Happy Birthday Benito

Here we are, three months into a new year of the Challenge. March marks month four. Weird, I know. Here are the books. You will notice a few additions. That’s because I found out that Batya Gur wrote a series and Murder on a Kibbutz is in the middle.

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. ADDED: The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (AB)
    
18. ADDED: In Xanadu by William Dalrymple
19. ADDED: The Assault by Harry Mulisch
20. Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose
    
21. Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
    
22. Greater Nowheres by David Finkelstein/Jack London
    
23. ADDED: Alma Mater by P.F Kluge
    
24. ADDED: Old Man & Me by Elaine Dundy
    
25. ADDED: Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
    
26. Good Life by Ben Bradlee
27. Underworld by Don DeLillo
28. Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban
    
29. Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton
30. Fires From Heaven by Robert Jordan
31. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce DNF
32. Herb ‘n’ Lorna by Eric Kraft
33. Polish Officer by Alan Furst – AB
34. Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan (Mar)
35. ADDED: Walden by Henry David Throreau
36. ADDED: Reservations Recommended by Eric Kraft (Mar/Feb)
37. ADDED: Selected Letters of Norman Mailer edited by J. Michael Lennon – ER (Feb -?)
38. Chasing Monarchs by Robert Pyle (Mar)
39. ADDED: Saturday Morning Murder by Batya Gur (Mar)
40. Bebe’s By Golly Wow by Yolanda Joe (Mar)
41. Lives of the Muse by Francine Prose (Mar)
42. Broom of the System (David Wallace (Mar)
43. Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (Apr)
44. ADDED: Little Follies by Eric Kraft (Apr/Feb)
45. ADDED: Literary Murder by Batya Gur (Apr)
46. Two Gardeners by Emily Wilson (Apr)
47. Royal Flash by George Fraser (Apr)
48. Fifties by David Halberstam (Apr)
49. Binding Spell by Elizabeth Arthur (Apr)
50. Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan (Apr)
51. Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan (May)
52. ADDED: Where Do You Stop? by Eric Kraft (May/Feb)
53. Murder on a Kibbutz by Batya Gur (May)
54. Flash for Freedom! by George Fraser (May)
55. Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma (May)
56. Petra: lost city by Christian Auge (May)
57. From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman (May)
58. Jordan by E. Borgia (May)
59. Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill (May)
60. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (May)
61. Flash at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser (May)
62. ADDED: What a Piece of Work I Am by Eric Kraft (Jun/Feb)
63. Castles in the Air by Judt Corbett (Jun)
64. Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson (Jun)
65. Thirty-three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (Jun)
66. Millstone by Margaret Drabble (Jun)
67. Winter’s Heart by Robert Jordan (Jun)
68. Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan (Jul)
69. At Home with the Glynns by Eric Kraft (Jul/Feb)
70. Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (Jul)
71. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Jul)
72. New Physics and Cosmology by Arthur Zajonc (Jul)
73. Grifters by Jim Thompson (Jul)
74. Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Jul)
75. Snow Angels by James Thompson (Jul)
76. Ararchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (Aug)
77. ADDED: Leaving Small’s Hotel by Eric Kraft (Aug/Feb)
78. Flashman’s Lady by George MacDonald Fraser (Aug)
79. Possession by AS Byatt (Aug)
80. In the Footsteps of Ghanghis Khan by John DeFrancis (Aug)
81. What Just Happened by James Gleick (Aug)
82. Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (Aug)
83. ADDED: Inflating a Dog by Eric Kraft (Sep/Feb)
84. Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (Sep)
85. Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser (Sep)
86. Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnett (Sep)
87. Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (Sep)
88. Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Sep)
89. Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Sep)
90. Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman (Oct)
91. Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (Oct)
92. Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett (Oct)
93. Flashman and the Dragon by George MacDonald Fraser (Oct)
94. Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman (Nov)
95. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Collin Cotterill (Nov)
96. Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser (Nov)
97. Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett (Nov)
98. Andorra by Peter Cameron (Nov)

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