Autumn Reading Challenge

It seems like all the cool kids are doing it, and I'm all for peer pressure of the Positive Kind. So I'll join the Summa Mamas, Sarah and Julie D. in my own Autumn Reading Challenge.

The rules of the game: List 5 fiction and 5 nonfiction books that you have been meaning to read but just never got to. What? Only 5 of each? I could play this game for months years!

I'm listing alphabetically by author, not necessarily the order in which I'll attempt to read these. And yeah, my tastes are all over the place.

Fiction

Buster Midnight's Cafe by Sandra Dallas

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn

Jewel by Bret Lott

Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Nonfiction

St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton

Saint-Watching by Phyllis McGinley


Holiness for Housewives: And Other Working Women by Hubert Van Zeller

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Letters to a Young Catholic: The Art of Mentoring by George Weigel

My husband will be glad to know that I'll be reading my dust-catchers instead of in addition to buying new ones.

So, it's September 1, so it's not really Autumn yet, is it? Do I get until December 20 to make a dent in this list? Anyone? Anyone?