Resolution January List

For starters, this is late. Like a week late. Sorry! January is the start of a new year but only the second month of the seventh year of the BookLust Challenge. I know, it’s confusing. I took off the planned poetry and haven’t added the short stories. I think for now, while the list is so big, I’ll keep them off.

1. Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin*
2. Andorra by Peter Cameron
3. Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
4. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
5. Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser
6. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
7. Beaufort by Ron Leshem*
8. Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh
9. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
10. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West
11. Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall
12. Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
13. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
14. Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice
15. Careless Love by Peter Gurlink
16. Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams
17. Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney
18. Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter
19. Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
20. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes
21. Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
22. Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
23. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan*
24. Faith Fox by Jane Gardam*
25. First Man by Albert Camus
26. Fordlandia by Greg Gandin
27. Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
28. Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
29. Good Life by Ben Bradlee
30. Grass Dancer by Susan Power
31. Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
32. History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
33. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
34. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
35. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
36. In a Strange City by Laura Lippman
37. Inside Passage by Michael Modselewski
38. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
39. Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott*
40. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
41. Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch
42. My Father’s Moon by Elizabeth Jolley
43. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
44. Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
45. Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
46. Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
47. Raw Silk by Janet Burroway
48. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*
49. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
50. Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
51. Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron
52. Wheels Within Wheels by Dervla Murphy
53. Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley
54. You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart

*Planned as Audio books

Here are the five books that are on the list for this January:

1. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
2. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
3. Feast of Love by Charles Baxter*
4. Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
5. After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat

FINISHED:

1. A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
2. Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
3. Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith
4. It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
5. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
6. Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
7. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff