my virtual bookshelf
I can never seem to get enough of books. Since I’m trying to cut down on my book clutter, I have to show off all my reads in cyberspace. More on my reading obsession at Good Reads. It’s like a MySpace for bibliophiles. Be my book friend. Oh, and if you like to purchase your books, Book Finder helps you scour the web for the cheapest buys. If you want to give books to get books, strut your book karma at BookMooch.
2008
July’s People, Gordimer, Nadine
In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs: Stories, Wolff, Tobias
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories, Berriault, Gina
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Alexie, Sherman
The Moons of Jupiter, Munro, Alice
Red Cavalry and Other Stories, Babel, Isaac
The Collected Stories, McGahern, John
The Little Disturbances of Man, Paley, Grace
The Pickup, Gordimer, Nadine
Stories of Happy People, Gustafsson, Lars
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction, Butler, Robert Olen
Pinoy: The First Wave, 1898-1941, Vallangca, Robert V.
Hawaii, A Pilipino Dream, Felipe, V. M.
All Stories are True: The Stories of John Edgar Wideman, Wideman, John Edgar
Birds of America: Stories, Moore, Lorrie
Skinner’s Drift: A Novel, Fugard, Lisa
Growing Up Barefoot in Hawaii, Hodge, Peggy Hickok
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, Prose, Francine
Sleeping Beauties, Moore, Susanna
In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje, Michael
Dubliners, Joyce, James
The Foreign Student, Choi, Susan
2007
1. The Beacon Best of 1999
2. Granta 95: Loved Ones
3. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
4. Tin House: Winter Reading
5. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy*
6. Comfort Me With Apples (Audio) by Ruth Reichl
7. Mating by Norman Rush
8. When the Emperor Was Divine (Audio) by Julie Otsuka
9. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
10. A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion*
11. The Giver by Lois Lowry*
12. Home
13. In the Cut by Susanna Moore
14. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson*
15. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
16. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
17. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (again)
18. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (again)
19. Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan al-Shaykh
20. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
21. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (again)
22. One Day of Life by Manuel Argueta
23. The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh
24. The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
25. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
26. Embers by Sandor Marai
27. House of Thieves by Kaui Hemmings Hart
28. Granta’s Best Young Novelists 2
2006
1. Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport
2. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon*
4. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
5. Three Junes by Julia Glass
6. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
7. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger*
8. A Public Space #1
9. Glimmer Train #58
10. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
11. The Beacon Best of 2001
12. Drown by Junot Diaz*
13. American Woman by Susan Choi*
14. After Rain by William Trevor
15. Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
15 1/2. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin (half)
16 1/2. Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender*
17 1/2. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
18 1/2. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
19 1/2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini
20 1/2. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
21 1/2.Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
2005
1. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
3. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
4. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. The Whiteness of Bones by Susanna Moore
6. The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
7. The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum
8. Shark Dialogues by Kiana Daveport*
9. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
10. The Body by Hanif Kureishi
11. Wicked by Gregory Maguire*
12. Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
13. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
WISHLIST/SHELVED
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The House of Many Gods by Kiana Davenport
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Waimea Summer by John Dominis Holt
Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
The Four-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
