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Monday, March 17, 2025

TTT: My Spring Reading List (and how I did on my winter reading list)




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

Spring reading list: 

Book Club Selections:
  1. SOTH Gals (April) : Moloka'i by Brennert
  2. RHS Ladies (April) : Martyr! by Ackbar
  3. SOTH Gals (May) :  Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  4. RHS Ladies (May) : Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
  5. SOTH Gals (June) : The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Hamell
  6. RHS Ladies (June) : How to Read a Book by Monica Woods

    Challenge Books:
    1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
    2. A Past Pulitzer Prize winner from list -- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
    3. 2025 Printz Award honor book -- possibly Road Home by Rex Ogle
    4. Past Women's Prize winner or finalist --  All Fours by Miranda July
    5. Poetry Month April --- Read four poetry books...I read several, among them:
      1. Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni
      2. The Wonder of Small Things by James Crews
      3. Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson
      4. Grace Notes by Naomi Shihab Nye
    Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:
    1. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
    2. Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
    3. The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier
    4. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
    5. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
    6. When I Was Puerto Rican by Santiago
    7. Let's Call Her Barbie by Renee Rosen
    8. Between Two Kingdoms by Jaouad
    9. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (finish)
    10. The Not-Quite-States of America by Mack (finish)


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


      Winter reading list: 

      Book Club Selections:
      1. SOTH Gals (January) : The Red Address Book by Lundberg
      2. RHS Ladies (February) : Sandwich by Newman
      3. SOTH Gals (March) : Trust by Diaz
      4. RHS Ladies (March) : The Wedding People by Espach

        Challenge Books:
        1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 
        2. A Past Pulitzer Prize winner from list -- The Optimist's Daughter by Welty
        3. 2025 Printz Award winner or honor book-- Brownstone by Teer
        4. Past Women's Prize winner or finalist --  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
        Feeling good about my process.
        -Anne

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