Sonya Chung

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author of The Loved Ones & Long for This World

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Read in 2016-17:

The French Lieutenant's Woman He Never Came Home: Interviews, Stories, and Essays from Daughters on Life Without Their Fathers Tropic of Cancer On a Bed of Rice Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome Marlena Mikhail and Margarita As Lie Is to Grin The Second Mrs. Hockaday Time's a Thief What To Do About The Solomons Tiger Pelt Empire of Glass Temporary People I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman The World of Tomorrow Everything Belongs to Us Rabbit Cake My Absolute Darling Who Is Rich? Spaceman of BohemiaAll That's Left to Tell Murder on the Red River Villette Lincoln in the Bardo Spoils Motherest The Lucky Ones The Faraway Nearby The Housekeeper and the Professor The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma One Good Turn (Jackson Brodie, #2) Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City The Door Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Life After Life The Bell Jar The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness The Name of the Rose Half a Lifelong Romance Cat's Eye Kind One Summer of the Cicadas The Evening Road Neverhome The Glass Key A Widow for One Year Othello The Underground Railroad   This Bitter Earth (Sugar Lacey, #2) King Lear Another Brooklyn The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales Half of a Yellow Sun Southern Cross the Dog  Bonjour tristesse I Will Send Rain Ghost Month (A Taipei Night Market #1) The Maltese Falcon Insurrections A Single Happened Thing The Awakening The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) Shelter Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Pym The Senator's Wife Restless No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Stoner The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Excellent Women A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories Lady Chatterley's Lover Home Field: A Novel Little Women (Little Women, #1)  A Death in the Family An Honorable Man The Sympathizer H is for Hawk When the Emperor Was Divine Giovanni's Room Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris Rendezvous Eighteenth  Station Eleven Ash Wednesday The Sellout  The Turner House All the Light We Cannot See The Diving Pool: Three Novellas The Queen of the Night Painted Horses The Old Man and the Sea  Not on Fire, but BurningSuspended Sentences: Three Novellas  The Paying Guests Silver Sparrow Suite Française The Reef Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 The Days of AbandonmentMy Life in Middlemarch Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Out of Africa  Negroland: A Memoir Tilled Earth : Stories Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World The Granta Book of the African Short Story The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba All My Friends Three Strong Women The Country is Yours: Contemporary Nepali Literature Go Tell It on the Mountain  Between the World and Me  The Road to Character  Regarding the Pain of Others  The Fire Next Time  The Little Restaurant  Last Friends (Old Filth, #3) African Short Stories Chronicles, Vol. 1 Just Kids Everything I Never Told You The Collected Stories Of Muriel Spark  Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper Taking Care  Bob Dylan in America Vintage Munro Someone Not Really Her Mother: A Novel Seven Japanese Tales The Queen's Caprice: Stories Possession The Geometry of Love  David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Wake Up, We're Here My Brilliant Friend The Thin Place Delicious Foods

Read (or re-read) in 2011-15:

The Death of the Heart  Saving Julian: A Novel  Leaving Atlanta The Woman Destroyed  The Good Soldier  Dubliners  After the Quake  The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton  Little Failure  The Mandarins  The Wandering Falcon  Coco Chanel  The Elephant Vanishes  Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)  Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child  My Life in France  The Flight from the Enchanter  The Old Priest  The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories  Sun City  Sculptor's Daughter  The True Deceiver  Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)  Fair Play  A Month in the Country  The Sheltering Sky  February House Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters  Faith Fox: A Novel  Flaubert's Parrot  Summer  The Professor and the Siren  Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) A Far Cry from Kensington  The Queen of the Tambourine  Everybody's Right Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story Married Love and Other Stories The Suitcase The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Pushkin Hills The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) Old Filth (Old Filth, #1) Claudine in Paris As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 Remembering Babylon  Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel Match Dot Comedy (Kindle Single) The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber  Vox Dangerous Laughter Farther Away Silk Strong Motion  Desperate Characters  The Widow's Children How to Be Alone A Rage in Harlem Remember How I Told You I Loved You? In America O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1) 10:30 on a Summer Night The Custom of the Country   The Vagabond  Fear and Trembling Notebook of a Return to the Native Land  Le square  Exercises in Style The Facts of Winter This Side of Paradise The Street of Crocodiles The Book of Proper Names  Godforsaken Idaho  Moderato cantabile Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood All That Is  The Tender Shoot and Other Stories Bleak House  Paris Tales  Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood  The Handmaid's Tale  River of Fire and Other Stories  Certainty  The Dud Avocado  Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, Expanded Edition  The Hanging in the Foaling Barn: Stories  Lost Souls  Pretty Monsters: Stories  The Complete Fiction of W. M. Spackman World's Fair  The Member of the Wedding  Book of Clouds  Silas Marner  The China Factory  Chronicle of a Death Foretold  Train Dreams: A Novella  Ms. Hempel Chronicles So Long, See You Tomorrow  Little Century: A Novel  State of Wonder  The Moviegoer  Solo Faces: A Novel  It Chooses You  The Sorrows of Young Werther  The Imperfectionists  Mateship With Birds  We the Animals  The Clerk's Tale: Poems  That Distant Land: The Collected Stories  On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson  The Necessity of Certain Behaviors  Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia  The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions  Consider This, Senora  The Last Nude  The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson   Stones for Ibarra  Pragmatism and Other Writings What Maisie KnewOrientation: And Other Stories Jim the Boy The Steppe and Other Stories (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) American Born Chinese  Annie John  The Mountain Lion (New York Review Books Classic)  Adam Bede (Modern Library Classics)  Third Girl from the Left  The Leopard  The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story  Wittgenstein's Lolita  I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories  The Long Home  You Think That's BadRagtime   A Cupboard Full of Coats  A Short History of Women: A Novel  Hadji Murad  War and Peace   The Collected Stories of Richard Yates The Moon And Sixpence  Against Interpretation: And Other Essays  The Blue Flower  The Summer Book  The Devil in the Hills  The Easter Parade  The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (New York Review Books Classics)  American Woman  Alfred and Guinevere  Wolf Hall  Welcome To Shirley   The Go-Between  Skylark  Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics)  Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)      Raymond Carver: Collected Stories The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Mothers and Sons: Stories  Once the Shore: Stories  Wide Sargasso Sea   In Other Rooms, Other Wonders  The Master  On Michael Jackson  A Seahorse Year  The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen  Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell  Varieties of Exile  Airships

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