned Native American boy
Nonfiction
1. Pastrix: The Cranky,
Beautiful Faith of a Sinner and Saint, Nadia Bolz-Weber: the title says it all—memoir of
a tattooed, alcoholic ELCA pastor with an emergent church
2. Somewhere Inside: One
Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home, Laura and Lisa Ling: one sister
rescues the other sister in North Korea
3. Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala: A woman loses her
entire family in the Sri Lankan tsunami and battles huge grief
4. Talking Taboo: American
Christian Women Get Frank about Faith, Erin Lane and Enuma Okoro, ed.: essays by female
Christian leaders about taboo topics
5. The Midwife: A Memoir of
Birth, Joy, and Hard Times, Jennifer Worth: Inspired “Call the Midwife,” which I love
6. Orange Is the New Black:
My Year in a Women's Prison, Piper Kerman: Inspired “Orange Is the New Black” show, even better
than the book
7. The Year of Living
Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J. Jacobs: title says it all
8. Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson; author returns to USA after
living in the UK
9. The Invisible Girls: A
Memoir, Sarah Thebarge:
cancer survivor befriends Somali refugees
10. Bruce, Peter Ames Carlin: the life of the Boss
11. Loud in the House of
Myself, Stacy Pershall:
poignant memoir of mental illness
12. Banished: Surviving My
Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, Lauren Drain and Lisa Pulitzer: insider account
of what makes the hateful Westboro Baptist Church function
13. Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir, Cyndi Lauper with Jancee Dunn: she’s
quirky, strong, and fascinating
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