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On My Nightstand and In My iPod . . .
(last updated
January 18, 2012
):
Ten Thousand Saints | Lucy Henderson
The Obamas | Jody Kantor (Newsday review, PDF)
The Corner | David Simon and Edward Burns
Girl Land | Caitlin Flanagan
Would It Kill You To Stop Doing That? | Henry Alford
Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me? | Mindy Kaling
Minor Characters | Joyce Johnson
Pulphead | John Jeremiah Sullivan
Then Again | Diane Keaton (Newsday review, PDF)
The Paris Wife | Paula McLain
We The Animals | Justin Torres
The Marriage Plot | Jeffrey Eugenides
A Regular Guy | Mona Simpson
Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson (Newsday review, PDF)
Setting Fires | Kate Wenner
Bossypants | Tina Fey
Out of this World | Graham Swift
Your Medical Mind | J. Groopman and P. Hartzband
Blue Nights | Joan Didion (Newsday review, PDF)
11/22/63 | Stephen King (Newsday review, PDF)
Collected Essays | E.B. White
The Track of Real Desires | Beverly Lowry
The Puppy Diaries | Jill Abramson (Newsday review, PDF)
The Memory of Water | Jack Myers
Safekeeping | Abigail Thomas
The Good Life | Jay McInerney (reread)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot
The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country | Ken Kalfus
The Gap Year | Sarah Bird
My Antonia | Willa Cather
Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close | Jonathan Safran Foer
The Zero | Jess Walter
Reality Hunger | David Shields
The Whole World Over | Julia Glass (reread)
The Emperor's Children | Claire Messud (reread)
Turn of Mind | Alice La Plante (Newsday review, PDF)
Witches of East End | Melissa de la Cruz (Newsday review, PDF)
The Believers | Zoe Heller
A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan
The Submission | Amy Waldman
The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein
The Chronology of Water | Lidia Yuknavitch
Crossed Over | Beverly Lowry
Lord of Misrule | Jaimy Gordon
From Animal House to Our House | Ron Tanner (Baltimore Sun review)
The Summer Without Men | Siri Hustvedt
(Newsday review, PDF)
The Ninth Wife | Amy Stolls
(Newsday review, PDF)
The New Journalism | ed. Tom Wolfe
Letters to A Young Poet | Rainer Marie Rilke (reread)
Half A Life | Darin Strauss
Look Me in the Eye | John Robison
The Long Journey Home | Margaret Robison
The Color of Night | Madison Smartt Bell
(Baltimore Sun review)
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down | Anne Fadiman
Come Back Lolly Ray | Beverly Lowry
Say Her Name | Francisco Goldman (Newsday review, PDF)
Double Down | Frederick and Steven Barthelme
The Long Goodbye | Meghan O'Rourke (More review)
I Remember Nothing | Nora Ephron
Permanent Midnight (reread) | Jerry Stahl
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea | Chelsea Handler
My Horizontal Life | Chelsea Handler
The Intimates | Ralph Sassone (Newsday review, PDF)
Mr. Chartwell | Rebecca Hunt (Newsday review, PDF)
What You See In The Dark | Manuel Muñoz (Newsday review, PDF)
Dispatches (reread) | Michael Herr
The Adderall Diaries | Stephen Elliot
Tweak | Nic Sheff
Moonface | Angela Balcita
The Thirsty Muse (reread)| Tom Dardis
Sing You Home | Jodi Picoult (Newsday review, PDF)
The Night of the Gun | David Carr
Big Girl Small | Rebecca DeWoskin (More review)
The Memory-Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards
The Lake of Dreams | Kim Edwards (Newsday review, PDF)
Witness to the Fire | Linda Schierse Leonard
The Widow's Story | Joyce Carol Oates (Newsday review, PDF)
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City | Nick Flynn
The Ticking is the Bomb | Nick Flynn
Cocaine's Son | Dave Itzkoff (Newsday review, PDF)
The Autobiography of Jenny X | Lisa Dierbeck
Portrait of the Addict as a Young Man | Bill Clegg
Mr. Toppit | Charles Elton (Newsday review, PDF)
The Orange Eats Creeps | Grace Krilanovich
Life | Keith Richards
The Cannibal of Guadalajara | David Winner
Blackbird (reread) | Jennifer Lauck
Self-Help (reread) | Lorrie Moore
The Emperor of Maladies | Siddhartha Mukherjee (Newsday review, PDF)
By Nightfall | Michael Cunningham (Newsday review, PDF)
Drinking Closer to Home | Jessica Anya Blau (Baltimore Sun review)
Let's Take the Long Way Home | Gail Caldwell
Bound | Antonya Nelson
The False Friend | Myla Goldberg
Hot Springs | Geoff Becker
Memoir: A History | Ben Yagoda
Orange is the New Black | Piper Kerman
Book of Days | Emily Fox Gordon (Newsday review, PDF)
Room | Emma Donoghue
The Museum of Innocence | Orhan Pamuk
The Time-Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger
The Help| Kathryn Stockett
Bad Marie | Marcy Dermansky (Newsday review, PDF)
The Imperfectionists | Tom Rachman
The Thousand | Kevin Guilfoile (Los Angeles Times review)
A Fortunate Age | Joanna Smith Rakoff
Imperfect Birds | Anne Lamott
World of Our Fathers | Irving Howe
As Husbands Go | Susan Isaacs
The Year of Magical Thinking (third time) | Joan Didion
Just Kids | Patti Smith
An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination | Elizabeth McCracken
The Suicide Index | Joan Wickersham
On the Outskirts of Normal | Debra Monroe
I Was Told There'd Be Cake | Sloane Crosley
How Did You Get This Number | Sloane Crosley (Newsday review, PDF)
The Invisible Bridge | Julie Orringer (Newsday review, PDF)
Every Last One | Anna Quindlen
Beautiful Boy | David Sheff
Olive Kittredge | Elizabeth Strout
Happy Trails to You | Julie Hecht
The Lonely Polygamist | Brady Udall (Newsday review, PDF)
Devotion | Dani Shapiro
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them | Elif Batuman (Victoria Advocate review)
The Irresistible Henry House | Lisa Grunwald
I Love You, Beth Cooper | Larry Doyle
Adam Robison | Adam Robinson
Do-Over! | Robin Hemley
Committed | Elizabeth Gilbert
The Three Weissmans of Westport | Cathleen Schine (Victoria Advocate review)
Sugarless | James Magruder
Marcus of Umbria | Justine van der Leun
Delivered from Distraction | Edward Hallowell
The Tender Bar | JR Moehringer
Too Much Money | Dominick Dunne (Denver Post review)
Slipping the Moorings | Susan McCallum-Smith
A Gate at the Stairs | Lorrie Moore
Normal People Don't Live Like This | Dylan Landis
Zeitoun | Dave Eggers
Lit | Mary Karr
The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
Muriel Barbery
Anne Frank |
Francine Prose
South of Broad |
Pat Conroy
Merle's Door | Ted Kerasote
Blame | Michelle Huneven
A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway
The Writing Life | Ellen Gilchrist
Wishful Drinking | Carrie Fisher
My Nine Lives | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Dog Years |
Mark Doty
Labor Day |
Joyce Maynard (Newsday review)
A Place Called Canterbury |
Dudley Clendinen
Guess Again |
Bernard Cooper
Short Girls |
Bich Minh Nguyen (Newsday review)
Acceptance |
David Marcus (Newsday review)
Stone's Fall | Iain Pears
Love Stories in this Town | Amanda Eyre Ward
Life Sentences
| Laura Lippman
A Three Dog Life
| Abigail Thomas
Searching for Mercy Street
| Linda Gray Sexton
The Addict
| Michael Stein Cutting for Stone
| Abraham Verghese
Revolutionary Road
| Richard Yates
Drinking: A Love Story
| Caroline Knapp
Autobiography of a Face
| Lucy Grealey
Behind the Bedroom Door: Giving It Getting It Loving It
| ed. Paula Derrow
Flats and Riots
| poems by Michelle Stoner
Hats and Eyeglasses
| Martha Frankel
Under the Influence: The Literature of Addiction
| ed. Rebecca Shannonhouse
Netherland
| Joseph O'Neill
Dreams from My Father
| Barack Obama
Cures for Heartbreak
| Margo Rabb
Love Junkie | Rachel Resnick
Desire
| Susan Cheever
The Hour I First Believed | Wally Lamb
This Book Will Save Your Life | A.M. Homes
Harry, Revised | Mark Sarvas
Bladderville | Kendra Kopelke
Lake Meade | a mystery/romance by Heather Mosko (she's my neighbor!)
Factory of Tears | Valzhyna Mort
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski
The Year of Naked Swim Parties | Jessica Anya Blau
Genealogy
| Maud Casey
American Wife
| Curtis Sittenfeld
Dear Everybody
| Michael Kimball
Apples and Oranges
| Marie Brenner
Alive in Necropolis | Doug Dorst
Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie
Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri
On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan
How Perfect is That | Sarah Bird
Marley and Me | John Grogan
The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio | Terry Ryan
We Need To Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver
The World To Come | Dara Horn
Final Exam | Pauline Chen
Daisy Miller | Henry Miller
The Gathering | Anne Enright
Dear American Airlines | Jonathan Miles
My Name is Aram | William Saroyan
The Bishop's Daughter | Honor Moore
Bright Shiny Morning | James Frey
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India | Rachel Manija Brown
Learning from the Heart | Daniel Gottlieb
I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay | Naomi Shihab Nye
Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain
Beautiful Children | Charles Bock
Bleachy Haired Honky Bitch | Hollis Gillespie
Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler
Between Panic and Desire | Dinty Moore
Short Takes | ed. Judith Kitchen
Golf and the Spirit |
M. Scott Peck
The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz
The Florist's Daughter | Patricia Hampl
The Unlikely Lavender Queen | Jeannie Ralston
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Travel Team | Mike Lupica
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | Rachel Cohn & David Leviathan
Shoot the Moon | Frances O'Roark Dowell
Along for the Ride |
Sarah Dessen
Rumblefish | S.E. Hinton
How I Live Now | Meg Rosoff
Would You | Marthe Jocelyn
Prom Anonymous | Blake Nelson
Whale Talk
| Chris Crutcher
Rainbow Boys |
Alec Sanchez
Slam |
Nick Hornby
Rewind |
Jan Page
Tex |
S.E. Hinton
Deadline |
Cris Crutcher
Gingerbread |
Rachel Cohn
Island Boyz |
Graham Salisbury
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