Reading with Style discussion

You may use this space for planning your Winter 22-23 reads here.

Planning:

10.1 Series
The Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam

10.2 Pronouns
I Am the Clay by Chaim Potok
✓ I Married a Dead Man by William Irish

10.3 Police
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

10.4 Twelve
✓ Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown
✓ Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

10.5 Journey
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
✓ West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (combo 10.9)

10.6 Map
✓ I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
Nicholas Evans

10.7 Out of This World
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 1150 Lexile
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

10.8 The Threes
The Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton

10.9 Covid 19 Hits
✓ Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus HF, Debut 2022
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver F 2022

10.10 Group Reads
Lots of good choices-check library


20.1 Birthdays (1913-1952)
Miss Pinkerton by Mary Roberts Rinehart 1932
Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham 1927

20.2 Biography (Biog or Biog Fiction)
✓ Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin
The Life of Charles Dickens : Volume II by John Forster

20.3 NYRB
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier 1971
✓ In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano

20.4 Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

20.5 Books
South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature by Margaret Eby
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

20.6 Industry (Film or fashion industry)
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

20.7 Ratings (<1,000 or >75,000)
The Ice Garden by Moira Crone
The Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton (343 ratings)
✓ City of Thieves by David Benioff (136,770 ratings)
✓ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (279,352 ratings)

20.8 Short
✓ Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Redeployment by Phil Klay
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Tenth of December by George Saunders

20.9 Translator (Author who also translates)
Written Lives by Javier Marías
All Souls by Javier Marías

20.10 Mystery
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda 2016
✓ The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

Thanks
10.1 all ✅
✔️ Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear

10.2 all ✅
✔️ Them by Nathan McCall
You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg 75 in 2023
✔️ The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink
Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
✔️ Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively: The Study of the Paranormal by Erin Gilbert

10.3 all ✅
The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjöwall
Blood on the Moon by James Ellroy 75 in 2023
✔️ The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri 93
Buffalo Bayou: A Noir Crime Thriller by Tom Abrahams
The Man With a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes 91
✔️ The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry 85

10.4 all ✅
Hotel by Arthur Hailey 84
Hungry Tales by Jonathan Maberry
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 82
The Sultans by Noel Barber 79
The Wrong One or The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Perennials by Julie Cantrell
What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg 75
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe
Lancelot by Walker Percy
✔️ The Flirt by Marion Chesney 83

10.5
The Ribbons Are for Fearlessness: My Journey from Norway to Portugal beneath the Midnight Sun by Catrina Davies
Mud, Rocks, Blazes: Letting Go on the Appalachian Trail by Heather Anderson
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
Seven at Sea: Why a New York City Family Cast Off Convention for a Life-Changing Year on a Sailboat
Five Million Steps by Lon Chenowith
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World or ✔️ Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land by Tony Horwitz
Dearest Dorothy, Are We There Yet? by Charlene Ann Baumbich
The Elephant's Journey byJosé Saramago 87
✔️ West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
✔️ Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan

10.6 all ✅
✔️. ✔️ Nicholas Evans - Sandra Dallas 84 https://history.denverlibrary.org/new..., Maggie O'Farrell, Max Lucado, Donna Woolfolk Cross
P.J. O’Rourke - Matt Haig, Arturo Pérez-Reverte P J O'Rourke 75 Dave Barry 75
Patricia McPhillip - Jo Walton, Ruth Ozeki, Charles de Lint

10.7
The Tangle Box by Terry Brooks 78
✔️ The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

10.8 The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 78
The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living 77
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
✔️ The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

10.9
✔️ Fairy Tale by Stephen King

10.10
✔️ Honor by Thrity Umrigar
✔️ Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
✔️ The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
✔️ The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
✔️ What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
✔️ Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult

20.1 ✔️ The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois 77 ✅
✔️ Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain 88 ✅
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor 84 ✅
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
✔️ Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth
20.2 The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
✔️ Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross76
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone 86
✔️ Robert the Bruce Trilogy, 3 coronet paperbacks in slipcase, 'The Steps to the Empty Throne', 'The Path of the Hero King' & 'The Prince of the King's Peace' by Nigel Tranter

20.3
✔️ Warlock by Oakley Hall (88) ✅
Augustus by John Williams ✅
✔️ Chocky by John Wyndham
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree

20.4 Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh ✅ 96
Disco For The Departed by Colin Cotterill
✔️ Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien 77
✔️ Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart

20.5
✔️ The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick ✅
✔️ The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell ✅
✔️ Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix

20.6
Shallow Graves by William Jefferies
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Blackberry & Wild Rose by Sonia Velton
✔️ Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd
✔️ House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival by Deborah Ball
✔️ Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

20.7
✔️ The Secret History of Christmas by Bill Bryson ✅
✔️ You Want Fries with That?: A White-Collar Burnout Experiences Life at Minimum Wage by Prioleau Alexander

20.8
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories by Edward P. Jones
O. Henry’s Collected Works: Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, Sixes and Sevens, Roads of Destiny, Heart of the West,( American Short Story Collection) by O. Henry
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce
✔️ The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
✔️ Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories by Craig Johnson
✔️ Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau

20.9
The Stone Raft by José Saramago
✔️ Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
✔️ Moon Palace or The Brooklyn Follies or Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster 76
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers

20.10 hundreds
Alexander McCall Smith 75 in 2023
✔️ Susan Wittig Albert 82
Barbara Neely 79
✔️ The Singing Stones by Phyllis A. Whitney 104 ✅

My RwS plan:

✔ 10.1 Series
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

✔ 10.2 Pronouns
Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett

✔ 10.3 Police
Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh

✔ 10.4 Twelve
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence

✔ 10.5 Journey
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee

✔ 10.6 Map
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell (from Nicholas Evans's map)

✔ 10.7 Out of This World
A Meditation on Murder by Robert Thorogood

✔ 10.8 The Threes
The Harpole Report by J.L. Carr

✔ 10.9 Covid 19 Hits
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

✔ 10.10 Group Reads
A Silent Death by Peter May

✔ 20.1 Birthdays
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West

✔ 20.2 Biography?
Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan

✔ 20.3 NYRB
As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo

✔ 20.4 Southeast Asia
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell

✔ 20.5 Books
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

✔ 20.6 Industry
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

✔ 20.7 Ratings
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

✔ 20.8 Short
The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard

✔ 20.9 Translator
Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers

✔ 20.10 Mystery
The Mystery of Three Quarters by Sophie Hannah

I'm not sure how well I will stick to a plan this season - but just in case:

20.1 Birthdays = Ultramarine (hoopla)

20.2 Biography? = Under the Wide and Starry Sky

20.3 NYRB

20.4 Southeast Asia = Aunty Lee's Chilled Revenge

20.5 Books = Ink and Shadows (hoopla)

20.6 Industry

20.7 Ratings = Chronicle of a Death Foretold

20.8

20.9 Translator = Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

20.10 Mystery = The Floating Admiral (hoopla)

My plan

20.1 Birthdays (Published 1913-1952)
The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers (1925)

20.2 Biography (Biography or Biographical Fiction)
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict (Bio Fic)

20.3 NYRB
Wilding by Isabella Tree
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
Mr Beethoven by Paul Griffiths

20.4 Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
A Nail Through the Heart by Timothy Hallinan (Thailand)

20.5 Books
The Library Book by Susan Orlean

20.6 Industry (Film or Fashion)
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini (Fashion)

20.7 Ratings (<1,000 or >75,000)
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (ratings 198,232)

20.8

20.9 Translator (author who also translates)
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

20.10 Mystery
Most of the books I read will fit

Some preliminary thoughts:

10.1 - Series
Picture Perfect Cowboy by Tiffany Reisz

✔10.2 - Pronoun
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

10.3 - Police
Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin

10.4 - 12
Trust by Hernan Diaz

10.5 - Journey
Iron Council by China Miéville

10.6 - Map
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

10.7 - Out of this World
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

10.8 - The Threes
The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

10.9 - Covid 19 Hits
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

10.10 - Group Reads
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

20.1 - Birthdays -
The Pure and the Impure by Colette

20.2 - Biography
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Anthony Bourdain

✔20.3 - NYRB
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz

20.4 - Southeast Asia
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan

20.5 - Books
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

20.6 - Industry
Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind by Gavin Edwards

✔20.7 - Ratings
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Web of Desire by Sophie Danson

20.8 - Short Stories
Triburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld

20.9 - Translator
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories OR The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

20.10 - Mystery
Girls with Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young low lexile

Just for 10.9
10.9 2020
✔️ The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
✔️ The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
✔️ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
^Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
^Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

2021
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
✔️ Fairy Tale by Stephen King
✔️ *The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Last Thing He Told Me
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Bloodline by Jess Lourey
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived by Leslie Jordan
Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share
Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner
She Memes Well by Quinta Brunson
How to Survive America by D.L. Hughley
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

2022
✔️ * Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
✔️ *Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
*To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
A Flicker in the Night by Stacy Willingham
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
The Maid by Nita Prose
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
✔️ *What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention- and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry

✔️20.1 Birthdays (1913-1952)
The Blind Side by Patricia Wentworth Hoopla

✔️20.2 Biography (Biography or Biographical Fiction)
Composers: Their Lives and Works by D.K. Publishing Library hard copy
or The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Ebook in. Audio available. Aged.

20.3 NYRB
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane Aged; Library hard copy
or Stoner by John Williams
or Bambi by Felix Salten

✔️20.4 Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)
Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu Hoopla audio and ebook

✔️20.5 Books
Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink audiobook

✔️20.6 Industry (Film or fashion industry)
Peril in Paris by Rhys Bowen Aged. Ebook on Libby app.

✔️20.7 Ratings (<1,000 or >75,000)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Owned hardback. Aged, Canon.

✔️20.8 Short
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger Canon, Aged.
Hoopla e-book

20.9 Translator (Author who also translates)
Bishop as Pawn by Ralph McInerny He is on the Wikipedia list posted by Elizabeth; translated Aquinas. Aged. May have to put on hold.
or The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter Aged. I put link in Task Thread. May have to put on hold. or The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters abridged version on Libby or Hoopla.

✔️20.10 Mystery
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Canon. Owned paperback.

✔️10.9 Covid-19 Hits
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese Owned hardback.