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Monday, September 22, 2025

TTT: My Autumn Reading List (and how I did on my Summer list)




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

Autumn reading list: 

Book Club Selections:
  1. SOTH Gals (October) : The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
  2. SOTH Gals (November) : Furious Hours: Murder, Mayhem, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
  3. RHS Ladies (November) : My Friends: a Novel by Fredrik Backman
  4. SOTH Gals (December) : TBA

    Challenge Books:
    1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- Possibly: Persuasion by Jane Austen
    2. Two 2025 National Book Award Winners or Finalists from the five categories. Possibly:
      • The Teacher of Nomad Land by Nayeri (Young People's Lit)
      • I Do Small Things by Richard Silkin (Poetry) 
    3. The 2025 Booker Prize winner or a finalist. Possibly: Audition by Katie Kitamura
    4. Read Across America (Read a book set in every state): Winter Counts by Weiden (South Dakota)
    5. Four novellas for 'Novellas in November' Challenge. Possibly:
      • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
      • What Does It Feel like by Sophie Kinsella
      • The Wind that Lays Waste by Selva Almada
      • I Who Have Never Known Man by Jacqueline Harpman 
    Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:
    1. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
    2. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
    3. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
    4. Tilt by Emma Pattee
    5. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Jones
    6. My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
    7. The Afterlife of Data by Carl Ohman
    8. Henry and June by Anais Nin
    9. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
    10. The Timecode of a Face by Ruth Ozeki
    11. Shackled by Candy Cooper
    12. Sunrise on the Reaping by Collins

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

    Book Club Selections:
    1. SOTH Gals (July) : The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    2. RHS Ladies (July) : The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
    3. SOTH Gals (August) : Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Keefe
    4. RHS Ladies (August) : The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong 
    5. SOTH Gals (Sept) : The Personal Librarian by Benedict
    6. RHS Ladies (Sept) : The Names by Florence Knapp

      Challenge Books:
      1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy
      2. A Past Pulitzer Prize winner from list --Possibly Now in November by Johnson
      3. 2025 Printz Award honor book -- possibly Road Home by Rex Ogle
      Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:
      1. Catch-22 by Heller
      2. How to Read a Book by Wood
      3. The Fifth Season by Jemisin
      4. Grimm's Fairy Tales 
      5. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Peterson
      6. Sunrise on the Reaping by Collins
      7. The Dream Hotel by Lalami
      8. The In-Between Bookstore by Underhill
      9. The Anecdote by Russell
      10. The Tie that Binds by Haruff
      11. Water, Water: Poems by Collins
      12. Raising Hare: a Memoir by Dalton

          Clearly I did well on my reading list. But, I confess, I set myself up for success -- I List books I'm almost positive I will read because they are book club selections, part of challenges, and/or books I've already placed on hold. 




          -Anne
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