By popular request and for your reference (as well as my own), I’ve created an alphabetical list of all of the books I’ve mentioned or commented on since the beginning of the year; i.e. January through May, with one title that will appear in another posting this month. List includes the genre and the date of the blog post in which it appeared.
It is possible to search my blog by the tags, “books” or “reading,” for example, and get the posts that have those tags, but this does not provide an organized list. And you can see all the posts that are categorized as Books or Reading, but that again just gives you the entire post. So here’s the first list of authors and titles. I’ll do this periodically throughout the year.
BOOKS CITED 2016, Jan-May
Addair, Lynsey This is What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love & War
(memoir) 3/20/16
Coutts, Marion Iceberg (memoir) 2/20/16
Fair, Eric Consequence (memoir) 5/18/16
Fechtor, Jessica Stir: My Broken Brain & the Meals That Brought Me Home (memoir) 5/18/16
Gawande, Atul Being Mortal (nonfiction) 2/20/16
George, Elizabeth Banquet of Consequences (Inspector Lynley mystery) 5/18/16
Groff, Lauren Fates and Furies (novel) 2/14/16
Harrod-Eagles, C. The Dancing Years (historical novel, Morland Dynasty) 4/29/16
Haslett, Adam Imagine Me Gone (novel) 5/30/16
Kalanithi, Paul When Breath Becomes Air (memoir)
Kinsley, Michael Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide (memoir) 5/22/16
LeBan, Elizabeth The Restaurant Critic’s Wife (novel) 5/18/16
Lee, Janice Y. K. Expatriates (novel) 3/5/16
Markham, Beryl West with the Night (memoir) 2/14/16
Newman, Janis C. Master Plan for Rescue (novel) 1/29/16
Ng, Celeste Everything I Never Told You (novel) 3/5/16
Norris, John Mary McGrory, The First Queen of Journalism (biography) 1/22/16
Nuland, Sherwin How We Die (nonfiction) 2/20/16
Nutt, Amy Ellis Becoming Nicole (nonfiction) 1/9/16
Redniss, Lauren Radioactive (graphic biography) 4/23/16
Reisman, Nancy Trompe L’Oeil (novel) 1/9/16
Sansom, C. J. Dissolution (Tudor mystery) 5/22/16
Strout, Elizabeth My Name is Lucy Barton (novel) 4/23/16
Tallent, Elizabeth Mendocino Fire (short stories)
Traister, Rebecca All the Single Ladies… (nonfiction) 4/15/16
Walker, Walter Crime of Privilege (mystery) 2/20/16
Warlick, Ashley Arrangement (historical novel) 3/20/16
Winspear, J. Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs mystery) 4/23/16
What did you think of When Breath Bevomes Air?
Very good. He’s a good writer and someone who thought about death and living a good life long before his diagnosis.