September 26, 2011 Book Dinner at Maggie's

We had a glorious conversation about Wolf Hall and a delicious dinner at Maggie's beautiful home on Monday.  A review will follow, but I thought I'd post the list of recommended books so that we could all take a look and see.

Game of Thrones and all in the series A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Under Heaven - Gavreil Guy Kay
Ysabel  - Gavriel Guy Kay
Room - Emma Donaghue
Born to Run - Christopher McDougall

Cleopatra - Stacey Schiff
Just my Type - Simon Garfiels
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
Blink and  Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Home... - Bill Bryson
Please look after Mom- Kyung-Sook Shin
Red Tent - Anita Bryant
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Autobiography of Henry the Eighth,  With notes by his Fool - Margaret George

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (winner of Booker)
All the Names and The Double - Jose Saramago (Nobel)

A book for lovers of the "real" book:  Double Fold by Nicholson Baker