The Literate Kitten: Salon's literary guide to the world

If you're bored with the books you have and looking for a new title, check out Salon's Literary Guide to the World. I think I'll do my own version soon...

Months of Reading 2007

Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
January: New Author Month: Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
February: Romance is in the Air: Jane Austen, Persuasion; Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess; George duMaurier, Trilby
March: Exploring Essays: Virginia Woolf, The London Scene, Six Essays
April: Read a Classic Month: Henry James, Portrait of a Lady, Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
May: New in the Stacks: Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark, Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl
June: Summer Solstice Reading: Don DeLillo, Falling Man, JM Coetzee, Slow Man, Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall
July: Neglected Books Month
August: Dog Days of Nonfiction
September:RIP Challenge
October:RIP Challenge
November:Pick a Genre, Any Genre
December: Winter Solstice Short Story Month

Books Completed in 2007

My Uncle Napoleon, Iraj Pizishkzad
Strange Piece of Paradise, Terri Jentz
The Lost Painting, Jonathan Karr
Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Koren and Negev
Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood
Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Jane Austen, Claire Tomalin
Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood
Trilby, George duMaurier
Dark Ages America, Morris Berman
Memoirs of a Muse, Laura Vapnyar
London Scene, Six Essays, Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (reread)
American Bloomsbury, Susan Cheever
Then We Came to an End, Joshua Ferris
Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Ghost Hunters, Deborah Blum
Voyage in the Dark, Jean Rhys
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Marcel Proust
The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder, Daniel Stashower
Falling Man, Don DeLillo
Slow Man, JM Coetzee
Sleeping Where I Fall, Peter Coyote
Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Earnest Hemingway
Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow

The Literate Kitten

9.14.2006

Salon's literary guide to the world

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