The August August List

The list is getting shorter and shorter. Hard to believe the year is almost over. Year seven is now three quarters over. Here are the remaining books for September, October and November. Just three short months. I’m sure I will add to this list because it seems entirely too short.

1. At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O’Brien – September
2. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delise – September
3. Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford – September
4. Deafening by Frances Itani – October
5. Going Wild by Robert Winkler – October
6. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice – November
7. Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso – September
8. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin – October
9. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder – September
10. Panther Soup by John Grimlette – November
11. Southpaw by Mark Harris – October
12. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner – November
13. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell – November
14. Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken – September

ON DECK FOR AUGUST:

1. Abide By Me by Elizabeth Strout
2. Beyond the Bogota by Gary Leech
3. Burning the Days by James Salter
4. Conspiracy and Other Stories by Jaan Kross
5. Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
6. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin

FINISHED:

1. Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
2. Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day by Philip Matyszak
3. Apollo: the epic journey to the moon by David West Reynolds
4. Apples Are From Kazakhstan by Christopher Robbins
5. Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton
6. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
7. Author, Author by David Lodge
8. Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner
9. Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
10. Bellwether by Connie Willis
11. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengist
12. Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
13. Billy by Albert French
14. Brass Go-Between by Oliver Bleeck
15. Breakfast with Scot by Michael Drowning
16. Brush with Death by Elizabeth Duncan
17. Brushed by Feathers by Frances Wood
18. Camus, a Romance by Elizabeth Hawes
19. Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
20. Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
21. Churchill, a life by Martin Gilbert
22. City of Thieves by David Benioff
23. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
24. Death in Verona by Roy Harley Lewis
25. Descending the Dragon by Jon Bowermaster
26. Diamond Classics by Mike Shannon
27. Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
28. Dining with Al-Qaeda by Hugh Pope
29. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
30. The Evolution of Jane by Catherine Schine
31. Edward Lear in Albania by Edward Lear
32. Fanny by Edmund White
33. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
34. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
35. Fixer by Joe Sacco
36. Flamboya Tree by Clara Olink Kelly
37. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
38. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Zabat Katz
39. Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
40. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
41. Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
42. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
43. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
44. God: a biography by Jack Miles
45. Gold Coast Madam by Rose Laws
46. Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
47. Good City edited by Emily Hiestand
48. Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan
49. Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
50. Good-bye Chunk Rice by Craig Thompson
51. Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
52. Her by Christa Parravani
53. Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
54. Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes
55. ADDED: Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
56. House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre
57. Iliad by Homer
58. Idle Days in Patagonia by William Hudson
59. Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn (for LibraryThing’s Early Review program
60. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
61. Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
62. Liar’s Poker:  Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
63. Lives of the Painters, vol 2, 3 & 4 by Giorgio Vasari
64. The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
65. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou for the Early Review Program
66. Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
67. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
68. Of Human Bondage by William Maugham
69. Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
70. Outbreak of Love by Martin Boyd
71. ADDED: Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
72. Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
73. Patrimony: a true story by Philip Roth
74. Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
75. Points Unknown edited by David Roberts
76. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
77. Ready for a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky
78. Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
79. Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
80. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
81. Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
82. Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham – did not finish
83. ADDED: Star Beast by Robert Heinlein
84. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
85. Suzy’s Case by Andy Siegel (as recommended)
86. Tatiana by Dorothy Jones
87. Tattered Cloak by Nina Berberova
88. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
89. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
90. This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakawila for LibraryThing
91. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
92. Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
93. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
94. Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
95. When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
96. Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
97. Widow for One Year by John Irving
98. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
99. Working Poor by David Shipler
100. 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