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Monday, December 16, 2024

TTT: My Winter Reading List and How I Did On My Fall List


Top Ten Tuesday: Winter Reading List. 
Below the line is how I did on my fall reading list.

Winter reading list: 

Book Club Selections:
  1. SOTH Gals (January) : The Red Address Book
  2. RHS Ladies (February) : TBA
  3. SOTH Gals (March) : Five Little Indians
  4. RHS Ladies (March) : TBA 

    Challenge Books:
    1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- possibly David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
    2. A Past Pulitzer Prize winner from list -- possibly All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
    3. 2025 Printz Award winner or honor book (announced January 27, 2025)
    4. Past Women's Prize winner or finalist --  possibly The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie 
    Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:
    1. The Not-Quite-States of America: Dispatches From the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA by Doug Mack
    2. Knife: Meditations on an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
    3. Sandwich by Catherine Newman
    4. Signal Moon by Kate Quinn
    5. Playground by Richard Powers
    6. The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
    7. Mythos by Stephen Fry
    8. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
    9. The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
     

    Update: How I did on my fall reading list.
     Yellow: completed. 
    Aqua: in progress
    Green:  not completed, DNF
    Light pink: Did not get to yet!

     
    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 --  A Christmas Carol by C. Dickens
    2. A Past Pulitzer Prize winner from list -- House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday
    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 --  Piranesi by S. Clarke
    5. Two National Book Award titles (finalists/winners) --
      1. - Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss
      2. - Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
    6. Novella November -- I hoped to read 2-4 novellas in November but I read 19!  Among them:
      1. - Dept. of Speculation by Offill
      2. - 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
    I usually try a little harder than I did this fall to finish up my whole list. I confess to feeling a little swamped due to travel and other commitments. Then along came Novellas in November and I dedicated my whole being to getting as many novellas read as possible, which left other books unread.

    -Anne
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