Summer Reading List

New Yorker Summer Reading List 2015:

1. The Meadow – James Galvin
2. My First Summer in the Sierra – John Muir
3. Gold Fame Citrus – Claire Faye Watkins
4. The Genesis of Secrecy – Frank Kermode
5. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
6. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
7. Alexandrian Summer – Yitzhak Gormezano Goren
8. The White King of La Gonave: The True Story of the Sergeant of Marines Who Was Crowned King on a Voodoo Island – Faustin E. Wirkus
9. The Magic Island – William Seabrook
10. Jungle Ways: Seabrook’s Book Out of Africa – William Seabrook
11. Cannibal Cousins – John Houston Craige
12. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 – Mary A. Renda
13. In the Flicker of an Eyelid – Jacques Stephen Alexis
15. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
16. Saint Monkey – Jacinda Townsend
17. My Documents – Alejandro Zambra
18. My Struggle – Karl Ove Knausgaard
19. The Transcendentalist – Ralph Waldo Emmerson
20. The Flowering of New England – Van Wyck Brooks
21. New England Indian Summer – Van Wyck Brooks
22. Emerson Among the Eccentrics – Carlos Baker
23. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
24. The Senses of Walden – Stanley Cavell
25. Mother’s Milk – Edward St. Aubyn
26. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
27. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
28. Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
29. Purity – Jonathan Franzen
30. Limonov – Emmanuel Carrère
31. A Norwegian Tragedy: Anders Behring Breivik and the Massacre on Utøya – Aage Borchgrevink
32. Americans and the California Dream – Kevin Starr
33. Cash Crop: An American Dream – Ray Raphael
34. Diary of a Madman – Benjamin Meadows-Ingram and Brad “Scarface” Jordan
35. Der Klang der Familie – Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen
36. I Think Therefore I Play – Andrea Pirlo
37. Stoner – John Williams
38. Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music – Vincent Giroud
39. Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler – Oliver Hilmes
40. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic – Jessica Hopper
41. Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music – Eric Weisbard
42. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen – Mary Norris
43. In the Unlikely Event – Judy Blume
44. Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot – Mark Vanhoenacker
45. The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante
46. The Love Object – Edna O’Brien