Emily's Books

Emily recommends these books she's been reading lately...

2009

• The Wild Palms William Faulkner
• Play it as it Lays Joan Didion
• Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead
• The Road Cormac McCarthy
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley
• Laughter in the Dark Vladmir Nabakov
• An Unfinished Presidency Douglas Brinkley
• The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
• Ham on Rye Charles Bukowski
• The Sympsosium Plato
• Selected Poems William Carlos Williams
• Beneath the Roses Gregory Crewdson

2008

• Fifth Business Robertson Davies
• The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic
• The Color of Water James McBride
• After Dark Haruki Murakami

• We the Living Ayn Rand
• Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
• A Remarkable Mother Jimmy Carter
• Amsterdam Ian McEwan
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl

• Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Great Expectations Charles Dickens
• Strawberry Fields: A Novel Marina Lewycka
• On the Shortness of Life Seneca
• A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeanette Walls
• Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant To See Bill Shaprio
• Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings Starr Figura and Lucian Freud

2007

• Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet
• The Accidental Ali Smith
• A Coney Island of the Mind Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon

• Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran Azadeh Moaveni
• Saarinen Pierluigi Serraino
• Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin
• Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920's The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Humboldt's Gift Saul Bellow
• Norwegian Wood Murakami Haruki
• Girl Culture Lauren Greenfield
• Saul and Patsy Charles Baxter
• The World Doesn't End Charles Simic

2006

• On Beauty Zadie Smith
• Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul The Museum of Modern Art
• Post Office Charle Bukowski
• Heat Bill Buford
• The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 Dave Eggers

Previously

• Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
• Hooking Up Tom Wolfe
• Enduring Love Ian McEwan
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian Marina Lewycka
• Memoirs of an Egotist Stendhal
• Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud Jonathan Safran Foer
• Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
• The Human Stain Philip Roth
• Eugene O'Neill: Complete Plays 1932-1943
• Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov
• The Sea John Banville