Summer Reading List (A Little Early)
From the Department of Too Much Free Time…
I’ve just made a spreadsheet of all the books I’ve read in roughly the past four and a half years (basically the length of time that I have lived in this house). The total is 77 books. According to my rudimentary mathematical calculations, that is over 17 books a year or nearly 1.5 books a month.
It was easy to count them all up because with only a few exceptions they are all sitting on my book shelves next to my bed. A great side effect of my self ban from the public library is that I am amassing quite a library of my own.
See all the way to the very bottom for some recommendations…
Recommendations
(sort of in order of preference):
The Angel On The Roof
- Russell Banks
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
- Sarah Vowell
Wonder Boys
- Michael Chabon
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Flannery O’Connor
A Heart Breaking Work Of Staggering Genius
- Dave Eggers
Blue Highways
- William Least Heat-Moon
Driving Mr. Albert – A Trip Across America With Einstein’s Brain
- Michael Paterniti
Running After Antelope
- Scott Carrier
The Devil In The White City
- Erik Larson
The Last American Man
- Elizabeth Gilbert
