Books self is interested in reading after perusing the 23 August 2009 Issue of The New York Times Book Review:
1. After reading Dominique Browning’s review of Times food writer Frank Bruni’s Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater:
- Frank Bruni’s Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater
2. After reading Fernanda Eberstadt’s review of Benjamin Moser’s Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector:
- Benjamin Moser’s Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
3. After reading Jacob Heilbrunn’s review of Graham Swift’s Making an Elephant: Writing From Within, a collection of his essays, interviews and poems:
- Graham Swift’s Booker-Prize-winning novel, Last Orders
- Graham Swift’s Making an Elephant: Writing From Within
4. After reading Neil Gordon’s review of Eduardo Galeano’s Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone:
- Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- Galeano’s memoir, Days and Nights of Love and War
- Galeano’s Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
5. After reading John Haskell’s review of Jim Krusoe’s novel, Erased:
- Jim Krusoe’s Erased
6. After reading Nancy Kline’s review of Anita Brookner’s latest novel, Strangers:
- Anita Brookner’s Strangers
7. After reading Tom LeClair’s short reviews in the Fiction Chronicle:
- James Lasdun’s story collection, It’s Beginning to Hurt
- Christine Lehner’s novel, Absent a Miracle
8. After reading Roy Hoffman’s review of Pat Conroy’s new novel, South of Broad:
- Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides
- Pat Conroy’s Beach Music