Spring Reading Thing

Spring is here and so the Spring Reading Thing is underway.

It’h hosted by Catrina at Callapidder Days.

Here’s how it works:

• Make a list of books you want to read (or finish reading) this spring. Your list can be as long or as short as you’d like. (Also, feel free to modify your list during the challenge if it’s not working for you.)
• Write a blog post containing your list and submit it using the Mr. Linky below. Get reading! The challenge goes from today, March 20th, through June 20th.
• Check out other participants’ lists and add to your own to-read-someday pile!
• Write a post about your challenge experience in June, telling us all about whether you reached your goals and how the Spring Reading Thing went for you. Oh, and if you don’t finish your books, or if you change your list half-way through, or if you only read two books…it’s OKAY. This is a low-pressure challenge that should be fun. As long as you do some reading this spring (and enjoy it!), that’s good enough.

Some of my books are for challenges, some are from my library pile and some are just because I want to read them.

Here’s the list:

Childhood Books

Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery
The Dolls’ House by Rumer Godden
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Classics and Older Books

Belinda by Rhoda Broughton
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell*
Miss Cayley’s Adventures by Grant Allen
Little Dorritt by Charles Dickens*
Emmeline by Charlotte Smith

Crime and Mystery

Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larssen
The Preacher by Camilla Läckberg
Unspoken by Mari Jungstedt
The Paris Enigma by Pablo De Santis
Beyond Suspicion by Tanguy Viel

20th Century Fiction

Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
South Riding by Winifred Holtby*
Doves of Venus by Olivia Manning
Every Eye by Isobel English
The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford*
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann*

Recently Published Fiction

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfield
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber
True Murder by Yaba Badoe
A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin

Non Fiction

Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey*
A Swan in the Evening by Rosamond Lehmann
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
The Secret life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
Madresfield by Jane MulvaghBecoming Queen by Kate Williams
Good Women of China by Xinran*
Olivia Manning: A Life by June and Neville Baybrooke
Without Knowing Mr Walkley by Edith Olivier

Miscellaneous

Knights of Love by Jane Tozer*
Joy of Eating edited by Jill Foulston”
Words of Love by Pamela Norris
The Complete Romances of Crétien de Troyes

I make that three a week, but the starred books are already underway and I have a few very short books, so I think it’s do-able.

My list may change if I spot something good in the library or if I make any wonderful new discoveries …