Thanks for November List

Here it is. The last six books to read for Year Seven! I have every confidence that I will be adding to this list just a little. As a matter of fact, at the time that I started this blog I only had four books on my November list. I don’t remember the last time I read only four books in a month. So, true to form I added two more.

1. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delise
2. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice
3. Now Read This by Nancy Pearl
4. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner
5. ADDED: Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (to continue the Southpaw series)
6. ADDED: Ariadne Objective by Wes Davis (Early Review book for LibraryThing)

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. 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. 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. Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman
38. Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
39. Dining with Al-Qaeda by Hugh Pope
40. Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
41. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
42. The Evolution of Jane by Catherine Schine
43. Edward Lear in Albania by Edward Lear
44. Fanny by Edmund White
45. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
46. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
47. Fixer by Joe Sacco
48. Flamboya Tree by Clara Olink Kelly
49. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
50. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Zabat Katz
51. Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
52. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
53. Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
54. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
55. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
56. God: a biography by Jack Miles
57. Gold Coast Madam by Rose Laws
58. Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
59. Good City edited by Emily Hiestand
60. Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan
61. Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
62. Good-bye Chunk Rice by Craig Thompson
63. Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
64. Her by Christa Parravani
65. Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
66. Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes
67. Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
68. House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre
69. Iliad by Homer
70. Idle Days in Patagonia by William Hudson
71. Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn (for LibraryThing’s Early Review program
72. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
73. Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
74. ADDED: Keeping it Civil by Margaret Klaw (Early review book)
75. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
76. Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso
77. Lives of the Painters, vol 2, 3 & 4 by Giorgio Vasari
78. The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
79. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou for the Early Review Program
80. Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
81. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
82. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
83. Of Human Bondage by William Maugham
84. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder
85. Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
86. Outbreak of Love by Martin Boyd
87. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
88. Panther Soup by John Grimlette
89. Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
90. Patrimony: a true story by Philip Roth
91. Pick-Up by Charles Willeford (part of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s)
92. Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
93. Points Unknown edited by David Roberts
94. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
95. Ready for a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky
96. Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes (part of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s)
97. Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
98. Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
99. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
100. Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
101. Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham – did not finish
102. Star Beast by Robert Heinlein
103. Star Trap by Simon Brett
104. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
105. Suzy’s Case by Andy Siegel (as recommended)
106. Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Part of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s)
107. Tatiana by Dorothy Jones
108. Tattered Cloak by Nina Berberova
109. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
110. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
111. This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakawila for LibraryThing
112. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
113. True Crime: Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-Robbing and More edited by Lee Gutkind (Early Review)
114. Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
115. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
116. Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
117. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
118. When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
119. White Devil by John Webster
120. Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
121. Widow for One Year by John Irving
122. Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
123. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
124. Working Poor by David Shipler
125. 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
2. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
3. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin (as previously mentioned)