THE GOAL: Devote each month to reading the works of a different author.
January: Michael Chabon
1. The Final Solution****
2. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union****
3. Gentlemen of the Road***½
4. Summerland*****
February/March: Charles Dickens
1. Charles Dickens, by Jane Smiley***
2. Nicholas Nickleby****
3. David Copperfield***½
April: Raymond Chandler
1. The Lady in the Lake***½
2. The Little Sister***
3. The Long Goodbye****
4. Playback***
May: Annie Dillard
1. The Maytrees**
2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek***
June: Vladimir Nabokov
1. Lolita****
July: Patricia Highsmith
1. Strangers on a Train***
2. The Boy Who Followed Ripley***
3. Ripley Under Water****
August: Mark Twain
1. Huckleberry Finn****
September: Elizabeth von Arnim
1. Christopher and Columbus*****
October onward: P.G. Wodehouse
1. Thank You, Jeeves***
2. P.G. Wodehouse: A Life, by Robert McCrum***
3. Right Ho, Jeeves*****
4. The Code of the Woosters*****
5. Joy in the Morning****
6. The Mating Season*****
7. Bertie Wooster Sees It Through***
8. Jeeves in the Offing****
9. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves*****
10. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds****
11. The Cat-Nappers***
* = Didn’t like, didn’t finish
** = OK, but wouldn’t reread
*** = Liked it
**** = Really liked it
***** = Loved it
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