What's on your book wishlist?

[17caterpillars1mouse]

I've seen on another thread that, like me, alot of people are hoping for books for Christmas.

I just thought it would be interesting to see what books people are hoping to receive, and what books people are buying others as gifts?

So many. Mostly thrillers.

I'd recommend The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, though.

Tired and Tested by Sophie McCartney - I'd ask for more but I have a 1 year old and no time to sit and read 🤷‍♀️🤣

My list:

Though most people won't buy them me as alot aren't your usual 'on the best sellers shelf in waterstones' type book

Femina by Janina Ramirez

The whistleblower - Robert Preston

Medusa - Jessie Burton

The dance tree - Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The devil you know - encounters in forensic psychiatry - Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne

The silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

Verity - Colleen Hoover

The children of Jocasta - Natalie Haynes

Tasting sunlight - Ewald Arenz, Rachel Ward

Inferno - Catherine Cho

Murderous Contagion: A human history of disease - Mary Dobson

The embroidered book - Kate Heartfield

The cruel prince - holly black

Kew's witches garden: plants in folklore, magic and traditional medicine - Sandra Lawrence

The South Polar Times pub by The Folio Society
Endurance The story of how they found the ship by Mensus

Benefit - Siobhan Phillips
Either/Or - Elif Batuman
She is Haunted - Paige Clark
So Many Olympic Exertions - Anelise Chen

The Endurance one mentioned below

A new copy of a cookbook that's falling to pieces - World Vegetarian by Madhur Jaffrey

15 Minute Vegan by Katie Beskow

100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust
by Katie Knowles

Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries (American Mystery Classics)
by Otto Penzler

The Fallout
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Lazarus
by Lars Kepler

The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix

Horseman
by Christina Henry

I have asked for The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023 by Lia Leendertz.

Never had one before, so something completely different.

@Ihavedogs

I've been toying with putting that on my list too, also note something I've ever had before, but unsure if I'd actually use it and get much from it

For dc1 (7) who is currently obsessed by the sea, ships and map making.

Rescuing the Titantic: a true story of quiet bravery in the North Sea by Flora Delongy
An Atlas of Lost Kingdoms by Emily Hawkins
Greek Myths by Jean Menzies
Ships and Boats by Chris Oxlade
Ocean Atlas by Tom Jackson and Ana Djordjevic

For dc2 (4)

Sister Goat: A Ukrainian fairytale by Antonina Novarene
British Museum: Goddesses by DrJanina Ramirez

For me (I buy my own presents from dh because I'm picky and he's lazy)
The Skeleton key by Erin Kelly
Marple
Poison: the history of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practices by Ben Hubbard
The very secret society of irregular witches by Sangu Mardanne
Carrying the fire: an astronaut's journeys by Michael Collins
Nelson: a dream of glory by Dr John Sugden
Rest in Pieces: the curious fates of famous corpses by Bess Lovejoy
The rest of the Essex Witch Mystery series by Syd Moore
The rest of Julian Stockwin's Kydd series

I am hoping it is something I can dip in and out of and it may be of some use rather than just be something to read 🤞

So many!
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Sea of Tranquility
The Bullet That Missed
Ink Black Heart
The Leviathan
Our Missing Hearts
Shrines of Gaiety
Klara and the Sun
Fairy Tale
Companion Piece
Bleeding Heart Yard

@Ihavedogs @17caterpillars1mouse not a book obviously, but, Lia Leendertz has a podcast released on the 1st of each month

The new Mary Berry book.
Miss Marple 12 new stories.

My birthday was in Sept so i already received Marple and The Bullet That Missed which were both on my list. I notice that Waterstones have new editions of Agatha Christies Murder Of Roger Ackroyd and Mysterious Affair At Styles in the middle of November so i'll probably ask for one/both of these or a book voucher so i can get them for myself .

The new Robert Galbraith, the sequel to crescent city, the nursery rhyme books by Jasper Fforde. My missing Terry Pratchett books. I'm quite an eclectic reader so the main thing people have to do is check I don't already own it

The History of the world in 100 Plants

Anthology of Mary Oliver poetry

@17caterpillars1mouse why won't people buy them if you have them on your wish list? Books are one of the easiest things to get. If a book is in print then Waterstones can (usually) order it or there is Amazon obviously.
Me... I want the latest Jacqueline Wilson.

All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell
Tourists by Lucy Lethbridge

That is useful to know. Thank you.

Just Matthew Perry’s new tell all book that is coming out next week. I pre ordered though so it’s an early birthday present to myself

Christmas present 😫

I came across "Femina" in the Waterstones recommended section the other day and thought it looked interesting...

I'm not sure whats on my list so far. But for other people....

My Dad
On a Pedestal: A trip round Britain's statues by Roger Lytollis

DDs
Ministry of Unladylike Activity by Robin Stevens
Puzzles for Spies from GCHQ
Illustrated Harry Potter books JkRowling/Jim Kay

Sharp Objects
7 husbands of Evenlyn Hugo
Carrie Soto
Manningtree witches
It Starts with Us
Lives Like Mine
Lily
Apples Never Fall
The Marriage Portrait

And 4 others I can't remember

Shrines of Gaiety
Layla