Read What You Own 2026

The School at the Chalet is the 1st one I think.Elinor M Brent-Dyer.

I first read them when I was about 10..am now 56! Do not have any on kindle or book form now and am now wishing I had not said I won't be buying this year( except for Cazalet one in sept) I was rash in the extreme.Agree with pp am adding to wish list becsuse of this thread😄

@Boudy I do sometimes jump around between books but try not to do it too much as I end up forgetting and restarting!

@SheilaFentiman ..oh yes,I agree. I have done that if too long between them

I am currently partway through The Dictator’s Wife but it is something of a nail biter so I have segued into a non-fiction - MI6 - on a related topic!

I can't wait for the film! I loved the book and I loved The Martian (both book and film)

@LadybirdDaphne
The charity book sale is my nemesis too. I fear the lure is too strong. July is my version of Christmas.

@BeaAndBen @ÚlldemoShúl After I read it, I bought Project Hail Mary for my friend and they and their spouse flew through it and we’ve got a cinema trip planned. I absolutely loved it

I loved PHM book but I am not sure how the film will translate as a lot of it is 'internal' re the thoughts of the main character.

I used to love the Chalet School books too as a child. Might give them a go again.

I’ve just finished Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois. A long one. I thought it was really interesting and quite liked it. Although some of the content is so sad. Also thought it jumped around a bit.

Finished Helm by Sarah Hall, hated it !

I've just finished Bookworm by Lucy Mangan and loved every word!
Unfortunately the book makes me want to buy some of the childhood books that I missed at the time. It's a book about her lifelong love of reading, particularly in childhood, and I found it fascinating and evocative.

I might have accidentally ordered a second hand copy of Private- Keep Out by Gwen Grant 😌

Strange Sally Diamond has been languishing in my Kindle , and now thanks to you I'm mindful to read it next .

@FrostyFlo I hope you enjoy it, although "enjoy" is maybe not quite the right word here. I thought it an incredibly good novel, but hard-hitting and quite upsetting.

It's fantastic, one of my favourites in 2024.

Have finished two books that have been on my kindle for years.

Peter Robinson - Watching the Dark - not one of his beat and I found it long winded - I bought that in 2013.

Faith Martin - Murder at Work from 2018.

2 The Lady in the Tower by Elizabeth St John (bought at the very end of last year) followed by 3 The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier (which I’ve had for some time as it was a teenage favourite and finally decided to reread to continue the 17th century vibe).

I have at least one more 17th century RWYO on my Kindle, which I’m hoping to read soon to continue the theme.

I’ve just finished Factfulness by Hans Rosling which I started last year and which was a definite bold. I’ve decided to DNF another non-fiction book I started in 2025 The Romanovs The Final Chaper by Robert Massie as I thought this was about the last months of the Imperial family, but it’s actually about the identification of their bodies decades after their deaths. At 23% I’m finding it dull and a bit grim. I have two non-fiction books in my 2014 purchases folder and RNG has selected The First World War by Hew Strachan.

Finished a third book Different Class Joanne Harris

Been on my kindle since 2018. I didn’t realise it was the second in a trilogy so was a bit annoyed as might have preferred to read in order, though in reality that probably would have been another one that sat there unread for years! I really struggled to get into it for a long while, but ultimately I was staying up into the early hours to finish - it gripped me around the 50% mark. Some good misdirection and a twist I didn’t see coming but one that made you go ‘oh, of course’ when it happened.

Read Love Forms by Claire Adam. Thanks to @MamaNewtNewt I’ve been able to do monthly Collections and so I can only do what’s in that Collection for the month. It really helps focus and No Buy.

What I’ve just bloody realised is that I had the first on my kindle all along! I hadn’t read it, but it didn’t come up when I filtered by unread and I’m not sure why. I’m not sure if I want to go back to it now, I didn’t enjoy Different Class quite enough to feel like I have to read everything in order, and I’m not sure how much having read the second has given away - there is a previous scandal/ case referred to which should have clued me in to the fact that there had been a previous book but I kept thinking that would be expanded upon at some later date.

Perhaps I’ll go back later in the year, apparently there’s a third too!