tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30021106528859709352024-03-18T21:04:15.512-07:00IndianaJane's BookshelfJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-5447833645767914702023-12-30T09:12:00.000-08:002023-12-30T09:12:17.449-08:00Backlist Reader Challenge<p> I'm easing up on reading challenges for this year, but this challenge seems like a good one for the kind of year I'm planning.</p><p>It is a <a href="https://bookwyrmshoard.com/challenges/the-backlist-reader-challenge-2024-rules-sign-up/" target="_blank">Backlist Reader Challenge</a>.</p><p>The books need to be on my TBR or on my shelves before the beginning of 2024 and they need to be written in 2022 or earlier.</p><p>Simple.</p><p>I'm going for 40 books that fit this description. I hope to get to more of them, but knowing how badly I did on my TBR challenge this year, 40 will probably be a challenge.</p>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-35207141923631774242022-04-20T10:38:00.001-07:002022-11-12T05:23:52.995-08:00The Big Jubilee Read<p> The BBC has put together a list of 70 books for the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Ynpj933DJ2YG5nsMS6fn8k/a-literary-celebration-of-queen-elizabeth-iis-record-breaking-reign?fbclid=IwAR0Fy7SD0jP22qNLlp8uCmiXWjFLv7aKxp7I6tH-ExNnHh3JwBxZWpCTbpg">Big Jubilee Read</a> in celebration of Queen Elizabeth's platinum jubilee.</p><p>I don't really need another list of books to try to read, but this list is so intriguing. I'm going to go ahead and keep track of the ones I manage to read.</p><div class="grid" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 992px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 style="font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">1952-1961</h3></div></div></div><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="image" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" class="image" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 944px, (min-width: 48.125em) 100vw, (min-width: 0em) 100vw, 100vw" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p0bx04hk.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 1008w" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; width: 944px;" /></div></div></div></div><p><span face="ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -4.34px;"> </span></p><div class="grid 7/12@bpw2 7/12@bpe" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: ReithSans, Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 578.662px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="1/2@bpw pull--right-spaced@bpw" style="float: right; margin-left: 16px; width: 265.325px;"></div><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola (1952, Nigeria)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Hills Were Joyful Together - Roger Mais (1953, Jamaica)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">In the Castle of My Skin - George Lamming (1953, Barbados)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">My Bones and My Flute - Edgar Mittelholzer (1955, Guyana)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1956, Trinidad and Tobago/England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Guide - R. K. Narayan (1958, India)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">To Sir, With Love - E. R. Braithwaite (1959, Guyana)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">One Moonlit Night - Caradog Prichard (1961, Wales)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul (1961, Trinidad and Tobago/England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">Sunlight on a Broken Column - Attia Hosain (1961, India)</h4><div><br /></div><div><div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 992px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 style="font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">1962-1971</h3></div></div></div><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="image" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" class="image" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 944px, (min-width: 48.125em) 100vw, (min-width: 0em) 100vw, 100vw" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p0bx04hk.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 1008w" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; width: 944px;" /></div></div></div></div><span style="letter-spacing: -4.34px;"> </span><div class="grid 7/12@bpw2 7/12@bpe" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 578.662px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="1/2@bpw pull--right-spaced@bpw" style="float: right; margin-left: 16px; width: 265.325px;"></div><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962, England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Interrogation - J.M.G. Le Clézio (1963, France/Mauritius)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark (1963, Scotland)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Arrow of God - Chinua Achebe (1964, Nigeria)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney (1966, Northern Ireland)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (1966, Dominica/Wales)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">A Grain of Wheat - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1967, Kenya)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay (1967, Australia)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Ayi Kwei Armah (1968, Ghana)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">When Rain Clouds Gather - Bessie Head (1968, Botswana/South Africa)</h4><div><br /></div><div><div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 992px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 style="font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">1972-1981</h3></div></div></div><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="image" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" class="image" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 944px, (min-width: 48.125em) 100vw, (min-width: 0em) 100vw, 100vw" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p0bx04hk.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 1008w" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; width: 944px;" /></div></div></div></div><span style="letter-spacing: -4.34px;"> </span><div class="grid 7/12@bpw2 7/12@bpe" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 578.662px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="1/2@bpw pull--right-spaced@bpw" style="float: right; margin-left: 16px; width: 265.325px;"></div><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Nowhere Man - Kamala Markandaya (1972, India)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré (1974, England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough (1977, Australia)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Crow Eaters - Bapsi Sidhwa (1978, Pakistan)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (1978, England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Who Do You think You Are? - Alice Munro (1978, Canada)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979, England)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Tsotsi - Athol Fugard (1980, South Africa)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai (1980, India)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (1981, England/India)</span></h4><div><br /></div><div><div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 992px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 style="font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">1982-1991</h3></div></div></div><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="image" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" class="image" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 944px, (min-width: 48.125em) 100vw, (min-width: 0em) 100vw, 100vw" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p0bx04hk.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 1008w" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; width: 944px;" /></div></div></div></div><span style="letter-spacing: -4.34px;"> </span><div class="grid 7/12@bpw2 7/12@bpe" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 578.662px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="1/2@bpw pull--right-spaced@bpw" style="float: right; margin-left: 16px; width: 265.325px;"></div><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Schindler’s Ark - Thomas Keneally (1982, Australia)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Beka Lamb - Zee Edgell (1982, Belize)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Bone People - Keri Hulme (1984, New Zealand)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (1985, Canada)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Summer Lightning - Olive Senior (1986, Jamaica)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera (1987, New Zealand)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, England)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Omeros - Derek Walcott (1990, Saint Lucia)<strong><br /></strong></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Adoption Papers - Jackie Kay (1991, Scotland)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">Cloudstreet - Tim Winton (1991, Australia)</h4><div><br /></div><div><div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 992px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 style="font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">1992-2001</h3></div></div></div><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="image" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" class="image" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 944px, (min-width: 48.125em) 100vw, (min-width: 0em) 100vw, 100vw" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p0bx04hk.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 1008w" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; width: 944px;" /></div></div></div></div><span style="letter-spacing: -4.34px;"> </span><div class="grid 7/12@bpw2 7/12@bpe" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 578.662px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="1/2@bpw pull--right-spaced@bpw" style="float: right; margin-left: 16px; width: 265.325px;"></div><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (1992, Canada/Sri Lanka)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (1993, Canada)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah (1994, Tanzania/England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (1995, India/Canada)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Salt - Earl Lovelace (1996, Trinidad and Tobago)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997, India)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Blue Bedspread - Raj Kamal Jha (1999, India)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (1999, South Africa/Australia)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">White Teeth - Zadie Smith (2000, England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2001, Canada)</span></h4><div><br /></div><div><div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 992px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 style="font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">2002-2011</h3></div></div></div><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="image" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" class="image" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 944px, (min-width: 48.125em) 100vw, (min-width: 0em) 100vw, 100vw" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p0bx04hk.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 1008w" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; width: 944px;" /></div></div></div></div><span style="letter-spacing: -4.34px;"> </span><div class="grid 7/12@bpw2 7/12@bpe" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 578.662px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="1/2@bpw pull--right-spaced@bpw" style="float: right; margin-left: 16px; width: 265.325px;"></div><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Small Island - Andrea Levy (2004, England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Secret River - Kate Grenville (2005, Australia)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">T<span style="color: #2b00fe;">he Book Thief - Markus Zusak (2005, Australia)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006, Nigeria)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam (2007, Bangladesh)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Boat - Nam Le (2008, Australia)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (2009, England)</span></h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Book of Night Women - Marlon James (2009, Jamaica)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna (2010, Sierra Leone/Scotland)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">Chinaman - Shehan Karunatilaka (2010, Sri Lanka)</h4><div><br /></div><div><div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 992px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><h3 style="font-size: 1.25rem; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">2012-2021</h3></div></div></div><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="image" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><img alt="" class="image" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 944px, (min-width: 48.125em) 100vw, (min-width: 0em) 100vw, 100vw" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/256xn/p0bx04hk.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p0bx04hk.jpg 1008w" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; width: 944px;" /></div></div></div></div><span style="letter-spacing: -4.34px;"> </span><div class="grid 7/12@bpw2 7/12@bpe" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; padding-left: 16px; text-rendering: auto; vertical-align: top; width: 578.662px; zoom: 1;"><div class="br-box-page prog-box" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none;"><div class="component component--box component--box-flushbody-vertical component--box--primary" data-content-block-type="prose" style="margin-bottom: 1.28571em;"><div class="component__body br-box-page" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; filter: none; padding: 0px 16px; zoom: 1;"><div class="text--prose" style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="1/2@bpw pull--right-spaced@bpw" style="float: right; margin-left: 16px; width: 265.325px;"></div><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Our Lady of the Nile - Scholastique Mukasonga (2012, Rwanda)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton (2013, New Zealand)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue (2016, Cameroon)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Bone Readers - Jacob Ross (2016, Grenada)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">How We Disappeared - Jing-Jing Lee (2019, Singapore)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (2019, England)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo (2019, Malaysia)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart (2020, Scotland)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; max-width: 752px;">A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam (2021, Sri Lanka)</h4><h4 style="font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; max-width: 752px;">The Promise - Damon Galgut (2021, South Africa)</h4><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="letter-spacing: -4.34px;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-42455314793901305242019-01-16T18:49:00.003-08:002019-01-16T18:49:35.234-08:002019 Reading LogLast year I didn't keep a list of the books that I have read on this blog, and I miss being able to quickly go back and look. So this year I'm keeping a list again. I'll also note the challenges they worked for.Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-7927920094386972762018-11-25T18:17:00.001-08:002018-11-25T18:17:55.248-08:00Back to the challengesAfter a couple of years of reading without taking part in any challenges aside from the Goodreads Challenge, I am looking forward to doing a few reading challenges this year. I am going to be careful not to get too many going, but a few should only enhance my reading.<br />
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I'll be picking them over the course of the next few weeks and I'll list them here.<br />
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1. <a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-virtual-mount-tbr-reading-challenge.html">Virtual Mount TBR Challenge</a>: Since I have over 1,300 books on my Goodreads Want-to-read list, and I only own a few dozen of those, this is a great challenge for me.<br />
2. <a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2018/11/mount-tbr-2019-my-sign-up.html">Mount TBR Challenge</a>: Because I need to read some of what is on my shelves.<br />
3. <a href="http://www.passagestothepast.com/2018/10/2019-historical-fiction-reading.html">Historical Fiction Reading Challenge</a><br />
4. <a href="https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Reading-Challenge-2019-45450968?fbclid=IwAR1FtflwuWnrL5FxyFwJCjp_2ryM0OMIiKjc2OSTKlmvFD87cLam2icTMYc">The PopSugar Reading Challenge</a><br />
5. <a href="https://socratesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2018/11/cruisin-thru-cozies-reading-challenge.html">Cruisin' through the Cozies Challenge</a><br />
6. My self-created Goodreads Challenge: I'll read five of the Goodreads Choice winners<br />
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I will do a post for each of these, but realistically, will do most of my keeping track in my bullet journal. Maybe I'll post pictures of those pages.<br />
<br />Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-16307276416076794902016-11-30T17:29:00.001-08:002016-11-30T17:29:27.542-08:00Change is goodFor several years I have been participating in lots of reading challenges. I scaled back a little this year, but I still did quite a few, plus a goal for total number of books read, and an ongoing challenge or four.<br />
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I have decided that 2017 is going to be the year of no challenges.<br />
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For the first few years the challenges were good. They pulled me out of my box and got me reading different things. I broadened my taste and regained the ability--after the mommy years--to read hard books. I read some things that I wanted to read, but had put off.<br />
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This year, the challenges felt like a straight-jacket. They have started to take away my enjoyment of what has been my favorite pastime since I was a small child. Part of it is that I have read a good portion of the books that everyone is "supposed to read." I have developed a pretty broad taste in books, and so I end up with a lot of things that I want to read that don't fit any challenge. When I go through stressful times and just want brain candy, it stresses me out that those books don't fit my challenges.<br />
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And, as a fairly well-read woman of 50+ years, I no longer feel like I need to prove anything, even to myself. So the coming year is my year to read for the pure joy of it again.<br />
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I am going to post a couple of suggested reading lists that I will check off if I read the books. One will be a selection of the 2016 Goodreads Choice winners. I have found these books to be almost universally enjoyable. But this isn't a "read-ten-of-these list." It's a "these-books-look-good" list. I will keep a list of everything I read, but only because that has been an enjoyable thing. (As well as being useful!)<br />
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I will continue with the ongoing multi-year challenges, but only if they incidentally work with the books I'm reading. (I do have a few must-read books that I still must read: Les Miserables, Don Quixote, War and Peace. . . .<br />
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Reading shouldn't feel like one more chore to finish.Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-15501373364959491812016-05-21T19:11:00.001-07:002016-05-21T19:11:43.791-07:00Review: Spoon River Anthology<br />
<b>WHEN I Discovered This Classic </b>I found an illustrated 1915 edition of this book in a used bookstore.<b><br /></b><br />
<b>WHY I Chose to Read It </b>I needed a break from Midnight's Children, and this was a nice break.<b><br /></b><br />
<b>WHAT Makes It A Classic</b><b> </b>I think that there are a couple of things that make this book a classic, but mostly the unique form. The book is a collection of poems, each of which is the epitaph of one of the denizens of the town cemetery. Woven together they tell a story of the town and it's inhabitants over time.<b> <br />
WHAT I Thought of This Classic </b>I enjoyed it. I will probably read it again.<b><br />
WILL It Stay A Classic </b>I would guess so.<b><br />
WHO I’d Recommend It To </b>I would recommend this book to people who enjoy poetry, words, and who would enjoy the challenge of piecing together the story from the many bits of information.<b><br /></b>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-41911814548653593872016-05-12T21:09:00.000-07:002016-05-12T21:09:00.342-07:00Book Review: The Good Neighbor<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25837341-the-good-neighbor" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="The Good Neighbor" border="0" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1440684973m/25837341.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25837341-the-good-neighbor">The Good Neighbor</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13522695.A_J_Banner">A.J. Banner</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1626766335">1 of 5 stars</a><br />
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This was so dreadful. I got it for free on Amazon, and I started reading it one night when I wanted to use my Kindle so my husband could sleep. At first I thought that the writing was just very simple. Sometimes, with good plotting and characters, that works. But this didn't have any of that. Just over halfway through I got to a section that was so badly written, that if it had been a book, and not my Kindle, I would have thrown it. Why, oh why, Amazon reviewers, did this have four stars? Abandoned, unfinished.
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-39768677958245601562016-05-07T21:04:00.002-07:002016-05-07T21:04:31.113-07:00Books to read againMy blog seems like as good a place as any for a list like this. I keep thinking of books that I want to read again; and want to capture those thoughts.<br />
Some I have read once, and some many times.<br />
Some have been brought back to mind by seeing someone else reading the book.<br />
Some have been discussed in something that I have read recently.<br />
Some want to be reread now, at a different time in my life than when I first encountered them. <br />
Some I just love so much that I know they need rereading.<br />
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My plan is to try to read at least a few of these this year, and when I do write a reflection on the rereading. I will be adding to this list over time.<br />
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-Little Women by Louisa May Alcott<br />
-The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon<br />
-Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston<br />
-Bird by Bird by Anne Lamot<br />
-Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman<br />
-. . . And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmeyer<br />
<br />Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-24679185418798595092016-05-01T15:52:00.000-07:002016-05-01T15:52:57.499-07:00Review: Gone With the WindSo my April classic challenge read was <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. I need to answer the following questions about it:<br />
<b>WHEN I Discovered This Classic</b><br />
<b>WHY I Chose to Read It </b><br />
<b>WHAT Makes It A Classic</b><b><br />
WHAT I Thought of This Classic<br />
WILL It Stay A Classic<br />
WHO I’d Recommend It To</b><br />
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Like most people, my first exposure to <i>GWTW</i> was via the movie. I had not ever really thought much about the book, but it kept popping up on various lists of books that should be read, great books, etc., so I added it to my Filling in the GAPS Challenge list. I love historical fiction, and Margaret Mitchell was removed enough from the time period of the novel that it qualifies as historical fiction. Also, as a history major, I became very interested in the experience of the Civil War in the south and the difficulties of reconstruction.<br />
I think that the timeless themes that <i>GWTW</i> deals with are part of the reason it's a classic. Survival, adaptability, love--of people, land, money, a way of life, are among the major themes of the movie. . In addition, the writing is good, and the story is compelling. The novel <i>Vanity Fair</i> is subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," and I felt that that would have been a very appropriate subtitle for this book. I kept feeling echoes of other women in literature who were the strivers, schemers, or the ruiners of their own happiness. In different ways I found Scarlett to bring to mind Rebecca Sharp, Lily Bart, Emma Bovary, & Anna Karenina. The characters are flawed, but real. (With the exception of Mammy. Mammy is awesome.)<br />
This book left me with such mixed feelings. I enjoyed the story and the writing, but it is difficult to read such a rose-colored view of slavery. Yes, some slaves were well-treated, and some did choose to stay with the families who had owned them after emancipation. Some were nearly family, being freed and left property, etc., but even the most well-treated were property. And many more were not treated well, were brutalized, hunted, etc.<br />
It will be interesting to see what happens with <i>GWTW</i> as a classic. There are those who are trying to erase from history or culture any indications that the Civil War had issues and causes aside from slavery. There are those who deny many of the realities of the reconstruction era, the Democrat political background of the KKK, and the way that racism was propagated and enshrined in law up through the Jim Crow era. There has already been a published call to ban it, from a writer in the NY Post. This book doesn't hew to the ONE RIGHT WAY to look at history, so who knows how long it will last.<br />
I would recommend this to people who like long books and historical fiction, don't mind reading a book in which they don't really like most of the characters, don't need a happy ending, and can look at a variety of viewpoints on history to try to understand the motivations and thought of the people at the time, without trying to retrofit modern attitudes to another time and place.Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-29159786015762068972016-03-31T16:02:00.001-07:002016-03-31T16:02:41.652-07:00A Tale of Two CitiesA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is the March entry for my Classics challenges, and I will answer these questions about it<b>:</b><br />
<b>WHEN I Discovered This Classic</b><br />
<b>WHY I Chose to Read It </b><br />
<b>WHAT Makes It A Classic</b><b><br />
WHAT I Thought of This Classic<br />
WILL It Stay A Classic<br />
WHO I’d Recommend It To</b><br />
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As with a number of classic books, I have been aware of A Tale of Two Cities since at least high school. I decided to read it because it one of those books that everyone should read, according to numerous lists of such things.<br />
I am truly not sure why this book is a classic. I found the second part better than the first, but was truly not impressed. I have read some Dickens before, with varying amounts of satisfaction, but this will not go high on my list.<br />
Since it has remained a classic for this long, it probably will stay one. I would really only recommend it to those who desire to read as much of the literary canon as possible.Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-6035129512732933182016-02-08T14:05:00.000-08:002016-02-08T17:22:03.175-08:00The Lord of the FliesThe Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is the second book for this particular classics challenge, and I will answer the following questions about it.<br />
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<b>WHEN I Discovered This Classic</b><br />
<b>WHY I Chose to Read It </b><br />
<b>WHAT Makes It A Classic</b><b><br />
WHAT I Thought of This Classic<br />
WILL It Stay A Classic<br />
WHO I’d Recommend It To</b><br />
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The Lord of the Flies is one of those books that I have nearly always been aware of. I can picture the cover on the version that was on the shelves in my house growing up, and which is still floating around here somewhere.<b> </b>When I was in high school there were books that we were required to read, and then a list of optional reading that could be used for various papers, etc. I know this was on there, but I never chose it. I am sure that the fact that it was about a group of young boys probably influenced that.<b></b><br />
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I chose to read it now because it consistently appears on lists of the best books, and I am trying not to leave any significant holes in my reading.<br />
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I believe that it is a classic--and will stay a classic--because it addresses one of the most basic literary themes--man's inhumanity to man--at a basic level. It shows a truth that we all know: Children are not innocent. It affirms what we all know in our hearts, that without civilizing influences and "grown ups" enforcing the rules, there will always be those who will take advantage, take over, steal, murder, etc.<b> </b>But it also allows for some to be guided by a stronger sense of right and wrong, and by the welfare of others, as well as themselves.<br />
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I liked this book, although I didn't really expect to. It was well-written. The monsters were an interesting idea. You could feel the tragedy coming from the very beginning, and the book was sad, but somehow not in an overwhelming way.<br />
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I would recommend this book to those Pollyanna-ish people who believe in the innocence of children or the ideals of communism. This deeper truths of this book are a perfect illustration of why communism and socialism don't work. <br />
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My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1443531724">5 of 5 stars</a><br />
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This was an extremely readable, well-researched and documented look at the current state of climate science and the politics surrounding it. Because of all of the charts and graphs and pieces of information, I had to read it in chunks to digest the information thoroughly, but I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a better understanding of what is true and what is hype.
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-9517248376618328502016-01-12T15:21:00.002-08:002016-01-12T17:02:48.865-08:00Meditations<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="Meditations" border="0" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1421618636m/30659.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations">Meditations</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17212.Marcus_Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a><br />
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1507246621">3 of 5 stars</a><br />
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This book has taken me a long time to get through. I have set it aside and returned to it a number of times, and I realized today that I needed to just plow through and finish it. I think that I would have enjoyed it more if the Kindle version weren't written in archaic English, with "thees" and "thous" and "hadst" and "shouldst." Even with the benefit of having grown up with the King James Bible and archaic language in church, it still slowed me down.<br />
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It was interesting to read the thoughts that this powerful man wrote down almost 2000 years ago. It has been nearly thirty years since I did any formal study of philosophy, but I could pick up his Stoic views in the writings. Ultimately, I am glad that I read it, and relieved to finally check it off my list.<br />
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-12452920034302455252016-01-06T21:16:00.000-08:002016-01-06T21:16:12.469-08:00FaustIt was poor planning on my part reading Faust in January, because it doesn't fit the category for my 12 Month Classics Challenge, because I haven't always wanted to read it. However, it is the first title for my other classics challenge, and for that challenge I have some blogging prompts.<b> </b><br />
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<b>WHEN I Discovered This Classic</b><br />
<b>WHY I Chose to Read It </b><br />
<b>WHAT Makes It A Classic</b><b><br />
WHAT I Thought of This Classic<br />
WILL It Stay A Classic<br />
WHO I’d Recommend It To</b><br />
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I am not really sure when I discovered Faust. I think I heard of Goethe while I was in high school, and I'm fairly certain that my first knowledge of the name "Faust" was because of the opera. At some point in the last few years, as I've been assembling a list of books that are gaps in my knowledge, I decided that Faust was one of them. I saw a review of this particular translation, and it sounded promising, so I ordered it.<br />
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I think Faust is a classic partially because the basic story has had many retellings in many forms--including Goethe's own revisions--over time. The poetry was the best part for me. I'm assuming that the translation was really well done, because there were none of the issues that you often run into with translated poetry. It isn't a book that I enjoyed all that much--except again--the poetry, but I'm sure it will remain a classic.<br />
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I would recommend it to my daughter and oldest son, especially since they could read the original German, too. And I think they would enjoy it.Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-15780203701095138752015-12-29T20:54:00.002-08:002016-01-06T20:53:52.787-08:002016 Reading Challenges This year was a mixed bag for reading challenge success.I could give up, but I know that the challenges do improve my overall reading quality and variety. So this year I am keeping that goal in mind and I am doing far fewer challenges, and fewer that don't really challenge me.<br />
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<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-you-read-how-many-books-challenge.html">You Read How Many?</a><br />
<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/12-month-classics-challenge.html">12 Month Classics Challenge </a><br />
<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-foodies-read.html">Foodies Read</a><br />
<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-dystopia-challenge.html">Dystopia</a><br />
<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-european-reading-challenge.html">European Reading Challenge </a><br />
<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/mount-tbr-2016.html">Mount TBR</a><br />
<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-reading-challenge.html">Random Reading Challenge </a><br />
<br />Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-89208102429362409232015-12-29T20:53:00.001-08:002016-06-25T19:58:25.071-07:002016 Reading ChallengeThis is one of those rather random <a href="http://modernmrsdarcy.com/2016-reading-challenge/">challenges</a>, but it looks like purposeful randomness.<br />
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1. <i>Heat </i>by Bill Buford (1/3/2016) PREVIOUSLY ABANDONED (9)<br />
2. <i>Faust</i> by Goethe (1/6/2016) OWNED BUT UNREAD (10)<br />
3. <i>Meditations</i> by Marcus Aurelius (1/12/2015) PUBLISHED BEFORE I WAS BORN (7)<br />
4. <i>Pretties</i> by Scott Westerfield (1/13/2015) FINISHED IN A DAY (2)<br />
5. <i>The Lord of the Flies</i> by William Golding (2/8/2016) SHOULD HAVE READ IN SCHOOL (5)<br />
6. <i>The Law</i> by Frederic Bastiat (2/14/2016) BEEN MEANING TO READ (3)<br />
7. <i>The Pharos Gate</i> by Nick Bantock (4/27/2016) WRITTEN THIS YEAR (1)<br />
8. <i>Gone With the Wind</i> by Margaret Mitchell (4/22/32016) BANNED (8)<br />
9. <i>Midnight's Children</i> by Salman Rushdie (6/5/2016) SUGGESTED BY MY SON-IN-Law (6)<br />
10. <i>Foreigner </i>by C.J. Cherryh ( 6/17/2016) Recommended by librarian(4) <br />
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<b>WHEN I Discovered This Classic</b><br />
<b>WHY I Chose to Read It </b><br />
<b>WHAT Makes It A Classic</b><b><br />
WHAT I Thought of This Classic<br />
WILL It Stay A Classic<br />
WHO I’d Recommend It To</b><br />
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1.<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2016/01/faust.html"> <i>Faust</i> by Goethe</a> (1/6/2016)<br />
2.<a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-lord-of-flies.html"> Lord of the Flies</a> by William Golding (2/8/2016)<br />
3. <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> by Charles Dickens (3/22/2016)<br />
4. <i>Gone With the Wind</i> by Margaret Mitchell (4/22/2016)<br />
5. <i>Spoon River Anthology </i>by Edgar Lee Masters (5/21/2016)<br />
6 <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> by Jonathan Swift (6/22/2016) Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-88311297871551670462015-12-29T20:32:00.000-08:002016-11-16T19:26:19.262-08:00Mount TBR 2016Of course I need a TBR Pile <a href="http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2015/11/2016-mount-tbr-reading-challenge.html">Challenge</a>. I feel like I'm wimping out by going with the lowest level, which is 12 books, but I have done so horribly this year, that 12 will feel like a win. I do intend to list some that I plan to read this year.<br />
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***I bumped up my level to the third level, since this is going well this year. Maybe this is the year the TBR pile finally shrinks a little! 36 books <br />
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1. <i>Heat </i>by Bill Buford (1/3/2016)<br />
2. <i>Faust</i> by Goethe (1/6/2016)<br />
3. <i>Meditations</i> by Marcus Aurelius (1/12/2016)<br />
4. <i>Watership Down</i> by Richard Adams (1//18/2016)<br />
5. <i>The Scorch Trials</i> by James Dashner (2/4/2016)<br />
6. <i>The Lord of the Flies</i> by William Golding (2/8/2016)<br />
7. <i>The Law</i> by Frederic Bastiat (2/14/2016)<br />
8. <i>Typhoon</i> by Joseph Conrad (2/15/2016)<br />
9. <i>Red Rising</i> by Pierce Brown (2/19/2016)<br />
10. <i>Shift</i> by Hugh Howey (2/24/2016)<br />
11. <i>Salt: A World History</i> by Mark Kurlansky (3/7/2016)<br />
12. <i>An Examined Life</i> by Theodore Dalrymple ( 3/14/2016)<br />
13.<i> Tale of Two Cities</i> by Charles Dickens (3/22/2016)<br />
14<i>. All-of-a-kind Family </i>by Sydney Taylor (3/29/2016)<br />
15. <i>The Silver Chair</i> by C.S. Lewis (4/22/2016)<br />
16. <i>Spoon River Anthology</i> by Edgar Lee Masters (5/21/2016)<br />
17. <i>Everything's Eventual</i> by Stephen King (6/2/2016)<br />
18. <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> by Jonathan Swift (6/22/2016)<br />
19. <i>Beautiful Day</i> by Elin Hilderbrand (6/24/2016)<br />
20<i>. Little Greta of Denmark </i><br />
21. <i>All Quiet on the Western Front </i><br />
<i>22. </i><i>Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (11/16/2016) </i><br />
<i>23. </i><i> Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (11/16/2016) </i>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-68800482752410218592015-12-29T19:59:00.000-08:002016-08-22T17:54:13.866-07:002016 European Reading ChallengeThis <a href="http://www.rosecityreader.com/p/the-european-reading-challenge-january.html">challenge</a> is one that I have passed up in recent years, but because I am paring down my challenges, and attempting to add variety, I'm going to do it this year. I'm going for the Five Star level, which means books set in, or written by authors from, five different European countries.<br />
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1. <i>The Secret Keeper</i> by Kate Morton (1/2/2016) England<br />
2. <i>Heat </i>by Bill Buford (1/3/2016) Italy<br />
3. <i>Faust</i> by Goethe (1/6/2016) Germany<br />
4. <i>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest </i>by Steig Larsson (1/26/2016) Sweden<br />
5. <i>The Law</i> by Frederic Bastiat (2/14/2016) France<br />
6. <i>Little Greta of Denmark </i>by Bernadine Bailey (7/14/2016) Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-22580579670979855492015-12-29T19:46:00.000-08:002016-03-29T20:06:39.090-07:002016 Foodies Read<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. <i>Heat </i>by Bill Buford (1/3/2016)<br />
2. <i> The Devil in the Kitchen</i> by Marco Pierre White (3/29/2016) Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-68961431502604337612015-12-29T19:13:00.000-08:002016-02-24T19:36:45.910-08:002016 Dystopia Challenge<div class="cornerfolds-button" style="margin: 0 auto; width: 200px;">
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I am excited to do this <a href="http://www.cornerfolds.com/2015/11/2016-dystopia-reading-challenge.html">challenge</a> again this year, because I utterly failed last year.<br />
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This year I plan to read 6-10 dystopian books.<br />
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1. <i>Uglies</i> by Scott Westerfield (1/11/2016)<br />
2. <i>Pretties</i> by Scott Westerfield (1/13/2015)<br />
3. <i>Specials</i> by Scott Westerfield (1/15/2013)<br />
4. <i>The Scorch Trials</i> by James Dashner (2/4/2016)<br />
5. <i>Red Rising</i> by Pierce Brown (2/19/2016)<br />
<i>6. Shift</i> by Hugh Howey (2/24/2016) Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-3992200572905145422015-12-29T18:36:00.000-08:002016-06-25T20:07:38.395-07:0012 Month Classics Challenge<a href="http://youmeandacupofteablog.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-12-month-classics-challenge.html">This challenge</a> will give me more inspiration to keep reading classics, especially since I have gotten through quite a few in the last few years.<br />
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I'm going to post some possibilities by each month, in italics.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>January-</b> A classic you've always wanted to read-<i>Meditations by </i>Marcus Aurelius</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>February- </b>A classic you've always dreaded reading-<i>The Lord of the Flies</i></span><br />
<b><span style="color: blue;">March-</span> </b><span style="color: blue;">A classic you've been recommended-<i>A Tale of Two Cities</i></span><br />
<b>April- </b><span style="color: blue;">A classic you've seen the movie/miniseries/TV show of <i>Gone With the Wind</i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>May- </b>An American classic <i>Spoon River Anthology </i>by Edgar Lee Masters </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>June- </b>A British classic Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift</span><br />
<b>July- </b>A European classic (non-British)<i> Les Miserables</i><br />
<b>August- </b>A modern classic- Up to your interpretation <br />
<b>September- </b>A children's classic<br />
<b>October- </b>A classic by a female author<br />
<b>November-</b> A classic by a male author<br />
<b>December- </b>A classic written under a pseudonym <i>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</i>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-2563672868439014342015-12-29T18:03:00.000-08:002017-01-01T13:38:38.095-08:002016 You Read How Many Books? Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This <a href="http://hecraftyengineersbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/you-read-how-many-books-2016-sign-ups.html">challenge </a>is the one that there was no question about. I will read at least 100 books, and I will list them here.<br />
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Even though I am not doing many genre challenges, or library (L) book or ebook (E) challenges, I am going to include that information on my list.<br />
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1.<i> The Secret Keeper</i> by Kate Morton (1/2/2016) (L) (Historical Fiction) (European)<br />
2. <i>Heat </i>by Bill Buford (1/3/2016) (TBR) (Foodie) (European) (General Challenge)<br />
3. <i>The Book of Strange New Things</i> by Michel Faber (1/4/2016) (L) (SciFi) (Book Group)<br />
4. <i>Faust</i> by Goethe (1/6/2016) (TBR) (Gaps) (European) (Classics) (General Challenge)<br />
5. <i>Promises in Death</i> by J.D. Robb (L) (Crime)<br />
6. <i>Uglies</i> by Scott Westerfield ( 1/11/2016)(L) (Dystopia)<br />
7. <i>Meditations</i> by Marcus Aurelius (1/12/2016) (E) (Gaps) (12 Classics) (General) (TBR)<br />
8. <i>Pretties</i> by Scott Westerfield (1/13/2016) (L) (Dystopia) (General)<br />
9. <i>Specials</i> by Scott Westerfield (1/15/2013) (L) (Dystopia) <br />
10.<i> Watership Down</i> by Richard Adams (1/18/2015) (E) (Gaps) (TBR)<br />
11. <i>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest </i>by Steig Larsson (1/26/2016) (E) (Crime) (European)<br />
12. <i>Lukewarming</i> by Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger (1/28/2016) (E) (Science)<br />
13.<i> 31 Days to a Clutter Free Life</i> by Ruth Soukup (1/29/2016) (Non-fiction)<br />
14. <i>Beyond Armageddon</i> ed. by Martin H. Greenberg and Walter M. Miller (1/31/2016) Shorts<br />
15. <i>The Scorch Trials</i> by James Dashner (2/4/2016) (E) (Dystopia) (TBR)<br />
16. <i>The Dante Connection</i> by Estelle Ryan (2/7/2016) (E)<br />
17. <i>The Lord of the Flies</i> by William Golding (2/8/2016) (Classics) (12 Classics) (TBR) (Gaps) (General)<br />
18. <i>Crimson Shore</i> by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (2/11/2016) (L)<br />
19. <i></i> <i>The Law</i> by Frederic Bastiat (2/14/2016) (Euro) (TBR) (Gaps) (General)<br />
20. <i>Typhoon</i> by Joseph Conrad (2/15/2016) (E) (TBR) (Gaps) (Century)<br />
21. <i>Red Rising</i> by Pierce Brown (2/19/2016) (E) (TBR) (Dystopia)<br />
22. <i>Shift</i> by Hugh Howey (2/24/2016) (E) (TBR) (Dystopia)<br />
23. <i>Kindred in Death</i> by J.D.Robb (2/26/2016) (L) (Crime)<br />
24. <i>Winter Garden</i> by Kristen Hannah (2/28/2016) (L) (Chicklit) (HF)<br />
25. <i>Salt: A World History</i> by Mark Kurlansky (3/7/2016) (Non) (TBR) (Gaps)<br />
26. <i>An Examined Life </i>by Theodore Dalrymple (3/14/2016) (TBR)<br />
27. <i>The End is Now</i> by John Joseph Adams (3/20/2016) (TBR)<br />
28. <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> by Charles Dickens (3/22/2016) (TBR) (Classics) (12 Classics) (Gaps)<br />
29. <i>All-of-a-kind Family </i>by Sydney Taylor (3/29/2016) (Children's) (TBR) (Gaps)<br />
30.<i> The Devil in the Kitchen</i> by Marco Pierre White (3/29/2016) (Foodies)<br />
31. <i>Cross Injustice</i> by James Patterson (3/31/2016) (L)<br />
32. <i>The Lake House</i> by Kate Morton (4/7/2016) (L) (HF) (MYS)<br />
33. <i>Gone With the Wind</i> by Margaret Mitchell (4/22/2016) (E) (Classics) (12 Classics) (Gaps) (Century) (General)<br />
34. <i>Coming Apart</i> by Charles Murray (4/22/2016) (L) (Non)<br />
35. <i>The Silver Chair</i> by C.S. Lewis (4/22/2016) (TBR) (Classic)<br />
36. <i>Fantasy in Death</i> by J.D. Robb (4/25/2016) (L) (Crime)<br />
37. <i>The Pharos Gate by Nick Bantock</i> (4/27/2016) (L) (Epistolary) (General)<br />
38. <i>The Girl on the Train</i> by Paula Hawkins (4/27/2016) (L) (MYS)<br />
39.<i>The Kitchen House</i> by Kathleen Grissom (4/30/2016) (L) (HF)<br />
40. <i>The Good Neighbor</i> by A.J. Banner (5/3/2016) (E) Abandoned<br />
41. <i>Ex Libris</i> by Anne Fadiman (5/5/2016) (L) (Non) (Gaps)<br />
42. <i>Brave New Family</i> by G.K. Chesterton (5/10/2016) (L) (Non)<br />
43. <i>Unstuffed</i> by Ruth Soukup (5/13/2016) (Non)<br />
44. <i>It Happened in Indiana</i> (5/18/2016) (L) (Non)<br />
45. <i>The New Lifetime Reading Plan</i> by Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major (5/18/2016) (Non)<br />
46. <i>Spoon River Anthology</i> by Edga<i>r Lee Masters (5/21/2016) (Gaps) (TBR) (Classics) (12 Classics) (Century)</i><br />
47. <i>Slaughterhouse Five</i> by Kurt Vonnegut (5/23/2016) (Gaps) (Century) (1001)<br />
48. <i>The Atlantic Slave Trade</i> by David Northrup (5/27/2016) (Non)<br />
49. <i>Letters from Burma</i> by Aung San Suu Kyi (5/28/2016) (L) (Non) (Gaps)<br />
50. <i>Everything's Eventual</i> by Stephen King (6/2/2016) (TBR)<br />
51. <i>Finding Winnie</i> by Lindsay Mattick (6/4/2016) (Childrens)<br />
52. <i>Midnight's Children</i> by Salman Rushdie (6/5/2016) (Gaps) (1001) (Century) (2016)<br />
53. <i>Foreigner </i>by C.J. Cherryh ( 6/17/2016) (L) (SF)(General)<br />
54. <i>Gulliver's Travels</i> by Jonathan Swift (6/22/2016) (Gaps) (TBR) (Classics) (12 Classics) (1001)<br />
55. <i>Beautiful Day</i> by Elin Hilderbrand (6/24/2016) (E) (TBR)<br />
56. <i>Invader</i> by C.J. Cherryh (7/6/2016) (L) (SF) (Century)<br />
57. <i>Fashionista</i> by Simone Werle (7/6/2016) (L)<br />
58. <i>Extreme Prey</i> by John Sandford (7/7/2016) (L)<br />
59. <i>Crowns</i> by Michael Cummingham (7/8/2016) (L)<br />
60. <i>Corrupted</i> by Lisa Scottoline (7/13/2016) (L)<br />
61. <i>Little Greta of Denmark </i>by Bernadine Bailey (7/14/2016) (TBR) (European)<br />
62. <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i> (7/20/2016) (TBR) (Gaps) (Classics) (12 Classics)<br />
63. <i>The One that Got Away</i> by Leigh Himes (7/25/2016) (L) (Chick-lit)<br />
64. <i>Brush Back</i> by Sarah Paretsky (7/31/2016) (L) (M)<br />
65. <i>The Nightingale</i> by Kristin Hannah (8/7/2016) (L) (HF)<br />
66.<i> Betsy-Tacy</i> by Maude Hart Lovelace (8/8/2016) (E) (Classics) (12 Classics) (Gaps) (Century)<br />
67. <i>The Quiche of Death</i> by M.C. Beaton (8/13/2016) (L) (M)<br />
68. <i>Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief </i>by Katy Bowman (8/13/2016) (N)<br />
69. <i>Running the Rift </i>by Natalie Berenson (8/18/2016) (L)<br />
70. <i>Nine Women, One Dress</i> by Jane Rosen (8/18/2016) (L)<br />
71. <i>Treachery in Death</i> by J.D. Robb (8/20/2016) (L) (M)<br />
72. <i>Beasts</i> by Joyce Carol Oates (8/21/2016) (L) (Gaps)<br />
73.<i> 15th Affair</i> by James Patterson (8/21/2016) (L) (M)<br />
74. By the Numbers by Jen Lancaster (8/23/2016) (L) (Chicklit)<br />
75. X by Sue Grafton (8/25/2016) (L) (Mystery)<br />
76. Brighton by Michael Harvey (8/27/2016) (L)<br />
77. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty (8/29/2016) (E)<br />
78. Death of a Cad by M.C. Beaton ( 8/31/2016) (L) (M)<br />
79. The Roll Model by Jill Miller (9/4/2016) (Non)<br />
80. Move Your DNA by Katy Bowman (9/4/2016) (Non)<br />
81. Bullseye by James Patterson (9/4/2016) (Thriller)<br />
82. Death of an Outsider by M. C. Beaton (9/7/2016) (L) (M)<br />
83. Pendulum by Roy Williams (9/9/2016) (L) (Audio) (Non)<br />
84. Once Upon a Time in Camelot by James Patrick Hunt ( 9/9/2016) (L)<br />
85. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (9/18/2016)<br />
86. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (9/19/2016) (L)<br />
87. Night by Elie Wiesel (9/24/2016) (Gaps) (Century) (Classics)<br />
88. The Relic Master by Christopher Buckley (9/30/2016) (L) (HF) (M)<br />
89. Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston (10/4/2016) (M) (L)<br />
90. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (10/6/2016) (L)<br />
91. New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb (10/11/2016) (L) (M)<br />
92. The Queen's Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler (10/27/2016) (E) (Fan)<br />
93. The Thief's Daughter by Jeff Wheeler (11/6/2016) (E) (Fan)<br />
94. The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup by Rosemary Sutcliff (11/9/2016) (Children) <br />
95.Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (11/16/2016) (Gaps) (TBR) (HF)<br />
96. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (11/16/2016) (Re)<br />
97. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (11/16/2016) (Gaps) (TBR)<br />
98. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi (111/16/2016) (E) (Non)<br />
99. Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible by Tim Gunn (11/18/2016) (TBR)<br />
100. Go South to Freedom by Frye Gaillard (11/22/2016) (L)<br />
101. Deliver Her by Patricia Donovan<br />
102. One Year After by William Fortschen (12/3/2016)<br />
103. Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb (11/30/2016)<br />
104. Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown (12/15/2016) (Foodie)<br />
105. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (TBR) (Gaps) (Century)<br />
106. The King's Traitor by Jeff Wheeler<br />
107. The Boy is Back by Meg Cabot (12/4/2016)<br />
108. Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster (12/8/2016) TBR<br />
109. Hag Seed by Margaret Atwood (12/15/2016) (L)<br />
110. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (SF)<br />
111. The Economics of Freedom by Frederic Bastiat (12/30/2016) (TBR) (Gaps)<br />
112.Seventeen by Booth Tarkington (12/30/2016) (TBR)<br />
113. The Art Forger by B.A. SHapiro 12/31/2016 (TBR)<br />
<br />Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-39052370074097487742015-12-17T16:42:00.000-08:002015-12-17T16:42:03.103-08:00Looking for book suggestionsOnce again I am looking for suggestions for a <a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2015/12/still-some-gaps.html">reading challenge</a>.<br />
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I am looking for the gems of classic literature or contemporary fiction. I am looking for those books, fiction or non-fiction, that are foundational to cultural literacy. I am looking for the non-fiction books that really taught you something or made you think. Or maybe a book was just so enjoyable that you think everyone should read it.<br />
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If you're worried about suggesting something I've read, don't. (But I have read all of Steinbeck and Austen, and most Shakespeare.) Other authors have spottier coverage.<br />
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Someone asked last night what my must-reads are, and that's a hard question. So instead I'll tell you some of my favorites: East of Eden, and everything else by John Steinbeck; Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion by Jane Austen; The Count of Monte Cristo; A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett; . . .And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Satmeyer;The Screwtape Letters; Nicholas Nickleby; Vanity Fair; Katherine by Anya Seton; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Stand by Stephen King; The Remains of the Day; Doomsday Book by Connie Willis; Unbroken; The Captains and the Kings; The Jeeves books by P.G.Wodehouse; The Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy Sayers; Kristin Lavransdatter; Charlotte's Web; The Little House books; Harry Potter; The Poisonwood Bible; American Gods and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman; The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon, 1984; A Canticle for Leibowitz; All the Light We Cannot See.<br />
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So give me your suggestions! If I've read them they may still help someone else.<br />
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<br />Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14984938560695736640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002110652885970935.post-88732577893785652962015-12-16T22:32:00.043-08:002023-10-30T06:06:01.022-07:00Still some gaps<div style="text-align: left;">Update August 5, 2021: Fixed numbering. Consolidated those that I have read. Feeling like I need to get disciplined about reading some of these. And I need five more books.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Update 12/7/2020: A blog update wiped out the numbering. I will renumber them eventually.</div><div><br /></div>Update: 12/31/2019 I am adding five more years and 50 books. I have read as many in four years as I did in five before so my pace is improving. I'll get the books all added in the next couple of weeks. So, new deadline is 12/17/2025.<br />
<br />12/17/2015: Five years ago tomorrow, I embarked on a <a href="http://janesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2010/12/filling-in-gaps-100-booksfive-years.html">reading challenge</a>. The challenge was to pick 100 books to read that I felt would fill in "gaps" in my reading.<br />
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I have managed to read 65 of them. Not good, especially since I had read 47 over two years ago. But this year has been a particularly weak reading year for me. After I accepted that, I started thinking about what I wanted to do about this challenge, and I have decided to expand it.<br />
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I am extending it for five more years, to December 17, 2020. I am going to add 100 more books,75 over the next few weeks and five in each of those years. This has been a very worthwhile challenge, to this point, for the most part, and I look forward to continuing to fill some gaps.<br />
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I am not giving myself a pass on anything that is already on the list, although there are a couple that I suspect will remain gaps.<br />
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The new list will be here. For simplicity I am going to group the books that I have read and those that are unread.<br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"></p><span style="color: blue;">1.Bro</span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">t</span><span style="background-color: blue; color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">hers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/18/2013)</span></span><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">2.</span>Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (2/13/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">3. Dune by Frank Herbert (3/19/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">4. </span><i style="color: blue;">The Eye of the World</i><span style="color: blue;"> by Robert Jordan (9/21/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">5. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle</span></div><div><span face="" style="color: blue;"><span face="">6. Wench by </span></span><span class="ptBrand" style="color: blue;">Dolen Perkins-Valdez</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">7. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (1/26/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">8. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (3/16/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">9. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (3/17/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">10. Beach Music by Pat Conroy (3/22/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">11. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">12. </span><i style="color: blue;">Peace Like a River </i><span style="color: blue;">by Leif Enger (4/2015)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">13. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (12/5/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">14. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2/21/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">15. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (3/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">16. The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling (1/27/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">17. The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (2/5/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">18. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (4/29/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">19. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (10/30/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">20. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (11/4/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">21. Summerland by Michael Chabon (6/25/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">22. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (5/16/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">23. The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (10/10/2014)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">24. The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier (5/19/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">25. </span>Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (6/28/2012)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">26. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (3/24/2014)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">27. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller (2/9/2011)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">28. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 12/10/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">29. </span>The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1/18/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">30. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (4/12/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">31. A Life Worth Living by John Holt (1/15/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">32. Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 by Reston (10/9/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">33. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (12/13/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">34. Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple (3/20/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">35. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1/7/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">36. Desolation Road by Ian McDonald (7/10/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">37. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (9/25/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">38. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (4/3/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">39. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (5/29/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">40. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington (4/7/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">41. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (4/24/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">42. Redwall by Brian Jacques (11/22/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">43. The Complete Poetry of John Donne (12/16/2015)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">44. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot (4/23/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">45. My Antonia by Willa Cather (1/15/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">46. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (9/28/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">47. East Lynne by Ellen Wood (6/18/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">48. </span><span style="color: blue;">Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery (1/6/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">49. The Hobbit JRR Tolkien</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">50. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (12/26/2010)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">51. Robinson Crusoe (9/9/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">52. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (7/18/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">53. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (4/30/2015)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">54. Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (3/25/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">55. </span> Middlemarch by George Eliot (12/13/13)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">56. Introducing Father Brown by GK Chesterton (10/6/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">57. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (5/2/11)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">58.</span><span style="color: blue;">The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">59. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (5/6/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">60. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (7/2/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">61. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1/20/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (10/4/2014)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">63. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (3/6/2011)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">64. The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes (12/30/2012)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">65. </span><i style="color: blue;">The Warden</i><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"> by Anthony Trollope (1/28/2013)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">66. </span>Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (6/5/2015)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">67. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (3/22/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">68. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (11/16/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">69. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (12/29/2015)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">70. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (11/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">71. Faust by Goethe (1/6/2016)</span></div><div><span face="" style="color: blue;"><span face="">72. </span></span><span face="" style="color: blue;"><span face="">Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (10/6/2018)</span></span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">73. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (6/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""><span face="">74. <span>Lord of the Flies by William Golding</span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""> (2/8/2016)</span></span></span></div><div>75. <span style="color: blue;">The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (1/12/2015)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">76. Typhoon by Joseph Conrad (2/15/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">77. Watership Down by Richard Adams (1/18/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">78. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (11/20/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">79. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (11/16/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">80. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown (4/21/2018) </span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">81. </span><span style="color: blue;">All Quiet on the Western Front (7/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">82. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (6/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">83. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (4/22/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">84. </span><span style="color: blue;">The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (4/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">85. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (5/23/2016)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">86. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">87. </span>On Writing by Stephen King (3/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">88. </span><i style="color: blue;">All-of-a-kind Family </i><span style="color: blue;">by Sydney Taylor (3/29/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">89. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (Substituted Musicophilia) 2/2017</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">90. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (2/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">91. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (10/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">92. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters(5/21/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">93. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman (2/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">94. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (10/10/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">95. Bonfire of the Vanities by Thomas Wolfe (8/21/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">96. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (10/10/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">97. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein (6/10/2014)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">98. Salt by Mark Kurlansky (3/7/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">99. </span>Double Indemnity by James Cain (9/29/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">100. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (6/22/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">101. </span><span style="color: blue;">The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (10/17/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">102. Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi (5.28/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">103. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (3/9/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">104. The Law by Frederic Bastiat (2/14/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">105. Ex Libris by Ann Fadiman (5/5/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">106. Betsy-Tacy by Maude Hart Lovelace(8/8/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">107. Something by Joyce Carol Oates </span><i style="color: blue;">Beasts (8/21/2016)</i></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><i>108. </i>Lost Horizon (10/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span face=""><span face="">109. <strike>The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett </strike></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><strike>110. </strike>The Mysterious Benedict Society (3/1/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">111. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (12/19/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">112. A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman (1/26/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">113. Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry (7/23/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">114. Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan (10/12/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">115. The Economics of Freedom by Frederic Bastiat</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">116. Night by Elie Wiesel by (9/24/2016)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">117. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (6/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">118. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (10/23/2019)</span></div><div><span face="" style="color: blue;"><span face="">119. </span></span><span face="" style="color: blue;"><span face="">Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie </span></span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">120. Steve Jobs by Walter Isacson (5/24/2019)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">121. Exodus by Leon Uris (11/26/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">122. </span>Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (2/24/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">123. Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie (7/6/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">124. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (January 2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">125.The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (6/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">126. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (4/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">127. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (3/17/2019)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">128. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk (9/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">129. A</span>merican Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (6/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">130. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (9/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">131. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (8/26/20)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">132. </span><span style="color: blue;">Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">133. North and South by Gaskell (3/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">134. </span><span style="color: blue;">Churchill by Paul Johnson Subbed Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts (3/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">135. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (9/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">136. </span><span style="color: blue;">David Copperfield by Dickens (2/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">137. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (2019-half)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">138. Master and Commander by Patrick O' Brian (12/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">139. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">140. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (10/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">141. </span><span style="color: blue;"> Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (2/1/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">142. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ( 2/2021)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">143. </span><span style="color: blue;">The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (5/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">144. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (9/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">145. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (1/2021)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">146. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Shogun by James Clavell (7/2021)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">147. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (9/26/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">148. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum (3/2021)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">149. </span><span style="color: blue;">Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">150. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Twenty-One Balloons by Pene duBois (9/7/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">151. </span><span style="color: blue;">Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (1/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">152. The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (7/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">153. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry (6/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">154. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Man of Property by John Galsworthy (12/7/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">155. Twelve Years a Slave by Solo</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">mon Northrup (2/27/2019)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">156. Hillbilly Elegy (4/5/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">157. Friday Night Lights (10/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">158. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (10/4/2018)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">159. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (6/8/2021)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">160. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (12/12/2017)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">161. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (3/12/20200</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">162. The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (2/23/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">163. </span><span style="color: blue;">Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (2/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">164. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (5/19/2021)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">165. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (8/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">166. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre (3/2021)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">167. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">168. </span><span style="color: blue;">Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (3/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">169. </span>T<span style="color: blue;">ess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (3/2020)</span></div><div><span style="color: blue;">170. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">171. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</span></div><div>172. Law and Gospel by CFW Walther</div><div>173. The Histories by Herodotus</div><div>174. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh</div><div>175. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Trinity by Leon Uris (10/2022)</span></div><div>176. The Stranger by Albert Camus</div><div>177.<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (12/2022)</span></div><div>178. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy</div><div>179. Aeneid by Virgil</div><div><span><span face=""><span face="">180. <span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></span>Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome</div><div>181. The Bondage of the Will by Martin Luther</div><div><span face=""><span face="">182. </span></span><span face=""><span face="">The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien</span></span></div><div>183. Dead Souls by Gogol</div><div>184. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">185. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (4/23)</span></div><div><span face=""><span face="">186. The Once and Future King by T.H. White</span></span> </div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">187. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper (3/2023)</span></div><div>188. On the Road by Jack Kerouac</div><div>189. The Coming by Daniel Black</div><div>190. The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton</div><div>191. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey</div><div><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">192. <span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span>The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway</div><div>193. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess</div><div>194. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry</div><div>195. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft</div><div>196. To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman</div><div>197.The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow</div><div>198. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith</div><div>199. I, Claudius by Robert Grave</div><div>200. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer</div><div>201. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (4/2022)</span></div><div>202. Eleanor of Aquitaine By Alison Weir </div><div>203. The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott</div><div>204. The Kalevala</div><div>205. A Dance to the Music of Time: Movement One by Anthony Powell</div><div>206. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (5/2022)</span></div><div><strike>207. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace</strike></div><div>208. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Riders of the Purple Sage (4/2023)</span></div><div>209. The Epic of Gilgamesh </div><div>210. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (4/2022)</span></div><div>211. Les Fleurs de Mal by Baudelaire</div><div>212. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric</div><div>213. The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer</div><div>214. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz </div><div>215. A book by Beverly Nichols </div><div>216. Evelina by Fanny Burney</div><div><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">217. </span></span></span></span> Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada</div><div>218. Areopagitica by John Milton </div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">219. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (set aside)</span></div><div>220. The 13 Clocks by James Thurber</div><div>221. The World According to Garp by John Irving </div><div>222. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (2/2023)</span></div><div>223. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee & Walker Evans</div><div>224. The Decameron by Bocaccio</div><div>225. Germinal by Emile Zola</div><div>226. Zorba the Greek</div><div>227. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (5/2022)</span></div><div>228. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (8/2021)</span></div><div>229. The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Maryat</div><div>230. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury</div><div>231. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (8/2022)</span></div><div>232. Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves</div><div>233. The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">234. The 39 Steps by John Buchan (3/2023)</span></div><div>235. Tartuffe by Moliere</div><div>236. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot</div><div>237. The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek</div><div>238. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins (2020)</span></div><div>239. Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor</div><div>240. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">A Separate Peace by John Knowles (11/2022)</span></div><div>241. Centennial by James Michener </div><div>242. In the First Circle by Solzhenitsyn</div><div>243.<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Life of Pi by Yan Martel (5/2022)</span></div><div>244. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin</div><div>245. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers</div><div>246. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak</div><div>247. The Three Musketeers</div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">248. </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">249. </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">250. </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-size: 14.85px;">Memento Mori by Muriel Spark (4/2022)</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">251. Silence by Shusaku Endo</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">252. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera</span></div><div><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14.85px;">253. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;">Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (10/2022)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">254. Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">255. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">256. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (11/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">257. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Wind, Sand, & Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (4/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">258<span style="color: #2b00fe;">. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Petersen 5/2023)</span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white;">259. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;">Old Filth by Jane Gardam ( 3/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">260. Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">261. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">262. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Quartzsite Trip by William Hogan</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">263. Taking Care by Joy Williams</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">264. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Cay by Theodore Taylor (3/29/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">265. On Gold Mountain by Lisa See</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">266. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (4/1/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">267<span style="color: #2b00fe;">. Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz 6/1/2023)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">268. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Kon-tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (6/29/2023)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">269. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;">The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (8/2021)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">270.<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (3/29/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">271. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">272. Hunger by Knut Hamsun</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">273. Zeituon by Dave Eggers</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">274. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">275. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">276. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">277. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Guardians of Time by Poul Anderson (4/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">278. The Red and the Black </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">279. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy (11/2021)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">280. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">281. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Passing by Nella Larsen (4/2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">282. A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">283. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">284.<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (6/2023)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">285.Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">286. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">287. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">288. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">289. War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">290. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (May 2022)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span>291. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">292. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey (4/2023)</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span>293<span style="color: #2b00fe;">. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (6/2023)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span>294. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Egyptian by Mika Waltari (3/2023)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span>295. The Education of Little Tree </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span>296. <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Life on The Mississippi by Mark Twain (9/2022)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">297. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (11/2022)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">298. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (12/2021)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span>299. The Sh</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">ipping News by Annie Proulx</span></div><div><p></p><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0in;" type="1">
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