Reading Like A Fish If A Fish Could Read

I've been reading like a fish if a fish could read since I started my Lesley University graduate MFA program. Here's a list of read fiction from the last three months with my quick take on each:

September:
Libra by Don DeLillo (like all of DeLillo, a tad cold, always fascinating)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (Are McEwan and Kaz Ishiguro twins? And do we really need two? Can't we make one redundant?)
The Position by Meg Wolitzer (must-read: The Corrections should have been this engaging and entertaining)
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

August:
Welcome to Hard Times by E.L. Doctorow (must-read)
The Almanac Branch by Bradford Morrow
Night Train by Martin Amis (must-read: funny, real and wholly Amis)
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre (unfairly maligned. Pierre is a especially gifted with language)

July:
In Love & Trouble by Alice Walker (must-read)
Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker
Beloved by Toni Morrison (I know, it's a classic, but I think Beloved is a bit overripe)
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead (chilly and oversmart)