[AnotherCat]

My votes are:

2 for Light in August, William Faulkner
2 for The Indifferent Stars Above, Daniel James Brown
2 for The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
2 for Ghosts of the Tsunami, Richard Lloyd Parry
1 for Heavy Weather, P.G. Wodehouse

In the Didion thread I mentioned that I had bought the Daugherty biography of Joan Didion. I had not intended getting into it for some time but after browsing it I think it may explain some of my reservations about The Year of Magical Thinking plus it has interesting tie ins with American history. So I couldn't help myself but to start reading it straight away. Daugherty claims that Didion's mother was descended from one of the ill fated Donner party but that she and her husband, a minister, split from the party in Nevada. He has quite a bit to say about this as apparently Didion was as a young girl obsessed with the story of the party (and apparently it comes up later in her life as well but I have not got that far yet). This month's nomination The Indifferent Stars Above relates the story of the Donner party through the eyes of one of its members.

Confession: I read The Shipping News many years ago, but I now remember little of its detail; it has been on my to-reread list for some time, so a selfish nomination and votes from me.