Saturday, October 5, 2013

books read in October 2013

Fiction is in red.

170. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, Daniel Okrent
171. The Story of Charlotte's Web:  E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic, Michael Sims
172. The Last Detective, Peter Lovesey 
173. The Summons, Peter Lovesey
174. Bloodhounds, Peter Lovesey 
175. Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith, William Todd Schultz
176. Room with a View, E.M. Forster
177. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
178. The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox, Nina Burleigh
179. Cartwheel, Jennifer duBois  
180. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, George Packer
181. Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade, George Packer 
182. Shadows, Robin McKinley  
183. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, Allie Brosh (not as good as the website)
184. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Rick Perlstein 
185. The Poe Shadow, Matthew Pearl
186. The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales, Edgar Allan Poe (ed. Matthew Pearl)
187. In a Strange City, Laura Lippman
188. Poe: A Life Cut Short, Peter Ackroyd

2013 booklist