50 Books Challenge 2022 Part Four

[southeastdweller]

Welcome to the fourth thread of the 50 Books Challenge for this year.

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2022, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, it’s not too late to join, and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.

The first thread of the year is here, the second one here and the third one here.

What are you reading?

Thanks for the new thread @southeastdweller!

My reading pace has picked up hugely this year and I'm in danger of actually getting to 50 books for once

It's the first year since 2019 that I haven't been either jobseeking or studying or both. Getting a Audible subscription has helped, too.

Currently reading The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry and listening to A Very English Scandal by John Preston.

Thank you for the new thread Southeast

Currently reading and enjoying The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

I'm about to start Careless for my next Women's Prize read.

Sorry for the list, but not sorry enough not to.

1. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
2. Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
3. My Phantoms - Gwendoline Riley
4. Servant of Death - Sarah Hawkswood
5. Oh William - Elizabeth Strout
6. On Hampstead Heath - Marika Cobbold
7. Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. Medea and Other Plays - Euripides
9. Heresy (Giordano Bruno #1) - SJ Parris

10. Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConghy 11. Perfume The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind 12. Ulysses - James Joyce 13. In the Country of Women - Susan Straight 14. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 15. Beauty Is A Wound - Eka Kurniawan 16. The Fell - Sarah Moss 17. Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh 18. Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi 19. Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima 20. Ex Libris - Michiko Kakutani 21. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Hari 22. The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave 23. Salt On Your Tongue - Charlotte Runcie 24. The Light Years (Cazalet #1) - Elizabeth Jane Howard 25. I Belong Here - Anita Sethi 26. Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng 27. The Childhood of Jesus - JM Coetzee 28. Beasts of a Little Land - Juhea Kim 29. Marking Time (Cazalet #2) - Elizabeth Jane Howard 30. The Power of Women - Denis Mukwege 31. Six Poets from Hardy to Larkin - Alan Bennett 32 Penguin's Poems by Heart - Laura Barber 33. O Pioneers! - Willa Carther 34. Shroud for the Archbishop (Fidelma #2) - Peter Tremayne 35. Nine Pints: A Journey Through Blood - Rose George 36. Black and British - David Olusoga 37. Rage Becomes Her - Soraya Chemaly 38. Songbirds - Christy Lefteri 39. Confusion (Cazalet #3) - Elizabeth Jane Howard 40. Casting Off (Cazalet #4) - Elizabeth Jane Howard 41. All Change (Cazalet #5) - Elizabeth Jane Howard 42. The Ghost Fields (Galloway #7) - Elly Griffiths 43. Lethal White (Strike #4) - Robert Galbraith 44. The Betrayal of Trust (Serrailler #6) - Susan Hill 45. Short Story Collection - PG Wodehouse 46. Things We Never Said - Nick Alexander 47. The Only Woman in the Room - Marie Benedict 48. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol 49. Diary of an MP's Wife - Sasha Swire 50. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell 51. Living A Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed 52. The Man Who Mistook His Job For His Life - Naomi Shragai 53. The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi 54. The Lonely Girl - Edna O'Brien 55. The King Must Die - Mary Renault 56. The Bull from the Sea - Mary Renault 57. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 58. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot 59. Just Us: An American Conversation - Claudia Rankine 60. The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dawnie Walton 61. Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason 62. The Sentence - Louise Erdrich 63. The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak 64. The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki 65. The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller 66. Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead 67. Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit 68. Passing - Nella Larson 69. Speaking Out - Tara Moss 70. 1984 - George Orwell 71. Unbelievable - T Christian Miller 72. The Promise - Damon Galgut 73. Creatures of Passage - Morowa Yejide 74. The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez - Ann Swinfen 75. This Sky One Day - Leone Ross 76. Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge 77. According to Queenie - Beryl Bainbridge 78. Suffer Little Children (Fidelma # 3) - Peter Tremayne 79. The Stranger - Albert Camus 80. Remote Sympathy - Catherine Chidgey 81. The Exhibitionist - Charlotte Mendelson 82. Salt Lick - Lulu Allison 83. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow 84. All Things Wise and Wonderful - James Herriot 85. Atomic Habits - James Clearly 86. The Bread the Devil Knead - Lisa Allen-Agostini 87. Flamingo - Rachel Elliott 88. Born Lippy - Jo Brand

Thanks for the new thread SouthEast

Finished no. 29 The Wood by John Lewis Stempel last night after having it for bedtime reading for ages (but then running out of library renewal time!). It's his standard mix of nature writing and farming with a sprinkling of poetry which I always enjoy (though with more nature and less farming this time).

Thank you for the new thread southeastdweller.
Currently reading Friday Night Lights and listening to Four Thousand Weeks.

Bringing across my list (so I can keep track of what I’ve read) and adding my latest reads:

1. The Long and Short of It - Jodi Taylor
2. The Manningtree Witches - A K Blakemore
3. The Passenger - Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
4. Midsummer Mysteries - Agatha Christie
5. Real Tigers - Mick Herron

6. The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie

1. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
2. A Springtime Affair - Katie Fforde
3. Love is Blind - William Boyd

10. Come to Grief - Dick Francis 11. Behind the scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson 12. The Madness of Grief - Richard Coles 13. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie 14. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald 15. Love after Love - Ingrid Persaud 16. In a Good Light - Clare Chambers 17. To the Hilt - Dick Francis 18. Another Time, Another Place - Jodi Taylor 19. After the Funeral - Agatha Christie 20. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz 21. Sixteen Horses - Greg Buchanan 22. The Light Between Oceans - ML Stedman 23. What Does Jeremy Think - Suzanne Heywood 24. Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene 25. 10lb Penalty - Dick Francis 26. Why didn’t they ask Evans? - Agatha Christie

27. Restoration - Rose Tremain

Widely read by others and picked up in the Kindle monthly deal because I had heard such high praise for it. The story of Robert Merivel, surgeon at the court of Charles II. I was underwhelmed in the first part by the frivolity and excesses but enjoyed the subsequent parts much more.

28. Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift

Recently reviewed by CluelessMama. The book looks back to a Mothering Sunday in the early 1920s from the perspective of a housemaid. It’s her day but we hear about the family she works for and their friends as well as other household staff and the impact of the war. Wonderful descriptions. We then learn about her subsequent life. Short but good. Really enjoyed this.

Cheers @southeastdweller for all your thread housekeeping.
My list so far:

1. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

1. Merivel by Rose Tremain
2. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
3. How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
4. The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff

6. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1. When Will There be Good News by Kate Atkinson
2. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
3. Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

10. Pompeii by Robert Harris 11. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

Currently on Big Sky by Kate Atkinson, another Jackson Brodie.

Thanks for the new thread south. Good luck with the end of your masters!

My list:

1. Troubled Blood Robert Galbraith.
2. Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen.
3. Heartstopper Volume 2 Alice Osemann.
4. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
5. The Madness of Grief by Richard Coles.
6. Hostage by Claire Mackintosh
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters.
9. Becoming, Unbecoming Una

10. Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay. 11. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. 12. Dissolution by C J Sansom. 13. In Cold Blood Truman Capote. 14. The Secret Barrister by anonymous. A tell all about the UK justice system. I thoroughly disliked this. I found the author smug and self satisfied. The book was denser then I expected, a big conclusion was the law needs to be simpler for the public to understand and yet this lawyer waffled more than most. I didn’t believe he had much sympathy for the female victims in any of the real examples used (and this made me really suspect he was a man). And towards the end he just started making up examples. It’s weird to agree with almost every point he tried to land, but hate the writing so much.

Phew! I’m now reading Brain on Fire which I know has been recommended loads on here and I spent £12 on a copy of a dystopian children’s book Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes after finally finding a copy on Amazon. I remember getting this one from school library so many times as a kid, and can remember whole paragraphs. Enjoying reminiscing. Even though the assumption that in the future we’d all be reading books on desktop computers in 2150 seems a bit silly now.

Thanks southeast and I hope the masters is going well!

Here's my list:

1. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
2. Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
4. Braised Pork - An Yu
5. The Weekend - Charlotte Wood
6. The Year of the End - Anne Theroux
7. This Much is True - Miriam Margolyes
8. Hungry - Grace Dent
9. Rough Magic: Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race - Lara Prior-Palmer

10. Mum & Dad - Joanna Trollope 11. Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus - Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green 12. The Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra 13. The Red Parts - Maggie Nelson 14. Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason 15. Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny 16. James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - James Acaster 17. The Girl With the Louding Voice - Abi Dare 18. The Last Migration - Charlotte McConaghy 19. What's Left of Me is Yours - Stephanie Scott

Thanks for the new thread, south, and best of luck with the studying.

My list:

1. Forever Young - Hayley Mills
2. Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper - Donald Henderson

3: House of Glass - Hadley Freeman 4: A Cold Coming - Mary Kelly 5: Will She Do? - Eileen Atkins 6: The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman 7: The Dinosaur Hunters - Deborah Cadbury 8: The Victorian Chaise-longue - Marghanita Laski 9: The Life Project - Helen Pearson 10: The Snowman - Jo Nesbø 11: Letters from Hollywood - ed. Rocky Lang & Barbara Hall 12: Tory Heaven - Marghanita Laski 13: Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day - Deborah Cohen 14: The Dark Hours - Michael Connelly 15: A Year with Swollen Appendices - Brian Eno's Diary 16: Parson's Nine - Noel Streatfeild 17: A Mudlark's Treasures: London in Fragments - Ted Sandling 18: Staring at the Sun - Julian Barnes 19: The BBC: A People's History - David Hendy 20: The Trinity Six - Charles Cumming 21: The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives - Lynn Knight 22: Learning to Swim - Clare Chambers 23: This Golden Fleece - Esther Rutter 24: Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton 25: Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis - Ed. Becky Brown 26: Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan 27: Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca - Ferdinand Mount 28: Exposure - Helen Dunmore 29: Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and their Makers - Mary Wellesley 30: Foster - Claire Keegan

Currently reading Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's book about Dickens in 1851, The Turning Point, which is really interesting.

Thanks for the new thread southeast. Currently doing a lot of comfort re-reading so nothing new to add but keeping up with everyone’s reads.

I see there's a new Alan Bennett book out soon, a very short one but definitely worth highlighting: www.waterstones.com/book/house-arrest/alan-bennett/9781800811928

Thanks for the new thread @southeastdweller, here's my list. A lot my bold reads than at this point last year.

1. Needful Things by Stephen King
2. Ramble by Adam Buxton

3. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers 4. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

1. A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins
2. Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes
3. A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas

8. Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

1. Things We Left Unsaid by Emma Kennedy

10. 1979 by Val McDermid 11. The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah by Stephen King 12. Brass Ring by Diane Chamberlain 13. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King 14. The Door into Summer by Robert A Heinlein 15. Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen 16. The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen 17. Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher 18. Einstein’s Secret by Irving Belateche 19. Becoming Unbecoming by Una 20. Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbot 21. This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes 22. The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver 23. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout 24. This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell 25. She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey 26. The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain 27. Eve by Una 28. The Last Lost Girl by Maria Hoey 29. My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler 30. The Distant Echo by Val McDermid 31. A Darker Domain by Val McDermid

And belated thanks southeast for the new thread….

27. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read - Philippa Perry

I was, perhaps, expecting a bit more from this than a fairly conventional parenting manual in the 'gentle' vein of How To Talk So Kids Will Listen, focused heavily on babies and very young children. As my own are teens, there was little that I would describe as directly practical to me, and hardly a word about sibling relationships (my family's greatest challenge these days with two sometimes grumpy teens). And I found the tone veering towards patronising at times. But there were some interesting sections which made me reflect on my own parenting styles both with younger DC and now.

Thanks for the new thread southeast!

1. Writing the Bible: Origins of the Old Testament - Martien Halvorson-Taylor
2. Brain Storm: Detective Stories from the World of Neurology - Suzanne O'Sullivan
3. Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD - Eli R. Lebowitz
4. Fantastically Great Women Scientists and Their Stories - Kate Pankhurst
5. This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
6. Language and the Mind - Spencer Kelly
7. Nine Nasty Words - John McWhorter
8. You’re Doing It Wrong - Kaz Cooke
9. Luster - Raven Leilani

10. Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi 11. The Poems of T.S. Eliot 12. Vinegar Girl - Anne Tyler 13. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art - Rebecca Wragg Sykes 14. Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney 15. Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez 16. Material Girls - Kathleen Stock 17. Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood 18. The Women of Troy - Pat Barker 19. The Explosive Child - Ross W Greene 20. Wordslut - Amanda Montell 21. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal 22. God: an anatomy - Francesca Stavrakopoulou 23. The Starting School Book - Sarah Ockwell-Smith 24. Can I tell you about Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome? - Ruth Fidler and Phil Christie 25. Wild Magic - Tamora Pierce

Last night started Temporary, a surrealist satire in which being a temp is an existential state.

Thanks for the new thread @southeastdweller, and well done for keeping the thread going while doing your Masters.

@Yolandi I liked your review of Fleishman at the end of the last thread. I read it last year and thought it was clever, although I agree that the "twist" would have been better earlier. I thought it was amusing the number of reviews I read slating it by people who hadn't got past the twist point.

@MegBusset I recently read the Perry book too, haven't added it to my list as skimmed it and missed out chunks. My kids are older too and I didn't quite find what I was looking for, but did recommend DH read the bit about emotional responses as he and DD1 who is 12 are clashing a lot, and I think he tries to laugh off her tantrums which doesn't help.

I've just finished Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith. I'm interested to know how you find this one Fortuna. Its about Winnie, a half Vietnamese half American expat, who has come back to Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City to find a place in life. She's early twenties and an awkward character, the youngest of 4 children where the oldest 3 are over achievers. She ends up teaching English badly, drinking and generally failing at life. Connected to her story is a much more supernatural story about a Vietnamese village that takes in all kinds of weirdness - two-headed snakes, distending jaws, jumping between bodies, French colonialism and voracious animals. The story starts with Winnie disappearing and goes back and forth through various timelines - I sometimes got a little lost. I did find this very evocative, the descriptions of the Vietnamese countryside and life are great, and Winnie and her escapades are sad and sometimes funny. I'm lucky enough to be reading this on holiday in Vietnam so am not sure how I'd find it at home but I would definitely recommend it if you want something very different.

And adding my list

1. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
2. The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
3. Animal - Lisa Taddeo
4. Happy Families - Julie Ma
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie
6. Archangel - Robert Harris
7. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
8. Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead
9. A Gentleman In Moscow - Amor Towles

10. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid 11. China Room - Sanjeev Sahota 12. The City We Became - N K Jemisin 13. Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes 14. Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler 15. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie 16. The Sittaford Mystery -Agatha Christie 17. Matrix - Lauren Groff 18. The Heron's Cry - Ann Cleeves 19. Spring - Ali Smith 20. On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous- Ocean Vuong 21. Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith

Back with 31: The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World - Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

I’d been on the hunt for this since it came out, even more so since I went to a Zoom talk about it given by the author, and joyfully spotted what appears to be an unread copy in my local Oxfam bookshop. It’s proved to be a little bit of a mixed bag, unfortunately: the premise is that 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, was a pivotal year - and for Dickens it was indeed the year he started to write Bleak House, which RD-F sees as a major shift in his style of writing. But I’m not sure I’m totally persuaded that this year above all others was so radically important.

Where it does really score points for me is with its inclusion of many fascinating Dickens insights I didn’t already know: I’ve read a lot of biographies and some of the comments from friends and family included here are things I’ve never seen before. I did come away feeling that Dickens as a man had been vibrantly brought to life, warts and all (and there were a lot of warts) and that I 'knew' him much better than before. The research that’s gone into this book is impressive but all that hard work certainly doesn’t reveal itself in the narrative, which is very readable indeed. One for the Dickens devotee, and I’d still definitely recommend it if you’re one of those!

Oh, new thread! I am still doing badly this year. The news keeps distracting me!

1 The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2 Kirstin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset. Translated by Tiina Nunnally
3 Esther's Notebooks 1. Tales from my ten-year-old life by Riad Sattouf. Translated by Sam Taylor
4 Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
5 Esther's Notebooks 2. Tales from my eleven-year-old life by Riad Sattouf. Translated by Sam Taylor
6 Esther's Notebooks 3. Tales from my twelve-year-old life by Riad Sattouf. Translated by Sam Taylor
7 Oldladyvoice by Elisa Victoria. Translated by Charlotte Whittle
8 Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
9 Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov. Translated by George Bird
10 The Instant by Amy Liptrot
11 The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga

And just finished last night:
12 Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman

A novella that follows on from the Heartstopper graphic novels. Waterstones has stocked up on Alice Oseman books in preparation for Netflix's dramatisation coming out next week and DD seems to have spent her whole allowance on those she didn't already have. Quick and easy YA romance. Prefer the graphic novels but it took less than an hour and got me back in the world of Nick and Charlie.

Thanks for the new thread!
No updates from me; still on Sewing Circles of Herat and Dissolution.
May read the last Cazalet chronicle book next ( All Change ), although I feel sad already at the thought of saying goodbye to them all!

Morning all, and thanks for the new thread southeastdweller.

1. Action Park - Andy Mulvihill & Jake Rossen

2. The Moth and The Mountain - Ed Caesar

1. Cook, Eat, Repeat - Nigella Lawson
2. On Hampstead Heath - Marika Cobbold
3. Raising The Barre - Lauren Kessler
4. Such A Fun Age - Kiley Reid
5. The Mitford Scandal - Jessica Fellowes

8. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

1. Labels - Evelyn Waugh

10. Head Over Heels (Geek Girl 5) - Holly Smale 11. St David of Dewisland - Nona Rees 12. We Are Bellingcat - Eliot Higgins 13. Nine Coaches Waiting - Mary Stewart 14. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 15. The Way We Eat Now - Bee Wilson 16. Hot Mess - Lucy Vine 17. Magpie Lane - Lucy Atkins 18. The Mission House - Carys Davies 19. The Fun of It - ed Lillian Ross 20. The Fine Art of Invisible Detection - Robert Goddard 21. Fall - John Preston 22. Mr Wilder and Me - Jonathan Coe 23. Young Jane Young - Gabrielle Zevin 24. High Rising - Angela Thirkell 25. Breathless- Amy McCulloch

Between the news and work stuff I'm very much in distraction-reading mode at the moment, and very glad to have books as an escape. I have various Russia and Ukraine-related books lined up but can't face them at the moment.

Currently reading Moonfleet after someone mentioned it on the last thread, Recovery by Gavin Francis, and I have Hidden Hands lined up for the Easter weekend.

Thanks for the new thread!

Here's my list to date:

1. Snow - John Banville

2. First class murder - Robin Stevens

1. Jolly foul play - Robin Stevens

4. The Betrayals - Bridget Collins 5. Possession - A S Byatt 6. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett (read to the DCs)

1. Seventy-eight Degrees Of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey To Self-Awareness - Rachel Pollack
2. Officers and Gentlemen - Evelyn Waugh
3. A history of the world in twelve maps - Jerry Brotton

10. A summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor 11. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood 12. Where are you now? - Mary Higgins Clark 13. The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly 14. Girl with a pearl earring - Tracy Chevalier 15. An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears 16. Les Cahiers d'Esther: Histoires de mes 10 ans - Riad Sattouf 17. Mistletoe and Murder - Robin Stevens 18. A Moment of Silence - Anna Dean 19. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing 20. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling 21. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling 22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling 23. The Hobbit - JR Tolkien (read to the DCs) 24. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling 25. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling 26. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling 27. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling 28. The Hours - Michael Cunningham 29. Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie 30. Entry Island - Peter May

Now reading The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (who wrote Girl with a Pearl Earring) - I'm not really getting into it but hopefully it will come...I've been distracted by bingeing both series of Bridgerton but now I've finished it I'll get back to reading!

Thank you for the new thread southeastdweller.

Recent reads:

11. Le Chapeau de Mittérand-Antoine Laurain
12. Mrs Osmond-John Banville
13. The Chalet School and Barbara-Elinor Brent-Dyer
14. The Searcher-Tana French
15. Death And The Penguin-Andrey Kurkov
16. The Man Who Died Twice-Richard Osman

I'm reading Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc and The Killing Kind by Jane Casey at the moment. I'm on the War and Peace and Hard Times threads too.
I'm reading more slowly this year, but I've enjoyed nearly everything I've read so far. Only one DNF (not listed).

1. The Wisdom of the Ancients, by Neil Oliver

1. The Artful Dickens, by John Mullan
2. Conversation Piece, by Molly Keane
3. Islands of Abandonment, by Cal Flynn
4. Five Little Pigs, by Agatha Christie
5. Paperback Crush, by Gabrielle Moss
6. The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie
7. The Antidote, Oliver Burkeman

9. Hurdy Gurdy, Christopher Wilson 10. A Change of Circumstance, Susan Hill 11. Wintering, Katherine May 12. Windswept, Annabel Abbs, 13. Coastlines, Patrick Barkham 14. My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety, Georgia Pritchett 15. Why Women Read Fiction, Helen Taylor 16. Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie 17. What to Read Next, Stig Abell 18. Hidden Hands, Mary Wellesley 19. The Twyford Code, Janice Hallett 20. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 21. The Madness of Grief, Richard Coles 22. End to End, Paul Jones 23. Can't Even: How Millennials became the Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen 24. Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie 25. One Two Buckle My Shoe, Agatha Christie 26. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy, Mark Hodkinson 27. Taken at the Flood, Agatha Christie 28. Everything is True, Roopa Farooki 29. The Clocks, Agatha Christie 30. Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from my Years as a Priest, Richard Coles 31. Peril at End House, Agatha Christie 32. Tiny Churches, Dixie Willis 33. The Moth and the Mountain, Ed Caesar 34. A Pocket full of Rye, Agatha Christie 35. The Locked Room, Elly Griffiths 36. 1922, Nick Rennison 37. How Words Get Good, Rebecca Lee

Thanks southeast, and best of luck with the Masters.