Reading with Style discussion

If you'd like to share your Fall plans, this is the place!

Planning Ideas:

10.1 Over 60
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

10.2 Moon and Sun
✓ Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig
✓ The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane

10.3 Vowels
✓ Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens

10.4 Debut
✓ Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

10.5 October
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

10.6 September
Distant Shores or Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah (9/25/60)
Midwinter Break or Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty (9/14/42)
Agatha Christie (9/15/1890)

10.7 Scrabble
✓ The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield

10.8 Friends
The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship by Sara James
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe

10.9 Georgia
The River of Kings by Taylor Brown

10.10 Group Reads
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

20.1 Author! Author!
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
✓ The Push by Ashley Audrain
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

20.2 War
✓ Hannah's War by Jan Eliasberg
✓ The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

20.3 Dickens
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)

20.4 Golden Age
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 1959

20.5 Scandinavian Noir
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

20.6 Wilder
Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller (age 8)
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (age 12)

20.7 Christie
✓ A Fugue in Time by Rumer Godden
The Sea by John Banville
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by C.W. Gortner
Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas

20.8 Morrison
✓ Fences by August Wilson
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

20.9 Popular Science
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel

20.10 Letters
✓ Go as a River by Shelley Read
✓ Letter From Home by Carolyn G. Hart
✓ The Caretaker by Ron Rash
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

10.1 Over 60: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

10.2 Moon and Sun: Fortune Like the Moon

10.3 Vowels: A Moveable Feast

10.4 Debut (Tien's Task): Daughter of the Moon Goddess

10.5 October (Karen's Task):

10.6 September (Valerie's Task): The English Patient

10.7 Scrabble (Anika's Task): The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

10.8 Friends (Mary's Task): Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend

10.9 Georgia (Apple's Task): Sweet Tea and Sympathy

10.10 Group Reads:

20.1 Author! Author!: Hemingway's Girl

20.2 War: Between Shades of Gray

20.3 Dickens: The Last of the Mohicans

20.4 Golden Age: Foundation

20.5 Scandinavian Noir: Cockroaches

20.6 Wilder: Coraline

20.7 Christie: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

20.8 Morrison: Killing in C Sharp

20.9 Popular Science: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

20.10 Letters (Owlette's Task): Letters from Skye

for ideas:

10.1 Over 60 The Housekeeper and the Professor

10.2 Moon and Sun The Moon and Sixpence

10.3 Vowels - choices: Ian Hamilton, AM Smith, Ellis Peters

10.4 Debut Behold the Dreamers

10.5 September Agatha Christie

10.6 October The Word is Murder

10.7 Scrabble My Italian Bulldozer

10.8 Friends The Little Friend

10.9 Georgia => thanks to Bea, I have a book for this which is actually in our library! Sweet Tea and Sympathy

10.10 Group reads: Exhalation
The Adventures of Sally

20.1 Author! Author! A Different Kind of Evil

20.2 War The Fires of Autumn

20.3 Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle

20.4 Golden Age Slan

20.5 Scandinavian Noir Jo Nesbo

20.6 Wilder My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

20.7 Christie Violeta

20.8 Morrison Brown Girl in the Ring

20.9 Popular Science An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

20.10 Letters 84, Charing Cross Road

10.1 Protagonist over 60
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

10.2 Moon and Sun
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

10.3 Vowels
Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers by Amy Sutherland

10.4
10.5
10.6

10.7 Scrabble
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan

10.8 FRIEND
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About by Mil Millington

10.9 Georgia
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

10.10 Group Reads

20.1 Author! Author!
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

20.2 War
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

20.3 Dickens
Hunger by Knut Hamsun

20.4 Golden Age
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

20.5 Scandinavian Noir
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen

20.6 Wilder
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (age 12)

20.7 Christie
Time's Edge by Rysa Walker
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

20.8 Morrison
The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

20.9 Popular Science
Memory Craft by Dr Lynne Kelly

20.10 Pen and Paper
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Galveston by Suzanne Morris

Plan to come

10.1 over 60
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
✔️ The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

10.2 Sun and Moon
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
✔️ The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan

10.3 Vowels
Alexander McCall Smith
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Alexie Sherman
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
✔️ No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson

10.4 - Debut (last 10 years)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
✔️ The Return by Rachel Harrison
All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Salthouse Place by Jamie Lee Sogn
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

10.5 October (list of horror fiction)
Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
The House by the Churchyard by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Widdershins by Oliver Onions
✔️ Beautiful Days by Joyce Carol Oates

10.6 September (author born in September)
The Institute by Stephen King
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
James McBride
✔️ Peril in Paris by Rhys Bowen
Mary Stewart
Victoria Holt aka Jean Plaidy aka Philipa Carr

10.7 Scrabble
✔️ Experimental Film by Gemma Files

10.8 Friends
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
✔️ Unlikely Friends by Julie Salamon
Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder by Ken Englade
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
Selkies are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper
Friends in High Places by Donna Leon

10.9 Georgia
✔️ Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Sounder by William H. Armstrong

10.10 Group Reads
The Absolutist by John Boyne
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
✔️ Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

20.1 Author Author
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
✔️ Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

20.2 War
The Alice Network
✔️ Manassas by James Reasoner
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
✔️ Shiloh by James Reasoner
✔️ Antietam by James Reasoner
✔️ Chancellorsville by James Reasoner
✔️ Vicksburg by James Reasoner
✔️ Gettysburg by James Reasoner
✔️ Chickamauga by James Reasoner
✔️ Shenandoah by James Reasoner
✔️ Savannah by James Reasoner
✔️ Appomattox by James Reasoner

20.3 Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Silas Marner by George Eliot
✔️ Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

20.4 Golden Age
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
✔️ The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff

20.5 Scandinavian Noir
✔️ An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helene Tursten
The Absolution by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg

20.6 Wilder
The Mystery of Alice by Lee Bacon
✔️ This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin

20.7 Christie
Augustus by John Williams
Torment in the Knobs by R. Frank McKinney
✔️ American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky

20.8 Morrison
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
✔️ Blanche Among the Talented Tenth by Barbara Neely

20.9 Science
✔️ When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep by Antonio Zadra
You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type by Daniel G. Amen
The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks by Mike Dow
✔️ At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks

20.10 Letters
✔️ Once in a Blue Moon Lodge by Lorna Landvik
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

10.1. A Caribbean Mystery
10.2 The Pull of the Moon
10.4 The Witch and the Tsar
10.6 COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD
10.8 Friends For Robots: Short Stories
20.3 The Black Box
20.4 Triplanetary
20.7 The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
20.8 Unmarriageable
20.10 Scribe

Read:
10.3, 10.5, 10.7, 10.9, 10.10
20.1, 20.5, 20.6, 20.9

Planning

10.1 - The Thursday Murder Club September-1-2023 ✔️
10.2
10.3 Murder at the Mansion by Alison Golden 9/8 ✔️
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

10.1 Over 60 Read any book from the list Protagonists Over 60
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

10.2 Moon and Sun In honor of Moon Tiger and A Thousand Splendid Suns, read a book with the word sun or moon in the title. Plural, possessives, and compound words included.

10.3 Vowels In honor of Irène Némirovsky, read a book by an author whose first name begins with a vowel: a, e, i, o, or u.

10.4 Debut (Tien's Task) debut novel by a female author published in the last 10 years (2013-2023 inclusive)

10.5 October (Karen's Task) Read any book by an author on this List of Horror Fiction Writers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

10.6 September (Valerie's Task) Author born in September

10.7 Scrabble (Anika's Task) at least 23 points using the Scrabble scoring system (excluding subtitle):
✔️The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club by Lynn Cahoon
1 Point - A, E, I, O U; L, N, R, S, T;
2 Points - D, G;
3 Points - B, C, M, P;
4 Points - F, H, V, W, Y;
5 Points - K;
8 Points - J, X;
10 Points - Q, Z

10.8 Friends (Mary's Task) “friend” in the title or subtitle.

10.9 Georgia (Apple's Task) 51% in Georgia (state or country).

10.10 Group Reads

✔️20.1 Author! Author!: Read a book where an author is the focus/main character. Author can be real or fictional, and your read can be either fiction or nonfiction.
The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear

20.2 War MPG of War and Historical Fiction
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

20.3 Dickens In honor of Charles Dickens, read any book by an author who lived during Dickens lifetime (1812-1870).
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

20.4 Golden Age In honor of the Golden Age of Science-Fiction, read any book of science fiction originally published in the 1930s, 1940s, or 1950s.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

20.5 Scandinavian Noir: Book by one of the authors on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_...
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

✔️20.6 Wilder In honor of Laura Ingalls Wilder, read a book with a child's Point of View. (Age 13 or younger)
It’s Boba Time for Pearl Li! by Nicole Chen

20.7 Christie - fiction or nonfiction - events cover more than 50 years.
possibly Guided by Saints: A 30-Day Journal for Inspiration and Direction by Susan Hines-Brigger
or Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

✔️20.8 Morrison - Woman author who is also a person of color.
The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu

20.9 Popular Science In honor of Ed Yong, read a book with an MPG of Science and has a rating of at least 3.75.
Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth by Michael S. Engel

20.10 Letters (Owlette's Task)
✔️The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare if Romeo writes a letter.
or The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope