My 100-Book Resolution: Midyear Check-In
If only...if only I weren't so constantly beguiled by the shiny and new books dangled above me like a mobile over a baby's crib, perhaps I would have made more progress on this resolution list.
Actually, I'm surprised that I've read or made attempts at 20 of them. Almost 21, when I finally finish the gargantuan The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I. These efforts are highlighted in red.
I'm feeling ambitious once again, but to say that I'm going to hunker down and blow through this list while ignoring everything else would be foolish. Still, I'm wondering: Just how much of a dent I can put into the 100 before December 31? My bookworm blood is fairly singing.
I'll do another check-in at the end of September.
1. Caroline: Little House Revisited - Sarah Miller (fiction)
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (fiction)
3. Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi (nonfiction)
4. Songs for the Missing - Stewart O'Nan (fiction)
5. The Cooler King - Patrick Bishop (nonfiction)I
6. Ride the Pink Horse - Dorothy B. Hughes (fiction)
7. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee (fiction)
8. Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf (fiction)
9. The Witches - Stacy Schiff (nonfiction)
10. The Great Influenza - John M. Barry (nonfiction)
11. The Nix - Nathan Hill (fiction)
12. Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell (nonfiction)
13. Drama - John Lithgow (nonfiction)
14. I'll Be Right There - Kyung-Sook Shin (fiction)
15. The Aquariums of Pyongyang - Kang Chol-Hwan (nonfiction)
16. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain (nonfiction)
17. Gilligan's Wake - Tom Carson (fiction)
18. Vein of Iron - Ellen Glasgow (fiction) DNF almost right out of the gate. The writing style jarred. It seemed cloying and overly dramatic.
19. None But the Lonely Heart - Richard Llewellyn (fiction)
20. Underground - Haruki Murakami (nonfiction)
21. Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello (nonfiction)
22. Upstairs Girls - Michael Rutter (nonfiction)
23. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher (nonfiction)
24. The Sellout - Paul Beatty (fiction)
25. White Trash - Nancy Isenberg (nonfiction)
26. Earth - Emile Zola (fiction)
27. From Scratch: Inside the Food Network - Allen Salkin (nonfiction)
28. A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray - William C. Davis (nonfiction)
29. M Train - Patti Smith (nonfiction)
30. Clockers - Richard Price (fiction)
31. Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest - Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. (nonfiction)
32. Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard (nonfiction)
33. The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock (fiction)
34. Saint Mazie - Jami Attenberg (fiction)
35. The Letter - Kathryn Hughes (fiction)
36. The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware (fiction)
37. All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda (fiction)
38. LaRose - Louise Erdrich (fiction)
39. The Dead Republic - Roddy Doyle (fiction)
40. Pox - Michael Willrich (nonfiction)
41. The Orchardist - Amanda Coplin (fiction)
42. Soaring with Vultures - Dan Kelly (fiction)
43. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry (fiction)
44. The Living - Annie Dillard (fiction)
45. The Tree of Man - Patrick White (fiction)
46. Heads in Beds - Jacob Tomsky (nonfiction)
47. Rainbow's End - James M. Cain (fiction)
48. What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton (nonfiction)
49. The Hard Blue Sky - Shirley Ann Grau (fiction)
50. October, 1964 - David Halberstam (nonfiction)
51. A Mother's Reckoning - Sue Klebold (nonfiction)
52. James Baldwin: A Biography - David Leeming (nonfiction)
53. West with the Night - Beryl Markham (nonfiction)
54. The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson (fiction)
55. The Nutmeg Tree - Margery Sharp (fiction)
56. No Sweat - Michelle Segar (nonfiction)
57. Mary Olivier: A Life - May Sinclair (fiction)
58. All the Rage - Courtney Summers (fiction)
59. The Art of Discarding - Nagisa Tatsumi (nonfiction)
60. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson (nonfiction)
61. Traveling Sprinkler - Nicholson Baker (fiction) DNF. Got halfway through this short novel and had to quit. Blather.
62. Three Many Cooks - Pam Anderson, Maggy Keet, Sharon Damelio (nonfiction)
63. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (fiction)
64. The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction)
65. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (fiction)
66. Martin Dressler - Stephen Millhauser (fiction)
67. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos (fiction)
68. Elbow Room - James Alan McPherson (fiction)
69. The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty (fiction)
70. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron (fiction)
71. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (fiction)
72. Journey in the Dark - Martin Flavin (fiction)
73. In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow (fiction)
74. Years of Grace - Margaret Barnes (fiction)
75. Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin (fiction)
76. One of Ours - Willa Cather (fiction)
77. Mary Poppins - Travers (fiction)
78. 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith (fiction)
79. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin (fiction)
80. Ironweed - William Kennedy (fiction)
81. Hard Times - Studs Terkel (nonfiction)
82. The Group - Mary McCarthy (fiction)
83. Turtles All the Way Down - John Green (fiction)
84. Loving Robert Lowell - Author??? (nonfiction)
85. The Wine Lover's Daughter - Anne Fadiman (nonfiction)
86. Home - Marilynne Robinson (fiction)
87. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin (fiction)
88. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo - Amy Schumer (nonfiction)
89. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (nonfiction)
90. The Letters of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath (nonfiction) Volumes 1 and 2!
91. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (fiction)
92. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning - Margareta Magnusson (nonfiction)
93. Coming To My Senses - Alice Waters (nonfiction)
94. Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray - Adam Federman (nonfiction)
95. The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters - Laura Thompson (nonfiction)
96. Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell - David Yaffe (nonfiction) DNF. Found the book overwritten which seemed to distance the reader from the subject. I wish that JM had written her own memoir.
97. The Reporter Who Knew Too Much - Mark Shaw (nonfiction)
98. Home is Burning - Dan Marshall (nonfiction)
99. The Lost Art of Housecleaning - Jan Dougherty (nonfiction)
100. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (fiction)
Actually, I'm surprised that I've read or made attempts at 20 of them. Almost 21, when I finally finish the gargantuan The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I. These efforts are highlighted in red.
I'm feeling ambitious once again, but to say that I'm going to hunker down and blow through this list while ignoring everything else would be foolish. Still, I'm wondering: Just how much of a dent I can put into the 100 before December 31? My bookworm blood is fairly singing.
I'll do another check-in at the end of September.
1. Caroline: Little House Revisited - Sarah Miller (fiction)
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (fiction)
3. Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi (nonfiction)
4. Songs for the Missing - Stewart O'Nan (fiction)
5. The Cooler King - Patrick Bishop (nonfiction)I
6. Ride the Pink Horse - Dorothy B. Hughes (fiction)
7. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee (fiction)
8. Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf (fiction)
9. The Witches - Stacy Schiff (nonfiction)
10. The Great Influenza - John M. Barry (nonfiction)
11. The Nix - Nathan Hill (fiction)
12. Unfamiliar Fishes - Sarah Vowell (nonfiction)
13. Drama - John Lithgow (nonfiction)
14. I'll Be Right There - Kyung-Sook Shin (fiction)
15. The Aquariums of Pyongyang - Kang Chol-Hwan (nonfiction)
16. Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain (nonfiction)
17. Gilligan's Wake - Tom Carson (fiction)
18. Vein of Iron - Ellen Glasgow (fiction) DNF almost right out of the gate. The writing style jarred. It seemed cloying and overly dramatic.
19. None But the Lonely Heart - Richard Llewellyn (fiction)
20. Underground - Haruki Murakami (nonfiction)
21. Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello (nonfiction)
22. Upstairs Girls - Michael Rutter (nonfiction)
23. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher (nonfiction)
24. The Sellout - Paul Beatty (fiction)
25. White Trash - Nancy Isenberg (nonfiction)
26. Earth - Emile Zola (fiction)
27. From Scratch: Inside the Food Network - Allen Salkin (nonfiction)
28. A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray - William C. Davis (nonfiction)
29. M Train - Patti Smith (nonfiction)
30. Clockers - Richard Price (fiction)
31. Bust Hell Wide Open: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest - Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. (nonfiction)
32. Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard (nonfiction)
33. The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock (fiction)
34. Saint Mazie - Jami Attenberg (fiction)
35. The Letter - Kathryn Hughes (fiction)
36. The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware (fiction)
37. All the Missing Girls - Megan Miranda (fiction)
38. LaRose - Louise Erdrich (fiction)
39. The Dead Republic - Roddy Doyle (fiction)
40. Pox - Michael Willrich (nonfiction)
41. The Orchardist - Amanda Coplin (fiction)
42. Soaring with Vultures - Dan Kelly (fiction)
43. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry (fiction)
44. The Living - Annie Dillard (fiction)
45. The Tree of Man - Patrick White (fiction)
46. Heads in Beds - Jacob Tomsky (nonfiction)
47. Rainbow's End - James M. Cain (fiction)
48. What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton (nonfiction)
49. The Hard Blue Sky - Shirley Ann Grau (fiction)
50. October, 1964 - David Halberstam (nonfiction)
51. A Mother's Reckoning - Sue Klebold (nonfiction)
52. James Baldwin: A Biography - David Leeming (nonfiction)
53. West with the Night - Beryl Markham (nonfiction)
54. The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson (fiction)
55. The Nutmeg Tree - Margery Sharp (fiction)
56. No Sweat - Michelle Segar (nonfiction)
57. Mary Olivier: A Life - May Sinclair (fiction)
58. All the Rage - Courtney Summers (fiction)
59. The Art of Discarding - Nagisa Tatsumi (nonfiction)
60. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson (nonfiction)
61. Traveling Sprinkler - Nicholson Baker (fiction) DNF. Got halfway through this short novel and had to quit. Blather.
62. Three Many Cooks - Pam Anderson, Maggy Keet, Sharon Damelio (nonfiction)
63. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (fiction)
64. The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (fiction)
65. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (fiction)
66. Martin Dressler - Stephen Millhauser (fiction)
67. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos (fiction)
68. Elbow Room - James Alan McPherson (fiction)
69. The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty (fiction)
70. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron (fiction)
71. All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren (fiction)
72. Journey in the Dark - Martin Flavin (fiction)
73. In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow (fiction)
74. Years of Grace - Margaret Barnes (fiction)
75. Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin (fiction)
76. One of Ours - Willa Cather (fiction)
77. Mary Poppins - Travers (fiction)
78. 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith (fiction)
79. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin (fiction)
80. Ironweed - William Kennedy (fiction)
81. Hard Times - Studs Terkel (nonfiction)
82. The Group - Mary McCarthy (fiction)
83. Turtles All the Way Down - John Green (fiction)
84. Loving Robert Lowell - Author??? (nonfiction)
85. The Wine Lover's Daughter - Anne Fadiman (nonfiction)
86. Home - Marilynne Robinson (fiction)
87. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin (fiction)
88. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo - Amy Schumer (nonfiction)
89. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (nonfiction)
90. The Letters of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath (nonfiction) Volumes 1 and 2!
91. The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy (fiction)
92. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning - Margareta Magnusson (nonfiction)
93. Coming To My Senses - Alice Waters (nonfiction)
94. Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray - Adam Federman (nonfiction)
95. The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters - Laura Thompson (nonfiction)
96. Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell - David Yaffe (nonfiction) DNF. Found the book overwritten which seemed to distance the reader from the subject. I wish that JM had written her own memoir.
97. The Reporter Who Knew Too Much - Mark Shaw (nonfiction)
98. Home is Burning - Dan Marshall (nonfiction)
99. The Lost Art of Housecleaning - Jan Dougherty (nonfiction)
100. Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren (fiction)
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