Love is in the air. Technically, this February I celebrate my fifteenth Valentine’s Day with Kisa. (15 being in the pre-wife role and I believe, even pre-girlfriend role.) He won’t agree. He thinks we were dating by this time but I call it the anniversary of MY acceptance. I truly gave in to the idea of a decent guy being in my life. For real. February also marks the anniversary of me, myself & moi being on this planet for forty some odd years. But, enough of all that. Here’s the list for month three of a different anniversary, one with a lot of books. New this time around is the addition of the month in which each book should be read:
- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin* (April)
- Andorra by Peter Cameron (November)
- Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen (November)
- Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (July)
- Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser (May)
- Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman (September)
- Beaufort by Ron Leshem* (November)
- Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh (August)
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks* (June)
- Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (July)
- Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall (September)
- Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley (March)
- Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (May)
- Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (October)
- Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams (August)
- Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney (November)
- Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (October)
- Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall (June)
- Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (July)
- Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan* (March)
- Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler (June)
- Eye of the World by Robert Jordan* (October)
- Faith Fox by Jane Gardam* (July)
- First Man by Albert Camus (June)
- Fordlandia by Greg Gandin (August)
- Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley (April)
- Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee (August)
- Grass Dancer by Susan Power (November)
- Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (July)
- History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (September)
- House of Morgan by Ron Chernow (April)
- Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman (March)
- In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (October)
- Inside Passage by Michael Modselewski (June)
- Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating (May)
- Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott* (May)
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (August)
- Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch (August)
- Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan (May)
- Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy (March)
- Raw Silk by Janet Burroway (September)
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro* (August)
- Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell (April)
- Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart (June)
- Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (September)
- Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley (April)
- You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart (November)
*Planned as audio books
Here are the six books that are on the list for this February:
- ADDED: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow*
- Careless Love by Peter Gurlink
- Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
- Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
- Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
FINISHED:
- After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
- ADDED: Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
- Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
- Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
- Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
- It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
- Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
- Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
- Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
- Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
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