26-ish books for 2023

Finished my book no
18.Holly-Stephen King which I thought was really good and now I’m back to reading my 16.Billy Summers- Stephen King
I haven’t been reading books much in the last few months ,usually am often falling asleep attempting to in the evenings . Will have to see if I’ll get to 26 this year , life is busy and I’m tired …

I'm terrible at remembering to post; in fact i dont appear to have posted since jan!

I'm up to 33 books this year;

1. Life Before Us - Roision Meaney
2. This Is Us - Helen McGinn
3. The Cornish Cream Tea Bookshop - Cressida McLaughlin
4. Spare - Prince Harry
5. What Lies Beneath - Adam Croft
6. The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths - this is something like number 9 in the series but can all be read independently
7. After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid
8. New Family Required - Carmen Reid
9. Confessions of a forty something fuck up - Alexandra Potter
10. Other Parents - Sarah Stovell
11. Yours, Mine, Ours - Sinead Moriarty
12. The Museum of Ordinary People - Mike Gayle
13. Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (a comfort repeat read)
14. Love and Other words - Christina Lauren
15. The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
16. The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
17. Death On Cromer Beach - Ross Greenwood
18. Secrets - Freya North
19. No One Saw a Thing - Andrea Mara
20. Other Peoples Husbands - Elizabeth Nobel
21. Love Untold - Ruth Jones
22. One Good Thing - Alexandra Potter
23. The Perfect Lie - Adam Croft
24. A Room full of Bones - Elly Griffiths
25. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
26. A Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths
27. The Holiday - Erica James
28. On Borrowed Time - Adam Croft
29. Love from Paris - Alexandra Potter
30. The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths
31. The Ghost Fields - Elly Griffiths
32. The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths
33. The Dark Angel - Elly Griffiths

I seem to pick a lot of easy reads, and although I buy more recommended titles i tend to skip over them in favour of fluff.

Is anyone using GoodReads?

64 Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
65 Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

Just read One Of The Girls, Lucy Clarke. Really good.
I've just started The Cottage, Lisa Stone aka Cathy Glass. My sister said it's really good. Seems like an easy read, but she wants to discuss it when I'm finished, so I'm intrigued.

I haven't posted for ages, also in a reading slump but finished these over the summer. Don't think I'm going to get to 25 for the year!

10. Run Rose Run - Dolly Parton and James Patterson.
    Love anything to do with Dolly, and this was just a light, easy holiday read.

11. Love, Nina - Nina Stibbe
    Read this after listening to an old Adam Buxton podcast where she was the guest, and thought she was very funny. Am watching the TV show that was based on it as well.

12. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
    Firsthand account of an Everest disaster. Fascinating to hear about the intense physical strain people go through to try and reach the top.

I think it won an award too.

Wildernesstips
I felt the same about Snap!

20: Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg
Wow, this was such a good book about a wife willing her husband out of a coma after a freak accident. I had never heard of Elizabeth Berg, but if you like Anne Tyler and Carol Shields, I think you would like her.

21: Snap by Belinda Bauer
I found this a bit disappointing after the hype on the cover, but wanted to read about it because it is set in my area of the South West. I did enjoy it, but I'm never going to be a big fan of this kind of crime fiction.

It was great reading so much on holiday, it has really got me back into the mood.

I went into a total reading slump over the summer and haven't finished a book for ages, but am about halfway through The Running Grave on audible now, loving it and hoping that it will kickstart my interest again.

Book 24 Janes Oswald Prayer for the Dead

Bit quiet on here?

63 Thin Air by Michelle Paver.

31. The Devastating Boys by Elizabeth Taylor. Collection of short stories. This was great. Tends to focus on relationships, awkwardness, social interaction. All quietly told, even when something awful happens, but each story comes to life quickly and sucks you in.

24. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh - really interesting/well written story of a girl in foster care and her love for flowers.

I loved Station 11 too, and also thought the series was excellent. I've just added it to my "books to buy" list!

19: Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnett
This was a clever little novel, but I got frustrated with the so-called biography of Collins Braithwaite and was more fascinated by the notebooks. I love the fact that the notebooks capture what I can only allude to as the "rather dated" style of novels of the early 60s.

16. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Thanks baconandavocado I've just dowloaded this for my next read. I loved Station 11

22. Sunrising - Susan Hubert
23. The Garden of Burning Sand - Corban Addison

Quite apt to go from one to the other actually. First one based on lives in colonial Rhodesia at the turn of the last century. I really enjoyed it.
Then the second one I liked as much as another Addison book I read earlier this year. This one was set in modern day Zambia and as before tells a story around some dark real life experiences. Would recommend both.

62 What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher.

13. Small Pleasures by Claire Chambers
Loved this gentle tale of life in the 1950s. The characterisation is excellent, I couldn't put it down.

14. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Unfortunately I accidentally read a mahoosive spoiler in the acknowledgments which hugely affected my enjoyment of my very first AC book!
That aside, it's exactly how I imagined it. Very plot led with many many characters. I really wanted to be wowed....

15. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
An author new to me but what a talent! This is a fantastic read and I'll definitely be seeking out her other novels.

16. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
A really unusual, unique book set in different time periods.
Elegiac and highly original, it's not dissimilar to another of Mandel's books, Station Eleven which I've not yet read but watched the superb tv series.

Drum roll.....
17. The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
This arrived yesterday and I'm already loving it.
Can't believe JK's output!
I was reading book 6 this time last year and they're huge!

handyandhopeful
I'm off to the library to get a password for Borrowbox....didn't realise it does audiobooks too?!

18 - Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
I confess that I have a little thing for Stanley, and I loved him in his In Search of Italy programme. If you liked that, then you will also adore this. You really feel his voice come across.

Thanks, I've been meaning to, I've just downloaded BorrowBox so I'm hoping the content is good.

@Pourmeanotherwine wow, you've read a lot this year. That's great.
Did you enjoy the Richard Osman books ?
I keep seeing them, especially in charity shops, so might give them a try.

1 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
2 The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier
3 lessons in Chemistry
4 touch of love by Jonathan Coe
5 The bird in the bamboo cage by Heather Webb
6 The man who died twice by Richard Osman
7 The Glass Blowers by Daphne du Maurier
8 The travelling cat chronicles by Hiro Arkawa. Lovely but sad.
9 Red Birds by Mohammed Hanif. Enjoyed I think. Darkly funny.
10 Everyone in this room will someday be dead by Emily Austin.
11 The Helingor Sewing Club by Ella Gyland. Really enjoyed this one, about the evacuation of Danish Jews to Sweden in the second world war by local fishermen with the help of the whole community.
12 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
13 Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier.
14 The scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
15 The bullet that missed by Richard Osman
16 Murder before evensong by Richard Coles
17 Back when we were grownups By Anne Tyler
18 Now reading Circe by Madeleine Miller
19 Dinner at the homesick restaurant by Anne Tyler
20 Still Life by Sarah Winman
21 We will never be young again by Daphne du Maurier
22 People person by Candice Carty- William's
23 Suzy Suzy by William Wall.
24 Trio by William Boyd
25 (still reading) the prophet and the idiot by jonas jonasson