Oh yes – a challenge designed to flush out those recently published books that didn’t quite make it to the TBR. Brilliant idea, Michelle, particularly as it dovetails with The Pub 09 and is retroactive. from 8.8.2008. Count me in for both!


Status as of 4.11.2008:
9 from 2009
1. Land of Marvels – Barry Unsworth
2. The Crossroads – Niccolo Ammaniti
3. Grace – Alex Pheby
4. The Hidden – Tobias Hill
5. The Outlander – Gil Adamson
6. The Letters – Fiona Robyn
7. The Earth Hums In B-Flat – Mari Strachan
8. The Sweetness at The Bottom of The Pie – Alan Bradley
9. Burnt Shadows – Kamila Shamsie
10. The Wilderness – Samantha Harvey
8 from 2008
1. A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
2. Country of the Grand - Gerard Donovan
3. Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay
4. This is Not About Me - Janice Galloway
5. Burning Secret - Stefan Zweig
6. The Bachelors - Adalbert Stifter
7. Glenfarron - Jonathan Falla
8. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
9. Typhoon – Charles Cumming
10. The Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry
11. The Behaviour of Moths – Poppy Adams
12. Castle In The Clouds – Monica Janssens
13. Sorbonne Confidential -
14. Don’t Get Fooled Again – Richard Wilson
15. Fleck – Alasdair Gray
16. Shakespeare on Toast – Ben Crystal
17. Dear Everybody – Michael Kimball
18. Molly Fox’s Birthday – Deirdre Madden
19. Mystic Pig – Richard Katrovas
20. Home – Marilynne Robinson
21. The Invention of Everything Else – Samantha Hunt
22. Scottsboro – Ellen Feldman
Still in the TBR
Possible choices: Sea of Poppies / The Spare Room / The Imposter / The Truth Commissioner / The Monsters of Templeton / The Have-Nots / The Lemur / Unaccustomed Earth / The Murder Farm / The Sweetness of Life / Family Connections / The Loudest Sound and Nothing / Say You’re One of Them / Reading the OED / When Will There Be Good News? / The Cellist of Sarawejo / The Private Patient / The Saladin Murders
7 from 2007
1. The Road of Bones – Anne Fine
2. Helpless – Barbara Gowdy
3. Binu and The Great Wall- Su Tong
4. Amok and Other Stories – Stefan Zweig
5. The Road Home - Rose Tremain
6. No Word From Gurb – Eduardo Mendoza (Spanish 1999 – Trans 2007)
7. The Murder Farm – Andrea Maria Schenkel (German 2007 – Trans 2008)
Possible choices: The Ministry of Special Cases / The Sound of Butterflies / Lies / Here Lies Arthur / Resistance / Crusade / Blood Red, Snow White / Inglorious / Imposture / My Revolutions / The Silver Swan / Nightingale / Riptide / Death and the Maiden / Stealing the Scream / Tokyo Year Zero / The Bethlehem Murders / The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump
6 from 2006
1. The Book of Chameleons – Jose Agualusa
2. Mothers and Sons – Colm Toibin
3. Beyond Sleep – W F Hermans (Translated 2008)
4. Child’s Play - Carmen Posadas (Translated 2008)
5. Fists – Pietro Grossi (Translated 2009)
6) ?
Possibles from the TBR: A Darkling Plain / Liquidation / Out Stealing Horses / Critique of Criminal Reason / Moral Disorder / The Immaculate Conception / Beware of Pity / The People on the Street / I was Vermeer /
5 from 2005
Possible choices: The Olive Readers / Gentlemen and Players / Turkish Gambit / The Death of Achilles / The Falls / The Minotaur / The Finishing School / Port Mungo / Three Day Road /
1) The Big Over Easy
2) My Cleaner
3) Three Bags Full (Trans 2006)
4) One City
5) ?
4 from 2004
1. Author! Author! – David Lodge
2. The Blue Fox – Sjon (Translated 2008)
3. 98 Reasons for Being – Clare Dudman
4. Inkheart – Cornelia Funke
Possible choices: The Soldiers of Salamis / Leviathan / Good Faith / Broken April / Coram Boy
3 from 2003
1. Me and Kaminski - Daniel Kehlmann (German 2003 Translated 2008)
2. All My Friends are Superheroes – Andrew Kaufmann
3. Little Indiscretions – Carmen Posadas (Translated 2003)
Possible choices: The Silence of the Rain / Dirt Music / The Seahorse / Treading Air / Maus I / The Novel Life of P G Wodehouse / Crossing the Lines
2 from 2002
1. One Step Behind – Henning Mankell
2. Pharos – Alice Thompson
Possible choices: Number9dream / Blue Poppies / Don’t Look Back
1 from 2001
1. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
Might add another: Journey by Moonlight