Pulse Check

This is the list for Year Seven of the Book Lust Challenge. I’ll update it at the end of each month, just to keep myself honest.

1. Abide By Me by Elizabeth Strout
2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
4. Apollo: the epic journey to the moon by David West Reynolds
5. Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton (I started this last year)
6. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
7. At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O’Brien
8. Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner
9. Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
10. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengist
11. Beyond the Bogota by Gary Leech
12. Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
13. Brass Go-Between by Oliver Bleeck
14. Breakfast with Scot by Michael Drowning
15. Brush with Death by Elizabeth Duncan
16. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delise
17. Burning the Days by James Salter
18. Camus, a Romance by Elizabeth Hawes
19. Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
20. Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
21. Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
22. Churchill, a life by Martin Gilbert
23. Conspiracy and Other Stories by Jaan Kross
24. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
25. Deafening by Frances Itani
26. Death in Verona by Roy Harley Lewis
27. Diamond Classics by Mike Shannon
28. Dining with Al-Qaeda by Hugh Pope
29. Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
30. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
31. Edward Lear in Albania by Edward Lear
32. Fanny by Edmund White
33. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
34. Fixer by Joe Sacco
35. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
36. Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
37. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
38. Galton Case by Ross MacDonald ~ reading right now
39. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
40. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
41. Going Wild by Robert Winkler
42. Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
43. Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan
44. Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
45. Good-bye Chunk Rice by Craig Thompson
46. Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
47. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice
48. Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
49. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
50. House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre
51. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
52. Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
53. Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso
54. Lives of the Painters (vol 2, 3 & 4) by Giorgio Vasari
55. Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
56. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
57. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
58. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
59. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder
60. Panther Soup by John Grimlette
61. Points Unknown edited by David Roberts
62. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
63. Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
64. Rosalind Franklin by Brenda Maddox
65. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
66. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
67. Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
68. Southpaw by Mark Harris
69. Tattered Cloak by Nina Berberova ~ reading right now
70. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
71. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
72. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
73. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner
74. Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
75. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
76. Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
77. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
78. Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
79. Widow for One Year by John Irving
80. Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
81. Working Poor by David Shipler