50 Book Challenge 2021 Part Eight

[southeastdweller]

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

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2021, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, it’s not too late to and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.The lurkers among you are also very welcome to come out of the woodwork and share with us what you've read!

The first thread of the year is here, the second one here, the third one here, the fourth one here, the fifth one here, the sixth one here and the seventh one here.

How have you got on this year?

Posting to bookmark on the new thread.

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

1. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13&3/4 - Sue Townsend
2. Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
3. The Dinosaurs Rediscovered - Michael J. Benton
4. Written in Bone - Sue Black
5. Life on Earth - David Attenborough
6. How to Talk to Anyone - Leil Lowndes
7. The Terror - Dan Simmons
8. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata
9. Night School - Richard Wiseman

10. A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough 11. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke 12. The Artists’s Way - Julia Cameron 13. Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell 14. Find Your Voice - Caroline Goyder 15. Nation - Terry Pratchett 16. You Let Me In - Camilla Bruce 17. Why You?: 101 Interview Questions You’ll Never Fear Again - James Reed 18. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens 19. Laura Lake and the Luxury Press Trip - Wendy Holden 20. Wild and Free - Wendy Holden 21. Defining You - Fiona Murden 22. Brilliant Customer Service - Debra Stevens 23. Celebrating the Southern Seasons - Juliet Batten 24. The Luck Factor - Richard Wiseman 25. Writing Historical Fiction - Celia Brayfield & Duncan Sprott 26. Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo 27. The Celestial Hunter - Roberto Calasso 28. Three Women - Lisa Taddeo 29. How to Work Without Losing Your Mind - Cate Sevilla 30. Fierce Bad Rabbits - Clare Pollard 31. Fuck You Very Much - Danny Wallace 32. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones 33. Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to Happiness 34. This Must Be The Place - Maggie O’Farrell 35. The French Lieutenant’s Woman - John Fowles 36. Metazoa: animal minds and the birth of consciousness- Peter Godfrey-Smith 37. Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh 38. The Invention of Medicine: from Homer to Hippocrates - Robin Lane Fox 39. Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert 40. Rip It Up - Richard Wiseman 41. The Absolute Book - Elizabeth Knox 42. Irreversible Damage - Abigail Shrier 43. The Killings at Kingfisher Hill - Sophie Hannah 44. Jews Don’t Count - David Baddiel 45. The Knife’s Edge - Stephen Westaby 46. Rosemary’s Baby - Ira Levin 47. Fear-free Children - Janet Hall 48. Help Your Child to Read and Write - Fiona Chandler 49. Fragile Lives - Stephen Westaby 50. Make Your Worrier a Warrior - Dan Peters 51. The Devil You Know - Gwen Adshead 52. The Book of Science and Antiquities - Thomas Keneally

Now reading Erebus by Michael Palin and Spillover by David Quammen (there's a cheery combo) and also getting through the Little Dorrit chapters for this month.

Thank you southeast

1.	Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
2.	Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson
3.	Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse by David Mitchell
4.	The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
5.	Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
6.	Dishonesty Is The Second Best Policy by David Mitchell
7.	Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
8.	Aquarium by David Vann
9.	The Enchantment Of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
10.	<strong>La’s Orchestra Saves The World</strong> by Alexander McCall Smith
11.	Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
12.	Tangerine by Christine Mangan
13.	<strong>Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain</strong> by Barney Norris
14.	The Inheritors by William Golding
15.	Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne
16.	<strong>The Bone Clocks</strong> by David Mitchell
17.	<strong>Falling Angels</strong> by Tracy Chevalier 
18.	A History Of Britain Vol 1 : 3000 BC-1605 AD by Simon Schama
19.	<strong>Arthur and George</strong> by Julian Barnes
20.	Dinner With Edward by Isabel Vincent
21.	<strong>The Woman In White</strong> by Wilkie Collins
22.	Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
23.	A History Of Britain Vol. 2 : 1603-1776 The British Wars by Simon Schama
24.	A History Of Britain Vol. 3 1776-2000 by Simon Schama
25.	Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli 
26.	<strong>The Sandman</strong> by Neil Gaiman 
27.	How Much Of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang 
28.	A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
29.	Columbine by Dave Cullen
30.	A Demon Haunted Land by Monica Black
31.	<strong>The Art Of War</strong> by Sun Tzu
32.	Wiccan Book Of Candle Spells by Lisa Chamberlain
33.	Very Practical Magic by Nicola Kelleher
34.	<strong>Luna</strong> by Tamara Driessen
35.	The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood 
36.	Everyday Magic by Samra Haksever
37.	Love Spells by Samra Haksever
38.	Mama Moon’s Book Of Magic by Samra Haksever
39.	Natural Magic by Doreen Valiente
40.	Irish Witchcraft by Lora O’Brien
41.	<strong>The Crystal Code</strong> by Tamara Driessen
42.	Everyday Tarot Magic by Dorothy Morrison
43.	<strong>The Only Plane In The Sky</strong> by Garrett M Graff
44.	Candide by Voltaire
45.	Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
46.	Ulysses by James Joyce
47.	Ayoade on Ayoade by Richard Ayoade
48.	The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
49.	<strong>Dracula</strong> by Bram Stoker
50.	You Have To Make Your Own Fun Around Here by Frances Macken
51.	The Trial by Franz Kafka
52.	<strong>On The Road</strong> by Jack Kerouac
53.	Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
54.	Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig 
55.	The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle
56.	Metroland by Julian Barnes
57.	The Doll : Short Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
58.	The Curious Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
59.	Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks
60.	Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
61.	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
62.	The Cockroach by Ian McEwan
63.	<strong>Georgiana, Duchess Of Devonshire</strong> by Amanda Foreman
64.	The Power Of Hope by Kate Garraway
65.	The Power And The Glory by Graham Greene
66.	An Unsuitable Job For A Woman by PD James
67.	What’s Left Of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
68.	Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
69.	Nutshell by Ian McEwan
70.	Latitudes Of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
71.	Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
72.	Chanel’s Riviera by Anne de Courcy 
73.	The Noise Of Time by Julian Barnes
74.	<strong>Malibu Rising</strong> by Taylor Jenkins Reid
75.	<strong>The Return Of The Native</strong> by Thomas Hardy
76.	The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
77.	Yes Please by Amy Poehler
78.	Everybody Died, So I Got A Dog by Emily Dean
79.	She Said by Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey
80.	A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire
81.	On The Frontline With The Women Who Fight Back by Stacey Dooley
82.	Dead Famous by Greg Jenner
83.	The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
84.	Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
85.	The Outsider by Albert Camus
86.	<strong>One. Two. Three. Four. : The Beatles In Time</strong> by Craig Brown
87.	The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
88.	Travellers In The Third Reich by Julia Boyd
89.	My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
90.	Girl by Edna O’Brien
91.	<strong>Les Miserables</strong> by Victor Hugo
92.	Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown
93.	Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick
94.	A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
95.	The Mercies by Kiran Milwood Hargrave
96.	The Corner Shop by Babita Sharma
97.	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
98.	<strong>Bad Blood</strong> by John Carreyou
99.	Traces by Patricia Wiltshire
100.	The Sandman : Act II by Neil Gaiman
101.	It’s All In Your Head by Suzanne O’Sullivan 
102.	<strong>This Much Is True</strong> by Miriam Margolyes
103.	<strong>Americanah</strong> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
104.	Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
105.	Living The Dream by Isabelle Dupuy
106.	The Prime Ministers by Iain Dale
107.	Don’t Laugh, It’ll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper
108.	No Honour by Awais Khan
109.	Love And Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
110.	The Margot Affair by Sanae Lemoine
111.	<strong>Team Of Rivals</strong> by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Currently Reading : Maid by Stephanie Land and I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

Thanks for new thread. I’m not doing a list but latest read:

The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart

All about why women are taken less seriously than men in professional life. Definitely worth a read if you were a fan of Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez a couple of years ago. The chapter on how gender and race combine to make it extra difficult was interesting, as was the chapter interviewing transgender people who could give the perspective of being treated differently depending on their gender.

Thanks South.

No list and all I’ve been reading lately is cookery books and the Guardian, so nothing to report.

Thanks South.
I also have a massive pile of Christmas cookbooks by my bed so am going to be lucky to reach 50 but am romping through easy and fairly predictable detective fic in an effort to do so.

My List:

1. Christmas Chronicles Nigel Slater
2. Merry Midwinter
3. Twas the Nightshift before Christmas - Adam Kaye
4. Bridget Jones' Diary
5. Rupture Ragnar Jonasson
6. Murder Mile Lynda La Plante
7. Bone China Laura Purcell
8. No-one is too small to make a difference Greta T
9. Whiteout Ken Follett

10. The Sealwoman's Gift Sally Magnusson 11. A Mind to Murder PD James 12. Middle England Jonathan Coe 13. Hidden Depths- Ann Cleeves 14. Home- Bill Bryson 15. Diana In Her Own Words-Andrew Morton 16. Pillars of the Earth- Ken Follett 17. Nothing Stays Buried- PJ Tracy 18, Shroud for a Nightingale- PD James 19. Findings Kathleen Jamie 20. The Familiars- Stacey Hall 21. One by One- Ruth Ware 22. Spain for the Sovereigns- Jean Plaidy 23.The Holiday T.M Logan 24. The Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen 25. Past Caring Robert Goddard 26. Finders Keepers, Belinda Bauer 27. A Long Petal of the Sea- Isabel Allende 28. Telling Tales- Ann Cleeves 29. Pies and Prejudice Stuart Maconie 30. The Unseen Roy Jacobsen 31. The Road to Little Dribbling- Bill Bryson 32. Conclave Robert Harris 33. The Plot 34. The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald 35. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 36. The Girl Who Played with Fire 37. The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest 38. Cider With Roadies- Stuart Maconie 39. The Loving Spirit- Daphne Du Maurier 40. The Only Plane In the Sky 41. The Darkness- Ragnar Jonasson 42 Last Rituals- Yrsa Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 43. A Child's Christmas in 80s Wales 44. A Child's Christmas in Wales- Dylan Thomas 45. Raven Black- Ann Cleeves.

Bringing across my list:

1. A Place of Greater Safety - Hilary Mantel
2. Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor

1. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
2. Banker - Dick Francis
3. Old Baggage - Lissa Evans

6. Crooked Heart - Lissa Evans

1. The Guest List - Lucy Foley

8. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

1. A Symphony of Echoes - Jodi Taylor

10. A Second Chance - Jodi Taylor 11. The Spy and the Traitor - Ben MacIntyre 12. The Danger - Dick Francis 13. A Song for Summer - Eva Ibbotson 14. Alternative Li(v)es - Arnie Arnstein 15. The Offing - Benjamin Myers 16. A Trail Through Time - Jodi Taylor 17. No Time Like The Past - Jodi Taylor 18. Confusion - Elizabeth Jane Howard 19. Thirteen - Steve Cavanagh 20. Proof - Dick Francis 21. The Warden - Anthony Trollope 22. A Month in the Country - JL Carr 23. My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell 24. What Could Possibly Go Wrong - Jodi Taylor 25. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins 26. Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers 27. Three Act Tragedy - Agatha Christie 28. Break In - Dick Francis 29. Bolt - Dick Francis 30. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin 31. Regeneration - Pat Barker 32. The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker 33. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker 34. Lies, Damned Lies and History - Jodi Taylor 35. Acts and Omissions - Catherine Fox 36. The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Dare 37. The Defence - Steve Cavanagh 38. Hot Money - Dick Francis 39. The Plea - Steve Cavanagh 40. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel 41. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford 42. A Rose Petal Summer - Katie Fforde 43. Unseen Things Above - Catherine Fox 44. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart 45. Realms of Glory - Catherine Fox 46. The Unknown Ajax - Georgette Heyer 47. To Calais in Ordinary Time - James Meek 48. Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel 49. And the Rest is History - Jodi Taylor 50. An Argumentation of Historians - Jodi Taylor 51. Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym 52. Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie 53. Hungry - Grace Dent 54. The Widow - Fiona Barton 55. Casting Off - Elizabeth Jane Howard 56. V for Victory - Lissa Evans 57. The Edge - Dick Francis 58. Straight - Dick Francis 59. The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel 60. Box 88 - Charles Cummings 61. Longshot - Dick Francis 62. The Party - Elizabeth Day 63. Maurice - E M Forster 64. Driving Force - Dick Francis 65. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid 66. Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam 67. A Year at the Circus - Jon Sopel 68. Hope for the Best - Jodi Taylor 69. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett 70. Jews Don’t Count - David Baddiel 71. Munich - Robert Harris 72. Tales from Lindford - Catherine Fox 73. The Liar - Steve Cavanagh 74. Virgin Earth - Philippa Gregory 75. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 76. Decider - Dick Francis 77. In the House of Brede - Rumer Godden 78. Arabella - Georgette Heyer

And adding my latest read:

79. The Only Plane in the Sky - Garrett M Graff

Much reviewed on here already. The oral history of 9/11. Harrowing and fascinating.

Onto something lighter next…..

And thanks for the new thread southeast

1 Hilo Waking the Monsters by Judd Winick
2 The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami. Translated by Allison Markin Powell
3 Hilo Then Everything Went Wrong by Judd Winick
4 Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan. Translated by Lisa C Hayden
5 Hilo All the Pieces Fit by Judd Winick
6 Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
7 The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
8 Serpentine by Philip Pullman
9 Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. Translated by Geoffrey Trousselot
10 Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
11 Bright by Duanwad Pimwana. Translated by Mui Poopoksakul
12 The Politicization of Mumsnet by Sarah Pedersen
13 The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
14 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
15 The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
16 If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho. Translated by Anne Carson
17 Freedom Bound: Escaping Slavery in Scotland by Warren Pleece
18 The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
19 Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
20 On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
21 Black and British by David Olusoga
22 The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith
23 Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez. Traslated by Christina MacSweeney
24 Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi. Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg
25 Susanna Moodie, Roughing It In the Bush by Carol Shields and Patrick Crowe. Illustrated by Selena Goulding
26 Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
27 Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Louise Heal Kawai
28 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
29 Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
30 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
31 Heartstopper Vol 1 by Alice Oseman
32 Heartstopper Vol 2 by Alice Oseman
33 Heartstopper Vol 4 by Alice Oseman
34 Crampton Hodnet by Barbara Pym
35 The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah. Translated by Geoffrey Strachan
36 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
37 The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
38 Heartstopper Vol 3 by Alice Oseman
39 The Provincial Lady in America by E. M. Delafield
40 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
41 Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
42 The Employees A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn. Translated by Martin Aitken
43 Butterflies in November by Auđur Ava Ólafsdóttir. Translated by Brian FitzGibbon
44 The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani Translated by Sam Taylor
45 Period by Emma Barnett
46 Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Translated by Marilyn Booth
47 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
48 The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein
49 Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
50 The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky. Translated by Tim Mohr
51 Material Girls. Why Reality Matters for Feminism. Kathleen Stock

Reading Sally Rooney at the moment then it's on to some Christmas reading.

Oooh lovely new thread. Thanks Southeast

I'll be back to report on my latest reads at some point, but as the dentist wins my attention this morning.

1. Conjure Women – Afia Atakora
2. Prime Suspect – Lynda LaPlante
3. Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellman
4. Three Hours – Rosamund Lupton
5. The Giver of Stars – Jojo Moyes
6. Honeymoon in Tehran – Aazadeh Moaveni
7. The Wife Upstairs – Rachel Hawkins
8. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
9. The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

10. Blue Ticket – Sophie Mackintosh 11. Death in Her Hands – Ottessa Moshfegh 12. The Art of Dying – Ambrose Parry 13. The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett 14. Missing, Presumed – Susie Steiner 15. Persons Unknown – Susie Steiner 16. Dear Child - Romy Hausmann 17. Hum If You Don’t Know the Words - Bianca Marais 18. Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan 19. Away with the Penguins – Hazel Prior 20. Ghosts – Dolly Alderton 21. Summerwater – Sarah Moss 22. Mother for Dinner – Shalom Auslander 23. The Vows of Silence (Serailler #4) - Susan HIll 24. The Mystery of Mrs. Christie – Marie Benedict 25. The Troubadour’s Tale (Oxford Medieval #5) – Ann Swinfen 26. The Warden – Anthony Trollope 27. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend 28. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes 29. Semper Fidelis (Ruso #5) – Ruth Downie 30. The Thirteenth Tale – Dianne Setterfield 31. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith 32. The Memory Police – Yōko Ogawa 33. The Secret Barrister - Anon 34. The Green Road – Anne Enright 35. The Cut Out Girl – Bart Van Es 36. All Things Bright and Beautiful – James Herriot 37. The Echo Wife – Sarah Gailey 38. That Old Country Music – Sebastian Barry 39. The Liar’s Dictionary – Eley Williams 40. Dark Horses – Susan Mihalic 41. I Hate Men – Pauline Harmange 42. Consent – Annabel Lyon 43. Exciting Times – Naoise Dolan 44. How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House – Cherie Jones 45. The Divines – Ellie Eaton 46. Because Of You – Dawn French 47. The Fours Winds – Kristin Hannah 48. The Year Of The Hare – Arto Paasilinna 49. Snow – John Banville 50. British History In 50 Events – James Weber 51. Putney – Sofka Zinovieff 52. No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood 53. Girl A – Abigail Dean 54. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens 55. The Soul of a Woman - Isabel Allende 56. Goodbye Mr. Chips - James Hilton 57. Riot Baby - Tochi Onyebuchi 58. Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi 59. The Narrowboat Summer - Anne Youngson 60. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix 61. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters 62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 63. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler 64. Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers 65. The Golden Rule - Amanda Craig 66. Cherry - Nico Walker 67. The Princess Spy - Larry Loftis 68. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch 69. The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner 70. The Stonemason's Tale (Oxford Medieval #6) - Ann Swinfen 71. Of Women and Salt - Gabriela Garcia 72. My Name is Why - Lemn Sissay 73.Her Here - Amanda Dennis 74. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov 75.Othello - William Shakespeare 76. Paradise Lost - John Milton 77. New Boy - Tracy Chevalier 78. I, Claudius - Robert Graves 79. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina - Robert Graves 80. Peaces - Helen Oyeyemi 81. The Switch - Beth O'Leary 82. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins 83. Nothing But Blue Sky - Kathleen MacMahon 84. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 85. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination - Robert Macfarlane 86. Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller 87. The Wild Silence - Raynor Winn 88. Adults - Emma Jane Unsworth 89. Life After Life – Kate Atkinson 90. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 91.Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 92. Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro 93. Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden – Benedict MacDonald 94. Mothering Sunday – Graham Swift 95. Notes on Grief – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 96. Ariadne – Jennifer Saint 97. See What You Made Me Do: Power Control and Domestic Violence – Jess Hill 98. The Betrayals – Bridget Colins 99. Braised Pork – An Yu 100. Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century - Jessica Bruder 101. The Dig – John Preston 102. The Summer Before the War – Helen Simonson 103. The Last Painting of Sarah de Vos – Dominic Smith 104. Mrs Death Misses Death – Salena Godden 105. Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North – Stuart Maconie 106. Did I Say That Out Loud: Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them - Kristin van Ogtrop 107. The Other Black Girl – Zakiya Dalila Harris 108. The Siege – Helen Dunmore 109. Another Life – Jodie Chapman 110. Charlotte – Helen Moffett 111.Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica #1) – Manda Smiith 112. Dreaming the Bull (Boudica #2) – Manda Smiith 113. Dreaming the Hound (Boudica #3) – Manda Smiith 114. A Little Happier: Notes for Reassurance – Derren Brown 115. Jane and Prudence – Barbara Pym 116. Circus of Wonders – Elizabeth Macneal 117. Nobody, Somebody, Anybody – Kelly McClorey 118. Regeneration – Pat Barker 119. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality – Helen Joyce 120. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton 121. The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism - Dr Jenn Gunter 122. Ridley Road – Jo Bloom 123. Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP – Jess Phillips 124. Nightbitch – Rachel Yoder 125. The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex 126. Future Popes of Ireland – Martin Darragh 127. The Rose Code – Kate Quinn 128. Anxious People – Fredrik Backman 129. Daughters of Sparta – Claire Heywood 130. Mrs England – Stacey Halls 131. A Comedy of Terrors (Flavia Albia #9) – Lyndsey Davis 132. Maybe in Another Life – Taylor Jenkins Reid 133.A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles 134. The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton 135. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 136. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald 137. Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively 138. Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel 139. Washington Black - Esi Edugyan 140. The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste 141. Real Life - Brandon Taylor 142. The North Water - Ian McGuire 143. Normal People - Sally Rooney 144. Us - David Nicholls 145. Stasiland: Stories from Beyond the Berlin Wall - Anna Funder 146. King Rat - James Clavell 147. Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine - Derren Brown 148. The Women of Troy - Pat Barker 149. Inseparable - Simone de Beauvoir 150. The Rebel Nun - Marj Charlier 151. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 911 - Garret M. Graff 152. Not Forgetting the Whale - John Ironmonger 153. Cunning Women - Elizabeth Lee 154. Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky 155. All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare 156. All's Well - Mona Awad 157. Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch - Rivka Galchen 158. The Voyage of Freydis - Tamara Goranson 159. Big Sky - Kate Atkinson 160. The Silkworm (Strike #2) - Robert Galbraith 161. The Sweet Girl - Annabel Lyon 162. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch 163. In the Country of Others - Leïla Slimani 164. Everybody: A Book About Freedom - Olivia Laing 165. A Corruption of Blood (Raven #3) - Ambrose Parry 166. I Was Never the First Lady - Wendy Guerra 167. Our Woman in Moscow - Beatriz Williams 168. The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray 169. The Shadows in the Street (Serailler #5) - Susan Hill 170. The Outcast Dead (Galloway #6) - Elly Griffiths 171. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin 172. The Magician - Colm Tóibín 173. The Cookbook of Common Prayer - Francesca Haig 174. Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism - Laura Bates 175. The Ratline: Love Lies and Justice on the Trial of a Nazi Fugitive - Philippe Sands 176. HHhH - Laurent Binet 177. Matrix - Lauren Groff 178. The Children of Jocasta - Natalie Haynes 179. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter 180. East West Street - Philippe Sands 181. The Wolf Den - Elodie Harper 182. Magpie Lane - Lucy Atkins 183. The Book of Lost Names - Kristin Harmel 184. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins 185. Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker 186. Tales from the Café - Toshikazu Kawaguchi 187. Women Talking - Miriam Toews 188. The End We Start With - Megan Hunter

Thank you so much @southeastdweller

1. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
2. The Diving Bell by Jean-Dominique Bauby
3. Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
4. Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
5. The trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
6. Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
7. Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend.
8. Know My Name by Chanel Miller.
9. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch.

10. Plain, Bad, Heroines by Emily Danforth. 11. 29 Seconds by T M Logan. 12. Lanny by Max Porter 13. My name is Why by Lemn Sissay 14. The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. 15. American Dirt Jeannie Cummings. 16. Blood Orange Harriet Tyce. 17. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. 18. Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult. 19. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. 20. The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard. 21. Underbelly by Anna Whitehouse. 22. Hungry by Grace Dent. 23. Malcom X: The Autobiography by Malcom X. 24. Can Everyone please calm down? A guide to 21st Century sexuality Mae Martin. 25. The Appeal Janice Hallett. 26. Luster by Raven Leilani. 27. Thirteen Steve Cavanagh. 28. Cult(ish) The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 29. Children of Men by P D James. 30. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. 31. How to talk so little kids will listen by Joanna Faber & Julie King. 32. Heartstopper Alice Oseman. 33. The Defence by Steve Cavanagh.

I’m at peace with the likelihood I won’t reach 50 this year (lockdown, life) I’ve definitely read a lot of easier books as well. But the last few months I feel like I’ve found my grove again so looking forward to getting through my mamouth tbr.

Thanks Southeast

1. Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson
2. All My Lies are True - Dorothy Koomson
3. The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
4. Earthlings- Sayaka Murata
5. Back When We were Grown Ups - Anne Tyler

6.The Hopkins Manuscript - R.C. Sherriff

1. Nightmare Alley - William Lindsay Graham
2. Passing - Nella Larson

9.The Seige - Helen Dunmore 10.Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout 11. Any Human Heart - William Boyd 12.Love and Fury - Samantha Silva 13.Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 14. Widowland - MJ Carey 15. Acts of Desperation - Megan Nolan 16. Everyone in this room will someday be dead- Emily Austin 17. Run - Anne Patchett 18. A Stitch in Time - Diana Gabaldon 19. Dragonfly in Amber - Diana Gabaldon 20. Voyager - Diana Gabaldon 21. A Crooked Tree - Una Mannion 22. A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabelle Allende 23. Sisters - Daisy Johnson 24. The Melting- Lize Spit 25. A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom - John Boyne 26. The Echo Chamber - John Boyne 27. Secrets of happiness - Jean Silber 28. Triflers Need Not Apply - Camilla Bruce 29. The Country of Others - Leila Slimani 30. How to Save a Life - Eva Carter 31. April in Spain - John Banville 32. Oh William!- Elizabeth Strout 33. Lily - Rose Tremain 34. Susan -A Jane Austen Prequel - Alice McVeigh 35. The Magician - Colm Toibin 36. Milkman- Anna Burns 37.The Hearts Invisible Furies- John Boyne 38. The Man Who Died Twice- Richard Osman 39. Magpie- Elizabeth Day 40.The Carer - Deborah Moggach 41. Small Pleasures- Clare Chambers 42. The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knassgard 43. Free Love- Tessa Hadley 44. Matrix - Lauren Groff 45.The Editor's Wife - Clare Chambers 46. Transit-Ann Seghers 47. What is Written on the Tongue- Anne Lazurko 48. Peaces- Helen Oyekemi 49. North and Sputh - Elizabeth Gaskell 50. Today A Woman Weent mad in the Supermarket - Hilma Wolitzer 51. The Impossible Truths about Love - Hannah Beckerman 52. A Man of Honour - Barbara Taylor Bradford

Place marking on the new thread - thanks southeast.

Thanks Southeast, will put my list up in a bit

1. Transcendence, by Gaia Vance.
2. Fat Cow, Fat Chance, by Jenni Murray
3. The Push, by Claire McGowan
4. A Field Guide to the English Clergy, by The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

5. Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

1. Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemon: Travels in Sicily on a Vespa, by Matthew Fort
2. You Aren't What You Eat: Fed up with Gastro culture, by Steven Poole
3. Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk
4. Born to be Mild: Adventures for the Anxious, by Rob Temple

10. Written in Bone, by Sue Black 11. A Chip Shop in Poznan, by Ben Aitken 12. The Darkest Evening, by Ann Cleeves 13. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig 14. The Postscript Murders, by Elly Griffiths 15. Hickory Dickory Dock, by Agatha Christie 16. The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, by Antonia Hodgson 17. A Death at Fountains Abbey, by Antonia Hodgson 18. Tales from the Folly, by Ben Aaronovitch 19. The Silver Collar, by Antonia Hodgson 20. The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donohue 21. The Last, by Hanna Jameson 22. More than a Woman, by Caitlin Moran 23. Slough House, by Mick Herron 24. The Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis 25. Prairie Fires: the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser 26. Small Pleasures, by Clare Chambers 27. Rapid Fire Europe, by Jason Smart 28. Three-Act Play, by Agatha Christie 29. The Fall of the House of Byron, by Emily Brand 30. Such a Fun Age, by Keiley Reid 31. Huntingtower, John Buchan 32. Another Time, Another Place, Jodi Taylor 33. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym, Paula Byrne 34. Remain Silent, Susie Steiner 35. 4.50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie 36. The Weekend, Charlotte Wood 37. Snow, John Banville 38. Walking the Great North Line, Robert Twigger 39. Elephants Can Remember, Agatha Christie 40. Blood Orange, Harriet Tyce 41. A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are, Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe 42. A Necessary End, Hazel Holt 43. Death is a Word, Hazel Holt 44. The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz 45. The Sentence is Death, Anthony Horowitz 46. The Ministry of Bodies, Seamus O'Mahony 47. The Searcher, Tana French 48. Island Dreams, Gavin Francis 49. Eight Detectives, Alex Pavesi 50. Scoff, by Penn Vogler 51. Diary of an MP's Wife, Sasha Swire 52. The Golden Rule, Amanda Craig 53. Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier 54. Tales from Lindford, Catherine Fox 55. They Do It With Mirrors, Agatha Christie 56. The Appeal, Janice Hallett 57. The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World, Robert Morrison 58. The Night Hawks, Elly Griffith 59. From Spare Oom to War Drobe, Katherine Langrish 60. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman 61. Kindred, Rebecca Wragg 62. The Wild Silence, Raynor Winn 63. My Last Confession, Helen Fitzgerald 64. In Control, Jane Monckton 65. Nomadland, Jessica Bruder 66. Bloody Women, Helen Fitzgerald 67. My Brief Career, Harry Mount 68. Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away, Lisa Woollett 69. Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith 70. A Walk from the Wild Edge, Jake Tyler 71. The Big Blue Jobbie, Yvonne Vincent 72. Miss Benson's Beetle, Rachel Joyce 73. The Plot, Jean Hanff 74. True Crime Story, Joseph Knox 75. The Year of the End, Anne Theroux 76. Hungry, Grace Dent 77. Don't Tell Alfred, Nancy Mitford 78. The Blessing, Nancy Mitford 79. Can Medicine be Cured? Seamus O'Mahony 80. I Leap Over the Wall, by Monica Baldwin 81. Three Rooms, Jo Hamya 82. Transient Desires, Donna Leon 83. Slow Trains around Spain, Tom Chesshyre 84. The Consequences of Love, Gavanndra Hodge 85. Summerwater, Sarah Moss 86. The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald 87. Doing Time, Jodi Taylor 88. Trace Elements, Donna Leon 89. Head First: A Psychiatrist's Stories of Mind and Body, Alastair Santhouse 90. A Bit of a Stretch, Chris Atkins 91. Bliss, Meg Mason 92. Forfeit, Barbara Nadel 93. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads, Cat Jarman 94. Walking the Invisible: Following in the Bronte's Footsteps, Michael Stewart 95. Hard Time, Jodi Taylor 96. Consumed: A Sister's Story, by Arifa Akbar 97. Man and Bike, Mike Carter 98. Mrs Ames, E F Benson 99. A Very Nice Rejection Letteer, Chris Paling 100. Girl A, Abigail Dean 101. The Heron's Cry, Ann Cleeves 102. Are We Having Fun Yet? Lucy Mangan 103. Guarded by Dragons, Rik Gekoski 104. Philip Larking: Life, Art and Love, James Booth 105. The Anglo-Saxons, Marc Morris

And thanks, southeast!

I feel I've been stingy with the starts - might add more to the current list when looking back at the end of the year. As we've discussed on here before, some books linger and some don't, and it's not always the ones you expect.

Hi all, I fell off the thread several months ago: I've had an awful year but I've managed to keep reading. Thanks to southeast and everyone. Here's my list- some are rereads/listens:

1. Why Mummy’s Sloshed- Gill Sims
2. Hungry- Grace Dent
3. Ballet Shoes- Noel Streatfeild
4. Notes on a Scandal- Zoë Heller
5. Stephen Fry in America- Stephen Fry
6. Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger- Nigel Slater
7. Kind Words for Unkind Days- Jayne Hardy
8. Poverty Safari- Darren McGarvey
9. Into Thin Air- Jon Krakauer

10. Jew-ish: A Primer, a Memoir, a Manual, a Plea- Matt Greene 11. The Well of Loneliness- Radclyffe Hall 12. It’s Not About You- Tom Rath 13. Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to Happiness- Bill Bailey 14. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me- Kate Clanchy 15. My Dark Vanessa- Kate Elizabeth Russell 16. How to Write Everything- David Quantick 17. The Witches- Roald Dahl 18. Let’s Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood- Jasper Rees 19. Utopia Avenue- David Mitchell 20. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire- Akala 21. A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner- Chris Atkins 22. The Thursday Murder Club- Richard Osman 23. Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams- Matthew Walker 24. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck- Mark Manson 25. QI: The Sound of General Ignorance- John Lloyd and John Minchinson 26. The Only Plane in the Sky: The Aural History of 9/11- Garrett M. Graff 27. The Prison Doctor: My Time Inside Britain‘s Most Notorious Jail- Dr Amanda Brown 28. How To Be Black- Baratunde Thurston 29. More Than a Woman- Caitlin Moran 30. Hillsborough Voices: The Real Story Told by the People Themselves- Kevin Sampson 31. Who Am I, Again?- Lenny Henry 32. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside- Dr Amanda Brown 33. Just Like You- Nick Hornby 34. Catching Fire- Suzanne Collins 35. Contemporary Choral Work with Boys- Martin Ashley 36. How to Answer Interview Questions- Peggy McGee 37. Boris Johnson: The Gambler- Tom Bower 38. How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS- David France 39. Columbine- Dave Cullen 40. The Rotters’ Club- Jonathan Coe 41. Mudlarking- Lara Maiklem 42. Many Different Kinds of Love- Michael Rosen 43. Best Foot Forward- Adam Hills 44. The Lockdown Diary of Tom Cooper- Spencer Brown 45. The Song of the Lark- Willa Cather 46. The Boy Between: A Mother and Son’s Journey from a World Gone Grey- Amanda Prowse & Josiah Hartley 47. Gilead- Marilynne Robinson 48. Q- Christina Dalcher 49. Broken Greek- Pete Paphides 50. I Love the Bones of You: My Life, My Family, My Father- Christopher Eccleston 51. The Queen’s Gambit- Walter Tevis 52. 500 Words You Should Know- Caroline Taggart 53. The Swish of the Curtain- Pamela Brown 54. Maddy Alone- Pamela Brown 55. Golden Pavements- Pamela Brown 56. Blue Door Venture- Pamela Brown 57. Maddy Again- Pamela Brown 58. Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights- Helen Lewis 59. Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth about Richey Manic- Sarah Hawys Roberts and Leon Noakes 60. Little Fires Everywhere- Celeste Ng 61. The Library Book- Susan Orlean 62. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race- Reni Eddo-Lodge 63. A Version of Reason: The Search for Richey Edwards- Rob Jovanovic 64. The Vinyl Detective: Flip Back- Andrew Cartmel 65. The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language- Albert Costa 66. Emotional Intelligence: Managing Emotions to Make a Positive Impact on Your Life and Career- Gill Hasson 67. Helen Keller: A Life from Beginning to End- Hourly History 68. The Sleep of Reason- The James Bulger Case- David James Smith 69. Another Planet- Tracey Thorn 70. The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss- Rev. Richard Coles 71. Leonard and Hungry Paul- Ronan Hession 72. A Nurse’s Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis- Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson 73. Confessions of a Curious Bookseller- Elizabeth Green 74. A Chip Shop in Poznań: My Unlikely Year in Poland- Ben Aitken 75. The Foundling- Stacey Halls 76. The Night Bus Hero- Onjali Q. Rauf 77. World War Z- Max Brooks 78. Becoming- Michelle Obama 79. 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time- Craig Brown 80. Inspire- Ben Fogle 81. I Am Legend- Richard Matheson 82. South! The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917- Sir Ernest Shackleton 83. The Alchemist- Paolo Coelho 84. Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment for Every Day of the Year- Susie Dent 85. Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture- Adam Buxton 86. The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty- Tracy Borman 87. Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went from Pop to Pulpit- Rev. Richard Coles 88. The Boy Between Worlds: A Biography- Annejet van der Zijl 89. Rubbernecker- Belinda Bauer 90. A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the Covid-19 Pandemic- Laura Dodsworth 91. I Can’t Believe You Just Said That: The Truth about Why People are So Rude- Danny Wallace 92. On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno- David Sheppard 93. The Color Purple- Alice Walker 94. I Let Him Go- Denise Fergus 95. Miracles of Life- J. G. Ballard 96. My James- Ralph Bulger with Rosie Dunn 97. The Passage- Justin Cronin 98. Peri Menopause Power- Maisie Hill 99. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen 100. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith 101. Harry Potter: A History of Magic- Ben Davies 102. The World I Fell Out Of- Melanie Reid 103. The Children of Men- P. D. James 104. Where the Crawdads Sing- Delia Owens 105. My Thoughts Exactly- Lily Allen 106. Engleby- Sebastian Faulks 107. Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy 108. Small Pleasures- Clare Chambers 109. Life in Pieces- Dawn O’Porter 110. Learning to Swim- Clare Chambers 111. How to Survive a Pandemic- Michael Greger 112. No-one’s Home- D. M. Pulley 113. The Book Lovers’ Companion: What to Read Next- Various 114. Children of the Dust- Louise Lawrence 115. The Vinyl Detective: Low Action- Andrew Cartmel 116. Love is Blind- William Boyd 117. Room- Emma Donoghue 118. Dealing with Difficult People- Roy Lilley 119. Prince Caspian- C. S. Lewis 120. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson 121. How to Be Sad- Helen Russell 122. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader- C. S. Lewis 123. Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books- Cathy Rentzenbrink 124. An Unusual Boy- Fiona Higgins 125. The Silver Chair- C. S. Lewis 126. Kurt Cobain: A Life from Beginning to End- Hourly History 127. Hag-Seed- Margaret Atwood 128. Did Not Finish: Misadventures in Running, Cycling and Swimming- George Mahood 129. The Horse and his Boy- C. S. Lewis 130. So, Anyway…- John Cleese 131. The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern 132. Did Not Try: Misadventures in Running, Cycling and Swimming- George Mahood 133. The Magician’s Nephew- C. S. Lewis 134. Did Not Start: Misadventures in Running, Cycling and Swimming- George Mahood 135. Any Human Heart- William Boyd 136. How Not to Get Married- George Mahood 137. The Last Battle- C. S. Lewis 138. Keep the Aspidistra Flying- George Orwell 139. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev- Dawnie Walton 140. Along the Broken Bay- Flora J. Solomon 141. Did Not Enter: Misadventures in Running, Cycling and Swimming- George Mahood 142. The Secret Doctor- Dr Max Skittle 143. The Cockroach- Ian McEwan 144. The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes 145. How to Find Fulfilling Work- Roman Krznaric 146. Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus- Jonathan Calvert & George Arbuthnott 147. Arthur and George- Julian Barnes 148. O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music- Andrew Gant 149. Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austen 150. Did Not Happen: Misadventures in Running, Cycling and Swimming- George Mahood 151. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists- Robert Tressell 152. The Nanny State Made Me- Stuart Maconie 153. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend- Matthew Green 154. On the Road- Jack Kerouac 155. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced- Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui 156. The Consequences of Love- Gavanndra Hodge 157. Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate- Susan Calman 158. Richard Osman’s House of Games- Richard Osman & Alan Connor 159. Aspergers on the Job- Rudy Simone 160. The Comfort Book- Matt Haig 161. Stalin Ate My Homework- Alexei Sayle 162. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day: How ‘90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me for Life- Josh Widdicombe 163. On the Beach- Nevil Shute 164. In a Good Light- Clare Chambers 165. Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North- Stuart Maconie 166. The Girls- Lori Lansens 167. I’m Only In It for the Parking: Life and Laughter from the Priority Seats- Lee Ridley 168. The Uncommon Reader- Alan Bennett 169. Only Child- Rhiannon Navin 170. Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World- Dave Gorman 171. My Name is Leon- Kit de Waal 172. Beyond Belief- Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer 173. Excuse Me, Your Job is Waiting: Attract the Work You Want- Laura George 174. Back to Nature: How to Love Life- and Save It- Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin 175. The Echo Chamber- John Boyne 176. The Wild Remedy- Emma Mitchell 177. A Terrible Secret- Cathy Glass 178. Tuesdays with Morrie- Mitch Albom 179. Last One at the Party- Bethany Clift 180. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid- Bill Bryson 181. American Dirt- Jeanine Cummins 182. Troy- Stephen Fry 183. Notes on a Nervous Planet- Matt Haig 184. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography- Benjamin Zephaniah 185. The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite- Laura Freeman 186. The Girl with the Louding Voice- Abi Daré 187. I’m Not With the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music- Sylvia Patterson 188. Knowing Why: Adult Diagnosed Autistic People on Life and Autism- ed. Elizabeth Bartmess 189. The Midnight Library- Matt Haig 190. Substance: Inside New Order- Peter Hook 191. Seven Ways to Build Resilience- Chris Johnstone 192. Dominicana- Angie Cruz 193. Billy Liar- Keith Waterhouse 194. The Wild Other- Clover Stroud 195. Wintering- Katherine May 196. Akin- Emma Donoghue 197. Quite: Love, Life & Eyeliner- Claudia Winkleman 198. Billy Liar on the Moon- Keith Waterhouse 199. Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation- Eleanor Morgan 200. Twelve Years a Slave- Solomon Northup 201. Theroux the Keyhole- Louis Theroux 202. The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures- Louis Theroux 203. Before & Laughter- Jimmy Carr 204. The Wild Silence- Raynor Winn 205. Chasing Trails: A Short Fun Book About a Long Miserable Run- George Mahood 206. Coming Up for Air- Tom Daley 207. This Fragile Earth- Susannah Wise 208. Unorthodox- Deborah Feldman 209. I Am Malala- Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

Hope you are OK Franz and also the small group of other regulars that are also absent at the moment. You are missed

Thanks, Reise.

Thanks for the thread @southeastdweller

@FranKatzenjammer, sorry for your rotten year

Mine has definitely been up and down. Not going to get to 50 (can't even remember the last year that I did!) so thanks everyone for not booting me out

Currently reading no. 35 Betjeman's England and listening to 36 Alone On The Ice - vintage Antarctic exploration stuff from David Roberts. So hoping to get to 40 this year.

Thanks for the thread Southeast.
Read so far:
1. The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré
2. One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
3. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
4. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
5. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
6. The Last Thing To Burn by Will Dean
7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
8. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
9. Lady In Waiting by Anne Glenconner
10. Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell DTTMOT
11. The Home Stretch by Graham Norton
12. Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
13. The Soldiers Art by Anthony Powell DTTMOT
14. The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell DTTMOT

15. The Offing by Benjamin Myers
16. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
17. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
18. The Last House On Needless Street by Catronia Ward
19. The Long Song by Andrea Levy
20. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
21. Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
22. Later by Stephen King
23. Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
24. The Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford
25. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
26. Things In Jars by Jess Kidd
27. The Last Painting Of Sarah de Vos by Dominic Smith
28. Stasiland by Anna Funder
29. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
30. Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
31. All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle
32. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
33. Books Do Furnish A Room DTTMOT by Anthony Powell
34. Temporary Kings DTTMOT by Anthony Powell
35. Hearing Secret Harmonies DTTMOT by Anthony Powell
36. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
37. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
38. The Mermaid of Black Conch
39. Empire Of The Sun by J. D. Ballard

40. My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
41. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
42. The Consequences of Love by Gavanndra Hodge
43. The Island Of Sea Women by Lisa See
44. Hungry by Grace Dent

And most recently:
45. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens read for the read along, and as I failed to read last months chapters in time I've pushed through this month and finished it ahead of schedule. I'll keep my thoughts for the book group thread, but it has mid table respectability in my personal Dickens league table.

46.	<strong>The Light Years</strong> by Elizabeth Jane Howard. This took me an age to get into, a seemingly bewildering cast of characters, both Upstairs and Downstairs. Still not absolutely sure of the relationships of some of the characters to each other, particularly the children. Listening on Audible doesn't help as you can't flick back and check who is who. However I have had a couple of long car journeys where I stuck it on and went with the flow and little by little relationships and characters started to make sense and gradually I was pulled into their world to the extent that now I've finished it I've immediately downloaded the next book in the series, <strong>Marking Time</strong>.

I seem to remember there was a discussion here to the effect that JEH should have knocked the series on the head after the third book and it's best not to read the last two, am I remembering that correctly?

Four more to go to hit the target but I'm on a real reading go slow atm. Time to pick some shorter books I think!

The last book in the series written recently after a long hiatus goes off piste

Thanks, Meg.

Thanks for the thread Southeast
No list for me - really not doing well with my reading this year.
Just finished The Owl Service and can honestly say it made no more sense to me now than it did when I was 11.
Reading a Jane Fallon thing that I don’t know if I want to continue with. Nothing wrong with it, just not for me.

Thanks for the thread, south

I'm going in for the list:

1: The Dead of Winter - Nicola Upson
2: The Ratline - Philippe Sands
3: The Truants - Kate Weinberg
4: London Fog: The Biography - Christine L. Corton
5: Under the Rainbow - Susan Scarlett
6: The Haunting of Alma Fielding - Kate Summerscale
7: Box 88 - Charles Cumming
8: Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements - Hugh Aldersey-Williams
9: Mr Wilder and Me - Jonathan Coe
10: Stasiland - Anna Funder
11: Civil to Strangers - Barbara Pym
12: Quicksand Tales - Keggie Carew
13: Woman With Birthmark - Håkan Nesser
14: Just My Type - Simon Garfield
15: A Song for the Dark Times - Ian Rankin
16: Shady Characters - Keith Houston
17: Clara - Janice Galloway
18: Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours - Emily Cockayne
19: Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
20: Gone to Ground - Marie Jalowicz-Simon
21: The Law of Innocence - Michael Connelly
22. Falling Upwards - Richard Holmes
23: The Darkest Day - Håkan Nesser
24: The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera - Adam Begley
25: The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin
26: Chelsea Concerto - Frances Faviell
27: The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
28: One Hot Summer - Rosemary Ashton
29: Sweet Thames - Matthew Kneale
30: Murder on the Home Front - Molly Lefebure
31: The Most Fun We Ever Had - Claire Lombardo
32: Daphne du Maurier - Margaret Forster
33: If Morning Ever Comes - Anne Tyler
34: I Am, I Am, I Am - Maggie O’Farrell
35: To Love and be Wise - Josephine Tey
36: Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt - John Grindrod
37: Fair Warning: Michael Connelly
38: Footprints in Paris - Gillian Tindall
39: The Singing Sands - Josephine Tey
40: The Land Where Lemons Grow - Helena Attlee
41: No Cure for Death - Hazel Holt
42: Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed The World - Laura Spinney
43: Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny
44: The News from Waterloo - Brian Cathcart
45: I'm Not Complaining - Ruth Adam
46: Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition - Jenny Uglow
47: The Inimitable Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
48: The Address Book - Deirdre Mask
49: The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust
50: Shepperton Babylon - Matthew Sweet
51: A View of the Harbour - Elizabeth Taylor
52: Dirty Old London - Lee Jackson
53: Tonight You're Dead - Viveca Sten
54: Confessions of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
55: House of Correction - Nicci French
56: East West Street - Philippe Sands
57: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
58: The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
59: Betty: The Story of Betty MacDonald - Anne Wellman
60: Guiltless - Viveca Sten
61: The Rare and the Beautiful - Cressida Connolly
62: All Adults Here - Emma Straub
63: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts - Christopher de Hamel
64: The Survivors - Jane Harper
65: Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives - Brian Dillon
66: Transient Desires - Donna Leon
67: The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym - Paula Byrne
68: Modern Lovers - Emma Straub
69: Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time - Simon Garfield
70: The Garden Party and other stories - Katherine Mansfield
71: Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life - Claire Tomalin
72: Due to a Death - Mary Kelly
73: The Vanity Fair Diaries - Tina Brown
74: The Christmas Egg - Mary Kelly
75: An Encyclopaedia of Myself - Jonathan Meades
76: The Dreaming Suburb - R. F. Delderfield
77: The Only Plane in the Sky - Garrett M. Graff
78: The Davidian Report - Dorothy B. Hughes
79: The Professor and the Parson - Adam Sisman
80: The Spoilt Kill - Mary Kelly
81: Square Haunting - Francesca Wade
82: All Together Now - Gill Hornby
83: The Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories of Mystery Illness - Suzanne O'Sullivan
84: Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
85: Three Houses, Many Lives - Gillian Tindall
86: Palladian - Elizabeth Taylor
87: The Weather Experiment - Peter Moore
88: In The Heat of the Moment - Viveca Sten
89: A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 - Alethea Hayter
90: Table Two - Marjorie Wilenski
91: Family Business - Victoria Glendinning
92: The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
93: Parisians - Graham Robb
94: The Unheard - Nicci French
95: China in Ten Words - Yu Hua
96: The Less Dead - Denise Mina

I've had a good year - lots of bolds!