Another Year

December 1st 2015 to November 30th 2016 marks another year of the reading challenge. It’s been ten years since I started this challenge. Craziness. Here are the books I plan to read for year e-freakin-leven.

DEC:

• The Man Who Was Taller Than God by Harold Adams
• Flashman and the Angel of the Lord by George MacDonald Fraser
• Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
• Cod: the biography by Mark Kurlansky
• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (AB)

JAN:

• Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
• Up in the Singing Mountain by Richard Llewellyn (S)
• Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett
• Blue Light by Walter Mosley
• Always a Body to Trade by K.C. Constantine

(NOTE: I will probably need to add an audio book for January)

FEB:

• And I Shall Sleep..Down Where the Moon was Small by Richard Llewellyn (S)
• As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem (AB)
• A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Joshua Neufeld
• Her First American by Lore Segal

MAR:

• Naked Lunch by William Burroughs (AB)
• Family Man by Jayne Ann Krentz
• The Brontes by Juliet Barker (over a thousand pages long)

APR:

• Don’t Eat This Book by Morgan Spurlock (AB)
• Two Towns in Provence by MKF Fisher
• Guernica by Gijis Hansbergen
• Green Thoughts by Eleanor Perenyi

MAY:

• Age of Gold by HW Brands (AB)
• Jordan by E Borgia
• Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
• Brilliant Oranges by David Winner

JUN:

• Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoe Valdes
• Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (S)
• Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
• Millstone by Margaret Drabble
• Death in the Family by James Agee (AB)
  • Short Stories:
    • Outside by Nell Fruedenberger
    • Suffering Channel by David Foster Wallace
    • People Like That by Lorrie Moore

JUL:

• Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (S)
• Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan (S)
• Milk in My Coffee by Eric Dickey
• Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (AB)

AUG:

• Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (S)
• Lost City of Z by David Grann
• High and Mighty by Ernest Gann
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

(Will need an audio book for August)

SEP:

• Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (S)
• Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser
• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
• Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (AB)

OCT:

• Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (S)
• Blessing on the Moon by Joseph Skibell (AB)
• Toast to Tomorrow by Manning Coles
• Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal
• Aeneid by Virgil

NOV:

• Love Songs from a Shallow Grace by Colin Cotterill (S)
• Living Poor by Moritz Thomsen
• Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton
• Advise and Consent by Allen Drury

(Will need an audio book for November)

Codes: AB=audio book; S=series