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Old 12-02-2015, 08:06 AM   #24
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ottawa Canada
Device: Sony PRS-T3, Galaxy (Aldiko, Kobo app)
To read at least 75 books on my TBR
Read both book club selections

TBR books read:
January
1 - The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
2 - The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Feb
3 - Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
4 - The Backwoods of Canada by Catherine Parr Traill
5 - Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
6 - Magna Carta by David Starkey
Mar - Dec
7 - The Reason for Flowers - Buchmann, Stephen
8 - Lincoln and the Power of the Press - Holzer, Harold
9 - The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World - Wulf, Andrea
10 - Leonardo and the Last Supper - King, Ross
11 - Babette's Feast - Dinesen, Isak
12 - The Afghan Campaign - Pressfield, Steven

MR Literary Book Club
Delphi Complete Works of John Clare - Jan
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail - Feb
Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf, Virginia
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Of Human Bondage - Maugham, W. Somerset
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Philbrick, Nathaniel
A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections - Austen-Leigh, James Edward
Bel Canto - Patchett, Ann - Oct
The Door by Magda Szabó
Babette's Feast - Dinesen, Isak - Dec

MR Book Club
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - Jan
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey - Feb
The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith - Mar
The Steerswoman
The Day of the Jackel
Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph
The Loved One - Waugh, Evelyn

Misc books
January
1 - The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen (2015 Cundill Prize winner)
2 - Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux
3 - 1635: A Parcel of Rogues by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
4 - Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
5 - Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is A Man) by Primo Levi
6 - Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way by Lars Mytting
7 - Delphi Complete Works of John Clare
Feb
8 - A Shepherd's Life by W.H.Hudson
9 - Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada by Douglas McCalla
10 - Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
11 - 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik
12 - Norwood by Charles Portis
13 - The Reawakening by Primo Levi
Mar
14 - Hall of Mirrors by Barry Eichengreen
15 - Let the People Rule by Geoffrey Cowan
16 - 1924: The Year That Made Hitler by Peter Ross Range
17 - The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
Apr - Dec
18 - Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark - Weidermann, Volker
19 - Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire - Crowley, Roger
20 - The Hotel Years - Roth, Joseph
21 - The Long Shadow - Reynolds, David
22 - The German War: A Nation Under Arms - Stargardt, Nicholas
23 - Gratitude - Sacks, Oliver
24 - The Fever of 1721 - Coss, Stephen
25 - France 1940: Defending the Republic - Nord, Philip
26 - Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf, Virginia
27 - Ravens in Winter - Heinrich, Bernd
28 - To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 - Kershaw, Ian
29 - The Road Not Taken - Orr, David
30 - Death in Florence - Strathern, Paul
31 - Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern - Vernon, James
32 - Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 - Foster, R.F.
33 - The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea - Blass, Tom
34 - Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita - Roper, Robert
35 - The Way of the Stars: Journeys on the Camino de Santiago - Sibley, Robert C.
36 - A Self-Made Man - Blumenthal, Sidney
37 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Twain, Mark
38 - Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project That Launched Mass Observation - Hall, David
39 - Valiant Ambition- - Philbrick, Nathaniel
40 - The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family - Benson, Richard
41 - Of Human Bondage - Maugham, W. Somerset
42 - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Philbrick, Nathaniel
43 - Heart of Darkness - Conrad, Joseph
44 - A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections - Austen-Leigh, James Edward
45 - Agents of Empire - Malcolm, Noel
46 - The Loved One - Waugh, Evelyn
47 - Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America - Stiles, T.J.
48 - Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada - McCalla, Douglas
49 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Dahl, Roald
50 - A Blue Puttee at War - Frost, Sydney
51 - The Hunt for Vulcan - Levenson, Thomas
52 - Into the Blizzard - Winter, Michael
53 - The Long Emancipation - Berlin, Ira
54 - Countdown to Pearl Harbor - Twomey, Steve
55 - In God's Path - Hoyland, Robert G.
56 - The Bridge to Airpower - Peter Dye
57 - The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 - Shapiro, James
58 - Bel Canto - Patchett, Ann
59 The Door by Magda Szabó

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