Finished the Elena Ferrante books. Would read more about those characters if available. Started A Man Called Ove. Went for a quicker read this time. I think I’m going to revisit Three Pines after Ove.
Lonely, Dark and Deep - collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. I am really liking her work and may just go on a JCO binge.
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin http://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-A-Novel-Colm-Toibin/dp/1439148953 Did anyone already mention this book? I love it. Reminds me of the Maeve Binchy books. I am listening to the audio book and am only on the 2nd CD and hate to leave the car when I get home.
I read Brooklyn last month - liked but didn’t love.
@mamom Yes, I read it years ago and posted about it early in this thread. I recall agreeing with epistropy’s beautiful description of the book. I have since read it again and still love the book. I am currently reading Toibin’s “The Empty Family”, a collection of short stories. The writing is exquisite.
Colm Tóibín’s more recent novel Nora Webster is good too. People seem to have mixed reactions to it, but I really liked it.
@NJTheatreMOM I really liked Nora Webster, too!
Here’s a negative vote!
Am starting on A Manual for Cleaning Women, a collection of short stories by Lucia Berlin. So far, highly recommend. I really like this genre.
^Haven’t read yet, but have heard high praise from all directions!
I too recommend A Manual for Cleaning Women. It’s pretty gritty, but honest, imo.
Back from vacation–I spent lots of time reading. I finished: Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton,
A Little Life by Hannah Yangihara, and Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Ray. Enjoyed all of them–if I had to pick a favorite it was Ray’s book. I’m definitely going to read her other novels.
I just finish ed A Narrow Road to the Deep North. Incredible book. Still digesting it.
I am loving A Man Called Ove. So great.
Today’s library haul -
Poor Your Soul - Mira Pitacin
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Man Crazy - Joyce Carol Oates
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Bob Dylan in America - Sean Wilentz (prompted by YouTubing some Dylan songs)
The Photographer’s Wife - Suzanne Joinson
Proofiness - The Dark Art of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
Wild Nights (short stories) - Joyce Carol Oates
Will You Always Love Me (short stories) - Joyce Carol Oates
Many of the more recent books you all have enjoyed (Ove, Lucy Barton) haven’t come into my library yet, or have been checked out by people who somehow think they’re entitled to read them too 
I thought A Man Called Ove was ok- but not great. Most of my book club thought it was “meh”.
@Pizzagirl, I recommend Joyce Carol Oates’ 2015 memoir, “The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age.”
I am almost done with the much hyped “The Nest” and I must say, am enjoying it very much!
That’s a nice assortment, PG! Good luck with Franzen’s Freedom. I gave myself permission to quit about halfway into it.
I just finished Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the novelette by Truman Capote. It is so different from the movie, quite dark. I can’t stop thinking about it, though.
I recently finished “A Mother’s Reckoning” by Sue Klebold and I recommend it. While it’s a difficult book to read, particularly when you have children in high school, I think it’s important.