The Reading List

Novels
The Short Day Dying (2005) / Peter Hobbs
After This (2006) / Alice McDermott
Docherty (1975) / William McIllvanney
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006) / Maggie O’Farrell
A Changed Man (2005) / Francine Prose

Stories
All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006) / Edward P. Jones
Mothers and Sons (2006) / Colm Tóibín

Nonfiction
Flaubert: A Life (2006) / Frederick Brown
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006) / Bill Bryson
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (2006) / Edward Luce
In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood (2006) / Andrew Motion