Bang of July List

July is vacation month for me. Well, just to clarify, I go on vacation starting tomorrow (hence the late list post). Not that I go on vacation for the whole month! Don’t I wish! But, with a week off I should be able to get through a good chunk of reading. Sadly, the only books I am really looking forward to reading are Faulks and Rielly. Sigh. Here’s the list:

1. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler.
2. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West. This is well over 1,000 pages long!
3. ADDED: Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks (continues the series)
4. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes. This was on the list for last year but I decided it wasn’t “fun.” Remember? I still don’t think it will be fun.
5. Faith Fox by Jane Gardam*
6. In the Graveyard of Empires by Scott Jones*
7. ADDED: Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons from the Greatest Generation by Morgan Rielly (LibraryThing Early Review)

*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. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman (September)
4. Beaufort by Ron Leshem* (November)
5. Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh (August)
6. Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall (September)
7. Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (October)
8. Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams (August)
9. Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney (November)
10. Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (October)
11. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan* (October)
12. Fordlandia by Greg Gandin (August)
13. Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee (August)
14. Grass Dancer by Susan Power (November)
15. History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (September)
16. In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (October)
17. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (August)
18. Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch (August)
19. Raw Silk by Janet Burroway (September)
20. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro* (August)
21. Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (September)
22. 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. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
10. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
11. Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
12. Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink
13. Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
14. Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
15. Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skarmeta
16. Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
17. Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
18. Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
19. Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
20. Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
21. First Man by Albert Camus
22. Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
23. French Revolutions* by Tim Moore.
24. Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
25. Herzog by Saul Bellow
26. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
27. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow – attempted
28. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
29. Inside Passage by Michael Modzelewski
30. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
31. It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
32. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
33. Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith
34. Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
35. Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli
36. ADDED: Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
37. Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
38. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
39. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
40. Oedipus by Sophocles
41. Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
42. Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
43. Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
44. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
45. Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
46. Run or Die by Kilian Jornet
47. Running for Mortals by John Bingham
48. Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
49. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
50. Thrush Green by Miss Read*
51. Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland
52. War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
53. ADDED: Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook. A gift from a fellow Just ‘Cause walker 🙂
54. Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley
55. Zero Days by Barbara Egbert

Poetry:

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

Short Stories:

• “The Huckabuck Family” by Carl Sandburg
• “How to Revitalize the Snake in Your Life” by Hannah Tinti
• “Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
• “Thirty Year Old Women Do Not Always Come Home” by Mark Winegardner
• “Birdland” by Michael Knight
• “Killer Inside Me” by Jim Thompson (not really a short story, but I treated it as such)
• “Down There” by David Goodis (again really, not a short story)
• “Crossing the Craton” by John McPhee. It’s the fifth and final chapter in Annals of the Former World but since it’s less than 50 pages long, I’m treating it as a short story.
• Lukudi by Adrianne Harun
• The Eighth Sleeper of Ephesus also by Adrianne Harun

For another year (because I screwed up):

• Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.