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By Nina Sankovitch Today's Review: A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents by Liza Palmer Follow Read All Day on twitter Sign-Up for Email Alerts of Great Books Follow Nina on The Huffington Post photo by Douglas Healey for the NYT Reviews of  Novels and  Short Stories and Mysteries/Thrillers and Science Fiction and  Nonfiction and Humor and Graphic Novels and Books for Younger Readers Great Books These are my favorites: (click title for review) Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Old Filth by Jane Gardam The Girl with the Golden Shoes by Colin Channer Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli Push by Sapphire Invisible by Paul Auster Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto Spooner by Pete Dexter How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters The Calling by Mary Gray Hughes The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry A Terrible Splendor  by Marshall Jon Fisher For Grace Received by Valeria Parrella Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan     The Moon Opera by Bi Feiyu              Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Where Is She Now?  by Frances Gilbert The Price of Silence by Camilla Trinchieri Hold Love Strong by Matthew Aaron Goodman The Darts of Cupid by Edith Templeton Salvation and Other Disasters by Josip Novakovich    The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike Payback by Margaret Atwood Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Cheese by Willem Elsschot Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep Ruins by Achy Obejas The Peregrine by J.A. Baker Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar The Plated City by Bliss Perry  Stitches by David Small Little Bee by Chris Cleave The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa Onitsha  by J.M.G. Le Clezio Brooklyn by Colm Toibin The Nick Adams Stories   by Ernest Hemingway One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash In the Meantime by Robin Lippincott The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill The House Beautiful by Allison Burnett The Sin Eater by Alice Thomas Ellis Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson In the Woods by Tana French The Touchstone by Edith Wharton The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinksi The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee The Fall by Albert Camus A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao    by Junot Diaz The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Man in the Dark by Paul Auster Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth The Crying of Lot 49  by Thomas Pynchon The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens The Three of Us by Julia Blackburn Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto The Emigrants by WG Sebald A History of Love by Nicole Krauss The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford        The Howling Miller by Arto Paasalinna A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind             The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal The Open Door  by Elizabeth Maguire The Writing Life by Annie Dillard Kindred by Octavia E. Butler The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates Seize the Day by Saul Bellow Indignation by Philip Roth To Siberia by Per Petterson The Assault by Harry Mulisch To Siberia by Per Petterson Revelation by C. J. Sansom Algren at Sea by Nelson Algren A Mercy by Toni Morrison Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto By Chance  by Martin Corrick A Smile of Fortune by Joseph Conrad The Body Artist by Don Dellilo  The Sun Field by Heywood Braun The English Major by Jim Harrison Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas                        Have Comments? Write to me at sankovitch@readallday.org. Site and content wholly written, created, and owned by Nina Sankovitch and cannot be used without the express consent of Nina Sankovitch.   Some books reviewed on www.readallday.org were review copies supplied by the publishers.  As of October 6, 2009, per FTC rules, I will note when a book I've read was a review copy received from the publisher.