I read a lot of great books in 2009, but I did say I was only going to spend a week discussing these books. Alas, the week has come and gone and I must move on. But not without giving you this; a list of books worth reading:
Memoirs:
- A Wolf at the Dinner Table: A Memoir of My Father by Augusten Burroughs (I am a huge Augusten fan. I am currently waiting for You Better Not Cry to come in to my library. After reading it, I will probably dedicate a week of blogs to his books!!)
- I am not myself these days: A Memoir
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell (Perfect combination of crazy, addiction, and love!! A must read!) - Too Fat Too Fish by Artie Lange with Anthony Bozza (I love Artie and wish him the best.)
- Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin by Kathy Griffin (Not only funny but very honest.)
- Why is My Mother Getting a Tattoo by Jancee Dunn (such a fun read. I definitely will be reading more of her this year)
Non-Fiction:
- Chemical Cowboys by Lisa Sweetingham (I loved this book about the investigation of the Ecstasy trade.)
- The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and The World of Immigrant America by Thomas Buk-Swienty (I am a history buff!)
- Clark Clifford: The Wise Man of Washington by John Acacia (very interesting on the power and influence in Washington DC)
- The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders by Anthony Flacco with Jerry Clark (horrifying!)
- The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw by Michael Sokolove (As a lover of baseball, I found this book to be incredibly interesting)
Fiction(I am not a huge fiction reader, but I did like these):
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Ernest Hemingway:
Every year I try to read authors I probably should have read a long time ago. This year, I read three books by Ernest Hemingway. Needless to say, I now want to move to Europe and drink wine all day; unfortunately, I should have read these books in my twenties when there was still time.
- A Moveable Feast
- A Farewell to Arms
- The Sun Also Rises
