Loud Latin Laughing Literary musings, book log. Euge! Euge!

This is a list of my recent favorites; add to this list any work by Herman Melville, Henry James, Richard Yates, and Paula Fox.

(Updated January 2008)

The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Consider the Oyster by MFK Fisher
You Can't Win by Jack Black
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Diary of a Rapist by Evan Connell
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis
I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell
FUP by Jim Dodge
Why Girls Are Weird by Pamela Ribon
A Year in Van Nuys by Sandra Tsing Loh
The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Pacific by Mark Helprin
Women by Charles Bukowski
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss