Regular Rumination

***** – Drop everything and read this now!
****   – Put this in your TBR pile.
***     – Give it a shot.
**       – Eh.
*         – Avoid at all costs OR read just to see how bad it is.

1. The Secret of Lost Things – Sheriadn Hay  **
2. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf   ****
3. Wizard of the Crow – Ngugi wa Thiong’o  ***
4. Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson & David Oliver **
5. The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall  **
6. The Town that Forgot How to Breathe – Kenneth J Harvey  **
7. The Mixquiahuala Letters – Ana Castillo ***
8. Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence ***
9. American Pastoral – Philip Roth **
10. Farewell Waltz – Milan Kundera  **
11. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip Dick  ***
12. House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski  ***
13. The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver   ****
14. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote  *****
15. We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates   ****
16. Pigs in Heaven – Barbara Kingsolver  ****
17. Réquiem por un campesino Español – Ramón J Sender  ***
18. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer  **
19. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres  ***
20. Platform – Michel Houellebecq  ****
21. The Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq *
22. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson ***
23. Divisadero – Michael Ondaatje  ****
24. Ghostwalk – Rebecca Stott **
25. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon ****
26. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner ***
27. Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ***
28. Children of Men – PD James ***
29. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith *****
30. Love in the Days of Rage - Lawrence Ferlinghetti **
31. González & Daughter Trucking Company – Maria Amparo Escandon ***
32. Labyrinth - Jorge Luis Borges ****
33. The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn – Janis Hallowell ***
34. Mosquito – Gayl Joans  ****
35. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain ***
36. Suite Française - Irene Nemirovsky *****
37. Twilight – Stephanie Meyer  ****
38. New Moon – Stephanie Meyer ****
39. Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer ***
40. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer ***
41. The Road – Cormac McCarthy ***
42. Lady Chatterly’s Lover - DH Lawrence ****
43. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick ****
44. The City of Ember – Jeanne Duprau ***
45. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  *****
46. Fall on Your Knees – Anne-Marie McDonald ****
47. Contact – Carl Sagan ****
48. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx **
49. Disgrace – JM Coetzee ***
50. Night of the Radishes - Sandra Benítez ***