Connie's Reading List
An eclectic and superselective, subjective booklist. There’s the story and the writing and then there’s the reader’s receptivity at a particular moment in time. A book makes this list if it changed me as a human being and the idea that I might have missed reading it scares me.
KIDS' BOOKS
![Harbor Me](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/9780525515142.jpg)
Jacqueline Woodson
Harbor Me
![God Went To Beauty School](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/9780060094331.jpg)
Cynthia Rylant
God Went To Beauty School
![A Friend For Dragon](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/9781338341058.jpg)
Dav Pilkey
A Friend For Dragon
ADULT BOOKS
![The Collected Stories: Grace Paley](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780374530280-1.jpg)
Grace Paley
The Collected Stories: Grace Paley
![No Great Mischief](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780375726651-1.jpg)
Alastair Macleod
No Great Mischief
![Stop-Time](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780140044461-1.jpg)
Frank Conroy
Stop-Time
![Another Brooklyn](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780062359995.jpg)
Jacqueline Woodson
Another Brooklyn
![A Fine Balance](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781400030651.jpg)
Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
![To the End of the Land](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780307476401.jpg)
David Grossman
To the End of the Land
![All That is Solid Melts into Air](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780062246875.jpg)
Darragh McKeon
All That is Solid Melts into Air
![No Book But the World](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781594486036.jpg)
Leah Hager Cohen
No Book But the World
![Birds of a Lesser Paradise](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781451643367.jpg)
Megan Mayhew Bergman
Birds of a Lesser Paradise
![A Tale for the Time Being](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780143124870.jpg)
Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being
![Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780393345469.jpg)
Lucia Perillo
Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain
![When the Emperor Was Divine](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780385721813.jpg)
Julie Otsuka
When the Emperor Was Divine
![Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780375727436.jpg)
Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
![The Versions of Us](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780544947276.jpg)
Laura Barnett
The Versions of Us
![Happiness](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780802129185.jpg)
Aminatta Forna
Happiness
![Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780803217904.jpg)
Katherine Vaz
Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories
![Straying](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781501172472.jpg)
Molly McCloskey
Straying
![Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780452265813.jpg)
Joyce Carol Oates
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart
![Go, Went, Gone](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780811225946.jpg)
Jenny Erpenbeck
Go, Went, Gone
![Normal People](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781984822185.jpg)
Sally Rooney
Normal People
![Violations: Collected Essays](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780990437086.jpg)
Sallie Tisdale
Violations: Collected Essays
![Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780735220690.jpg)
Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
![Augustown](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781101974094.jpg)
Kei Miller
Augustown
![Patrick Melrose Novels](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781447223528.jpg)
Edward St. Aubyn
Patrick Melrose Novels
![Third Girl From the Left](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780618773381.jpg)
Martha Southgate
Third Girl From the Left
![The Empty Family](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781439195963.jpg)
Colm Toibin
The Empty Family
![Olive Kitteridge](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780812971835.jpg)
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
![Americanah](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780307455925.jpg)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
![Songs for the Butchers Daughter](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781416538707.jpg)
Peter Manseau
Songs for the Butchers Daughter
![When I Lived in Modern Times](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781847082619.jpg)
Linda Grant
When I Lived in Modern Times
![American Boy](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781571310958.jpg)
Larry Watson
American Boy
![We the Animals](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780547844190.jpg)
Justin Torres
We the Animals
![The Visible World](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780547053677.jpg)
Mark Slouka
The Visible World
![Townie](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780393340679.jpg)
Andre Dubus III
Townie
![The Signature of All Things](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780143125846.jpg)
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Signature of All Things
![Seven Types of Ambiguity](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/book_not_found-large.jpg)
Elliot Perlman
Seven Types of Ambiguity
![In the Country](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780804171496.jpg)
Mia Alvar
In the Country
![Ru](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781608198986.jpg)
Kim Thúy
Ru
![A Manual for Cleaning Women](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781250094735.jpg)
Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women
![Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780316386531.jpg)
Sunil Yapa
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist
![Middle Passage](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780684855882.jpg)
Charles Johnson
Middle Passage
![On Living](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781594634826.jpg)
Kerry Egan
On Living
![Mothers of Sparta](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781250133724.jpg)
Dawn Davies
Mothers of Sparta
![Bobcat and Other Stories](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781616201739.jpg)
Rebecca Lee
Bobcat and Other Stories
![Station Eleven](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780804172448.jpg)
Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
![Delicious Foods](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780316284936.jpg)
James Hannaham
Delicious Foods
![The Green Road](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780393352801.jpg)
Anne Enright
The Green Road
![Brothers](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781594634000.jpg)
Masha Gessen
Brothers
![Ms. Hempl Chronicles](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780151014965.jpg)
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Ms. Hempl Chronicles
![Alone With You](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781416590309.jpg)
Marisa Silver
Alone With You
![Elbow Room](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780449213575.jpg)
James Alan McPherson
Elbow Room
![The Folded World](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780812978544.jpg)
Amity Gaige
The Folded World
![The Dead Fish Museum](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9781400077939.jpg)
Charles D'Ambrosio
The Dead Fish Museum
![The Member of the Wedding](https://conniebiewald.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9780618492398.jpg)
Carson McCullers