TOP TEN BOOKS I HOPE SANTA BRINGS
(ranked for Santa's convenience)
10) Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: This has been on my wish list for years, longer than anything else on this list by far. I think it's probably never been bumped to the top of the list because it's not actually a novel and that tends to be what I read but I'm so attracted to the blurb on the back about examining why certain stories carry on. Plus her last name is Prose - how convenient is that?
9) Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy: So I read The Road (like every other good American) and it was horrifying and excellent and I finished it in two days and I'm not really sure why I haven't read anything else by him because I finished that years ago. Anywho, I hear that this is the Cormac McCarthy book to read and who am I to argue?
8) Zone One by Colson Whitehead: So I'm not all that into zombies but literary zombies (funny story: I told my husband about how this is a literary zombie novel and isn't that awesome and he was all "Haven't those been out for like a year? Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?" and then I punched him). Plus, Whitehead is freaking hilarious (I saw him do a "reading" and it involved a whiteboard and charts and it was fantastic) and I love both Apex Hides the Hurt and dystopia, so how could this go wrong? It can't, I say.
7) Fables Volume 1 by Bill Willingham: Fairy tales. Graphic novel. Highly recommended. Need I say more?
6) Design Sponge at Home by Grace Bonney: So in my advanced age (ducks punches) I find myself becoming crafty. Not crafty in the knitting kind of way (as I have neither the patience nor the mastery of my own neuroses to handle that) but in the hang stuff on the wall and make scrapbooks kind of way. Plus, I like things that are hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind and how can I be sure something is one-of-a-kind unless I'm the one that hand-crafts it? Okay, I'll probably just look at the pictures but I still want it.
5) The History of History by Ida Hattemer-Higgins: I don't know very much about this except that it does funny things with history and the description remind me of a story in Fragile Things and it comes highly recommended in a cult kind of way (by cult I mean you must be special and superior if you like it [man I hope you know I'm not being serious {it's hard to tell online sometimes}]). Plus, I like the cover.
4) 1Q84 by Haruki Marukami: So I've only read one other book by Marukami and it was short stories and I loved it and that means two things: I'm not actually sure that I enjoy his longer fiction and I have a whole plethora of his other writing to enjoy without having to buy a gigantic hardcover copy of this but... I want it all the same. It's kind of named after Nineteen Eighty-Four which means awesome in my book. Though if Santa does give it to me, I'm really going to have to learn its name because I keep calling it IQ84 and wondering why it won't come up in online searches.
3) Possession by A.S. Byatt: I honestly can't remember what this is supposed to be about but I am absolutely confident that I must have it.
2) Vegan Diner by Julie Hasson: Did you really think that I could get through a list of books I desire without including a cookbook? I myself am astonished that only one book made it on the list. This book looks like a yummy way to have greasy diner fare at home (or just in NJ, as I don't know of any meatless or even veg-friendly diners in this state).
1) The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: Even though this book has only been out a couple of months, I already feel like I'm the only member of the book blogging community who hasn't read it yet. What I've heard about it - Victorian literature, and English major, mental disorders, and a man named Mitchell* - makes this the number one book on my list.
*My husband's name is Mitchell; I'm not some creepster who makes book purchases based on random men's names.
The Marriage Plot is on my Christmas list, too, hope we both get it :)
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