Year Seven Recap

Another year over.

FINISHED:

1. Abide By Me by Elizabeth Strout
2. Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
3. Ancient Athens on 5 Drachmas a Day by Philip Matyszak
4. Apollo: the epic journey to the moon by David West Reynolds
5. Apples Are From Kazakhstan by Christopher Robbins
6. Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton (I started this last year. No, sorry – two years ago)
7. Ariadne Objective by Wes Davis
8. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
9. At Home in the Heart of Appalachia by John O’Brien
10. Author, Author by David Lodge (audio)
11. Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris
12. Beautiful Swimmers by William Warner
13. Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter
14. Bellwether by Connie Willis
15. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengist (audio)
16. Beyond the Bogota by Gary Leech
17. Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
18. Billy by Albert French
19. Bit of Wit, A World of Wisdom by Yehoshua Kurland (Early Review book from LibraryThing)
20. Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
21. Brass Go-Between by Oliver Bleeck
22. Breakfast with Scot by Michael Drowning
23. Brush with Death by Elizabeth Duncan
24. Brushed by Feathers by Frances Wood
25. Burma Chronicles by Guy DeLisle
26. Burning the Days by James Salter
27. Camus, a Romance by Elizabeth Hawes
28. Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
29. Cat Daddy: What the World’s Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean by Jackson Galaxy
30. Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
31. Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
32. Churchill, a life by Martin Gilbert
33. City in the Sky by James Glanz
34. City of Thieves by David Benioff
35. Conspiracy and Other Stories by Jaan Kross
36. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
37. Death in Verona by Roy Harley Lewis
38. Descending the Dragon by Jon Bowermaster
39. Diamond Classics by Mike Shannon
40. Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman
41. Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
42. Dining with Al-Qaeda by Hugh Pope
43. Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
44. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
45. The Evolution of Jane by Catherine Schine
46. Edward Lear in Albania by Edward Lear
47. Fanny by Edmund White
48. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
49. Final Solution by Michael Chabon
50. Fixer by Joe Sacco
51. Flamboya Tree by Clara Olink Kelly
52. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
53. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Zabat Katz
54. Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
55. Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Gerald Martin
56. Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
57. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
58. Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
59. God: a biography by Jack Miles
60. Gold Coast Madam by Rose Laws
61. Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
62. Good City edited by Emily Hiestand
63. Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan
64. Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas by Chris Ewan
65. Good-bye Chunk Rice by Craig Thompson
66. Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels
67. Guardians by Geoffrey Kabaservice
68. Her by Christa Parravani
69. Hole in the Earth by Robert Bausch
70. Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes
71. Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
72. House on the Lagoon by Rosario Ferre
73. Iliad by Homer
74. Idle Days in Patagonia by William Hudson
75. Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn (for LibraryThing’s Early Review program
76. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark
77. Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer
78. Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
79. Keeping it Civil by Margaret Klaw (Early review book)
80. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
81. Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso
82. Lives of the Painters, vol 2, 3 & 4 by Giorgio Vasari
83. The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
84. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou for the Early Review Program
85. Mortality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
86. Naked to the Waist by ALice Dark Elliott
87. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
88. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
89. Now Read This I by Nancy Pearl
90. Now Read This II by Nancy Pearl
91. Of Human Bondage by William Maugham
92. Old Friends by Tracy Kidder
93. Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
94. Outbreak of Love by Martin Boyd
95. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
96. Panther Soup by John Grimlette
97. Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
98. Patrimony: a true story by Philip Roth
99. Pick-Up by Charles Willeford (part of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s)
100. Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
101. Points Unknown edited by David Roberts
102. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
103. Ready for a Brand New Beat by Mark Kurlansky
104. Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes (part of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s)
105. Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
106. Rosalind Franklin: Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
107. Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
108. Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
109. Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham – did not finish
110. Star Beast by Robert Heinlein
111. Star Trap by Simon Brett
112. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
113. Suzy’s Case by Andy Siegel (as recommended)
114. Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Part of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s)
115. Tatiana by Dorothy Jones
116. Tattered Cloak by Nina Berberova
117. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith
118. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
119. This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakawila for LibraryThing
120. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
121. Ticket for a Seamstitch by Mark Harris
122. Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner
123. True Crime: Real-Life Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsession, Murder, Grave-Robbing and More edited by Lee Gutkind (Early Review)
124. Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy Sayers
125. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery
126. Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
127. What you Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
128. When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
129. White Devil by John Webster
130. Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer
131. Widow for One Year by John Irving
132. Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
133. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
134. Working Poor by David Shipler
135. Year in Provence, a by Peter Mayle

POETRY COMPLETED:

1. “Golden Angel Pancake House” by Campbell McGrath
2. “Lepanto” by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
3. “Listeners” by Walter De La Mare
4. “Mandalay” by Rudard Kipling
5. “Road and the End” by Carl Sandburg
6. “Sea-Fever” by John Masefield
7. “Winter” by Marie Ponsot
8. “In My Craft or Sullen Art” by Dylan Thomas
9. The Long Hill” by Sarah Teasdale
10. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

SHORT STORIES COMPLETED:

1. “Here’s a Little Something” by Dan Chaon (from Among the Missing)
2. “Big Me” by Dan Chaon (from Among the Missing)
3. “Servants of the Map” by Elizabeth Barrett (from Servant of the Map)
4. “The Cure” by Elizabeth Barrett (from Servants of the Map)
5. “In the Land of Men” by Antonya Nelson (from In the Land of Men)
6. “Goodbye Midwest” by Antonya Nelson (from In the Land of Men)
7. “Ado” by Connie Willis (from Impossible Things)
8. “At the Rialto” by Connie Willis (from Impossible Things)
9. “A Tiger-Killer is Hard To find” by Ha Jin (from Bridegroom: stories)
10. “After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town” by Ha Jin (from Bridegroom: stories)
11. “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri (from Interpreter of Maladies)
12. “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri (from Interpreter of Maladies)
13. “A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies” by John Murray (from A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies)
14. “Watson and the Shark” by John Murray (from A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies)

SHELVED UNTIL NEXT YEAR:

1. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
2. Rose Cafe by John Hanson Mitchell
3. Ocean of Words by Ha Jin