Alphabet of books you have read - Part 13

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J

A June Bride by Teresa DesJardien

K

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

L

1075. A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (read 13 Sep 1970)

M

Miss Garnet's Angel by Sally Vickers

N

Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels

O

665. Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote (read 26 July 1961)

P

The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr

Q

1311. Queen Christina, by Georgina Masson (read 5 Jan 1975)

R

Ring Of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

S

Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
by James Hansen

T

300. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (read 12 Dec 1946)

U

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt

V

Vermilion Sea: A Naturalist's Journey In Baja California - John Janovy

W

The Wicked King by Holly Black (read August 2019)

Skipping X

Y

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Z

Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness by Tsai Chih Chung and Brian Bruya (read November 2019)

A

4001. Alexander the Great The Hunt for a New Past, by Paul Cartledge (read 23 Mar 2005)

B

Brimstone by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

C

Champions by Aaron Allston

D

Dead Lions by Mick Herron (read January 2020)

E

East Is East - T.C. Boyle

F

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg

G

Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway

H

2725. The Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945, by Bernard T. Fitzpatrick with John A. Sweeter III (read 1 Apr 1995)

I

Inside Out by Larry Crab

J

583.Jennie Gerhardt, by Theodore Dreiser (read 23 Aug 1959)

K

The Keepers by Heather Graham

L

The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille

M

4714. The Millennium of Europe, by Oscar Halecki (read 31 May 2010) (John Gilmary Shea prize for 1963)

N

Never Say No by J.L. Bouma

O

Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner

P

5732. A Promised Land, by Barack Obama (read 31 Jan 2021)

skipping "Q"

R

Rains All The Time: A Connoisseur's History Of Weather In The Pacific Northwest - David Laskin

S

Song of Songs by Watchman Nee

T

3707.The Thin Red Line, by James Jones (read 28 Feb 2003)

U

Undone by Karin Slaughter

V

The Velvet Glove by Harry Harrison

W

4252. A World at Arms A Global History of World War II, by Gerhard L. Weinberg (read 31 Dec 2006) (Book of the Year)

Skipping X

Y

The Young Lions by Irwin Shore

skipping Z

A

2196. The Astonishing Adventure of General Boulanger, by James Harding (read 13 Mar 1989)

B

The Boys In The Island by C.J. Koch

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers

D

Dangerous Waters by Juliet E. McKenna

E

5526. Electing FDR The New Deal Campaign of 1932, by Donald A. Ritchie (read 14 Jan 2018)

F

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor

G

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

H

Heaven Sent by Rachelle Alers

I

4007. Ice Station, by Matthew J. Reilly (read 10 Apr 2005)

J

Joseph Ellicott and the Holland Land Company: The Opening of Western New York by William Chazanof

K

King Of The Hill by Emma Goldrick

L

388. Light in August, by William Faulkner (read 3 Aug 1951)

M

The Man In The Moon by William Joyce

N

Night Film by Marisha Pessl (read February 2014)

O

2000. The Origins of the War of 1914: Volume III, by Luigi Albertini translated and edited by Isabella M. Massey (read 8 May 1986)

P

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester

Q

Queenpin by Megan Abbott (read February 2013)

R

Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington

S

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

T

204. They Also Ran The Story of the Men Who Were Defeated for the Presidency, by Irving Stone (read __ Aug 1945)

U

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

V

749. The Vatican Council 1869-1870, by Dom Cuthbert Butler (read 25 Aug 1963)

W

The Weight Of Water by Anita Shreve

skipping X, Y, Z

A

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

B

4485. Bitter Lemons, by Lawrence Durrell (read 15 Sep 2008) (Duff Cooper prize for 1957)

C

The Captain's Table by Richard Gordon

D

3350. Dusk Is My Dawn The First Hundred Years Diocese of La Crosse 1868-1968, by Gerald Edward Fisher, M.A. (read 17 Sep 2000)

E

Elephant Winter by Kim Echlin

F

A Feline Affair: A Guide to Raising and Breeding Purebred Cats by Elaine Wenner Gilbertson

G

883. Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott (read 11 Dec 1966)

H

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

I

Innocent Killers by Hugo Van Lawick-Goodall, Jane Goodall

J

2942. The James Joyce Murder, by Amanda Cross (read 30 Dec 1996)

K

Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers
by Amy Sutherland

L

3764. Letters from a Lost Generation The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge (read 26 June 2003)

M

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals by William T. Hornaday

N

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

O

Open the Door! by Catherine Carswell

P

Peacemaking among Primates by Frans B. M. de Waal

skipping Q

R

1259. The Road Returns, by Paul Corey (read 7 Jan 1974)

S

The Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Management
edited by William J. McShea, H. Brian Underwood, and John H. Rappole

T

Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith

U

2289. Ultra Goes to War: the First Account of World War II's Greatest Secret Based on Official Documents, by Ronald Lewin (read 29 Apr 1990)

V

Vicious: Wolves and Men in America by Jon T. Coleman

W

5219. The Wind Is Not a River, by Brian Payton (read 13 Nov 2014)

skipping x

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Z

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens - and Ourselves
by Arik Kershenbaum

A

2999. As I Saw It, by Dean Rusk as told to Richard Rusk edited by Daniel S. Papp (read 6 Aug 1997)

B

Bundle Of Joy by Barbara Bretton

C

The Closers by Michael Connelly

D

3980. Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940 How Americans Lived Through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression, by David E. Kyvig (read 29 Jan 2005)

E

Everlasting Love by Valerie Hansen

F

Fire by Sebastian Junger

G

3028. A Gross Carriage of Justice, by Robert L. Fish (read 31 Oct 1997)

3028. A Gross Carriage of Justice, by Robert L. Fish (read 31 Oct 1997)

3028. A Gross Carriage of Justice, by Robert L. Fish (read 31 Oct 1997)

H

Hatter's Castle by A.J. Cronin

I

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (read September 2021)

J

Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

K

118. The Kidnap Murder Case, by S. S. Van Dine (read 1943)

L

The Long Way Back by Margot Bennett

M

The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way - Bill Bryson

N

3176. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, by Joseph Conrad (read 20 Mar 1999)

0

The Olive Grove by Jean S. MacLeod

P

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Q

864. Queen Victoria Born to Succeed, by Elizabeth Longford (read 18 Aug 1966)(James Tait Black Memorial biography prize for 1964)

R

The River Dogs by Robert Olmstead

S

Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue

T

3349. Taking a Stand Portraits From the Southern Secession Movement, by Walter Brian Cisco (read 16 Sep 2000)

U

The Undertaker's Wife by Loren D. Estleman

V

1203. The Vicomte de Bragelonne, by Alexandre Dumas (read 22 Dec 1972)

W

Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

skipping X, Y, and Z

5637. After Long Silence A Memoir by Helen Fremont (read 5 Jul 2019)

B

Bad Manners by Marne Davis Kellogg

C

1517. Charles Stewart Parnell, by F. S. L. Lyons (read 20 May 1979)

D

Dangerous Liaisons by Maggie Price

E

5169. The End The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, by Ian Kershaw (read 3 Jun 2014)

F

Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews

G

2568. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Stories by Robert Olen Butler (read 15 Jan 1994) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1993)

H

How to Destroy the Universe: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Physics by Paul Parsons

I

Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

J

5256. Jesus A Pilgrimage, by James Martin, SJ (read 19 Mar 2015)

K

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

L

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

M

5603. Milkman A Novel by Anna Burns (read 16 Dec 2018) (Mann-Booker prize in 2018)

N

The Narrows by Michael Connelly

O

Open House by Elizabeth Berg

P

The Poet by Michael Connelly

Q

39. The Quest of Mary Selwyn by Clementia Sister Mary Edward Feehan (read in 1939)

R

River Dogs by Robert Olmstead

S

The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts by Cormac McCarthy

T

The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale

U

2307. The Ungovernable Rock A History of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom and its Role in Britain's Mediterranean Strategy During the Revolutionary War (1793-1797) by Desmond Gregory (read 16 July 1990)

V

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

W

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

skipping X, Y, and Z

A

5107. The Alchemist, by Paulho Coelho translated (from the Portuguese) by Alan R. Clarke (read 29 Dec 2013)

B

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

C

The Call of the Wild byJack London

D

A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly

E

Elephant Winter by Kim Echlin

F

2814. Fulbright: A biography, by Randall Bennett Woods (read 30 Dec 1995)

G

The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

H

Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman

I

3850. Italy Betrayed, by Peter Tompkins (read 23 Jan 2004)

J

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

K

King Solomon's Mines BY H. Rider Haggard

L

Lost Light by Michael Connelly

M

3645. Mountolive a novel, by Lawrence Durrell (read 2 Nov 2002)

N

The Night Fire by Michael Connelly

O

1414. Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov translated by Natalie Duddington (read 26 Oct 1976)

P

Poor Man's Orange by Ruth Park

skipping Q

R

The Reversal by Michael Connelly

S

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

T

1608. The Theses Were Not Posted: Luther Between Reform and Reformation, by Erwin Iserloh English translation by Jared Wicks, S.J. (read 28 Dec 1980)

U

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

V

Victims by Jonathan Kellerman

W

The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly

skipping X, Y, and Z

A

2433. The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy Volume V, Volume VI by Samuel Flagg Bemis, editor (read 13 Jan 1992)

B

Bring on the Clowns by Beryl Hugill

C

5674. The Conquering Tide War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944, by Ian W. Toll (read 10 Feb 2020)

D

The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

E

Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr by Christopher Warwick (about the last tsar's sister-in-law; fascinating. Read sometime this summer)

What do the numbers some people are posting before the books' titles mean?

F

Fool's Paradise by Tori Phillips

G

2751. Glitz. by Leonard Elmore (read 28 May 1995)

The book is the 2751st book I read in my life.

G

Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman

G -- Great minds think alike & enter "G" books simultaneously

H

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr

I

The Insider by Stephen Frey

J

Justine by D. A. F., Marquis de Sade

K

King Kong by Delos W. Lovelace

L

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

M

5553. The Mantle of Command FDR at War 1941-1942, by Nigel Hamilton (read 26 Apr 2018)

N

Never Forget by Emma Hart

O

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght

P

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Q

Quarantine by Jim Crace (read several times)

R

2290. Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History 1656-1945, by Todd M. Endelman (read 3 May 1990)

S

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (read sometime around 2010)

T

Tightrope by Simon Mawer

U

Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai (been reading on & off since 2016)

V

2472. Verlaine, by Johanna Richardson (read 11 Nov 1992)

2472. Verlaine, by Johanna Richardson (read 11 Nov 1992)

W

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

X

X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker by Alex Cox

(read in 2017)

Y

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

Z

4532. The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman (read 6 Feb 2009)

A

A Wicked Kind Of Husband by Mia Vincy
(read Mar 2021)