November the End List

This is the final month for the Challenge year. I don’t have much to say beyond that. Here are the books:

1. In a Strange City Butcher’s Hill by Laura Lippman (to continue the series started in September) Note: Butcher’s Hill was supposed to be read in October but it took over a month for it to arrive.
2. ADDED: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
3. Andorra by Peter Cameron
4. Any Four Women Can Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
5. Beaufort by Ron Leshem
6. Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney
7. Grass Dancer by Susan Power*
8. ADDED: Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (to continue the series started in October, because I forgot to mention the rest of the series)
9. You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart- MAYBE

*Planned as audio books

FINISHED (Dec 2013 – Oct 2014):

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. Baltimore Blues* by Laura Lippman
10. Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh
11. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
12. ADDED: Biodegradable Soap by Amy Ephron
13. Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
14. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
15. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (DNF)
16. Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall
17. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
18. Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
19. Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (DNF)
20. Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink
21. Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams
22. Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
23. Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs of Survivors compiled by Dith Pran
24. Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
25. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire*
26. Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (DNF)
27. Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skarmeta
28. Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
29. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (DNF)
30. Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
31. Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
32. Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
33. Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
34. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
35. ADDED: Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
36. Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
37. Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
38. Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
39. First Man by Albert Camus
40. Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
41. Fordlandia by Greg Gandin
42. French Revolutions* by Tim Moore.
43. Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
44. Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
45. Half Magic* by Edward Eager
46. Herzog by Saul Bellow
47. History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
48. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
49. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow – attempted
50. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
51. In the Graveyard of Empires by Scott Jones*
52. Inside Passage by Michael Modzelewski
53. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
54. It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
55. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
56. Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
57. Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith
58. Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
59. Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch
60. Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli
61. Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
62. Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
63. Neighborhood Heroes by Morgan Rielly
64. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
65. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
66. Oedipus by Sophocles
67. Owl Service by Alan Garner*
68. Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
69. Partisan by Benjamin Cheever
70. ADDED: Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
71. Price of Silence by Liza Long
72. Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
73. Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
74. Raw Silk by Janet Burroway
75. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*
76. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
77. Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
78. Run or Die by Kilian Jornet
79. Running for Mortals by John Bingham
80. Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
81. Soul of All Living Creatures by Vint Virga
82. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
83. Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (E-book)
84. Thrush Green by Miss Read*
85. Toronto by Charles Way
86. Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland
87. War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
88. Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook.
89. Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley
90. 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.