Sweet September List

The days are getting shorter. The nights are cooling down. Summer is practically all but over. It’s time to turn my attention to school and cozying up to a warm fire with a good book, or two, or three:

1. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
2. Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall
3. History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
4. Raw Silk by Janet Burroway
5. A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (E-book)
6. ADDED: The Soul of All Living Creatures by Vint Virga (Early Review for LibraryThing)

Here is how the rest of year eight (only two months) should go:

1. Andorra by Peter Cameron (November)
2. Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen (November)
3. Beaufort by Ron Leshem* (November)
4. Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (October)
5. Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney (November)
6. Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (October)
7. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan* (October)
8. Grass Dancer by Susan Power (November)
9. In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (October)
10. You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart (November)

*Planned as audio books

FINISHED:

1. Absolute Zero by Helen Cresswell*
2. After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
3. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow*
4. Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin*
5. Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith
6. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler.
7. Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser
9. Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh
10. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
11. Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
12. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
13. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (DNF)
14. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
15. Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
16. Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink
17. Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams
18. Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
19. Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
20. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire*
21. Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skarmeta
22. Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
23. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (DNF)
24. Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
25. Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
26. Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
27. Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
28. Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
29. Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
30. First Man by Albert Camus
31. Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
32. Fordlandia by Greg Gandin
33. French Revolutions* by Tim Moore.
34. Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
35. Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
36. Herzog by Saul Bellow
37. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
38. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow – attempted
39. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
40. In the Graveyard of Empires by Scott Jones*
41. Inside Passage by Michael Modzelewski
42. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
43. It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
44. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
45. Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith
46. Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
47. Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch
48. Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli
49. Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
50. Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
51. Neighborhood Heroes by Morgan Rielly
52. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
53. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
54. Oedipus by Sophocles
55. Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
56. Price of Silence by Liza Long
57. Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
58. Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
59. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*
60. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
61. Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
62. Run or Die by Kilian Jornet
63. Running for Mortals by John Bingham
64. Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
65. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
66. Thrush Green by Miss Read*
67. ADDED: Toronto by Charles Way
68. Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland
69. War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
70. Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook.
71. Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley
72. 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
• “Down There” by David Goodis
• “Crossing the Craton” by John McPhee.
• “Lukudi” by Adrianne Harun
• “The Eighth Sleeper of Ephesus” also by Adrianne Harun
• “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges

For another year:

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