The Official Site of Author Y S Lee

I love browsing other people’s bookshelves. Here’s a look at what I’m reading right now:

November 2009
William Boyd, Restless
Kevin Patterson, The Water in Between
Allison van Diepen, Street Pharm
Catherine O’Flynn, What Was Lost

October 2009
Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

September 2009
John Burnside, The Light Trap
Adam Gopnik, Through the Children’s Gate

July 2009
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
Marie-Louise Jensen, The Lady in the Tower

June 2009
Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks

May 2009
Mary Jane Maffini, Organize Your Corpses
Julia Hoban, Willow

April 2009
Bee Wilson, Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats

February 2009
Shirley Hazzard, Greene on Capri

January 2009
Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency
Jane Gardam, The Flight of the Maidens

December 2008
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

June – November 2008
Black hole of unreadingness, following the birth of my son. I also seem to have no recollection of what I read while pregnant (except for one novel, Tom McCarthy’s Remainder). Oh dear.

In lieu of memory, here’s a link to my page at librarything. The list is far from exhaustive, but it’s pretty representative (as far as these things can be).