First off, let me thank the 437 people who submitted book suggestions. I took all of your recommendations to heart before tossing them aside and compiling my own.
No, I actually plan to read several of the books you suggested and I truly appreciate the input. But now it's time to release the Hashmarks Summer 2007 Reading List. I've read most of the books on the list, and my English-major wife can account for the ones I haven't.
I now give you the 2007 list:
Chris Anderson, "The Long Tail"
T.C. Boyle, "The Tortilla Curtain"
Tom Callahan, "Johnny U"
Ethan Canin, "Carry Me Across The Water"
Don DeLillo, "The Body Artist" and "Underworld"
William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying"
Richard Ford, "The Lay of the Land" (third in a trilogy)
Alexandra Fuller, "Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight"
Gunter Grass, "My Century"
Kent Haruf, "Plainsong"
Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
John Irving, "A Prayer For Owen Meany"
Edward P. Jones, "The Known World"
C.S. Lewis, "Till We Have Faces"
Sinclair Lewis, "Main Street"
William Manchester, "The Last Lion"
David Maraniss, "When Pride Still Mattered"
Cormac McCarthy, "The Road" and "Cities of the Plain"
Ian McEwan, "Atonement" and "Enduring Love"
Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire"
Mark Singer, "Character Studies"
John Kennedy Toole, "A Confederacy of Dunces"
Kurt Vonnegut, "Hocus Pocus"
Robert Penn Warren, "All The King's Men"
Eudora Welty, "Delta Wedding"
If you feel the need to discuss any of these books, shoot me an e-mail.
