26-ish books for 2023

Well done you 😂

Thanks, I'll take a look. I've been listening to some Sally Rigby books, a bit simplistic but I like the narrator, easy to listen to whilst making dinner. I need to start putting my phone down and actually picking up a book.

My target on good reads is 100 😯

I'm a quick reader and read most days on my commute, 1.5 hours a day. I also don't watch TV. I like crime fiction and thrillers best

Hello!

I'll join you please. Like this idea and 26 is probably doable for me.

@Yawningalldaylong , I love true crime too. One of the best true crime books I've read is one Last Kiss ( Chris Coleman case), but if you'd like fiction, I'd highly recommend Eeny Meeny.

I lost count of how many I read last year, but this year, I'm going to keep a tally.
I read Sometimes I lie, Alice Feeney, over Christmas, which was brilliant. I've just started MJ Arlidge, Cat and Mouse, which I'm enjoying.
I was lucky last year to go away for a month and I read so much on that break. I discovered MJ Arlidge then ( Eeny Meeny), which I loved.

Hope I can join, I so often buy books that I don't get to read so I've started back slowly with audiobooks, hoping I'll catch the bug and find more time. I love a true crime podcast as well so I need to find a balance. The Haunting of Alma Fielding is top of my list and I'll pick some mentioned on here for January.

Ooh Tinytigertail I've just downloaded that on foot of your recommendation. It sounds right up my street.

First book this year is a non fiction, but absolutely gripping. The devil you know by Eileen Horne & Gwen Adshead. Started yesterday and will finish today.

I started on last year's thread but dropped off.
I used to read 50+ books a year but lost my reading mojo and spend far too much time scrolling.
My target for 2022 was 25 and I read 26. Would have been more but I got bogged down with two 800 pagers that took me 2 months.

I like crime and thrillers and have recently got back into historical novels.

I'm currently reading a John Grisham. I used to read his books back in the 80s and they age rather well.

@HilarysMantelpiece Life After Life is in my top ten and I see KA has a new book out.

What I'd like to read this year.
Agatha Christie - never read one.
Ben MacIntyre I loved Rogue heroes on TV.

Finished book 1
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri

beautifully written and heartbreaking, story of a Cypriot woman who takes in a Sri Lankan maid when he husband dies just before she gives birth. 10years later the maid suddenly goes missing, and she has a come to Jesus moment of realising she knows nothing about her or the other immigrant women who come to Europe in search of a better life. Highly recommended

May I join also?
I've fallen out of the habit of reading regularly, although I love it.
I've read 3? or 4? since Christmas... including "Blood Orange" (nice comfortable read) and two by Kate Atkinson ("Life after Life" is one of my favourite books).

1/26 "Hot Hand" by Ben Cohen. Meh. It's alright but not particularly well written nor sciency enough for me.

Joining in.

I lost count last year. This year I'll number my books.

Currently dipping into
1 - Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie, and
2 - The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson.

I managed to finish 29 last year and started 2 more . My goal was 26 and I nearly emptied a drawer in my bedroom . I will continue with this same goal my life is too busy and have many health problems and endless fatigue so I know more isn’t very realistic . I’m pleased I managed to stare devices less and read this amount .
I’ll continue The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz
and Richard Osman’s third Thu Murder Club Book .

Happy New Year. I'm joining up for first time too, with good intentions but no target. Hoping joining might spur me on a bit...
Last book of 2022 was Miss Clara by Noel Streatfeild. Started well but don't think I would recommend it, partly because the blurb spoiled it and then a good chunk around 4/5ths in dragged.
First book of this year is Case Histories by Kate Atkinson. Around a 3rd through and enjoying it so far.

hello! Was on last year on a different name but would like to join again.

I’m nearly finished A Maigret Christmas and other stories by George Simenon so that’ll be number one.

I wasn’t as active on last years thread as I have been and I just about managed 26 so here with renewed vigour and jumping online specifically to ONLY find this thread so I can get cracking with my first book

I followed last years thread. Think I read 22 books last year then life got in the way on many levels. So life still not fully settled so probably won't read 26 books this year. But starting with an Xmas present Love Untold by Ruth Jones.

Hi..can I join?

I read 26 books last year. Currently reading "under the whispering door" by TJ Klune....this a new author for me and so far it's good!

Hi can I join please? I love reading but can be slow when life gets in the way. Some big readers on this post! I would like to aim for one a month I'm starting today with The House of Eyes by Kate Ellis. I'm a big crime fiction fan!

@Iamblossom blood orange was a favourite of mine last year too! I finished it ends and midnight yesterday. Same author. Not as good as blood orange I don't think but still a good read

Oh I'd love to join for 2023 😀
Currently reading:

• Girl Forgotten - Karin Slaughter.

I have a physical TBR pile of 5 books that I'm hoping to get through in January. I'm a quick reader when a book really grabs me to this should be easily done for me, as long as I can find time (3yo & 1yo often make this difficult!)

I loved this. I thought Elizabeth Zott was a total legend.

This was my list for last year, stars by my faves:

2022 books

Judas Horse
Christmas Chronicles
Tall Bones
The Sober Diaries
All the Lonely People
Worst idea ever
All her fault
Before my actual heart breaks
Just one damned thing after another
A Symphony of echoes
A Second Chance
Disgrace
A Trail through time
Shuggie Bain
What I know
Rachel's holiday
The Push *
No time like the past
Still Life *
The Housemate
Thursday Murder Club
Wrong Place Wrong Time *
The Echo Chamber *
Finding Me
Small Pleasures *
Us Three
Blood Orange *
Lessons in Chemistry *
To love and be loved
The room in the attic
The Long Dark Road

I am now reading Twelve Secrets by Robert Gold which is great so far, and The Herd on my kindle.

*RECONSTRUCTION! Not resurrection