50 Books Challenge 2023 Part Seven

[Southeastdweller]

Welcome to the seventh 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, the fifth one here, and the sixth one here

Thank you @Southeastdweller .

Yes, the threads seem to be zipping by this year!

Thank you for the new thread @Southeastdweller

I’m not going to do my list again until the last thread of the year I think as it’s getting too long to retype on a mobile phone!
what I can say is that in 48 hours book 84 has grabbed me by the lapels and shaken me out of my reading slump.

84 Kala by Colin Walsh
This book is on the shortlist for the Waterstones Debut Prize which brought it to my attention. (I’ve already read and loved two of the list which cross over with the Women’s Prize longlist - Fire Rush and Wandering Souls. I also own a fourth Close to Home but haven’t got around to reading it yet)
15 year old Kala disappeared from the west coast Irish town of Kinlough (based on Galway) in 2003. The book is told in the present day by three of her closest friends after the discovery of her remains in a nearby woods. The writing is beautiful, the three voices authentic and distinct and the plot propulsive. I’ve seen it described as a literary thriller which it well deserves. Fans of Tana French would enjoy it I think. A great book and a bold for me.

Thanks as always south

I tried to reduce my list but the formatting told me to fuck off so here's the full beast - my apologies x

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 
92.	Career Of Evil by Robert Galbraith
93.	East Of Eden by John Steinbeck 
94.	Atomic Habits by James Clear
95.	Hags by Victoria Smith
96.	Lethal White by Robert Galbraith 
97.	People Person by Candace Carty-Williams
98.	Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 
99.	The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
100.	The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
101.	Either/Or by Elif Batuman
102.	Face It : A Memoir by Debbie Harry
103.	For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie 
104.	Chronicle Of A Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
105.	Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith 
106.	Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
107.	Trust by Hernan Diaz
108.	Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier 
109.	<strong>Demon Copperhead</strong> by Barbara Kingsolver

Done. Fucksake. Please don't think I'm showing off, it's a nightmare to format!

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller - you are right, they are moving very quickly this year!

Here is my list - quite pleased to be so prompt as I didn't manage to join the last new thread until it was 11 pages in already!

1. After Henry – Joan Didion
2. Year of Wonder – Clemency Burton-Hill
3. Motherwell – Deborah Orr

4. Just Kids – Patti Smith 5. Best of Friends – Kamila Shamsie 6. Macbeth – William Shakespeare 7. Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett 8. War Gardens – Lalage Snow 9. Soul Music – Terry Pratchett 10. Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid 11. The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde 12. How to Train Your Dragon 11: How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero – Cressida Connolly 13. Trespasses – Louise Kennedy 14. The Brexit Tapes – John Bull 15. Real Tigers – Mick Herron 16. The Sins of Our Fathers – Asa Larsson 17. Ordinary People – Diana Evans 18. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: new fiction by Afghan women – various 19. A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf 20. Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid 21. How to Train Your Dragon 12: How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury – Cressida Cowell 22. Becoming – Michelle Obama 23. The It Girl – Ruth Ware 24. Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus 25. The Map of Salt and Stars – Zeyn Joukhadar 26. Here Comes the Sun – Nicole Dennis-Benn 27. Wings of Fire #1: The Dragonet Prophecy – Tui T. Sutherland 28. The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante 29. I Have Some Questions for You – Rebecca Makkai 30. Pyramids – Terry Pratchett 31. Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett 32. Nine Perfect Strangers – Liane Moriarty 33. Midnight at Malabar House - Vaseem Khan 34. Foster – Claire Keegan 35. Carrie Soto is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid 36. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

Thank you! Just checking in.

Thanks, southeast.

Re Norway, piggy, I don't know if you fancy some non-fiction, but I'm currently reading The Children of Ash and Elm, by Neil S Price ahead of my own trip in that direction. It's about the Viking Age so it's about the wider region, but I'm really enjoying it.

Thanks, will also check that out.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller, 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 72. The Alienist by Caleb Carr 73. The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper 74. A Familiar Sight by Brianna Labuskes 75. The Poet by Michael Connelly 76. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 77. What Can’t Be Seen by Brianna Labuskes 78. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbottom 79. The Madness of Grief by Richard Coles 80. The IT Girl by Ruth Ware 81. Blood Work by Michael Connelly 82. Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh 83. The Good, the Bad and the History by Jodi Taylor 84. The Poppy War by R F Kuang 85. No Surrender by Scarlett Rickard 86. Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle 87. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell 88. A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly 89. Between Us by Mhairi McFarlane 90. How To Be Right In A World Gone Wrong by James O’Brien

@Southeastdweller Thanks for the new thread. You're right, there's been no slowdown this year, the threads have kept moving at the same pace since the New Year.

@BaruFisher Kala looks very good.

My list:

1 The Downhill Hiking Club - Dom Joly

1. In Praise of Walking - Shane O'Mara

3. One By One - Ruth Ware

1. The Will - Rebecca Reid

5. The Palace Papers - Tina Brown

1. To the Land of Long Lost Friends - Alexander McCall Smith
2. Dear Reader - Cathy Rentzenbrink

8. Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann 9. The Sentence is Death - Anthony Horowitz 10. The Journey Through Wales - Gerald of Wales 11. The Description of Wales - Gerald of Wales 12. More Than a Woman - Caitlin Moran 13. The Broken Afternoon - Simon Mason 14. The Plant Hunter - TL Mogford 15. A Fatal Inheritance - Rachel Rhys 16. In The Shadow of Vesuvius - Daisy Dunn 17. The New Puritans - Andrew Doyle 18. Mad About You - Mhairi McFarlane 19. The Premonitions Bureau - Sam Knight 20. The Secrets of Wishtide - Kate Saunders 21. One of Our Ministers is Missing - Alan Johnson 22. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume 23. The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 24. It's Not Me, It's You - Mhairi McFarlane 25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë 26. Exactly What You Mean - Ben Hinshaw 27. Yours Cheerfully - AJ Pearce 28. The White Walls - Lucilla Andrews 29. The Bookseller's Tale - Martin Latham 30. War Doctor - David Nott 31. The It Girl - Ruth Ware 32. Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead 33. Walking The Americas - Levison Wood 34. The Space Between Us - Doug Johnstone 35. The Darkness Knows - Arnaldur Indridason 36. The School at the Chalet - Elinor Brent-Dyer 37. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle 38. Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 - Alina Chan & Matt Ridley

Just finished Viral today and will review it next time.

Thank you for the new thread! Just placemarking. @BaruFisher I am starting Kala tonight so I'm thrilled to read your review.

Hi May I join, although it's half way through the year. I am an avid follower but thought I wouldn't read much this year, but proved myself wrong.

Not the order I've read them in but my list is

1. Fairy Tale Stephen King
2. Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3. How Much of These Hills is Gold C Pam Zhang
4. The Lost Girls Kate Hamer
5. The Last Widow Karin Slaughter
6. Fire Rush Jacqueline Crooks
7. The Wild Silence Raynor Winn
8. Old God's Time Sebastian Barry
9. Conquest Nina Allan
10. Wrong Place Wrong Time Gillian McAllister
11. Trespasses Louise Kennedy
12. Transcription Kate Atkinson
13. A Terrible Kindness Jo Browning-Wroe
14. Sundial Catriona Ward
15. Looking Glass Sound Catriona Ward
16. Skin Deep Liz Nugent
17. The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley
18. Our Little Cruelties Liz Nugent
19. The Outsider Stephen King
20. The Only Suspect Louise Candlish
21. My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh
22. Into the Water Paula Hawkins
23. I See You Claire MacKintosh
24. I Couldn't Love You More Esther Freud
25. The Guest List Lucy Foley
26. The Great Wide Open Douglas Kennedy
27. The Garnett Girls Georgina Moore
28. The Family Upstairs Lisa Jewell
29. Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh
30. Double Agent Tom Bradby
31. Crushed Kate Hamer
32. The Candy House Jennifer Egan
33. The Book of Evidence John Banville
34. Bitter Sun Beth Lewis
35. Bitter Orange Claire Fuller
36. Birnam Wood Eleanor Catton
37. Billy Summers Stephen King
38. Beach Read Emily Henry
39. Again Rachel Marian Keyes
40. After the End Clare MacKintosh
41. 1979 Val McDermid
42. The Bee Sting Paul Murray

Of these The Bee Sting was my favourite, I was tempted to immediately start reading it a second time. Brilliant book.

Currently reading Build a House Around My Body and enjoying it.

Hello @snowspider ! That’s a good list you have there, I see a few favourites

Great to have new blood @snowspider and namesharing with a brilliant childrens book!

Hi @snowspider The candy House and Birnam Wood are both on my wish list so I'm glad to see them highlighted.

@BaruFisher I just bought Kala too so looking forward to reading it. Am preparing a few books for what is looking very likely to be a very damp week in Ireland in August.

@Welshwabbit I just read Mrs Dalloway and think I got much more out of it as an older reader. I also read The Hours, Michael Cunningham's version, which you might enjoy.

I'm going to bring over what I've read since the last thread. Not quite as literary this time as having been struggling with vertigo and migraines for a few weeks so going for easy reads.

42. At the Table (audible) - Claire Powell
43. The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauviginier, translated by Daniel Levin Becker
44. Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell
45. The Madness of Crowds - Louise Penny
46. Trespasses (audible) - Louise Kennedy
47. The Storied Life of AJ Firkey - Gabrielle Levin
48. Homesick - Jennifer Croft
49. Boulder - Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches
50. Foster - Claire Keegan
51. Plainsong - Kent Haruf
52. The Cliff House - Christopher Brookmyre
53. Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater
54. Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jenkins Reid
55. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
56. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
57. In Memoriam - Alice Winns
58. The Lying Game - Ruth Ware
59. Little Monsters - Adrienne Brodeur

Welcome @snowspider.

91. See It End by Brianna Labuskes

This is the third book in the Dr Gretchen White series, and although I have enjoyed them all this is the best of the three. Dr White is a psychologist who consults for the Boston PD despite the fact she is a (non-violent) psychopath - as she says, think more Tech CEO bro than Ted Bundy. When her partner Lauren Marconi, one of the few people Gretchen actually likes, confesses to a murder Gretchen investigates and uncovers a lot of information about her friend that she had kept well hiddden. This book kept me absolutely gripped and I didn’t guess the ending, which is always a plus for me. Recommended, especially as the series is free on kindle unlimited.

And thanks @Southeastdweller for the thread. It does seem faster this year...

Thanks for the new thread southeast. I was just about to go to bed with a book and a bag of Maltesers but I'll quickly add my list.

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
48 The Light Years, Elizabeth Jane Howard
49 Strange Sally Diamond, Liz Nugent
50 Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
51 A Spell of Good Things, Ayobami Adebayo
52 Travellers in the Third Reich, Julia Boyd
53 The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, ed Charlotte Mosley
54 Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
55 Foster, Claire Keegan
56 Trust, Hernan Diaz
57 The End of Days, Jenny Erpenbeck
58 Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield
59 Evidence of the Affair, Taylor Jenkins-Reid
60 Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead

I haven't quite finished book 60 but I'm pretty certain it's a bold.

Thanks @Southeastdweller

I will post my list, such as it is. The threads do seem faster this year but I am much slower! Going to be difficult to make 50 I think but we will see

1 Christmas is Murder- Val McDermid
2 The Christmas Chronicles- Nigel Slater
3 The Anthology of English Folk Tales - The History Press (Pub)
4 The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki
5 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (Audible narrator Hugh Grant)
6 Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
7 Rizzio - Denise Mina
8 Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
9 How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen - Joanna Faber and Julie King
10 Ramble Book - Adam Buxton
11 The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
12 The Etymologican - Mark Forsyth
13 A Net For Small Fishes - Lucy Jago
14 Starlight - Stella Gibbons
15 Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
16 I’m a Fan - Sheena Patel
17 Book Lovers - Emily Henry
18 Mad About You - Mhairi McFarlane
19 The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
20 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
21 The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
22 The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman
23 Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
24 Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death - M.C. Beaton
25 Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca - Ferdinand Mount
26 Ask a Historian - Greg Jenner

@Stokey hope you enjoy Kala as much as I did. It’s been a damp few weeks in Ireland since I moved home from Australia. The change to grey skies hasn’t been easy!

@snowspider welcome to the thread- love the variety of books you have on your list. I loved Billy Summers and Fire Rush too.

Thanks for the new thread, South.

Here's my list from where I left off last time:

41. The Favour - Nicci French
42. The Adversary - Emmanuel Carrère (trans. Linda Coverdale)
43. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
44. Re-Educated - Lucy Kellaway
45. One Fine Day - Mollie Panter-Downes
46. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes - Kate Strasdin
47. Happy All The Time - Laurie Colwin
48. London War Notes - Mollie Panter-Downes
49. The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin trans. Rosemary Edwards

1.One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, Olivia Hawker

1. Passing, Nella Larsen
2. Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
3. Abide With Me, Elizabdth Strout
4. So Sweet A Changeling, Ruth Adam
5. 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 23 Lives Like Mine Eva Verde 24. The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller 25. The God of That Summer Ralf Rothman 26. Other Women Emma Flint 27. Foster Clare Keegan 28. We Are Not Like Them Jo Piazza & Christine Pride 29. The Hours Before Dawn Celia Fremlin 30. Metronome Tom Watson

Can't believe I've made it to 30, but 50 seems a long way off. Currently reading Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim, that I'm really not sure about. The jury is still out.* *

Aaargh. Messed up my numbering. Why don't lists work on here any more? I’ve read 48, not 49.

Thanks @Southeastdweller ! Great to see the threads so lively this year.

No list from me but currently reading Stasiland and still listening to Michael Palin’s Sahara. And also reading Stephen Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant for some nostalgic fantasy, as I’ve had a grim cold and not felt up to much else.

Welcome @snowspider (one of my favourite children's books!).

@Stokey I read and enjoyed The Hours years ago. Thanks for reminding me - it's probably due a re-read!

Thanks southeast for the new thread!