Reading with Style discussion

Post your reading ideas for A to Z here!

You do not need to post your plan prior to the start of the challenge, nor do you need to adhere to a posted plan.

My plan: TBD

My Plan - not set in stone, but I'm liking it!

Balzac by Stefan Zweig
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Ursula by Honore de Balzac

My plan .....

The Belly of Paris by Émile Zola

My Plan


Across the Mekong River by Russell, Elaine
Book of Souls (The) by Oswald, James
OR Bats & Bones by Nortman, Karen
Cruel Sea (The) by Monserrat, Nicholas
Do Not Disturb by Kingsbury, Kate
Everything I Found on the Beach by Jones, Cynan
Hot Chocolate by Ireland, Dawn
Montezuma's Daughter by Haggard, Rider
Stonehenge by Cornwell, Bernard
Year of Wonders by Brooks, Geraldine
Zookeeper's Wife (The) by Ackerman, Diane

A - Y: The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte Yonge
C - W: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
F - T: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
G - S: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
H - R: Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe
M - M: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
N - G: New Grub Street by George Gissing
T - D: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
V - C: The Valley of Silent Men by James Curwood
W - B: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

I'm pretty sure some of these books will change but I'm not going to look at what other books fit because I'm unsure how much time i'll have over the winter/(summer for a bit for me)

My first plan.....it might not be THE plan, but all the books are from my TBR so that's a plus.

1. A-W: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld finished 2/12/14
2. B-S: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
3. E-R: The English: A field guide by Matt Rudd finished 24/12/14
4. F-N: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
5. L-M: The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
6. M-J: Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
7. N-F: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
8. O-E: Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea by John Everard
9. R-C: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
10. W-B: The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez

My Plan:

Subject to change when the rest of the tasks are posted;)

1. B-Z The Belly of Paris by Émile Zola
2. D-W The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
3. E-T Evel Knievel Days by Pauls Toutonghi
4. H or G-S How to be both or Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis by Ali Smith
5. L-P Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
6. M-M Missing Person by Patrick Modiano
7. O-K One Good Story, That One: Stories by Thomas King
8. P-H The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
9. S-D Sweet Thunder by Ivan Doig
10.U-A The Unamericans: Stories by Molly Antopol

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Weiner, Jonathan
The Chalk Circle Man by Vargas, Fred
The Door by Szabo, Magda
The God of Small Things by Roy, Arundhati
Later the Same Day by Paley, Grace
Missing Person by Modiano, Patrick
Near to the Wild Heart by Lispector, Clarice
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Colbert, Elizabeth
Three Day Road by Boyden, Joseph

1. All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
2. Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter or Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
3. The Collector of Dying Breaths: A Novel of Suspense by M.J. Rose
4. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell or The Girl You Left Behind by JoJo Moyes
5. Her: A Novel by Harriet Lane
6. It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
7. The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner or The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
8. The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Vaughn Entwistle or Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
9. Timeless by Gail Carriger
10. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley or Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks or When the Duchess Said Yes by Isabella Bradford

OK, my first pass:
A Crack in the Edge of the World by Winchester, Simon
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Urrea, Luis Alberto
Flight by Sherman, Alexie
Fine Just the Way it Is by Proulx, Annie
Here on the Edge: How a small group of World War II conscientious objectors took art and peace from the margins to the mainstream by McQuiddy, Steve
I Know This Much Is True by Lamb, Wally
Kings of Infinite Space by Hynes, James
Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles by George, Margaret
Paint it Black by Fitch, Janet
The Quality of Life Report by Daum, Meghan
Remarkable Creatures by Chevalier, Tracy

My plan:

The Cleaner of Chartres - Salley Vickers
The End of Mr. Y - Scarlett Thomas
The Ivy Tree - Mary Stewart
A Morbid Taste for Bones - Ellis Peters
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Report For Murder - Val McDermid
The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey
Their Finest Hour and a Half - Lissa Evans
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

My plan as of now:


The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories by Émile Zola YA1080
Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
The Human Stain by author:Philip Roth|463]
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham YA910
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Title letters used: A, C, F, G, H, I, M, O, P, Q
Author letters used: Z, Y, W, S, R, P, O, M, K, G

My current plan:

Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
Happenstance by Carol Shields
Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb
Jesus Swept by James Protzman
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing
Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto
The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Title letters: A, G, H, I, J, L, M, P, T, W
Author letters: W, V, S, R, P, M, L, K, C, B

Okay -- here's my current plan. Yes, I know there are 11 items in my list. But that mean's I can toss one if it doesn't sound interesting by the time I get to it. :-)

15.1 B-W Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (990 Lexile Score)
15.2 C-V Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
15.3 D-U The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
15.4 E-T Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
15.5 F-S A Fine And Bitter Snow by Dana Stabenow
15.6 I-K The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
15.7 P-H The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
15.8 S-F The September Society by Charles Finch
--or--
15.8 S-F Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde
--or--
15.8 S-G Still Alice by Lisa Genova
15.9 T-C This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
15.10 W-B What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg
--or---
15.10 W-B World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
15.11 Z-A The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

Whew -- I think I'm following all the rules correctly now. First letter in first word in book title, and first letter from the author's last name

TITLE Author
15.1 A - Y The Accidental Farmers: An urban couple, a rural calling and a dream of farming in harmony with Nature by Tim Young
15.1 B - Y A Burning in Homeland by Rick Yancey
15.2 C - W The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
15.3 D - R The Disappearance of Olivia by Nancy E. Ryan
15.4 G - P The Gates Ajar by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
15.4 M - P The Marfa Lights and Other Stories by Mark Paxson
15.5 R - N The Red Church by Scott Nicholson
15.6 S - L The Sinai Secret by Gregg Loomis
15.7 U - K UR by Stephen King
15.8 W - F The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde
15.9 Y - B Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks or The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History by Lewis Buzbee
15.10 Z - A The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman or Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

this took forever, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't screwing it up. edited to correct a double.

15.1 Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
15.2 The Colour – Rose Tremain
15.3 Fury – Salmon Rushdie
15.4 The Gateway Trip: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee – Frederik Pohl
15.5 Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
15.6 Lolita - Nabokov
15.7 Man From Mars – Stanislaw Lem
15.8 Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Stephen King
15.9 Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
15.10 The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

15.1 Brethren: An Epic Adventure of the Knights Templar by Robyn Young
15.2