Monthly Archives: August 2013

Here is a list of the books I have read since May of this year:

• The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
• The Orphan Master’sSon by Adam Johnson
• Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
• The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin
• Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
• In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

Let me say that The Orphan Master’s Son is a real gem, an obra maetra. It is a North Korean Casablanca which immediately reminded me also of Milan Kundera’s The Joke, Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse Five, and Mat Johnson’s recent Pym.

Now on deck, I have the following books to work through:

• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (currently reading)
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Nairobi Heat by Mukoma Wa Ngugi
• The Burgess Boys: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
• Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography by Edward Rice
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro