A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson: I was still in Morocco and reading on my Kindle, and I wish I had had a hard copy of this so I could look back more easily. I don’t know if you NEED to read Life After Life before reading this, but I would recommend. And I’d recommend both.
Cities I’ve Never Lived In, by Sara Majka: This is really plain prose, and somewhat bleak. I was more interested as I went along, but it’s hard for me to recall much about it now.
Better Than Normal, by Dale Archer: I love to read about the brain but this seemed like a bit of a con job.
The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge: This, on the other hand, was amazing. If you have any interest in brain plasticity, read both of these.
The Brain’s Way of Healing, by Norman Doidge
Wilde Lake, by Laura Lippman: I think Laura Lippman is one of the few authors in the world whose entire oeuvre I’ve read.
A Manual for Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin: Love. It’s hard to say if there are really multiple narrators–for some stories there are clearly different ones, but not most–or if they’re all semi-autobiographical versions of the author (or, okay, versions of one character) at different ages.
Willnot, by James Sallis
The Gloaming, by Melanie Finn
Mercies in Disguise, by Gina Kolata: I’m obsessed with prions.
