Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Simple As ABC ... 2020/2021

COVID brought out a new side of the Arbuckle crew. Competitive reading. Here are the books the Arbuckle Book Club has read:

RCB & SLP

  •  A Long Petal of the Sea  - Isabelle Allende
  • News of the World - Paulette Jiles
  •  Everything Changes - Jonathan Tropper
  •  4-3-2-1 - Paul Auster 
PS joins....

  • Say Nothing - Patrick Radden O'Keefe
  • The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
  •  Loose Balls - Terry Pluto
  • Fourth Street East (Benny Kramer trilogy) - Jerome Weidman
  • The Cold Millions - Jess Walter
  • The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer
  • Fallout: The Hiroshima Coverup and the Reporter who Revealed it to the World - Lesley MM Blume
  • Deacon King Kong - James McBride
  • We Are Not Ourselves - Michael Thomas
  • Adventures in the Screen Trade - William Goldman
  • Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
  • Tigerland - Wil Haygood
  • Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
  • From a Low and Quiet Sea - Donal Ryan
  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert 
  • The Lost Shtetl - Max Gross
  • Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
  • Any Human Heart - William Boyd
  • The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest - Ed Ceasar
  • True Grit - Charles Portis
  • The Sin Eater - Megan Campisi
  • The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre
The Cat joins in the fun... via Zoom


  • How Lucky -Will Leitch
  • The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family - Joshua Cohen
  • Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
  • A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Anthony Marra
  • Last Looks - Howard Michael Gould
  • The Women of the Copper Country - Mary Doria Russell
  • Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
  • Damnation Spring - Ash Davidson 
  • A Calling for Charlie Barnes - Joshua Ferris
  • The Final Revival of Opal & Dev - Dawnie Walton
  • Thunderstruck - Erik Larson
  • The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras J. Michael Orenduff
  • The Sea - John Banville
  • The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris
  • How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith
  • Beartown - Fredrik Backman
  • The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk
  • Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford
  • Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit - Tom Stanton
  • Mercury Pictures Presents - Anthony Marra
  • Horse - Geraldine Brooks
  • West With Giraffes - Lynda Rutledge
  • Trust - Hernan Diaz