O Say Can You Read July List

1. Abide By Me by Elizabeth Strout – August
2. At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O’Brien – September
3. Beyond the Bogota by Gary Leech – August
4. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delise – September
5. Burning the Days by James Salter – August
6. Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford – September
7. Conspiracy and Other Stories by Jaan Kross – August
8. Deafening by Frances Itani – October
9. Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby – August
10. Going Wild by Robert Winkler – October
11. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice – November
12. Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso – September
13. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin – August
14. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin – October
15. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder – September
16. Panther Soup by John Grimlette – November
17. Southpaw by Mark Harris – October
18. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner – November
19. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell – November
20. Wolves of Willough by Chase by Joan Aiken – September

ON DECK FOR JULY:

1. Apollo: the epic journey to the moon by David West Reynolds
2. Fixer by Joe Sacco
3. Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
4. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5. Working Poor by David Shipler
6. ADDED: Ready for a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky

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. Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
20. Churchill, a life by Martin Gilbert
21. City of Thieves by David Benioff
22. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
23. Death in Verona by Roy Harley Lewis
24. Descending the Dragon by Jon Bowermaster
25. Diamond Classics by Mike Shannon
26. Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
27. Dining with Al-Qaeda by Hugh Pope
28. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
29. The Evolution of Jane by Catherine Schine
30. Edward Lear in Albania by Edward Lear
31. Fanny by Edmund White
32. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
33. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
34. Flamboya Tree by Clara Olink Kelly
35. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
36. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Zabat Katz (audio)
37. Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
38. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
39. Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
40. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
41. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
42. God: a biography by Jack Miles
43. Gold Coast Madam by Rose Laws
44. Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
45. Good City edited by Emily Hiestand
46. Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan
47. Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
48. Good-bye Chunk Rice by Craig Thompson
49. Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
50. Her by Christa Parravani
51. Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
52. Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes
53. House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre
54. Iliad by Homer
55. Idle Days in Patagonia by William Hudson
56. Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn (for LibraryThing’s Early Review program
57. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
58. Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
59. Lives of the Painters, vol 2, 3 & 4 by Giorgio Vasari
60. The long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
61. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou for the Early Review Program
62. Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
63. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
64. Of Human Bondage by William Maugham
65. ADDED: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
66. Outbreak of Love by Martin Boyd
67. Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
68. ADDED: Patrimony: a True Story by Philip Roth
69. Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
70. Points Unknown edited by David Roberts
71. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
72. Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
73. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
74. Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
75. Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
76. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
77. Suzy’s Case by Andy Siegel (as recommended)
78. Tatiana by Dorothy Jones
79. Tattered Cloak by Nina Berberova
80. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
81. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
82. This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakawila for LibraryThing
83. Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
84. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
85. Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
86. When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
87. Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
88. Widow for One Year by John Irving
89. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
90. ADDED: Year in Provence, a by Peter Mayle

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

SHORT STORIES COMPLETED:

1. “Here’s a Little Something”  by Dan Chaon (from Among the Missing)
2. “Big Me” by Dan Chaon (from Among the Missing)
3. “Servants of the Map” by Elizabeth Barrett (from Servant of the Map)
4. “The Cure” by Elizabeth Barrett (from Servants of the Map)
5. “In the Land of Men” by Antonya Nelson (from In the Land of Men)
6. “Goodbye Midwest” by Antonya Nelson (from In the Land of Men)
7. “Ado” by Connie Willis (from Impossible Things)
8. “At the Rialto” by Connie Willis (from Impossible Things)
9. “A Tiger-Killer is Hard to Find” by Ha Jin (from Bridegroom: stories)
10. “After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town” by Ha Jin (from Bridegroom: stories)
11. “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri (from Interpreter of Maladies)
12. “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri (from Interpreter of Maladies)
13. “A few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies” by John Murray (from A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies)
14. “Watson and the Shark” by John Murray (from A few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies)

NEXT YEAR:

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