Changing It Up January

A new year deserves new things; new ways of thinking and new ways of doing. Here is the list I promised in December. Instead of separating the list into “finished” and “still to go”, I thought for this go-round I would just cross off the titles I finished. This system will force me to stay on top of the books I add, but we’ll see…Just testing something…

As an aside, I gave up completely on Robert Jordan. Sorry.

1. Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan (DNF)
2. In a Strange City by Laura Lippman
3. By a Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman (AB)
4. Recognitions by William Gaddis (DNF)
5. Maus by Art Spiegelman
6. Lady Franklin’s Revenge by Ken McGoogan
7. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao* by Junot Diaz (AB)
   
8. Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
9. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
10. Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan
11. ADDED: A Good Doctor’s Son by Steven Schwartz
12. ADDED: Drinking: a Love Story by Caroline Knapp
13. ADDED: Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
14. ADDED: Nero Wolfe Cookbook by Rex Stout
15. ADDED: Treasure Hunter by W. Jameson (ER)
16. Maus II by Art Spiegelman (Jan)
17. Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose (Jan)
18. Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Jan)
19. Greater Nowheres by David Finkelstein/Jack London (Jan)
20. ADDED: Alma Mater by P.F Kluge (Jan)
21. Good Life by Ben Bradlee (Feb)
22. Underworld by Don DeLillo (Feb)
23. Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban (Feb)
24. Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton ((Feb)
25. Fires From Heaven by Robert Jordan (Feb)
26. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce (Feb)
27. At Home with the Glynns by Eric Kraft (Feb)
28. Polish Officer by Alan Furst (Feb)
29. Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan (Mar)
30. Chasing Monarchs by Robert Pyle (Mar)
31. Murder on a Kibbutz by Batya Gur (Mar)
32. Bebe’s By Golly Wow by Yolanda Joe (Mar)
33. Lives of the Muse by Francine Prose (Mar)
34. Broom of the System (David Wallace (Mar)
35. Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (Apr)
36. Two Gardeners by Emily Wilson (Apr)
37. Royal Flash by George Fraser (Apr)
38. Fifties by David Halberstam (Apr)
39. Binding Spell by Elizabeth Arthur (Apr)
40. Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (Apr)
41. Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan (May)
42. Flash for Freedom! by George Fraser (May)
43. Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma (May)
44. Petra: lost city by Christian Auge (May)
45. From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman (May)
46. Jordan by E. Borgia (May)
47. Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill (May)
48. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (May)
49. Flash at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser (May)
50. Castles in the Air by Judt Corbett (Jun)
51. Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson (Jun)
52. Thirty-three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (Jun)
53. Millstone by Margaret Drabble (Jun)
54. Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan (Jun)
55. Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan (Jul)
56. Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (Jul)
57. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Jul)
58. New Physics and Cosmology by Arthur Zajonc (Jul)
59. Grifters by Jim Thompson (Jul)
60. Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Jul)
61. Snow Angels by James Thompson (Jul)
62. Ararchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (Aug)
63. Flashman’s Lady by George MacDonald Fraser (Aug)
64. Possession by AS Byatt (Aug)
65. In the Footsteps of Ghanghis Khan by John DeFrancis (Aug)
66. What Just Happened by James Gleick (Aug)
67. Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (Aug)
68. Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (Sep)
69. Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser (Sep)
70. Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnett (Sep)
71. Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Sep)
72. Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Sep)
73. Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Sep)
74. Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman (Oct)
75. Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (Oct)
76. Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett (Oct)
77. Flashman and the Dragon by George MacDonald Fraser (Oct)
78. Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman (Nov)
79. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Collin Cotterill (Nov)
80. Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser (Nov)
81. Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett (Nov)
82. Andorra by Peter Cameron (Nov)

DNF = Did Not Finish;AB = Audio Book; ER = Early Review

So, right off the bat I see something I don’t like. When I add new books they don’t get their “day in the sun” so to speak. I add them to the list and then cross them off immediately. That doesn’t seem fair.