Jane Smiley just sent her list of the books she's most looking forward to reading in 2010 and rather than add it to the Comments, I thought you might like to see it here. My own list is in the Comments section of the earlier posting along with others we've received. Take a look and add your own!
Jane writes:
My daughter, Lucy Silag's, third novel, out in August, entitled Experienced, because I read volume two, entitled Wanderlust,
which just came out, and it was quite suspenseful at the end. I was
most annoyed that she wouldn't tell me what was going to happen or let
me read the manuscript. How Dickensian of her!
Peter Maass's Crude World,
partly out of schadenfreude and partly out of...well, mostly out of
schadenfreude, because that's the only even remotely satisfying feeling
you can have when you look at the mess we have made of the world.
Also on my list are Mark Juergensmeyer's Terror in the Mind of God, a return to Martha Gellhorn's The Face of War, and The Secret History of Words, by Henry Hitchings. I recently read and LOVED 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (see my review in the LA Times), and I look forward the reading a first novel by Heather Clay, called Losing Charlotte.
I am really looking forward to eventually reading my own new novel, of
which I have written 25 pages. I cannot imagine what is going to happen
to these people!
