Reading with Style discussion

While not required, everyone is welcome to post their plan for our Summer's A Counting Game in this thread.

My plan, which uses books that are from my 'real life' TBR piles! Yay! Hopefully, I will be able to get this list done.

Homecoming
Bergdorf Blondes
Waiting for Sunrise
Bruno, Chief of Police
The Bridges of Madison County
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

I'm posting this both as a reminder to myself and to make sure they're all okay (especially #9--I'm not sure that its subtitle is unique enough to count--but I sure hope it is...nine-word titles are not abundant on my TBR shelf.):

Male authors, 21st Century

1. Armada by Ernest Cline 2015 OR Moonglow by Michael Chabon 2016
2. The Hike by Drew Magary 2016 OR Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari 2015
3. The Gargoyle Hunters by John Freeman Gill 2017 OR Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt 2011
4. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2017
5. The Year of Endless Sorrows by Adam Rapp 2006
6. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman 2015
7. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 OR Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro 2009
8. Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn 2008 OR A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage 2005
9. Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story by Charlie McDowell 2013
10. Candy Freak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond 2004 OR Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman 2015 OR Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard 2017

Female authors, 21st Century

1. California by Edan Lepucki
2. First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
3. The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
4. Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
5. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
6. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
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10. American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus

Tentative Plans:
Plan 1
Female Authors
20th century

1. Passing by Nella Larsen
2.Bonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
3. The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
4. Ezra and Other Stories by Barbara A. Whittington
5. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
6. Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose
7. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
8. I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda
9. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
10. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner

Plan 2
Male Authors
20th Century

✔1. Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet
✔2. Animal Crackers by George S. Kaufman
✔3. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
✔4. On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
✔5. Poems: Wadsworth Handbook and Anthology by C.F. Main
✔6.The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
✔7. The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
8. The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers by Moritz Thomsen
9. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy or Dark As The Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid by Malcolm Lowry or By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
10. The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien

Tentative plan
Female authors
20th C (I may swap some, depending on other reading challenges plus I am already torn between 2 choices for some of these and at least one was put in in temporary desperation plus if my 2 word title doesn't arrive from the state catalogue in time I'll have to change it.)

✔1. Curtain by Agatha Christie
✔2. Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
✔3. The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
✔4. Strong Women Stay Young by Miriam E. Nelson
✔5. A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris
✔6. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
✔7. The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron lexile score of 1030
8. my choice not in my library network, so we'll see Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England by Bridget Hill
9. have to switch this as I don't want to buy it
10. Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head by Carla Hannaford

tbc

Two tentative plans.

Female authors, 20th century:

1. Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
2. Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson
3. They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
4. The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen
5. To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski
6. A London Family Between The Wars by Molly Hughes
7. How To Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw
8. The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
9. Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
10. ?

Male authors, 21st century:

1. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen or Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
2. The Sea by John Banville, The Swarm by Frank Schaetzing, or Destiny's Rebel by Philip S. Davies
3. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga or The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
4. A Place Called Winter or A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale
5. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
6. The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall or The Case of the Missing Boyfriend by Nick Alexander
7. ?
8. Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum by Mark Stevens
9. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Domasio
10. ?

In case I get to it
Male Authors, 21 century

1. Djibouti by Elmore Leonard
2. Already Gone by John Rector
3. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
4.A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
5. Just This Side of Heaven by Timothy Glass
6.The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine by Alexander McCall Smith
7. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories by Laird Barron
8. America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert
9. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
or Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
or An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
10. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple or
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope by Jimmy Carter or
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade