What is your first book for 2019?

[WaterBird]

And if you've already started reading it, do you like it?
Mine is "Sofia Khan is Not Obliged", which is like Bridget Jones from the perspective of a Pakistani Muslim. Am loving it as it is so interesting to learn about the dating rules and there is a lot of humour. Only very minor thing about it that I dislike is that the time stamps do not always match the events, because she will write abbut them after they happen so it just makes it a little confusing.
Would love to know what everyone else is starting.

I picked up Lisa Jewel's I Found You yesterday at the library.

I have had trouble concentrating lately so haven't read anything in ages. Started reading last night and couldn't put it down.

Tired today!

A Little Life - it's killing me to read but nearly done

@frompampastobroadway - you don't have to finish it. I hated that book.

Reread The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields .Fantastic.

Agree The Luminaries is crap - I've read it but it really doesn't amount to much IMO.

The key to reading Possession is missing out the poetry - you are allowed to do that.

Charley I feel I have to as I'm so nearly finished!

@squirrelonapetridish - This Thing
Of Darkness is amazing isn't it! On my re-read pile.

Just finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson for a book group and it was a really good read - short too! And reading The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope for a Trollope book group.

Just finished A Little Life and had a good old sob, now onto something more cheery!

Harry Potter. Book 1 😍

I just finished The Hearts Invisible Furies, by john Boyne, which i highly recommend! Almost thru Grief is the thing with feathers. Next up, diving into some work books: Emotional Intelligence.

I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh. Halfway through and really enjoying it so far.

Just finished I Found You by Lisa Jewell. A really easy and enjoyable read. Now really enjoying Sally Rooney's Normal People. Looking for a good murder mystery next if anyones got any recommendations?

I’m halfway through the nightingale by Kristin Hannah, it’s beautiful so far.

It’s 1/100 on my goodreads challenge for 2019.

I am reading Friend of the Family by Tasmina Perry. It is quite slow, but I'm only about a third of the way through and I can't see which way the story is going, so I will stick with it and report back!

I'm currently reading The House by Simon Lelic.
I've finished The Woman In The Window and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the film later this year.
Like 2 pp, I read How To Stop Time by Matt Haig last year and really liked that too.

Sally Red Shoes.
It’s a bit clumsily written with too many similes but I really enjoyed the storyline. Nice and light for the Christmas holidays. I might go for the Tattoist of Auschwitz next by way of contrast.

temporarily put the Gregory on hold as I managed to get Devil in the Marshalsea from the library.

Ghost Walls by Sarah Moss. Very short. Didn’t blow me away but I liked some of the descriptions of nature.

Into the Water for book group. Same author as 'Girl on a Train'. Finished and discussed it last night. Excellent discussion, and I really enjoyed the book. Lots of points of view to keep track of though.

She Lies In Wait by Gytha Lodge - utterly gripping, can't recommend highly enough of you like crime fiction.

My first book was The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes. I really enjoyed it.

Now reading The Dry. Pretty good so far.

My first book was Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh - absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down. Like U2 above I'm also now on the The Dry!

Christie Watson’s memoir about her 2 decades of nursing, called The Language Of Kindness. Not for the medical phobic or faint hearted but a candid, no filter insight into what it’s really like to be a neonatal / children’s nurse and work in NHS.

First was Jonathan Coe's Middle England. I'd bought it as a Christmas present to myself and managed to keep it unread until the new year. Loved it - he's one of my favourite writers.