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50 Book Challenge 2017 Part Eight

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southeastdweller · 30/10/2017 18:31

Welcome to the eighth and final thread of the 50 Book Challenge for this year.

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2017, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read. To anyone who hasn't posted, feel free to de-lurk and share with us what you've read this year.

The first thread of the year is here, the second one here, the third thread here, the fourth one here, the fifth one here, the sixth one here, and the seventh one here.

How have you got on so far this year?

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Murine · 02/01/2018 22:52

I used my Christmas Waterstones vouchers to get Munich after hearing Robert Harris discuss it on radio 4, it's not the sort of thing I would usually choose at all but sounds so interesting! Even more excited to get stuck in now after your review Vistaverde

SatsukiKusakabe · 02/01/2018 16:44

vistaverde excited about Munich - glad to hear it’s good!

Vistaverde · 02/01/2018 10:53

Just posting my final two reviews of the year.

95 How To Stop Time - Matt Haig I had been looking forward to reading this for a while but sadly it was very disappointing and I struggled to get to the end. Whippet I can understand why you wanted to give up and Scribby I agree with many of your sentiments about it.

96 Munich - Robert Harris Set at the time of the 1938 Munich Peace Conference this is a political thriller which tells the story of a British and a German men who play pivotal roles in the meetings between Hitler and Chamberlain. Another book I had been patiently been waiting for from the library and I am pleased to say that this one did not disappoint. Having read both Fatherland and Conclave I had high expectations of this and it definitely exceeded them. I will be adding some of Robert Harris's other books to my to read list for the coming year.

SatsukiKusakabe · 02/01/2018 08:42

vanderley that’s nice, yes I didn’t think it was as taut as Bernadette by I enjoyed it on its own terms and could forgive its weak spots because she is so insightful in her observations. I look forward to anything else she writes, really like her style.

Tarahumara · 01/01/2018 15:44

And my top books of the year are:

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

See you on the new thread!

Tarahumara · 01/01/2018 15:41

Happy new year everyone!

Here's my final list:

  1. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  2. Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  3. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Armin
  4. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
  5. The Iceberg by Marion Coutts
  6. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
  7. Reaching down the rabbit hole by Allan Ropper
  8. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
  9. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
10. The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett 11. The Outrun by Amy Liptrot 12. Pyramids by Terry Pratchett 13. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann 14. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher 15. The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain 16. The Food of Love by Amanda Prowse 17. Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford 18. Nora Webster by Colm Toibin 19. The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss 20. All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews 21. Footsteps by Richard Holmes 22. The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble 23. Darkness Visible by William Styron 24. The City and the City by China Mieville 25. Running High, Running Low, Running Long by Ben Rolfe 26. The Power by Naomi Alderman 27. Spectacles by Sue Perkins 28. This Must be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell 29. Nutshell by Ian McEwan 30. The Penguin Lessons by Tom Mitchell 31. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 32. A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart 33. The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 34. Love's Executioner by Irvin D Yalom 35. Before the Fall by Noah Hawley 36. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 37. A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale 38. Only When I Laugh by Paul Merton 39. The Girls by Emma Cline 40. Mad Girl by Bryony Gordon 41. Serious Sweet by AL Kennedy 42. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 43. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver 44. Three Corvettes by Nicholas Monsarrat 45. Nine Lives by Alan C Deere 46. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter 47. The Sex Lives of English Women by Wendy Jones 48. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson 49. The Dry by Jane Harper 50. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell 51. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 52. The Image of You by Adele Parks 53. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 54. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
VanderlyleGeek · 01/01/2018 14:57

Satsuki, I'm so glad you enjoyed Today Will Be Different! I thought of you while reading it, given our shared love of Bernadette. Smile

Londoner11 · 01/01/2018 12:23

Happy New Year everyone

SatsukiKusakabe · 01/01/2018 10:17

I fell far short this year so will just post my particular highlights:

The Essex Serpent
His Bloody Project
11.22.63
The Long Goodbye
Lincoln in the Bardo
Today Will Be Different
The Handmaid’s Tale
Fatherland
The Summer Book
Rush Oh
Into Thin Air

There were others I quite enjoyed too so not too bad a year looking back, but a rough last few months of book abandonment and illness scuppered it a bit. Nice to end on a high with Into Thin Air and join the club of its fans.

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 01/01/2018 09:48

For completeness' sake here is my full (short) list, highlights in bold:

1.The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
2. Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift

  1. Under the Skin - Michel Faber
  2. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
  3. The Muse - Jessie Burton
  4. Swing Time - Zadie Smith
  5. The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
  6. A Question of Identity - Susan Hill
  7. The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill
10. A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin 11. The Shadows in the Street - Susan Hill 12. The Gate of Angels - Penelope Fitzgerald 13. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - John Le Carre 14. The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow 15. Different Class - Joanne Harris 16. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain 17. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch 18. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 19. Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 20. A Call for the Dead by John le Carre 21. The Birds in the Trees by Nina Bawden 22. The Sellout by Paul Beatty 23. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim 24. Moving by Jenny Eclair 25. The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss 26. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh 27. We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson 28. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout 29. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith 30. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau 31. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell 32. All Creatures Great and Small by James Heriot 33. Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny 34. The Pedant In The Kitchen by Julian Barnes 35. His Bloody Project by Graeme MacRae Burnet. 36. Waking Lions by Ayelet Gudnar-Goshen 37. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 38. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald 39. A Murder of Quality by John le Carre 40. The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill 41. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald 42. The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes 43. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 44. The 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie 45. The Girls by Emma Cline 46. The Deaths by Mark Lawson
BestIsWest · 01/01/2018 09:46

Thank you SouthEastDweller and everyone else on these threads. See you in 2018.

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southeastdweller · 01/01/2018 09:37

The new thread is up now:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/what_were_reading/3126771-50-Book-Challenge-2018-Part-One

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southeastdweller · 01/01/2018 09:36

Posting my full lis for last year:

  1. Even Dogs in the Wild - Ian Rankin
  2. Cheer up Love - Susan Calman
  3. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes
  4. I'll Have What She's Having - Rebecca Harrington
  5. Leap In - Alexandra Hemingsley
  6. The Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thompson
  7. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
  8. The Liar's Chair - Rebecca Whitney
  9. Shockaholic - Carrie Fisher
10. Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class - Owen Jones 11. Letter from New York - Helene Hanff 12. Jonathan Unleashed - Meg Rosoff 13. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 14. Adventures of a Terribly Greedy Girl: A Memoir of Food, Family, Film & Fashion - Kay Plunkett-Hogg 15. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool - Peter Turner 16. A Month in the Country - JL Carr 17. Let's Make Lots of Money: Secrets of a Rich, Fat, Gay, Lucky Bastard - Tom Watkins 18. Keeping On Keeping On - Alan Bennett 19. A Survival Guide for Life - Bear Grylls 20. The Pier Falls - Mark Haddon 21. The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks 22. The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher 23. Into the Water - Paula Hawkins 24. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara 25. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman 26. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying - Marie Kondo 27. The Girls - Emma Cline 28. Significant Others - Armistead Maupin 29. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas 30. A Very English Scandal - John Preston 31. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson 32. A Manual for Heartache - Cathy Rentzenbrink 33. Adele - Sam Smith 34. The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop - Clare Balding 35. The Silence Between Breaths - Cath Staincliffe 36. My No Spend Year: How I Spent Less and Lived More - Michelle McGagh 37. Swing Time - Zadie Smith 38. Days Without End – Sebastian Barry 39. I’m Not With the Band – Sylvia Patterson 40. Dead Now Of Course – Phyllida Law 41. Get Me the Urgent Biscuits – Sweetpea Slight 42. The People at Number 9 – Felicity Everett 43. Standard Deviation – Katherine Heiny 44. Mummy’s Boy – Larry Lamb 45. Wonder - R.G Palagio 46. One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson 47. help – Simon Amstell 48. The Examined Life - Stephen Grosz 49. Room - Emma Donaghue 50. A Child in Time - Ian McEwan 51. An Almost Perfect Christmas - Nina Stibbe 52. Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng 53. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris 54. Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney 55. The Diary of a Bookseller - Sean Bythell
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stilllovingmysleep · 01/01/2018 08:42

Looking forward to the 2018 as recently I've been reading much more & hoping to manage many more than 50 in the new year. (and to follow this thread much more closely!)

In the end this year I managed 46/50 books so not quite there. Here is my full list.

1. Bee Wilson, 'this is not a diet book'
2. Harry Potter & the chamber of secrets
3. Jennifer Weiner, 'all fall down'
4. Lauren Sandler, 'one and only'
5. Rene and Goscinny, the Nicholas Book (children's book)
6. Katja Rowell, fussy eating book
7. Nicola Yoon, 'everything everything' (YA book)
8. JD Robb, 'echoes in death'
9. JD Vance, 'Hillbilly elegy'
10. Jonathan Kellerman, Heartbreak Hotel
11. Haemin Sunim, The things you can see only when you slow down
12. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We should all be feminists
13. Sarah A. Denzil Silent Child
14. Anna Bell The bucket list to mend a broken heart
15. Elin Hilderbrand The Rumor
16. William Styron Sophie's choice
17. Diane Ackerman the Zookeeper's wife
18. Leap in: A woman, some waves and the will to swim by Alexandra Heminsley
19. Αύγουστος Κορτώ Μικρό χρονικό τρέλλας (in greek)
20. The breakdown B. A. Paris
21. Floating: A life regained by Joe Minihane
22. Here's to us Elin Hilderbrand
23. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
24. Hidden nature by Alys Fowler
25. Running like a girl by Alexandra Heminsley
26. paper hearts and summer kisses by Carole Matthews
27. Rosemary: The hidden Kennedy daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
28. Margaret Davidson Helen Keller's teacher
29. This is how you lose her Junot Diaz
30. Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the dawn of Pink Floyd by Pete Anderson
31. The four tendencies Gretchen Rubin
32. A dry white season Andre Brink
33. My not so perfect life Sophie Kinsella
34. Glass castle by Jeannette Walls
35. My brilliant friend Elena Ferrante
36. The shack William P. Young
37. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
38. Lover of unreason: the life & tragic death of Assia Wevill by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
39. You can't spell America without me (audiobook) Kurt Andersen & Alec Baldwin
40. Little girl blue: The life of Karen Carpenter Randy Schmidt
41. The Goldfinch Donna Tartt
42. The gift of failure by Jessica Lahey
43. Fixed ideas Joan Didion
44. Railway children E. Nesbit
45. The rosie project Graeme Simsion
46. Into the wild Jon Krakauer

Happy reading everyone for 2018

boldlygoingsomewhere · 01/01/2018 08:14

Happy New Year to you all!

I managed 52 books this year - got off to a flying start and then slowed down massively from September onwards. Hoping to reach the 50 target again next year. Smile

NotEnoughCushions · 01/01/2018 00:49

Happy New Year and looking forward to the 2018 thread.

I was particularly rubbish at updating on here but I did manage 66 books this year so quite pleased with myself.

MegBusset · 01/01/2018 00:44

Happy new year to all! Looking forward to the 2018 thread Smile

highlandcoo · 01/01/2018 00:26

Happy New Year everyone Xmas Smile

I fell off the thread last year but will be back and more organised for 2018!

In the middle of Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear - very readable crime and an ideal holiday book.

Next up are A Room with a View and North Water for two different book groups.. looking forward to both.

slightlyglittermaned · 31/12/2017 23:51

I feel like I'm doing my homework on the bus at the last minute Grin I can't figure out from my Kindle what order I read them in, so have grouped into rough categories. Looks like I read a lot of series this year! And not as much non-fiction as I intended to.

Non-fiction
The Skeleton Cupboard, Tanya Byron
Misbehaving, Richard Thaler
A Slip of the Keyboard, Terry Pratchett
The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg (totally forgot I'd read this)
Peak, J Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly

Space opera, sci fi, mil-sf
Vatta's War series, Elizabeth Moon

  • Trading in Danger, Marque and Reprisal, Engaging the Enemy, Command Decision, and Victory Conditions, and Cold Welcome. Serrano Legacy, Elizabeth Moon
  • Hunting Party, Sporting Change, Winning Colors, Once A Hero, Rules of Engagement, Change of Command, Against the Odds. Frontlines series, Marko Kloos
  • Terms of Enlistment, Lines of Departue, Angles of Attack, Chains of Command, Fields of Fire Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson Provenance Ann Leckie Sunbolt, Memories of Ash Intisar Khana Artemis, Andy Weir Aristoi, Walter Jon Williams Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, Yoon Ha Lee The Stars are Legion, Kameron Hurley Gods War, Kameron Hurley The Merchant Princes series, Charles Stross
  • The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, The Clan Corporate, The Merchants' War, The Revolution Business, The Trade of Queens Empire Games, Charles Stross

Fantasy
Memoirs of Lady Trent, Marie Brennan
- A Natural History of Dragons, The Tropic of Serpents, Voyage of the Basilisk, In the Labyrinth of Drakes, Within the Sanctuary of Wings
Nation Terry Pratchett (loved this)
Goldenhand, Garth Nix
Closer to the Chest, Mercedes Lackey
The Laundry Files series, Charles Stross:

  • The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memorandum, The Apocalypse Codex, The Rhesus Chart, The Annihilation Score, The Nightmare Stacks London Falling series, Paul Cornell
  • London Falling, Who Killed Sherlock Holmes, The Severed Streets Tooth and Claw Jo Walton The Lost Plot, Genevieve Cogman (last in The Invisible Library series) The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper

Other stuff
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Whose Body, Dorothy Sayers
Georgette Heyer regencies:

  • Friday's Child, The Convenient Marriage, The Unknown Ajax, Venetia, The Grand Sophy, The Talisman Ring

Favourites in bold.

Murine · 31/12/2017 23:44

Grin at I Love Dick standing proud on Satsuki's list.
It's been my first year on this thread, thankyou for making me welcome and giving me such fantastic ideas for what to read next, I would never have discovered many reads I very much enjoyed without it: This Thing of Darkness and Helen Dunmore for starters!

My final 2017 list:

  1. Frog Music by Emma Donaghue
  2. After the Crash Michel Bussi
3.Work Like Any Other Virginia Reeves
  1. The Kept Woman Karin Slaughter
  2. American Gods Neil Gaiman
  3. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven Chris Cleave
  4. Detour from Normal Ken Dickson
  5. The Comfort of Strangers Ian McEwan
  6. Our Endless Numbered Days Claire Fuller
10. The Lewis Man Peter May 11. The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin 12. Deceived Wisdom David Bradley 13. Silent Child Sarah A. Denzil 14. This Thing of Darkness Harry Thompson 15. The Detectives Daughter Lesley Thomson 16. Burning Bright Tracy Chevalier 17. One Little Mistake Emma Curtis 18. Lie With Me Sabine Durrant 19. Golden Hill Francis Spufford 20. Them Jon Jonson 21. Raven Black Ann Cleeves 22. The Tidal Zone Sarah Moss 23. Bodies of Water V.H.Leslie 24. Do No Harm Henry Marsh 25. White Nights Ann Cleeves 26.Nora Webster Colm Toibin 27. The Men Who Stare At Goats Jon Ronson 28. Kill Someone Luke Smitherd 29. The Lie Helen Dunmore 30. Red Bones Ann Cleeves 31. The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson 32. The Power Naomi Alderman 33. Night Waking Sarah Moss 34. The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson 35. Remember Me This Way Sabine Durrant 36. The Good People Hannah Kent 37. Island of Wings Karin Altenburg 38. Good Me, Bad Me Ali Land 39. The Crow Trap Ann Cleeves 40. The Siege Helen Dunmore 41. The Dark Circle Linda Grant 42. Capital John Lanchester 43. Commonwealth Ann Patchett 44. The Radium Girls Kate Moore 45. Dead Certain Adam Mitzner 46. The Return Hisham Matar 47. Apple Tree Yard Louise Doughty 48. Burial Rites Hannah Kent 49. First Love Gwendoline Riley 50. The Woman In Cabin 10 Ruth Ware 51. Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 52. I'm Travelling Alone Samuel Bjork 53. The Good Neighbour AJBanner 54.Black Water Louise Doughty 55. Lincoln In The Bardo George Saunders 56.The Book Collector Alice Thompson 57. A Girl Is a Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride 58. Birdcage Walk Helen Dunmore 59. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 60. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone JKRowling 61. Still house Lake Rachel Caine 62. No is Not Enough Naomi Klein 63. Telling Tales Anne Cleeves 64. The Dry Jane Harper 65. See What I Have Done Sarah Schmidt 66. New Boy Tracy Chevalier 67. Leaving Time Jodi Picoult 68. The Farm Tom Rob Smith 69. The Owl Always Hunts At Night Samuel Bjork 70. The Sport of Kings C.E. Morgan 71. What Belongs to You Garth Greenwell 72. Dark Places Gillian Flynn 73.Restoration Rose Tremain 74. The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain 75.Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 76.The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 77.Hidden Depths Ann Cleeves 78.Silent Voices Ann Cleeves 79. Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 80.The Glass Room Ann Cleeves 81.Days Without End Sebastian Barry 82. Harbour Street Ann Cleeves 83. Swing Time Zadie Smith 84.The Moth Catcher Ann Cleeves 85.Into the Water Paula Hawkins 86. Two Stories Mark Haddon and Virginia Woolf 87. The Pier Falls Mark Haddon 88.Exit West Mohsin Hamid 89. You Don't Know Me Imran Mahmood 90. Elmet Fiona Mozley 91. These Dividing Walls Fran Cooper 92.Masque Bethany M Pope 93. The Snowman Jo Nesbo 94.My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent 95. Offshore Ann Cleeves 96. Eleanor Oliphant Gail Honeyman 97.A Pocketful of Crows Joanne Harris 98. History of Wolves Emily Fridlund 99. Under Your Skin Sabine Durrant 100. Swimming Lessons Claire Fuller 101. The Bat Jo Nesbo 102.A Cat, A Hat and a Piece of String Joanne Harris 103. So You've Been Publicly Shamed Jon Ronson 104. The Keeper of Lost Things Ruth Hogan 105. Mind hunter John E. Douglas 106. I Am Watching You Teresa Driscoll 107. Murder on Christmas Eve ed. Cecily Gayford 108. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy

Phew! Happy new year everybody Flowers

RMC123 · 31/12/2017 22:06

128. A life like other people - Alan Bennet Squeezed in a cheeky one to finish the year. And a lovely one it was too. Thank you Mr Bennett

noodlezoodle · 31/12/2017 21:55

Thank you for a brilliant thread - you are all so clever and funny and have given me excellent ideas about what to read next (and what to avoid).

I've not quite made it to 50, nor have I finished my Goodreads/Pop Sugar challenge, but I've read more, and more widely than in previous years so I'm very happy.

The last few of the year:

43. The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson. Excellent antidote to the cold - lovely short stories set on the family's small island, mainly about a small child and her grandmother. Utterly charming.

44. Inside Vogue, by Alexandra Shulman. I loved this. I'm a huge fan of diaries, and pretty interested in the fashion world, so I expected to like this, but it was so candid, biting and funny that I liked it even more than I thought I would. Probably a future comfort re-read I think.

45. The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper. I often re-read this at this time of year, and it was a great help in getting me in a Christmassy mood.

Looking forward to next year's thread already!

Sonnet · 31/12/2017 20:12

Not been on this thread this year and missed you all, the banter and the book recommendations.
Had a mixed reading year and somewhat lost my reading mojo at one point. My notes show I read 72 so an average year for me.

Looking forward to joining you all on the new thread tomorrow and have my first book of 2018 all lined up to start tomorrow (book group read and got to be done by the end of the week Grin )

RiverTamFan · 31/12/2017 18:12

So to finish off the year, I've got nowhere near 50 books. However I have thoroughly enjoyed all the reading I have got done (far more and more varied than in over a decade), I have really enjoyed the conversation/reviews/occasional squabbling, I managed to grab the perfect Christmas gift book for my father at a bargain price (Pax Romana which made the awkward sod very happy) and I have a stack of books all ready and waiting for next year! It's also helped get through some really crappy times.

1 Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
2 Stark by Ben Elton
3 Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
4 Capricorn One by Ron Goulart
5 Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
6 The ADHD Effect on Marriage by Melissa Orlov
7 The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams
8 Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett
9 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
10 The Sherlock Chronicles
11 A Passage to India by EM Forster
12 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
13 The Queen of Distraction by Terry Matlen
14 The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
15 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
16 The Truth by Terry Pratchett
17 The Present by Spencer Johnson
18 Age of Ultron
19 The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor
20 Hiding an Elephant by Kim A Gay
21 Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
22 The Hobbit by JR Tolkien

23 The Science of Game of Thrones by Helen Keen

Light, fun, funny and full of weird and wonderful facts.
"Researchers observing the Komodos over a period of eight years found plenty of malrs leading active lives, fighting and mating into their 60s. The researchers also found, or rather couldn't find, any females older than 33, (sort of like a Hollywood Rom-Com casting, but with lizards)."

Look forward to doing this again with you lot next year!

Tanaqui · 31/12/2017 17:47
  1. Murder on the Orient Express. Saw the film last week (disappointing!) so thought I would reread the book to see quite where (and how badly) they had mangled the film. An excellent choice for a rainy Sunday (with Christmas cake and a cup of tea!).
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