Tom & Alissa

See here and here for my reading list.

January
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

February
His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
Self-Help - Lorrie Moore
Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty On the Open Road - Donald Miller
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Magnolia: The Shooting Script - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Book of Jane - Anne Dayton & May Vanderbilt
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

March
Because She Can - Bridie Clark
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics - N. Juster
Adaptation: The Shooting Script - Charlie (& Donald) Kaufman

April
The Children of Men - P.D. James
Dark Island - Josh Cacopardo
Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (screenplays) - Krzystof Kieslowski

May
On Writing - Stephen King
What the Dead Know - Laura Lippman
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories - Truman Capote
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose - Flannery O’Connor
The Mistakes Madeline Made - Elizabeth Meriwether
The Hidden Art of Homemaking - Edith Schaeffer
Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith - Rob Bell

June
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Grace Disguised - Jerry L. Sittser
The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
Wayside School is Falling Down - Louis Sachar
A Widow for One Year - John Irving
A History of Love - Nicole Krauss

July
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union - Michael Chabon
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality - Donald Miller (re-read)
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Proof - David Auburn
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

August
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Wonderful Town - David Remnick (editor)
Grub - Elise Blackwell
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
On Beauty - Zadie Smith

September
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Virgin of Bennington - Kathleen Norris
Heat - Bill Buford
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

October
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History - Jonathan Franzen
The Maytrees - Annie Dillard
Little Children - Tom Perotta
Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
Auralia’s Colors - Jeffrey Overstreet
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Atonement - Ian McEwan

November
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott
Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
Martha and Hanwell (Pocket Penguin edition) - Zadie Smith
Innocent House (Pocket Penguin edition) - P.D. James

December
What Is the What - Dave Eggers
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
Morningside Heights - Cheryl Mendelson