August's reading has a theme: "getting caught up in all my long-neglected challenges."
- ARCS from various sources
- Sin in Second City by Karen Abbott
- The Guardians by Ana Castillo
- Book Groups
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Classic Literature)
- Challenges
- Down Under
- Gilgamesh by Joan London
- Voss by Patrick White
- The Cardboard Crown by Martin Boyd
- NYT Notable Books
- Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
- Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- Non-Fiction Five
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
- Book Awards
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- 52 Plays/52 Weeks
- let's try again for 10 plays in 4 weeks
- Preparations for teaching
- The Iliad by Homer
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- as much of James Joyce's Ulysses as I can manage
- Other
- Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Runaway by Alice Munro
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
- Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other things that aren't as scary... ed. Ted Thompson
- Books from June/July [all optional, if I finish my August books - ha!]
- [The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami]
- [Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami]
- [The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi]
- [Gilead by Marilynne Robinson]
- [The Bone People by Keri Hulme]
Oooo, you might want to consider sneaking 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' into the line-up just a little sooner, if you can. It's so good.
I know! It is tempting me from its "optional" cranny of the list. But it seems so unlikely that I will make it through all 19 books and 10 plays on my August list, that it might have to become a September read. I have never read a full work by Murakami, I blush to report.