Who’s You Daddy June List

I’m posting this early because June 1st is on a Sunday and guess what I’ll be doing on that Sunday? Finishing up a 60 mile cancer walk. I sincerely doubt I will have time (much less remember) to post this!

June is known as short story month. I have a separate list of all the shorties I want to read and each June, in honor of the genre, I try to blow through as many as I can. This year I am actually revisiting some shorts I should have read last year. Here’s the list:

• Killer Inside Me
• Down There
• The Huckabuck Family
• How to Revitalize the Snake
• Crossing the Craton

Then, there are the real books:

1. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
2. Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
3. Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
4. First Man by Albert Camus
5. Inside Passage by Michael Modselewski
6. Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
7. ADDED: Zero Days by Barbara Egbert

*Audio book

Here is how the rest of year eight should go. Of course I will be adding more books to this list:

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. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (July)
8. Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall (September)
9. Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (October)
10. Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams (August)
11. Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney (November)
12. Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (October)
13. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (July)
14. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan* (October)
15. Faith Fox by Jane Gardam* (July)
16. Fordlandia by Greg Gandin (August)
17. Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee (August)
18. Grass Dancer by Susan Power (November)
19. History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (September)
20. In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (October)
21. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (August)
22. Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch (August)
23. Raw Silk by Janet Burroway (September)
24. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro* (August)
25. Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (September)
26. 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. Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser
7. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
8. Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
9. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
10. Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
11. Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink
12. Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
13. Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
14. Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skarmeta
15. Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
16. Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
17. Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
18. Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
19. French Revolutions* by Tim Moore.
20. Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
21. Herzog by Saul Bellow
22. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
23. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow – attempted
24. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
25. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
26. It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
27. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
28. Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith
29. Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
30. Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli
31. Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
32. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
33. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
34. Oedipus by Sophocles
35. Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
36. Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
37. Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
38. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
39. Run or Die by Kilian Jornet
40. Running for Mortals by John Bingham
41. Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
42. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
43. Thrush Green by Miss Read*
44. Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland
45. War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
46. 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

For another year (because I screwed up):

• Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. This is a huge embarrassment. For starters, this is a sequel. I have to read Travels with Tangerine first. Secondly, I don’t even know when I’m reading Tangerine.