Kookiejar's Recommended Reading List

Here is everything I've read since 1995 (minus the embarrassing junk). Highlighted in blue are the ones I truly loved. In red are the ones I'm fanatical about. An asterisk signifies the books I've read this year. Updated monthly.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Murakami-O'Brien

blue=read this ~~ red=read this now!!


After Dark-Haruki Murakami

After the Quake-Haruki Murakami

Dance, Dance, Dance-Haruki Murakami


Kafka On the Shore-Haruki Murakami


South of the Border, West of the Sun-Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart-Haruki Murakami

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle-Haruki Murakami

(Nonfiction) Reading Lolita in Tehran-Azar Nafisi

Love, Stars and All That-Kirin Narayan


Mama Day-Gloria Naylor


The Men of Brewster Place-Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place-Gloria Naylor

Suite Francaise-Irene Nemirovsky

Into the Same River Twice-Francis Nevins

The Tribes of Palos Verdes-Joy Nicholson

The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger

Bone Deep-Darian North


There is a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell-Laurie Notaro

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
-Joyce Carol Oates

Bellefleur
-Joyce Carol Oates

Blonde
-Joyce Carol Oates

First Love
-Joyce Carol Oates

A Garden of Earthly Delights
-Joyce Carol Oates

High Lonesome
-Joyce Carol Oates

Rape
-Joyce Carol Oates

Them-Joyce Carol Oates

We Were the Mulvaneys
-Joyce Carol Oates

Zombie
-Joyce Carol Oates

The Things They Carried-Tim O'Brien