May Day List

I don’t hold onto many books. Once I have read something I either lend it away, maybe to never see it again or I donate it somewhere, hoping to never see it again. In an effort to clean off my personal shelves I swapped out some of the titles I had been planning to borrow from other libraries for books I already have at home. This practically changes the entire list for May, but oh well. Here are the many, many books that are on the list for this May:

1. Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser
2. Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
3. Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink…yes, I am STILL reading this! I can’t seem to finish it! Grrrrr
4. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. I was going to read Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott, but I have Bury My Heart at home.
6. Oedipus by Sophocles. Originally I was going to read Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan, but like Bury My Heart, I have Oedipus at home.
7. Finishing: The Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli
8. ADDED: French Revolutions* by Tim Moore. I needed something on cd.
9. ADDED: The transcriptionist by Amy Rowland (an Early Review title from LibraryThing)

*Audio book

Here is how the rest of year eight should go:

1. Andorra by Peter Cameron (November)
2. Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen (November)
3. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (July)
4. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman (September)
5. Beaufort by Ron Leshem* (November)
6. Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh (August)
7. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks* (June)
8. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (July)
9. Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall (September)
10. Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (October)
11. Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams (August)
12. Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney (November)
13. Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (October)
14. Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall (June)
15. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (July)
16. Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler (June)
17. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan* (October)
18. Faith Fox by Jane Gardam* (July)
19. First Man by Albert Camus (June)
20. Fordlandia by Greg Gandin (August)
21. Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee (August)
22. Grass Dancer by Susan Power (November)
23. History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (September)
24. In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (October)
25. Inside Passage by Michael Modselewski (June)
26. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (August)
27. Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch (August)
28. Raw Silk by Janet Burroway (September)
29. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro* (August)
30. Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart (June)
31. Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (September)
32. You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart (November)

*Planned as audio books

FINISHED:

1. After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
2. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow*
3. Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin*
4. Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith
5. Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
7. Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
8. Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
9. Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
10. Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
11. ADDED: Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skarmeta
12. Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
13. Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
14. Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
15. Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
16. Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley – This finishes the Vera Wright Trilogy
17. Herzog by Saul Bellow. Originally, I was going to read Call It Sleep by Henry Roth in May, but I read Herzog early in honor of Bellow’s passing in April of 2005.
18. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
19. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow – attempted
20. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
21. It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
22. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
23. Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith
24. Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
25. Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
26. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
27. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
28. Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
29. Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
30. Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
31. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
32. Run or Die by Kilian Jornet
33. Running for Mortals by John Bingham
34. ADDED: Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Ferris
35. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
36. ADDED: Thrush Green by Miss Read*
37. War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
38. Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley

Poetry:

• “Aftermath” ~ a poem by Siegfried Sassoon
• “Romance” ~ a poem by W.J. Turner
• “Kubla Khan” ~ a poem by Samuel T. Coleridge