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 Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
2. RHS Ladies (January): The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
3. SOTH Gals (February) : All My Knotted-Up Life: a Memoir by Beth Moore
4. RHS Ladies (February) : The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
5. SOTH Gals (March) : TBA
6. RHS Ladies (March: TBA

Challenge Books:

1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- Possibly: The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
2. Printz Award Winner or honor book (To-be-announced in Jan.)
3.  A past Pulitzer Prize winner from this list -- Possibly: American Pastoral (Roth)
4. 2026 One Big Book Challenge -- Moby-Dick (Melville)
5. First book of 2026 -- Worth Fighting For (Pavlovitz)

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

1. A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
2. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
3. So Far Gone by Jess Walter
4. Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
5. Wreck by Catherine Newman
6. Replaceable You by Mary Roach
7. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
8. Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

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. 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) : The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve

Challenge Books:

1. Classics Club from this list -- 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. 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:
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
• What Does It Feel like by Sophie Kinsella
• The Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• We the Animals by Justin Torres 

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

I read like a madman all Fall and did so well on this challenge. However, and this is a perennial problem for me, I never feel like I've read enough. There are so many books I want to read and so little time to read all of them! Sigh.
-Anne