Fall is in the air and I am filled with all that back-to-school enthusiasm I always get this time of year, even though my school days are far behind me.
To keep track of my reading for the year, I like to check in and see what kind of progress I've made on my lists. There's no point in being a compulsive "list" reader if you don't play with the lists on occasion.
This is the second of my quarterly blog assessment posts. This one takes a look at my author lists over in the right-hand column. The first part addressed my lists. Part Three will deal with the challenges I joined this year.
NOTE: If you are systematically reading the books of any of these authors, please leave a comment here or on the post for the author's 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 author's list post.
I recently split my author list into two parts: General favorites and Mystery favorites. See here for discussion.
So far in 2011, I've read 29 books by my favorite authors. As soon as I make some progress on my Guilt List, I plan to get back to my old friends. And probably add some new names to my lists.
GENERAL FAVORITES
Kingsley Amis
The Crime of the Century
I plan to read The Anti-Death League (a Burgess favorite) for the Birth Year Reading Challenge.
Maeve Binchy
Evening Class (1996)
William Boyd
Brazzaville Beach (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge)
Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 (reviewed here)
Elinor Lipman
Then She Found Me
Philip Roth
The Human Stain (reviewed here)
C. P. Snow
George Passant (originally titled Strangers and Brothers) (reviewed here)
Anne Tyler
Breathing Lessons (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, American Version challenge)
John Updike
Beck: A Book (reviewed here)
P. G. Wodehouse
The Indiscretions of Archie
MYSTERY FAVORITES
Kate Atkinson
When Will There Be Good News?
Started Early, Took My Dog (reviewed here)
Lee Child
Gone Tomorrow
Dick Francis
10 Lb. Penalty
Bolt
Banker (reviewed here)
Knockdown
Break In
P. D. James
A Mind to Murder
Unnatural Causes
Donna Leon
Death in a Strange Country
John Lescroart
A Plague of Secrets (reviewed here)
Helen MacInnes
The Hidden Target
Ian Rankin
Strip Jack
Knots and Crosses
Hide and Seek
Dorothy L. Sayers
Clouds of Witness (reviewed here)
Unnatural Death
Julia Spencer-Fleming
One Was a Soldier (2009) (reviewed here)
