2009 Summer Reading List

This is my tentative summer reading list for 2009. I will probably NOT read all these books from start to finish. However, as I write the review of these books, I’ll cross them off this list and provide a link to the blog post about the book. Read along and let me know what you think of the books!

• The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
• A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
• Gap Creek, Robert Morgan
• Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
• Back Roads, Tawni O’Dell
• While I was Gone, Sue Miller
• Drowning Ruth, Christina Schwarz
• House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
• We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates
• Icy SParks, Gwyn Hyman Rubio
• Cane River, Lalita Tademy
• The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
• Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman
• Black and Blue, Anna Quindlen
• Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
• What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Pearl Cleage
• Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
• The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
• White Oleander, Janet Fitch
• Mother of Pearl, Melinda Haynes
• Tara Road, Maeve Binchy
• Vinegar Hill, A. Manette Ansay
• The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton
• Stones from the River, Ursula Hegi
• The Rapture of Canaan, Sheri Reynolds
• Songs in Ordinary Time, Mary McGarry Morris
• A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
• A Virtuous Woman, Kay Gibbons
• Ellen Foster, Kay Gibbons