TTT: Books on My Winter Reading List (and how I did on my fall list)

Top Ten Tuesday: 

Books on my winter reading list. 

(Below the fold, check out how I did on my fall reading list.)

 

Book Club Selections: 

1. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (a re-read) (January, Group #1)
2. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout (February, Group #1)
3. Beautiful Country  by Qian Julie Wang (February, Group #2)
4. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (March, Group #1)
5. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (March, Group #2)
   

Books I've recently placed on hold at the library:

1. Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
   
2. Crying in the H Mart by Michelle Zauner
   
3. The Story of More by Hope Jahren
   
4. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
5. The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
6. Peril by Bob Woodward
7. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

Challenge Books:

1. Past Pulitzer Prize winner: The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
   
2. Past Pulitzer Prize winner: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
   
3. Past Pulitzer Prize winner: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
   
4. 2022 Printz Award: TBA
5. Classics club selection:  (From this list)
6. Classics Club selection: 
   

Cybils AWARD High School nonfiction:

1. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
   
2. The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
   
3. Punching Bag by Rex Ogle
   
4. In the Shadow of the Moon by Amy Cherrix
   
5. The Power of Style by Christian Allaire
   

 

How did I do on my Fall reading list?

Book Club Selections: 

1. The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates (October, Group #1) ✔
2. We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (October, Group #2) ✔
3. The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (November, Group #1) ✔
4. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons (November/December, Group #2) ✔
5. Transcription by Kate Atkinson (December, Group #1) ✔

Books I've recently placed on hold at the library:

1. Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken ✔
2. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
   
3. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz ✔
4. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau ✔

Challenge Books:

1. Past Pulitzer Prize winner: The Hours by Michael Cunningham  ✔
2. Past Pulitzer Prize winner:  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan ✔
3. Past Pulitzer Prize winner: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
   
4. 2021 Printz Honor: Every Body Looking
5. Classics club selection: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde  ✔
6. Classics Club selection: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ✔
7. 2021 National Book Award winner: (Fiction)- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott ✔
8. 2021 National Book Award winner: (Young People's Literature finalist)- The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor ✔

Preview and other books: 

1. Preview: Sexual Justice by Alexandra Brodsky
2. Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair

Of the 20 book titles I listed, I finished 15 of them. Not bad. I started the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and lost steam quickly. The book is long and confusing. I may try to return to it in the future but don't hold your breath. I also started Every Body Looking and didn't really like it. I decided my motivation for reading it wasn't enough to propel me forward and nobody cares if I finish it or not. Sexual Justice was a preview copy. I started it and decided I wasn't in the mood for doing a research project on the topic, did a quick scan, and set is aside. Lastly, I seem to have become derailed on the reread project of the Chronicles of Narnia. Perhaps a good January project to clear my palette as I'm reading all the high school nonfiction finalists for the Cybils Award? Who knows?

What I feel best about this reading list is how many Pulitzer and Classics Club titles I knocked off in this quarter. I am ready to be done with both those challenges so I will push forward with similar reading goals for the winter term.

-Anne