twentyfive books, in which I betray my CanLit roots rather badly

[phinnia]

In lieu of the book meme, you get twenty-five books that I think are awesome. I kind of fail at American classic lit. In my defense I grew up in foreign parts.

1. A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
2. Set this House in Order - Matt Ruff
3. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender
4. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves - Karen Russell
5. The Diviners - Margaret Laurence
6. Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sacks
7. The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
8. The God of Small Things - Andruhati Roy
9. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
10. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
11. Life After God - Douglas Coupland
12. Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
13. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
14. Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
15. Neuromancer - William Gibson
16. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
17. Larry's Party - Carol Shields
18. Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
19. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character/Why do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard Feynman
20. Queen of All The Dustballs And Other Epics of Everyday Life - Bill Richardson
21. On Writing - Stephen King
22. Geek Love - Katharine Dunn
23. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times - Pema Chodron
24. Gracie: A Love Story - George Burns (this is seriously the saddest book I've ever read)
25. Cookwise - Shirley Corriher

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Set This House In Order? One of the best things I *ever* read. Not read any of the others, haven't heard of many, got St Lucy's Home but hadn't realised it was short stories and I'm really not good at reading short stories (I even prefer my fanfic novel length), I presume I'm missing a treat...

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I just /loved/ Set This House in Order. <3 So, so marvelous. I haven't read his new book (Bad Monkeys) yet ...