September Back To School List

I’m a day late with this…

The list is now really getting shorter! Summer is over just like that. And so is Year Seven. Here are the remaining books for October and November. Just two short months to go.

1. Deafening by Frances Itani – October
2. Going Wild by Robert Winkler – October
3. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice – November
4. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin – October
5. Panther Soup by John Grimlette – November
6. Southpaw by Mark Harris – October
7. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner – November
8. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell – November

ON DECK FOR SEPTEMBER:

1. At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O’Brien
2. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delise
3. Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
4. ADDED: City in the Sky by James Glanz
5. Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso
6. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder
7. Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

FINISHED:

1. Abide By Me by Elizabeth Strout
2. Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
3. Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day by Philip Matyszak
4. Apollo: the epic journey to the moon by David West Reynolds
5. Apples Are From Kazakhstan by Christopher Robbins
6. Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton (I started this last year. No, sorry – two years ago)
7. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
8. Author, Author by David Lodge (audio)
9. Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner
10. Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
11. Bellwether by Connie Willis
12. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengist (audio)
13. Beyond the Bogota by Gary Leech
14. Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
15. Billy by Albert French
16. ADDED: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
17. Brass Go-Between by Oliver Bleeck
18. Breakfast with Scot by Michael Drowning
19. Brush with Death by Elizabeth Duncan
20. Brushed by Feathers by Frances Wood
21. Burning the Days by James Salter
22. Camus, a Romance by Elizabeth Hawes
23. Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
24. Cat Daddy: What the World’s Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean by Jackson Galaxy
25. Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
26. Churchill, a life by Martin Gilbert
27. City of Thieves by David Benioff
28. Conspiracy and Other Stories by Jaan Kross
29. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
30. Death in Verona by Roy Harley Lewis
31. Descending the Dragon by Jon Bowermaster
32. Diamond Classics by Mike Shannon
33. Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
34. Dining with Al-Qaeda by Hugh Pope
35. Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
36. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
37. The Evolution of Jane by Catherine Schine
38. Edward Lear in Albania by Edward Lear
39. Fanny by Edmund White
40. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
41. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
42. Fixer by Joe Sacco
43. Flamboya Tree by Clara Olink Kelly
44. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
45. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Zabat Katz
46. Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
47. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
48. Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
49. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
50. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
51. God: a biography by Jack Miles
52. Gold Coast Madam by Rose Laws
53. Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
54. Good City edited by Emily Hiestand
55. Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan
56. Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
57. Good-bye Chunk Rice by Craig Thompson
58. Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
59. Her by Christa Parravani
60. Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
61. Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes
62. Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
63. House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre
64. Iliad by Homer
65. Idle Days in Patagonia by William Hudson
66. Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn (for LibraryThing’s Early Review program
67. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
68. Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
69. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
70. Lives of the Painters, vol 2, 3 & 4 by Giorgio Vasari
71. The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
72. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou for the Early Review Program
73. Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
74. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
75. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
76. Of Human Bondage by William Maugham
77. Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
78. Outbreak of Love by Martin Boyd
79. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
80. Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
81. Patrimony: a true story by Philip Roth
82. Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
83. Points Unknown edited by David Roberts
84. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
85. Ready for a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky
86. Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
87. Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
88. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
89. Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
90. Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham – did not finish
91. Star Beast by Robert Heinlein
92. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
93. Suzy’s Case by Andy Siegel (as recommended)
94. Tatiana by Dorothy Jones
95. Tattered Cloak by Nina Berberova
96. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
97. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
98. This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakawila for LibraryThing
99. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
100. True Crime: Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-Robbing and More edited by Lee Gutkind (Early Review)
101. Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
102. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
103. Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
104. When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
105. Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
106. Widow for One Year by John Irving
107. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
108. Working Poor by David Shipler
109. 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