Way back at the beginning of the summer, I posted my To Read list for the coming months.
So how did I do? Well, here’s the list:
1. Maps & Legends by Michael Chabon
Status: Unread
2. Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Status: Unread
3. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Status: Read! Read my review here.
4. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Status: Unread (I blame all my high school English teachers. Shouldn’t I have read this one then?)
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Status: Read (Well, mostly. I got about halfway through before I had to return it to the library but I feel like I got the gist. I chose this one because I found it on a list of Great American Novels but I don’t see what the fuss is all about. If I’m missing something amazing in that second half, let me know.)
6. No Relation – Terry Fallis
Status: Read
7. The World – Bill Gaston
Status: Read! Read my review here.
8. The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass
Status: Unread
9. Alone in the Classroom – Elizabeth Hay
Status: Unread
10. A Year of Biblical Womanhood – Rachel Held Evans
Status: Read! Review coming.
11. Across the River and into the Trees – Ernest Hemingway
Status: Currently Reading
12. The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
Status: Read
13. Perfect by Rachel Joyce
Status: Unread
14. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Status: Unread
15. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Status: Unread
16. This Side of Brightness – Collum McCann
Status: Unread
17. Transatlantic by Collum McCann
Status: Unread (But really want to read these 2 because I love Collum McCann.)
18. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Status: Read! (Read my review here.)
19. And No Birds Sang – Farley Mowat
Status: Unread
20. The Girl Who was Saturday Night – Heather O’Neill
Status: Read
21. A Tale for the time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Status: Unread
22. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Status: Read! Read my review here.
23. House Calls by Float Plane – Alan Swan
Status: Unread
24. The Flying Troutmans – Miriam Toews
Status: Unread (Instead, I read Toews’ most recent novel, All My Puny Sorrows, which was truly excellent.)
25.Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese
Status: Unread (Again, I got my hands on Wagamese’s most recent novel, Medicine Walk, and read that instead.)
So that works out to me having read 10 out of the 25 titles on my summer list. Not a great percentage. However, and in my defense, those aren’t the only books I read this summer.
Here’s what else kept me busy:
1. Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
2. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
5. Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
6. Open by Lisa Moore
7. Man by Kim Thuy
8. Juliet was a Surprise by Bill Gaston
That makes me feel a bit better about myself.
Stay tuned tomorrow for my Autumn 2014 Reading List!
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