SCHEDULE:
JANUARY: JUVENILE FICTION
- The Future of Us (Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler)
- The Firefly Letters (Margarita Engle)
- I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You (Ally Carter)
- Liesl and Po (Lauren Oliver)
Off the Shelf Challenge – Hosted by Bookish Ardour (These are listed in no particular order. My goal is read at least half of the titles below.)
- Lust for Life (Irving Stone)
Paris My Sweet (Amy Thomas)- Suite Française (Irene Nemirovsky)
In Pursuit of Silence (George Prochnik)Swamplandia! (Karen Russell)The Girl Who Fell From the School (Heidi Durrow)- When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Gail Collins)
- Fly By Night (Frances Hardinge)
- Riverbig (Aris Janigian)
- The Hakawati (Rabih Alameddine)
- Reading Like A Writer (Francine Prose)
- Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789 (Anthony Brandt)
- Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
- The House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III)
- Wickett’s Remedy (Myla Goldberg)
- Ahab’s Wife or The Star Gazer (Sena Jeter Naslund)
- Everything is Illuminated (Jonathon Safran Foer)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)- Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
- The Green Hills of Africa (Ernest Hemingway)
- House of Leaves (Mark Danielewski)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)- The Book of Emmanuel (Anthony Martinez)
Howard’s End (EM Forster)- The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
- 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- The Log from the Sea of Cortez (John Steinbeck)
- The Winter of our Discontent (John Steinbeck)
- The Agony & the Ecstasy (Irving Stone)
- Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathon Swift)
- The Dante Club (Matthew Pearl)
- The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
- The Sound & The Fury (William Faulkner)
- The Spy (James Fennimore Cooper)
- Childhood’s End (Arthur C Clarke)
- The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Douglas Adams)
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Tom Standage)- Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggers)
Bel Canto (Ann Pratchett)- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- Persuasion (Jane Austen)
- Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- A Feast for Crows (George R. R. Martin)
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
- Their Eyes Where Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Lipstick Jihad (Azadeh Moaveni)- Love In the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian)
- Anne of Green Gables (LM Montgomery)
- Anne of Avonlea (LM Montgomery)
- Anne of the Island (LM Montgomery)
- Anne’s House of Dreams (LM Montgomery)
- Anne of Windy Poplars (LM Montgomery)
- Anne of Ingleside (LM Montgomery)
- Rainbow Valley (LM Montgomery)
- Rilla of Ingleside (LM Montgomery)
The Sweet Life in Paris (David Lebovitz)- A Man in Uniform (Kate Taylor)
- Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)
- Becoming Americans in Paris (Brooke Blower)