50 Books Challenge 2023 Part Six

[Southeastdweller]

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

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2023, 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, the third one here here, the fourth one here and the fifth one: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/4793238-50-books-challenge-2023-part-five?page=20&reply=126860721

What are you reading?

Thank you @Southeastdweller . I’ll be back when I’ve finished tutting at monks.

Thanks @Southeastdweller

Thanks southeast

1.	Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
2.	The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
3.	Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
4.	Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
5.	<strong>Nightcrawling</strong> by Leila Mottley
6.	Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
7.	The Crow Road by Iain Banks
8.	<strong>Take My Hand</strong> by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
9.	<strong>Build Your House Around My Body</strong> by Violet Kupersmith
10.	Spare by Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex
11.	<strong>Pachinko</strong> by Min Jin Lee
12.	Furious Love by Nancy Schoenburger and Sam Kashner
13.	<strong>Our Wives Under The Sea</strong> by Julia Armfield
14.	Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac 
15.	To Paradise by Hanya Yanigahara 
16.	Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
17.	Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
18.	Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
19.	My Life In Orange by Tim Guest
20.	You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
21.	When The Dust Settles by Lucy Easthope
22.	French Braid by Anne Tyler
23.	The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley-Heller
24.	Babel by R.F. Kuang
25.	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
26.	The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
27.	War Doctor by David Nott 
28.	A Net For Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
29.	<strong>Hazards Of Time Travel</strong> by Joyce Carol Oates
30.	Tin Man by Sarah Winman
31.	Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson 
32.	Wool by Hugh Howey
33.	Shift by Hugh Howey
34.	Dust by Hugh Howey
35.	Under The Dome by Stephen King
36.	The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe 
37.	My Body by Emily Ratajkowski 
38.	Greenwood by Michael Christie
39.	Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
40.	<strong>Stay With Me</strong> by Ayobami Adebayo
41.	Women Talking by Miriam Toews
42.	<strong>Burntcoat</strong> by Sarah Hall
43.	The Devil In The White City by Erik Larsen
44.	<strong>Difficult Women</strong> by Helen Lewis
45.	I&rsquo;m A Fan by Sheena Patel
46.	<strong>Wild</strong> by Cheryl Strayed 
47.	<strong>Woman, Eating</strong> by Claire Kohda
48.	<strong>Sankofa</strong> by Chibundu Onuzo
49.	<strong>A Terrible Kindness</strong> by Jo Browning Wroe 
50.	Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
51.	Why Did You Stay? by Rebecca Humphries 
52.	The Raptures by Jan Carson
53.	Possession by AS Byatt
54.	My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
55.	How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
56.	Chocky by John Wyndham 
57.	The Ruin Of All Witches by Malcolm Gaskill
58.	<strong>Old Filth</strong> by Jane Gardam
59.	Children Of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
60.	Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
61.	In Pieces by Sally Field
62.	The Strangest Family by Janice Hadlow
63.	The Colony by Audrey Magee 
64.	<strong>All The Light We Cannot See</strong> by Anthony Doerr
65.	The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
66.	The Confessions Of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins 
67.	The One by John Marrs
68.	Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
69.	<strong>Among Friends</strong> by Caroline B Cooney
70.	Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman 
71.	Queen Victoria by Lucy Worsley
72.	Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin 
73.	<strong>Booth</strong> by Karen Joy Fowler
74.	84k by Clare North
75.	Free by Lea Ypi
76.	The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins  
77.	The Prestige by Christopher Priest
78.	<strong>The Rabbit Hutch</strong> by Tess Gunty
79.	I&rsquo;m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
80.	The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
81.	Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
82.	The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan 
83.	A Spell Of Good Things by Ayobami Adebayo
84.	Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
85.	Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer 
86.	The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker
87.	We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets 
88.	The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith 
89.	The Second Sight Of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
90.	The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
91.	<strong>Really Good, Actually</strong> by Monica Heisey

My list looks bit puny after Eine’s!

1. Old Filth - Jane Garam
2. Sad Cypress - Agatha Christie

3. Three Hours - Rosamund Lupton

1. Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford

5. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy

1. Crossfire - Felix Francis
2. Long Story Short - Jodi Taylor
3. A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin
4. Partners in Crime - Agatha Christie

10. Back Trouble - Clare Chambers 11. The Man in the Queue - Josephine Tey 12. Joe Country - Mick Herron 13. To Live - Yu Hua 14. Gamble - Felix Francis 15. The Lamplighters - Emma Stonex 16. The Moving Finger - Agatha Christie 17. Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes 18. Faro’s Daughter - Georgette Heyer 19. Excellent Women - Barbara Pym 20. About Time - Jodi Taylor 21. The Skylark’s Secret - Fiona Valpy 22. Agent Zigzag - Ben MacIntyre 23. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton 24. Sparkling Cyanide - Agatha Christie 25. Bloodline - Felix Francis 26. After the End - Clare Mackintosh 27. A Feast of Crows - George RR Martin 28. The It Girl - Ruth Ware 29. The Sentence - Louise Erdrich 30. Unfinished Portrait - Mary Westmacott 31. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 32. The Trees - Percival Everett 33. The Lullaby - Leila Slimani 34. The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer 35. Refusal - Felix Francis 36. Marie Antoinette - Antonia Fraser 37. They do it with Mirrors - Agatha Christie 38. Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto

1. Born To Travel, by Jules Brown
2. Flights, Olga Tokaruczuk
3. At Bertram's Hotel, Agatha Christie
4. The Dark Queens, Shelley Puhak
5. A House in the Country, Ruth Adam
6. Good Taste, Caroline Scott
7. A Chelsea Concerto, Frances Faviell
8. A Time to Die, Hazel Holt
9. Come Away, Death, Gladys Mitchell
10. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, Nina Sankovitch
11. The Electricity of Every Living Thing, Katherine May
12. The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past, Christopher Hadley
13. Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K Jerome
14. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
15. A Spoonful of Murder, J M Hall
16. The Ink-Black Heart, Robert Galbraith
17. A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
18. Murder on the Christmas Express, ALexandra Benedict
19. What Hetty Did, J L Carr
20. Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
21. Treasured, Christina Riggs
22. Goodbye, Christopher Robin, Ann Thwaite
23. The Life of E F Benson, Brian Masters
24. Children of Paradise, Camilla Grudova
25. Grounded, by James Canton
26. The Oxford Brotherhood, Guillermo Martinez
27. Wahala, by Nikki May
28. Culture, by Martin Puchner
29. Fat Man on a Roman Road, Tom Vernon
30. The Last Remains, Elly Griffith
31. Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry
32. Red Sauce, Brown Sauce, Felicity Cloake
33. Self-Contained: Scenes from a Single Life, Emma John
34. The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon
35. Pied Piper, Neville Shute
36. The Haunted Hotel, by Wilkie Collins
37. Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy, Symeon Brown
38. Consumed, Harry Wallop
39. Touching Cloth, the Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie
40. Have you Got Anything Stronger? Imogen Edwards-Jones
41. Kate Hardy, D E Stevenson
42. The Golden Hour, Lucilla Andrews
43. A Devon Night's Death, Stephanie Austin
44. The Drift, C J Tudor
45. Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves, John Sutherland
46. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Agatha Christie
47. Colditz, Ben MacIntyre
48. Comet in Moominland, Tove Jansson
49. Under Pressure: Rescuing our Children from the Culture of Over-Parenting, Carl Honore
50. Babel, RE Kuang
51. What Writers Read, ed. Pandora Sykes
52. Good Girls, Hadley Freeman
53. Sad Cypress, Agatha Christie
54. Ordeal by Innocence, Agatha Christie
55. Blurb Your Enthusiasm, Louise Wilder
56. The Quantum Curators and the Great Deceiver, Eva St John
57. Wellmania, Brigid Delaney
58. The Full English, Stuart Maconie
59. Book of Days: Personal Essays, Emily Fox Gordon
60. Curtain, Agatha Christie
61. Buried for Pleasure, Edmund Crispin
62. Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on Female Characters of the Discworld, Tansy Rayner Roberts
63. Tea is so Intoxicating, Mary Essex
64. Forty is Beginning, Ursula Bloom
65. The Time Hunters, Carol Ashmore
66. Spare, by Prince Harry
67. The Way of All Flesh, Ambrose Perry

Have been very mean with the bolds, but I enjoyed the unbolded ones too.

1. Old Baggage – Lissa Evans
2. Crooked Heart – Lissa Evans

3.V for Victory – Lissa Evans 4. Early Morning Riser – Katherine Heiny

1. The Memory of Animals – Claire Fuller
2. Panic# - Luke Jennings
3. Half a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozie Adeiche
4. Greek Lessons – Han Kang
5. Amazing Grace Adams – Fran Littlewood

10. The Maiden – Kate Foster 11. The Anniversary – Stephanie Bishop 12. Kindred – Octavia E. Butler 13. The Carlingford Chronicles – Margaret Oliphant 14. A Spell of Good Things – Ayobami Adebayo 15. The Colony – Audrey Magee 16. In a Good Light – Clare Chambers 17. Burning Questions – Margaret Atwood 18. Learning to Swim – Clare Chambers 19. Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr 20. Foxash – Kate Worsley 21. Games and Rituals – Katherine Heiny 22. The Siege – Helen Dunmore 23. Homecoming – Kate Morton 24. This Family – Kate Sawyer (Stinker) 25. Tell Me What I am – Una Mannion 26. The Lost Wife – Susanna Moore (stinker!) 27. My Husband – Maud Ventura 28. A Lady’s Guide to Scandal – Sophie Irwin (Dull) 29. Alchemy – S.J. Parris (New Giordano Bruno, good but slower than early ones) 30. The Wren, the wren – Anne Enright (DNF) 31. Held – Anne Michaels (DNF) 32. The House of Doors – Tan Twang Eng 33.The Witching Tide- Margaret Meyer 34.The New Wife – JP Delaney 35. Ordinary Human Failings- Meg Nolan 36. A Bird in Winter – Louise Doughty

Thanks for the new thread southeast.

1 The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
2 What Could Possibly Go Wrong, Jodi Taylor
3 Lamentation, CJ Sansom
4 City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
5 Tombland, CJ Sansom
6 House of Glass, Hadley Freeman
7 Sorrow & Bliss, Meg Mason
8 A Terrible Kindness, Jo Browning Wroe
9 10 Minutes, 30 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
10 The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
11 Lies, Damned Lies and History, Jodi Taylor
12 Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
13 Carrie's War, Nina Bawden
14 Things Fall Apart, Chinus Achebe
15 Human Croquet, Kate Atkinson
16 The Railway Man, Eric Lomax
17 Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
18 Stay Where You Are And Then Leave, John Boyne
19 Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
20 Pompeii, Robert Harris
21 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
22 Beartown, Fredrik Backman
23 Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
24 Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
25 My Name is Why, Lemn Sissay
26 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
27 A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
28 Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
29 Master Georgie, Beryl Bainbridge
30 The Bell, Iris Murdoch
31 A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
32 And the Rest is History, Jodi Taylor
33 Trespasses, Louise Kennedy
34 Jews Don't Count, David Baddiel
35 My Father's House, Joseph O'Connnor
36 The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
37 Five Chimneys, Olga Lengyel
38 A Village in the Third Reich, Julia Boyd
39 Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
40 English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
41 People Person, Candice Carty-Williams
42 Espedair Street, Ian Banks
43 Metronome, Tom Watson
44 The Bandit Queens, Parini Shroff
45 Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
46 The Lincoln Highway, Amor Toles
47 Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield

Thanks @Southeastdweller.

Placemarking for now.
Thanks @Southeastdweller

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller . I'm amazed at how many books people manage. My puny list below with a single bold (there were some nudging close, but only one stand out)

1. One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, Olivia Hawker
2. Passing, Nella Larsen
3. Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4. Abide With Me, Elizabdth Strout
5. So Sweet A Changeling, Ruth Adam
6. Im Not Complaining, Ruth Adam.

7.The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah

1. Human Kind, Rutger Bregman
2. Tall Bones, Anna Bailey

10. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day, Josh Widdicombe 11. The Game, Micah Richards 12 Devotion, Hannah Kent 13. Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo 14.Love Marriage, Monica Ali 15. I'm Not Scared, Niccolo Ammaniti 16. The Cut Out Girl Bart Van Es 17. Excellent Women Barbara Pym 18. Wavewalker Suzanne Heywood 19. All Among the Barley Melissa Harrison 20. Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym 21. Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi 22. The Schoolhouse Sophie Ward

Currently reading Lives Like Mine by Eva Verde and enjoying it.

Thanks southeast
Here's my list:

1. The Christmas Bookshop – Jenny Colgan
2. Les Cahiers d’Esther : Histoires de mes 10 ans – Riad Sattouf
3. The Pants of Perspective – Anna McNuff

4. L’Assommoir – Emile Zola

1. Beautiful world, where are you? – Sally Rooney
2. This book could save your life – Graham Lawton
3. Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
4. The Foundling – Stacey Halls
5. The Paper Palace – Miranda Cowley Heller

10. Les Cahiers d’Esther : Histoires de mes 11 ans – Riad Sattouf 11. How to be famous – Caitlin Moran 12. The land where lemons grow – Helena Atlee 13. Just Kids – Patti Smith 14. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy 15. Sheltering Rain – Jojo Moyes 16. The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak 17. Love, Nina – Nina Stibbe 18. Sorrow and bliss – Meg Mason 19. Children of Paradise – Camilla Grudova 20. Spring – Ali Smith 21. Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift 22. Clothes, clothes, clothes, music, music, music, boys, boys, boys – Viv Albertine 23. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen DNF: Under the duvet – Marian Keyes 24. Streetcar named desire – Tennessee Williams

Currently reading Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop for the dickensalong and listening to The Other Mother by Jen Brister

Thanks SouthEast here's my list:

1. Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

1. The Quantum Curators and the Faberge Egg by Eva St John
2. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
3. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

5. A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe 6. Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

1. In a Good Light by Clare Chambers

8. Ballad For Sophie by Filipe Mello and Juan Cavia

1. The Quantum Curator and the Enemy Within by Eva St John

10. The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn 11. The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex by Eva St John 12. Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham 13. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 14. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 15. Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane 16. The Quantum Curators and the Shattered Timeline by Eva St John 17. The Quantum Curators and the Great Deceiver by Eva St John 18. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 19. Who’s That Girl? by Mhairi McFarlane 20. You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane 21. Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukafka 22. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing 23. Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 24. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. By Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland 25. Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane 26. 29 Seconds by TM Logan 27. Don’t You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane 28. Sleepyhead by Mark Bellingham 29. Snowbound by Blake Crouch 30. Brilliance by Marcus Sakey 31. A Better World by Marcus Sakey 32. Written in Fire by Marcus Sakey 33. Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova 34. Just Kids by Patti Smith 35. How to be Champion: My Autobiography by Sarah Millican 36. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson 37. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 38. The Good Guy by Susan Beale 39. Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan 40. The Couple at No 9 by Claire Douglas 41. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 42. The Angel by Mark Dawson 43. Taft by Ann Patchett 44. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine 45. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica 46. If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane 47. Memphis by Tara M Stringfellow 48. TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow 49. Day of the Predator by Alex Scarrow 50. The Doomsday Code by Alex Scarrow 51. The Eternal War by Alex Scarrow 52. Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow 53. City of Shadows by Alex Scarrow 54. The Pirate Kings by Alex Scarrow 55. The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow 56. The Infinity Cage by Alex Scarrow 57. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 58. It's Not Me It's You by Mhairi McFarlane 59. Strong Female Character by Fern Brady 60. Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky 61. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly 62. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait 63. Come A Little Closer by Rachel Abbot 64. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 65. The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne 66. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly 67. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 68. The Path Between Worlds by Paul Antony Jones 69. A Memory of Mankind by Paul Antony Jones 70. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 71. Angel’s Flight by Michael Connelly

Thanks for the new thread Southeast

I'm on 130 so far. I'm not listing all of them, but here are my bolds so far this year

Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li
Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
Femlandia - Christine Dalcher
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Maame Jessica George
When God Was A Rabbit - Sarah Wingman
Lucy By The Sea - Elizabeth Strout
A Net For Small Fishes - Lucy Jago
My Policeman - Bethan Roberts
The Coming - Daniel Black
Someday, Maybe - Onyi Nwabineli
Children of Paradise - Camilla Grudova
Wandering Souls - Cecile Pin
Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks
Butter - Gayl Jones
The Sun Walks Down - Fiona McFarlane
The Silence Project - Carole Hailey
Shy - Max Porter
The Leviathan - Rosie Andrews
Greek Lessons - Han Kang
The Lock Up - John Banville
Yellowface - RF Kuang

Poetry
Wearing My Mother's Heart - Sophia Thakur
The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy
Bone - Yrsa Daley-Ward

Autobiography
Real Estate - Deborah Levy
Clothes, Music, Boys - Viv Albertine
Diary of An Apprentice Astronaut - Samantha Cristoforetti

Nonfiction
Bloody Brilliant Women - Cathy Newman
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer - Suzanne Wrack
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - Douglas Murray
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years - Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues - Jonathan Kennedy
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents - and What They Mean for America's Future - Jean M Twenge
The Full English - Stuart Maconie
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - Angela Saini
A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England - Vanessa Wilkie

Self-Help
How To Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind - Dana K White
How to Keep House While Drowning - KC Davis
Stuff Happens: Manage Your Clutter - Emma Gleeson
Save Your Brain: Simple Steps to Reduce Cognitive Decline - Ginni Mansberg
Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman

Thank you, southeast. We are powering through the threads this year!
I find when I repost my list, my view of what is bold changes - there are a couple I have bolded on my saved list that I can't even remember reading. I have a couple I've not reviewed yet, and am working my way through Bring Up the Bodies. I can't decide if my slow pace is dread of what is to come, weariness at what must be well over a thousand pages of Tudor intrigue at this point across the three books or fear of it ending. Perhaps all three!

1 Au Revoir, Tristesse by Viv Groskrop
2 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
3 The Witches by Stacy Schiff
4 The Death of Grass by John Christopher
5 Smoke by Dan Vyleta
6 East West Street by Philippe Sands
7 The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite by Laura Freeman
8 The Fell by Sarah Moss
9 Cover Her Face by PD James
10 Midnight In Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
11 Foster by Clare Keegan
12 Cryptocurrency: the Future of Money? By Paul Vigna and Michael J Casey
13 Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
14 Wintering by Katherine May
15 Kindred by Octavia Butler
16 Pharmacopoeia by Derek Jarman
17 Bully Market by Jamie Fiore Higgins
18 Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
19 Orlando by Virginia Woolf
20 Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
21 Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry by Matthew Campbell
22 Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
23 Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie
24 We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
25 The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond by Chris Blackwell
26 The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
27 The Cloisters by Katy Hays
28 The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
29 Chip War by Chris Miller
30 Novacene by James Lovelock
31 The Twelfth Day of July by Joan Lingard
32 Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard
33 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
34 Takeaway by Angela Hui
35 Into Exile by Joan Lingard
36 Dark Summit by Nick Heil
37 A Proper Place by Joan Lingard
38 Hostages to Fortune by Joan Lingard
39 The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
40 The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
41 I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
42 The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
43 The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
44 Taste by Stanley Tucci
45 100 Things We Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul
46 Through the Narrow Gate by Karen Armstrong
47 Feral City by Jeremiah Moss
48 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
49 The It Girl by Ruth Ware
50 Russia: Myths and Realities by Rodric Braithwaite
51 Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day
52 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
53 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
54 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
55 Death in Dulwich by Alice Castle
56 Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
57 A Spell of Good Things by Ayobámi Adébáyò
58 Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss
59 Patient by Ben Watt
60 The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey
61 Fairy Tale by Stephen King
62 A People’s Church by Jeremy Morris
63 Strangers on a Train by Jenny Diski

I think you know whilst everyone here is A Reader, me Chessie and Fortuna are perhaps in need of professional medical intervention

No list from me but thanks for the new thread southeast

The funniest thing is that before I first joined the thread, I used to wonder "how on earth do these people manage to read 50 books in a year?"

For the first few years I used to watch in awe at the 100±ers while I struggled to make the 50. Chessie was like an Olympian, or the only other explanation was witchcraft.

I only manage it with audiobooks. I'm quite miffed if my book club choose something only available on paper. I'm like, "you expect me to hold it and read it with my eyes while sitting still?" It's an outrage and I swear they do it on purpose.

Thank you! Just plonking myself here.

Just placemarking, will bring my list across later. Thanks south for keeping us supplied with new threads

Thanks South.

@FortunaMajor

I don't really understand how I've become a power reader. I've incorporated audiobooks in and if it's <400 that's 2 evenings and done, but in reality I rarely read until after 9pm and it's a 2 hr window it's just how my day goes so I've got no idea why I'm having such a strong year

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

I'm in awe of those nearing 100 already. Although I do think if I spent less time faffing around on my phone, I'd read more!

1. Glory - NoViolet Bulawayo 4/5

1. The Sentence - Louise Erdrich 5/5
2. The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley 3/5
3. Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen 4/5
4. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 5/5
5. The Whalebone Theatre - Joanne Quinn 4/5
6. Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi 4/5
7. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor 4/5
8. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche 5/5

10. State of Terror - Louise Penny & Hilary Clinton 3/5 11. Cat Brushing - Jane Campbell 5/5 12. The Colony - Audrey Magee 5/5 13. Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr 3/5 14. The Book Of Form And Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki 4/5 15. Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors 3/5 16. Love Marriage - Monica Ali 3.5/5 17. I'm Sorry You Feel That Way - Rebecca Wait 4/5 18. Trespasses -Louise Kennedy 4/5 19. I'm A Fan -Sheena Patel 4/5 20. Children Of Paradise - Camilla Grudova 5/5 21. Pod - Laline Paul 22. Go, Went, Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck 23. Miller's Valley - Anna Quindlen 24. Memphis - Tara Stringfellow 25. The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff 26. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies - Maddie Mortimer 27. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver 28. Burntcoat - Sarah Hall 29. Wandering Souls - Cecile Pin 30. Still Born - Guadalupe Nettel translated by Rosalind Harvey 31. The It Girl - Ruth Ware 32. Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks 33. Horse - Geraldine Brooks 34. Whale - Cheon Myong-Kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim 35. Djinn Patrol on The Purple Line - Deepa Anappara 36. Black Butterflies - Priscilla Morris 37. The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O Farrell 38. French Braid - Ann Tyler 39. The Writing Retreat - Julia Bartz 40. The Rising Tide - Anne Cleeves 41. The Moth Catcher - Anne Cleeves

1.The Murder Room by PD James

1. Vaxxers by Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green
2. The Lighthouse Witches by SJ Cooke
3. Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater.

5.The Ghost by Robert Harris DNF Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. 6 Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan 7 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 8 No More Dying Then by Ruth Rendell 9 Snow by John Banville 10 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith 11 Trust Me by TM Logan 12 Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell 13 The Ex by SE Lynes 14 The Rites of Spring by Anders de la Motte 15 The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 16 The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson STINKER ALERT HAZARDOUS FOR THE INTELLECT WORST BOOK I'VE READ SINCE BOLLOCKING WINTERING 17 A Thousand Ships by Nathalie Haynes 18 Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer 19 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 20 The Full English by Stuart Maconie 21 Queen of our times by Robert Hardman 22 The Long Road to Jarrow by Stuart Maconie 23 Death Deserved by Thomas Enger

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The Brighton Mermaid needs its own category for sheer utter garbage.

Please may I join?

I'm currently reading How To Kill Your Family.

I think I've read 12 books so far this year. I'm trying to do the A-Z challenge as well.

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