This Will Be the End

This is the end of another year of the challenge. Here is everything, including what I didn’t quite finish.

FINISHED (Dec 2013 – Nov 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. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
6. Andorra by Peter Cameron
7. Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith
8. Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy by Ann Cornelisen
9. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
10. Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
11. Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser
12. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman*
13. Beirut Blues by Hanan al-Shaykh
14. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Walter Isaacson
15. Biodegradable Soap by Amy Ephron
16. Bring Me a Unicorn by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks*
18. Black Lamb and Gray Falcon by Rebecca West (DNF)
19. Bluebird Canyon by Dan McCall
20. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
21. Butcher’s Hill by Laura Lippman
22. Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley
23. Captain Sir Richard Burton by Edward Rice (DNF)
24. Careless Love by Peter Gurlnink
25. Caroline’s Daughters by Alice Adams
26. Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
27. Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs of Survivors compiled by Dith Pran
28. Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
29. Clean Eating 28-Day Plan by Rockridge Press (ER)
30. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire*
31. Cradle of Gold by Christopher Heaney
32. Culture of Disbelief by Stephen Carter (DNF)
33. Dancer and the Thief by Antonio Skarmeta
34. Dancer with Bruised Knees by Lynne McFall
35. Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes (DNF)
36. Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan*
37. Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan
38. Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
39. Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder
40. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
41. Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
42. Faith Fox by Jane Gardam
43. Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith*
44. Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
45. Fifty Year Silence by Miranda Mouillot (ER)
46. First Man by Albert Camus
47. Flower and the Nettle by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
48. Fordlandia by Greg Gandin
49. French Revolutions by Tim Moore*
50. Georges’ Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
51. Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
52. Graduates in Wonderland by Jessica Pan & Rachel Kapelke-Dale (ER)
53. Grass Dancer by Susan Power* (DNF)
54. Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (DNF)
55. Half Magic by Edward Eager*
56. Herzog by Saul Bellow
57. History Man by Malcolm Bradbury
58. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
59. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow – (DNF)
60. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
61. In the Graveyard of Empires by Scott Jones*
62. Inside Passage by Michael Modzelewski
63. Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H.R.F. Keating
64. It Looked Like Forever by Mark Harris
65. Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralink
66. Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
67. Leopard Hunts in the Darkness by Wilbur Smith
68. Life in the Air Ocean by Sylvia Foley
69. Long Way From Home by Frederick Busch
70. Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli
71. Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks (JFF)
72. Men of Men by Wilbur Smith
73. Neighborhood Heroes by Morgan Rielly (ER)
74. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
75. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
76. Oedipus by Sophocles
77. Older, Faster, Stronger by Margaret Webb (JFF)
78. Owl Service by Alan Garner*
79. Palladian Days by Sally Gable*
80. Partisan by Benjamin Cheever
81. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
82. Prepared for a Purpose by Antoinette Tuff (ER)
83. Price of Silence by Liza Long (ER)
84. Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
85. Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald
86. Raw Silk by Janet Burroway
87. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro*
88. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
89. Rose of Martinique by Andrea Stuart
90. Run or Die by Kilian Jornet (JFF)
91. Running for Mortals by John Bingham (JFF)
92. Running for Women by Kara Goucher (JFF)
93. Seeing in the Dark by Timothy Ferris
94. Slumdog Millionaire by Vikram Swarup*
95. Soul of All Living Creatures by Vint Virga (ER)
96. Strength Training for Fat Loss by Nick Tumminello (ER)
97. Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
98. Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver/LeCron (E-book)
99. Thrush Green by Miss Read*
100. Toronto by Charles Way (JFF)
101. Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland (ER)
102. War Within and Without by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
103. Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook (JFF)
104. Winners and Losers by Martin Quigley
105. 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