Books I’ve bought/borrowed/been given that sit, waiting for me to get to them and upcoming book-club picks (in no particular order):

• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
• Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
• Acts of Worship: Seven Stories by Yukio Mishima
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• Eva’s Man by Gayl Jones
• Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The Breast by Philip Roth
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A While Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Flamingo Rising by Larry Baker
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• In the Woods by Tana French
• Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
• Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone
• A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder