New Year? New TBR Pile!

TBR pile from last fall. Blue boxes mark out the titles that I have read…

(L-R):
• China Court – Rumer Godden (F)
• Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neal Hurston (F) – READ
• A Winter Book – Tove Jansson (F) – READ
• The Pursuit of Love/Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford (F) – READ
• Steve Jobs (bio) – Walter Isaacson (NF)
• Entwined Lives (identical twin book) – Nancy Segal (NF)
• The Big Roads (history of interhighway system in US) – Earl Swift (NF)
• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Alison Hoover Bartlett (NF)
• Maphead – Ken Jennings (continued from Summer TBR) – (NF)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba/Bryan Mealer (NF)
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller (NF)
• We Wouldn’t Have Missed it for the World (Women’s Land Army history) – Stuart Antrobus (NF)
• Horses of God – Mahi Binebine (F) – READ
• Rebel Girls: Their Right to Vote – Jill Liddington (NF)
• Classics for Pleasure – Michael Dirda (holdover from Summer and Fall TBR) (NF)
• Travels in Siberia (NF) – Ian Frazier (scary big) (NF)
• The Spare Room – Helen Garner (F) – READ
• Homeward Bound – Emily Matchar (NF)
• Everybody was So Young – Amanda Vaill (Gilded age biog) (NF)
• Coasting – Jonathon Raban (NF travel – holdover from Summer TBR)

And now for the January 2014 new and revised TBR Pile:

(L-R):
• My Traitor’s Heart – Rian Malan (NF)
• Where Men Win Glory – Jon Krakauer (NF) – DNF
• Living Dolls (NF) – Natasha Walter (NF)
• Video Nights in Katmandu – Pico Iyer (NF travel)
• The Big House – George Howe Colt (NF)
• Look at Me – Anita Brookner (F)  – DNF
• Strange Stories – Peter Hessler (NF travel) – READ
• Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie (F)
• The Longest Journey – E. M. Forster (F)
• The Sugar Barons – Matthew Parker (NF history)
• Homeward Bound – Emily Matchar (NF) (holdover from TBR last time)
• Plain and Simple – Sue Bender (NF)
• Six Months in the Sandwich Islands – Isabelle Bird (NF history/travel)
• For God, Country and Coca-Cola – Mark Pendergrast (NF) – Scary Big Book
• The Emperor of Maladies – Siddartha Mukherjee (NF) – Scary Big Book
• Anatomy of a Kidnapping – Steven Berk (NF)
• Flow (or perhaps his Creativity title) – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (NF)
• Mariana – Monica Dickens (F)
• The Red Carpet (short stories) – Lavanya Sankaran (F) – READ
• Mrs. Parkington – Louis Bromfield (F) – READ

Hmm. I seem to have picked up an awful lot of non-fiction here, so we’ll see how it goes. It’s more of a guide than a have-to list though… (Clearly this list is a tad ambitious!) I’m looking forward to some good reading all the same.