TTT: My Fall Reading List (and how I did on my summer list)

Top Ten Tuesday: Fall Reading List. 

Below the line is how I did on my summer reading list.

 

Fall reading list: 

Book Club Selections:

1. House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister (October)
2. Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck (November)
3. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende (December)  

Challenge Books:

1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- possibly A Christmas Carol by C. Dickens
2. A Past Pulitzer Prize winner from list -- possibly All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
3. Printz Award winner or honor book from this list -- The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be by S. Gibney
4. Past Women's Prize winner or finalist --  possibly Piranesi by S. Clarke
5. Two National Book Award titles (finalists/winners) -- finalists announced October 1st
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2. -
6. Novella November -- I hope to read 2-4 novellas in November
1. - Possibly- Dept. of Speculation by Offill
2. - Possibly- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
    

Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:

1.  James by Percival Everett
2.  How to Be Both by Ali Smith
3.  The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
4. The Not-Quite-States of America: Dispatches From the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
5. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
6. A Death in the Family by James Agee
7. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
8. The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie

 

 

 

Update: How I did on my summer reading list.

 Yellow: completed. 

Aqua: in progress

Green:  not completed, DNF, or currently reading

Light pink: Did not get to yet!

Summer reading list:

Book Club Selections:

1. Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler (July, Group #1)
2. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (August, Group #1)
3. Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (August, Group #2) 
4. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev (September, Group #1) 
   

Challenge Books:

1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- A Bell for Adano by Hersey
2. A Past Pulitzer Prize winner from list -- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
3. Printz Award winner or honor book from this list -- Gather by Kenneth Cadow
4. My One Big Book Challenge book -- Wolf Hall by Mantel 
5. Big Book Summer Challenge -- The Women by Kristin Hannah
6. Women's Prize winner or finalist --  Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
    

Books I've already started, recently acquired, have on-hold at the library, or the remaining books on my 20 Books of Summer Challenge list:

1. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2.  Wandering Star by Tommy Orange
3.  North Woods by Daniel Mason
4.  The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
5.  The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
6.  Gather by Kenneth Cadow
7.  The Bee Sting by Paul Murray -DNF
8.  Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
9.  Symphony of Secrets Brendan Slocomb
10. Suffering is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliot
11. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro 
    

 

I inspected this list frequently during the summer to make sure I was reading all the books I'd placed on it. It became an obsession to finish the whole list and I almost made it. I read over 100 pages of The Bee Sting before I decided I would not finish it. It was too long and frustrating to read and I gave it the heave-ho.

 

-Anne