Inspired by the Read Your Own Books in 2009 challenge, here is my preliminary list.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

The Nine - Jeffrey Toobin

Gomorrah - Roberto Saviano

The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin

*His Lovely Wife - Elizabeth Dewberry

The Portrait of A Lady - Henry James

*The Dead Beat - Marilyn Johnson

A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body - Lauren Weedman

Complications - Atul Gawande

*City Room - Arthur Gelb

The Russian Debutante’s Ball - Gary Shteyngart

Snobs - Julian Fellowes

*The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living - Marlin Clark

Netherland - Joseph O’Neill

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Apt. 3W - Gabriel Brownstein

*Anil’s Ghost - Michael Ondaatje

*The Long March - Sun Shuyun

*The March - E.L. Doctorow

Starred books were free, left out on stoops in my literate & generous Brooklyn neighborhood.

p.s. Also pictured (though not listed because I intend to finish reading them before the new year) are Hex and The Road Less Traveled.  The first was a gift from my favorite film actor ever, and the second was given to me years ago by my dear departed friend, L.