The Cut!

As mentioned in a previous post, my husband, daughter and I are moving up to Maine temporarily until PhDs and jobs get sorted out. While I'd love to take my entire library, I'm limiting myself to 25 books.

Rules:

No hardcovers (galleys of current/upcoming hardcovers don't count!)

No more than 3 books that have less than 250 pages (I have to make them last!)

So, what made the cut?

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwartz

Serious Men by Manu Joseph

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry

Father of the Rain by Lily King

Zulu by Caryl Ferey

Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie

America, America by Ethan Canin

A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Blind Descent by James Tabor

The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Old Filth by Jane Gardam

Granta New Fiction Issue 106

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

Invisible by Paul Auster

Bone China by Roma Tearne

The Most Beautiful Book in the World by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway

Collected Stories by Wallace Stegner

Lit by Mary Karr

Emily Russo Murtagh