A few days late.
Here are last year’s reads that Running Girl and I recommend (in no particular order):
Good Fresh Reads (Fiction)
Little Bee — Chris Cleave (RG)
Freedom — Jonathan Franzen (TM)
The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen (RG) [TM selection 2010]
Solar — Ian McEwan (TM) [RG also read this. But it did not stand out sufficiently to make her list]
Sarah’s Key — Tatiana de Rosnay (RG)
A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan (TM & RG)
Super Sad True Love Story — Gary Shteyngart (TM)
Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides (RG)
Zeitoun — Dave Eggers (TM)
On Chesil Beach — Ian McEwan (RG) [Great reread for TM in 2011]
Good Fresh Reads (Non-fiction)
Great Plains — Ian Frazier (TM)
Lies My Teacher Told Me — James W. Loewen (TM)
I’d Rather We Got Casinos — Larry Wilmore (TM)
The History Buff’s Guide to the U.S. Presidents — Thomas Flagel
Good Rereads
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain (RG & TM)
Speak — Laurie Halse Anderson (RG)
On the Rez — Ian Frazier (TM)
How to Be Good — Nick Hornby (TM)
— The Major
Kay Nou = Our House 