50 Book Challenge 2020 Part Ten

[southeastdweller]

Welcome to the tenth (and final?) thread of the 50 Book Challenge for this year.

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2020, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, it's still not too late to join, and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.

The previous threads of 2020:

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I've just checked and these threads this year have moved more quickly than any other year since they started back in 2012! We'd never reached ten threads in any other year.

Thanks for the new thread @southeastdweller! Gosh, 10 threads. Lockdown really has seen a surge in our reading (or at least our posting). Unfortunately it's not really worked out that way for me, as the last 2 months have been very busy. Posting my list below for those of you who like that sort of thing; it's not in fact moved on significantly since the last thread. However, I am nearing the end of my Vasari odyssey, and am hoping this will be the thread in which I finally make it to the end.

1. Autumn Term – Antonia Forest
2. Mutual Admiration Society – Mo Moulton
3. Swan Song – Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
4. This Must be the Place – Maggie O’Farrell
5. The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald
6. A Place Called Winter – Patrick Gale
7. The Reunion – Guillaume Musso
8. Black Water Lilies – Michel Bussi
9. Wilful Blindness – Margaret Heffernan
10. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos – Dominic Smith
11. The Farm – Joanne Ramos
12. The High Window – Raymond Chandler
13. The Lady in the Lake – Raymond Chandler
14. The Little Sister – Raymond Chandler
15. She Lies in Wait – Gytha Lodge
16. The Last Anniversary – Liane Moriarty
17. Bitter Orange – Claire Fuller
18. The Lost Man – Jane Harper
19. What Red Was – Rosie Price
20. Keeping an Eye Open – Julian Barnes
21. Heartburn – Nora Ephron
22. Crooked Heart – Lissa Evans
23. Old Baggage – Lissa Evans
24. A View of the Harbour – Elizabeth Taylor
25. The Crow Trap – Ann Cleeves
26. Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects: Part 1 – Giorgio Vasari
27. Telling Tales – Ann Cleeves
28. The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
29. Burial Rites – Hannah Kent
30. How the Dead Speak – Val McDermid
31. Idaho – Emily Ruskovich
32. After the Party – Cressida Connolly
33. Miss Happiness and Miss Flower – Rumer Godden
34. Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects: Part 2 – Giorgio Vasari
35. French Exit - Patrick DeWitt
36. Hidden Depths – Ann Cleeves
37. Expectation – Anna Hope
38. Silent Voices – Ann Cleeves
39. Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
40. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
41. Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
42. Closed Circles – Viveca Sten
43. Things Can Only Get Worse – John O’Farrell
44. Guiltless – Viveca Sten
45. Cassandra at the Wedding – Dorothy Baker
46. The Glass Room – Ann Cleeves
47. The Loney – Andrew Michael Hurley
48. The Colour of Murder – Julian Symons
49. My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
50. Tonight You’re Dead – Viveca Sten
51. Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
52. The Lonely Girl – Edna O’Brien
53. Girls In Their Married Bliss - Edna O’Brien
54. The Crossing Places – Elly Griffiths
55. Tell It To the Bees – Fiona Shaw
56. Harbour Street – Ann Cleeves
57. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
58. In the Heat of the Moment – Viveca Sten
59. Hag-Seed – Margaret Atwood
60. The Moth Catcher – Ann Cleeves
61. The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
62. Broken Greek – Pete Paphides

1. Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
2. Vox by Christina Dalcher
3. In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Spasm by Lauren Slater
5. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
6. Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders
7. Written On The Body by Jeanette Winterson
8. Lion by Saroo Brierley
9. Tony And Susan by Austin Wright

10. The Purveyor Of Enchantment by Marika Cobbold 11. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier 12. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnett 13. Friendly Fire by Patrick Gale 14. The Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 15. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 16. The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey 17. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 18. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth 19. Touch by Claire North 20. A Year Of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman 21. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 22. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 23. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 24. Small Island by Andrea Levy 25. Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper 26. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 27. Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade 28. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman 29. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman 30. Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge 31. My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 32. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 33. The Wings Of The Dove by Henry James 34. The Mirror And The Light by Hilary Mantel 35. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood 36. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 37. The Five by Hallie Rubenhold 38. Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 39. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 40. The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 41. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker 42. The Gift Of Fear by Gavin de Becker 43. Capital by John Lanchester 44. Love Child by Allegra Huston 45. The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss 46. All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 47. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon 48. Little by Edward Carey 49. Lost Girls by Robert Kolker 50. Becoming by Michelle Obama 51. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman 52. Normal People by Sally Rooney 53. Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor 54. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow 55. The Rainbow Comes And Goes by Diana Cooper 56. The Light Of Common Day by Diana Cooper 57. Trumpets From The Steep by Diana Cooper 58. Nod by Adrian Barnes 59. Derby Day by DJ Taylor 60. The Power by Naomi Alderman 61. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld 62. The Memory Of Love by Aminatta Forna 63. And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseni 64. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 65. Lady In Waiting by Anne Glenconner 66. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 67. The Psychology Of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas 68. Queen Bees by Sian Evans 69. A Woman Of No Importance by Sonia Purnell 70. Disobedience by Naomi Alderman 71. Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce 72. Kick by Paula Byrne 73. The Dry by Jane Harper 74. Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller 75. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg Jephcott 76. This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone 77. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell 78. The Other Half Of Augusta Hope by Joanna Glen 79. Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela 80. American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins 81. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 82. Corpus Christi by Bret Anthony Johnston 83. The Coincidence Authority by John Ironmonger 84. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden 85. The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice 86. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by JT LeRoy 87. The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk 88. Stasiland by Anna Funder 89. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid 90. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler 91. The Wall by John Lanchester 92. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell 93. Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge 94. Written In History by Simon Sebag Montefiore 95. Queen Mab by Kate Danley 96. The Devil All The Time by Donald Ray Pollock 97. Caging Skies by Christine Leunens 98. Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 99. Milkman by Anna Burns 100. Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield 101. This Thing Of Darkness by Harry Thompson 102. Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer 103. Churchill : Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts 104. First Lady by Sonia Purnell 105. Don’t Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller 106. Court Number One : The Trials That Shook The Old Bailey by Thomas Grant 107. Helter Skelter : The True Story Of The Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry 108. Gotta Get Theroux This by Louis Theroux 109. A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn 110. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 111. Quartet In Autumn by Barbara Pym 112. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright 113. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine 114. No One Writes To The Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 115. The Ratline by Philippe Sands 116. Delta Of Venus by Anais Nin 117. The Bitter Glass by Eilis Dillon 118. The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai 119. The Professors House by Willa Cather 120. IT by Stephen King 121. Daisy Jones And The Six by Taylor Jenkins-Reid 122. Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote 123. The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy 124. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance 125. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 126. The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson and Cynthia Fagan 127. Transcription by Kate Atkinson 128. Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession 129. Dune by Frank Herbert 130. Armada by Ernest Cline 131. Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey 132. Instrumental by James Rhodes 133. The Binding by Bridget Collins 134. Us by David Nicholls 135. A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston 136. Watch Me by Anjelica Huston 137. Mrs Jordan’s Profession by Claire Tomalin 138. Noble Savages by Sarah Watling 139. The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo 140. Mexican Gothic by Silvio Moreno-Garcia 141. The Alienist by Caleb Carr 142. The Angel Of Darkness by Caleb Carr 143. Mongol by Uuganaa Ramsay 144. Wild Swans by Jung Chang 145. Just Kids by Patti Smith 146. To War With The Walkers by Annabel Venning 147. No Place To Hide by Glenn Greenwald 148. Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson 149. Heartburn by Nora Ephron 150. A History Of Britain Vol 1 : 3000 BC-1600 AD by Simon Schama 151. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 152. Corregidora by Gayl Jones 153. I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith 154. One On One by Craig Brown 155. Pale Rider by Laura Spinney 156. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson 157. Unnatural Causes by Richard Shephard 158. Trustee From The Toolroom by Nevile Shute 159. The Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris 160. Mindfuck by Christopher Wylie

Think I have all the highlights right this time! I've just noticed from The Lists that you've also read Mindfuck @Tarahumara and it WAS wasn't it?

Thanks southeast for the thread

Thanks for shiny new thread Southeast.

I just borrowed Eleanor & Park from dd after the last thread and got a so I have a suspicion it may not be my cup of tea. I did like Fangirl & Carry on though so we'll see.

In the meantime, here's my list:
1 Adrian Tchaikovsky Cage of Souls
2 Lynsey Hanley Respectable
3 Olivia Waites The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
4 Gill Sims Why Mummy Doesn't Give a Fuck
5 Rainbow Rowell Wayward Son
6 Kai Strittmatter We Have Been Harmonised
7 Ben Hartman The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables
8 Ben Aaronovitch Moon over Soho
9 Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea
10 Esther Perel Mating in Captivity
11 Andrew Whitley Do Sourdough
12 Ben Aaronovitch Whispers Underground
13 Ben Aaronovitch Broken Homes
14 Ben Aaronovitch Foxglove Summer
15 Nessa Carey The Epigenetics Revolution
16 Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu The Red Scrolls of Magic
17 Dorian Lynskey The Ministry of Truth
18 Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
19 Susan Coolidge Clover
20 Susan Coolidge In the High Valley
21 Ben Aaronovitch The Hanging Tree
22 Richard Davies Extreme Economies
23 Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones and the Six
24 Ben Aaronovitch The Furthest Station
25 Annalee Newitz Autonomous
25 Elton John Me
26 David Niven The Moon's a Balloon
27 Albert Costa The Bilingual Brain
28 BS Johnson Christy Malry's Own Double-entry
29 Melanie Reid The World I Fell Out Of
30 Olivia Waites A Thief in the Nude
31 Mark E Thomas 99% Mass Impoverishment
32 Rhik Samadder I never said I loved you
33 KJ Charles The Magpie Lord
34 KJ Charles A Case of Posession
35 KJ Charles Flight of Magpies
36 Nicola Sutcliff Queens of the Kingdom
37 KJ Charles Band Sinister
38 Georgette Heyer Cotillion
39 Gail Carriger Romancing the Inventor
40 Gail Carriger Romancing the Werewolf
41 Ben Aaronovitch Lies Sleeping
42 Maggie Stiefvater Call Down The Hawk
43 Katharine Addison The Goblin Emperor
44 Hannu Rajaiemi Summerland
45 Kerry Daines The Dark Side of the Mind
46 Huw Richards Grow Food for Free
47 Gretchen Rubin Happier at Home
48 Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
49 Diana Wynne Jones Howls Moving Castle
50 Robert Webb How Not to Be a Boy
51 Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangiers
52 Mervyn King & John Kay Radical Uncertainty
53 Dick Francis Dead Cert
54 Gail Carriger Defy and Defend
55 KJ Charles Slippery Creatures
56 Dick Francis Odds Against
57 Becky Chambers To be Taught if Fortunate
58 Hallie Rubenhold The Five
59 Robert Kolker Hidden Valley Road
60 Nathan Filer The Heartland
61 Anna Wiener Uncanny Valley
62 Amanda Ripley The Unthinkable
63 Mick Herron Slow Horses
64 Janice Hadlow The Other Bennet Sister
65 Joan Aiken Mansfield Revisited
66 Mary Robinette Kowal The Calculating Stars
67 Margaret Heffernan Beyond Measure
68 Adam Kucharski The Rules of Contagion
69 Rachel Ferguson A Footman for the Peacock
70 Christopher Wylie Mindf#ck
71 Byron Rogers The Man Who Went Into the West
72 Jack Harlan The Living Fields
73 Kerry Hudson Tony Hogan bought me an icecream float before he stole my ma
74 Hank Green A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour
75 David Olusoga Black and British
76 Emily Tesh Silver in the Wood
77 Kristin Kimball Good Husbandry
78 Kate Saunders Beswitched
79 Christie Watson The Language of Kindness
80 Kristin Kimball The Dirty Life
81 Neal Stephenson Anathem
82 KJ Charles The Sugared Game
83 Bernadine Evaristo Girl Woman Other
84 James Bloodworth Hired
85 Afua Hirsch Brit(ish)
86 Kate Clanchy Some Kids I taught and What They Taught Me
87 Marc-Uwe Kling Qualityland
88 Neal Stephenson The Diamond Age
89 Cassandra Clare Ghosts of the Shadow Market
90 Samin Nosrat Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
91 Geoffrey Robinson Headingham Harvest
92 George Ewart Evans Ask The Fellows Who Cut the Hay
93 Jill Lepore If Then
94 Anne Glenconner Lady in Waiting
95 Alex Cobham The Uncounted

If you fancy a follow on to Mindf#ck, Eine, I recommend If, Then

Thanks for the new thread southeast.

I’m not posting my list here as I cba to pull it together! Might do it for the end of the year.

248. Scarlett and Ivy: The Lost Twin by Sophie Cleverly

One of DD’s books that she’s been nagging me to read. I’m obviously not the target market but I actually really enjoyed it and would have loved it when I was DD’s age (10). It’s set in a boarding school in 1935. Scarlett Grey went to the school but passed away so her twin Ivy has been told she has to take Scarlett’s place. When she gets to the school she finds clues from Scarlett that tell her things aren’t what they seem and she has to follow the trail Scarlett has left. There’s a few plot holes but the age group this is aimed at probably won’t spot them and it is a good story.

Thanks, South.

I think the darkness in Eleanor and Park is why I liked it so much.

Wake me up when all the lists are over with, please!

Hello, and thank you South!

1. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
2. An inspector calls
3. Macbeth - Shakespeare
4. The Road to Avalon - Joan wolf
5. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
6. A little life - Hanya Yanaghira
7. The castle of otrano - Horace Walpole
8. A simple favour - Darcey Bell
9. The trauma of everyday life - Mark Epstein
10. Dracula by Bram Stoker
11. Miss Perigrine’s home for peculiar children by Ranson Riggs
12. Labyrinth - Kate Moss
13. Food and Nutrition

14. Biology for Cambridge IGCSE
15. Edexcel IGCSE Geography
16. Cambridge IGCSE history
17. Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte
18. The catcher in the rye - J.D Salinger
19. Gone with the wind - Margaret Mitchell
20. ASOUE, the bad beginning by Lemony Snicket
21. The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
22. ASOUE the reptile room - Lemony Snicket
23. The enchanted village - Jeanne Willis
24. Star Wars The Force Awakens - Michael Kogge
25. The dragon’s call - Simon Forward
26. Valiant - Simon Forward ?
27. Islands of mercy - Rose Tremain
28. The mark of Nimeuh - Jason Loborik
29. The nightmare begins - Ben Vanston
30. To kill a mockingbird - Harper lee
31. The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
32. Wind in the willows - Kenneth Grahame
33. The labyrinth of Gedfref - Mike Tucker
34. The death of Arthur - Jason Loborik
35. The traitor within - Mike Tucker

Currently still reading GOT, lies of Locke panorama (hoping to finish tonight if I don’t go to bed to late cause of IAC!) and am soon starting the queens gambit so I can see the Netflix version. And there’s also the in fake surprises voices “that’s not my baby, his mittens are too fluffy” and other fifty-odd-thousand books the children decide that they want me to read

Thanks for the new thread southeast

No list here either.

The Brutal Telling - Louise Penny
This is no 5 in the Inspector Gamache series set mostly in a little village outside of Quebec. This time the bistro owner falls under suspicion when the body of a hermit who lives in a cabin in the woods is found in the bistro. Lots of clues found in the cabin which leads Gamache across Canada to British Columbia, Haida Gwaii and the First Nations and to look at the life of Canadian painter Emily Carr. Which was actually very interesting but I haven’t really got any idea what part it played in the murder. I think the author just wanted to shoehorn it into the story. I really enjoyed it but I’m not sure it really made much sense.

Thank you south

Bringing my list across and adding my latest reads:

1. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
2. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman

3. Once upon a River - Diane Setterfield

1. Tombland - CJ Sansom
2. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas - Agatha Christie
3. White House Farm - Carol Ann Lee
4. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

8. A History of Loneliness - John Boyne

1. The Last Tudor - Philippa Gregory

10. The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie 11. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway 12. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams 13. Pigeon Pie - Nancy Mitford 14. A Country Escape - Katie Fforde 15. Slow Horses - Mick Herron 16. Bookworm - Lucy Mangan 17. Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor 18. A Symphony of Echoes - Jodi Taylor 19. The Light Years - Elizabeth Jane Howard 20. A Second Chance - Jodi Taylor 21. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut 22. Circe - Madeleine Miller 23. Dead Cert - Dick Francis 24. Nerve - Dick Francis 25. For Kicks - Dick Francis 26. Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell 27. Odds Against - Dick Francis 28. Flying Finish - Dick Francis 29. Blood Sport - Dick Francis 30. Dishonesty is the second best policy - David Mitchell 31. Forfeit - Dick Francis 32. Rat Race - Dick Francis 33. Bonecrack - Dick Francis 34. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway 35. The Thief of Time - John Boyne 36. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 37. A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes 38. Smokescreen - Dick Francis 39. Slay Ride - Dick Francis 40. April Lady - Georgette Heyer 41. All the Light we cannot See - Anthony Doerr 42. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 43. Knock Down - Dick Francis 44. Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier 45. High Stakes - Dick Francis 46. The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker 47. First Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton 48. Magpie Lane - Lucy Atkins 49. The Dutch House - Ann Patchett 50. Middlemarch - George Eliot 51. In the Frame - Dick Francis 52. Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey 53. Risk - Dick Francis 54. The Weekend - Charlotte Wood 55. Trial Run - Dick Francis 56. The Last Painting of Sara de Vos - Dominic Smith 57. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 58. The Binder - Bridget Collins 59. Whip Hand - Dick Francis 60. Reflex - Dick Francis 61. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie 62. Marking Time - Elizabeth Jane Howard 63. Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid 64. Second Form at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton 65. A Change of Climate - Hilary Mantel 66. The Franchise - Josephine Tey 67. In the Third at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton 68. The Dressmaker’s Gift - Fiona Valpy 69. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton 70. Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi

71. Cotillion - Georgette Heyer

Someone (and I am sorry I cannot remember who) rated this as one of their favourite Heyers. Kitty lives with her elderly, bad-tempered guardian. He decides he will make her his heir if she marries one of his nephews and summons them all to propose to her. Hugh is a humourless clergyman whom Kitty rejects, Dolph is good-hearted but is a little slow and clearly does not want to marry Kitty but has been forced to propose by his overbearing mother, Jack the good looking man about town fails to turn up convinced Kitty will marry him whenever he chooses to propose. This leaves Freddie who is outraged that Kitty should be put in this position and agrees at Kitty’s behest to make a fake offer for her to give her a chance to escape her uncle’s household at least temporarily on the understanding they can break off their engagement at a later date. Kitty escapes to London with Freddie and lots of fun ensues as Jack tries to take revenge on Kitty and Dolph’s mother makes him continue to press his suit. Great fun and now one of my favourites.

72. In the Fifth at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton

I seemed to have little recollection of this one. The girls have moved up a year and are joined by one new girl, Maureen, who is almost an identical twin of Gwendoline Mary. Gwen dislikes Maureen and is horrified to discover that this is how she is perceived by the other girls. Three girls have stayed down in the fifth: Moira who is very domineering and is made head of year, Catherine who is a doormat and Janet who is inoffensive. The big event of the book is the fifth form pantomime and lots of drama occurs as people fall out with one another and some nasty behaviour follows. It all ends well and some people have improved by the end of the book.

Oh, I love Cotillion :) Someone (on here maybe?) pointed out that Freddie is meant to be read as probably gay (hence the 'oh, well, if it's Freddie , of course' comments about him accompanying ladies to events) adding a further layer to the unexpectedness of his 'engagement' to Kitty. I'd never spotted it but it adds an extra element of fun.

Thank you very much for the thread, southeast.

Here's my list:

1: Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym
2: The Sale of the Late King's Goods - Jerry Brotton
3: The House Opposite - Barbara Noble
4: Jacob's Room is Full of Books - Susan Hill
5: The Gathering - Anne Enright
6: The Night Fire - Michael Connelly
7: The Shadow District - Arnaldur Indriðason
8: 1939 - Frederick Taylor
9: North Korea Journal - Michael Palin
10: Clock Dance - Anne Tyler
11: The Missing Ink - Philip Hensher
12: A Very Private Eye - Barbara Pym
13: Odd One Out - Lissa Evans
14: Whistle in the Dark - Emma Healey
15: The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden
16: Some Tame Gazelle - Barbara Pym
17: The Lying Room - Nicci Gerrard
18: Not in Your Lifetime: The Assassination of JFK - Anthony Summers
19: Our Friends in Berlin - Anthony Quinn
20: Airhead - Emily Maitlis
21: Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane - Paul Thomas Murphy
22: Conclave - Robert Harris
23: Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
24: Me - Elton John
25: The Poison Principle - Gail Bell
26: A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
27: A Buyer's Market - Anthony Powell
28: The Town in Bloom - Dodie Smith
29: Short Life in a Strange World - Toby Ferris
30: Nothing to Report - Carola Oman
31: Somewhere in England - Carola Oman
32: The Bells of Old Tokyo - Anna Sherman
33: The Burning Man - Jane Casey
34: Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life - Rose Tremain
35: The Pulse Glass - Gillian Tindall
36: Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa - Matthew Fort
37: On the Plain of Snakes - Paul Theroux
38: The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins
39: Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
40: The Benefit of Hindsight - Susan Hill
41: Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories - Thomas Grant
42: Babbacombes - Susan Scarlett
43: The Last Train to Zona Verde - Paul Theroux
44: Joe Country - Mick Herron
45: Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
46: Trace Elements - Donna Leon
47: Nine Pints - Rose George
48: David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
49: The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
50: The House by the Thames - Gillian Tindall
51: Pilgrims - Matthew Kneale
52: The Way by Swann's - Marcel Proust, trans. Lydia Davis
53: Actress - Anne Enright
54: Boys in the Trees - Carly Simon
55: Romantic Moderns - Alexandra Harris
56: The Chief Inspector's Daughter - Sheila Radley
57: Life Among the Savages - Shirley Jackson
58: The Man in the Red Coat - Julian Barnes
59: A House in the Country - Ruth Adam
60: Death and the Maiden - Sheila Radley
61: Their Little Secret - Mark Billingham
62: Apricots on the Nile - Colette Rossant
63: Redhead by the Side of the Road - Anne Tyler
64: A Talent for Destruction - Sheila Radley
65: The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
66: Return to Paris - Colette Rossant
67: Business as Usual - Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford
68: The Provincial Lady in Wartime - E. M Delafield
69: One on One - Craig Brown
70: All Among the Barley - Melissa Harrison
71: Cold as the Grave - James Oswald
72: Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons - Matthew Fort
73: The Secret Lives of Colour - Kassia St Clair
74: Mauve - Simon Garfield
75: Lock No. 1 - Georges Simenon
76: Fate Worse Than Death - Sheila Radley
77: People Who Say Goodbye - P. Y. Betts
78: Set to Partners - Ruth Adam
79: Madeleines in Manhattan - Colette Rossant
80: A Foreign Country - Charles Cumming
81: The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
82: A Colder War - Charles Cumming
83: Who Saw Him Die? - Sheila Radley

I'm behind on the Our Mutual Friend readalong but hoping to catch up. Also continuing my Proust marathon and currently on Book 2, which I should finish shortly, as I have a deadline to meet. Am eyeing up an Elizabeth Taylor as well. But I'm still finding it hard to concentrate on reading due to bereavement.

I can't remember if I've read Cotillion - it's not on my Kindle, so I might have to buy it. May have read it from the library years ago, but have no recollection if so.

Here's the list for admin purposes. I've got three from the end to review which I will come back later to do.

1. Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
2. The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
3. Woke – Titania McGrath
4. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
5. The Familiars – Stacey Halls
6. The Hunting Party – Lucy Foley
7. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
8. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
9. The Sanctuary Murders – Susanna Gregory

10. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell 11. Villette – Charlotte Brontë 12. Night Boat to Tangiers – Kevin Barry 13. Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche 14. Homesick for Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh 15. Middlemarch – George Eliot 16. Galatea – Madeline Miller 17. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien 18. The Running Hare – John Lewis Stempel 19. The Hidden World of the Fox – Adele Brand 20. The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2) – Elly Griffiths 21. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman 22. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie 23. The Witches Are Coming – Lindy West 24. Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli 25. The Confession – Jessie Burton 26. The Wall – John Lanchester 27. The Man Who Saw Everything – Deborah Levy 28. Bone China - Laura Purcell 29. I Am, I Am, I Am – Maggie O’Farrell 30. Call the Midwife – Jennifer Worth 31. Candide - Voltaire 32. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 33. The Mercies – Kiran Millwood Hargrave 34. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel 35. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco 36. Such A Fun Age- Kiley Reid 37. Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel 38. Conviction – Denise Mina 39. Disappearing Earth – Julia Phillips 40. The Illness Lesson – Clare Beams 41. A History of Britain in 21 Women – Jenni Murray 42. Three Things About Elsie – Joanna Cannon 43. Dear Edward – Ann Napolitano 44. Djinn Patrol on the Purplr Line – Deepa Anappara 45. The Outsiders – SE HInton 46. Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi 47. The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner 48. Red at the Bone – Jacqueline Woodson 49. Nightingale Point – Luan Goldie 50. The Most Fun We Ever Had – Claire Lombardo 51. Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane 52. The Death of Mrs Westaway – Ruth Ware 53. The Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel 54. Sometimes I Lie – Alice Feeney 55. The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Sara Collins 56. Long Bright River – Liz Moore 57. Silas Marner – George Eliot 58. Persona Non Grata (Ruso #3) - Ruth Downie 59. Heroes – Stephen Fry 60. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (POirot #4) – Agatha Christie 61. Lark Rise to Candleford – Flora Thompson 62. The Spire – William Golding 63. The Furies – Natalie Haynes 64. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid 65. The House at Sea’s End (Ruth Galloway #3) – Elly Griffiths 66. If You Want to Make God Laugh – Bianca Marais 67. A Woman of No Importance – Sonia Purnell 68. A Good Neighbourhood – Therese Anne Fowler 69. The Absolutist – John Boyne 70. Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid 71. My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell 72. Actress – Anne Enright 73. Dominicana – Angie Cruz 74. Fleishman is in Trouble – Tiffany Brodesser-Akner 75. Weather – Jenny Offill 76. Saltwater – Jessica Andrews 77. How We Disappeared – Jing-Jing Lee 78. Guest House for Young Widows – Azadeh Moaveni 79. Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver 80. A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes 81. When Will There Be Good News (Jackson Brodie #3) – Kate Atkinson 82. Supper Club – Lara Williams 83. Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell 84. He Said/She Said – Erin Kelly 85. Surfacing – Kathleen James 86. The Other Bennet Sister – Janice Hadlow 87. Our Women on the Ground – Zahra Hankir 88. The Five - Hallie Rubenhold 89. Dear Mrs Bird –AJ Pearce 90. The Reservoir Tapes – Jon McGregor 91. The Story of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli 92. Topics of Conversation – Miranda Popkey 93. A Single Thread – Tracy Chevalier 94. The Opposite of Fate – Alison McGhee 95. The Girl With the Louding Voice Abi Daré 96. Miss Austen – Gill Hornby 97. Redhead By the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler 98. I Know Who You Are – Alice Feeney 99. The Book of Longings – Sue Monk Kidd 100. Akin – Emma Donaghue 101. Out of Darkness, Shining Light – Pettina Gappah 102. The Sealwoman’s Gift – Sally Magnusson 103. Jonathan Pie Off the Record – Jonathan Pie 104. Dept of Speculation – Jenny Offill 105. The Lesser Bohemians – Eimer McBride 106. We must Be Brave – Frances Liardet 107. All the Birds Singing – Evie Wyld 108. Know My Name – Chanel Miller 109. The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters 110. Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keith 111. Absolution By Murder ( Sister Fidelma #1) – Peter Tremayne 112. The Rise of Darkness (Serailler #3) – Susan Hill 113. The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places – Neil Oliver 114. The Secretary – Zoe Lea 115. Everyday Sexism – Laura Bates 116. A Bit of a Stretch – Chris Atkins 117. Pamela – Samuel Richardson 118. Three Women – Lisa Taddeo 119. The Yellow Bird Sings – Jennifer Rosner 120. The Uncoupling – Meg Wolitzer 121. Strange Hotel – Eimear McBride 122. If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin 123. A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan – Laura Thompson 124. The Foundling – Stacey Halls 125. St Clare’s Collection – Enid Blyton 126. Days Without End – Sebastian Barry 127. A Thousand Moons – Sebastian Barry 128. The Grove of the Caesars (Flavia Albia #8) – Lindsey Davis 129. The Bookseller’s Tale (Oxford Medieval #1) - Ann Swinfen 130. Clock Dance – Anne Tyler 131. If I Had Your Face – Frances Cha 132. These Women – Amy Pochoda 133. Brit(ish):On Race, Identity and Belonging – Afua Hirsch 134. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship and Liberation in the 1960s – Maggie Doherty 135. The Inimitable Jeeves – PG Wodehouse 136. A Far Cry from Kensington – Muriel Spark 137. One, Two, Buckle my Shoe – Agatha Christie 138. Invitation to Die – Lyndsey Davis 139. Mouthful of Birds - Samata Schweblin 140. McGlue – Ottessa Moshfegh 141. David Copperfield – Charles DIckens 142. Disgrace - JM Coetzee 143. A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway #4) – Elly Griffiths 144. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain 145. Crooked Heart – Lissa Evans 146. Ithaca – Patrick Dillon 147. The Mothers – Brit Bennett 148. Red Dress in Black and White – Elliot Ackerman 149. All My Mother’s Lovers – Ilana Masad 150. Pericles: Prince of Tyre – William Shakespeare 151. The Porpoise – Mark Haddon 152. The Other Americans – Leila Slimani 153. What We Lose – Zinzi Clemmons 154. Home Remedies – Xuan Juliana Wang 155. The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett 156. Caveat Emptor – Ruth Downie 157. The Gathering – Anne Enright 158. The Truants – Kate Weinberg 159. Watching You – Lisa Jewell 160. What’s Left of Me Is Yours – Stephanie Scott 161. Little Eyes – Samanta Schweblin 162. My Mother’s House – Francesca Monplaisir 163. Drifts – Kate Zambreno 164. A Burning - Megha Majumdar 165. The Book of Rosy - Rosayra Pablo Cruz 166. The Gustav Sonata – Rose Tremain 167. American Spy – Lauren Willkinson 168. Human Acts – Han Kang 169. Intimations – Zadie Smith 170. The Novice’s Tale (Oxford Medieval #2) – Ann Swinfen 171. Winter (Seasonal Quartet #2) – Ali Smith 172. Dear Ijeawele – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche 173. The Huntsman’s Tale Oxford Medieval #3) – Ann Swinfen 174. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 175. Hidden Valley Road – Robert Kolker 176. After Leaving Mr MacKenzie - Jean Rhys 177. Where the Crawdad’s Sing – Delia Owens 178. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche 179. Night, Sleep, Death, the Stars – Joyce Carol Oates 180. The Pull of the Stars – Emma Donoghue 181. Remain Silent (DI Bradshaw #3) – Susie Steiner 182. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern 183. Sisters – Daisy Johnson 184. Mother Land – Leah Franqui 185. Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild 186. Burning Bright – Tracy Chevalier 187. The Royal Governess – Wendy Holden 188. A Darker Shade of Magic – V.E. Schwab 189. Betty – Tiffany McDaniel 190. The Imperfects – Amy Meyerson 191. The Living Mountain – Nan Shepherd 192. *Migrations – Charlotte McConaghy 193. The Boy in the Field – Margot Livesey 194. The Less Dead – Denise Mina 195. The Stars Are Fire – Anita Shreve 196. The Exiles – Christina Baker Kline 197. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom – John Boyne 198. Daddy – Emma Cline 199. Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi 200. What Are You Going Through – Sigrid Nunez 201. Little Scratch – Rebecca Watson 202. True Story – Kate Reed Petty 203. The Shadows – Alex NOrth 204. Spring - Ali Smith 205. Summer – Ali Smith 206. The Margot Affair – Sanaë Lemoine 207. The Unravelling of Cassidy Holmes – Elissa Dloane 208. The Flat Share – Beth O’Leary 209. Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson 210. The Midnight Library – Matt Haig 211. Difficult Women: A History of Feminism – Helen Lewis 212. The Bass Rock – Evie Wyld 213. Sad Janet - Lucie Britsch 214. America for Beginners – Leah Franqui 215. Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan 216. The Last Story of Mina Lee – Nancy Jooyoun Kim 217. Our Bodies, Their Battlefield – Christina Lamb 218. Vesper Flights – Helen MacDonald 219. The Once and Future Witches – Alix Harrow 220. Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart 221. Greysands – Mark Edmondson 222. Conditional Citizens – Laila Lalami 223. The New Wilderness – Diane Cook 224. Nora Webster – Colm Toibin 225. Beowulf: A New Translation – Maria Dahvana Headley 226. The Searcher – Tana French 227. Apeirogon – Colum McCann 228. Rodham - Curtis Sittenfeld 229. Bestiary – K-Ming Chang 230. Sleep Deprivation – Karen Russell 231. Small Island - Andrea Levy 232. Monogamy – Sue Miller 233. Ties That Tether – Jane Igharo 234. Homeland Elegies – Ayad Akhtar 235. Old Baggage – Lissa Evans 236. Troy – Stephen Fry 237. White Ivy – Susie Yang 238. Against the Loveless World – Susan Abulhawa 239. Agent Sonya - Ben Macintyre 240. Piranesi – Susanna Clarke

Thanks for the new thread, southeastdweller! I reckon we'll make it to thread 11 at the rate we're going .

Here's my list:

I love Cotillion . I haven't read it for a few years but I hadn't thought of Freddie as gay, just as excessively good-humoured and asexual, in the same mould as a Wodehouse hero. I want to re-read it now, though! (Incidentally, I was part of some brilliant Heyer readalongs on here a few years ago - maybe in 2014 or thereabouts?) Were any of you lot part of those?

Here's the Georgette Heyer book club discussion of Cotillion on here (from 2013, not 2014!). It seems that Heyer's original title for the book was Chicken Hazard, which would have been a dreadful choice .

Thanks for the new thread @southeastdweller

1.The xenophobes guide to the English, Anthony Miall

1. Between the stops, Sandi Toksvig

3.Once gone, Blake Pierce 4.The Guilty Mother, Diane Jeffrey 5.The little book of hygge, Meik Wiking 6.It’s too late now, A.A. Milne 7.The world I fell out of, Melanie Reid 8.The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley 9.Christmas at Rachel’s pudding pantry, Caroline Roberts 10.The Patron saint of lost souls, Menna van Praag 11.The octopus nest, Sophie Hannah 12.The 50 list, Nigel Holland 13.The power trip, Jackie Collins 14.The lost child, Patricia Gibney 15.Heads you win, Jeffrey Archer 16.Titanic survivor: Life boat number 6, Pierre Beaumont 17.Sunny Side Up, Susan Calman 18.Honeysuckle House, Christina Jones 19.Double take tales, Donna Brown 20.The deal of a lifetime, Frederick Backman 21.My life in comedy, Nicholas Parsons 22.Seahouses, Richard Barnett 23.Little fires everywhere, Celeste Ng 24.A crime short story collection, Bloomsbury 25.Little girl missing, J.G. Roberts 26.The second book of general ignorance, John Lloyd (QI) 27.New Zealand calling, Alex Richards 28.Swimming with orca, Ingrid Visser 29.The sealand incident, Brent Saltzman 30.Ka Mate, Dan Coxon 31.Fresh off the boat, Simon Collins 32.New Zealand, James Boyle 33.The british colonisation of New Zealand, Charles River 34.The laughing policeman, Glenn Wood 35.Trustee from the toolroom,Nevil Shute Norway 36.The very picture of you, Isabel Wolff 37.Cop Out, Glenn Wood 38.The divine storyteller, William McCandless 39.Swell: a water biography, Jenny Landreth 40.If clouds were sheep, Sue Andrews 41.The telephone box library, Rachael Lucas 42.Two old fools down under, Victoria Twead 43.You’ll never see me again, Lesley Pearce 44.Keep calm and swim to France, Mark Ransom 45.Step by step, my life in journeys, Simon Reeve 46.Christmas at the lucky parrot garden centre, Beth Good 47.Hourly Histories American Revolution 48.Squashed possums: off the beaten track in NZ Jonathan Tindale 49.All balls and glitter, Craig Revel Horwood 50. The Photographer's Saga, Petra Durst-Benning 51. Pulse, Felix Francis 52. The Sealwoman's Gift, Sally Magnussen 53. QI Book of general ignorance 54. The pants of perspective, Anna McNuff 55. Pied Piper, Nevil Shute 56. Round the bend, Nevil Shute 57. The Flower Shop, Petra Durst-Benning 58. Breaking Borders, James Asquith 59. The corner shop in Cockleberry Bay, Nicola May 60. If street lights could glow ultraviolet, Katherine Highland 61. The Seedwoman, Petra Durst-Benning 62. Secrets at At Bride's, Debbie Young 63. New Zealand: 36 days in wonderland, Mark Wallace 64. Mythos,Stephen Fry 65. Hope Close, Tina Seskis 66. Walking Shorts, Mark Richards 67. Father, Son and the Pennine Way, Mark Richards 68. A wedding at the beach hut, Veronica Henry 69. The complete Uxbridge English dictionary 70. Father and son return to the Pennine Way, Mark Richards 71. Father, son and the Kerry Way, Mark Richards 72. All that she can see, Kerry Hope Fletcher 73. Travelling in a box, Mike Wood 74. Two in a box, Mike Wood 75. While the world is still asleep, Petra Durst-Benning 76. Family life on a narrowboat, Richard MacKenzie 77. Unsinkable, Jane MacDonald 78. The Champagne Queen, Petra Durst-Benning 79. Fierce Bad Rabbits, Clare Pollard 80. Stories from the heart, Amanda Prowse 81. Mr Portobellos morning paper, Amanda Prowse 82. The queen of beauty, Petra Durst-Benning 83. A short history of nearly everything, Bill Bryson 84. Expedition, Steve Backshall 85. The girl from the sea, Shalini Boland 86. The perfect family, Shalini Boland 87. The bookshop on the shore, Jenny Colgan 88. Rough Magic, Lara Prior-Palmer 89. 100 things you will never find, Daniel Smith 90. Dumped actually, Nick Spalding 91. The Space Race, Hourly History 92. Guilty, not guilty, Felix Francis 93. Closer, KL Slater 94. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland 95. The Night you Left, Emma Curtis 96. The Ravenmaster, Christopher Skaife 97. Charlee and the chocolate shop, Jessica Redland 98. Beyond the Lens, Robert Rodriguez 99. A short history of (my town) 100. KIdnapping my daughter, Rachel Jensen 101.Beowulf, Seamus Heaney 102. Forest Therapy,Sarah Ivens 103 This thing of darkness, Harry Thompson 104. Queens of the Kingdom, Nicola Sutcliff 105. Wham, George and Me, Andrew Ridgley 106. Confessions of a Police Constable, Matt Delito 107. Pad's Army, Paul Addy 108. Nothing Ventured, Jeffrey Archer 109. Iceburg, Paul Kavanaugh 110. Further confessions of a GP, Benjamin Daniels 111. Crazy Street,Archie McFee. 112. The Girlfriend, Michelle Francis. 113. A prison diary, Jeffrey archer 114. The other side of the coin, Angela Kelly 115. The woman upstairs, Ruth heard 116. In your defence, Sarah Langford 117. Some kids I taught and what they taught me,Kate Clanchy 118. Lessons, Jenny colgan 119. 34 years in hell, Jamie Morgan Kane 120. The swimming pool years, mark richards 121. Master of his fate, Barbara Taylor Bradford 122. The secret mother, shalini bolland 123. Rapid fire Europe, Jason smart 124. Britain by the book, Oliver tearle 125. The January man, Christopher Somerville 126. Anti-social, nick pettigrew 127. Tea by the nursery fire, Noel streatfield 128. Lost child, d.s. Butler 129. A Yorkshire vet through the seasons, Julian Norton 130. A home from home, Veronica Henry 131. The boy in the photo, Nicole Trope 132. The other daughter, Shalini Boland 133. Twist in the tale, Jeffrey Archer 134. Playdate, Alex Dahl 135. Open Secret, Stella Rimington 136. I am an island, Tamsin Calidas 137. Names for the Sea, Sarah Moss 138. Beethoven, Hourly History 139. The other you, J.S. Monroe 140. I am watching you, Teresa Driscoll 141. The last thing she ever did, Gregg Olsen 142. Three Hours, Rosamund Lupton

Sorry some of the bold didn't work there

Thanks for the new thread, southeast. Here's my list- I finished the last five books in the past few days and will write about them when I'm feeling more energetic:

1. My Name is Why- Lemn Sissay
2. Damaged- Cathy Glass
3. Wonder- R.J. Palacio
4. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race- Reni Eddo-Lodge
5. Lost at Sea: the Jon Ronson Mysteries- John Ronson
6. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television- Louis Theroux
7. Birdsong- Sebastian Faulks
8. Lord of the Flies- William Golding
9. The Beatrix Potter Collection- Beatrix Potter

10. The Cold War: a History from Beginning to End- Hourly History 11. The Subtle Knife- Philip Pullman 12. The Amber Spyglass- Philip Pullman 13. Nine Perfect Strangers- Liane Moriarty 14. Brazil- Michael Palin 15. The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald 16. The Collector- John Fowles 17. Ready Player One- Ernest Cline 18. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life- Peter Godfrey-Smith 19. Engleby- Sebastian Faulks 20. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure- John Cleland 21. The Boy at the Back of the Class- Onjali Q. Rauf 22. Prison: A Survival Guide- Carl Cattermole 23. The Children- Alice Meynell 24. The Year of Reading Dangerously- Andy Miller 25. This is Going to Hurt- Adam Kay 26. Mummy Told Me Not to Tell- Cathy Glass 27. The Aerodynamics of Pork- Patrick Gale 28. Aztec Civilisation: A History from Beginning to End- Hourly History 29. Cannery Row- John Steinbeck 30. La Belle Sauvage- Philip Pullman 31. War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line- David Nott 32. The Bookshop that Floated Away- Sarah Henshaw 33. The Imperial Phase: The Rise & Fall of British Indie Music 1986-1997- Ray Dexter 34. Lunch with the Wild Frontiers: A History of Britpop and Excess in 13½ Chapters- Phill Savidge 35. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind- William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer 36. Frost in May- Antonia White 37. Lyra’s Oxford- Philip Pullman 38. Scrublands- Chris Hammer 39. A History of Loneliness- John Boyne 40. Here Comes the Clown: A Stumble Through Showbusiness- Dom Joly 41. Nickel and Dimed- Barbara Ehrenreich 42. Inside Broadmoor- Jonathan Levi & Emma French 43. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath 44. Doctor Sleep- Stephen King 45. The Lost World- Michael Crichton 46. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger 47. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?- Jeanette Winterson 48. The Perfect Child- Lucinda Berry 49. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- J.K. Rowling 50. To Siri with Love- Judith Newman 51. Prognosis- Sarah Vallance 52. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit- Judith Kerr 53. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling 54. Another Forgotten Child- Cathy Glass 55. The Children Act- Ian McEwan 56. And the Ocean Was Our Sky- Patrick Ness 57. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child- J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne 58. In the City, by the Sea- Kamila Shamsie 59. Fleabag: The Special Edition- Phoebe Waller-Bridge 60. Winston Churchill: A Life from Beginning to End- Hourly History 61. The Rehearsal- Eleanor Catton 62. The Saddest Girl in the World- Cathy Glass 63. Sal- Mick Kitson 64. It’s Not About You- Tom Rath 65. The Nanny State Made Me- Stuart Maconie 66. Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor- Dave Haslam 67. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- Mark Haddon 68. I Was Britpopped- Jenny Natasha & Tom Boniface-Webb 69. A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner- Chris Atkins 70. My Brother’s Name is Jessica- John Boyne 71. Unnatural Causes- Dr Richard Shepherd 72. Bookworm- Lucy Mangan 73. Innocent- Cathy Glass 74. Eye Can Write- Jonathan Bryan 75. The Covid Companion: 52 Ways to Be Happy in Isolation- Muzzammil Ali 76. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division- Peter Hook 77. Strangeways: A Prison Officer’s Story- Neil Samworth 78. Finding Stevie- Cathy Glass 79. Horn Life, or What’s Your Proper Job?- John Pigneguy 80. Keeping On Keeping On- Alan Bennett 81. Julius Caesar: A Life from Beginning to End- Hourly History 82. Fun Home- Alison Bechdel 83. Swallowdale- Arthur Ransome 84. Inside Charlie’s Chocolate Factory- Lucy Mangan 85. The Scream: The Music, Myths and Misbehaviour of Primal Scream- Kris Needs 86. The Men Who Stare at Goats- Jon Ronson 87. 84 Charing Cross Road/The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street- Helene Hanff 88. Station Eleven- Emily St John Mandel 89. I Capture the Castle- Dodie Smith 90. Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East- Benjamin Law 91. The Spanish Flu: A History from Beginning to End- Hourly History 92. Do it Like a Woman… and Change the World- Caroline Criado Perez 93. Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs- Pete Paphides 94. The Chilbury Ladies Choir- Jennifer Ryan 95. Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island- Ben Aitken 96. Happier at Home- Gretchen Rubin 97. The Boy on the Bridge- M. R. Carey 98. Infection: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Novel- M. P. McDonald 99. Isolation- M. P. McDonald 100. Invasion- M.P. McDonald 101. Titanic: the Story of the Unsinkable Ship- Hourly History 102. Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution- Selina Todd 103. Nerd Do Well- Simon Pegg 104. Alone at the End of the World- M. P. McDonald 105. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire- J. K. Rowling 106. Where Has Mummy Gone?- Cathy Glass 107. A Long Way from Home- Cathy Glass 108. How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You- Leil Lowndes 109. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry- Rachel Joyce 110. All the Rage- Cara Hunter 111. Pandemic 1918- Catharine Arnold 112. John F. Kennedy: A Life from Beginning to End- Hourly History 113. The Star Outside My Window- Onjali Q. Rauf 114. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- J. K. Rowling 115. The Five- Hallie Rubenhold 116. Magpie Lane- Lucy Atkins 117. Charlotte’s Web- E. B. White 118. Forever- Judy Blume 119. The Body: A Guide for Occupants- Bill Bryson 120. Hired- James Bloodworth 121. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling 122. Troublesome Words- Bill Bryson 123. The Wombles- Elisabeth Beresford 124. All Points North- Simon Armitage 125. Confessions of a Bookseller- Shaun Bythell 126. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid- Bill Bryson 127. Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs- Hourly History 128. Pollen- Jeff Noon 129. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter- Carson McCullers 130. How to Deal with Stress- Stephan Palmer 131. Too Scared to Tell- Cathy Glass 132. Into the Night- Sarah Bailey 133. Days of the Bagnold Summer- Joff Winterhart 134. Sweet Sorrow- David Nicholls 135. Revolution in the Head- Ian MacDonald 136. The Wall- John Lanchester 137. Coping with Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect Your Mental Health- Dr Brendan Kelly 138. A Walk in the Woods- Bill Bryson 139. Holes- Louis Sachar 140. Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë 141. Middle England- Jonathan Coe 142. The Coronavirus Preparedness Handbook- Tess Pennington 143. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece- Annabel Pitcher 144. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf 145. The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander 146. The Mayflower: a History from Beginning to End- Hourly History 147. Eat that Frog!- Brian Tracy 148. The Secret Commonwealth- Philip Pullman 149. Tess of the d’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy 150. Around the World in 80 Days- Michael Palin 151. Ramble Book- Adam Buxton 152. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me- Kate Clanchy 153. The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins 154. Heroes- Stephen Fry 155. Not Dead Yet- Phil Collins 156. Leonardo da Vinci: A Life from Beginning to End- Hourly History 157. Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover- Harry Mount 158. The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way- Bill Bryson 159. Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies- Nick Frost 160. Sing, Unburied, Sing- Jesmyn Ward 161. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference- Greta Thunberg 162. Still Waters- Viveca Sten 163. A Greater Freedom- Alya Mooro 164. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J. K. Rowling 165. Britten’s Children- John Bridcut 166. Quidditch Through the Ages- J. K. Rowling 167. King George VI: A Life from Beginning to End- Hourly History 168. High Fidelity- Nick Hornby 169. Because Internet- Gretchen McCulloch 170. Black, Listed- Jeffrey Boakye 171. On the Beach- Nevil Shute 172. House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons- Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason 173. David Copperfield- Charles Dickens 174. The Diary of a Bookseller- Shaun Bythell 175. The Little Prince- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 176. Empty Cradles- Margaret Humphreys 177. Bel Canto- Ann Patchett 178. A Monster Calls- Patrick Ness 179. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How it’s Broken- The Secret Barrister 180. The Stand- Stephen King 181. My Own Story- Emmeline Pankhurst 182. The Trauma Cleaner- Sarah Krasnostein 183. Different Seasons- Stephen King 184. Finding Jasper- Lynne Leonhardt 185. The Hangman’s Daughter- Oliver Pötzsch 186. Eleanor and Park- Rainbow Rowell

Pleased to see all the love for Cotillion. It never occurred to me that Freddie was meant to be gay! Or bisexual. Am I naive or are people reading too much into his nice clothes? Off to read the 2013 thread which will be way more interesting than the papers for tomorrow morning’s meeting.....

Moving my list over. Target was set for 70 on good reads so will hit that with time to spare

1. The Dilemma - B A Paris 
2.  <strong>Dangerous Crossing - Rachel Rhys</strong>
3. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
4. A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve 
5. The Other You - J S Monroe 
6. <strong>To The Lions - Holly Watt</strong>
7. Here to Stay - Mark Edwards 
8. The Bigamist - Mary Turner Thomson
9. The Other Wife - Claire McGowan 
10. Finding Cupid - Bridget E Baker
11. All the Rage - Cara Hunter 
12. The Donor - Clare Mackintosh 
13. Who Did You Tell - Lesley Kara
14. I Wanted You to Know - Laura Pearson 
15. The Recovery of Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel
16. I Did It For Us - Alison Bruce
17. Half a World Away - Mike Gayle 
18. The Suspect - Fiona Barton
19. War Doctor - David Nott 
20. Tell Me Your Secret - Dorothy Koomson
21. <strong>My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russel</strong>
22. In Safe Hands - J P Carter 
23. Anything You Do Say - Gillian McAllister 
24.  <strong>The Flatshare - Beth O'Leary</strong>
25. Keeper - Jessica Moor
26. Blood Orange - Harriet Tyce 
27. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
28. How to Marry Your Husband - Jacqueline Rohen
29. The Chain - Adrian McKinty
30. Just My Luck - Adele Parks 
31. Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
32.  <strong>Daisy Jones and The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid</strong>
33. Little Disasters - Sarah Vaughan
34. The Craftsman - Sharon Bolton 
35. His & Hers - Alice Feeney
36. Missing Pieces - Laura Pearson 
37. Little White Lies - Philippa East
38. The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson 
39. Pretending - Holly Bourne 
40. Seven Days - Alex Lake 
41. Those People - Louise Candlish
42. We Know You Know - Erin Kelly
43. All My Lies Are True - Dorothy Koomson 
44. The Dead Line - Holly Watt 
45. Just Between Us - Rebecca Drake
46. If You Could Go Anywhere - Paige Toon
47. The Volunteer - Jack Fairweather
48. Invisible Girl - Lisa Jewell
49. Last Lesson - James Goodhand
50. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins
51. The Angel - Katerina Diamond 
52. The Promise - Katerina Diamond
53. Truth or Die - Katerina Diamond
54.  <strong>Woman in the Water - Katerina Diamond</strong>
55. Missing, Presumed - Susie Steiner
56. The Switch - Beth O'Leary
57. Blurred Lines - Hannah Begbie
58. My Everything - Katie Marsh
59. The July Girls - Phoebe Locke
60. The Seven Sisters - Lucinda Riley
61. In Case You Missed It - Lindsey Kelk
62. The Heatwave - Katerina Diamond
63.  <strong>The Seven Husband's of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid</strong>
64. The Other Passenger - Louise Candlish
65. She Lies in Wait - Gytha Lodge
66.Lockdown - Peter May
67. <strong>Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith</strong>
68.Seven Lies - Elizabeth Kay
69. <strong>Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier</strong>

Bolds change every time I post. And number 70 shall be Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton.

Thanks for the new thread South! Here's my list:

1. The Secrets of Blood and Bone - Rebecca Alexander
2. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
3. Identity Crisis - Ben Elton
4. Sunny Side Up - Susan Calman
5. How to Stop Losing Your Shit with Your Kids - Carla Naumburg
6. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
7. This Book Will Change Your Mind about Mental Health - Nathan Filer
8. Damascus - Christos Tsiolkas
9. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

10. Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse - David Mitchell 11. Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams 12. Between the Stops: the view of my life from the top of the number 12 bus - Sandi Toksvig 13. Murderous Contagion: a human history of disease - Mary Dobson 14. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood 15. Other Minds: the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith 16. When I Hit You - Meena Kandasamy 17. Around the World in Eighty Days - Michael Palin 18. How to Find Fulfilling Work - Roman Krznaric 19. The Foundling - Stacey Halls 20. The Butchering Art - Lindsey Fitzharris 21. How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way - Tim Seldin 22. Seven Worlds, One Planet - Jonny Keeling & Scott Alexander 23. Tamed: ten species that changed our world - Alice Roberts 24. The Reddening - Adam Nevill 25. Peas & Queues: the minefield of modern manners - Sandi Toksvig 26. Bookworm - Lucy Mangan 27. The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett 28. She’s Back: your guide to returning to work - Lisa Unwin & Deb Khan 29. I Am, I Am, I Am - Maggie O’Farrell 30. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work - Alain de Botton 31. Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James 32. Buyer Beware: a New Zealand Home Buyer’s Guide - Maria Slade 33. The Five: the lives of Jack the Ripper’s women - Hallie Rubenhold 34. It’s Not Me, It’s You - Jon Richardson 35. Psycho-logical - Dean Burnett 36. The Ghost: a cultural history - Susan Owens 37. The Language Hoax - John McWhorter 38. The Secrets of Time and Fate - Rebecca Alexander 39. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher 40. Savage Breast: one man’s search for the Goddess - Tim Ward 41. Normal People - Sally Rooney 42. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge 43. The Multi-Hyphen Method - Emma Gannon 44. If Only They Could Talk - James Herriot 45. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 46. A Shadow Above: the fall and rise of the raven - Joe Shute 47. I Thought It Was Just Me - Brene Brown 48. Imperium - Robert Harris 49. Animal Societies - Ashley Ward 50. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland - Lisa Schneidau 51. An Orc on the Wild Side - Tom Holt 52. The Language of Kindness - Christie Watson 53. Lustrum - Robert Harris 54. Love After Love - Ingrid Persaud 55. Biological Anthropology - Barbara J. King 56. Howl’s Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones 57. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer 58. The Wonderbox - Roman Krznaric 59. Haven’t They Grown - Sophie Hannah 60. So, Anyway... - John Cleese 61. Expectation - Anna Hope 62. Exploring the Roots of Religion - John R. Hale 63. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen 64. Full Circle - Michael Palin 65. The Orphan Choir - Sophie Hannah 66. Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 67. Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - Christina Lamb 68. Dictator - Robert Harris 69. The Ultimate Job Hunting Book - Patricia Scudmore 70. It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet - James Herriot 71. Quirkology - Richard Wiseman 72. Who Am I, Again? - Lenny Henry 73. The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being - Alice Roberts 74. Follow Me to Ground - Sue Rainsford 75. Shockaholic - Carrie Fisher 76. Diary of a Provincial Lady - E.M. Delafield 77. Help the Witch - Tom Cox 78. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer 79. Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes - Jeremy Hardy 80. The Night Listener - Armistead Maupin 81. Creativity - John Cleese 82. Troy - Stephen Fry

I currently have quite a few books on the go and should finish them in the next couple of days. The main one is The Good People by Hannah Kent, which is brilliantly atmospheric and will probably be one of my top reads of the year, but I'm finding it very dark so I'm reading it in short bursts to cope with the sheer grimness of being an Irish peasant in 1825.

Thanks for the new thread Southeast
Here's my updated list.

Here is my list.

1. Tall Tales and Wee Stories by Billy Connelly
2. It's Your Time You're Wasting by Frank Chalk
3. The Familiars by Stacy Halls
4. Hidden Figures by Margaret Lee Shetterly
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
6. Cyffession Saesnes Yng Nghymru by Sarah Reynolds
7. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
8. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
9. My Sister the Serial Killer by by Oyinkan Braithwaite
10. Born Lippy by Jo Brand
11. Down Under by Bill Bryson
12. Prisoners by Geography by Tim Marshall
13. The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burke
14. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
15. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
16. The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy
17. Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
18. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
19. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
20. The Celts by Alice Roberts
21. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
22. Teithio drwy Hanes by Jon Gower
23. Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine
24. The Life and Time of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
25. Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
26. Before Wallis by Rachel Trethewey
27. Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
28. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
29. A Place called Freedom by Ken Follett
30. Normal People by Sally Rooney
31. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
32. Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
33. Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
34. The Penelopiad by Margaret Attwood
35. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
36. Arwyr Cymru by Jon Gower
37. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
38. Anna of Kleve (Six Tudor Queens series) by Alison Weir
39. Note from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
40. Dark Age by James Wilde
41. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Settlefield
42. Rise Up Women: The Extraordinary Lives of the Suffragettes by Diana Atkinson
43. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
44. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
45. 1927 One Summer in America by Bill Bryson
46. The Irish Princess by Elizabeth Chadwick
47. A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
48. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
49. Heroes by Stephen Fry
50. The Foundling by Stacey Halls
51. The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
52. Tombland by C.J. Samson
53. The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
54. The King's War by Mark Logue
55. The Lovesong of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce.
56. Sweetpea by CJ Skuse
57. All Quiet Front on the Western Front
58. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
59. Troy by Stephen Fry
60. Three Things about Elsie by Joanna Cannon
61. Bandi- The accusation
62. Rebellion's Forge by K M Ashman
63. Gotta Get Theroux This by Louis Therous
64. The Welsh Language- A History by Janet Davis
65. At Home by Bill Bryson

Currently listening to the new Ken Follet prequel to Pillars of the Earth on Audible - The Evening and the Morning. I know a lot of 50 bookers don't like him due to the superfluous breast descriptions but I'm enjoying it.
Also got Good Omens on the go in paperback

Thank you for the new thread Southeast.
Turns out it was 4, but one I've already touched on.

237. White Ivy – Susie Yang A young woman from a poor immigrant background inveigles herself into the circle of more affluent classmates and is determined to stay there. Just when she feels safe, someone from her background threatens to bring her house of cards crashing down. She will do anything to keep her new status.

This is part coming of age and part immigrant experience. It's a bit OTT and unbelievable in places, but overall is a very strong debut offering. I'd definitely look out for her next book.

238. Against the Loveless World – Susan Abulhawa This opens with a woman in solitary confinement in a state of the art prison called 'The Cube'. She reflects on the events that led to her incarceration. The daughter of Palestinian refugees, she was born in Kuwait, but finds herself displaced several times by shifting political situations in the middle east as well as the US invasion of Iraq. As a girl she had simple dreams but various events lead to her to become increasing more radicalised.

This is an excellent exploration of how political events affected everyday people across a period of turmoil and war in the middle east. It's well written and compelling.

239. Agent Sonya - Ben Macintyre
     Discussed on the previous thread. A recount of the life of a decorated Russian spy living under cover as a housewife in the Cotswolds. I wouldn't have bothered to finish this if I hadn't discovered its sleep inducing qualities. I will say it is meticulously researched, but goodness it was dull. You might like it if you are expecting a dry factual record, but it was sold as a thrilling account of an extraordinary life.

240. Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
     A man with little memory of events lives in the middle of a labyrinth which he meticulously explores. There is only one other person there for a long time, until evidence of another person, a dangerous stranger, threatens his peaceful existence.

Quirky. I don't think I'd have picked this up if it hadn't been well rated on the thread, but I really enjoyed it. It was strangely compelling even though I didn't have a clue what was going on initially.