Reading lists

We circulated a flash card around friends gathered to celebrate the start of 2014 and each one contributed the name of a book that you should add to your reading list soon. Here they are, in no particular order.

• Zami – Audre Lorde
  
• The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
• Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff – Christopher Moore
• The Spirit of our Whaling Ancestors – Charlotte Coté
• Floodlines: Resistance in New Orleans – Jordan Flaherty
• Callings – Gregory Levoy
• Xenogenesis (Lilith’s Brood trilogy) – Octavia Butler
• The City & the City – China Miéville
• Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody
• Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
• The Moth – Catherine Burns
• Jane and the Whales – Andrea Routley
• Angelmaker – Nick Harkaway (my pick  – no special reason, good fiction that made me very happy at the end)
• Sub Rosa – Amber Dawn
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• Are you my Mother? – Alison Bechdel

I’ve read six of these, and liked them all, which bodes well for the rest of them.