Below are some titles I read and loved last year. I managed to keep track of all the books I read that year (which is one thing I hope to do with this blog) and I just rediscovered that list. Here they are…

• Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
• Tales of the City, by Armistead Maupin
• Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
• Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene
• Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, by Peter Hedges
• Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy
• M31: A Family Romance, by Stephen Wright
• James Tiptree, Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, by Julie Phillips (bio)
• We Need To Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver
• Mister Sandman, by Barbara Gowdy
• Then We Came To The End, by Joshua Ferris
• So Much For That, by Lionel Shriver
• Saint Maybe, by Anne Tyler
• The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982, ed. by Greg Johnson
• The Odd Sea, by Frederick Reiken
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
• A Widow For One Year, by John Irving
• This Is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper
• The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken
• Just Kids, by Patti Smith (memoir)