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?

@PermanentTemporary thanks so much for compiling the list, really interesting. I've read 6 of the 9 and they are all worthy. If the 3 I've missed, I'm not sure that I fancy the Isis one, I don't read much non fiction, Grace Dent appeals more in that category as I love her columns. And I should have read Nancy Mitford, I've just never got round to it.

@Cassandre I feel the same way about Leila Slimani. I didn't enjoy Lullaby but think I will give this a go on @JaninaDuszejko's recommendation.

@SOLINVICTUS @FranKatzenjammer The Ramble Book was my first book of the year. Adam Buxton went to the same boarding school as I did, but was a few years older, so was good to get his impressions.

Last books of the year, crime for Christmas:
106. The Appeal - Janice Hallett
107. Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman.
Both much reviewed on here. I enjoyed the concept of The Appeal but thought I'd was a bit obvious what was going on. I Sharp enjoyed Osman, wasn't expecting too much given the hype and backlash and it landed comfortably in the middle for me.

Happy New Year 50 Bookers, its been lovely to be part of this thread this year.

FranKatzenjammer and SOLINVICTUS I'm literally just listening to Adam Buxton's Christmas podcast with Joe Cornish and crying with laughter. Highly recommend investigating the podcasts if you haven't already. I've got the book and really must get round to it in 2022.

I've finally got there with my list. I'm being cheeky and have completely bolded my 5 star books and have half bolded my 4 stars. Stinkers are in italics.

From a total of 221
178 fiction
118 audiobooks
188 by female authors

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 189. Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge 190. We Need to Talk About the British Empire - Afua Hirsch 191. Imperfect Women - Araminta Hall 192. The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls - Ursula Hegl 193. The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles 194. Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie 195. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year - Allie Esiri 196. Royal Witches - Gemma Holman 197. The Other Einstein - Marie Benedict 198. The Golden State - Lydia Kiesling 199. The Extra Women - Joanna Scutts 200. Grand Union - Zadie Smith 201. Empire of Pain - Patrick Radfen Keefe 202. Still Life - Sarah Winman 203. House of Glass - Hadley Freeman 204. April in Spain - John Banville 205. These Precious Days - Ann Patchett 206. Chouette - Claire Oshetsky 207. Olive Again - Elizabeth Strout 208. Material Girls - Kathleen Stock 209. The Nanny State Made Me - Stuart Maconie 210. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 211. Tabula Rasa (Ruso #6) - Ruth Downie 212. Where Angels Fear to Tread - EM Forster 213. Irreversible Damage - Abigail Shrier 214. The Chancellor's Secret (Bartholomew #25) - Susanna Gregory 215. Career of Evil (Strike #3) - Robert Galbraith 216. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey 217. Tin Man - Sarah Winman 218. King Lear - William Shakespeare 219. Learwife - JR Thorpe 220. Underland - Robert Macfarlane 221. Feminism for Women - Julie Bindel

Thank you all for being brilliant company this year as always. I look forward to the next year of reading with you and can't wait for the debates and recommendations.

Thanks Southeast for hosting.

Hang onto your hats ready for the January thread madness.

Thank you for the lists @PermanentTemporary and @Tarahumara.

One last one for the year- taking me to about 130, the most I have read since I joined the 50 bookers! But there were a lot of easy comfort reads. Green for Danger by Christianna Brand. I thought I'd try this after she bobbed up in the golden age short story collection I read, as I remember really enjoying Nurse Matilda when I was little; but although this did have a nice setting (ww2 military hospital) and a good plot, it was just a little too real and too sad for me- I like my murders a bit more cosy.
Happy new year my lovelies!

Happy New Year everyone! Thanks so much to southeast for hosting this delightful

Oops didn’t mean to post! For hosting this delightful corner of the internet!

My reading resolutions are to keep plodding on (the glory days of 100 books that I achieved when I was a SAHM in lockdown are long gone!). Perhaps up the proportion of fiction, but due to real life there’ll probably still be quite a bit of self-help/parenting stuff in there. (DD is seriously struggling with starting school and we’ve started an assessment process, with anxiety and/or ASD being suspected.)

Anyway, see you all on the 2022 threads!

Thank you @PermanentTemporary for the list, will have a look through for 2022 ideas!

Thank you to @southeastdweller for hosting the threads and to everyone for being here. Although I didn't quite make the 50, this thread and the reading it's inspired have been a refuge in a stormy year. Happy New Year to all!

I hope it’s ok to sort of straddle the 26 and 50 thread. I enjoy both in different ways.

My main goals are to read more of what I already own, in particular hard copy books on my shelves. I’ve got two book subscriptions that I received as gifts for my birthday so I want to read those books - one is diverse writers and the other plays.

Just nipping in at the end of 2021 to thank all the 50 bookers for the best threads on Mums-net. See you all in 2022. May all our books be good ones .

Just realised I never spoke about my last two books.

Underland - Robert Macfarlane
Macfarlane adventures underground and long may he stay there.

I found some parts of this incredibly interesting, but he does harp on and I found myself getting bored. I feel his work might be better suited to dipping in and out of rather than the full onslaught all at once.

Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation - Julie Bindel
Julie discusses the state of modern feminism, the issues with it and the direction it needs to take to achieve anything. She discusses Equality Vs Liberation, Liberal vs Radical feminism and the goals of feminism for women as opposed to the type of feminism men will gain from and approve of.

As Julie herself is fond of saying, there are many ways to be a feminist and most of them are wrong. 20% in and I was ready to set the world on fire. This is a call to arms.

Happy New Year folks.

@StColumbofNavron

I hope it’s ok to sort of straddle the 26 and 50 thread. I enjoy both in different ways.

My main goals are to read more of what I already own, in particular hard copy books on my shelves. I’ve got two book subscriptions that I received as gifts for my birthday so I want to read those books - one is diverse writers and the other plays.

We know of this other place, yet none of us go there.

I suspect there may be a fair bit of crossover. No rules round here, other than read and tell us about it. Nobody really cares about the numbers.

Snuck my 50th in under the wire! (It's still 2021 where I am).

50. Sex And The City And Us, by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Sex and the City is one of my guilty pleasures so this was a fast, easy read with some interesting behind the scenes information. However, I think I'd have enjoyed it more as an essay as there was just SO much extraneous detail. A nice gentle way to end this year's reading though.

Thank you all 50 Bookers for your companionship, recommendations, and occasional very polite arguments

I’ll start the 2022 thread shortly.

Thank you all for this thread.
Completed 55 books this year. I lost my reading concentration 8 years ago with a nightmare house move and I'm so pleased to be back into regular reading
Happy 2022 to all

Happy new year everyone! 🥳

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I can't quite believe I managed it, but I have read (or listened to) 365 books this year, so one for each day. I wasn't sure if I would manage that. Part of me is pleased, but equally I have read a lot of crap this year so that shows it's really not the numbers that are important. At the begionning of this year I had 219 unread books on my kindle and one of my goals was to clear a lot of them. That's one reason I have read a lot of crappy psycholigical thrillers this year as I am a bit of a sucker for the 99p deals. I have ended the year with 132 unread books on my kindle. I haven't cleared as many as I hoped, but at least it hasn't gone up. I aim to clear more of them in 2022 (and I must stop getting caught up in 99p deals and not buy more rubbish!)

My stats:
68% female, 30% male, 2% both or unknown.
50% kindle, 27% physical, 17% library, 6% audible.
71% fiction, 24% non fiction, 6% children's fiction.
88% were new, 12% were rereads (mainly audible or Christmas books).

My list:

1. The Gran Tour: Travels With My Elders - Ben Aitken
2. The Corner Shop: Shopkeepers, the Sharmas and The Making of Modern Britain - Babita Sharma
3. Ex Libris: 100 Books To Read and Reread - Michiko Kakutani
4. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5500 mile cycling adventure through South America - Anna McNuff
5. Our Little Cruelties - Liz Nugent
6. The Push - Claire McGowan
7. Playdate - Alex Dahl
8. Sorry I Missed You - Suzy Krause
9. In The Crypt With A Candlestick - Daisy Waugh

10. For Emily - Katherine Slee 11. The Return Of The Railway Children - Lou Kuenzler 12. The Big Six - Arthur Ransome 13. Sunburnt Penguins Tour The USA: America's East Coast and Midwest Through An Englishman's Eyes - Jim Stanson 14. White Silence - Jodi Taylor 15. Dark Light - Jodi Taylor 16. Single Mother - Samantha Hayes 17. From Devon With Death - Stephanie Austin 18. The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Curiosities From History - Edward Brooks-Hitching 19. Apple Of My Eye - Helene Hanff 20. A Little Love Song - Michelle Magorian 21. Just My Luck - Adele Parks 22. Hadley and Grace - Suzanne Redfearn 23. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson 24. Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes and Stories - Nigella Lawson 25. Missee Lee - Arthur Ransome 26. Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls 27. A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle 28. West With Giraffes - Lynda Rutledge 29. Final Cut - S J Watson 30. The Country Life - Rachel Cusk 31. Seven Days Of Us - Francesca Hornak 32. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck 33. Josephine: Singer Dancer Soldier Spy - Eilidh McGinness 34. Confessions Of A Curious Bookseller - Elizabeth Green 35. The Picts And The Martyrs - Arthur Ransome 36. Hard Time - Jodi Taylor 37. The Deadly Mystery Of The Missing Diamonds - T E Kinsey 38. The Boy With The Topknot: A Memoir Of Love, Secrets And Lies In Wolverhampton - Sathnam Sanghera 39. The Marlow Murder Club - Robert Thorogood 40. Between The Covers: Sex, Socialising And Survival - Jilly Cooper 41. A Traveller In Time - Alison Uttley 42. Great Northern? - Arthur Ransome 43. Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell 44. The Mitford Girls: The Biography Of An Extraordinary Family - Mary S Lovell 45. Just Like The Other Girls - Claire Douglas 46. Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen - Alison Weir 47. A Week In December - Sebastian Faulks 48. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend 49. The Last Resort - Susi Holliday 50. Frozen Assets - P G Wodehouse 51. The Glass House - Eve Chase 52. Spanish Steps - Tim Moore 53. Bodie On The Road - Belinda Jones 54. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig 55. The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend 56. The Girl I Used To Be - Mary Torjussen 57. Miss Benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce 58. Exit - Belinda Bauer 59. Gold - Dan Rhodes 60. The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole - Sue Townsend 61. The Remains Of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 62. A Brief Guide To The Sound Of Music - Paul Simpson 63. Sometimes I Lie - Alice Feeney 64. Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years - Sue Townsend 65. Standard Deviation - Katherine Heiny 66. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens 67. The Man I Didn't Marry - Anna Bell 68. Hungry - Grace Dent 69. Falling - Elizabeth Jane Howard 70. Lies We Bury - Elle Marr 71. The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing - Sonia Faleiro 72. The Survivors - Jane Harper 73. Scoff: A History of Food and Class In Britain - Pen Vogler 74. How To Build A Girl - Caitlin Moran 75. Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years - Sue Townsend 76. Ghosts - Dolly Alderton 77. Written In Bone: Hidden Stories In What We Leave Behind - Sue Black 78. The Facts Of Life And Death - Belinda Bauer 79. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 80. Nick - Michael Farris Smith 81. More Than A Woman - Caitlin Moran 82. The Village News - Tom Fort 83. A Chip Shop In Poznan: My Unlikely Year In Poland - Ben Aitken 84. Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers 85. Girl A - Abigail Dean 86. Who Did You Tell? - Lesley Kara 87. An Unwanted Guest - Shari Lapena 88. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 89. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Sue Townsend 90. Just Henry - Michelle Magorian 91. Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table - Nigel Slater 92. Perfectly Impossible - Elizabeth Topp 93. The Recovery of Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel 94. Atonement - Ian McEwan 95. The Watcher Girl - Minka Kent 96. The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 - Sue Townsend 97. Behind Closed Doors - Catherine Alliott 98. Richard III and the Princes in the Tower - A J Pollard 99. Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music - Stephen Fry 100. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford 101. Tell me A Secret - Samantha Hayes 102. Titanic Survivor - Violet Jessop 103. Beach Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones 104. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist - Richard Shepherd 105. The Quest for Queen Mary - James Pope-Hennessy 106. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon 107. Girls of Brackenhill - Kate Moretti 108. Tales From The Farm By The Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda Owen 109. A Bit Of A Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner - Chris Atkins 110. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend 111. The Fine Art of Invisible Detection - Robert Goddard 112. The World I Fell Out Of - Melanie Reid 113. The Heatwave - Kate Riordan 114. The Burning Girls - C J Tudor 115. Toksvig's Almanac 2021: An Eclectic Meander Through The Historical Year - Sandi Toksvig 116. Little Disasters - Sarah Vaughan 117. Come Again - Robert Webb 118. Nella Last's War - Nella Last 119. Blackwood - Michael Farris Smith 120. The Other Girl - C D Major 121. Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries of Housewife,49 - Nella Last 122. Oh, I Do Like To Be - Marie Phillips 123. Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas 124. The Secrets of Us - Lucinda Berry 125. Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller 126. Sight Unseen - Robert Goddard 127. The Wild Silence - Raynor Winn 128. Her Last Holiday - C L Taylor 129. Watch Her Fall - Erin Kelly 130. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain's Most Notorious Prisons - Vanessa Frake 131. Missing Pieces - Tim Weaver 132. The Sanatorium - Sarah Pearse 133. The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend - Adrian Tinniswood 134. The Imposter - Anna Wharton 135. Women and Super Women - Jilly Cooper 136. Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor 137. Hidden Valley Road - Robert Kolker 138. Nella Last In The 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49 - Nella Last 139. Find You First - Linwood Barclay 140. The Pact - Sharon Bolton 141. Frozen Summer - Crysse Morrison 142. What Alice Forgot - Liane Moriarty 143. Secrets at St Bride's - Debbie Young 144. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters 145. Half A World Away - Mike Gayle 146. Darkside - Belinda Bauer 147. The Shut Eye - Belinda Bauer 148. Have You Seen Me? - Kate White 149. Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi 150. Hotel Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones 151. The Secret - K L Slater 152. The Little Women Letters - Gabrielle Donnelly 153. The Therapist - B A Paris 154. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From The Making Of The Princess Bride - Cary Elwes 155. Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife - Alison Weir 156. Shatter - Michael Robotham 157. Reasons To Be Cheerful - Nina Stibbe 158. Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain - Sathnam Sanghera 159. Sisters - Michelle Frances 160. The Official History Of Britain: Our Story In Numbers As Told By The Office For National Statistics - Boris Starling 161. The Rosary Garden - Nicola White 162. The Seven Day Switch - Kelly Harms 163. A Symphony Of Echoes - Jodi Taylor 164. China Room - Sunjeev Sahota 165. Do They Know It's Christmas Yet? - James Crookes 166. Nancy And Plum - Betty MacDonald 167. British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 - Ysenda Maxtone Graham 168. Funny You Should Ask…: Your Questions Answered By The QI Elves - John Lloyd 169. The Shape Of Darkness - Laura Purcell 170. The Frequency Of Us - Keith Stuart 171. Call Me Mummy - Tina Baker 172. Mermaid Singing - Charmian Clift 173. Curiosities of Literature - John Sutherland 174. An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading - Heather Reyes 175. Found - Erin Kinsley 176. The Animals of Farthing Wood - Colin Dann 177. Dog Days - Tales From An American Road Trip - Andrew Thompson 178. Anne Frank's Tales From The Secret Annexe - Anne Frank 179. The Appeal - Janice Hallett 180. Greenwich Park - Katherine Faulkner 181. Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings - Christina Hardyment 182. The Windsor Knot - S J Bennett 183. The Mothers - Sarah J Naughton 184. The Castaways - Lucy Clarke 185. The Titanic Murders - Max Allan Collins 186. Everything Is Beautiful - Eleanor Ray 187. Two Degrees West - Nicholas Crane 188. Mrs England - Stacey Halls 189. Girl In The Walls - A J Gnuse 190. A Second Chance - Jodi Taylor 191. The Best Things - Mel Giedroyc 192. Hostage - Clare Mackintosh 193. The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton - Anstey Harris 194. Meadowlark - Melanie Abrams 195. Phone For The Fish Knives - Daisy Waugh 196. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides 197. A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist - Chris Paling 198. Problem Child - Victoria Helen Stone 199. A Room Made Of Leaves - Kate Grenville 200. A Theatre For Dreamers - Polly Samson

My list part 2 (it wouldn't let me post it as one post!)
201. An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
202. The Silent Ones - K L Slater
203. When I Was You - Minka Kent
204. The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
205. Restaurant Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones
206. To Tell You The Truth - Gilly Macmillan
207. Did Not Finish - George Mahood
208. I Followed The Rules: Dating By The Book - Joanna Bolouri
209. A Trail Through Time - Jodi Taylor
210. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
211. Dishonesty Is The Second Best Policy: And Other Rules To Live By - David Mitchell
212. The Whole Truth - Cara Hunter
213. Rapid Falls - Amber Cowie
214. Summerwater - Sarah Moss
215. Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books - Cathy Rentzenbrink
216. The Wrong Knickers: A Decade Of Chaos - Bryony Gordon
217. Did Not Try - George Mahood
218. Did Not Start - George Mahood
219. Zelda's Cut - Philippa Gregory
220. Unspeakable Things - Jess Lourey
221. Down Among The Dead - Damien Boyd
222. The Book Of Seconds: The Incredible Stories of the Ones That Didn't (Quite) Win - Mark Mason
223. And What Do You Do? What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know - Norman Baker
224. Counting My Chickens… And Other Home Thoughts - Deborah Mitford
225. The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz
226. Did Not Sink - George Mahood
227. The Caretakers - Eliza Maxwell
228. The Truants - Kate Weinberg
229. The Visitor - K L Slater
230. Magic Mobile: 35 pre-loaded new text files - Michael Frayn
231. Should We Stay Or Should We Go - Lionel Shriver
232. No Time Like The Past - Jodi Taylor
233. The Night She Disappeared - Lisa Jewell
234. Hons and Rebels - Jessica Mitford
235. Did Not Enter - George Mahood
236. Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
237. The Heights - Louise Candlish
238. Mother Of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored In An Economy Built For Men - Katrine Marcal
239. Did Not Happen - George Mahood
240. Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
241. How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran
242. Conversations With Friends - Sally Rooney
243. We Just Clicked - Anna Bell
244. If We're Not Married By Thirty - Anna Bell
245. The Pearl - John Steinbeck
246. The Rebecca Notebook And Other Memories - Daphne du Maurier
247. Love In A Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
248. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
249. The Next Girl - Carla Kovach
250. Confessions of a Sociopath - M E Thomas
251. What You Did - Claire McGowan
252. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall - Kazuo Ishiguro
253. Off Menu: The Secret Science of Food & Dining - Nell McShane Wulfhart
254. Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We've Been Told About Food Is Wrong - Tim Spector
255. Summer Switch - Mary Rodgers
256. Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
257. An Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
258. The Child In The Photo - Kerry Wilkinson
259. The Anniversary - Laura Marshall
260. The Rosie Result - Graeme Simsion
261. Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
262. The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
263. The Puzzle Of You - Leah Mercer
264. Forgotten Bones - Vivian Barz
265. A Slow Fire Burning - Paula Hawkins
266. Liar - K L Slater
267. History - Miles Jupp
268. Where The Memories Lie - Sibel Hodge
269. Emily Noble's Disgrace - Mary Paulson-Ellis
270. False Step - Victoria Helen Stone
271. The Unheard - Nicci French
272. Swan Song - Edmund Crispin
273. Bitter Orange - Claire Fuller
274. Tall Oaks - Chris Whitaker
275. Oats In The North, Wheat From The South - Regula Ysewijn
276. The Good Thief's Guide To Murder - Chris Ewan
277. The Unravelling - Thorne Moore
278. Coots In The North and other stories - Arthur Ransome
279. A Day Like This - Kelley McNeil
280. Wait For Me - Deborah Devonshire
281. Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty
282. Travels With Charley: In Search Of America - John Steinbeck
283. Lights Out In Lincolnwood - Geoff Rodkey
284. Orphans Of The Storm - Celia Imrie
285. Two Steps Forward - Graeme Simsion
286. Looking For The Durrells - Melanie Hewitt
287. Bad Move - Linwood Barclay
288. The Secret Passage - Nina Bawden
289. Deliver Her - Patricia Perry Donovan
290. Bad Guys - Linwood Barclay
291. Preparing For The Perimenopause and Menopause - Louise Newson
292. Death and Croissants - Ian Moore
293. Home - Harlan Coben
294. Havisham - Ronald Frame
295. The Librarian: A Memoir - Allie Morgan
296. Atlas Of The Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World - James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti
297. Something To Live For - Richard Roper
298. Kiss Me First - Lottie Moggach
299. Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
300. Bad Luck - Linwood Barclay
301. Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg
302. Bad News - Linwood Barclay
303. Heidi - Johanna Spyri
304. Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret - Craig Brown
305. The Good Girl - Mary Kubica
306. The Turn Of The Key - Ruth Ware
307. The Book Club - C J Cooper
308. 1979 - Val McDermid
309. Home to Roost and Other Peckings - Deborah Devonshire
310. The Exclusives - Rebecca Thornton
311. Take Six Girls: The Lives Of The Mitford Sisters - Laura Thompson
312. The Vanished Bride - Bella Ellis
313. Timeslip - N M Kirby
314. Safe And Sound - Philippa East
315. Fringed With Mud And Pearls - Ian Crofton
316. Victoria Line, Central Line - Maeve Binchy
317. Mrs March - Virginia Feito
318. The Evidence - K L Slater
319. The Party Crasher - Sophie Kinsella
320. The Diabolical Bones - Bella Ellis
321. I Can't Remember The Title But The Cover Is Blue - Elias Greig
322. Kindred - Octavia E Butler
323. The Immortals - S E Lister
324. Who Is Maud Dixon? - Alexandra Andrews
325. The Authority Gap - Mary Ann Sieghart
326. The Holdout - Graham Moore
327. Spies - Michael Frayn
328. How To Survive Christmas - Jilly Cooper
329. The Good Thief's Guide To Christmas - Chris Ewan
330. Neighborly - Ellie Monago
331. The Dare - Lesley Kara
332. Charlotte - Helen Moffett
333. Mr Brightly's Evening Off - Kathleen Rowntree
334. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Jodi Taylor
335. Hitler's Canary - Sandi Toksvig
336. Outskirts: Living Life On The Edge Of The Green Belt - John Grindrod
337. The Paid Bridesmaid - Sariah Wilson
338. Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
339. The Good Thief's Guide To Venice - Chris Ewan
340. Daphne du Maurier: A Daughter's Memoir - Flavia Leng
341. The Secret By The Lake - Louise Douglas
342. Klara And The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
343. Emma - Alexander McCall Smith
344. Strangers - C L Taylor
345. Beyond Recall - Robert Goddard
346. The Bennet Women - Eden Appiah-Kubi
347. Murder Under The Christmas Tree - Various
348. Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories - Kate Atkinson
349. The Book Of Christmas - Jane Struthers
350. The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Joanna Bolouri
351. The Thirteen Days of Christmas - Jenny Overton
352. All I Want For Christmas - Joanna Bolouri
353. A Snow Garden And Other Stories - Rachel Joyce
354. Miss Marley: The Untold Story Of Jacob Marley's Sister - Vanessa Lafaye
355. The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy M Boston
356. Christmas Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
357. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days - Jeanette Winterson
358. Mr Dickens And His Carol - Samantha Silva
359. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
360. The Toast of Time - Jodi Taylor
361. The Marriage - K L Slater
362. Celebrating \the Seasons With The Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda Owen
363. The Good Thief's Guide To Berlin - Chris Ewan
364. Are We Having Fun Yet? - Lucy Mangan
365. Don't Close Your Eyes - Holly Seddon

Thanks southeastdweller for running the threads. Very much appreciated.

Wow Chessie - 365 books!! Amazing!

Chessie that's amazing! If reading had Olympians, you'd be the gold medallist. I'm well impressed.

Like I said, I’ve had quantity but not quality this year. There’s a lot of rubbish there and some of them I wouldn’t now be able to tell you anything about without looking them up. There were a few gems though! And lockdown definitely helped, won’t be able to do that again in future (well, until I retire anyway!)

Very psychologically satisfying total, Chessie - and it's pleasing to make inroads into the tbr pile.

Thanks as always, southeast, heading over to the new thread now.

@PermanentTemporary what a superstar statistician! Thank you. DH and I both pored over the lists and made notes for the coming year's reading. See you all over on the 2022 thread.