What are we reading in October?

I'm kicking off the last quarter of 2014 with The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero, which will count for the GeoCAT and MysteryCAT. What are you reading this month?

I'm reading The Paying Guests which is really good so far, and Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives which is kind of creeping me out.

I also just got notified that The Hanging Garden is available for download from the library.

I wish work would stop interfering with my reading lol:)

>2 lsh63: I am planning on reading Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives early next year, Lisa. I love creepy!

Speaking of creepy, I am reading The Last Summer of the Camperdowns and it's doing a pretty good job of creeping me out as well!

I'm reading Flowers for Algernon and loving it so far! I am also about halfway through The Woman in White and have started Cakes and Ale and Twelve Short Stories.

I'm reading Sharon Kay Penman's A King's Ransom and Paradise of the Blind, a book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list.

I'm reading Why Homer Matters and I'm listening to The Coroner's Lunch. I have Devil-Devil on deck for the weekend.

On the bus I'm reading Five Dead Canaries, by Edward Marston. It's part of a detective series set on the home front in England during the First World War and involves a munitions factory, so that ticked a few boxes for me.

I've got Music of the Swamp as my bedside reading for nighttime, and I'm also making my way through The Professor and the Madman and Cider House Rules, which I think I'd be further into if my copy didn't have such small print...

So far I've finished The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill for the Mystery and Random Cats and The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick. I'm reading The Seamstress by Francis de Pontes Peebles for the GEO Cat and, for an ebook, I'm reading Knit One, Pearl One, the 3rd book in a series by Gil McNeil.

I'm enjoying Tricked. Oberon is so awesome :) Also reading The Masqueraders.

I've finished Knit One, Pearl One by Gil McNeil and, because I liked The Coroner's Lunch so much and because it fits into my challenge, I've decided to download Thirty-Three Teeth the next one in the Doctor Siri series. I like to try and read the first two books in a series fairly close together. I find it fixes the characters better in my mind.

Now reading The Lost City of Z for the GeoCAT and A Spy Among Friends because it has the soonest due date at the library.

I had a few CAT-books lined up, but my turn at The Silkworm came up at the library, so I'll go ahead with that one first.

I'm going to take a break with something light and fun, In Your Dreams by Kristan Higgins.

On top of the books mentioned above, I'm also reading I am Malala, The Draining Lake, and Neuromancer.

So far this month, I've finished A Beautiful Place to Die for the MysteryCAT and In the Woods for the RandomCAT, both solid reads that I really enjoyed. My Halloween read right now is NOS4A2, which is also very good so far. Shaping up to be a great month, reading-wise.

I am finally getting to the closing chapters of The Queen of Four Kingdoms by Princess Michael of Kent. I have really enjoyed this book but kept setting it aside for library reads. I am also starting Blood of the Wicked a police story set in Brazil.

Finished The Lost City of Z this afternoon. My next bus book will be Pied Piper, by Nevil Shute.

Thirty-Three Teeth was as good as the first book and I'm now reading The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway.

>19 dudes22: Glad to hear that about Thirty-Three Teeth - I'll be trying to squeeze it in this month for the Mystery CAT.

Yesterday I finished The Secret Place, which I liked but not as much as some others around here that have also read it.

I've started To the Lighthouse and I think it will help me be less intimidated by Virginia Woolf.

I've started The Silkworm, which so far is just as good as I had hoped it would be.

I'm reading The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli. My current non-fiction read is The Secret Rooms: A true Gothic Mystery by Catherine Bailey.

18 - Let us know what you think. Pied Piper is on my TBR list.

I'm reading Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester. It's making me want to reread all her books! I'm also reading The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton and The King Must Die by Mary Renault.

Just finished Cold Days by Jim Butcher and a few days ago I finished The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer. Both great fun, albeit very different!

I'm currently reading All Roads Lead to Austen and A Motor-Flight Through France and I'm listening to The Monster of Florence.

I'm about to start Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield, which hopefully will be appropriately gothic!

I'm finishing up Sharon Kay Penman's A King's Ransom which I'm sad to finish since it's the last book of hers I have to read except the historical mysteries. Maybe she'll start a new historical fiction series?

After I finish that, I'm going to focus on finishing the last 200 pages of A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman.

I've started A Falkland Islander Till I Die for the GeoCAT - I have a feeling I'm in for, along with a first-hand description of the war, quite a lot of political opinion.

Just found this thread. Yesterday I finished The Map Thief by Michael Blanding. Now I'm reading The Ace of Skulls, the fourth book in the Tale of the Ketty Jay series. Next up is The Art Forger.

Started reading The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez last night only intending to read a chapter or two. Next thing you know, I'm at least fifty pages in. Read a bit more this morning before work. Easy and enjoyable read so far.

I've started The Waves by Virginia Woolf. I'm also determined to finish A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman this month and I'm reading Evelina by Fanny Burney on my kindle.

I'm going back and forthe between The Secret Speech and The Haunting of Hill House.

We chose Dracula for my book club this month, which made for a good discussion and a nice spooky October read.

I'm starting The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown, which is about female pilots in WW2 (always a fascinating subject for me!).

About to start Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

I'm reading The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles and I am unable to put it down.

I'm also reading What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz and a book of short stories by Dan Chaon called Stay Awake.

Moving at a good clip through Malcolm Mackay's latest, The Night the Rich Men Burned, which I found out about through the library catalogue's "On Order" section. Similar feel to his Glasgow trilogy.

I'm working on my current LTER-book, Tel Aviv Noir - so far it's great, but not sure if all of these stories will actually qualify as "noir" per se.

#38 by @-Eva-> Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone!

I've finished my book for the Oct Geo Cat The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles. Probably one of the best books I've read this year.

I've finished What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz, which had a noir feeling about it, being the story of a young woman and the people involved in her life in Bakersfield, California and also about Jennifer Leigh filming Psycho. While there is a crime, it isn't really a crime novel.

And I'm three quarters through The Seamstress, which is fabulous. There's Brazilian high society, wild outlaws and everything in between, all set in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It's very exciting and my plans of housekeeping and getting the yard ready for winter have been put on hold.

Wow, two great testimonials for The Seamstress on this thread…looks like it's heading to my TBR list!

LOL, I've just added The Seamstress to my wishlist!

I am currently reading The Edge of Eden by Helen Benedict, a very atmospheric, strange book set in the Seychelles during the 1960's. I have also picked up The African Queen by C.S. Forester and so far am loving this one - brings back great memories of one of my all time favorite movies!

I'm reading The Sly Company of People Who Care for the GeoCAT and I'm working my way through The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton at the rate of one story per day. I just started the audio of Coraline.

Almost done John Scalzi's latest, Lock In.

Now reading... (1) A Wisp of a Thing as my bedside reading (and it's more than living up to the first in the series...) (2) Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest (which isn't fast, but is worth reading) (3) Tweeds as a relaxing break from nonfiction pursuits... and (4) Wonderbook as I prep for NaNoWriMo

I'm reading The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway and The Darling Dahlias and the Confederate Rose by Susan Wittig Albert. And I'm thinking of downloading The Crane's Wife by Patrick Ness to read on the treadmill as the weather has turned nasty here and I won't be walking outside today.

I've finished NOS4A2 and Americanah, both good. Now reading something short for Halloween, The House on the Borderland.

Finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - great fun and perfect for October!

I haven't been here for a while, work has been beating me up these days, making me too pooped to do much reading. I did however, start Seven For A Secret this morning and I am really enjoying it so far.

I've recently finished reading Evelina by Frances Burney which was really interesting as an influence on Jane Austen and fun in it's own right. I also finished listening to the very silly early gothic novel The Castle of Otranto.

Now I'm reading an ER book, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III which I'm really enjoying so far. For fiction, I'm about to start The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.

I'm reading fun stuff right now. Back to the Coast by Saskia Noort, another Dutch crime novel (there are apparently quite a few), NOS4A2 by Joe Hill for spooky Hallowe'en reading and Personal by Lee Child because Reacher.

I'm reading The Phantom Tollbooth -- for the first time! And I can see why everyone loves it so much. :) Next up will be Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater.

Almost finished with Looking for Alaska. Also recently finished Cakes and Ale and Fit to Be Dead - highly recommend the first one and really can't recommend the second.

Continuing my new-book reading with David Nicholls' latest, Us: A Novel (I don't think it has the subtitle "A Novel", but adding that brought up the touchstone, so there you go). Seeing him at the International Festival of Authors on Saturday and very excited about it. I'm also seeing Esther Freud on Wednesday.

Have fun, Rabbitprincess. I'm going to a book signing tomorrow night to see Denise Mina. I'm pretty sure I'll be the only one there with the English language version.

>56 RidgewayGirl: Nice! Have fun!
I've just started her Paddy Meehan series and am looking forward to exploring the others.

I am reading pride and prejudice by jane austen

I'm setting aside Sunshine by Robin McKinley, I just couldn't get into the story and decided to stop trying to force it. Instead I am picking up Last Argument of Kings which should close out the month.

I was going to read The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer for Halloween week (and it should be a quick one), when I realized that it's been so long since I read the Twilight series that I'd forgotten what part she played in the series. The fly leaf mentioned she was introduced in Eclipse so I downloaded that and skipped back and forth til I found where it was and then backed up a ways, and so am reading a part of that too, to get an idea of who she is. And I'm still reading The Crane Wife. And I've started The Piano on the Left Bank.

Hoping I can squeeze one more book under the wire -- The Brontës Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson.

Forty pages to go in Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet - hope to finish tonight in between handing out candy!

I finished The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and decided I needed a feel-good read so I read The Full Cupboard of Life, book #5 in the Ladies Detective Agency series. Now I'm ready to start my CAT reading for Nov and finish a couple I'm still reading - The Crane Wife and The Piano Shop on the Left Bank.