tassini's "The Books of August"

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I try to draw up my monthly list in categories. For example, the first three for August are prize winners of one type or another. The next two (4&5) are classics. They’re followed by children’s books (sometimes including YA) numbers 6&7. Then come two non-fictions, often something I have to force myself to include (8&9) I try but am not always successful to read a book in German each month. August’s is Lippels Traum, #10. The next two (11&12) are notable recent fiction chosen from NYT, PW, Christian Scientist Monitor, Amazon bests etc. Of course there’s just for fun reading, not all yet chosen, but beginning with #13. And finally a disclaimer – list is subject to change since I typically rebel against to-do lists!

  1. 1.
    A Little Class on Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 5)
    by Carolyn G. Hart

  2. 2.
    This Blinding Absence of Light
    by Tahar Ben Jelloun

  3. 3.
    The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
    by Thomas Mullen

  4. 4.
    The Death of Ivan Ilych and other stories
    by Leo Tolstoy

  5. 5.
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Unabridged Classics)
    by Jules Verne

  6. 7.
    The Devil's Arithmetic (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Jane Yolen

  7. 8.
    Survival In Auschwitz
    by Primo Levi

  8. 9.
    When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
    by Peter Godwin

  9. 10.
    Lippels Traum. ( Ab 10 J.)
    by Paul Maar

  10. 11.
    The Little Friend
    by Donna Tartt

  11. 12.
    The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book 1)
    by Suzanne Collins

  12. 13.
    The Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett

  13. 14.
    Beyond Reach: A Novel (Grant County)
    by Karin Slaughter

  14. 15.
    ?
    From the Corner of His Eye [Large Print]
    by Dean Koontz

  15. 16.
    ?
    The Tailor of Panama
    by John Lecarre

  16. 18.
    The Lovers: A Thriller (Charlie Parker Thrillers)
    by John Connolly

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Created by tassini on Aug 02, 2009.
 

Comments

Untitled — 3 years ago

Number 3 won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, which list I plan to enter shortly.




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