This Will Be the End
Posted: 2014/12/01 | Author: gr4c5 | Filed under: E-Books, Early Review, Fiction, NonFiction, Poetry | Tags: books, Early Review, Fiction, librarything, lists, NonFiction, Poetry, reading, short stories |Leave a commentThis is the end of another year of the challenge. Here is everything, including what I didn’t quite finish.
FINISHED (Dec 2013 – Nov 2014):
- Absolute Zero by Helen Cresswell*
- After the Dance by Edwidge Danticat
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow*
- Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin*
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Andorra by Peter Cameron
- Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith
- Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
- 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
- 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
- Butcher’s Hill by Laura Lippman
- 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
- Clean Eating 28-Day Plan by Rockridge Press (ER)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire*
- Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney
- 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
- Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
- Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
- Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
- Fifty Year Silence by Miranda Mouillot (ER)
- 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
- Graduates in Wonderland by Jessica Pan & Rachel Kapelke-Dale (ER)
- Grass Dancer by Susan Power* (DNF)
- Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (DNF)
- 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 – (DNF)
- 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 (JFF)
- Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
- Neighborhood Heroes by Morgan Rielly (ER)
- Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
- Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
- Oedipus by Sophocles
- Older, Faster, Stronger by Margaret Webb (JFF)
- Owl Service by Alan Garner*
- Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
- Partisan by Benjamin Cheever
- Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Prepared for a Purpose by Antoinette Tuff (ER)
- Price of Silence by Liza Long (ER)
- 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 (JFF)
- Running for Mortals by John Bingham (JFF)
- Running for Women by Kara Goucher (JFF)
- Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
- Slumdog Millionaire by Vikram Swarup*
- Soul of All Living Creatures by Vint Virga (ER)
- Strength Training for Fat Loss by Nick Tumminello (ER)
- 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 (JFF)
- Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland (ER)
- War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook (JFF)
- Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley
- Zero Days by Barbara Egbert
(* denotes an audio recording; JFF = Just for Fun; DNF = Did Not Finish; ER = Early Review for LibraryThing)
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