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SVWC 2019 Reading List for Website

SVWC 2019 Reading List for Website

2019 Reading List The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 (2018) (Vintage International) (2015)reprint :A Memoir (2014) Kobe the Dread (2014) Lionel Asbo: State of England (2012) (2011) Heavy Water and Other Stories (2011) (2010) (2009) House of Meeting (2007) Vintage Amis (2007) (2005) The War Against Cliche (2002) Experience (2000) (1999) (1996) Visiting Mrs. Nabokov (1995) Times Arrow (1992) (1991) (1991) (1991) Einstein’s Monsters (1990) Fields (1989) :A Suicide Note (1984) Invasion of the Space Invaders (1992) The Rachel Papers (1973)

Kwame Anthony Appiah The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (2018) As If: Idealization and Ideals (2017) Lines of Descent (2014) The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (2011) Cosmopolitanism:Ethics in a World of Strangers (2010) Encyclopedia of Africa (2010) Experiments in Ethics (2008) The Ethics of Identity (2005) Thinking It Through (2003) Color Conscious (1998) Nobody Likes Letina (1994) In My Father’s House (1993) Avenging Angel (1991) Necessary Questions(1989)

Rick Atkinson The British Are Coming:The War for America, Lexington to Princeton (2019) The Guns at Last Night:The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 (2014) D-Day:The Invasion of Normandy 1944 (2014) The Long Gray Line:The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966 (2009) In the Company of Soldiers:A Chronicle of Combat (2007) An Army at Dawn:The Wr i North Africa (1942-1943) (2007) The Day of Battle:The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-1944 (2007) Crusade:The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War (1994)

1 Nonfiction The Monk of Mokha (2018) (2009) Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (2005) Teachers have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers (2005) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000)

Novels and Novellas The Parade (March 2019) (2016) Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? (2014) The Circle (2013) A Hologram for the King (2012) (2009) : The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006) The Unforbidden is Compulsory; or, Optimism (2004) Sacrament (2003) You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002)

Short Story Collections Stories Upon Stories (2016) How the Water Feels to the Fishes (2007) Short Short Stories (2005) (2004)

Humor Cold Fusion (2009) with Christopher Eggers Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (2006) with Christopher Eggers Your Disgusting Head (2004) with Christopher Eggers Giraffes? Giraffes? (2003) with Christopher Eggers

Joanne Freeman The Field of Blood:Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (2018) Affairs of Honor:National Politics in the New Republic (2002) Alexander Hamilton:Writings (2001)

Carl Hiaasen Assume the Worst (2018) (2016) Dance of the Reptiles (2014 Bad Monkey (2013) (2010) The Downhill Lie (2008) (2006) (2004) (2002) Paradise Screwed (2001) (2000) A Collection (2000) (1999) Team Rodent (1998) (1997) (1995) (1993)

2 Native Tongue (1991) (1989) (1987) (1986) A Death in China (1984) Trap Line (1982) Powder Burn (1981)

Books for Young Readers Squirm (2018) Skink - No Surrender (2014) Young Reader’s Boxed Set (2013) (2012) SCAT (2008) (2005) (2002)

Robert Kagan The Jungle Grows:America and Our Imperiled World (2018) The World America Made (2013) The Return of History and the End of Dreams (2008) Dangerous Nation:America’s Foreign Policy from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century (2007) Paradise and Power:America ad Europe in the New World Order (2004) Adversarial Legalism:The American Way of Law (2001) Twilight Struggle:American Power and Nicaragua (1996)

Francis Lam Cornbread Nation 7:The Best of Southern Food Writing (2014)

Mitch Landrieu In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History (2018)

Min Jin Lee Pachinko (2017) Free Food for Millionaires (2017)

Mark Leibovich Big Game:The NFL in Dangerous Times (2018) Citizens of the Green Room:Profiles in Courage and Self-Delusion (2014) This Town:Two parties and a Funeral (2013) The New Imperialists (2002)

Barry Lopez Horizon (2019) Outside (2014) Vintage Lopez (2004) Resistance (2004) Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories (2000) Apologia (1998) About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (1998) Lessons from the Wolverine (1997) Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren (1994) The Rediscovery of North America (1991) Crow and Weasel (1990) Crossing Open Ground (1988) Arctic Dreams (1986) Winter Count (1981) River Notes (1979)

3 Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with his Daughter (1978) Of Wolves and Men (1978) Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven (1976)

Julie Lythcott-Haims Real American (2017) How to Raise An Adult:Break Free of the Overprinting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success (2016)

Alice McDermott The Ninth Hour (2017) Someone (2014) A Bigamist’s Daughter (2012) At Weddings and Wakes (2009) Charming Billy (2009) After This (2007) That Night (2005) Child of My Heart (2003)

Madeline Miller Circe (2018) Galatea (2013) The Song of Achilles (2012)

Tommy Orange There There (2018)

Miriam Pawel The Browns of California (2018) The Crusades of Cesar Chavez (2014) The Union of the Dreams (2009)

Simon Rich Miracle Workers (2019) Hits and Misses (2018) Elliot Allagash (2016) Spoiled Brat (2015) Man Seeking Woman (2015) The Married Kama Sutra (2013) What’s in God’s Name (2012) Free-Range Chicken (2009) The World of Simon Rich (2009) Ant Farm (2007)

Andrew Roberts Churchill:Walking with Destiny (2018) Napoleon the Great:(2015) Napolean:A Life (2014) The Storm of War:A New History of the Second World War (2011) Hitler and Churchill:Secrets of Leadership(2010) Masters and Commanders:How Four Titans Won the War in the West 1941-1945 (2009)

Emily Ruskovich Idaho (2017)

John Burnham Schwartz The Red Daughter (2019) Northwest Corner (2011) Bicycle Days (2011) The Commoner (2009) Claire Marvel (2009) Reservation Road (2007)

4 Danzy Senna New People, 2017 You Are Free (Stories), 2011 Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History, 2009 Symptomatic: A Novel, 2003 Caucasia, 1998.

Dani Shapiro Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (2019) Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage (2017) Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life (2013) Devotion: A Memoir (2010) Black & White (2007) Family History: A Novel (2004) Slow Motion: A True Story (1998) Picturing the Wreck (1995) Fugitive Blue (1992) Playing with Fire (1990)

Naomi Shihab Nye Voices in the Air (2018) A Maze Me: Poems for Girls (2015) Famous (2015) The Turtle of Oman (2014) Red Suitcase (2013) Fuel (2013) You and Yours (2013) Transfer (2011) There is No Long Distance Now (2011) Time You Let Me In (2010) Honeybees:Poems and Short Prose (2009) I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK (2009) The Flag of Childhood (2008) The Same Sky:A Collection of Poems from Around the World (2008) Habibi (2008) Between Heaven and Texas (2006) 19 Varieties of Gazelles (2002) Mint Snowball (2001) What Have You Lost (2001) Come With Me (2000)

Brando Skyhorse We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America (2017) Take This Man (2014) The Madonnas of Echo Park (2010)

Vendela Vida The Driver’s Clothes Lie Empty (2015) The Lovers: A Novel (2010) The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (2008) Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name: A Novel (2008) And Now You Can Go (2008) Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations (2000)

Madhuri Vijay The Far Field (2019)

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