M. Suzanne Terry

I am participating in Book Riot’s Fall into Fall Readathon, and every day we have a bookish prompt. Monday, I chose one of my summer TBRs (to be read) and put the rest in the DNF (did not finish) pile. I only had three left anyway, and two of them had already gone back to the library, so that was easy. The one I chose to move over to my fall list is Anna Karenina. I started it last night, and I think this is the start of a beautiful relationship. I also think the time it will take me to read it is going to last longer than some of my past relationships.

Yesterday’s task was to make my Fall TBR list, including at least one classic on audiobook. I usually make a monthly list, but I like the idea of making a list by season. My list for this season is somewhat practical (because book clubs) but mostly eclectic. I tend to read several books at a time (I am currently on 5 different books), and I have 44 more books to go meet my reading goal for the year. That’s finishing one almost every other day, which is doable but a little daunting, but that’s why there are so many on the list.

I’m also counting “fall” as to the end of December, even though technically we’re in winter by then. That gives me a few holidays and a couple of free weekends to get some reading done.

Without further ado, here, in no particular order, is my Fall TBR (which I reserve the right to amend as books I’ve forgotten to include are published or finally become available at the library):

1. Anna Karenina by Lev (Leo) Tolstoy
2. Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
3. The Summer Without Men  by Siri Hustvedt
4. Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
5. Bet Me by Jennifer Cruisie
6. Kindred by Octavia Butler (audiobook)
7. The Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
8. Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin
9. Faithful by Alice Hoffman
10. The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace by Gary Chapman and Paul White
11. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
12. 97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman
13. Black Dove by Ana Castillo
14. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
15. Evening by Susan Minot
16. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
17. Fat Girl Walking by Brittany Gibbons
18. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
19. The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
20. The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
21. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
22. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
23. The Folded Earth by Arundhati Roy
24. Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
25. Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin
26. All the Colors We Will See by Patrice Gopo
27. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
28. The Little French Bistro by Nina George
29. Love, Hate, and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
30. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
31. La Vida Imaginaria by Mara Torres
32. A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
33. The Shaking Woman, or, A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
34. Slam! by Pamela Ribon
35. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
36. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
37. Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer
38. Version Control by Dexter Clarence Palmer
39. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
40. No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
41. Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
42. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
43. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
44. Womanist Midrash by Wilda Gafney

And maybe I’ll start Don Quixote again before the year’s out. Maybe.

What are you reading this fall? See anything in the list you want to read and discuss?