November 2021 In Books: What I'll Be Reading

After the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced, it would make sense to read the writings of Abdulrazak Gurnah.

And in September Colson Whitehead published Harlem Shuffle, set in New York City in the 1960s.

Cover of Harlem Shuffle
via Doubleday

For the would-be archaeologist like me, Lara Maiklem's Field Guide to Larking is also a tempting new book (published longer ago in August, it should be mentioned).

But I will continue to dig into a reading backlist instead of reading newer publications. There are the Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter to finish, and the list of best books of 2020 from National Public Radio's website.

Michelle Obama's autobiography Becoming is turning out warm, readable, and beautifully written. Still reading earlier passages about her childhood piano lessons when she grew up in Chicago, I'm enjoying comparing and contrasting her literary approach to her husband's.

Cover of Becoming
via Penguin Random House

Aside from that, I'll just post a list:

Sholem Aleichem: Menahem Mendel (transl. from Yiddish to German)

Assia Djebar: Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement

Eliese Colette Goldbach: Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit

Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half

Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman: Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

... and I have a lengthy 'to be read' list too! The perils of being too absorbed in work, and relying too much on 'comfort reads' to get me through my stretches of angst, are that the books pile up too much.