April's Reads

I’ve been devouring biographies for the past two months. While I’m still enjoying biographies of the non-auto variety, I’m pretty much burned out on memoirs, though I still have a couple out from the library. We’ll see if I get around to them. But here’s what I read in April. If you want live updates, friend me on Shelfari.

Here are the books I read in April, listed from the first of the month to the end:

1. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

2. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

3. Tricky Business by Dave Barry

4. The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes

5. Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor

6. The Rare Coin Score by Richard Stark

7. Lit by Mary Karr

8. Carly's Voice by Arthur Fleischmann

9. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

10. Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

11. Sour Lemon Score by Richard Stark

12. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

13. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner

Freedom and Tattoos on the Heart were probably the best of the lot.

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