Things on my current and recent reading list:

• The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel: read my review
• Afterimage by Helen Humphreys; read my review
• Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson; read my review
• Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus; read my review
• Sweet Talk: Stories by Stephanie Vaughn; read my review
• Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
• Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
• Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin; read my review
• What I’m Going to Do, I Think by Larry Woiwode; read my review
• Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen McHugh; read my review
• Honeybuzzard by Angela Carter; read my review
• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. read my review
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin
• The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories by Emma Donoghue; read my review
• The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories by Ursula K. LeGuin; read my review
• Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories by Vincent Lam
• The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss
• I Saw Esau by Iona and Peter Opie, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
• Roofwalker by Susan Power
• Family Man by Calvin Trillin
• The Nature of Paleolithic Art by R. Dale Guthrie
• Lives of Mapmakers by Alicia L. Conroy
• The Children of Men by P.D. James
• The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge by William Kittredge; read my review
• Leah, New Hampshire by Thomas Williams; read my review
• The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
• The Best American Short Stories 2006 edited by Ann Patchett and Katrina Kenison
• The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
• The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
• Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
• Lost Lake by Mark Slouka; read my review
• The Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Amalee by Dar Williams; read my review
• The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald: read my review
• Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
• The Boat of Longing by Ole Rolvaag
• Giants in the Earth by Ole Rolvaag
• Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
• Things That Fall From the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier
• The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
• Hotel World by Ali Smith: read my review
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
• Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link: read my review
• In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan
• The Evil B.B. Chow by Steve Almond
• The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
• The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt (translated by Joel Agee): read my review