Spooky October List

The list is now down to one month! The reading year is nearly over. Here are the remaining books for November, the last month:

1. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delise
2. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice
3. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner

ON DECK FOR OCTOBER:

1. Southpaw by Mark Harris
2. Deafening by Frances Itani
3. Going Wild by Robert Winkler
4. One By One in the Darkness by Frances Itani
5. Panther Soup by John Grimlette
6. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell (in audio)

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