50 Books Challenge 2024 Part Six

[Southeastdweller]

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

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2024, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, and please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.

If possible, please can you embolden your titles and maybe authors as well of books you've read or going to read? It makes it much easier to keep track.

Some of us bring over to the new thread lists of the books we've read so far, but again - this is your choice.

The first thread is here, the second one here , the third one here, the fourth one here and the fifth one here.

What are you reading?

Thanks southeast!

Thanks @Southeastdweller!

Since I'm here, I'll bring my list over.

1 The Trial – Rob Rinder
2 The Generation Divide: Why we can’t agree and why we should – Bobby Duffy
3 The Fell – Sarah Moss
4 Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell
5 Over Sea Under Stone – Susan Cooper
6 Greenwitch – Susan Cooper
7 The Grey King – Susan Cooper
8 Silver on the Tree – Susan Cooper
9 Orlando – Virginia Woolf
10 Liza’s England – Pat Barker
11 Winter – Ali Smith
12 Farewell Fountain Street – Selcuk Altun
13 Hungry – Grace Dent
14The Shadow Murders – Jussi Adler-Olsen
15 The Wayward Bus – John Steinbeck
16 My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
17 Giving Up the Ghost – Hilary Mantel
18 Spook Street – Mick Herron
19 The Waves – Virginia Woolf
20 At Freddie’s – Penelope Fitzgerald
21 Before the Queen Falls Asleep – Huzama Habayeb
22 The Progress of a Crime – Julian Symons
23 Death of a Lesser God – Vaseem Khan
24 Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
25 Green Dot – Madeleine Gray
26 Family Politics – John O’Farrell
27 The Five – Hallie Rubenhold
28 London Rules – Mick Herron
29 The Brightest Night (Wings of Fire 5) – Tui T. Sutherland
30 Joe Country – Mick Herron
31 Spring – Ali Smith
32 Yellowface – Rebecca F. Kuang
33 Sidesplitter – Phil Wang
34 Slough House – Mick Herron
35 Bad Actors – Mick Herron
36 The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree – Nice Nailantei Leng’ete
37 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster – Mirinae Lee
38 A Month in the Country – J. L. Carr
39 The Letters Volume IV: 1929 – 1931 – A Reflection of the Other Person – Virginia Woolf

Thank You southeast here's my list

1.	Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling
2.	Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling 
3.	Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by JK Rowling 
4.	Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire by JK Rowling 
5.	The End We Start From by Megan Hunter
6.	<strong>Tom Lake</strong> by Ann Patchett
7.	Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix by JK Rowling
8.	Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
9.	Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
10.	Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
11.	Penance by Eliza Clark
12.	Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 
13.	The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
14.	Educated by Tara Westover
15.	The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 
16.	<strong>Big Swiss</strong> by Jen Beagin
17.	1979 by Val McDermid 
18.	They&rsquo;re Going To Love You by Meg Howrey
19.	Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
20.	<strong>Project Hail Mary</strong> by Andy Weir
21.	Sorrow And Bliss by Meg Mason
22.	Rizzio by Denise Mina
23.	Happiness Falls by Angie Kim 
24.	Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
25.	The Restless Republic by Anna Keay
26.	Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
27.	Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam 
28.	Erasure by Percival Everett
29.	In The Woods by Tana French
30.	Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
31.	Killers Of The Flower Moon by David Grann   
32.	<strong>I Have Some Questions For You</strong> by Rebecca Makkai
33.	<span class="italic">Oracle</span> by Andrew Pyper
34.	City On Fire by Don Winslow
35.	City Of Dreams by Don Winslow
36.	Last Dance At The Discotheque for Deviants by Paul David Gould  
37.	Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
38.	Unorthodox by Deborah Feldman
39.	Sula by Toni Morrison
40.	Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 
41.	Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
42.	Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
43.	City In Ruins by Don Winslow
44.	<strong>Wifedom</strong> by Anna Funder
45.	11.22.63 by Stephen King
46.	<span class="italic">Apples Never Fall</span> by Liane Moriarty
47.	The Girls by Emma Cline
48.	Weyward by Emilia Hart
49.	Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
50.	Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobson 
51.	Dissolution by CJ Sansom
52.	The Martian by Andy Weir  
53.	<strong>Age Of Vice</strong> by Deepti Kapoor
54.	The Infiltrators by Norman Ohler
55.	The True History Of The Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
56.	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
57.	Knots And Crosses by Ian Rankin
58.	Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jurado
59.	<strong>The Escape Artist</strong> by Jonathan Freedland
60.	<span class="italic">Swanfolk</span> by Kristin Omarsdottir
61.	Doppelg&auml;nger by Naomi Klein
62.	There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
63.	Under The Banner Of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
64.	River Kings by Cat Jarman
65.	Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson
66.	Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Currently reading Red Memory, The Nix and The Women

Thanks Southeast

*It did make me ponder , though, how much or war writing- especially fiction but also non fiction - is about the middle and upper classes and how much the witness of the working classes has been lost. Presumably there are archival reasons for this. I don't count Robbie from Atonement because the whole point is that the upper middle classes have taken him ,and polished him, and then dumped him when it doesn't suit : but that he is no longer really working class.

Can anyone think of exceptions? Morpurgo tries,but any others for grown ups?*

War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans is about the author's Belgian grandfather in the First World War. It's a while since I read it but I seem to remember that he was working-class and doubly disadvantaged as a Flemish-speaker. It was definitely a good read.

Sorry, I should have said that the above was for @Piggywaspushed

Signing in, thanks for thread. Will post list tomorrow.

I agree with stowick from previous thread about AQOTWF and am interested another example is Belgian. Clearly, we need non British writers to escape the class preoccupation!

And I agree about In Memoriam too - it was one of my main criticisms in my review.

I think it's crying out for a writer to write about! Or perhaps a war experience written form the pov of an Indian serviceman or another poc. Palin mentions Indian servicemen in his book and Olusoga's The World's War is adamant on the point that we overlook so many voices with our focus on the white, public school officers.

Thanks for new thread!

Thanks SouthEast
Just placemarking for now.

As ever, thank you southeast.

Bringing across my badly-formatted list:

1. Trust - Hernan Diaz
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
3. Ruin Beach - Kate Rhodes

4. Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

1. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
2. Snow - John Banville

7. The Golden Mole - Katherine Rundell

1. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
2. Hostage - Clare Mackintosh

10. One Enchanted Evening - Katie Fforde 11. The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie 12. The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff 13. How it all Began - Penelope Lively 14. Pulse - Felix Francis 15. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E M Forster 16. Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart 17. The Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie 18. False Colours - Georgette Heyer 19. Jane and Prudence - Barbara Pym 20. Crisis - Felix Francis 21. The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier 22. Burnt Island - Kate Rhodes 23. Pulpit Rock - Kate Rhodes 24. Judgement Day - Penelope Lively 25. The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie 26. The Cleaner of Chartres - Sally Vickers 27. Queens of the Age of Chivalry - Alison Weir 28. Guilty Not Guilty - Felix Francis 29. Devil’s Table - Kate Rhodes 30. The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie 31. Tackle - Jilly Cooper 32. Berlin Game - Len Deighton 33. The Chateau - William Maxwell 34.The Trial - Robert Rinder 35. Iced - Felix Francis 36. The Trio - Johanna Hedman 37. Girl - Edna O’Brien 38. Fallen Angel - Chris Brookmyre 39. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie 40. In Memoriam - Alice Winn 41. Hands Down - Felix Francis 42. The Painter’s Daughters - Emily Howes 43. The Secret Hours - Mick Herron 44. Consequences - Penelope Lively 45. No Reserve - Felix Francis 46. Polo - Jilly Cooper 47. Spinning Plates - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 48. Taken at the Flood - Agatha Christie 49. A Catalogue of Catastrophe - Jodi Taylor 50. Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown - Alison Weir 51. Death in the Spires - KJ Charles

My latest read is:

52. The Brutal Tide - Kate Rhodes

Back in the Isles of Scilly with former Met police officer, Ben Kitto. A buried body is found on Bryher but no-one has gone missing recently so who is it and who was responsible for the death? Whilst Ben is investigating he finds out that he is also being targeted for his role in putting a gang leader in prison during his Met days and his own life is at risk.

There is a similarity to these stories but I still keep turning the pages wanting to find out whodunnit and not managing to guess who it is.

Thank you for the new thread @Southeastdweller ! Here’s my list:

1. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
2. The Five-minute Garden - Laetitia Maklouf
3. A Symphony of Echoes - Jodi Taylor
4. Agent Sonya - Ben Macintyre
5. A Second Chance - Jodi Taylor
6. The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley
7. Homecoming - Kate Morton
8. Le Jardinage pour les Nuls - Michael MacCaskey (in French; tr. Valérie Martin-Rolland)
9. Once Upon a Crime - Robin Stevens
10. Heresy - SJ Parris
11. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity - Robin Stevens
12. Politics on the Edge - Rory Stewart
13. The Appeal - Janice Hallett
14. The Ferryman - Justin Cronin
15. The Twyford Code - Janice Hallett
16. The Mitford Girls - Mary S Lovell
17. Country Secrets - Fiona Walker
18. A Stitch in Time - Penelope* *Lively
19. The Wager - David Grann
20. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels - Janice Hallett
21. The Hike - Lucy Clarke
22. Seeing a Large Cat - Elizabeth Peters
23. The Ski Trip - Sarah Clarke
24. The Scarlet Dress - Louise Douglas
25. The Lost Bookshop - Evie Woods
26. The Lost Notebook - Louise Douglas
27. The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman
28. The Future of Geography - Tim Marshall
29. The Secret of Villa Alba - Louise Douglas
30. The House by the Sea - Louise Douglas
31. One of the Girls - Lucy Clarke
32. The Summer of Lies - Louise Douglas
33. The Room in the Attic - Louise Douglas

Popping in to wave at everyone. I'm on holiday and will catch up on my reviews when I'm back on the laptop. Interrailing around Europe so plenty of reading time.

Thanks for the thread, South. I’ll just pop these on while I’m here….everything I've read since the start of the last thread.

Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad - Daniel Finkelstein

The L-Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks

The See-Through House - Shelley Klein

Waiting - Ha Jin

Rites of Passage - Judith Flanders

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore

Hokkaido Highway Blues - Will Ferguson

A Thousand Lies - Laura Wilson

Gwen Raverat - Frances Spalding

A Secret Life - Christobel Kent

Dancing into Battle - Nick Foulkes

Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens

Private Faces - Siân Phillips

Out of the Bandbox - Marjorie Gayler

Public Places - Siân Phillips

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths - Barbara Comyns

To Be Young - Mary Lutyens

Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke

London Underground by Design - Mark Ovenden

(my numbers wouldn’t carry over but they start at 37)

I'm currently reading Jocelyn Playfair's A House in the Country and Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is the next read for the Rather* *Dated Book Club, should anyone fancy joining in - all welcome.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

@Piggywaspushed I'd love to read something that was by a soldier from India or a Gurkha or similar.

Bringing my list over, I've had a decent reading month (interspersed with fairy porn!).

1. TheTwist of a Knife - Anthony Horowitz
2. Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
3. Verdigris - Michele Mari, translated by Brian Robert Moore
4. The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
5. Big Swiss - Jen Beagin
6. The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller
7. The School at the Chalet - Elinor M Brent Dyer
8. The Biography of X - Catherine Lacey
9. Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes

10. American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld 11. The First Bad Man - Miranda July 12. The New Life - Tom Crew 13. North Woods - Daniel Mason 14. Western Lane - Chetna Maroon 15. Lublin - Manya Wilkinson 16. Tom Lake -Anne Patchett 17. A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan 18. The Candy House - Jennifer Egan 19. I Have Some Questions For You - Rebecca Makkai 20. Hungry Ghosts - Kevin Jared Hosein 21. Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi 22. Jo Returns to The Chalet School 23. In defence of the Act - Effie Black 24. Scrap - Calla Henkel 25. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? - Nicci French 26. Our Wives Under The Sea - Julia Armfield 27. Open Throat - Henry Hoke 28. And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliot 29. Slow Horses - Mick Herron 30. The Fury - Alex Michaelides 31. River East, River West- Aube Rey Lescure 32. Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan 33. Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad 34. Cuddy - Benjamin Myers 35. Brotherless Nights - V.V Ganeshantanan 36. Bunny - Mona Awad 37. Come And Get it - Kiley Reid 38. The Mess We're In - Annie McManus 39. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin 40. The Raging Storm - Anne Cleeves 41. Greenwich Park - Katherine Faulkner 42. You Are Here - David Nicholls 43. Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan 44. Scary Monsters - Michelle De Kretser 45. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus 46. Mammoth - Eva Baltasar 47. Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros 48. A Court Of Thorn and Roses - Sarah J Maas 49. A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J Maas 50. A Court Of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J Maas 51. A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J Maas 52. Pearl - Sian Hughes 53. A Court of Silver Flames - Sarah J Maas 54. Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar 55. Thunderclap - Laura Cumming 56. Brooklyn - Colm Toibin 57. Helle & Death - Oskar Jensen 58. Mongrel - Hanako Footman

I’m going to save the full list for the last thread as it’s getting unwieldy now and I type it each time on my phone which takes a while!

89 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox- Maggie O’Farrell
90 Black River- Nilanjana Roy
91 After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil- Marilyn J Bardsley
92 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
93 Wild Houses- Colin Barrett
94 Shadowlands- Matthew Green
95 Clear- Carys Davis
96 The Women- Kristen Hannah
97 The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins
98 You Like it Darker- Stephen King
99 Cloistered- Catherine Coldstream
100 When we were Silent- Fiona McPhillips
101 Pity- Andrew McMillan
102 Devotion- Hannah Kent
103 Exile- Aimee Walsh
104 Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
105 Slough House- Mick Herron
106 Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes
107 The Guest- Emma Cline
108 The Dying Day- Vaseem Khan
109 Piranesi- Susannah Clarke
110 Amsterdam- Ian McEwan
111 Collected Poems- Philip Larkin
112 The Passengers- Will Ashon
113 The Coast Road- Alan Murrin
114 Medea- Euripedes
115 Black and British- David Olusoga
116 Glorious Exploits- Ferdia Lennon
117 Hell Bay- Kate Rhodes
118 Killing Thatcher- Rory Carroll
119 See them Run Marion Todd
120 Of Darkness and Light- Ryan Cahill
121 Daughter of the River Country- Diane O’Brien
122 Trio of short stories by Poe/ Atwood/ Allende
123 Lazy City- Rachel Connolly
124 Boulder- Eva Baltasar
125 Wellness- Nathan Hill
This is the only one I haven’t reviewed. It tells the story of Jack and Elizabeth, how they meet in the 90s and get married and flashes forward to the present day where they are unhappily married and have a child. The book flashes back and forward throughout their lives and looks at how well we ever know ourselves and one another. It gently pokes fun at wellness culture but always with warmth towards the characters. I listened to this on audio and loved it.

Favourite books of the last thread Esme Lennox, Glorious Exploits and Wellness

Thanks @Southeastdweller

Thanks southeast

My little list:

• Confessions of a forty-something **-up – Alexandra Potter
• Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race – Reni Eddo-lodge
• A heart that works – Rob Delaney
• Really good, actually – Monica Heisey
• 52 ways to Walk – Annabel Streets
• Amy & Isabelle – Elisabeth Strout
• Islands of mercy – Rose Tremain
• From miniskirt to hijab – Jacqueline Saper
• Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
• The Sober Diaries – Clare Pooley
• The Lost Words – Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
• Tom Lake – Ann Patchett
• The Strawberry Thief - Joanne Harris
• The village by the sea – Anita Desai
• Soldier, Sailor – Claire Kilroy
• Sober curious – Ruby Warrington
• 500 miles from you – Jenny Colgan
• 0 Caledonia – Elspeth Barker
• The Winners – Frederik Backman
• Learn Spanish – Paul Noble

Currently reading Hamnett by Maggie O'Farrell which I'm loving and listening to Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks which I'm finding increasingly depressing as the plot progresses.

Counting down the days to my hols in Croatia. Any top tips for relevant reads (or listens) always appreciated.

1 Watership Down: the Graphic Novel - Richard Adams
2 The Lord God Made them All - James Herriot
3 A Helping Hand - Celia Dale
4 Where I End - Sophie White
5 A Net for Small Fishes - Lucy Jago
6 Even the Dogs - John McGregor
7 How to be Both - Ali Smith
8 Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
9 Ironopolis - Glen James Brown
10 Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
11 Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
12 The Wizard of the Kremlin - Giuliano da Empoli
13 For thy Great Pain have Mercy on my Little Pain - Victoria MacKenzie
14 The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler
15 Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
16 Pure - Andrew Miller
17 Wonder - RJ Palacio
18 If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
19 When we were Romans - Matthew Kneale

Thanks for the new thread Southeastdweller!
Here is the continuation of my list from last time;

32. A Woman's Story: Annie Ernaux
33. The L-Shaped Room: Lynne Reid Banks
34. The Heat of the Day: Elizabeth Bowen
35. A BBC Radio Full Cast Production of Plays by Elizabeth Bowen
36. The Scarlet Pimpernel: Baroness Orczy
37. Exteriors: Annie Ernaux trans. Tanya Leslie
38. Nicholas Nickleby: Charles Dickens
39. Real Murders Aurora Teagarden #1: Charlaine Harris
40. Our Spoons Came From Woolworths: Barbara Comyns
41. Middlemarch: George Eliot
42. Doreen: Barbara Noble
43. Un Lieu Incertain: Fred Vargas 44. Brotherless Night: V.V. Ganeshananthan
44. My Italian Bulldozer: Alexander McCall Smith.

Thank you @Southeastdweller for the new thread. My list to date:

1.Just Like You by Nick Hornby
2.Oxblood by Tom Benn
3.My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
5 The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
6.Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
7.Tresspasses by Louise Kennedy
8.Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
9.Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
10.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
11.Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
12.Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
13.Freya by Anthony Quinn
14.Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
15.Our Friends in Berlin by Anthony Quinn
16.Paper Cup by Karen Campbell
17.Matrix by Lauren Groff
18.Picnic at Hanging Rock by Jean Lindsay
19.Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
20.Exiles by Jane Harper
21. The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve
22.Undoctored by Adam Kay
22.Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
23.Bewilderment by Richard Powers
24.Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
26.Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
25.Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
27.Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
28.The Tuscan Year: Life And Food In An Italian Valley by Elizabeth Romer
29.Broken Light by Joanne Harris
30.The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
31. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I've just DNF'ed Traces: The memoir of a forensic scientist and criminal investigator by Patrica Wiltshire - too much pollen, not enough murder.

And I've finished listening to 32.The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. Another cosy crime for our senior sleuths, with a slight more batshit plot than the first. Not for everyone I'm sure, but the writing is good enough that I don't cringe, and if there was an Amazon genre for Audiobooks You Can Listen to While Engaged In Low-Key Admin At The Same Time this would be a perfect example. I've already borrowed the third instalment.

Thanks for the new thread South!

Here’s my list:

1. Be a Free Range Human - Marianne Cantwell
2. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doherty
3. The Second Sleep - Robert Harris
4. Poirot’s Silent Night - Sophie Hannah
5. Unruly - David Mitchell
6. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
7. Rising to the Surface - Lenny Henry
8. The First Fossil Hunters - Adrienne Mayor
9. Vital Organs - Suzie Edge
10. Venomous Lumpsucker - Ned Beauman
11. Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You - Eleanor Tweddell
12. Attack Warning Red - Julie McDowall
13. Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
14. Culture: a new world history - Martin Puchner
15. Vet in Harness - James Herriot
16. Weird Medieval Guys - Olivia Swarthout
17. Why is This a Question? - Paul Anthony Jones
18. Nursery Earth - Danna Staaf
19. Writing for Busy Readers - Todd Rogers & Jessica Lasky-Fink
20. Your Child is Not Broken - Heidi Mavis
21. The Ferryman - Justin Cronin
22. Sacred Nature - Karen Armstrong
23. The New Life - Tom Crewe
24. Medieval Horizons: why the Middle Ages matter - Ian Mortimer
25. Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
26. The Quick and the Dead - Cynric Temple-Camp
27. The Leader Assistant - Jeremy Burrows
28. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty - Akwaeke Emezi
29. The Cause of Death - Cynric Temple-Camp
30. Great and Horrible News - Blessin Adams
31. What I Want to Talk About - Pete Wharmby
32. A Curious History of Sex - Kate Lister
33. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops - Shaun Bythell
34. Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
35. Rizzio - Denise Mina
36. The Final Diagnosis - Cynric Temple-Camp
37. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
38. The Covent Garden Ladies - Hallie Rubenhold
39. The Betrayal - Helen Dunmore
40. What About Men? - Caitlin Moran
41. A Spell of Good Things - Ayobami Adebayo
42. Divine Might - Natalie Haynes
43. Rebel Folklore - Icy Sedgwick

@bibliomania interrailing around Europe with books sounds like the perfect holiday! 😄

Thanks @Southeastdweller to I’ll bring my list over in the morning.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller here's my list. Not many bolds but a lot have been pretty near and I might do a reassessment soon.

I've been enjoying my reading this year, focusing less on numbers and reading more fiction and listening to more audiobooks. I'm continuing my approach of having a fiction and nonfiction book on the go in book, kindle, and audiobook form which is working really well for me.

1 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
3 Here’s Looking At You by Mhairi McFarlane
4 Christmas Pie by Jodi Taylor
5 The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
6 Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants by Paul David Gould
7 The Maid by Nita Prose
8 One Day With You by Shari Low
9 Fool Me Once by Ashley Winstead
10 Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
11 Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
12 Les Enfants Terribles Jean Cocteau
13 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
14 Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
15 Call the Canaries Home by Laura Barrow
16 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
17 Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins
18 The Spare Room by Laura Starkey
19 Hags by Victoria Smith
20 Rachel Ryan's Resolutions by Laura Starkey
21 Amy Perry’s Assumptions by Laura Starkey
22 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
23 Why Don’t You Love Me? by Paul Rainey
24 Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
25 Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan H Ropper and BD Burrell
26 The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
27 A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E Grant
28 The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
29 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
30 One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky
31 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
32 The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
33 The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner
34 The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
35 The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner
36 Gone by Lisa Gardner
37 Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner
38 Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner
39 How To Clean Everything by Ann Russell
40 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
41 Eye For An Eye MJ Arlidge
42 Little Ghosts by Gregg Dunnett
43 Meet Me On The Bridge by Sarah J Harris
44 Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
45 To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
46 On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and its Aftermath By the People Who Were There by Julieann Campbell
47 The Night Raven by Sarah Painter
48 Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
49 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
50 Who’s That Girl by Mhairi McFarlane
51 All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
52 Killing Time by Jodi Taylor
53 Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
54 Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
55 You Belong With Me by Mhairi McFarlane
56 Time Shards by Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald
57 Frenchmen’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier

Yes! Enjoy @bibliomania !