What I might read in October

Another month, another list of books I want to read. Will I read them all? Of course not, but the list does allow me to focus my reading a little and not thrash around in the stacks at the local library. Last month I started keeping my reading pool list intact. adding a second list for those titles that come up during the month and result in unplanned reading. I think I’ll continue this practice.

As is customary, the reading pool includes unread titles from the previous month’s list as well as new titles from various planning lists I maintain both on this weblog and on the back of gum wrappers in the pocket of my bib-overalls. Again I expect to read at least eight of these books and if I’m on a roll, maybe twelve or more. The list for October isn’t too exciting but I expect there are some suggestions to tweak your interest.

To misquote Richard Pryor:  Books, Books, Books!!!

October Reading Pool

1. American Taliban — Pearl Abraham *
2. A Daughter of Eve — Honoré de Balzac * [BZ]
3. They Were Counted — Miklos Banffy *
4. Herzog — Saul Bellow
5. G. — John Berger *
6. Anonymous Celebrity — Ignácio de Loyola Brandão [XFX]
7. The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov [XFX]
8. Nostromo — Joseph Conrad *
9. Noir — Robert Coover *
10. The Enormous Room — E. E. Cummings [XFX]
11. The Lost Scrapbook — Evan Dara [XFX]
12. The 42nd Parallel — John Dos Passos
13. Jesus Freaks — Andre Duza [XFX]
14. Boswell: A Modern Comedy — Stanley Elkin
15. The Sportswriter — Richard Ford *
16. The Ambassadors – Henry James
17. Carmilla — J. Sheridan Le Fanu *
18. A Heart So White— Javier Marías *
19. Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham *
20. Sausagey Santa — Carlton Mellick III *
21. Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell *
22. Catastrophe Practice — Nicholas Mosley
23. Revenge — Yoko Ogawa *
24. The Helmet of Horror — Victor Pelevin
25. Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets — Georges Simenon *
26. The Confessions of Nat Turner — William Styron
27. The Royal Family — William Vollmann [LSG]
28. Stoner — John Williams
29. Native Son — Richard Wright *
30. La Fortune des Rougon — Émile Zola * [FR]

Any starred titles are available on my iPad (although I may still have a real book on the shelf to further ruin my eyes).