26-ish books for 2023

Finished book 8 - A Terrible Kindness - Jo Browning Wroe

I absolutely loved this, beautifully written, emotional book.

Breathmiller don’t stress! I got exactly what you meant.
A day with no commitments, rain outside, a good book, perfect!

A perfect day off inside with rain outside reading

Apologies, this was a terribly put together sentence. And on a book thread too! The shame. 😅

1. The Wild Silence- Raynor Winn.

A perfect day off inside with rain outside reading.

*book

That Difficult Women boom sounds interesting particularly as I liked Invisible Women.

6: The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
I was hoping that this had a similar tone to Station Eleven and it was in a way. Not quite as good, but really enjoyable. I think I might have preferred actually reading this as opposed to listening to it.

Am loving my physical read at the moment - Deep Sea and Foreign Going about container ships.

1)Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
2)Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
3) My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
4) Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhy
5) The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
6) The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
7) The Prison Doctor by Dr Amanda Brown.
8) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
9) Difficult Women by Helen Lewis: A History of Feminism In 11 Fights. Interesting read which I would recommend. Doesn't read like a text book (I was a bit worried it would but it's got lots of jokey and anecdotal bits.) Good companion read to Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez.

1. I just finished A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison which was a bit dark in some descriptions of the world but I was captivated by the three main characters stories.

Going to have a look through the thread for some inspiration for my next book.

Just finished book 7 - How to Kill Your Family - Bella Mackie
I wasn't sure this would be my thing but I actually enjoyed it a lot, I thought it was quite unique and some laugh out loud funny moments.

Onto book number six.....The Girls Who Disappeared by Claire Douglas. Not doing to badly was aiming for a book a month

I love Anne Tyler too.

Recently finished book 4, Digging to America by Anne Tyler.

What can I say about an Anne Tyler book? I just love them.

24 - A Doctor's Aim.
25 - Does it hurt when I press here?

And just starting
26 - Terry Pratchett's biography.

I just finished The Slap, about to start no 17, Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent.

Just finished book 6 - Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez.

I enjoyed this and really liked the main characters. There were a lot of heavy themes in this , probably could have been a bit less going on, but a good real all the same

Thanks @Jassyradlett

Magentax following advice from MN I chose Roger Ackroyd as my first foray into the world of AC. It’s also my choice for my book group so I hope it’s good!

5.Hostage by Claire McKintosh. A formulaic psychological thriller but with a great double twist at the end. I enjoyed it.

I love Agatha Christie! On what to read first that thread does look good. My favourites are The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Sparkling Cyanide.

I am not counting them but I'm currently listening to all the Albert Campion books on audio (in the car/bed).

This is a great thread on Agatha Christie and what to read first.

Have you read many Agatha Christie books? I don't know which to read first.
Anyone have any recommendations?

A Maigret Christmas by Georges Simenon - good read, quite moving
Zone of Interest by Martin Amis - fantastic novel but harrowing, set in a concentration camp
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters - rubbish, made me sad as I loved these books as a child!
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - very good
Lolly Willoes or the loving huntsman by Sylvia Sylvia Townsend Warner - loved this, would really recommend
Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith - Not for me really, found it a bit sneering
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin - clever idea and quite original but dialogue is awful
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie - love this book, comfort re-read
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith - brilliant novel, absolutely gripping

Just started my 10th book which is The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham. So far it's great!

Finished no 6 Slug by Hollie McNish which is brilliant though for someone who appears to know that the experience of being a woman is female socialisation and having a woman's body she seems rather tone deaf to the idea that men can't be women and it's insulting to be called "cis".

I'd like to join please. My aim is to read more. I'm not sure whether to add books I've read for work/study.

I also have a memory like a sieve and can't remember what I have read so far this year so I will start from now in March.

1. The Fortune Men - Nadia Mohamed.

I'm going to look back at this thread for inspiration. I am a bit guilty of getting books on Prime for free but they're not always the best so always glad of recommendations.

1. The Midnight Library- Matt Haig
2. The Switch - Beth O'Leary
3. The Coroner - MR Hall
4. Faking Friends - Jane Fallon (audio)
5. The Marlow Murder Club - Robert Thorogood
6. The Killing Kind - Jane Casey
7. Missing, Presumed - Susie Steiner (Audio). Really enjoyed the story but the narration was awful.