Member: deb80

CollectionsYour library (1,171), Books Read 2013 (42), Books Read 2012 (106), Books Read 2011 (101), Books Read 2010 (86), Currently reading (2), To read (92), TBRBef75 (79), All collections (1,171)

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About meI am a recently retired, non-tv-watching woman with time to read some of the zillion books on my wishlist.

About my libraryI like reading or re-reading literary classics, fiction set in exotic (to me) places, and mysteries. Topicwise, I'm drawn to tales of exploration, the immigrant experience, armed conflict and the lives of writers and artists. Quirkwise, I can find guidebooks to long-distance trails, like those published by Cicerone, enthralling, as I imagine myself plodding through muddy fields, through gates, over stiles.

Along with books owned and read, my LT library includes unowned books I've read and consider part and parcel of my being (i.e. I still remember them) and books I own and have committed to reading in the next 1-2 years.

2013 Favorites, YTD
Doctor Copernicus, John Banville
The Maias, José Maria de Eça de Queirós
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, Michael Gorra
Gillespie and I, Jane Harris
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig

2012 Favorites
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
Saints and Strangers, Angela Carter
Open City, Teju Cole
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain, Roger Deakin
The Ten Thousand Things, Maria Dermoût
Troubles, J.G. Farrell
The Gastronomical Me, M.F.K. Fisher
One Hundred Years of Solitude, (re-read) Gabriel García Márquez
Independent People, Halldor Laxness
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
Mario and the Magician & Other Stories, Thomas Mann
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
Agaat, Marlene Van Niekerk
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien
The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
One Fine Day, Mollie Panter-Downes
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, Gregor von Rezzori
Yes, Chef, Marcus Samuelsson (audio version)
Blindness, Jose Saramago (audio version)
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
I Hotel, Karen Tei Yamashita

Favorite Reads 2011
Knowledge of Hell, António Lobo Antunes
Regeneration, Pat Barker
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño
Jane Eyre (re-read), Charlotte Bronte
The Master & Margarita (re-read), Mikhail Bulgakov
Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
Great Expectations (re-read), Charles Dickens
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field
Sylvia's Lovers, Elizabeth Gaskell
Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Beyond Sleep, Willem Frederik Hermans
Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston
4 Major Plays, Henrik Ibsen
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Women as Lovers, Elfriede Jelinek
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kiš
The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century, Witold Rybczynski
Like You'd Understand, Anyway, Jim Shepard
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Harriet Hume, Rebecca West
Stoner, John Williams
Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf

My 2010 favorites
An Explanation of the Birds, António Lobo Antunes
Servants of the Map, Andrea Barrett
By Night in Chile, Roberto Bolaño
Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
Being Dead, Jim Crace (audio version)
A Tale of Two Cities, (re-read) Charles Dickens
The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell
Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant
Old Filth, Jane Gardam
Six Plays, Henrik Ibsen
The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson
A Country Doctor, Sarah Orne Jewett
Ransom, David Malouf
A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Rebels, Sandor Marai
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
Albert's Bridge and Other Plays, Tom Stoppard
Mr. Fortune's Maggot/The Salutation, Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West

GroupsNone

VenuesFavorites

Favorite bookstoresBook Culture, hello hello books, Labyrinth Books, Persephone Books

Favorite librariesPrinceton Public Library, Rockland Public Library

Other favoritesBryn Mawr-Wellesley Annual Book Sale

LocationPrinceton, NJ

Favorite authorsNot set

Account typepublic, lifetime

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Member sinceJan 22, 2010

Currently readingTenth of December: Stories by George Saunders
Capital: A Novel by John Lanchester