November the End List
Posted: 2014/10/31 | Author: gr4c5 | Filed under: audio book, Early Review, Fiction, NonFiction, Poetry | Tags: audio books, biography, books, childrens book, fantasy, Fiction, list, NonFiction, Poetry, reading, science fiction, short stories |Leave a commentThis is the final month for the Challenge year. I don’t have much to say beyond that. Here are the books:
In a Strange CityButcher’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.- ADDED: All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- 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*
- ADDED: Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (to continue the series started in October, because I forgot to mention the rest of the series)
- You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart- MAYBE
*Planned as audio books
FINISHED (Dec 2013 – Oct 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
- ADDED: Biodegradable Soap by Amy Ephron
- 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
- Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (DNF)
- Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink
- Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams
- Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
- 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*
- Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (DNF)
- 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*
- Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
- Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
- Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
- Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
- ADDED: Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- 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
- Half Magic* by Edward Eager
- 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
- 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
- Owl Service by Alan Garner*
- Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
- Partisan by Benjamin Cheever
- ADDED: Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- 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
- 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.