For the second year in a row I am taking part in our library’s Summer Reading Program (see last year’s progress here), which runs from May 6th thru August 21st. Last year I was a Rock Star and this year I’m a Rocketeer! To date, participants have clocked 11,314,826 minutes of reading and counting. I am proud to say I’ve contributed 4460 minutes of that total (or .0004% for you matheteers) and am thinking I can log another 2,500 – minutes not books – before the program ends…So what books did I read in 4460 minutes? Here’s a list of what I’ve read since May 6th, with my top 9 pictured above:
- The plotters : a novel Un-Su Kim
- Machines like me : and people like you Ian McEwan
- Limetown : the prequel to the #1 podcast Zack Akers
- Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant brilliant brilliant : essays Joel Golby
- White elephant : a novel Julie Langsdorf
- The end of the end of the earth : essays Jonathan Franzen
- The dreamers : a novel Karen Thompson Walker
- Lonesome lies before us : a novel Don Lee
- Big bang : a nonfiction novel David Bowman
- When you read this : a novel Mary Adkins
- The book of dreams : a novel Nina George
- Sugar run Mesha Maren
- Revolutionaries Joshua Furst
- My Coney Island baby : a novel Billy O’Callaghan
- Hazards of time travel Joyce Carol Oates
- Where we come from : a novel Oscar Ca sares
- The cook Maylis de Kerangal
- The affairs of the Falcóns : a novel Melissa Rivero
- Nine perfect strangers Liane Moriarty
- Naamah : a novel Sarah Blake
- Before we were wicked Eric Jerome Dickey
- Run away Harlan Corbin
- While mortals sleep : unpublished short fiction Kurt Vonnegut
- Welcome to the monkey house : a collection of short works Kurt Vonnegut
- We went to the woods : a novel Caite Dolan-Leach
- The Tubman command : a novel Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
- The other Americans Lalia Lalami
- Black leopard, red wolf Marlon James
- American pop : a novel Snowden Wright
How about you? Are you reading anything you really like right now? Drop me a line…I’d love to know…
The Grey Goddess 