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Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden
3/5 Stars
Back in Canadia.
About Me:
- Smokingloon
- Vancouver, Canada
- Back in Canada after living abroad for nine great years. Things here are very different but all good.
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Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden
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3/5 Stars
Book List 2010 (Does reading one book make a list?)
Book List 2009 (in order of preference)
- Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
- The Beach, Alex Garland
- The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- A Casual Brutality, Neil Bissoondath
- Crabwalk, Gunter Grass
- The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland
- Cockroach, Rawi Hage
- After Dark, Haruki Murakami
- The Cry of the Magpies, Dong-Ni Kim
- Porno, Irvine Welsh
- Fox Girl, Nora Okja Keller
- The Ma Rok Biographies, Seo Giwon
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- The Wounded, Yi Chongjun
- Tokyo Cancelled, Rana Dasgupta
- Deep Blue Night, Choe In-Ho
- I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Young Ha Kim
- Divine Justice, David Baldacci
- How to be Alone, Jonathan Franzen
- Blind Willow Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami
- Walking on Glass, Iain Banks
Book List 2008 (in order of preference):
- Shelf Monkey, Corey Redekop
- J-Pod, Douglas Coupland
- The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks
- Animal's People, Indra Sinha
- Mr. Pip, Lloyd Jones
- World of Wonders, Robertson Davies
- Cat's Craddle, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
- The Immaculate Conception, Gaetan Soucy
- When you are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
- Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller
- A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
- The Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson
- The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
- Budding Prospects, T.C. Boyle
- The Stone Raft, Jose Saramago
- Gods and Monsters, Christopher Bram
- A Monk Swimming, Malachy McCourt
- Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw, Will Ferguson
- The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- The Great and Secret Show, Clive Barker
- Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
- Speaking with the Angel, edited by Nick Hornby
- Werewolves in their Youth, Michael Chabon
Book List 2007 (in order of preference):
- The Lizard Cage, Karen Connelly
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam
- A Wall of Light, Edeet Ravel
- La Guerre, Yes Sir! Roch Carrier
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- The Crow Road, Iain Banks
- Death In Venice, Thomas Mann
- The Song of Kahunsha, Anosh Irani
- Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
- A Passage to India, E.M.Forster
- The Inner Circle, T.C.Boyle
- The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
- De Niro's Game, Rawi Hage
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
- A Dwarf Launches a Little Ball, Cho Se-Hui
- The Fuck-Up, Arthur Nersesian
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- The Double, Jose Saramago
- Mordecai Richler was Here: Selected Writings, Mordecai Richler
- Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
- Remainder, Tom McCarthy
- The Stars' Tennis Balls, Stephen Fry
- The Sea, John Banville
- East is East, T.C.Boyle
- The Liar, Stephen Fry
- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
- Paris 1919, Margaret MacMillan
- The Wings, Yi Sang
- The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, Liz Jensen
- Hitching Rides With Buddha, Will Ferguson
- A Year in the Life of TheManWhoFellAsleep, Greg Stekelman
- Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
- True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
- Running with Scissors: A Memoir, Augusten Burroughs
- Trying to Save Piggy Sneed, John Irving
- Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- The Crow Road, Iain Banks
Book List 2006 (in order of preference):
- The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh
- The Time in Between, David Bergen
- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
- All the Names, Jose Saramago
- Glue, Irvine Welsh
- A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, Gil Courtemanche
- A Perfect Night to go to China, David Gilmour
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
- Oxygen, Andrew Miller
- Snow, Orhan Pamuk
- Drop City, T.C.Boyle
- A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
- Hey Nostradamus, Douglas Coupland
- The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston
- The Manticore, Robertson Davies
- The Gunny Sack, M.G. Vassanji
- Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse, Father Joe Maier
- Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
- A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
- The 158 Pound Marriage, John Irving
- Yes Man, Danny Wallace
- Thumbsucker, Walter Kirn
- The Tunnels of Cuchi, Tom Mangold and John Penycote
- Wild Ducks Flying Backwad, Tom Robbins
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