Sweet September List
Posted: 2014/09/03 | Author: gr4c5 | Filed under: audio book, E-Books, Early Review, Fiction | Tags: audio books, books, childrens book, Fiction, lists, memoir, NonFiction, Poetry, reading, short stories |Leave a commentThe 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:
- Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
- Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall
- History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
- Raw Silk by Janet Burroway
- A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (E-book)
- 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:
- Andorra by Peter Cameron (November)
- Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen (November)
- Beaufort by Ron Leshem* (November)
- Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (October)
- Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney (November)
- Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (October)
- Eye of the World by Robert Jordan* (October)
- Grass Dancer by Susan Power (November)
- In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (October)
- You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart (November)
*Planned as audio books
FINISHED:
- Absolute Zero by Helen Cresswell*
- After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow*
- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin*
- Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith
- Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler.
- Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser
- Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh
- Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
- Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (DNF)
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
- Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
- Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink
- Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams
- Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
- Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire*
- Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skarmeta
- Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
- Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (DNF)
- Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
- Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
- Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
- Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
- Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
- Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
- First Man by Albert Camus
- Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Fordlandia by Greg Gandin
- French Revolutions* by Tim Moore.
- Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
- Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
- Herzog by Saul Bellow
- Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- House of Morgan by Ron Chernow – attempted
- Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
- In the Graveyard of Empires by Scott Jones*
- Inside Passage by Michael Modzelewski
- Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
- It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
- Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
- Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith
- Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
- Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch
- Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli
- Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
- Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
- Neighborhood Heroes by Morgan Rielly
- Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
- Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
- Oedipus by Sophocles
- Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
- Price of Silence by Liza Long
- Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
- Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*
- Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
- Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
- Run or Die by Kilian Jornet
- Running for Mortals by John Bingham
- Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
- Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Thrush Green by Miss Read*
- ADDED: Toronto by Charles Way
- Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland
- War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook.
- Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley
- 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.