The virtual book pile. I haven’t read all of these yet. (I’ve done a decent job on past summers’ lists.) But they’re the ones I’m planning to read; they are books that are in the actual stack on the bedside table, or ones listed on various post-it notes on my desk to get from the library…
2011 Summer reading list: (just starting, and happy to take recommendations)
Lucky Jim (Amis)
The Cello Suites (Siblin)
The Collected Stories (Cheever)
Lincoln (Vidal)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (Chabon)
Cutting for Stone (Verghese)
Four Fish (Greenberg)
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2010 Summer reading list:
The Wolverine Way (Chadwick)
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 (Sachs)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Carroll)
If on a winter’s night a traveler (Calvino)
Momofuku Cookbook (Chang)
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank (Thad Carhart)
Manhood For Amateurs (Chabon)
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2009 Summer reading list:
Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
The River Cottage Cookbook (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall)
They Walked Into Sunlight (David Maraniss)
Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Ken Robinson)
Walk on Water (Michael Ruhlman)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean Dominique Bauby)
Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (Michael Pollan)
Home Game (Michael Lewis)
Among the Thugs (Bill Buford)
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update 7/22
Hungry Monkey (Matthew Amster-Burton)
Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes (Jeffrey Hamelman)
I just want to say that this is an intriguing reading list!
Thanks, Susan! I’m realizing now that this was last summer’s list, and I should definitely update it. I didn’t get through all of those, but managed to check off quite a few. Any recommendations?