"You spin me right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, right round round round." - Dead or Alive

Every couple of months the staff at the library gets an email from our collection development librarian asking for popular book recommendations. I take advantage of this request by listing everything I have had any sort of inclination to read within the past, say, six months. Because very few people use our popular fiction section, so it is mine, mine, mine, mine, MINE. Or at least I generally get first dibs.

Here's this go-round's list: Did I miss any?

FICTION:

The Emperor’s Children – Claire Messud
What Came Before He Shot Her - Elizabeth George. One of the few mystery writers I REALLY enjoy.
Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai. I may buy this.
One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson. Will definitely buy this, I adore her and everything she's written.
The Road – Cormac McCarthy. Terrible reviews, but still...
Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
A Spot of Bother – Mark Haddon
Black Swan Green – David Mitchell. I have read this; I am merely exhibiting my altruistic nature.
Intuition – Allegra Goodman. Am routinely disappointed by her novels, and yet I continue to hope.
Uses of Enchantment - Heidi Julavits
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Volume One: The pox party – MT Anderson. Mmmmm. Pox.
The Zero – Jess Walter
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country – Ken Kalfus. Tried to read this, will try again. Because I am dogged that way.
The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield. More altruism.
Snow – Orhan Pamuk. I actually own this, but hey, he just won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Echo Maker – Richard Powers. Tell me his plot doesn't sound fascinating.

NONFICTION:

Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog – Kitty Burns Florey. How can you not want to read a book about diagramming sentences?!
Istanbul – Orhan Pamuk. See above. Plus, excellent reviews.
Consider the Lobster: And other essays – David Foster Wallace. His A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again essay about cruise ships was so funny; I must read some more.
Falling through the Earth: A memoir – Danielle Trussoni
The Ghost Map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic - and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world – Steven Johnson. It may have one of the world's longest subtitles, but: Cholera! Whee!
Eat Pray Love: One woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert. I am betting this is annoyingly New Age, but I want to find out for myself.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A natural history of four meals – Michael Pollan. (Apropos of nothing other than it's the same author, an acquaintance once told me that she used to masturbate to Pollan's Botany of Desire; could she *possibly* have been telling the truth?)
The Lost: A search for six of six million – Daniel Mendelsohn. What is with these subtitles?!
The Places in Between – Rory Stewart. Per my fascination with all things Afghani.