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message 1: by Kate S (new)

Feb 15, 2023 02:08PM

A place for planning your Spring reading, if you like

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message 2: by Valerie (last edited May 13, 2023 12:46PM) (new)

Feb 15, 2023 06:38PM

well, why not - although it didn't work out so well for the winter! ;)

10.1 read => Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

10.2 READ => The Memory Keeper's Daughter (own) BC??

10.3 [book:Mort (own)
Read. => Truckers

10.4 read. => The Raven in the Foregate
read. => An Offer From a Gentleman

10.5 READ => The Heavenly Horse from the Outermost West (own) BC??

10.6 READ => The Pigeon Pie Mystery

10.7 Simenon (own) or
read => An Excellent Mystery

10.8 read => The Code of the Woosters

10.9 read =>Cards on the Table

10.10 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida or
Read. => Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

20.1 READ => Mercier and Camier

20.2 read => Maigret's Pickpocket

20.3 read => Parade's End (own)

20.4 READ =>Midnight's Children (own) BC??

20.5 Cold Comfort Farm (or a couple of other choices)

20.6 Death with Interruptions (own)

20.7 Remarkably Bright Creatures

20.8 Under the Wide and Starry Sky

20.9 read. =>. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (own) or
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (own)

20.10 read =>Mrs Pollifax, plus
The Silver Swan or
Elizabeth Costello (own)

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message 3: by Denise (last edited May 31, 2023 04:21PM) (new)

Feb 15, 2023 07:41PM

✔️10.1 The Name Is Archer by Ross Macdonald
10.2 The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock by Anna Katharine Green
or The Man Who Loved His Wife by Vera Caspary
10.3 The Heat's On by Chester Himes
✔️10.4 The Moon in the Gutter by David Goodis
✔️10.5 Gather Yourselves Together by Philip K. Dick
✔️10.6 Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
10.7 A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
✔️10.8 Shane by Jack Schaefer
✔️10.9 The People Look Like Flowers at Last by Charles Bukowski
✔️10.10 Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch

20.1 Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner
✔️20.2 The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau
✔️Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
✔️20.3 Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
20.4 The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
✔️20.5 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
✔️20.6 The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
✔️Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
✔️Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
✔️Dr. No by Percival Everett
✔️So Much Blue by Percival Everett
✔️Clark Howard Collected Stories - 1960s by Clark Howard
✔️Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
✔️The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
✔️The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
✔️20.7 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
20.8 The Public Burning by Robert Coover
✔️20.9 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
20.10 No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rendell
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

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message 4: by Connie (last edited May 30, 2023 09:49PM) (new)

Feb 15, 2023 08:36PM

Plans

10.1 New Horizons
✓ How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell

10.2 Albright Sisters
✓ The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

10.3 Discworld
✓ Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout (Amgash #4) (or 20.6)
✓ The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr

10.4 3, 4, 5
✓ The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
✓ The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr

10.5 Wimsey
✓ The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

10.6 Pi Day
The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin

10.7 20th Century Bookends
Rumer Godden died 1998
Wallace Stegner died 1993
William Maxwell died 2000

10.8 Gilmore Girls
Own 7 books on the list

10.9 Quilting
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

10.10 Group reads

20.1 Modernist
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
✓ Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

20.2 French
✓ A Summer with Montaigne: On the Art of Living Well by Antoine Campagne
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand
In the Country of Others by Leïla Slimani

20.3 POV
✓ The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
✓ Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel of the Heroic Women Who Served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps During World War I by Jennifer Chiaverini
✓ Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
✓ Somebody's Luggage by Charles Dickens
✓ Salvage This World by Michael Farris Smith
✓ The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham

20.4 Sub-Continent
✓ The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

20.5 Female
✓ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

20.6 Award
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
✓ The Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton
Irish Book Award - Lifetime Achievement Award
2022 Anne Enright
2021 Sebastian Barry
2019 Colm Tóibín
2013 John Banville

20.7 Non-human
✓ Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (octopus)

20.8 Real Fiction
✓ The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (pub 5/1/23)

20.9 Non-Fiction (series)
Fences by August Wilson
✓ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy

20.10 Uncommon Letter (Q, X, Z in name of character)
✓ The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (Queenie)
✓ Maureen by Rachel Joyce (Queenie)
✓ Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Petrona Sanchez)

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message 5: by Rebekah (last edited May 24, 2023 08:17PM) (new)

Feb 15, 2023 11:32PM

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message 6: by Bea (last edited Feb 16, 2023 03:14AM) (new)

Feb 16, 2023 02:30AM

Bea's Plan

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

20.1: Ernest Hemingway
20.2
20.3
20.4:
20.5: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
20.6: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury - Also possibles: Edgar Awards Grand Master list
20.7:
20.8
20.9
20.10

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message 7: by Joanna (last edited Mar 06, 2023 02:49PM) (new)

Feb 16, 2023 11:58AM

10.1 - Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
10.2 - Mother Dear by Nova Lee Maier
10.3 - The Priest by Tiffany Reisz (Original Sinners series)
10.4 - Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
10.5 - The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Stellarlune by Shannon Messenger
10.6 - Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew D. Blechman
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Sei Shōnagon
10.7 - The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
10.8 - Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
10.9 - Crows & Cards by Joseph Helgerson
10.10 - Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel Genki Kawamura
If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

20.1 - Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
20.2 - The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
20.3 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
20.4 - A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
20.5 - Soulless by Gail Carriger
20.6 - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
20.7 - The Scar by China Miéville
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
20.8 - The First Mrs. Rothschild by Sara Aharoni
20.9 - A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry
The Food of a Younger Land: The WPA's Portrait of Food in Pre-World War II America by Mark Kurlansky
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
20.10 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta

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message 8: by Beth (last edited Mar 21, 2023 08:29PM) (new)

Feb 26, 2023 12:51PM

Beth Robinson (bethrobinson) | 1174 comments

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10.1
10.2 Daughters of the Lake with backup The Son and Heir: A Memoir both kindle
10.4
10.5 The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
10.6 Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art
10.7
10.8 The Lovely Bones library
10.9 Preferably Infinite Stars but might be Star Nomad kindle
20.1
20.2 I have three Marc Levy on kindle
20.3
20.4 on kindle The Blue Bar
20.5 By the Sword #241
20.6 Nobel 2003 Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians
20.7
20.10

Read: 10.3, 10.10, 20.8, 20.9

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message 9: by Owlette (last edited May 18, 2023 06:14PM) (new)

Apr 01, 2023 06:09PM

✔️10.2 Albright Sisters
Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu

✔️20.1 Modernist
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

✔️20.2 French
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

✔️20.3 POV
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

✔️20.4 Sub-continent
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden

20.5 Female
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë #24
or
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

✔️20.6 Award
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife by Georges Simenon award approved for someone else in task thread

✔️20.7 Non-Human
The Willows in Winter by William Horwood

20.8 Real Fiction (my task)
The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
or
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor published Jan 2023; 29 holds. Based on true story of priest Hugh O'Flaherty. GR says this is book #1 of Rome Escape Line Trilogy, but no other titles yet. Mod. approved series points in post #31 of General questions thread.

✔️20.9 Non-fiction (series)
Richard II by William Shakespeare (Wars of the Roses; approved for someone else in task thread)

✔️20.10 Uncommon Letter (Q, X, or Z in character names)
Howards End by E.M. Forster (Wilcox main character)

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