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Give me books, fruit, french wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors. --John Keats
CHAIN-SMOKING BOOKS FOR DECADES, BLOGGING ABOUT IT SINCE MAY 2009
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Oh for a book and a shady nook,
Either in door or out;
With the green leaves whispering overhead,
Or the street cries all about.
Where I may read all at my ease,
Both of the new and old;
For a jolly good book whereon to look,
Is better to me than gold.
--John Wilson
Reading Soon (in which "soon" is admittedly a misnomer):
- The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
- Drood by Dan Simmons
- Londoners by Craig Taylor
- The Visible World by Mark Slouka
- The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami
- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
- Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
- Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
- The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
- A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
- Wild Animus by Rich Shapero
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
- Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
- The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
- Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Stealing Athena by Karen Essex
- Possession by AS Byatt
- Horton Halfpoint by Tom Angleberger
- The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall
- Images & Shadows by Iris Origo
- We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Cesare Borgia by Sarah Bradford
- These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- Bite Me by Christopher Moore
- Slightly Chipped by Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone
- Denial by Jessica Stern
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
- The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- The Man in my Basement by Walter Mosley
- The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keeffe
- The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo
- Backward-Facing Man by Don Silver
- After This by Alice McDermott
- Paper Trails by Pete Dexter
- Voices from the Street by Philip K. Dick
- Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler
- A Big Little Life by Dean Koontz
- On Folly Beach by Karen White
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
- The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin
- Vanish by Tom Pawlik
- Lady by Thomas Tryon
- True North by Jim Harrison
- The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough
- The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Charlemagne by Richard Winston
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
- The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
- I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
- Lost Horizon by James Hilton
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Lamb by Christopher Moore
- Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
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For the Record: June and July 20167 years ago
100 Books From Kathy's "List of Books I Want to Read"
- Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge
- If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
- Matchless by Gregory Maguire
- Lost by Gregory Maguire
- The Canon by Natalie Angier
- The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe
- Rock Island Line by David Rhodes
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
- A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
- Flush by Virginia Woolf
- Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
- The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
- The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
- Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
- Water Music by T. C. Boyle
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
- The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
- The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
- The Third Translation by Matt Bondurant
- Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Man Without a Contry by Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Entering Space by Robert Zubrin
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- Epic by Conor Kostick
- Beastly by Alex Finn
- Rule of the Bone by Russel Bank
- Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett
- The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
- Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
- Katherine by Anya Seton
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Magician by Raymond E. Feist
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
- The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- The Twits by Roald Dahl
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
- The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Germinal by Emile Zola
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- On The Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
"Better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them."
--Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
--Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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