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WAITING FOR SUNRISE ~ WILLIAM BOYD ◊BOOKER ELIGIBLE◊

Currently Reading

and The Tale of Genji ~ Murasaki Shikibu

On Deck:  

Bring Up The Bodies ~ Hilary Mantel

2012 Book List (by rating) – All books clickable to commentary:

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Zona: A Book About A Film, About a Journey To A Room ~ Geoff Dyer

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Mother Night ~ Kurt Vonnegut

South of the Border, West of the Sun ~ Haruki Murakami

The Song of Achilles ~ Madeline Miller

The Missing of the Somme ~ Geoff Dyer

Photocopies ~ John Berger

Regeneration ~ Pat Barker

The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers ~ Thomas Mullen

The Gods of Gotham ~ Lyndsay Faye

The World Without You ~ Joshua Henkin

Waiting For Sunrise ~ William Boyd ◊BOOKER ELIGIBLE◊

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Volt: Stories ~ Alan Heathcock

Watergate: A Novel ~ Thomas Mallon

Pulphead: Essays ~ John Jeremiah Sulliva

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis ~ Alice Kaplan

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them ~ Elif Batuman

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Library Queue/tbr

• Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 5-10
• The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey 5-15
• Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt with Ilya Gridneff (Fall 2012)
• Paper Conspiracies ~ Susan Daitch
• Anatomy of a Disappearance ~ Hisham Matar
• Sea of Poppies and River of Smoke  ~ Amitav Ghosh
• There But For The ~ Ali Smith
• The Line of Beauty and Stranger’s Child ~ Alan Hollinghurst
• Zone One ~ Colson Whitehead
• The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories ~ Don DeLillo
• Cloud Street, Tim Winton
• Portraits of a Marriage, Sandor Marai
• The Age of Dreaming, Nina Revoyer
• The Orange Eats Creeps, Grace Krilanovi

And other TBR/Watch List:

• Willy Vlautin

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