50 Books Challenge 2023 Part Eight

[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, the sixth one here and the seventh one here

Thanks @Southeastdweller

I’ve read a couple’s of Golden Age crimes that aren’t really worth reporting on. No idea what to go for next.

Thank you southeast - I think this may actually be the eighth thread…..

Bringing across my list…

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 39. Whistleblower - Robert Peston 40. Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith 41. Rizzio - Denise Mina 42. Sylvester - Georgette Heyer 43. Beyond the Wand - Tom Felton 44. Evil under the Sun - Agatha Christie 45. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho - Paterson Joseph 46. Damage - Felix Francis 47. The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side - Agatha Christie 48. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse 49. The Third Man and The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene 50. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver 51. Riders - Jilly Cooper 52. Halloween Party - Agatha Christie 53. Rivals - Jilly Cooper 54. The Cliff House - Chris Brookmyre 55. Peril at End House - Agatha Christie 56. Free Love - Tessa Hadley 57. Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie 58. The Echo Chamber - John Boyne 59. A Wedding in the Country - Katie Fforde 60. A Terrible Kindness - Jo Browning Wroe 61. Death comes as the End - Agatha Christie

Hoping to add some completed books soon.

Thanks SouthEast
I’m re-reading Harriet -Jilly Cooper. It is, of course, very much of its time and the sexism of some of the characters appalling but it’s reminded me how good she can be.

I think this may actually be the eighth thread…..

Of course it is! Clearly I didn't get enough caffeine today. I'll ask HQ to edit.

Thanks!

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, Chinua 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
61 A History of Burning, Janika Oza
62 Tears of Amber, Sofia Segovia
63 Kala, Colin Walsh
64 A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende
65 East West Street, Phillipe Sands
66 This Tender Land, William Kent Kruger
67 For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain, Victoria Makenzie
68 The Man Who Wasn't There, Pat Barker
69 Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
70 Goodbye to Berlin, Christoper Isherwood
71 The Escape Artist, Jonathon Freedland
72 Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch

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. Nightcrawling** by Leila Mottley 6. Under Country by Jonathan Trigell 7. The Crow Road by Iain Banks 8. Take My Hand** by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9. Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith 10. Spare by Prince Harry, Duke Of Sussex Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 12. Furious Love by Nancy Schoenburger and Sam Kashner 13. Our Wives Under The Sea 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. Hazards Of Time Travel 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. Stay With Me** by Ayobami Adebayo 41. Women Talking by Miriam Toews 42. Burntcoat** by Sarah Hall 43. The Devil In The White City by Erik Larsen 44. Difficult Women** by Helen Lewis 45. I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel 46. Wild** by Cheryl Strayed 47. * Woman, Eating* by Claire Kohda 48. Sankofa** by Chibundu Onuzo 49. A Terrible Kindness 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. Old Filth** 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. All The Light We Cannot See 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. Among Friends 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. Booth 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. The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty 79. I’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. Really Good, Actually 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. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 110. The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith 111. Snap by Belinda Bauer 112. The Storied Life Of AJ Fikry** by Gabrielle Zevin
   113. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates 114. Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan 115. Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks 116. Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry 117. Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
   118. The Hours by Michael Cunningham 119. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson 120. Kala** by Colin Walsh 121. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi**

And thanks southeast

Just checking in. Will add review number 100 later.

Checking in on the new thread- thanks southeast!

Thank you @Southeastdweller

I’ll save my list until the next thread, as my notebook is at home. Where I will be tomorrow . So much of Northumberland I didn’t manage to see, so much history to investigate!

Thanks Southeast

Cassandre delighted with the good news for your son. Great outcome.

Best wishes for everyone with a teen off to uni for the first time.

Placemarking with a dog story. The tail tale of a January diet in 4 parts.

Just placemarking for now, will be back later with some reviews. Thanks for the new thread southeast.

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 Heiney 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) 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 (Bilge) 35. Ordinary Human Failings- Meg Nolan 36. A Bird in Winter – Louise Doughty 37. Tom Lake - Ann Patchett 38. The List- Yomi Adegoke 39. The Seventh Son – Sebastian Faulks 40. Geneva – Richard Armitage 41. Everything is Not Enough – Lola Akinmade Akerstrom 42. The Future – Naomi Alderman 43. The Fetishist-Katherine Min 44. Water – John Boyne 45. The Vaster Wilds – Lauren Groff 46. Absolutely and Forever – Rose Tremain

Thanks Southeast

That's a very tragic tale @FortunaMajor

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

I'm just adding my reads from the previous thread. It's not been the best summer reading wise - I blame the Booker Longlist - although I haven't been working so have managed to get through more than last year. New job starts next week which will sadly impact my reading time.

60. Antartica -Claire Keegan
61. Remains of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
62. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain - Victoria Mckenzie
63. Kala - Colin Walsh
64. The Puppet Show - M W Craven
65. Black Summer - M W Craven
66. Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan
67. In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
68. How To Build A Boat - Elaine Feeney
69. The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng
70. Winter People - Grainne Murphy
71. Chain-gang All Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
72. Yellowface - R F Kuang
73. The Curator - M W Craven
74. Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton
75. A Spell of Good Things - Ayobami Adebayo

Currently reading Actress by Anne Enright. I think Irish authors may have to be their own category in my end of year stats this year, 5 on this list alone!

What a lovely face @FortunaMajor

Such soulful eyes @FortunaMajor !

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller , here’s my list:

1. Unmasking Autism: the power of embracing our hidden neurodiversity - Devon Price
2. Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
3. Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris
4. Asperger’s and Girls - Tony Attwood et al
5. And Finally - Henry Marsh
6. Ask A Historian - Greg Jenner
7. Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
8. An Immense World - Ed Yong
9. Head First: a psychiatrist’s stories of mind and body - Alastair Santhouse
10. A Million Years in a Day - Greg Jenner
11. The Dangerous Kingdom of Love - Neil Blackmore
12. Side Hustle - Chris Guillebeau
13. Feminism for Women - Julie Bindel
14. I’m a Fan - Sheena Patel
15. Exercised - Daniel Lieberman
16. Fairy Tale - Stephen King
17. Children of Paradise - Camilla Grudova
18. Woman, Eating - Claire Kohda
19. The Sensory-Sensitive Child - Karen A. Smith & Karen R. Gouze
20. Less is Lost - Andrew Sean Greer
21. Trespasses - Louise Kennedy
22. Dead Famous - Greg Jenner
23. Secrets of the Sea - Robert Vennell
24. From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doherty
25. Fire Rush - Jacqueline Crooks
26. Confessions of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
27. The God Desire - David Baddiel
28. Untypical - Pete Wharmby
29. The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O’Farrell
30. An Emotional Dictionary - Susie Dent
31. Pod - Laline Paull
32. Pandora’s Jar - Natalie Haynes
33. The Happy Puppy Handbook - Pippa Mattinson
34. Life Ceremony - Sayaka Murata
35. Idol - Louise O’Neill
36. Jung: the key ideas - Ruth Snowden
37. For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy on my Little Pain - Victoria Mackenzie
38. The Portable Door - Tom Holt
39. Mortal Monarchs - Suzie Edge
40. The Mental Load: a feminist comic - Emma
41. Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
42. Puppy Taming - Caroline Davis
43. Where I End - Sophie White
44. Femina - Janina Ramirez
45. All Dogs Great and Small - Graeme Hall
46. The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
47. The Book of Margery Kempe
48. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet - John McWhorter

Now reading Our Wives Under the Sea in a confused and exhausted, having a small puppy sort of way.

Those eyes!

Thanks for the new thread, South. Here are my reads since the start of the last thread:

50. The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
51. The Secret Rooms - Catherine Bailey
52. Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
53. May the Twelfth - ed. Humphrey Jennings & Charles Madge
54. Appointment with Yesterday - Celia Fremlin
55. A Fortunate Woman - Polly Morland
56. Privileged Children - Frances Vernon
57. Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
58. An Academic Question - Barbara Pym

I’ve finished The Old Curiosity Shop - review pending - and my leisurely perusal of Proust is (ever) ongoing.

Thank you for the new thread @Southeastdweller ! And I’m loving all the gorgeous dog pictures 😊

Here is my list:

1. Exit - Belinda Bauer
2. Watching Neighbours twice a day… - Josh Widdicombe
3. The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
4. The Plant Hunter - T L Mogford
5. House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family - Hadley Freeman
6. The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
7. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale
8. Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty
9. Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
10. Angelmaker - Nick Harkaway
11. Hiding from the light - Barbara Erskine
12. A Curious Beginning - Deanna Raybourn
13. Snap - Belinda Bauer
14. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
15. Femina - Janina Ramirez
16. Insomnia - Sarah Pinborough
17. Les Années - Annie Ernaux (in French)
18. A Spoonful of Murder - Robin Stevens
19. A Perilous Undertaking - Deanna Raybourn
20. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
21. The Holiday - T M Logan
22. Melmoth - Sarah Perry
23. Le Chapeau de Mitterand - Antoine Laurain (in French)
24. A Desperate Fortune - Susanna Kearsley
25. Wrong Place, Wrong Time - Gillian McAllister
26. A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett (read to the DDs)
27. Ne lâche pas ma main - Michel Bussi (in French)
28. The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake
29. Beach Read - Emily Henry
30. The It Girl - Ruth Ware
31. Babel: or the Necessity of Violence - R F Kuang
32. Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (in French)
33. Percy Jackson and the lightning thief - Rick Riordan
34. Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries - Kate Mosse
35. The Death of Mrs Westaway - Ruth Ware
36. Stupeur et Tremblements - Amélie Nothomb (in French)
37. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
38. That Night - Gillian McAllister
39. Les Cahiers d’Esther: Histoires de mes 12 ans - Riad Sattouf (in French)
40. The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre
41. The Ghost Woods - C J Cooke
42. Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
43. Exiles - Jane Harper
44. Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan
45. The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff
46. Death in the Spotlight - Robin Stevens
47. The Atlas Paradox - Olivie Blake
48. Upgrade - Blake Crouch

I have just finished the last one, Upgrade by Blake Crouch. I enjoyed it, although I think it got gradually less good as it went on, after a strong start. It’s set in the near future after catastrophic environmental changes including a mass famine caused by genetic modification, and is the story of a man subjected to a genetic upgrade. The world-building is really good but as it went on it got harder to care about the main character, and it was very mansplainy. Also lots of short sentences. With no verb. For emphasis. But despite the negatives, it was fun enough to be worth reading, and I would happily read another of Crouch’s books.

Thanks @Southeastdweller Just checking in for the moment - back with reviews when I've got a bit more time.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller! Here's my list, and a few recent reviews.

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 91. See It End by Brianna Labuskes 92. Sometime I Lie by Alice Feeny 93. Dune by Frank Herbert 94. Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King 95. City of Bones by Michael Connelly 96. Feedback by Peter Cawdron 97. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel 98. Rose Madder by Stephen King 99. Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson 100. The Green Mile by Stephen King 101. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood 102. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 103. The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly 104. Lost Light by Michael Connelly 105. Desperation by Stephen King 106. Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were by J F Andrews 107. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin 108. The Regulators by Stephen King 109. Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun 110. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 111. Bag of Bones by Stephen King 112. The Narrows by Michael Connelly

109. Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun

This story of the murder of Kim Hae-on, a high school girl in South Korea, and her sister’s (Da-on) investigation 17 years later was a little bit odd. The investigation isn’t the main point of the story, in fact it’s never explicitly said who the murderer is, although Da-on does think she’s worked it out. It’s more about the effects of grief on a family, but this felt a little superficial as the book is so short and is told from the viewpoint of three people, including two school-mates of the sisters. I was a bit confused about Hae-on, as some of her behaviour is a bit unusual, but it wasn’t made very clear what the cause was. As I said, it’s a bit odd, but I did kinda like it. This was free on Kindle Unlimited.

110. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

I absolutely loved everything about this book, it was just so incredibly vivid. I loved the story, the setting, and the characters, especially Janina, I loved this trip into her mind, and I was genuinely caught off guard by some parts. It’s definitely one of my favourite books so far this year.

111. Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Next in the Great Stephen King Reread. I enjoyed this much more than previously. There’s a good build-up and the central mystery kept me interested as I'd forgotten it since I last read this years ago.

112. The Narrows by Michael Connelly

Next in the Bosch series and The Poet serial killer is back! One of the better books in the series. Bosch is slightly less grumpy and arrogant in this one, and is still unaccountably attractive to the ladies. Honestly the knickers are pinging off left, right and centre whenever he is around!

Thanks as always for the new thread @Southeastdweller

My microlist so far:

1. In a Good Light by Claire Chambers
2. Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
3. Lean, Fall, Stand by Jon McGregor
4. The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
5. The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Simon Garfield
6. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
7. Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
8. Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett*
9. Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
10. Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
11. This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
12. Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
13. Villager by Tom Cox

Currently reading Old Filth, and finding it pretty average

Thanks for the new thread, Southeast!

I'm going to copy others in posting only the books I've read since the last thread started. Haven't quite decided on the bolds yet, so that may change:

51 The Instant by Amy Liptrot
52 Never Mind the Quantocks: How Country Walking Can Change Your Life by Stuart Maconie
53 Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
54 Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
55 The Pasty by Hettie Merrick
56 Punch and Judy Politics by Ayesha Hazarika and Tom Hamilton
57 Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
58 Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
59 Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore
60 A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon
61 Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
62 Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
63 Dirt Music by Tim Winton
64 Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by PG Wodehouse

Good luck in the new job @Stokey