2012 Challenge: What's in a Name?

 

INCOMPLETE

This is my first year to sign up for the popular What's in a Name Challenge, now hosted by Beth Fish Reads. Click the button or the link for more details and to sign up.

Here's How It Works

Between January 1 and December 31, 2012, read one book in each of the following categories:

• A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title

• A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title

• A book with a creepy crawly in the title

• A book with a type of house in the title

• A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title

• A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title

My Books

Here are some possibilities from my TBR shelves.  Those I finished are in red, with links to reviews (hopefully).

TOPOGRAPHICAL:

• Swan Peak by James Lee Burke (reviewed here)
• Nickel Mountain by John Gardner

SKY:

• The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin
• Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
• Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (reviewed here)

CREEPY CRAWLY:

• The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
• Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville

HOUSE:

• Out of the Shelter by David Lodge
• The Gate House by Nelson DeMille
• Home Truths by David Lodge (reviewed here)

CARRIED:

• The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
• The Black Book by Ian Rankin
  
• The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (reviewed here)

CALENDAR:

• The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
• A Month of Sundays by John Updike (reviewed here)

NOTE

Last updated on December 27, 2012. I came close to finishing, but never got around to a Creepy Crawly book.