This is the first of my quarterly blog assessment posts. This first part addresses the book lists. Part Two, coming soon, will take a look at the author lists. Part Three will deal with the challenges I joined this year.
My book lists are over in the right-side column. These are now divided into Prize Winners and "Must Reads" and include lists of books I have read or intend to read for some reason or another. Also in the right-side column are lists of my favorite authors. I add to these lists of lists from time to time.
NOTE: If you are working on any of these lists, please leave a comment here or on the post for the list (click on the title below or in the right-hand column) and leave a link to any related post. I will add the links on the list post.
So far in 2011, I've read 34 books from my book lists.
THE PRIZE WINNERS
Books read in 2011: none so far.
Books read in 2011: The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook (reviewed here).
Books read in 2011:
- G by John Berger (reviewed here; read for my 2010 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge);
- Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge).
Books read in 2011:
- G by John Berger (reviewed here; read for my 2010 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge);
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge)
Books read in 2011:
- Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (reviewed here; read for my 2010 Battle of the Prizes, American Version, challenge).
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, American Version, challenge)
Books read in 2011:one, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge).
Books read in 2011: none so far.
Books read in 2011: one, On Beauty by Zadie Smith (reviewed here)
Books read in 2011: one, The Human Stain by Philip Roth (reviewed here)
Books read in 2011: one, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, American Version, challenge)
THE "MUST READS"
Books read in 2011: one, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (reviewed here)
Books read in 2011: none so far.
This list is from 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 by Anthony Burgess, which I finally read this year. My review is here.
Books read in 2011:
- George Passant, the first volume of C. P. Snow’s 11-volume Strangers and Brothers series (reviewed here);
- Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor.
Books read in 2011: one, Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
Books read in 2011:
- Honolulu by Alan Brennert;
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (reviewed here)
Books read in 2011:
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.;
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (reviewed here)
Books read in 2011:
- Classic Spanish Cooking: Recipes for Mastering the Spanish Kitchen by Elisabeth Luard (reviewed here)
- With a Jug of Wine by Morrison Wood (discussed here)
Books read in 2011:
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.;
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (reviewed here)
Books read in 2011:
- Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor;
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (reviewed here);
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.
Books read in 2011:
- The Food of France by Waverley Root (reviewed here);
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.
Books read in 2011:
- One City's Wilderness by Marcy Cottrell Houle (reviewed here); and
- Maps and Shadows by Krysia Jopek (reviewed here);
- Because You Might Not Remember by Don Colburn;
- The Losing Role by Steve Anderson (reviewed here);
- Spinning the Law: Trying Cases in the Court of Public Opinion by Kendall Coffey;
- Very Bad Men by Harry Dolan (reviewed here); and
- 42 States of Grace by Maureen Hovenkotter (reviewed here)
LT EARLY REVIEWERS
Books read in 2011:
Books read in 2011:
- Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts (reviewed here);
- Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960 by William Boyd (reviewed here);
- The Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley (reviewed here);
- One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming (reviewed here;
- American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen (reviewed here)
Books read in 2011: none so far.
Books read in 2011: zero (finished this list a couple of years ago).
Books read in 2011:
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; and
- Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor.
Books read in 2011: none so far.
Books read in 2011:
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein.
Books read in 2011: none so far. Who knows if the list will change this year.
This is a new list that I just created in February.
Books read in 2011: one, Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon.
Books read in 2011: none so far.
I recently read and reviewed William Kennedy's Ironweed, a Pulitzer Prize winner. I didn't like it at all and many people commented on my blog that they usually don't "get" Pulitzer winning books. In your reading of prize lists, how often do you wonder why a book won its prize?
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