Make that 29.
2011 was the year we became parents, and my personal reading time took a decidedly juvenile turn. A little less Proust, a lot more Llama Llama Red Pajama.
- Preemies: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies by Dana Wechsler Linden
- Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis
- Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
- A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
- A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
- Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
- Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
- Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
- Blue Boy by Rakesh Satyal
- Obasan by Joy Kogawa
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
- A Step from Heaven by An Na
- Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke
