March Booklist - Drug Month

The reading challenge is progressing well and at the end of February the total is

The progressive books for the year are:

1. Life at the Marmont by Raymond Sarlot
2. Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
3. The Complete Short Stories of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
4. In My Shoes by Tamara Mellon
5. The Untouchable by John Branville
6. The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
7. I am Dandy by Rose Callahan
8.  The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber by Mel Gordon
9. The Freudian Slip by Marion Von Adlerstein
10. The World According to Karl Lagerfeld by Karl Lagerfeld
11. The Flying Mannequin by Freddy
12. Memos The Vogue Years by Diana Vreeland 
13. Risotto with Nettles by Anna del Conte
14. Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof
15. The Society of Timid souls by Polly Morland
16. C.Z. Guest: American Style Icon by Susanna Salk
17. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart 

The autobiography of Anna del Conte was wonderful, her life story is fascinating and the way she links the anecdotes to foo is superb, cooking some of the included recipies would be divine.
The Vanderbilt family is well known in American history and financial circles but, the story of these two women and their private and political lives was complex and largely unhappy.

While in March we are exploring the theme of 'Drugs', the selected books are as follows:

18. Junky by William Burroughs
19. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolf
20. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
21. Brave New World by Audious Huxley
22. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol