I have recommended reading selections each month for the first half of the year and it’s time to go back through the lists and select a representation of recommendations that I’ll use to build my August reading list. I did this once before and it was effectively introduced me to some wonderful reading as well as keeping me honest and grounded in the books I recommend each month.
Here is the list for June 0f 2018. Now I must look back from January through June to create next month’s reading pool.
06-01-18 – I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive — Steve Earle
06-02-18 – The Mars Room — Rachel Kusner
06-03-18 – Varina — Charles Frazier
06-04-18 – America Is Not the Heart — Elaine Castillo
06-05-18 – Parking Lot Attendant — Nafkote Tamirat
06-06-18 – Broadway — Fran Leadon
06-07-18 – The Italian Teacher — Tom Rachman
06-08-18 – Stray City – Chelsey Jonson
06-09-18 – Basic Black with Pearls – Helen Weinzweig
06-10-18 – Going For a Beer – Robert Coover
06-11-18 – Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff – Sean Penn
06-12-18 – The Power — Naomi Alderman
06-13-18 – The Broken Girls — Simone St. James
06-14-18 – Bad Boy Boogie — Thomas Pluck
06-15-18 – Bossy Pants — Tina Fey
06-16-18 – Lullaby — Leila Slimani
06-17-18 – Junk — Tommy Pico
06-18-18 – The Odyssey — Homer (Dr. Emily Wilson translation)
06-19-18 – Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
06-20-18 – In Black and White — Junichiro Tanizaki
06-21-18 – Antony and Cleopatra — William Shakespeare
06-22-18 – The World Goes On — Laszlo Krasznahorkai
06-23-18 – Milton, A Poem in 2 Books — William Blake
06-24’18 – Outline — Rachel Cusk
06-25-18 – The Flounder — Günter Grass
06-26-18 – Little Jewel — Patrick Modiano
06-27-18 – Concluding — Henry Green
06-28-18 – Tarantula — Bob Dylan
06-29-18 – An Accidental Man – Iris Murdoch
06-30-18 – Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony — Jan Morris
A Celebration of Reading 