50 books challenge - 2023 round up

[Tarahumara]

Hello 50 bookers! Here's a separate thread to gather together our top recommendations from the year. Please post your final lists, or just your bolds if you prefer. I'll come back later with mine...

I’m placemarking

I am on 46 so a week to read 4 more.

But I am impressed by the quality of most people's lists. Mine are filled with things like

17 hercule poirots (reading all in order via libby)
James Patterson and Patricia Cornwall
Jkr Rowling new one
Tackle by jilly cooper

Only one I read that was quality as tomorrow cubed. Which was a bit meh to me. And I work in the gaming industry! It was actually quite similar tp sid Meier autobiography (which I forgot I read so now it's 47!)
And yellow face which I quite enjoyed.

I ignored books I read on corporate governor or risk management for professional exams.

And missed any I read physically that I own as I made my list from library records and Libby list.

I have had a great reading year, helped immeasurably by the one New Year's resolution that I have kept - DNF some thing if you don't like it. Hence my list of duds is short fits in with my determination to read all the Women's Prize list and book club.

Current total is 120 books - might sneak a couple more in before the end of the year and will update as necessary

Fictions standouts are:

1 Antarctica - Claire Keegan
2 Stone blind - Natalie Haynes
3 Betty
4 Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
5 Wandering souls - Cecile Pin
6 Black butterflies
7 Other women- Emma Flint
8 Love Marriage - Monica Ali
9 Unsheltered- Barbara Kingsolver
10 Fire rush
11 The dance tree
12 The bandit queens
13 Violets
14 The chosen^^
15 Shy- Max Porter
16 Prize women- Caroline Lea
17 Now we shall be entirely free
18 Little deaths - Emma Flint
19 Waterland - Graham Swift
20 A place of greater safety - Hilary Mantel
21 In memoriam
22 Kala
23 Notes on an execution
24 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
25 North woods- Daniel Mason
26 Excellent women - Barbara Pym

Nonfiction -
1 Written in bone - Sue Black
2 Landlines- Raynor Winn
3 Without warning and only sometimes - Kit De Waal
4 Unwell women
5 Shakespeare- the man who pays the rent - Judi Dench

Duds -
1 I’m a fan
2 One day I shall astonish the world - Nina Stivers
3 Pod
4 Cursed bread

My bolds are:
A Terrible Kindness - Jo Browning Wroe
Caught In The Light - Robert Goddard
Past Caring - Robert Goddard
In Pale Battalions - Robert Goddard
Into The Blue - Robert Goddard
The Fortnight In September - R C Sherriff
Beyond Recall- Robert Goddard
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Family From One End Street - Eve Garnett
Dying To Tell - Robert Goddard
Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith
The Ink Black Heart - Robert Galbraith
Days Without Number - Robert Goddard
Further Adventures of the Family From One End Street - Eve Garnett
Holiday At The Dew Drop Inn - Eve Garnett
The Running Grave - Robert Galbraith
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
The Children Of Green Knowe - Lucy M Boston
Mr Dickens And His Carol - Samantha Silva
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

My duds are:
Children Of Paradise - Camilla Grudova
That Night - Gillian McAllister
Palace Rogue - William Coles
The Other Emily - Dean Koontz

However the duds list only includes books I've actually finished - there's a load more that I didn't even bother finishing (including some that are on other people's bold lists - Trespasses, Kala and Penance were all DNFs for me!)

I've just been looking back at my reading year.

So far I have read 343 books (although that does include 33 children's/YA books, 4 short stories and 1 play, and 25 audiobooks which I know some people don't count). I will probably read a couple more before the end of the year but I need to catch up on my Nicholas Nickleby chapters so that will take up quite a bit of the last week!

199 (58.02%) were by female authors, 140 (40.82%) by male authors, and 4 (1.17%) by both male and female authors. I don't think that's too bad a balance.
25 (7.29%) were audiobooks, 100 (29.15%) were on kindle, and 73 (21.28%) were from the library, with the remainder being hard copy books not from the library. I'm pleased that a fifth of my books came from the library as I really want to support libraries.
33 (9.62%) were children's/YA books, 4 (1.17%) were short stories, 1 (0.29%) was a play, 87 (25.36%) were non fiction and 218 (63.55%) were fiction.
265 (77.26%) were brand new to me, and 78 (22.74%) were rereads. The rereads account for a lot of the children's/YA books and also most of the audiobooks - I don't always focus well on audiobooks so better if it's something I already know.

Just popping on to say thank you @Tarahumara for sorting this thread. Not adding as dropped off for this year but I enjoy reading everyone’s yearly round up’s/stats

Thank you, @Tarahumara .

I haven't finished the year's reading but I don't think I will be attempting anything likely to trouble the lists for the rest of the year as I've got a couple of gentle reads lined up.

It's been a really good reading year. I'm so glad I finally got round to the Wolf Hall trilogy, which was definitely the highlight. I didn't read much that was really challenging, but also have very few absolute duds. My big reading resolution at the start of the year, which I'm pleased to say I followed up on, was to join and use the local library. As a result I've spent far less on books than in previous years (helped by going to World of Books as my first port of call for things I want to buy).

FICTION
First place
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Second place
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Third place
The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Honourable mentions
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
A Spell of Good Things by Ayobámi Adébáyò
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Nun’s Story by Kathryn Hulme
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth
A Helping Hand by Celia Dale

NON FICTION
First place
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City by Andrea Elliott

Second place
A Place Apart by Dervla Murphy

Honourable mentions
East West Street by Philippe Sands
The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond by Chris Blackwell
Feral City by Jeremiah Moss
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Through the Narrow Gate by Karen Armstrong

Also rounding up my reads here, having just finished book no. 100. I feel like I've had a good reading year & making an effort to read more fiction on paper has definitely helped. I've still read lots of e-books (just over half of my total), but they're mainly non-fiction & light reads.

My top reads for the year were both fiction, Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants by Paul David Gould and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I've read lots of enjoyable non-fiction, but the only one I'd say was a particular stand out was Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

No proper stinkers completed as I'm ruthless about DNF-ing these days. My list of bolds is below, quite generous as I tend to bold anything I've particularly enjoyed.

Perhaps The Stars by Ada Palmer
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Escape from Model Land by Erica Thompson
The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville
Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Unraveller by Frances Hardinge
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum
The Left-handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Follow the Money by Paul Johnson
The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants by Paul David Gould
Johnson at 10 by Anthony Seldon & Raymond Newell
Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll
I'm a Stranger Here Myself by John Seymour
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Ultra Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
Amy and Lan by Sadie Jones
Saying No to a Farm Free Future by Chris Smaje
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
I Killed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall

The year of being picky...

FICTION BOLD
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

NONFICTION BOLDS
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight
Vietnam by Max Hastings
American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of Robert J Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin
Abyss: World on the Brink - the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings

I DNFd a few but no stinkers that I finished.

Thanks for the thread @Tarahumara !

My festive reading (and every other bloody thing) has been severely curtailed by norovirus, so I don’t expect to add to my current count of 68 for the year, but pretty pleased by that.

Here are my top 10 from this year:

Werner Herzog: A Guide For The Perplexed - Paul Cronin
Fingers Crossed - Miki Berenyi
Sing Backwards And Weep - Mark Lanegan
Notes From An Island - Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietila
In Tearing Haste - Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Ghost Theatre - Mat Osman
Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
This Bloody Mary Is The Last Thing I Own - Jonathan Rendall
Politics On The Edge - Rory Stewart
Every Man For Himself And God Against All - Werner Herzog

If I had to pick one: Every Man For Himself, with Politics On The Edge and Say Nothing close behind.

I absolutely loved:
Invisible Child (non fiction but reads like a novel)
A Fine Balance (not new but an extraordinary book)
The Marriage Portrait (as good as Hamnet)

(But did not get the fuss about Lessons In Chemistry, Yellowface and The Paper Palace all of which I thought were distinctly mediocre!)

Great idea for the roundup thread tarahumara.

My bolds this year - non-fiction:

A Place Apart by Dervla Murphy
This Book will Change Your Mind about Mental Health by Nathan Filer
Wheels within Wheels by Dervla Murphy
A Fortunate Man by John Berger

fiction:

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Foster by Claire Keegan
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie

Ive finished fewer than usual this year but DNFd ruthlessly.

Thanks to all 50 bookers for this lovely corner and to southeast for organising us.

I don’t think I’m going to finish any other books this year so here’s my round up. I managed 153 this year, which is the most I have read for over a decade.

75 (49%) were by women, 76 (49.7%) by men and 2 (1.3%) by men and women.
14 (9.2%) were non-fiction and 139 (90.8%) were fiction
13 (8.5%) were audible, 13 (8.5%) were physical books and 127 (83%) were kindle books.
My average rating was 3.17 and I had 22 bolds which is 14.4%.

Non-Fiction Bolds

• Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
• Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine
• Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff

Fiction Bolds

• Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
• A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
• Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyn
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
• The Green Mile by Stephen King
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
• Kala by Colin Walsh
• Rizzio by Denise Mina
• The Boyfriend Candidate by Ashley Winstead

Adding Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors to my standouts

Thanks Tarahumara for starting this thread. Here is my full list for this year:

1. Halloween Party – Agatha Christie
2. Silver Bay – Jojo Moyes
3. Troubled Blood – Robert Galbraith
4. Wizards and Warriors – F X Nine
5. Lethal Wihte – Robert Galbraith
6. The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J K Rowling
8. The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
9. Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith

10. Sugar Men – Ray Kingfisher 11. Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls – Ann M Martin 12. The Turn of the Key – Ruth Ware 13. All That Remains – Sue Black 14. The Princess Bride – William Goldman 15. It Ends With Us – Colleen Hoover 16. The Ink Black Heart – Robert Galbraith 17. Gang Leader for the Day – Sudhir Venkatesh 18. World of Warcraft Chronicle Volume II 19. The Drop – Michael Connelly 20. The Enemy – Lee Child 21. April Fools – Richie Tankersley Cusick 22. The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak 23. The Curfew – T M Logan 24. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin 25. Creature Teacher: Final Exam – R L Stine 26. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Age 13 ¾ - Sue Townsend 27. The Truth About Stacey – Ann M Martin 28 The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell 29. The Stranger – Harlan Coben 30. Trespasses – Louise Kennedy 31. The Magician’s Assistant – Ann Patchett 32. The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien 33. Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers 34. The Deep End – Jeff Kinney 35. The Pearl Sister – Lucinda Riley 36. Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes – R L Stine 37. Menopausing – Davina McCall 38. Tonight, Somewhere in New York – Cornell Woolrich 39. Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell 40. Total Recall – Arnold Schwarzenegger 41. Taste – Stanley Tucci 42. Dubliners – James Joyce 43. Murder Most Unladylike – Robin Stevens 44. Shelter Mountain – Robyn Carr 45. The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett 46. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini 47. Eric – Terry Pratchett 48. Dawn of the Aspects – Richard A Knaak 49. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 50. Shoot the Teacher – David Belbin 51. The Two Towers – J R R Tolkien 52. Hired – James Bloodworth 53. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 54. Sugar Money – Jane Harris 55. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 56. The Black Box – Michael Connelly 57. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson 58. The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens 59. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North 60. The Burning Room – Michael Connelly 61. Carrie Soto is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid 62. The Colorado Kid – Stephen King 63. The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan 64. The Mystery of Four – Sam Blake 65. One Shot – Lee Child 66. Blue Genes – Val McDermid 67. The Running Grave – Robert Galbraith 68. The Shipping News – Annie Proulx 69. Halloween Night – R L Stine 70. How to Sell A Haunted House – Grady Hendrix 71. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix 72. Madame Bovary – Gustav Flaubert 73. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 74. Home – Harlan Coben 75. A Man Lay Dead – Ngaio Marsh 76. To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee 77. Digging to America – Anne Tyler 78. Yellowface – R F Kuang 79. Christmas at the Beach Hut – Veronica Henry 80. Skipping Christmas – John Grisham 81. A Christmas Party – Georgette Heyer

Stats for my reads this year:

74 fiction, 7 non fiction
44 female, 37 male
51 physical books, 11 e-books, 19 audiobooks

Top 5 books in no particular order:
Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers
The Running Grave, Robert Galbraith
Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell

No stinkers as such, I tend to DNF books when I’m not getting into them but a disappointment was A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh. It’s been on my kindle for about five years now so I felt obliged to complete it but I just found it a bit meh.

Thanks @Tarahumara for putting this together. Here comes my mammoth post!

I read 161 books this year (162 if I finish Jane Eyre before Monday which I doubt) I’ll forego listing them all here but will stick with the best and worst!

My main reading aim was to diversify my reading after a few years of reading thrillers and fantasy only and I’m really pleased with how that went:

• My most read genres were literary/ classic/ mystery and historical fiction
• My most read authors were Ben Aaronovitch/ Virginia Woolf/ Aeschylus/ Mick Herron/ John Steinbeck and Claire Keegan.
• I read 11% non-fiction

I really enjoyed the change and want to keep that up next year. One of my favourite experiences of last year was reading most books from the Women’s Prize longlist- I doubt I’ll have the time to read as many this year, but I’m going to give it a shot as I found so many different authors and voices and themes- even Pod has stayed with me! Thanks to everyone on the thread for your recommendations- many of my best reads have come from these.

My favourites

Books of the Year
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
North Woods by Daniel Mason

Non-Fiction
Say Nothing- Patrick Radden Keefe
All the Beauty in the World- Patrick Bringley
Tunnel 29- Helen Merriman
Empire of Pain- Patrick Radden Keefe
Year of Wonder- Clemency Burton-Hill

Favourite Classics
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
East of Eden- John Steinbeck
Dubliners- James Joyce
Bleak House- Charles Dickens
The Iliad- Homer
Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton
Giovanni’s Room- James Baldwin

Other Favourite Fiction
Some of these have changed from earlier lists depending on what’s stayed with me
Olive Kitteridge- Elizabeth Strout
Black Butterflies- Priscilla Morris
Fire Rush- Jacqueline Crooks
Kala- Colin Walsh
In Memoriam- Alice Winn
Prophet Song- Paul Lynch
Amongst Women- John McGahern
Foster- Claire Keegan
Year of Wonders- Geraldine Brooks

Duds andDisappointments
Elements of Style- Strunk and White
Widowland- CJ Carey
The Confession- Jo Spain
Atonement- Ian McEwan
Open Water- Caleb Azuma Nelson
A Psalm for the Wild-Built- Becky Chambers

I think I’ve probably got one more short read in me, but I’m still reeling from A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, trans by Daniel Hahn. This is my absolute stand out of the year, I’ve already waxed lyrical about it on the main thread.

My Stand outs for 2023
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan
Bella Figura, Kamin Mohammadi
Jamilia, Chingiz Aitmatov
Passing, Nella Larsen

The rest, other than the Moshfegh which I’ve already ranted about were pretty decent.

Mini Stats
30 women and 13 men
4 non fiction which is more than usual
6 in translation

Full list for those who enjoy the lists
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
Before the Coffee gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi trans by Geoffrey Trousselot
Remains of the Day, TeamIshiguro
Ask a Historian, Greg Jenner
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Quite, Claudia Winkleman
Malibu Rising, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Pear Field, Nana Ekvtimishvili, trans. by Elizabeth Heighway
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, Guy Deutscher
A Year of Living Simply, Kate Humble
The Tide of Life, Catherine Cookson
The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage, Halima Khatun
Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
The Reading List, Sara Nisha Adams
Amitabh Bachchan, Sunny Singh
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Bella Figura, Kamin Mohammadi
Serenade for Nadia, Zülfü Livaneli
A Mouse Ran Up My Nightie, Edith Courtney
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
Jamilia, Chinghiz Aitmatov
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Mrs England, Stacey Halls
The Hotel on the Riviera, Carol Kirkwood
The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker, Suzanne Pulteney
The Italian Island Summer, Sue Moorcroft
Writing Black Beauty, Celia Branford
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Sankofa, Chibundu Onuzo
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Vanishing Half, Britt Bennett
Hello beautiful,Ann Napolitano
Passing, Nella Larsen
Festergrimm, Thomas Taylor
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
Christmas Pudding, Nancy Mitford
Mrs Caliban, Rachel Ingalls
Light Over Liskeard, Louis de Bernieres
A General Theory of Oblivion, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, trans by Daniel Hahn

I realise I have left off the translators - they are in good part surely responsible for those I have enjoyed in translation.

I've read my last book of the year so joining over here to round up!

I've read 90 books which I'm very happy with (not that it's a competition) although I think my tastes get lighter every year. I definitely enjoyed a lot of genre fiction and less literary books. My favourites are the same as everyone else's really but I suppose popular books are so for a reason.

My absolute favourites were:

Tomorrow x3 by Gabrielle Zevin
Notes On An Execution by Danya Kukfka
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
In Memorium by Alice Winn
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Everything's Fine by Celia Rabess

But I also really enjoyed (and I can make no claim to all of these being high quality books, but they all affected me in some way when I read them):
*
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Really Good Actually by Monica Heisy
Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton
Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
Beach Read by Emily Henry
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donaghue
Kala by Colin Walsh
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin*

And I have no idea why none of that came out in bold but I'm not rewriting it now!

Jumping on to add a few more bolds as I've had a really good December:

Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris (read earlier in the year, forgot to add it to my first post)
Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad - Daniel Finkelstein
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy

I've read 77 books this year, quite a few bolds and a lot of solid decent reads. I have three on the go which I should finish in early January, My Cousin Rachel, Trustee from the Toolroom and Katherine Heiny's short story collection, Games and Rituals.

I'm now sure I won't finish any more books in 2023 so here I am with my overall list and my standouts.

I've read 44 books in all which has been a pretty standard reading pace for me over the past 6 years and an improvement on 2021 and 2022 so I'm happy with that.

Personal stats:
75% were written by women
47% were listened to on audible
34% were non-fiction
and a whopping 72% were by authors I have never read before.

Thanks to you all for the amazing recommendations (and warnings!), to @Southeastdweller for keeping us going, to @Tarahumara for this round up thread and to @MamaNewtNewt for offering to sort some group stats.

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 25. The Other Mother – Jen Brister 26. Decluttering at the speed of life – Dana K White 27. Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh 28. One more croissant for the road – Felicity Cloake 29. The island of sea women – Lisa See 30. Let that be a lesson – Ryan Wilson 31. The Salt Path – Raynor Winn DNF: Parsnips, Buttered – Joe Lycett 32. Summer Skies – Jenny Colgan 33. Man at the helm – Nina Stibbe 34. How to be a woman – Caitlin Moran DNF: Paperweight – Stephen Fry 35. Lessons I’ve learned – Davina McCall 36. Black Butterflies – Priscilla Morris 37. Book Lovers – Emily Henry 38. The girl with the louding voice – Abi Daré 39. The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes – Ruth Hogan 40. Ultra-processed people – Chris van Tulleken 41. Heartburn – Nora Ephron 42. Notes to self – Emilie Pine 43. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 44. Midnight at the Christmas bookshop – Jenny Colgan

TOP 5 FICTION: in no particular order
L’Assommoir – Emile Zola
Black Butterflies – Priscilla Morris
The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak
The island of sea women – Lisa See
Mothering Sunday - Graham Swift

TOP 5 NON-FICTION: in no particular order
How to be a woman - Caitlin Moran
The land where lemons grow – Helena Atlee
Love, Nina – Nina Stibbe
The Pants of Perspective – Anna McNuff
Ultra-processed people – Chris van Tulleken

This is my full list. It's not quite in order as I extracted it from Goodreads and it went a bit haywire. Hoping the bolds work.

My stats are a bit rough and ready this year but I've enjoyed using the graphs on Storygraph.

29% non-fiction
No classics this year
20% male authors
23% BAME.
I managed one whole book in French (a translation of Harry Potter so I'm not sure it counts).

Only 2 print books this year and 4 ebooks. I've had to start wearing glasses this year and it's definitely put me off trying to actually read as I get headaches and feel tired very quickly.

I've read a lot of self help type books, mostly around health/diet and decluttering/organising. I'm exiting the year equally as round and messy as I started it.

1. Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention - Cathy Newman
2. The Monuments Men - Robert Edsel
3. Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
4. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven - Chris Cleave
5. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway, #9) Elly Griffiths
6. How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing - K.C. Davis
7. A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) - Vikram Seth
8. How Much of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang
9. Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
10. All the Broken Places - John Boyne
11. A Short History of the World in 50 Books - Daniel Smith
12. Fight Night - Miriam Toews
13. Ancestry - Simon Mawer
14. A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer - Suzanne Wrack
15. Real Estate - Deborah Levy
16. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
17. Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson
18. Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullshit to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love - Tori Dunlap
19. The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li
20. The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
21. The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You - Margareta Magnusson
22. Hester - Laurie Lico Albanese
23. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman
24. Hope to Die (DI Adam Fawley, #6) - Cara Hunter
25. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
26. Best of Friends - Kamila Shamsie 24 Wearing My Mother's Heart - Sophia Thakur
27. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times - Azar Nafisi
28. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
29. The Whalebone Theatre - Joanna Quinn
30. The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6) - Robert Galbraith
31. Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh
32. The Birdcatcher - Gayl Jones
33. The Furrows - Namwali Serpell
34. Femlandia - Christina Dalcher
35. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
36. Seven Empty Houses - Samanta Schweblin
37. Maame - Jessica George
38. When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
39. Lucy by the Sea (Amgash, #4) - Elizabeth Strout
40. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1) - Claire North
41. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion - Bushra Rehman
42. Memphis - Tara M. Stringfellow
43. The Weather Woman - Sally Gardner
44. Babel - R.F. Kuang
45. Landlines - Raynor Winn
46. The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty
47. A Net for Small Fishes - Lucy Jago
48. The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka
49. Athena's Child (The Grecian Women Trilogy) - Hannah M. Lynn
50. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm - Laura Warrell
51. Pandora - Susan Stokes-Chapman
52. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor - Valentine Low
53. The Wife of Bath: A Biography - Marion Turner
54. Queens of Themiscyra (The Grecian Women) - Hannah M. Lynn
55. The Coming - Daniel Black
56. My Policeman - Bethan Roberts
57. Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
58. A Spell of Good Things - Ayobami Adebayo
59. Someday, Maybe - Onyi Nwabineli
60. The Missing Husband - Amanda Brooke
61. Children of Paradise - Camilla Grudova
62. Wandering Souls - Cecile Pin
63. Seating Arrangements - Maggie Shipstead
64. Nightwalking - John Lewis-Stempel
65. Homesick - Jennifer Croft
66. The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
67. The House of Eve - Sadeqa Johnson
68. Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
69. The Dog of the North - Elizabeth Mckenzie
70. Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
71. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies - Natasha Tidd
72. Stuff Happens: Manage your clutter, clear your head and discover what's really important - Emma Gleeson
73. I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makkai
74. I'm a Fan - Sheena Patel
75. 100 Things Productive People Do: Little Lessons in Getting Things Done - Nigel Cumberland
76. The Shadow of Perseus - Claire Heywood
77. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction - Lynne Olson
78. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories - Margaret Atwood
79. Independence - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
80. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women are Still on Trial - Mona Chollet
81. The Fuck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy - Caroline Dooner
82. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds - Thomas Halliday
83. Cursed Bread - Sophie Mackintosh
84. Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life - Sharon Blackie
85. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - Douglas Murray
86. Coronation Year - Jennifer Robson
87. Weyward - Emilia Hart
88. Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
89. Iceberg - Jennifer A. Nielsen
90. Fatal Legacy (Flavia Albia #11) - Lindsey Davis
91. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times - Elizabeth Wayland Barber
92. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs - Mary Louise Kelly
93. A Spartan's Sorrow (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #2) - Hannah M. Lynn
94. Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks
95. Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments - Gayl Jones
96. Life and Other Love Songs - Anissa Gray
97. Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully - Kelly Starrett
98. The Sun Walks Down - Fiona McFarlane
99. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues - Jonathan Kennedy
100. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
101. The Silence Project - Carole Hailey

102. <strong>The Bees -	Carol Ann Duffy</strong>
     

103. Shy -Max Porter
104. The Leviathan - Rosie Andrews

105. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library	- Hester Fox
     

106. <strong>Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents and What They Mean for America&#039;s Future	- Jean M. Twenge</strong>
     

107. <strong>The World&#039;s Wife	- Carol Ann Duffy</strong>
     

108. The Whispering Muse - Laura Purcell

109. <strong>Greek Lessons - 	Han Kang</strong>
     

110. The Haunting of Alejandra - V. Castro

111. <strong>Bone	- Yrsa Daley-Ward</strong>
     

112. Forever - Judy Blume

113. <strong>Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys	- Viv Albertine</strong>
     

114. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People - Stuart Maconie
115. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality - Angela Saini
116. Save Your Brain: Simple Steps and proven strategies to redue your risk of cognitive decline - before it's too late - Dr Ginni Mansberg

117. <strong>Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It	- Harriet Johnson</strong>
     

118. <strong>Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That&#039;s Rewriting the Story	- Angela Saini</strong>
     

119. The Half Moon - Mary Beth Keane

120. <strong>Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages -	Dan Jones</strong>
     

121. <strong>The Lock-Up- -	John Banville</strong>
     

122. <strong>Diary Of An Apprentice Astronaut	- Samantha Cristoforetti</strong>
     

123. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic - 	Simon Winchester
     

124. <strong>A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England	 - Vanessa Wilkie</strong>
     

125. Yellowface - R.F. Kuang

126. <strong>The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism	- John Barnes</strong>
     

127. Danny Boy - Barry Walsh
128. Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
129. Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir - Wendy Mitchell
130. Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld

131. <strong>How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House&#039;s Dirty Little Secrets	 - Dana K. White</strong>
     

132. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)	- Rachel Joyce
     

133. Antarctica	- Claire Keegan
     

134. Becky - Sarah May
135. The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10) - Elly Griffiths

136. The Shelf	 - Helly Acton
     

137. <strong>Walk the Blue Fields	- Claire Keegan</strong>
     

138. <strong>Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)	- Olivia A. Cole</strong>
     

139. Before We Were Innocent	- Ella Berman
     

140. <strong>Our Wives Under the Sea	- Julia Armfield</strong>
     

141. Jews Don't Count	- David Baddiel
     

142. <strong>Rachel&#039;s Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)	- Marian Keyes</strong>
     

143. Old God's Time - Sebastian Barry
144. Black Butterflies - Priscilla Morris

145. The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler, #10)	- Susan  Hill
     

146. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold	- Sam Knight
     

147. The Shape of Darkness	- Laura  Purcell
     

148. The Wolves of Savernake (Domesday, #1)	- Edward Marston
     

149. The Pisces	- Melissa Broder
     

150. <strong>Paper Cup	- Karen Campbell</strong>
     

151. Zero Days	- Ruth Ware
     

152. Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most	- Cassie Holmes
     

153. The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession - Kelsy Burke

154. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) -	Ambrose Parry
     

155. Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)	- Leila Slimani
     

156. <strong>Suite Francaise -	Irene Nemirovsky</strong>
     

157. The Postcard - Anne Berest

158. Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier - Kevin Kelly
     

159. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer - Jillian Lauren

160. Two Women in Rome -	Elizabeth Buchan
     

161. A Complicated Kindness - 	Miriam Toews
     

162. Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein 
     

163. Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
164. Women Are The Fiercest Creatures: A Novel - Andrea Dunlop

165. Create Your Own Midlife Crisis: The Best Way to Make the Worst Decisions	- Marie Phillips
     

166. <strong>Pearl -	Sian Hughes</strong>
     

167. If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery

168. This Other Eden	 - Paul Harding
     

169. The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng
170. In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
171. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia - Hadley Freeman
172. Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
173. I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

174. Fifty-Fifty (Eddie Flynn, #5)	- Steve Cavanagh
     

173 . The Idiot - Elif Batuman
174. The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
175 . Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers - J.K. Rowling
176. All The Little Bird-Hearts - Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
177. Another Life - Kristin Hannah
178. How to Build a Boat - Elaine Feeney
179. Life in Her Hands: The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon - Averil Mansfield
180. The Rachel Incident Caroline O'Donoghue
181. Your Weight Is Not the Problem: A simple, no-diet plan for healthy habits that stick - Lyndi Cohen
182. Still Born - Guadalupe Nettel
183. The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller
184. Kala - Colin Walsh
185. The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages J.F. Andrews
186. Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar - Jessie Inchauspe
187. The Moon Represents My Heart - Pim Wangtechawat
188. Verge - Nadia Attia
189. The Boy With the Topknot Sathnam Sanghera
190. The Square of Sevens Laura Shepherd-Robinson
191. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde
192. The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) - Robert Galbraith
193. Winter Holiday (Swallows and Amazons, #4) - Arthur Ransome
194. The Wren, the Wren - Anne Enright
195. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories - Kate Atkinson
196. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food - Chris van Tulleken
197. The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide - Dan Cohn-Sherbok
198. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route - Sally Hayden
199. The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11) - Elly Griffiths
200. The Passengers - Will Ashon
201. Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
202. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Cho Nam-joo
203. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories Souvankham Thammavongsa
204. Breach of Faith (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, #2) J.G. Lewis
205. More Confessions of a Forty-Something Fuck Up Alexandra Potter
206. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America - Yeonmi Park
207. The Death's Head Chess Club - John Donoghue
208. Learned by Heart - Emma Donoghue
209. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea - Sung-Yoon Lee
210. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
211. Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
212. Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1) - Jodi Taylor
213. A Symphony of Echoes (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #2) - Jodi Taylor
214. A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4) - Jodi Taylor
215. A Second Chance (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #3) - Jodi Taylor
216. No Time Like the Past (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #5) - Jodi Taylor
217. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story - Polly Morland
218. Julia - Sandra Newman
219. The Leftover Woman - Jean Kwok
220. And Now For Something Completely Different (The Chronicles of St Mary's) - Jodi Taylor
221. The Bone Chests - Cat Jarman
222. Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward
223. The Pole - J.M. Coetzee
224. In the Distance - Hernan Diaz
225. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World - Mary Beard
226. Bitter Orange Tree - Jokha Alharthi
227. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business - Roxane Gay
228. Lilith - Nikki Marmery
229. Standard Deviation - Katherine Heiny
230. I Know Who You Are - Alice Feeney
231. You Are Accused - Raphael Rowe
232. The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon
232. The Happy Couple - Naoise Dolan
234. Rizzio - Denise Mina
235. The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number Three - Kira Yarmysh
236. The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff
237. Study for Obedience - Sara Bernstein
238. Food For Life - Tim Spector
239. Lucky Girl - Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
240. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
241. The Snowman - Jo Nesbø
242. The Temple of Fortuna - Elodie Harper
243. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac - Louise Kennedy
244. And So This is Christmas - Brian Bilston
245. The Sentence - Christina Dalcher
246. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Chronicles of St Mary's #6) - Jodi Taylor
247. The Prosecutor - Nazir Afzal
248. Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England - Eleanor Parker
249. Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
250. Æthelflæd: The Lady of the Mercians - Tim Clarkson
251. Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O'Farrell
252. The Martian - Andy Weir
253. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway #12) - Elly Griffiths

I'm jumping on the round up thread as I fell off the 50 bookers threads mid 2022 in favour of doom scrolling but have started to get back into reading in the latter half of 2023 and will be joining the 50 Book thread again in 2024.
My reads this year have been:

Lessons In Chemistry
Strange Sally Diamond

The Cuckoo Calls
The Silkworm
A Career of Evil
Lethal White
Troubled Blood
The Ink Black Heart
The Running Grave

How To Be A Heroine
I’m Glad My Mom Died
A Terrible Kindness
Anna Karenina (MN Readalong)
Rachel's Holiday
Cloud Cuckoo Land

Highlight has definitely been The Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling Strike series which I devoured after watching the TV adaptation. I felt bereft when I'd finished them all and look forward to the next instalment, although like most of the 50 bookers who read these it's the love story/chemistry between Robin & Strike that really captivates rather than the detective drama.

EOY roundup - 66 in total, surprisingly split 33 each fiction/non-fiction, all physical books. My New Year resolution of getting rid of more books than I acquired didn't happen, but exactly the same number came in as left, so I'll aim for better in 2024. 23 of the 66 were library books. Another resolution is to use the library service more.

Bolds:
Fiction
Dear Reader – Cathy Rentzenbrink
Shadowlands – Matthew Green
Adrift – Tracey Williams
Incontinent on the Continent – Jane Christmas
The Only Plane in the Sky: the Oral History of 9/11 – Garrett M Graff

Non-fiction
The Appeal – Janice Hallett
The Museum of Ordinary People – Mike Gayle
The Perfect Golden Circle – Benjamin Myers
Mischling- Affinity Konar

Stinkers
The Gallows Pole – Benjamin Myers
Heroes – Stephen Fry
The same author appears on both lists...

Full list for completeness:

1. A Year in the Life – Lucy Leonelli
2. The Labyrinth Makers – Anthony Price

3. Dear Reader – Cathy Rentzenbrink

1. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
2. Haunted Inns of Surrey – Roger Long
3. The Haunted Hotel – Wilkie Collins
4. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside – Amanda Brown
5. Mady Deeply: the Alan Rickman Diaries – Ed. Alan Taylor
6. Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan

10. The Dictionary of Lost Words – Pip Williams 11. Tell Me Who I am Before I Die – Christina Peters 12. The Grove of the Caesars – Lindsey Davis 13. How do You Want Me? – Ruby Wax 14. What was Lost – Catherine O’Flynn 15. Healing Spirits – Sally Morgan 16. Shadowlands – Matthew Green 17. Bibliomaniac – Robin Ince 18. The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin 19. Adrift – Tracey Williams 20. Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kastner 21. A Terrible Kindness – Jo Browning Wroe 22. Howards End is On the Landing – Susan Hill 23. A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes 24. The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner 25. The Marmalade Diaries – Ben Aitken 26. The Gallows Pole – Benjamin Myers 27. Lessons In Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus 28. The Ghost at Brooklands Museum – Mark Richardson 29. With the End in Mind – Kathryn Mannix 30. The Appeal – Janice Hallett 31. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas – Adam Kay 32. The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald 33. Dear Fatty – Dawn French 34. The Museum of Ordinary People – Mike Gayle 35. The Perfect Golden Circle – Benjamin Myers 36. A Room With a View – EM Forster 37. Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories – Thomas Grant 38. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain – Charlotte Higgins 39. Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookshop – Robin Sloan 40. Afloat: a Memoir – Danie Couchman 41. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce 42. Family Secrets – Deborah Cohen 43. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 44. Round the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne 45. Stone Blind – Natalie Haynes 46. Incontinent on the Continent – Jane Christmas 47. The Only Plane in the Sky: the Oral History of 9/11 – Garrett M Graff 48. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People – Toby Young 49. Slow Horses – Mick Herron 50. The Man Who Died Twice – Richard Osman 51. The Butcher of Berner Street – Alex Reeve 52. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life – Natalie Haynes 53. Trespasses – Louise Kennedy 54. This Much is True – Miriam Margolyes 55. My Sister Milly – Gemma Dowler 56. Making Thorpe Park: the Complete Unofficial Story of the Theme Park – Chris Atkinson 57. Still Unsolved – Ed. Richard Glyn Jones 58. Wrong Place, Wrong Time – Gillian McAllister 59. Act of God – Graham Phillips 60. Landlines – Raynor Winn 61. Mrs Porter Calling – AJ Pearce 62. A Pocketful of Happiness – Richard E Grant 63. Reading Allowed – Chris Paling 64. All the Living and the Dead – Hayley Campbell 65. Heroes – Stephen Fry 66. Mischling - Affinity Konar

Relatively few stinkers considering, but I read a lot from my wish list and guess avoided the duff ones in the first place.

Crikey, @FortunaMajor , what a list! Hats off to you!