Eleven Months of Reading

The books that are being handled and thought about have their own wide-awake quality. Haven't you noticed that the books on the shelving trucks, or the books in the sections that have lately been moved around, are somehow more powerful eye-magnets than the ones that have been just sitting there in their places?
      One local reading group has kindly let us know their 2005 reading plan. (We'd love to hear from other groups. If there's enough input, we could build a Santa Fe Readers' Bibliography.)

• Triangle : the fire that changed America / David Von Drehle
• Arms and the women : an elliad / Reginald Hill
• The caves of steel / Isaac Asimov
• A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail / Bill Bryson
• Drop City / T. Coraghessan Boyle
• The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson
• Slaughterhouse-five : or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death / Kurt Vonnegut
  
• The sewing circles of Herat : a personal voyage through Afghanistan / Christina Lamb
• Nicholas and Alexandra / Robert K. Massie
• Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books / Azar Nafisi
• The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon

      Need more ideas for reading groups? Try looking in the 'Lists Guides Suggestions' section on our About Books & Literature page. One great resource it points to is the long list from the Washington Center for the Book, Recommended Books for Discussion. And we keep a notebook of Bibliographies at the Reference Desk.