What will be your last book of the year?

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Mine will be Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling. What do you hope to wrap up by Hogmanay?

This morning I finished 'The Way We Live Now' by Trollope. I was so angry with him, for excusing everything horrible slimy Paul Montague did, that I have gone in a totally different direction and am reading Adele Parks 'Both of You'.

The new Agatha Raisin book, Killing Time.

Had it on pre-order but it has been sitting at the side of my bed for several weeks however I should be starting it tonight or tomorrow. Won't get to finish it by 31st so as well as being my last book of 2024, it will also be my first book of 2025.

Victorian London by Liza Picard.

I’ve just finished The Heights by Louise Candlish. I’ve really enjoyed a couple of her other books especially Our House but this one was too long winded. I usually abandon books if I’m not enjoying them but I was determined to finish this. I wish I hadn’t wasted my time.

Next: the Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks OR Orbital, the Booker prize winner.

I'm currently rereading Paul Murray's 'the mark and the void' following 'beesting' and 'skippy dies'. Skippy Dies is my favourite. I'll probably finish before new year.

Butter - beautifully written and really draw you in.

Hoping to finish ‘The Lacuna’ and then move on to a Sebastian Faulks.

Seventh Son?

I saw this in a bookshop today - love the cover! Worth buying?

‘A Week in December’.

An unwanted guest (or something similar) by Shari Lapena. Easy reading because I'm exhausted!

New bookcase arriving in a few days, can't wait to fill it!

I've re-read all of Aldous Huxley's novels this year, in chronological order. Funny how he gradually got worse as a novelist. As an essayist and non-fiction writer he remained faultless, but as a novelist he deteriorated. His first novel, Chrome Yellow, is superb, and the fact that he wrote in his 20s staggers me. But his second from final novel, The Genius and the Goddess, is almost unreadable.

Right now, I'm finishing Island, Huxley's final novel, and my last book of 2024. A wonderful and fascinating book, but a poor novel (as Huxley himself admitted).

Actually, I'm also reading Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, so maybe that will be my last.

I’m reading Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge… very slowly 🙄 It’s ok, but I just can’t be bothered, not in the right head space. I’m wanting to put it aside to read Gillian McAllister’s new one, but I’m over 100 pages in so I sort of invested. Phhhww, dunno what to do 🤔

I doubt I'll finish another book before new year, so the last one was Orbital. I quite enjoyed it, although I didn't love it. It just felt rather detached and cold and because it's so short (it covers just 24 hours aboard the ISS), you don't have time to get to know the characters and relate to any of them. So while there are a couple of touching moments, I just felt like a stalker watching them go about their business!

I really want to finish the Mercies and then I think that should take me to 18 books out of my goal of 24 which I'm happy with

V late to the party but I'm finally reading Demon Copperhead.
I haven't read anything else this year really so time to get back into it.

Im reading Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher and enjoying it very much. It is a thick book but im fairly confident i will have finished it before the start of the New Year.

I'm almost half way through The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath. TV is awful tonight, so there's a good chance I'll finish it before the New Year.

I'm on my 98th book of the year....will do 100 by the end of it! Currently reading Lula Dean's Little Library of banned books

The Country of Ice Cream Star. Think it was recommended on here somewhere. 😊

Anansi Boys - I bought it before Neil Gaiman came out as a twat.

I just realized I have 12 books on my current TBR pile, so if I can resist adding to it that's one a month

1. The Black Bird Oracle (last of the Discovery of Witches series)
2. We Solve Murders (Richard Osman, shouldn't take long)
3. Argylle (Already part through this)
4. Once and Future Witches
5. Lessons in Chemistry
6. The Seventh Son
7. Rivals 8 - 12) Strike series

The Library by Bella Osbourne.

I finished Holly by Stephen King now reading Mr Mercedes which is the start of that series.

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Loving it so far and hoping I get enough time to my self to be able to finish it by the end of the year!

A clockwork orange