Baffled Human: August 2010

Books I've Enjoyed

Colin Cotterill's Dr. Siri mystery series; Rebecca Cantrell's 'Trace of Smoke'; Many Lawrence Block; Wallander Series: Hening Menkel; "The Bean Trees": Barbara Kingsolver; "About a Boy": Nick Hornby; "Fudoki": Kij Johnson "Summer of the Big Bacchi": Naomi Hirahara "Gasa-Gasa Girl": Naomi Hirahara "Liar's Club": Mary Karr; "The Talisman": Steven King, Peter Straub; "The Alienist": Caleb Carr; All of Donna Leon's Inspector Guido Brunetti; "Smilla's Sense of Snow": Peter Hoeg; All of Raymond Chandler; "The Kite Runner": Khaled Hosseini; "Crescent": Diana Abu-Jaber; "The Funny Little Woman": Arlene Mosel, Blair Lent; All of Cara Black's Ami Leduc series; "Death of a Red Heroine": Qiu Xiaolong "When Red is Black": Qiu Xiaolong; "In Our Strange Gardens": Michel Quint; "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress": Dai Sijie; "When the Emperor Was Divine": Julie Otsuka; "Wind in the Willows": Kenneth Grahame, Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator); "Harriet the Spy": Louise Fitzhugh; The Amelia Badelia stories; All Maurice Sendak; "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill her Neighbor's Baby": Ludmilla Petrushevskaya