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Tagsliterature in translation (67), Booker Prize longlist (42), British literature (31), Booker Prize shortlist (17), immigration (14), French literature (13), African literature (13), medicine (9), Indian literature (8), Orange Prize longlist (8) — see all tags

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Groups75 Books Challenge for 2009, African/African American Literature, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Author Theme Reads, Club Read 2009, History of Science/Technology/Medicine, Medicine, New York Review Books, Nobel Laureates in Literature, Reading Globally — show all groups , The Prizes, What Are You Reading Now?, Workspace B

Favorite authorsAntonio Lobo Antunes, James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Iris Chang, J. M. Coetzee, Julio Cortázar, Edwidge Danticat, Ralph Ellison, Atul Gawande, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ha Jin, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, José Saramago, Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, Colm Tóibín, Stefan Zweig (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAardvark Books, Book Culture, BookCourt, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Borders - Atlanta - Midtown, Borders - Buckhead, City Lights Bookstore, Druid Hills Bookstore, Foyles, Harvard Book Store, London Review Bookshop, National Theatre Bookshop, Robin's Book Store Inc, Rutgers University Bookstore (Ferren Mall), St. Mark's Bookshop, Strand Bookstore, University Press Books

Other favoritesAlliance Française d'Atlanta, National Theatre, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ivy Hall (SCAD)

About meI am a pediatric hospitalist (inpatient pediatrician) based in Atlanta, but I am originially from the Northeast (northern New Jersey and suburban Philadelphia). I primarily enjoy world literature, including literature written by immigrants to North America and Europe, and nonfictional and fictional works about medicine.

I'm participating in the 75 Books Challenge this year:




Books I've Read in 2009: (*** = unfinished book)

January:
2666 by Roberto Bolaño (Chile)
The Illusion of Return by Samir El-Youssef (Palestine)
A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo (Kenya)
Mishima's Sword by Christopher Ross (Japan/UK)
Patriotism by Yukio Mishima (Japan)
Does Your House Have Lions? by Sonia Sanchez (US)
Mi Revalueshanary Fren by Linton Kwesi Johnson (UK)
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso Yáñez (Chile)
Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami (Japan)
Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra (Chile)
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño (Chile)

February:
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (Japan)
Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia)
The Interrogation by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (France)
Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Zanzibar)
Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad (Norway)
A Better Angel: Stories by Chris Adrian (US)
The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuściński (Africa)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney (US)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan (Australia)
Travelling with Djinns by Jamal Mahjoub (Sudan/UK)
The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt (US)
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy (Hungary)
A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy (Hungary)
Ül: Four Mapuche Poets (Chile)
The Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust (France)

March:
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Ethiopia/US)
My Floating Mother, City by Kazuko Shiraishi (Japan)
The Oldest Orphan by Tierno Monénembo (Guinea)
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John (US)
Resistance: The Human Struggle Against Infection by Norbert Gualde, MD (France)
The United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti)
The Winners by Julio Cortázar (Argentina)
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor (US)
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (US)
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou (Congo)
The Tango Singer by Tomás Eloy Martinez (Argentina)
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortázar & Carol Dunlop (France)
Golpes Bajos/Low Blows: Instantáneas/Snapshots by Alicia Borinsky (Argentina)
UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo (China)
Shyness & Dignity by Dag Solstad (Norway)
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri (India)

April:
Brain Surgeon by Keith Black, MD (USA)
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker (The Netherlands)
Cambridge by Caryl Phillips (UK)
Afternoon Raag by Amit Chaudhuri (India/UK)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo (China/UK)
Breath by Tim Winton (Australia)
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell (UK)
Rhyming Life & Death by Amos Oz (Israel)
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie (Pakistan)
World Ball Notebook by Sesshu Foster (US)
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (US)
Unlucky Lucky Days by Daniel Grandbois (US)

May:
Five Spice Street by Can Xue (China)
The Mighty Angel by Jerzy Pilch (Poland)
The Fat Man and Infinity by António Lobo Antunes (Portugal)
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Ireland)
Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Poland)
Flowers of a Moment by Ko Un (Korea)
W, or The Memory of Childhood by Georges Perec (France)
Voice Over by Céline Curiol (France)
C.L.R. James: Cricket's Philosopher King by Dave Renton (Trinidad/UK)
The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele (Nigeria/UK)
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (Italy)
Plants Don't Drink Coffee by Unai Elorriaga (Basque/Spain)
Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK)
The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
The Armies by Evelio Rosero (Colombia)
The Bathroom by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (France)

June:
Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun (South Korea/US)
Rose by Li-Young Lee (Indonesia/US)
Frida's Bed by Slavenka Drakulić (Croatia)
In the Falling Snow by Caryl Phillips (St. Kitts/UK)
The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales (Cuba/US)
How I Became a Nun by César Aira (Argentina)
The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre (France)
Ravel by Jean Echenoz (France)
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Hoppla! 1 2 3 by Gérard Gavarry (France)
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones (UK)
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín (Ireland)
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (Iran)

July:
Ghosts by César Aira (Argentina)
Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures by Richard Barnett and Mike Jay (UK)
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (Austria)
The Postman by Antonio Skármeta (Chile)
Nostalgic Views of Atlanta {Atlanta History Center}
Mercury Under My Tongue by Sylvain Trudel (Canada)
The Fête at Coqueville by Émile Zola (France)
Flaw by Magdalena Tulli (Poland)
The Observer by Matt Charman (UK)
Literary Cafés of Paris by Noël Riley Fitch
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi (UK)

August:
***Palafox by Eric Chevillard (France)
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (UK)
Literary Paris: A Guide by Jessica Powell
Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin (Ireland)
Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig (Austria)
Harare North by Brian Chikwava (UK)
Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein (Pakistan/UK)
Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka/UK)
England People Very Nice by Richard Bean (UK)
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (UK)
Derelict London by Paul Talling (UK)
***Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever (UK)
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (US)
The Trial of Robert Mugabe by Chielo Zona Eze (Nigeria)
The Country Where No One Ever Dies by Ornela Vorpsi (Albania)
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall (UK)
Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser (US)

September:
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin (Mexico)
Love and Summer by William Trevor (Ireland)
Blood & Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter (UK)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (UK)
Coloured Lights by Leila Aboulela (Sudan)
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)
The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe (US)
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan/UK)
At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)
The Flood by Emile Zola (France)

October:
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (UK)
Solo by Rana Dasgupta (India)
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin (US)
My Men by Malika Mokeddem (Algeria)
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (France)
The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
"I Remain in Darkness" by Annie Ernaux (France)
The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
Dances with Snakes by Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador)
North of Hell by Miguel Correa Mujica (Cuba)
Running by Jean Echenoz (France)
The Possession by Annie Ernaux (France)

November:
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux (France)
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke (Austria)
Translation is a Love Affair by Jacques Poulin (Canada)
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK)
City Gates by Elias Khoury (Lebanon)
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux (France)
Shame by Annie Ernaux (France)
Creole Folktales by Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique)
Chowringhee by Shankar (India)
Heliopolis by James Scudamore (UK)
Small Memories by José Saramago (Portugal)
Waylaid by Ed Lin (US)

About my library

I'm in the midst of my personal Bookerthon, and I plan to read all of the 2009 shortlisted books by October 6, when the winner will be announced, and all of the longlisted books by the end of the year.

My ranking so far:
1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (winner)
2. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (shortlist)
3. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (longlist)
4. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt (shortlist)
5. Heliopolis by James Scudamore (longlist)
6. How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall (longlist)
7. Summertime by J.M. Coetzee (shortlist)
8. Love and Summer by William Trevor (longlist)
9. The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (longlist).
10. Not Untrue & Not Unkind by Ed O'Loughlin (longlist)
13. Me Cheeta by James Lever (longlist)

Books left to read:
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (shortlist)
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (longlist)

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Currently readingLet the Great World Spin: A Novel by Colum McCann
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley
Waylaid by Ed Lin