June Bugs and Big Lists

Because I am walking 60 miles between 5/31 and 6/2 I thought I would post this a little early.

I’m halfway through the “year” of reading so I thought I would map out the rest of the books. In doing so I found that I missed another book, one I should have read back in April. Now there are two books that will have to wait until next year for me to read them. Bummer. Anyway, here are the books still to go (July – November):

1. Abide By Me by Elizabeth Strout – August
2. Apollo: the epic journey to the moon by David West Reynolds – July
3. At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O’Brien – September
4. Beyond the Bogota by Gary Leech – August
5. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delise – Sepember
6. Burning the Days by James Salter – August
7. Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford – September
8. Conspiracy and Other Stories by Jaan Kross – August
9. Deafening by Frances Itani – October
10. Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby – August
11. Fixer by Joe Sacco – July
12. Going Wild by Robert Winkler – October
13. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice – November
14. Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso – September
15. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin – August
16. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin – October
17. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder – September
18. Panther Soup by John Grimlette – November
19. Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell – July
20. Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham – July
21. Southpaw by Mark Harris – October
22. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini – July
23. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner – November
24. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell – November
25. Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken – September
26. Working Poor by David Shipler -July

ON DECK FOR JUNE (the list is especially long because it’s short story month):

1. Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun (audio)
2. Death in Verona by Roy Harley Lewis
3. Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
4. Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
5. Points Unknown edited by David Roberts
6. ADDED: When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
7. “Here’s a Little Something” and “Big Me” by Dan Chaon (From Among the Missing)
8. “Servants of the Map” and “The Cure” by Andrea Barrett (from Servants of the Map)
9. “In the Land of Men” and “Goodbye Midwest” by Antonya Nelson (from In the Land of Men)
10. ADDED, because Cat Who Ate Danish Modern is so short): Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn (audio)

FINISHED:

1. Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
2. Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day by Philip Matyszak
3. Apples Are From Kazakhstan by Christopher Robbins
4. Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton (I started this last year. No, sorry – two years ago)
5. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
6. Author, Author by David Lodge (audio)
7. Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner
8. Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
9. Bellwether by Connie Willis
10. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengist (audio)
11. Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
12. Billy by Albert French
13. Brass Go-Between by Oliver Bleeck
14. Breakfast with Scot by Michael Drowning
15. Brush with Death by Elizabeth Duncan
16. Brushed by Feathers by Frances Wood
17. Camus, a Romance by Elizabeth Hawes
18. Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
19. Churchill, a life by Martin Gilbert
20. City of Thieves by David Benioff
21. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
22. Descending the Dragon by Jon Bowermaster
23. Diamond Classics by Mike Shannon
24. ADDED: Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
25. Dining with Al-Qaeda by Hugh Pope
26. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
27. The Evolution of Jane by Catherine Schine
28. Edward Lear in Albania by Edward Lear
29. Fanny by Edmund White
30. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
31. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
32. Flamboya Tree by Clara Olink Kelly
33. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
34. Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
35. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
36. Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
37. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
38. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
39. ADDED (in lieu of House of Morgan): God: a biography by Jack Miles
40. Gold Coast Madam by Rose Laws
41. ADDED: Good City edited by Emily Hiestand
42. Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan
43. Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
44. Good-bye Chunk Rice by Craig Thompson
45. Her by Christa Parravani
46. Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
47. Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes
48. House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre
49. ADDED: Iliad by Homer
50. Idle Days in Patagonia by William Hudson
51. ADDED: Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn (for LibraryThing’s Early Review program
52. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
53. Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
54. Lives of the Painters, vol 2, 3 & 4 by Giorgio Vasari
55. ADDED: The long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
56. ADDED: Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou for the Early Review Program
57. Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
58. Of Human Bondage by William Maugham
59. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
60. ADDED: Outbreak of Love by Martin Boyd
61. ADDED: Path Between the Seas by David McCullough (audio)
62. Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
63. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
64. Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
65. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
66. Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
67. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
68. ADDED: Suzy’s Case by Andy Siegel (as recommended)
69. Tatiana by Dorothy Jones
70. Tattered Cloak by Nina Berberova
71. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
72. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
73. ADDED: This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakawila for LibraryThing
74. Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
75. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
76. Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
77. Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
78. Widow for One Year by John Irving
79. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan

POETRY COMPLETED:

1. “Golden Angel Pancake House” by Campbell McGrath
2. “Lepanto” by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
3. “Listeners” by Walter De La Mare
4. “Mandalay” by Rudard Kipling
5. “Road and the End” by Carl Sandburg
6. “Sea-Fever” by John Masefield
7. “Winter” by Marie Ponsot
8. “In My Craft or Sullen Art” by Dylan Thomas
9. The Long Hill” by Sarah Teasdale
10. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

NEXT YEAR (so sad):

1. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow (as previously mentioned)
2. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell