Fall Into Reading 2012

Katrina at Callapidder Days is once again hosting Fall Into Reading – a totally low-stress reading challenge that takes place between September 22nd and December 21st. The only requirement is:

Create a list of books you’d like to read or finish this fall.

I’ve got a couple other reading events going on in September and October—R.I.P. VII (Sept & Oct), FrightFall Readathon (Oct. 1-7), Dewey’s 24-hour Readathon (Oct. 13th)— so some of these books will be doing double duty.

Galleys (with publication dates):

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, edited by Greg Ketter (10/3)
Two and Twenty Dark Tales,  Georgia McBride (editor), Michelle Zink (editor) (10/16) – Could count for R.I.P. too.
Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear (10/31)
What We Saw At Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard (1/8)

For R.I.P:

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Dark Waters by Koji Suzuki
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

by Caleb Carr

Research for next novel (all of which could count for R.I.P. too):

Behind the Scenes With the Mediums by David P. Abbott
The Right Way to Do Wrong by Harry Houdini
Hiding the Elephant : How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer

This list of books is greater then my reading speed, but lists are more of a general guideline than an actual reading list. And undoubtedly, I’m going to get distracted by some other shiny book that happens along. (And maybe if I finish rewrites on Luck for Hire by the end of October, I might start work on the next novel for NaNoWriMo. But that’s just crazy talk…)

But, yay! It’s fall! (Even if it is 101+F outside.) Enjoy it while it lasts!