My Newest Challenge

Yes, this is the month I put up or shut up and at least dabble in a few of the books I have recently suggested for others to read. My selection  process was simple: I went back through the last two months worth of suggestions and listed all the titles I found readily available to me either on my bookshelf or on my digital reading stack. Then I trimmed the list down to just twenty titles and they are now my November 2017 Reading Pool.

Some are fat, others are short, a little non-fiction as well as some very recent publications. All in all it looks like I will come out of the month with more fun and enlightenment than I probably deserve.

Which titles from this list might you be adding to your upcoming reading?

1. The Salmon of Doubt – Douglas Adams
2. Poetry Will Save Your Life – Jill Bialosky
3. Jerzy: A Novel – Jerome Charyn
4. The Seeds of Life – Edward Dolnick
5. World Broke in Two – Bill Goldstein
6. A Horse Walks into a Bar – David Grossman
7. The Little Drummer Girl – John le Carre
8. Kintu – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
9. Roman Hat Mystery – Ellery Queen
10. Chicago Poems – Carl Sandburg
11. Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
12. The Unlikely Monsieur Owen – Georges Simenon
13. Jumpers – Tom Stoppard
14. A Little History of Literature – John Sutherland
15. Inventing Hell: Dante, The Bible, and Eternal Torment – Jon M. Sweeney
16. American Dreams: Lost and Found – Studs Terkel
17. House of Names: A Novel – Colm Toibin
18. Self-Portrait Abroad – Jean-Philippe Toussaint
19. My Name is Legion – A. N. Wilson
20. Chocky – John Wyndham