12 books in 12 months (suggestions please)

[BethanyGilbert]

I’m trying to read 12 books in 2020. Previously I’ve gone months without reading and then will read a book in 2 days. I would like to broaden my experience to include fiction and non fiction and books I maybe wouldn’t choose. Any suggestions please?
I have already read The Five and The Day Olivia Fell since I started on the 1st.

Hopeful bump.

All the Light We Cannot See. It was absolutely brilliant, and tbh if you only read one book all year you'd be glad you read that one.

Yes that’s a beautiful book Phil

I’ve just finished the glass woman and really enjoyed it

By Caroline lea

I set myself a challenge a few years ago to read all the books on the short list for one of the book prizes. I failed miserably, probably because I was too ambitious for the time I had available. But maybe you could use THIS for some inspiration?

All the light we cannot see - lovely book
The Book Thief
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
The Book of Dust
A Thousand Splendid Suns
11-22-63
Wolf Hall

All my favourites and a mixture of genres

Elisa Lodato ( an unremarkable body and the necessary marriage)

Anything by Rosalind Lehmann

The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillian

The Reader by Bernard Schlink

I've set myself the same challenge, OP! I trawled a few lists of good reads and came up with this:

Jan: Gentleman in Moscow
Feb: The Muse
Mar: The Night Circus
Apr: A God in ruins
May: Fleishman Is in Trouble
Jun: Seven Husbands of evelyn hugo
Jul: Guns, Germs and Steel
Aug: Night - Elie Wiesel
Sep: The Cows
Oct: The Nightingale
Nov: The Mars Room
Dec: The Silent Patient

Tried to include one non-fiction, one more classic book and one that had been personally recommended by someone. The rest are just highly rated. P.S. All the Light We Cannot See is fab and Little Fires Everywhere is a great page-turner.

The Night Circus

I am I am I am Maggie O'Farrell
This is going to hurt Adam Kay
Nine perfect strangers Lianne Moriarty

Check out ' What we are reading' MN group
There's loads of great solutions on that.
I'd suggest 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine'
My Sister the Serial Killer
A few of my favourite authors are Louise Candlish, Liane Moriarty, Lisa Jewell, Nicci French, Maggie O'Farrell.

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson was my favourite non-fiction read of last year. My favourite read of any genre actually. Also Education by Tara Westover is a great memoir. For fiction I loved Circe by Madeleine Miller - a story based on Greek mythology. There are some fiction authors who never let me down - Kate Atkinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Wally Lamb, Lionel Shriver - I’d recommend anything by those guys. Good luck, I resolved to read more a few years ago too and I managed 35 books last year! I keep track of them using the reading challenge on Goodreads.

Life after life
The Goldfinch
The hand that first held mine

Maybe some biographical/autobiographical stuff?

The edible woman by Margaret Atwood

Great Gatsby

Small Island by Angela Levy

The Grace Year
My Dear I Wanted To Tell You
Our Endless Numbered Days
The Shock of the Fall
Big Sky

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Elinor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
We Need To Talk About Kevin

Rosamond Lehmann ( not Rosalind)

I love books