The List, from the Piles, as Promised

So here it is, in completely random order--sorted only by genre--and without (much) commentary. I'll just note that some of the nonfiction here points to two things: a curricular focus on China at Moravian College, where I teach, this year, and the fact that my daughter Anna is on the cusp of adolescence.

Please remember that this is NOT a list of my favorite books, nor is it an official list of "recommended reading," as I haven't yet read the majority of these books. This is just a list of the books that are currently in piles around my house. In some of the piles, that is.

FICTION AND POETRY:

David Rhodes, Driftless

Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

Peter Geye, Safe from the Sea (fellow Unbridled author)

Christina Stead, When You Reach Me (this one because Anna loved it and wants me to read it)

Meredith Sue Willis, Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories

Elise Blackwell, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish (another Unbridled author)

Sigrid Nunez, Salvation City

David Grossman, To the End of the Land

John Williams, Stoner

Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

Li-Young Lee, Behind My Eyes: Poems

Kenneth Rexroth, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese

Lao-Tzu's Taoteching (tranlated by Red Pine)

Lee Upton, The Guide to the Flying Island (I've already read this gorgeous novella, but it's still in the pile because I just like to reread passages from it.)

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (because I've been thinking about it lately; see blog post titled "Simple Heroes")

NONFICTION:

Rachel Simmons, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

Montaigne, Essays

Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

Darin Strauss, Half a Life

Jay Varner, Nothing Left to Burn

Da Chen, Colors of the Mountain

Rob Gifford, China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

And on order:

Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Chu Chu Onwuachi-Saunders, M.D., Oops!