Random Thoughts

1. first novels

• The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

2. science fiction

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

3. short stories

• Blood Child and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
• Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
• Mixed edited by Chadra Prasad

4. history

• A Concise History of New Mexico by L. Bradford Prince
• I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land by Karolyn Smardz Frost
• Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. Ambrose

5. classics I have never read

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

6. mystery

• The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman
• Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
• Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb
• Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
• Shell Game by Carol O’Connell
• Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

7. science

• Einstein’s Greatest Blunder? by Donald Goldsmith
• The Misunderstood Gene by Michel Morange
• Race to the Finish by Jenny Reardon

8. biography/autobiography/memoirs

• The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina by Gerda Lerner
• Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman
• Six Miles to the Windmill by Annie King Greaves & John Gordon Greaves
• Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez

9. best sellers

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Blink by Malcom Gladwell