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About me

Currently in Bloomington, Illinois, I grew up in Canada (Edmonton and London), went to university in Arizona and have lived since in England (Warwick and Wantage), France (Paris), Germany (Munich) and South Carolina (Greenville).

About my libraryBest Books of 2021

The Group by Mary McCarthy
Transcendent Kingdom by Yea Gyasi
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken
The Trees and Telephone by Percival Everett
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

Best Books of 2020

Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
True Story by Kate Reed Petty
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
F*ckface and Other Stories by Leah Hampton
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
These Women by Ivy Pochoda

Best Books of 2019

A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Churchgoer by Patrick Coleman
The New Me by Halle Butler
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
The Body Lies by Jo Baker
The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett

Best Books of 2018

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Melmoth by Sarah Perry
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

Best Books of 2017

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The Trespasser by Tana French

Best Books of 2016

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present by Alison Matthews David
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
Commonwealth by Anne Patchett
Darktown by Thomas Mullen

Best Books of 2015

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
The Story of a New Name & Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
Fallout by Sadie Jones
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Best Books of 2014

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
History of the Rain by Niall Williams

Best Books of 2013

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Collector by John Fowles
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Tenth of December by George Saunders

Best Books of 2012

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Best Books of 2011

The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin.
Doc by Mary Doria Russell.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
Hark a Vagrant by Kate Beaton.
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel.

Best Books of 2010

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson.
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh.
Queenpin by Megan Abbott.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters.

Best Books of 2009

The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman.
The Likeness by Tana French.
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman.
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.

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Favorite authorsMegan Abbott, Kate Atkinson, Jane Austen, Fred Clark, David Ebershoff, Sebastian Faulks, Ernest Hemingway, Guy Gavriel Kay, Marian Keyes, Denise Mina, David Mitchell, L. M. Montgomery, Thomas Mullen, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker, Tom Perrotta, Sarah Perry, Ian Rankin, David Sedaris, Carol Shields (Shared favorites)

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Favorite bookstoresBooks to be Red, Edisto Bookstore, M. Judson Booksellers & Storytellers, McDowell's Emporium Books, Mr. K's Used Books - Greenville, Words' Worth

Favorite librariesGreenville County Library System (Ramsey Family Branch)

Favorite lists2014 Tournament of Books, 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2016 Tournament of Books, 2018 Tournament of Books, 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2022 Tournament of Books, Good LGBT fiction for LGBT folk and friends

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Member sinceFeb 22, 2008

Currently readingBorderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour
Sleepwalk: A Novel by Dan Chaon
Mrs. March: A Novel by Virginia Feito
French Braid: A novel by Anne Tyler