All About Books discussion

March is almost over! What books are you planning to read in April? Share your plans (or lack of them!) with us here.

I will continue on my reading of Infinite Jest & of course, finish up whatever I am still reading at the end of March.

I didn't get to Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, our group classic for March & April, so that will be a priority in April.

Other books I think I will read:

White Teeth
A Town Like Alice {audiobook}
The Dragon Reborn {audiobook}
Scout's Progress
Utopia {audiobook} (maybe)
The Young Lions (maybe)

Mysteries:
The Murder at Sissingham Hall
The Singing Bone
Tragedy at Law
Too Many Women
Dog Day
The High Window (maybe)
Death in Ecstasy (maybe)

I will be reading these:

1.American Pastoral by Philip Roth 2 stars read
2.The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4 stars read
3.The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham 3 stars read
4.The Merry-Go-Round by W. Somerset Maugham 1 star read
5.Cassada by James Salter 2 stars read
6.What Is Visible by Kimberly Elkins 3 stars read
7.The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman 2 stars read
8.Oral History by Lee Smith 4 stars read
9.Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh 4 stars read
10.Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert 1 star reaad
11.A Jury of Her Peersby Susan Glaspell 3 stars read
12.The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 5 stars read
13.Xingu by Edith Wharton 3 stars read
14.Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin 3 stars read
15.The Verger by W. Somerset Maugham 4 stars read
16.The Open Boat by Stephen Crane 4 stars read

ADDED:
17.Summer by Edith Wharton 4 stars read

These my next books:

Elisabeth von Arnim The Enchanted April
Susan  Wittig Albert   The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
Margot Lee Shetterly Il diritto di contare
Penelope Fitzgerald  L'inizio della primavera
Martha Hall Kelly Lilac Girls

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
Howard Fast  Second Generation
Mikhail Sholokhov Il placido Don, Vol 1

Anne Enright  The Forgotten Waltz
Laura Ingals Wilder  Little Town on the Prairie

W. Somerset Maugham  The Painted Veil
Andre Aciman Chiamami col tuo nome

I will finish Red Rising
My Christie read will be The Big Four
Then I have to read something from my bookshelf, maybe The Sellout and/or Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Leslie wrote: "I will continue on my reading of Infinite Jest & of course, finish up whatever I am still reading at the end of March.

I read White Teeth and thought it was a clever book, I liked it a lot and I hope you will too.

EDIT: It's very strange how this post read about Buddenbrooks when I meant White Teeth, I don't know what happened.

I will be reading:

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers

The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (carried forward from March)

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

And A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

If I finish reading these, I might also read The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

Oh, Laura, I have been meaning to read The Enchanted April for a while now! I should add that to my list!

Raul - I have a copy of The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Short Stories so I will look forward to hearing how you like it. It's a pretty big hardcover book!

Here it is for April:

The Oasis by Mary McCarthy (currently reading)
Disarmed: Unconventional Lessons from the World's Only One-Armed Special Forces Sharpshooter by Izzy Ezagui (currently reading)

Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Zeno of Bruges by Marguerite Yourcenar

New England White by Stephen L. Carter

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism by Roger Wilkins

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (waning enthusiasm; perhaps I will read this in May, I don't know.)

My plans start the same as Leslie-

Infinite Jest 4 stars
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
White Teeth 3 stars

Then library books-
Maurice 4 stars
Another Country

Possibly start-
Vanity Fair currently reading

LauraT wrote: "These my next books:

Elisabeth von Arnim The Enchanted April
Susan  Wittig Albert   The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
Margot Lee Shetterly Il diritto di contare
..."

You have some good ones there Laura!

*Edited on April 1st.*
I plan on reading some (hopefully all) of these choices:

1) Continue with A Gentleman in Moscow - I’m doing a reboot on this one! I listened to 20% on audio but wasn’t following it so I’ve started from the beginning w the ebook.

2) All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

3) Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (library book club read)

4) Macbeth by Jo Nesbo (ARC win from Read it Forward)

The hearts invisible furies by John Boyne

A fine balance by rohinton mistry

Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood

The people in the trees by hanya yanagihara

In no particular order.

Before and Again by Barbara Delinsky

A Cold Day in Hell by Lissa Marie Redmond

After Anna by Lisa Scottoline

I am hoping to finish Dragonfly in Amber by April as well as The Street Lawyer

After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 by John Darwin
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
Clean by Juno Dawson
The Hunger by Alma Katsu

Is anybody else wandering where the year is going?? April already!

I am planning on reading:

White Teeth
History of Wolves (IRL book club)
Elmet
Her Body and Other Parties

I'm sure there will be more as I want to pick a couple of my shelves. Possible options are
Conversations with Friends
The Tidal Zone
Assassin's Apprentice

I'm also starting a 5 month long readalong of Les Misérables

I am adding to my list:

Leave It to Psmith {audiobook}
The Underground Man
The Enchanted April

Raul wrote: "I will be reading:

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers

The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

Gilead..."

Keep us posted on A Little Life and what you think/your review - it's on my list, but have heard it's really sadly intense - but GOOD!

Pam wrote: "*Edited on April 1st.*
I plan on reading some (hopefully all) of these choices:

1) Continue with A Gentleman in Moscow - I’m doing a reboot on this one! I listened to 20% on audio ..."

I've heard A Gentleman in Moscow is much better read, unless one is a really good audio listener, just to keep track of it all. I picked up the book. :)

My list:

Finished:
The Underground Railroad (audio)

Finished:
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (audio)
Wolf Hall
Vintage Cocktails: Retro Recipes for the Home Mixologist
Little Fires Everywhere
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (audio)

Now:
The Invisible Bridge
Night Film (audio)

AND:
The Female Persuasion - nope, running out of time & the RL book club meets next week. There's no way, especially since I can't get on audio from the library. :(

Roar

Nemesis

Rebel of the Sands

Nemesis

Currently reading
Bittersüsse Tode by Laurell K. Hamilton
(the German version of Guilty Pleasures)
and
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Really struggling through this one. I just don't like it.

Next on my list:
The Bronze Horseman (re-read)
and
The Life List

I guess I won't have time to read more.

I have added Mark Helprin's Paris in the Present Tense to my message 3 since I just picked it up as a daily deal at Audible.

Raul wrote: "I will be reading:

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers

The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

Gilead..."

I think you have some really good titles there! Your first, fourth and sixth titles you will surely love or at least like.

I did well on my list this month!

"I will finish Red Rising
My Christie read will be The Big Four
Then I have to read something from my bookshelf, "

I did finish Red Rising and I did read a book from my shelf though it was Pachinko, not one of the books I thought I would read.
I will proabably start The Big Four this evening once I have finished Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race. IT is a quick read and so far more interesting and less angry than I expected.