Reading with Style discussion

While not required, you may post your Alpha Omega plans here.

Each of my plans has 11 authors, with an alternate or two, just in case

Plan #1 :

A-Z: Anthony Horowitz
D-S: Dick Francis
F-I: Frances Itani
G-N: Georges Simenon
H-C: Honoré de Balzac
J-T: John Lescroart
K-O: Kati Hiekkapelto
L-M: Laila Ibrahim (alt: M-L, Mary Doria Russell )
P-Y: Peter Carey (alt: P.S. Duffy )
V-E: Victor Serge
W-R: Willa Cather (alt: Wallace Stegner

Plan #2:

B-K: Benjamin Black
E-N: E.R. Punshon
F-T: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
G-X: Gaston Leroux
H-S: Hampton Sides
I-Z: Imre Kertész
J-C: Jean-Luc Bannalec
L-A: Leila Aboulela
P-D: Peter Ackroyd
V-Y: Vera Caspary
W-R: William Trevor (same alternate as in #1)

possibilities:

from owned books:

A - Z Anthony Horowitz
A - X Annie Proulx
P - X Paul Theroux
K - G Kevin Chong
W - N William Gibson
J - O José Saramago (or Jo Nesbo )
D - U Dinaw Mengestu
E - R Elizabeth Taylor
E - S Ellis Peters
L - Y Louise Penny
M - I MG Vassanji
I - V Ivan Goncharov
B - H Ben Aaronovitch
S - T Simon Brett

Plan:
1. A - Z Horowitz (own)
2. B - H Aaronovitch (l-o)
3. D - U Mengestu (own)
4. E - R Taylor (buy Kindle)
5. J - O Saramago (own)
6. K - G Chong (own)
7. L - Y Penny (kobo)
8. M - I Vassanji (own)
9. S - T Brett (own)
10: W - N Gibson (l-o)

leftover: C, F, Q, P, V, X

Plan:

M-T: Mary Stewart
L-N: Linda Fairstein
P-S: Paulette Jiles
I-Y: Irène Némirovsky
K-O: Keigo Higashino
H-D: Helen Macdonald
G-C: Genevieve Gornichec
J-R: Jane Harper
F-A: Francesca Serritella
V-E: Vicki Lane

Ideas Revised:

#1
R-D Robert Olmstead Savage Country DONE 15.8
M-A Megan Miranda All the Missing Girls DONE 15.10
H-Y Horace McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don't They? DONE 15.1
J-I Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake DONE 15.7
T-S Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta DONE 15.9
P-O Paolo Giordano Like Family DONE 15.2
E-B Emma Straub This Time Tomorrow DONE15.4
C-N Claire Keegan Small Things Like These DONE 15.3
L-F Lauren Groff Matrix DONE 15.6
W-K Walter Van Tilburg Clark The Ox-Bow Incident DONE 15.5

#2
C-Y Clare Pooley Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting DONE 15.1
B-R Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead (or 10.9)

Hopefully


1. B-E Berton Roueché - The Incurable Wound
2. C-I Charles Bukowski - The People Look Like Flowers at Last
3. D-S David Goodis - Street of No Return
or Dolores Hitchens - In a House Unknown
or Dorothy Hughes - Ride the Pink Horse
4. G-N Georges Simenon - The Man on the Bench in the Barn
5. H-L Hilary Mantel - The Giant, O'Brien
6. J-R Jess Walter - The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories
7. O-K Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
or P-K Philip K. Dick - Radio Free Albemuth
8. T-F Tobias Wolff - In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
9. V-Y Vera Caspary -Laura
10. W-M William Lindsay Gresham - Nightmare Alley

Q-R: Queen Noor
O-E: Olivie Blake
L-Z: Leslie Budewitz

Connie wrote: "Ideas:

V-H Virginia Hartman"

I think this one would be V-N

Possibilities


redoS-R Sabaa Tahir
15-3 L-E Laurie Lico Albanese-Hester
15-2 J-S Joseph J. Ellis-Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
15-4 G-KGeorgie Blalock-The Last Debutantes
C-Y Camille Aubray The Godmothers
D-I Daniel Barbarisi
15-6B-N Barbara W. Tuchman-The Guns of August
15.5H-R Harlow Giles Unger-Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution
P-T Paula Constant
15-1A-W Alex Kershaw-The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II

A B C D E F G HI J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Second list, but this is the one I will go with:

✔ A-Z Anthony Horowitz Moonflower Murders, 15 Dec 22
✔ B-N Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling, 20 Dec 22
✔ C-T Cal Newport Deep Work, 5 Jan 23
✔ E-L Evan S. Connell Mr. Bridge, 7 Dec 22
✔ F-S Freeman Wills Crofts The Sea Mystery, 14 Dec 22
✔ H-G Helen Fielding Cause Celeb, 13 Feb 23
✔ J-O Jesse Sutanto Dial A for Aunties, 17 Jan 23
✔ M-K Muriel Spark The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark, 10 Feb 23
✔ P-I Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air, 27 Jan 23
✔ R-Y Rose Macaulay Crewe Train, 15 Feb 23


First list, 11 options:

A-Z Anthony Horowitz
B-R Belinda Bauer
E-L Evan S. Connell / Edith Ayrton Zangwill / Elisabeth de Waal / Lew Wallace
F-S Freeman Wills Crofts
I-O Italo Svevo / Italo Calvino
J-W Janice Hadlow
K-N Kate Thompson
M-Y Mavis Doriel Hay
P-H Patricia Wentworth / Philip Roth
T-D Taylor Jenkins Reid / Douglas Stuart
V-G Victor Canning

One list:

A-T Avery Hunicutt
C-F Clea Koff
H-Y Hugh Howey
I-U Ioanna Bourazopoulou
I-O I.W. Gregorio
J-B JD Robb
L-E Laura Reese
M-R Melissa Broder
N-K Naomi Novik
O-D Orson Scott Card
S-G Stephen King
X-Z Xóchitl González

Plan 1:

✔️ C - D Catriona Ward (#15.1)
✔️ Q - G Qiu Xiaolong (#15.2)
✔️ J - L Juliet Blackwell (#15.3)
✔️ B – F Brenna Yovanoff (#15.4)
✔️ I - K Kate Khavari (#15.5)
✔️ E - N Elmer Kelton (#15.6)

Plan

C - X Charly Cox
D - I David Baldacci
J - G Julia Spencer-Fleming
K - N Keith Nixon
L -T Laura Elliot
M - O Melinda Di Lorenzo
P - Y Peter May
R - H Robert Galbraith
S - E Scott Blade
W - B Wally Lamb

My space

✔️ S -G Stephen King or Sarah Henning or Geraldine Brooks
✔️ L - E Lisa Wingate or Edward Ball or Lisa Scottoline
✔️ K - R K L Slater or Kate Bowler
✔️ J - O José Saramago or Joanne Orlando
✔️ A - H Alexander McCall Smith or A.J. Hackwith
✔️ D - Z David Lagercrantz or Dana Schwartz or Dean Koontz
✔️ W - B Wendy Webb or Wendy Corsi Staub
✔️ M - N M.L. Stedman or M. C. Beaton or M. R. C. Kasasian
P - X Paul Theroux or Patricia Marx or Paula Fox
✔️ C - Y Charles Kingsley or Chris C. Mooney or Cormac McCarthy
extra
✔️ T - I Toshikazu Kawaguchi or Immanuel Kant

List 2
I - S Iain Pears or Ilona Andrews or Isabel Cañas or Susan Choi
A - R Anni Taylor or Rajiv Surendra or Andy Weir
D - E Darrien Lee or Deborah Goodrich Royce. OR
D - U David Hajdu
J - G Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
L - M Laila Ibrahim or Michael McDowell or Malcolm Gladwell or Maj Sjöwall
B - Y Barbara Hambly or Barbara Neely or Bruxy Cavey or Beth Macy
C - N Craig Johnson or Carlos Ruiz Zafón or Carl Hiaasen or Carola Dunn
K - O An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
X - V or Z Victoria Fox or Xóchitl González
T - H Thich Nhat Hanh OR
P - T Paul A. Offit


Alternative
✔️ D - R Daphne du Maurier
✔️ L - Z Lisa Lutz
✔️ C -K Cassie Dandridge Selleck
✔️ A - S Silvia Moreno-Garcia
✔️ N - H Ngaio Marsh
✔️ B - T Brit Bennett
✔️ M - Y Marion Chesney
✔️ I - G Ivan Doig
✔️ E - W E.L. Doctorow or William Hazelgrove
✔️ J - O José Saramago or Joanna Davidson Politano

I think I have over-planned for this. Plenty of extras for when the library isn't cooperative.

Plan 1 (12 books)
A-Z Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
B-S A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
C-G The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung
D-W A Taint in the Blood by Dana Stabenow
F-E The High Places: Stories by Fiona McFarlane
J-Y Burn by James Patrick Kelly
K-U Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken Liu
L-H The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
M-R The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
T-I The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
V-P One August Night by Victoria Hislop
X-O Lovers in the Age of Indifference by Xiaolu Guo

Plan 2 (12 books)
B-A Fated by Benedict Jacka
C-W Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
E-T Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
G-X A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix
H-I Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
J-Z Trust No One by Jayne Ann Krentz
K-D Murder in Williamstown by Kerry Greenwood
M-F Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
P-Y The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
R-L The Drover’s Wives by Ryan O'Neill
S-U In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
V-N Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan

Plan 3 (12 books)
A-V The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov
C-U How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
D-Z Daemon by Daniel Suarez
E-L The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel
F-N Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
G-T Devil-Devil by Graeme Kent
H-I Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi
J-X The Jeweller's Wife by Judith Lennox
M-O Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
P-W Hope Farm by Peggy Frew
R-B Fool's Quest by Robin Hobb
S-Y The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

Trying to stick to my own books as much as possible, but I will have a library book to finish by the 5th, and throwing in audio books in the hope that it stops raining and I can start going for walks again once Summer starts. Or maybe Spring, as we seem to have not seen that yet!

Plan 1
B / H Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch
K / R Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
E / Z Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz
J / N Democracy byJoan Didion
P / O The Spy by Paulo Coelho
M / I Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
Y / A Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima
C / S The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
V / F Orlando by Virginia Woolf
T / G The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Plan 2

I / N Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
A / T The Gathering by Anne Enright
G / E Our Man in Havanaby Graham Greene
B / R Homeland by Barbara Kingsolver
C / Y No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
P / K The Man in the High Castle88] by Philip K. Dick
J / H The End of the Road by John Barth
L / S A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières
D / F Remembering Babylon by David
Malouf
V / O Mrs. March by Virginia Feito

C-Y Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Good Company
D-N David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
F-I Franny Choi, Soft Science
L-R Lauren Oliver, Rooms
M-E Molière, Don Juan
P-H Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
T-O Tuomas Kyrö, The Beggar and the Hare
V-G Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
W-A Wisława Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
Z-S Zibby Owens, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

Anika - Two Boys Kissing is YA and has a Lexile of 780, so a no go for Alpha Omega

Ha! I forgot we changed the Lexile. Will have to get that 700 screwed in to the old memory bank. (Emphasis on OLD!)

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Anika - Two Boys Kissing is YA and has a Lexile of 780, so a no go for Alpha Omega

Ha! I forgot we changed the Lexile. Will have to get that 700 screwed in to the old memory bank. ..."

I had to double-check a few times myself that it wasn’t just wishful thinking on my part ;-) I was so excited to see the reduced Lexile since we’re reading the Levithan title in my IRL book club and had no idea where to work it in otherwise.