Reading with Style discussion

Should you care to share your plan, this is the place!

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So many choices.... these are a few:

10.1 1001 list, will pick one that also works for 2022 A-Z Classic Author list
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? = READ

10.2 Short: Double Indemnity = READ

10.3 Location: Force of Nature

10.4 Vocation: Parnassus on Wheels (kindle)
The Midnight Library
Christmas by the Book = READ

10.5 Zane: Riders of the Purple Sage
Monument Rock (own)
The Godwulf Manuscript = READ

10.6 NYE Countdown: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (kobo) = READ

10.7 Genre-rich: A Strangeness in My Mind (own)
Grimus (own)
Drop City (own)

10.8 Singles: Hunger
Correction
Disgrace (own)

10.9 Discovery: SO MANY owned choices -will either be about birds/animals, plants or travel
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

10.10 Group reads: Firekeeper's Daughter
Bright Dead Things = READ
Children of Time

20.1 Maid in Waiting: The Leper of Saint Giles = READ
plus, more in the Cadfael Chronicles
The Man in the Wooden Hat (own)
The Dragon Republic

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom: The Horsemaster's Daughter (own)
The Golden Spiders (own)
Three Witnesses (own) = READ
The Saint Goes On (own)

20.3 Frenchman's Creek Frenchman's Creek = READ

20.4 Day of the Jackal Absolute Friends
The Swarm

20.5 Wheels Anansi Boys = READ

20.6 Hidden Figures The Old Drift = READ

20.7 John Adams The Grand Sophy = READ

20.8: Dead Sea: Under the Whispering Door = READ

20.9 Madame Bovary: Mr Hire's Engagement (own)
Vernon God Little = READ

20.10 Pulp: Trouble for Lucia = READ
The Hot Kid (own)

There are a few options for books I own hard copies of. Hopefully, I will get to them and move a few off the real life TBR.

✔️10.1 Red Lights by Georges Simenon 1-19-22

✔️10.2 The Clockmaker by Georges Simenon 1-16-22

10.3

✔️10.4 In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians by Michael Cart 1-8-22

✔️10.5 Joe Pepper by Elmer Kelton 1-3-22
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout

✔️10.6 My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates 12-10-21
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing

✔️10.7 Hiroshima by John Hersey 1-13-22

✔️10.8 November by Georges Simenon 1-20-22
Donovan by Elmer Kelton

✔️10.9 The Life of Edward Jenner: Naturalist, and Discoverer of Vaccination by F. Dawtry Drewitt 12-13-21

10.10 Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier


20.1 Rites of Passage by William Golding

✔️20.2 This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch 12-25-21
✔️ The Cat by Georges Simenon 1-23-22
✔️ Possession by Celia Fremlin 1-28-22
✔️ The Rules of the Game by Georges Simenon 2-6-22
✔️The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon 2-12-22
✔️Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself In by Georges Simenon 2-23-22
An Air That Kills by Margaret Millar
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
Back in the World by Tobias Wolff
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
The Canyon of the Green Death by F.R. Buckley

✔️20.3 Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini 2-26-22

✔️20.4 The Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon 12-24-21
✔️The Engagement by Georges Simenon 2-10-22
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar

✔️20.5 Beyond This Place by A.J. Cronin 2-1-22
The Blackheath Poisonings: A Victorian Murder Mystery by Julian Symons
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James

✔️20.6 Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel R. Delany 12-27-21
Two Trains Running by August Wilson

✔️20.7 The Dedicated by Willa Gibbs 1-1-22

✔️20.8 Firebug by Robert Bloch 12-12-21

✔️20.9 Mr. Bedford and the Muses by Gail Godwin 12-18-21

✔️20.10 The Cunning by Robert Bloch 12-5-21
✔️Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch 1-4-22
✔️Lori by Robert Bloch 1-11-22

Possible choices:

10.1 List Lovers
✓ Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

10.2 Short
✓ Animal Farm by George Orwell
✓ The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens
✓ The Chimes by Charles Dickens

10.3 Location (Australia or Ireland)
The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín
✓ Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

10.4 Vocation
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
✓ The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

10.6 NYE Countdown (time, clock, watch, hour, minute, second)
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 1951 mystery
✓ The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (time)
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr (watch) combo
✓ Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (time)

10.5 Zane
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
✓ The Tie That Binds by Kent Haruf
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 2005 mystery
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard 1990 mystery
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
American Boy by Larry Watson

10.7 Genre Rich (Sci Fi, Historical, Mystery, Cultural)
✓ The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
✓ The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Corrag by Susan Fletcher

10.8 Singles
Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell
September by Rosamunde Pilcher
✓ Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Corrag by Susan Fletcher

10.9 Discovery
✓ World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One by Sanjay Gupta (interest: bioloby, healthcare)
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit (interest: George Orwell)

10.10 Group Reads
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

20.1 Maid in Waiting
✓ The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr (A Novel of the Civil War Trilogy #1)
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (Great Plains Trilogy #2) 970 Lexile
The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth #2) by Jane Gardam

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom
✓ Maigret and the Toy Village by Georges Simenon 710 ratings, 1944 mystery
Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham 2,787 ratings, 1927 mystery
✓ Legacy by Jeanette Baker

20.3 Frenchman's Creek
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas by Morgan Llywelyn

20.4 Day of the Jackal
✓ The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 2020 mystery
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison 2013 mystery

20.5 Wheels
✓ The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
September by Rosamunde Pilcher
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James 1972 mystery
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham

20.6 Hidden Figures
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride 1140 Lexile
The Jazz Palace by Mary Morris
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell

20.7 John Adams (1735-1826)
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville set in 1788
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham set in 1783

20.8 Dead Sea KHIRBAT QUMRAN
✓ Saints at the River by Ron Rash
✓ The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

20.9 Madame Bovary
✓ Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King
✓ The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit

20.10 Pulp
✓ The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen 1929 mystery
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie 1923 mystery
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett 1934 mystery

10.1 List Lovers

10.2 Short

10.3 Location

10.4 Vocation

10.5 Zane

10.6 NYE Countdown

10.7 Genre-Rich

10.8 Singles

10.9 Discovery

10.10 Group Reads

20.1 Maid in Waiting
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom

20.3 Frenchman's Creek

20.4 Day of the Jackal

20.5 Wheels
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

20.6 Hidden Figures

20.7 John Adams

20.8 Dead Sea

20.9 Madame Bovary (Kate S's Task)

20.10 Pulp (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

Reserve
10.1 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Jenny by Sigrid Undset
Stoner by John Williams
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
Amongst Women by John McGahern
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

10.2 The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine
The Devil's Pool by George Sand

10.3 O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare by Niall Williams
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe  by Thomas Cahill
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru by Morgan Llywelyn
Bending the Boyne: A Novel of Ancient Ireland by J.S. Dunn
The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
Ireland by Frank Delaney
Murder in an Irish Bookshop by Carlene O'Connor
Ireland by William Trevor

10.4Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain


10.5 Betty Zane by Zane Grey
Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry#
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy##

10.6 *

10.7 The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan ( mystery, historical, thriller, cultural-France)
✔️ #379 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

10.8 Redeployment by Phil Klay
Cassandra by Kathryn Gossow
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
✔️ #391 Candide by Voltaire

10.9 Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts by Barbara Brackman
The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine T. Bettinger*
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality by Kimberly Ann Johnson*
You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and Living Your Purpose by Chani Nicholas*
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
A Trail of Crumbs to Creative Freedom by L.E. Henderson

10.10 The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
The Firekeeper's Daughter by Karola Renard
The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

20.1 The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel*
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
✔️ #386 Molloy by Samuel Beckett

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin*
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss (1964)*
Lost in the Horse Latitudes by H. Allen Smith (1941)*
You, the Jury by Mary Borden
Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984 by Kay Boyle*
Them by Joyce Carol Oates ##

✔️ 20.3 The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis
The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
Captain Blood , Scaramouche, *The Sea-Hawk or The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
The Traitor of Treasure Island by John Drake*
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty*


20.4 The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
✔️ #499 Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories by Andrea Camilleri

20.5 The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

20.6 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr.
The Myth of the Jewish Race by Raphael Patai
The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist & Nationalistic Ideas in Europe by Léon Poliakov
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodríguez
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco
The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century by Forrest G. Wood
Spirit of Survival by Gail Sheehy
The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy

20.7 John Adams by David McCullough
✔️ #223 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

20.8 The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg

20.9 Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Otto Wood, the Bandit: The Freighthopping Thief, Bootlegger, and Convicted Murderer Behind the Appalachian Ballads by Trevor McKenzie
✔️ #458 Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

20.10 ✔️ #525 The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson*

This is more like options, rather than a plan:

20.1:
Last Friends by Jane Gardam
The Ways of the World by Robert Goddard

20.2:
Coyote Wind by Peter Bowen
Dictator's Way by E.R. Punshon
Comes a Stranger by E.R. Punshon

20.3:

20.4:
The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler

20.5:

20.6:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hidden Figures by Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

20.7:
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark
Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander

I too will post a list of possible/probable options

20.1 Trilogy/Chronicle
hundreds of possibilities but I am definitely planning to read:
Children of Dune (Dune #3) (1976) by Frank Herbert

20.2 fewer than 5K ratings and published 1901-2000
literally thousands of possibilities
Poul Anderson (only 2 books of his don't fit)
Fortress of Eagles (Fortress #2) (1998) by C.J. Cherryh (#2 of 5 book series)
The Day the Cowboys Quit (1971) by Elmer Kelton (Spur Award winner)
The Book of Skulls (1971) by Robert Silverberg (much-nominated science fiction novel)

20.3 Pirates
Pirate Latitudes (2009) by Michael Crichton
Beauvallet (1929) by Georgette Heyer
Steel (2011) by Carrie Vaughn

And the Piratica trilogy by the queen of creepy horror novels
Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (Piratica #1) (2004) by Tanith Lee
Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island (Piratica #2) (2006) by Tanith Lee
The Family Sea (Piratica #3) (2007) by Tanith Lee

20.4 Thriller
Perfect Little Children (2020) by Sophie Hannah
Intimacies (2021) by Katie Kitamura
The Einstein Prophecy (2015) by Robert Masello
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner #1) (2021) by Sarah Pearse
Amazonia (2002) by James Rollins
Dial A for Aunties (Aunties #1) (2021) by Jesse Q. Sutanto
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018) by Stuart Turton

20.5 British Novel on TV
Emma (1815) by Jane Austen (the only one of Austen's six novels that I haven't read)
Arthur & George (2005) by Julian Barnes
Jamaica Inn (1936) by Daphne du Maurier
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War (French Trilogy #2) (1993) by Sebastian Faulks
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley (I read this one in the 1970s, due for a re-read)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell (I read this one in the 1970s, due for a re-read)
Guards! Guards! (Discworld #8) (1989) by Terry Pratchett
The Thirteenth Tale (2006) by Diane Setterfield

20.6 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The House of the Spirits (1982) by Isabel Allende
The Jazz Palace (2015) by Mary Morris
John Henry Days (2001) by Colson Whitehead
maybe something by Samuel R. Delany

20.7 Timeframe: (1735-1826)
Emma (1815) by Jane Austen (the only one of Austen's six novels that I haven't read) (yes, on two lists!)
Remarkable Creatures (2009) by Tracy Chevalier
Napoleon's Pyramids (Ethan Gage #1) (2007) by William Dietrich
The Glass-Blowers (1963) by Daphne du Maurier
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 (2021) by Joseph J. Ellis
The Gods Will Have Blood (1912) by Anatole France
The Gods Are Thirsty: A Novel of the French Revolution (1996) by Tanith Lee (by the queen of creepy horror novels)
A Place of Greater Safety (1992) by Hilary Mantel

20.1 Maid in Waiting The Witching Hour

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom Julie and Romeo

20.3 Frenchman's Creek Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

20.4 Day of the Jackal C is for Corpse

20.5 Wheels A Town Like Alice

20.6 Hidden Figures Beetlecreek

20.7 John Adams The Viscount Who Loved Me


20.8 Strategic Reader Task
20.9 Kate S's Task

20.10 (Elizabeth (Alaska)'s Task)

Some of my options:

10.2 Short
The Unfortunate Traveller: Or, the Life of Jack Wilton by Thomas Nashe

10.4 Vocation
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

10.5 Zane
either Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, or something by Willa Cather

20.1 Maid in Waiting - Trilogy or "Chronicles"
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfied Sassoon
Still Me by JoJo Moyes
The Cazalet Chronicles series by Elizabeth Jane Howard

20.2 The Keys to the Kingdom - <5K ratings, C20
So many options here, but I have to read at least these two because the final one in the series is in my CiV plan:
The Lost Traveller by Antonia White
The Sugar House by Antonia White

20.3 Frenchman's Creek - Pirates
Demons of the Ocean by Justin Somper

20.4 Day of the Jackal - Thriller
The Curator by M.W. Craven, among others

20.5 Wheels Televised British Novels
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, for Christmas
Sovereign by C J Sansom (Shardlake series)

20.6 Hidden Figures - Anisfield-Wolf Award
Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (lifetime award)

20.7 John Adams - Pub'd or Set 1735-1826
Perhaps the Letters of Jane Austen, as she lived and died within that time, and although they were not published in her lifetime, they were surely set during it :)

Great tasks this season! I am looking forward to the challenge!