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.
Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan(DNF)In a Strange City by Laura Lippman- By a Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman (AB)
Recognitions by William Gaddis(DNF)Maus by Art SpiegelmanLady Franklin’s Revenge by Ken McGooganBrief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao* by Junot Diaz (AB)
Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEugene Onegin by Alexander PushkinShadow Rising by Robert JordanADDED: A Good Doctor’s Son by Steven SchwartzADDED: Drinking: a Love Story by Caroline KnappADDED: Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day by Philip MatyszakADDED: Nero Wolfe Cookbook by Rex StoutADDED: Treasure Hunter by W. Jameson (ER)- Maus II by Art Spiegelman (Jan)
- Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose (Jan)
- Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore (Jan)
- Greater Nowheres by David Finkelstein/Jack London (Jan)
- ADDED: Alma Mater by P.F Kluge (Jan)
- Good Life by Ben Bradlee (Feb)
- Underworld by Don DeLillo (Feb)
- Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban (Feb)
- Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton ((Feb)
Fires From Heaven by Robert Jordan(Feb)- Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce (Feb)
- At Home with the Glynns by Eric Kraft (Feb)
- Polish Officer by Alan Furst (Feb)
Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan(Mar)- Chasing Monarchs by Robert Pyle (Mar)
- Murder on a Kibbutz by Batya Gur (Mar)
- Bebe’s By Golly Wow by Yolanda Joe (Mar)
- Lives of the Muse by Francine Prose (Mar)
- Broom of the System (David Wallace (Mar)
Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan(Apr)- Two Gardeners by Emily Wilson (Apr)
- Royal Flash by George Fraser (Apr)
- Fifties by David Halberstam (Apr)
- Binding Spell by Elizabeth Arthur (Apr)
Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan(Apr)Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan(May)- Flash for Freedom! by George Fraser (May)
- Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma (May)
- Petra: lost city by Christian Auge (May)
- From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman (May)
- Jordan by E. Borgia (May)
- Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill (May)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (May)
- Flash at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser (May)
- Castles in the Air by Judt Corbett (Jun)
- Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson (Jun)
- Thirty-three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (Jun)
- Millstone by Margaret Drabble (Jun)
Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan(Jun)Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan(Jul)- Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (Jul)
- Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Jul)
- New Physics and Cosmology by Arthur Zajonc (Jul)
- Grifters by Jim Thompson (Jul)
- Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Jul)
- Snow Angels by James Thompson (Jul)
- Ararchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (Aug)
- Flashman’s Lady by George MacDonald Fraser (Aug)
- Possession by AS Byatt (Aug)
- In the Footsteps of Ghanghis Khan by John DeFrancis (Aug)
- What Just Happened by James Gleick (Aug)
- Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (Aug)
- Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (Sep)
- Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser (Sep)
- Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnett (Sep)
- Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Sep)
- Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Sep)
- Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Sep)
- Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman (Oct)
- Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (Oct)
- Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett (Oct)
- Flashman and the Dragon by George MacDonald Fraser (Oct)
- Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman (Nov)
- Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Collin Cotterill (Nov)
- Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser (Nov)
- Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett (Nov)
- 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.