Reading with Style discussion

While not required, feel free to share your Celebration of Styles reading plan in this thread.

Yay!

Ideas:

Lost in Translation = Japanese books on hoopla, Nesbo, Earthlings, Simenon

Non Western = Gabriel García Márquez

1001 = The Singapore Grip
Eyeless in Gaza
Titus Groan

Canon = The Master of Ballantrae
-> lots of choices in "Chaotic Age"

Not a Novel = Patti Smith -> too short :( will use one of the many NF on hand

Aged = Saramago, Ellis Peters

Young = Adam Shoalts, Seanan McGuire

I started with Lost in Translation and got so many that I moved some around to the other styles. These are a dozen that are the most likely candidates for Fall, but I reserve the right to read others instead.

LiT: A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
LiT: The Hummingbird by Kati Hiekkapelto

Non-Western: Homesick by Eshkol Nevo
Non-Western: Pelagia and the Red Rooster by Boris Akunin (Mysteries Challenge!)

1001: The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas

Canon: The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Not-a-Novel: The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin (this also fits Canon, Young, Non-Western)

Aged: Portraits of a Marriage by Sándor Márai
Aged: The Gordian Knot by Bernhard Schlink

Young: Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant

Most likely alternates:

Aged: The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri
Not-a-Novel: War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich

Planning Ideas:

Lost in Translation:
✓ The Man on the Bench in the Barn by Georges Simenon 15.7
The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Non-Western: Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea (Mexico)
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino (Japan)

1001: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Canon: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

Not-a-Novel:
✓ Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson 15.4
Servants of the Map: Stories by Andrea Barrett or
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett

Aged (75 or older):
✓ Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden (91) 15.8
✓ The Widow's Trial by John Ehle (93) 15.2
✓ Refuge by Dot Jackson (84) 15.10
✓ All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark (93) 15.9

Young (50 or younger):
✓ Songbirds by Christy Lefteri (born 1980) 15.5
✓ Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (born 7/27/86) 15.1
✓ It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover (born 12/11/79) 15.3
✓ Evil Eye by Etaf Rum (born 5/8/89) 15.6

Plan coming soon!

My current plan (which will change probably as I read:

LiT: The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen
LiT: The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
LiT: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Non-Western: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (India)
Non-Western: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexico)

Non-Fiction: Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward
Non-Fiction: Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Aged: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson (Living 76)
Aged: Callander Square by Anne Perry (Died 85)

Young: Long Man by Amy Greene (Living 48)

Some initial thoughts:

Lost in Translation:
Wolf Dreams OR In the Name of God by Yasmina Khadra (also Non-Western)

Non Western:
The Redemption of Time by Baoshu (Also Lost in Translation)
Heaven (Also Lost in Translation)

1001:
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Devil's Pool by George Sand (also Canon [note: listed as The Haunted Pool])

Canon:
Hunger by Knut Hamsun (also 1001; Aged) [Maybe use for 20.3]
The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute (also LiT)
Four Novels By Marguerite Duras - The Square - Moderato Cantabile - 10:30 on a Saturday Night - The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas (also LiT)

Not a Novel:
High School by Tegan Quin (also Young)

Aged:
The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

Young:
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
The Priest by Tiffany Reisz
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

LiT
✔️ The Smell of the Night by Andrea Camilleri
The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago

NW
✔️ They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi
Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady Strugatsky
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha

1001
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Small Island by Andrea Levy
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Cane by Jean Toomer
The Secret Agent or The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
✔️ Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

Canon
✔️ Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Cane by Jean Toomer
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

NotNovel
Twisted Scripture: Untangling 45 Lies Christians Have Been Told by Andrew Farley
How We Change and 10 Reasons Why We Dont by Dr Ross Ellenhorn
✔️ Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places by Adam Fletcher

Aged
Alexander McCall Smith
M.M. Kaye
Susan Wittig Albert
Noam Chomsky
Ian McEwan
Barbara Neely
Barbara Tuchman
Charlotte Elkins
Connie Willis
Carola Dunn
✔️ The Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse

Young
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty (1991)
David Joy (1983)
Spare by Prince Harry
Kate Morton

Young Gallant

Read
Aged The Moment of Tenderness
LiT The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount
Non-western Girls of Riyadh
NaN (max 5)
- The It Factor: Be the One People Like, Listen to, and Remember
- Runes: Memory

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