50 Books Challenge 2024 Part Seven

[Southeastdweller]

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

What are you reading?

Lagging behind quite lamentably this year. Here's my teeny weeny list. Thanks as always @Southeastdweller

• 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
• Fire Rush – Jacqueline Crooks
• Hamnett – Maggie O’Farrell

Currently reading A little life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway and listening to Wild by Cheryl Strayed.
Progressing at a snail's pace this year. New work commute should help!

Thank you, as ever southeast.

Bringing my list across with apologies for formatting which looks fine until I preview/publish:

1. Trust - Hernan Diaz

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
2. 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 52. The Brutal Tide - Kate Rhodes 53. Mexico Set - Len Deighton 54. London Match - Len Deighton 55. Knife - Salman Rushdie 56. The Midnight Feast - Lucy Foley 57. Dead Man’s Folly - Agatha Christie 58. Poor - Katriona O’Sullivan 59. The Quiet Gentleman - Georgette Heyer 60. The Bee Sting - Paul Murray 61. Emily - Jilly Cooper 62. Spiderweb - Penelope Lively 63. The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim 64. Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie 65. Yellowface - Rebecca Kuang

Can’t decide what to read next….

Checking in. Will add list later.

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. Tom Lake 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. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin 17. 1979 by Val McDermid 18. They’re Going To Love You by Meg Howrey 19. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan 20. Project Hail Mary 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. I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai 33. Oracle 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. Wifedom by Anna Funder 45. 11.22.63 by Stephen King 46. Apples Never Fall 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. Age Of Vice 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. The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland 60. Swanfolk by Kristin Omarsdottir 61. Doppelgänger 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 67. The Women by Kristen Hannah 68. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover 69. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 70. The Ministry Of Time by Kaliane Bradley 71. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor 72. A Symphony Of Echoes by Jodi Taylor 73. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin 74. Orbital by Samantha Harvey 75. A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor 76. Butter by Asako Yuzuki 77. The Ferryman by Justin Cronin 78. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor 79. The Burning by Jane Casey 80. The Reckoning by Jane Casey 81. The Last Girl by Jane Casey 82. What’s Next? by Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack 83. No Time Like The Past by Jodi Taylor 84. The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey 85. The Kill by Jane Casey 86. A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin 87. Born A Crime by Trevor Noah 88. After The Fire by Jane Casey 89. Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey 90. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Jodi Taylor 91. The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wouden 92. Artemis by Andy Weir 93. James by Percival Everett 94. Cruel Acts by Jane Casey 95. Reach For The Stars by Michael Cragg Here's my list still not many bolds thanks southeast

Thank you for the new thread @Southeastdweller

I'm in the middle of Katharine Parr The Sixth Wife, the final volume in Alison Weir's Six Tudor Queens series which I've read on and off over the last couple of years.

It's an easy read however definitely not the best of the series. I don't know whether it's lazy writing or editing, but there are some anachronistic turns of phrase. I'm not looking for Shakespearean dialogue (which wouldn't work either) but:
"You're not going anywhere" and "Go fuck yourself" felt rather jarring.

I'm enjoying it up to a point but suspect I might be a bit Tudored out by now.

Thank you for new thread.
I have Craig Brown - A Voyage Around the Queen * on Audible (excellent reading by Harriet Walter) and The Burnout - Sophie Kinsella* on Kindle on the go. Both very enjoyable.

Thanks for the new thread Southeast!

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
44. How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair
45. In Defence of Witches - Mona Chollet
46. Emperor of Rome - Mary Beard
47. You Don’t Have to be Mad to Work Here - Benji Waterhouse
48. Deerskin - Robin McKinley
49. Camouflage: the hidden lives of autistic women - Sarah Bargiela
50. How to Survive the School Year - Lee Parkinson & Adam Parkinson

Thanks for the new thread, South. I'll hold off on my list for a bit, as I actually came on to add a review so don’t want to end up with a post even longer than mine usually are!*

68. The War Diaries - Nina Siegal

Weirdly, this was called The Diary Keepers when I first added it to my wishlist, but it seems to have changed title, which is a bit odd. Anyway, it’s very good, and was sparked off for me by spending some time in the Netherlands last year on a family history-related trip that involved quite a close encounter with evidence of the country’s (grim) wartime experiences.

Essentially, this book presents extracts from 9 Dutch wartime diaries - all part of a collection of thousands in the State Department for War Documentation. Nina Siegal's main focus is on Jewish experiences, although not all the diarists are Jewish, and two are Nazi sympathisers. That relatively small number of testimonies allows her to weave a tight and genuinely gripping timeline as the war progresses and the occupying Nazis tighten their grip remorselessly on the Jewish population of the Netherlands, who were murdered in vast numbers. The two Nazi-adjacent diarists (Dutch, but enthusiastic Hitler-worshippers) are quoted to devastating effect next to entries both from Jewish people facing a terrible fate, and others (including a hugely courageous middle-aged woman) who helped and sheltered them. By the end, you're reading heart-in-mouth to find out what happened to everyone and hoping against hope that all the 'good' diarists survived - incredibly, one was still alive when the book was written; a hale and hearty 105-year-old.

I've read many Mass Observation-type British books on the war but it was good to explore the experiences of another country - especially as a fair bit of the detail here intersects with the story told by Daniel Finkelstein in Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad - so may be of interest to anyone who read that as well.

*sorry - still too long…!

Just place marking on the new thread. Thanks southeast!

Ooh want to join this thread.. have to go and write down/remember all the books I've read this year!

Hello Fishcake, welcome to one of the friendliest corners of Mumsnet. Thank you for the shiny new thread south.

I'm saving my list till the end of the year as always.

54.	<strong>Memphis</strong> - Tara M Stringfellow

A saga of Memphis life, following a Black family in episodes from the 1930s to 2000s, as narrated by its women over three generations. It’s a powerful story, violent and shocking in parts, showing how the past can shape families, particularly with the weight of expectation on the women over the generations. Funnily enough, though the setting is completely different it shares a theme with my last book, The Bookbinder of Jericho, that of a young woman trying to escape her family circumstances to find a better life. Not a book I would normally go for but a good choice.

55.	<strong>Soldier Sailor</strong> - Claire Kilroy

I’m probably the last on this thread to read this. After the last two plot-heavy books this was a complete change of pace. It brought back memories of the intensity of early motherhood where everything was a struggle. The friend was a mystery - I understand his purpose but he just disappeared towards the end. The ending was very affecting.

@Fishcake18 welcome to the thread - it really is the nicest part of MN but it’ll play havoc with your bank balance! Some of us bring across our reading list at the start of a new thread, others don’t bother. Going forward there are apps like Goodreads that are great for keeping track of what you’ve read and what you’d like to read.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller, I’ll bring my list over later today.

1 The Short End of the Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig, translated by Jonathan Franzen and Jenny Watson
2 The Five Minute Garden by Laetitia Maklouf
3 Kristin Lavrandatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset. Translated by Tiina Nunnally
4 Stars of Fortune by Cynthia Harnett
5 Heartstopper Vol 5 by Alice Oseman
6 Nimona by ND Stevenson
7 Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushimo. Translated by Geraldine Harcourt
8 Rizzio by Denise Mina
9 Sophia, Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand
10 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa. Translated by Stephen Snyder
11 Nightingale Wood by Stella Gibbons
12 The Door by Magda Szabó. Translated by Len Rix
13 Aya: Claws Come Out by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie. Translated by Edwige Renée Dro
14 Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
15 Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi. Translated by Patrick Creagh
16 Moms by Yeong-shin Ma. Translated by Janet Hong
17 The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
18 Hags. The demonisation of middle-aged women by Victoria Smith
19 The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
20 The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
21 Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin. Translated by John W. Baker
22 No Surrender by Constance Maud. Adapted by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard
23 Hilo 10: Rise of the Cat by Judd Winick
24 Second-Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
25 All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
26 The Warden by Anthony Trollope
27 Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe. Translated by Katy Derbyshire
28 King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
29 Ducks. Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
30 Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. Translated by Michael Hofmann
31 Elena: A Hand Made Life by Miriam Gold

Currently about quarter of the way through O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker and loving it so far.

Signing in. Currently reading Wifedom, which is excellent. Will do the full list later!

This is my list since the last thread.

125 Wellness- Nathan Hill
126 In Search of Lost Time Vol I- The Way by Swann’s Marcel Proust
127 A Village in the Third Reich- Julia Boyd
128 The Crossing Places- Elly Griffith
129 The Burgess Boys- Elizabeth Strout
130 Summer - Ali Smith
131 The Nickel Boys- Colson Whitehead
132 Notes of a Native Som- James Baldwin
133 The Axeman’s Carnival- Catherine Chidgey
134 The Janus Stone- Elly Griffiths
135 56 Days- Catherine Ryan Howard
136 Old Romantics- Maggie Armstrong
137 Crime and Pubishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
138 The Girl and the Stars- Mark Lawrence
139 Ruin Beach- Kate Rhodes
140 The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton
141 The Rotter’s Club- Jonathan Coe
142 Maus- Art Speigelman
143 The Seven Moons of Maali Almieda - Shehan Karunatilaka
144 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant- Ann Tyler
145 The Rachel Incident- Caroline O’Donaghue
146 My Friends- Hisham Matar
147 Trio of short reads The Persians (Aeschylus) Doctor Marigold (Dickens) Come Rain or Come Shine (Ishiguro)
148 The Safe Keep- Yael van der Wouden
149 Their Eyes were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
150 The Road Cormac McCarthy
151 Spoilt Creatures- Amy Twigg
152 Falling Animals- Sheila Armstrong
153 Hitler- Ian Kershaw

My Storygraph says 154 so I’ve obviously left something out but can’t be bothered to find out what!
Only one I haven’t reviewed is the Kershaw- definitive Hitler biography- a reread for me to refresh me on teaching the Nazis which I haven’t done for a few years.
Currently reading Anna Karenina (book club slow read over 2 months- loving it so far) Sunken Lands (non-fic about drowned cities- okay) and 2 thrillers Distress Signals on audio and Murder Town on kindle- both a bit meh.

Welcome to the thread Fishcakes!

Thanks @Southeastdweller My little list, but i am halfway.

1. The Cutting Season Attica Locke

2. Jesus Land Julia Scheeres 3. In a Dark Dark Wood Ruth Ware 4. Night Waking Sarah Moss 5. Falling Animals Shelia Armstrong 6. Little Disasters Sarah Vaughan 7. Bluebird Bluebird Attica Locke 8. Heaven My Home Attica Locke 9. Black Water Rising Attica Locke 10. The Ready Made Family Antonia Forest 11. Eating for England Nigel Slater 12. The Homes J. B. Mylett 13. Girl Missing Sophie McKenzie 14. Sister Missing Sophie McKenzie 15. The Survivors Jane Harper 16. The Appeal Janice Hallett 17. Ill Take That One Kitty Baxter 18. Instructions for a heatwave Maggie O'Farrell 19. Pine Francine Toon 20. The Hiding Place Amanda Mason 21 Giving Up the Ghost Hilary Mantel 22 Kala Colin Walsh 23 Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? Nicci French 25 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett

Really struggling to get into anything at the currently. I started Soldier Sailor on my kindle, but (whispers) i cant seem to get into it. Everyone else seems to love it so it may be my state of mind. Treatment is leaving me with the attention span of a gnat at the moment.

Thank you for the new thread Southeastdweller! As always, I'm typing on my phone, so will just add on from where I stopped last time. I must catch up with writing reviews for the latest few books.
Welcome to the 50 Bookers thread @Fishcake18 ! I hope you enjoy hanging out here as much as I do!

46. The Dictator's Wife: Freya Berry
47. The New Sorrows of Young W: Ulrich Plenzdorf trans. Romy Fursland
48. The Pursuit of Love: Nancy Mitford
49. Sick of Shadows: M.C. Beaton
50. Non puoi essere tu: Sonia Ognibene
51. Enter Ghost: Isabella Hammond
52. The Burning Soul: John Connolly
53. Thérèse Desqueroux: François Mauriac
54. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall: Katie Lumsden
55. Paris Metro Tales: compiled by Helen Constantine
56. A House in the Country: Jocelyn Playfair
57. Blank Pages and Other Stories: Bernard McLaverty
58. The Misty Harbour Maigret #12: Georges Simenon
59. Amongst Women: John McGahern
60. The Italian Girl: Iris Murdoch
61. Love in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford

I'm currently reading The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods, The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf and À son image by Jérôme Ferrari. And a daily read of the extraordinary Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Morning! Thank you @Southeastdweller .
Morrigan under a namechange.
I will now attempt a List…..

Tomorrow x 3 - Gabrielle Zevin
Winter Children - Angela Slatter
Night Side of The River - Janette Winterson
Green And Pleasant Land - Ed Steve Shaw
Thorn In My Side - CJ Skuse
Berserker - Ade Edmondson
Time After Time - Chris Atkins
Dark Satanic Mills - Ed Steve Shaw
Paper Cup - Karen Campbell
The Twilight Time - Karen Campbell
The Wrong Girl - Angela Slatter
Unruly - David Mitchell
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy - Mark Hodkinson
Normal Rules Don’t Apply - Kate Atkinson
For Thy Great Pain - Victoria MacKenzie
After The Fire - Karen Campbell
Cursed Bread - can’t remember author, cba to look it up
A Pocketful Of Happiness - Richard E Grant
Broken Ghost - Niall Griffiths
The New Life - Tom Crewe
Uncut - Christopher Fowler
North Woods - Daniel Mason
The Others Of Edenwood - Verity M Holloway
I Have Some Questions For You - Rebecca Makkai
Music In The Dark - Sally Magnusson
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Demonized - Christopher Fowler
Piglet - Lottie Hazell
Jump Cut - Helen Grant
Becoming Liz Taylor - Elizabeth Pelo
The Gathering - CJ Tudor
The British Bloke - Geoff Norcott
^The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo
The Instruments Of Darkness - John Connolly
Comfort Eating - Grace Dent
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
You Like It Darker - Stephen King
In Memoriam - Alice Winn
You Are Here - David Nicholls
Barrowbeck - Andrew Michael Hurley
Male Tears - Benjamin Myers
The Mess We’re In - Annie Macmanus
Mother Naked - Glenn James Brown
All The Little Bird Hearts - Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty
Dead Water - C A Fletcher
Under Another Sky - Charlotte Higgins
*The Warm Hands Of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
Rare Singles - Benjamin Myers
The Seaside - Madeleine Bunting
The Briar Book Of The Dead - A G Slatter
Enlightenment - Sarah Perry
Lost In The Garden - Adam S Leslie
Gay Shame - Gareth Roberts
The Maiden - Kate Foster
A Small Bomb At Dimperley - Lissa Evans
The God Of The Woods - Liz Moore

So quite a few bolds but also quite a few italic letdowns. 61 so far.
DNFed The Comfort Of Monsters and Prophet Song.

Thanks @Southeastdweller for the new thread

My list:

1. Echo Burning; Lee Child
2. The Mysterious Affair at Styles; Agatha Christie
3. Without Fail; Lee Child
4. Persuader; Lee Child
5. Beg, Borrow or Steal; Susie Tate
6. Lights Out; Elise Hart Kipness
7. A Fatal Inversion; Barbara Vine
8. The Secret Adversary; Agatha Christie
9. The Witcher: The Last Wish; Andrezj Sapkowski
10. I'll Never Tell; Catherine McKenzie
11. A Doctor Blind Date for the Cowboy; Dobi Daniels
12. The Frightened Lady; Edgar Wallace
13. The Mystery of the Blue Train; Agatha Christie
14. Manhattan State of Mind; Rosa Lucas
15. The Cowboy's Unexpected Love; S. J. McCoy
16. The Guesthouse; Abbie Frost
17. The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811; P. D. James & T. A. Critchley
18. The Murder at the Vicarage; Agatha Christie
19. The Duke and I; Julia Quinn
20. Murder Most Royal; S. J. Bennett
21. Death in the Sunshine; Steph Broadribb
22. The Dead of Winter; S. J. Parris
23. The Highland Kiss; Amy McGavin
24. In a Dark, Dark Wood; Ruth Ware
25. The A.B.C Murders; Agatha Christie
26. Untouched; Dakota Willinck
27. All Fired Up; Lili Valente
28. The Last Resort; Susi Holliday
29. The Housemaid; Frieda McFadden
30. Friends in Napa; Sheila Yasmin Marikar
31. Nothing to Hide; Scarlett Finn
32. Seduced by the Boss; Lexi Noir
33. A Body in the Village Hall; Dee MacDonald
34. And Then There Were None; Agatha Christie
35. The Twyford Code; Janice Hallett
36. Rizzio; Denise Mina
37. Twisted Love; Ana Huang
38. My Grumpy Cowboy; Olivia Sage
39. Empire State Enemies; Rosa Lucas
40. No One's Home; D. M. Pulley
41. The Misbegotten; Katherine Webb
42. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television; Louis Theroux
43. Don't Forget Me; Rea Frey
44. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China; Jung Chang
45. All Because of You; Theresa Paolo
46. Mia's Scandal; Michelle Reid
47. Taken at the Flood; Agatha Christie
48. Fallen Angel; Chris Brookmyre
49. Uncle Paul; Celia Fremlin
50. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Stieg Larsson
51. The Girl who Played with Fire; Stieg Larsson
52. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest; Stieg Larsson
53. The Darkest Flower; Kristin Wright
54. Broken Bayou; Jennifer Moorhead
55. Finding Lord Farlisle; Cassandra Dean
56. A Murder is Announced; Agatha Christie
57. Where Water Lies; Hilary Tailor
58. The Cuckoo Sister; Alison Stockham
59. The Other Husband; Kathryn Croft

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller. Bringing 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

1. Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell
2. Over Sea Under Stone – Susan Cooper
3. Greenwitch – Susan Cooper

7. The Grey King – Susan Cooper

1. Silver on the Tree – Susan Cooper
2. Orlando – Virginia Woolf

10. Liza’s England – Pat Barker 11. Winter – Ali Smith 12. Farewell Fountain Street – Selcuk Altun 13. Hungry – Grace Dent 14. The 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 40. The Truths We Hold – Kamala Harris 41. The Chinese Maze Murders – Robert van Gulik 42. Summer – Ali Smith 43. Virginia Woolf (vol 2) – Quentin Bell 44. Wifedom – Anna Funder 45. Past Lying – Val McDermid 46. The Wind Through the Keyhole – Stephen King 47. L'Etranger - Albert Camus 48. Patchwork - Ellen Banda-Aaku 49. Night Waking - Sarah Moss 50. Traces - Patricia Wiltshire

Well that made a mess of the numbering but in general I think you can follow!

1. Identity, Nora Roberts
2. Nightwork, Nora Roberts
3. Chances, Freya North
4. Whatever it Takes, Adele Parks
5. Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter
6. The Great Post Office Scandal, Nick Wallis
7. Politics on the Edge, Rory Stewart
8. Eat Sweat Play, Anna Kessels
9. Stranded, short stories, Val McDermid
10. Past Lying, Val McDermid
11. Ruth's First Christmas Tree (short), Elly Griffiths
12. The Crossing Places, Elly Griffiths
13. Let Me In, Claire McGowan
14. Still Life, Val McDermid
15. The Crossing, Mat Brolly
16. The Crow Trap, Ann Cleeves
17. The Maid, Nita Prose
18. Bringing Columbia Home, Mike Leibenhart
19. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, Laura Pearson
20. A Memoir of my Former Self, Hilary Mantel
21. The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
22. The Secret Barrister
23. The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Nifenegger
24. I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai
25. See Them Run by Marion Todd
26. The Premonition by Michael Lewis
27. In Dark Water -Lynn McEwan
28. Dead Man Deep -Lynn McEwan
29. The Girls of the Glen -Lynn McEwan
30. The Gathering Storm -Lynn McEwan
31. Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
32. The Strawberry Thief - Joanne Harris
33. Scoops - Sam McAllister
34. Royal Road to Fotheringhay - Jean Plaidy
35. Sing You Home- Jodi Picoult
36. The Captive Queen of Scots - Jean Plaidy
37. Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
38. Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris
39. Elephants Can Remember - Agatha Christie
40. Westwind - Ian Rankin
41. 1979 - Val McDermid
42. The Dubrovnik Book Club - Eva Glyn
43. After that Night - Karin Slaughter
44. Triptych- Karin Slaughter
45. Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter
46. Kisscut - Karin Slaughter
47. 1989 - Val McDermid
48. Sisterland - Curtis Sittenfield
49. Broken - Karin Slaughter
50. Meet Me at the Museum - Anne Youngson
51. The Last Widow - Karin Slaughter
52. Skin Privilege - Karin Slaughter
53. Rizzio- Denise Mina
54. A Faint Cold Fear - Karin Slaughter
55. Medea - Rosie Hewlett
56. Depp vs Heard - Nick Wallis
57. The Secret of Villa Alba - Louise Douglas
58. Yellowface - Rebecca F Kuang
59. The Bernini Bust - Iain Pears
60. Giving Up The Ghost - Hilary Mantel
61. Girl A - Abigail Dean
62. All Fours - Miranda July
63. Under Her Roof - A A Chaudhuri
64. Just Another Missing Person - Gillian McAllister
65. Indelible - Karin Slaughter
66. Faithless - Karin Slaughter
67. Fractured - Karin Slaughter
68. Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
69. Wish you were here - Jodi Picoult
70. Genesis - Karin Slaughter
71. Power Trip plus new epilogue - Damian McBride
72. Over My Dead Body - Maz Evans
73. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
74. The Summer of Lies - Louise Douglas
75. Sister in law - Harriet Wistrich
76. None of This is True - Lisa Jewell
77. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
78. Mythos - Stephen Fry

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller I'm starting from the last thread

59. We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman
60. Caledonian Road - Andrew O'Hagan
61. There There - Tommy Orange
62. The Safe Keep - Yael van der Wouden
63. All Fours - Miranda July
64. Enlightenment - Sarah Perry
65. The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
66. Summer Sisters - Judy Blume
67. Greta & Valdin - Rebecca K Riley
68. My Friends - Hisham Matar
69. Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
70. Family Lore - Elizabeth Acevedo
71. The Housemaid - Freida McFadden
72. Borderline - Mishell Barker
73. How to Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair
74. The Song Of Achilles - Madeleine Miller
75. A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes
76. The Kellerby Code - Jonny Sweet
77. Hidden in Snow - Viveca Sten
78. Hidden in Shadows - Viveca Sten
79. Orbital - Samantha Harvey.
80. Sandwich - Catherine Newman
81. Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner

I had a very decent end of July, start of August with 5 bolds.

Currently reading Butter and finding the writing a bit clunky. Not sure if it's the translation.

@Stowickthevast

I did Butter as an audio which was really well read by Hanako Footman so if it was clunky I didn't pick up on it.

Welcome @Fishcake18 to the best thread on MN

These are mine since the start of the last thread:

55. A House in the Country - Jocelyn Playfair

56. I Seek A Kind Person - Julian Borger

57. Persuasion - Jane Austen

58. The Man Who Drew London - Gillian Tindall

59. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford

60. Ruskin Park - Rory Cellan-Jones

61. Small Bomb at Dimperley - Lissa Evans

62. Too Late to Turn Back - Barbara Greene

63. The Librarianist - Patrick DeWitt

64. In No-Man's Land - Tony Parker

65. The Wife - Meg Wolitzer

66. Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair - Emma Tarlo

67. The Prisoner - Marcel Proust

68. The War Diaries - Nina Siegal