The obvious choice would have been to name this list after something having to do with Halloween (like I always do), but I’m thinking that was getting old. So. It’s just the October List. Tahdah! There it is. I’m going on my last vacation for the year and I’m going home (where else?). As an aside, I’d like to think there is someone out there who reads me often enough to know where that is! And of course I’ll be bringing some books:
- Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice
- Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter
- Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
- In a Strange City by Laura Lippman (to continue the series started in September)
- Owl Service by Alan Garner*
ADDED: The Hope We Seek by Rich Shapero– In light of the additional 80+ books I had to add to my list, I decided I am not going to read this!
Here is how the last month of year eight should go:
- Andorra by Peter Cameron
- Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
- Beaufort by Ron Leshem*
- Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney
- Grass Dancer by Susan Power
- You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart
*Planned as audio books
FINISHED (Dec 2013 – Sept 2014):
- 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
- Baltimore Blues* by Laura Lippman
- 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)
- Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall
- 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
- ADDED: Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs of Survivors compiled by Dith Pran
- 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*
- ADDED: Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
- 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
- History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
- 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
- ADDED: Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 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
- Raw Silk by Janet Burroway
- 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
- Soul of All Living Creatures by Vint Virga
- Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
- A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (E-book)
- Thrush Green by Miss Read*
- 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 next year:
- Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
~*LunaSea*~ 