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message 1: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Nov 29, 2021 02:44PM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (EB= E-book)
(HB= Hardback book)
(PB= Paperback book)
(AB= Audio/Audible books)
(SD= Scribd)
(Book link=read)


message 3: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Sep 04, 2022 10:38PM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) What are your reading plans for 2022?
Complete Around The Year list (52)
Read from my owned books, e-books and audio only
Read 150 books for the year 1/150

What do you want to accomplish in your reading this new year?
Read more women (Welty)
Read a few male authors
LGBT+ authors
POC authors
Read 3 books per week
Finish up/catch up some series:
(a) Miranda James
(b) Carlene O'Conner
(c) Vivien Leigh
(d) Eva Gates

Specific numbers: (60)
Read at least 10 books from my cozy mysteries bookcase
Read at least 10 books from my e-books
Read at least 10 books from my scribd/audible audio
Read at least 10 books from my religion bookcase
Read at least 10 books from Civil War collection
Read at least 10 books from Mustich 1000 list

Randomizer list. (4)
1. Oblomov Ivan Goncharov (Scribd)
2. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima (HB)
3. Ada Vladimir Nabokov HB
4. The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty PB read 9 Jan 2022
5. The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides

Bingo (25)
B4

1001 list for 2022 BookSpin
1. Reveries of a Solitary Walker
2. Closely Watched Trains
3. Ben-Hur
4. Of Mice and Men
5. Siddhartha
6. Animal Farm
7. Ethan Frome
8. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
9. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
10. Notes From Underground
Cold Comfort Farm

Non-list possibles:
Willa Cather:
Death Comes for the Archbishop
O Pioneers
My Antonia
A Lost Lady
Sapphira and the Slave Girl
One of Ours

Joan Didion:
The Year of Magical Thinking
Slouching Toward Bethlehem (8)

2022 Quarterly Reads * = Own
* Jan/March: Metamorphoses
* Apr/June: Underworld
* July/Sept: A fine Balance
* Oct/Dec: Moby Dick

Totals: 151 (3 books per week)
52 ATY
25 Bingo (1)
60 10 book goals
10 Book spin
4 Randomizer (1)


message 4: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Jan 09, 2022 03:08PM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) B1: 19th Century: Little Women PB
B2: 21st Century Lit: Falling Man HB
B3: Book from Africa: Things Fall Apart PB
B4: New to You Author: The Optimist's Daughter PB
B5: Nonfiction: In Cold Blood PB

I1: Book from South America: Nostromo Scribd EB
I2: Translated Book: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen PB
I3: Mystery or Crime: Hound of the Baskervilles Scribd
I4: Pre-18th Century Lit: The Princess of Clèves Scribd/EB
I5: Book from a Nordic Country: Faceless Killers: A Mystery Scribd

N1: Book from your birth decade: Wise Blood 1952 PB
N2: Color in Title: The Black Dahlia Scribd
N3: Fantasy or Sci-Fi: The Invisible Man PB
N4: Group Wishlist Book: The Inferno by Henri Barbusse Scribd
N5: Animal in Title: H is for Hawk Scribd

G1: Not-a-novel: Walden PB
G2: Number in Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four PB
G3: Book >150 pg.: The Reveries of a Solitary Walker PB
G4: Written by an Author of Color: Go Tell It on the Mountain PB
G5: Book from Asia: Silence PB

O1: Book from Russia: Notes from Underground PB
O2: Book You've Dreaded Reading: Anna Karenina PB/Scribd
O3: Music Reference in Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings PB
O4: LGBTQ lit: The Well of Loneliness Scribd
O5: Romance Novel: Middlemarch PB/Scribd


message 5: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Jan 11, 2022 11:00AM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) 2022 MaryAnn's Randomized reading list
1. Oblomov Ivan Goncharov (Scribd)
2. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima (HB)
3. Ada Vladimir Nabokov HB
4. The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty PB
5. The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides

2021 MaryAnn's Randomized reading list
1) The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
2) The Gathering Anne Enright
3) Dispatches Michael Herr
4) The Stechlin Theodor Fontane (WL)
5) The Busconductor Hines James Kelman (WL

2020 MaryAnn's Randomized reading list
1) American Rust Phillip Meyer
2) Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon (WL)
3) Perfume Patrick Süskind
4) Cost Roxana Robinson

2019 MaryAnn's Randomized Reading List
1) The Master of Petersbury J M Coetzee
2) Closely Watched Trains Bohumil Hrabal
3) The Deadbeats Ward Ruyslinck
4) Life is a Caravanserai Ermine Özdamar (WL)
5) Perfume Patrick Süskind

2017 MaryAnn's Randomized Reading List
1. Rituals Cees Nooteboom
✔ 2. The Fox DH Lawrence
3. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
4. The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio (WL)
5. The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Skvorecky


message 6: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Jan 01, 2022 08:39AM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) Birth of a Reader (all books that I currently own 2022)

1952
The Old Man and the Sea Read Jan. 9, 2020

1953
2. The Crucible

1954
Katherine by Anya Seton

1955
Lolita

1956
Old Yeller

1957
4. Doctor Zhivago

1958
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Once and Future King

1959
A Separate Peace

1960
1. To Kill a Mockingbird

1961
Where the Red Fern Grows

1962
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

1963
The Bell Jar
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

1964
A Moveable Feast

1965
2. In Cold Blood
3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1966
Wide Sargasso Sea

1967
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Master and Margarita

1968
Lakota Woman
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1969
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Godfather

1970
The Bluest Eye

1971
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Hiding Place

1972
All Creatures Great and Small

1973
The Princess Bride

1974
Helter Skelter

1975
Crocodile on the Sandbank

1976
Roots: The Saga of an American Family

1977
The Shining
Bridge to Terabithia

1978
The World According to Garp

1979
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1980
The Name of the Rose

1981
Red Dragon

1982
The Color Purple

1983
Murder in the Smithsonian
The Baked Bean Supper Murders

1984
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1985
Love in the Time of Cholera
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

1986
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
Skinwalkers
James Herriot's Dog Stories
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
The Drowned and the Saved

1987
Beloved

1988
1. The Alchemist

1989
The Pillars of the Earth

1990
V for Vendetta

1991
Sophie's World

1992
The Secret History

1993
The Virgin Suicides

1994
1. One for the Money

1995
The Reader
A Fine Balance
In the Time of the Butterflies
A Long Fatal Love Chase
Killer Pancake

1996
The Notebook

1997
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Red Tent

1998
The Poisonwood Bible

1999
Girl with a Pearl Earring

2000
Me Talk Pretty One Day

2001
The Secret Life of Bees

2002
The Lovely Bones
Middlesex
Kafka on the Shore

2003
The Kite Runner
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2004
Alexander Hamilton
The Queen's Fool
The Line of Beauty
Gilead

2005
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Book Thief

2006
Eat, Pray, Love

2007
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Still Alice
In the Woods
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

2008
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Last Lecture
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The White Tiger
Olive Kitteridge
A Mercy
The Likeness

2009
The Help
The Maze Runner

2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Kitchen House
A Visit from the Goon Squad

2011
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

2012
The Fault in Our Stars
Gone Girl

2013
The Goldfinch

2014
All the Light We Cannot See
Big Little Lies

2015
The Girl on the Train
Red Queen
The Nightingale

2016
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
The Woman in Cabin 10

2017
The Hate U Give
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Before We Were Yours

2018
Educated
Where the Crawdads Sing
Circe

2019
The Silent Patient
Daisy Jones & The Six
The Dutch House

2020
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

2021
Ceremony
The Last Thing He Told Me
The Four Winds

2022
Hot and Sour Suspects
Murder on an Irish Farm
Hiss Me Deadly


message 7: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Dec 30, 2021 07:34PM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) 2022 ATY 52 1001 books:
Beloved
The Remains of the Day
The Name of the Rose
A Kestral for a Knave


message 8: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Jan 11, 2022 11:03AM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) 2022 1001 reads

Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl ... No
No TBR

January
Popular Vote: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis Scribd
Randomizer: The History of the Siege of Lisbon Scribd
Quarterly: Metamorphoses Scribd/PB

February
The House by the Medlar Tree Scribd
Michael Kohlhaas Scribd

Bingo
B4: New to You Author: The Optimist's Daughter

Randomizer
1. Oblomov Ivan Goncharov (Scribd)
2. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light Ivan Klima (HB)
3. Ada Vladimir Nabokov (ordered)
4. The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
5. The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides


message 9: by MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) (last edited Jan 04, 2022 09:05AM) (new)

MaryAnn (EmilyD1037) James Mustich's 1000 Books to Read Before You Die challenge
begun 1 Jan 2022

0/1000 completed

Desert solitaire
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian


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