50 Books Challenge 2025 Part Four

[Southeastdweller]

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

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2025, 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, especially when the threads move quickly at this time of the year.

The first thread of the year is here, the second thread here and the third thread here.

Thanks @Southeastdweller . I'll copy my list over and add my latest in a bit.

Thanks @Southeastdweller

Thank you as always @Southeastdweller .

Started the Jess Kidd this afternoon. It is rather good. The smell, feel and sound of a brand new book you know you are going to love is just……wonderful, isn’t it!

1. The Zone Of Interest by Martin Amis
2. Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
3. The List by Yomi Adegoke
4. Here In The Dark by Alexis Soloski
5. Mistborn : The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
6. True Grit by Charles Portis
7. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
8. The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
9. My Friends by Hisham Matar
10. Polo by Jilly Cooper
11. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
12. The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade
13. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
14. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
15. There There by Tommy Orange
16. Rogues : True Stories by Patrick Radden Keefe
17. The Love Songs Of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honorée Fannone Jeffers
18. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
19. The House Of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
20. The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
21. Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley
22. The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
23. Good Material by Dolly Alderton
24. The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
25. A Voyage Around The Queen by Craig Brown
26. A Very Private School by Charles Spencer
27. Shakespeare : The Man Who Pays The Rent by Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea
28. The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
29. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
30. A Pocketful Of Happiness by Richard E Grant
31. Outside The Door by Jane Casey
32. Still Life by Sarah Winman
33. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
34. The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths
35. The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths
36. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
37. The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
38. The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths
39. The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths
40. Firebrand by Elizabeth Fremantle
41. Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald
42. The God Of The Woods by Liz Moore
43. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
44. Him by JD Kirk

Thanks southeast Currently reading the Slough House series

Thank you @Southeastdweller for keeping us all organised. My list:

1.Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finklestein
2.Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
3.The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
4.A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
5.Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
6.Butter by Asako Yuzuki
7.The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
8.Middlemarch by George Eliot.
9.Wellness by Nathan Hill
10.My Friends by Hisham Mater.
11.Rizzio by Denise Minna

and I’ve just finished:
12. Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes
This follows Jean Serjeant through her life from country childhood in the 1920s, on into marriage and motherhood until she reaches the cusp of her 100th birthday.

The first half of this was straightforwardly character driven, as we see how Jean grows through relationships with her playful, irresponsible uncle; her dull and later abusive husband; and with a RAF pilot billeted with her family during the war.

The second half becomes a lot more philosophical, with musings on fear, bravery, suicide (assisted or otherwise), and the existence of God. This bit I felt was less successful, too navel-gazey, and quite dry, with the plot abandoned completely at times. There’s also a section on the development of some kind of AI-lite (this was written in the 1980s) which is weird to read now in the internet age (although obviously no fault of Barnes’s that he didn’t predict the future ).

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

1 None of This is True - Lisa Jewell
2 Daisy and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Read
3 The Vegetarian Han Kang trans Deborah Smith
4 And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliot
5 The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin trans Rosemary Edwards
6 Ali & Nino - Kurban Said trans unknown
7 The Venice Secret - Anita Chapman
8 Walking the Blue Fields - Claire Keegan
9 A Terrible Kindness - Jo Browning Roe
10 Rooftoppers - Katherine Rundell
11 Summerwater - Sarah Moss
12 A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Townes
13 Snowblind - Ragnar Jónassen trans Quentin Bates
14 Flights ‐ Olga Tokarczuk trans Jennifer Croft
15 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
16 The Hike - Lucy Clarke
17 The Duchess of Bloomsbury - Helene Hanff
18 Black and British: A Short Essential History - David Olusoga
19 Forgotten Fire - Adam Bagdasarian

Currently listening to An American Marriage by Tayari Jones and reading At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop and Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad by Daniel Finkelstein.

@CutFlowers Interesting to see you read The Vegetarian recently. I started it over the weekend but didn't get on with it at all. Perhaps I just wasn't in the right headspace as it sounded brilliantly bizarre...

Thanks @Southeastdweller heres my current list:

1 Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen
2 Remember Me Tomorrow by Farah Heron
3 The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B Tyson
4 Exhalation by Ted Chiang
5 Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
6 Guilty by Jussi Adler-Olsen
7 Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
8 Relive by KJ Nelson
9 The Party on Laurel Street by Ruth Heald
10 Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11 To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
12 Buried by Jussi Adler-Olsen
13 The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen
14 Old Filth by Jane Gardam
15 The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen
16 All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
17 The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen
18 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
19 Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
20 The Other Times of Caroline Tangent by Ivan D Wainwright
21 The Whisper Man by Alex North
22 1066: The Year of Three Battles by Frank McLynn
23 Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen
24 The Shadow Murders by Jussi Adler-Olsen
25 Locked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen

@StrangewaysHereWeCome I loved The Vegetarian especially because it was bonkers. I love a book from the left field

Evening all! Bringing my (short) list over. I have nearly finished The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin but not quite there yet.

1 Winter Swimming - Dr Susanna Søberg
2 The Story of Art Without Men – Katy Hessel
3 Mr Loverman – Bernadine Evaristo
4 We Solve Murders – Richard Osman
5 City of Destruction – Vaseem Khan
6 Girl A – Abigail Dean
7 The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas
8 Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World – Mark Aldridge
9 Black Butterflies – Priscilla Morris
10 Portrait of a Marriage – Nigel Nicolson
11 The Sibyl in her Grave – Sarah Caudwell

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

My list so far:
1 A Song for Lya- George RR Martin
2 The Razor’s Edge- W Somerset Maugham
3 Right Ho Jeeves (audio)- PG Wodehouse
4 Into Thin Air- Jon Krakauer
5 Held- Anne Michaels
6 The Women’s Room- Marilyn French
7 The Anxious Generation- Jonathan Haidt
8 The House of Doors- Tan Twan Eng
9 The Warden- Anthony Trollope
10 Day One- Abigail Dean
11 The Hanging Tree (audio)- Ben Aaronovitch
12 Arrangements in Blue- Amy Tan
13 A Bit of a Stretch (audio)- Chris Atkins
14 Confessions- Catherine Airey
15 A Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter Miller
16 Minor Detail- Adania Shibli
17 Anything is Possible- Elizabeth Strout
18 Just One Damned Thing after Another (audio)- Jodi Taylor
19 Knife- Salman Rushdie
20 The Boy from the Sea- Garrett Carr
21 The Guermantes Way, Volume 3 In Search of Lost Time- Marcel Proust
22 The Broken Afternoon- Simon Mason
23 Creation Lake(audio)- Rachel Kushner
24 The Peepshow- Kate Summerscale
25 Of War and Ruin- Ryan Cahill
26 Life without Children- Roddy Doyle
27 A Very Private School (audio)- Charles Spencer
28 Lost and Never Found- Simon Mason
29 Birding- Rose Ruane
30 Crooked Seed (audio)- Karen Jennings
31 The Artist- Lucy Steeds
32 A Little Trickerie- Rosanna Pike
33 Somewhere Else (audio) - Jenni Daiches

Currently reading far too many:
Long reads- War and Peace (a chapter a day all year), Middlemarch- a chapter a day for three years and The Iliad (Wilson and Lattimore translations) over 2 months

Short reads- The Ministry of Time and Oh William and Agent Zo

Thanks for the new thread Southeast!

Here’s my list:

1. The Girl of Ink and Stars - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
2. Once Upon a River - Diane Setterfield
3. My Perfect Friend - Sarah Clarke
4. One of the Good Guys - Araminta Hall
5. A Spy among Friends - Ben Macintyre
6. The Secret Hours - Mick Herron
7. Black Rabbit Hall - Eve Chase
8. The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
9. No Escape - Lucy Clarke
10. The Poison Pen Letters - Fiona Walker
11. Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O’Farrell
12. The Marches: Border Walks with my Father - Rory Stewart
13. The Sea House - Louise Douglas
14. Yellowface - Rebecca Kuang
15. The House of Fortune - Jessie Burton
16. The Muse - Jessie Burton
17. The Birdcage - Eve Chase

Thanks for the new thread.
Currently being deeply irritated by My Good Bright Wolf.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller.

Thanks for the new thread Southeast - got a few reviews to catch up with, but I'm currently reading & enjoying Tremor by Teju Cole

Thanks @Southeastdweller :-)
Hard to keep up with how fast moving the threads are.. good work everyone!

Thanks for the shiny new thread south!

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

I'm just adding my list since the last thread

15. Strange Pictures - Uketsu translated by Jim Rion
16. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
17. Gliff - Ali Smith
18. The Grey Wolf - Louise Penny
19. Nesting - Roisín O'Donnell
20. Dead Lions - Mick Herron
21. The Vegetarian - Han Kang
22. Theory and Practice - Michelle de Kretser
23. Bewilderment - Richard Powers
24. The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley
25. Assembly - Natasha Brown
26. The Trees - Percival Everett
27. Olive Ketteridge - Elizabeth Strout
28. The Persians - Sanam Mahloudji
29. The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout

I've also read The Vegetarian recently and thought it was very good - not quite a bold but that might be because I read Human Acts in January and was even more blown away by that.

My book of the year so far is definitely Nesting.
I'm continuing Woman's Prize reads with Amma and listening to The Artist. Also still immersed in Strout world.

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit we often seem to read the same books. How did you find still life ? I’ve never been able to get into it.

@Southeastdweller thanks for the new thread

1. the teacher by Frieda McFadden
2. family doctor by J.M. Dalgeish
3. 101 who made the UK by Christopher Townley
4. A borrowed path by Imogen Clark
5. The further north you go by Tom Morton
6. The girl in the midnight maze by Cathy Heywood
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. Every move you make by C L Taylor
9. The answer is no by Fredrik Backman
10. Tell me how this ends by Jo Leevers
11. The wrong daughter by Dandy Smith
12. Not from round here: memoirs of a southerner up north by Bradley Chermside
13. *Islands of Abandonment* by Cal Flyn
14. The bookshop ladies by Faith Hogan
15. This one life by Amanda Prowse
16. *The marriage code* by Brooke Burroughs
17. Lonely planet guide to a region near me
18. Get the yak out by Christian Celind
19. The sea house by Louise Douglas
20. The name curse by Brooke Burroughs
21. The Scottish Isles by Mary Jane Walker
22. *Happyish* by Jeanette Escudero
23. Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes
24. *The last past of Billy McQueen* by Neil Alexander
25. Skywater by Melinda Worth Popham
26. The naturalist society by Carrie Vaughn
27. The perfect parents by JA Baker
28. Mack the life by Lee Mack
29. A rare book of cunning device by Ben Aaronovitch
30. The heart of a mother by Julie Clark
31. Echoes by Nick bullock
32. We like you so much and want to know you better by Dion graham and Dave Eggers
33. Every last secret by AR Torre
34. The baby swap by Daniel hurst
35. The vintage bookshop of memories by Elizabeth holland
36. underland by Robert McFarlane
37. The music coming from the house by Paolo coelho
38. Unearthed by Claire ratinon
39. Power in poetry by Joshua Watkins
40. a bookshop of one’s own by Jane cholmeley
41. Stories to make you smile, by various authors
42. Rock, paper, scissors by Alice Feeney
43. If cats disappeared from the world by Genki Karamura
44. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer (starred because I think it’s important to read this)
45. The woman in the cabin by Becca Day
46. The sublet, Greer Hendricks
47. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
48. Orbital by Samantha Harvey
49. When I was ten by Fiona Cummins
50. Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell
51. may contain nuts by John O’Farrell
52. Here one moment by Leanne Moriarty
53. By any other name by Jodi Picoult (not her usual style. Good if you’ve read Hamnet)
54. the extraordinary life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni
55. The guest cat by Takashi Hiraide
56. The keepers of Metsan Valo by Wendy Webb

Thanks for the new thread southeast

Here's my list:

• An Island Wedding – Jenny Colgan
• Red Sauce, Brown Sauce – Felicity Cloake
• The Christmas Bookhunt – Jenny Colgan
• When the dust settles – Lucy Easthope
• The answer is no – Fredrik Backman
• A little life – Hanya Yanagihara
• This much is true – Miriam Margoyles
• One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
• Waterlog – Roger Deakin
• How to build a boat – Elaine Feeney
• Loosely based on a made-up story – James Blunt
• Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

Currently reading My friends - Hisham Matar and listening to Anybody out there? - Marian Keyes

My list carried over

1 A New Doctor At Orchard Cottage Hospital. Lizzie Lane.

2 Intense Desire. Kris Kassidy

3 Stumbling Stones. Bonnie Suchman

4 Courage For The Clark's Factory Girls. May Ellis

5 Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop. Kenji Ueda. Trans. Emily Balistrieri

6 All The Broken Places. John Boyne

7 Dark Times For The Clark's Factory Girls. May Ellis

8 Alpha Beta Gamma. Malabika Ray

9 Fracture. Elyse Hoffman.

10 The Vengeance of Samuel Val. Elyse Hoffman

11. Black Fox One. Elyse Hoffman

12. Until We Meet. E.V Radwinter

13. I'll Never Cry Again. Roberta Kagan

14. Sweet Pear. Jessica Butler.

15. Adiel and The Fuhrer. Elyse Hoffman

16. The Hangman's Master. Elyse Hoffman

17. Wild Lilacs. Jessica Butler.

18. The Ballroom Girls. Jenny Holmes

19. The Train That Took You Away. Catherine Hokin

20. Sara, My Sara. Florence Wetzel

21. Butterflies. Phill Featherstone

22. Here Lyeth. Johanna Frank

23. Murder by Letter. Carmen Radtke

24. The Family Next Door. Charlotte Stevenson

25. The Family Behind The Walls. Shari J Ryan

26. Datonga. Martin Smalley

27. Invocation. Aileen Erin

28. On The Ledge. Naomi Clarisse.

29. The Look of Death. C C Gilmartin

30. The Little Island Flower Stall. Tilly Tennant.

31. Wolf-blessed. John O’Donnell.

32. Lunar. Chloe Openshaw

33. The Zone of Interest. Martin Amis

34. The Red Magus. Natasha Joy Price

35. Tangles. Kay Smith-Blum

36. The Girl who Saved Them. S.E Rutledge

37. Aristotle for Novelists. Douglas Vigliotti.

38. Family Affairs at the Orchard Cottage Hospital. Lizzie Lane

39. Matritto/Motherhood. Ameena Tabessum

40. Shadow Runner. K.J. Fieler

41. The Promise She Made. Julie Hartley

42. Hitler, Stalin Mum & Dad. Daniel Finkelstein

43. Finding Home in Hartfell. Suzanne Snow

44. End of a Century. Paul Carnahan

45. Witness to the Revolution. Kiersten Marcil

46. False Tidings: A Fool’s Errand. Stephen J. Grant

47. The Trips. Pat Murray

48. Ballet Shoes. Noel Streatfeild.

49. Artificial Agent. J.W Jarvis

50. A Portion of Malice. Lloyd Jeffries

51. Because You Asked. A.E Bennett

52. Gone in the Storm. B.R Spangler

53. Lost Soul. Theresa Van Spankeren

54. The Curlews Scream. Annette Leigh

55. Edith's Story. Edith Velmans

56. Mother Of The Bride. Quinn Avery

57. A Measure Of Rhyme. Lloyd Jeffries

58. The Hunt for the Peggy C. John Winn Miller

59. The Babylonian Chronicles. Henry Sipes

60. A Child Far From Home. Lizzie Page

61. The Bracelet. Diane Clarke

62. Killing Lily. Jilian Gardner

63. The Wartime Nursery. Lizzie Page

64. The Wartime Mother. Lizzie Page

65. The Tiger Curtain & Other Stories. Paul Marriner

66. The School That Escaped The Nazis. Deborah Cadbury

67. Beyond the Sea. Nina Purtee

68. Life Gets In The Way. Chris Husband

69. The Secret of Ruby's Lighthouse. Kristin Harper

70. The Hero Virus. Russell Dumper

71. Three Little Lies. Danielle Stewart

And my latest reviews.

72. Dominion. Ray Star
    A bold. This is book 2 in The Earthlings trilogy. Set in a dystopian future in which animals run the world and treat humans as we used to treat them. Peridot is on the mainland, has pretty much learned how to control her powers and is working with the resistance. There were some rather graphic descriptions of what happens to baby boys (basically what we currently do with male chicks and cows) which have made me think about becoming vegetarian. I think that's possibly the aim of the book, which I'm sure will annoy some people. But that aside, it's an utterly fantastic series.

73. The Walls of Totterum. Benjamin Kamphuis. Fantasy, but 'light' fantasy. I always find the first book in a fantasy series to be a little slow on the action due to world building, but I enjoyed this. Yarron lives in the city of Totterum, he's definitely a member of the lower classes so life isn't great. When he turns 18, he notices a mysterious mist, events happen that lead to him escaping Totterum. He learns that the mist is Aura and that some people can control it. Like I said, it was a little slow, but I really enjoyed it and have book 2 on the way.

74. Touchpaper. David Dodds. Set in Edinburgh, there's a parallel universe with elves, angels and all manner of mythical beings. Lots of old Gaelic(?) spellings were used which took a little getting used to, but this was a fun, unusual story. Drew is just your everyday guy, until he somehow gets caught up in this parallel world and has to defeat the Elf queen. Really enjoyed this. Well written magical realism is great.

Thanks for the new thread @Southeastdweller

I'm motoring towards 50 books this year already! Here's my list:

1 Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
2 Time of the Flies by Claudia Piñeiro
3 The Party by Tessa Hadley
4 Human Acts by Han Kang
5 Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
6 Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn
7 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
8 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
9 Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney
10 The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
11 Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
12 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
13 She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clarke
14 A Pale View of Hills by Kazou Ishiguro
15 Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld (hard pass!)
16 Piglet by Lottie Hazell
17 The White Album by Joan Didion
18 Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
19 The Raptures by Jan Carson (almost a bold)
20 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
21 Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
22 Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
23 Passing by Nella Larsen
24 Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (almost a bold)
25 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
26 All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
27 Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks
28 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
29 The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
30 Lot by Bryan Washington
31 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
32 Night Swimmers by Roisin Maguire (almost a bold)
33 We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
34 An Artist of the Floating World by Kazou Ishiguro
35 Complicity by Iain Banks (hard pass)
36 The South: Jim Crow and its Alternatives by Adolph L Reed Jr
37 Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
38 Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
40 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
41 James by Percival Everett
42 Clear by Carys Davies
43 My Friends by Hisham Matar
44 Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell
45 Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

I've been reading great things lately, so choosing titles to bold is hard!

Currently slow reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and finding that quite tedious, sadly. I'm also reading 46. The Round House by Louise Erdrich and really enjoying it. I've become quite a big fan of Erdrich over the last six months or so.

2025 reads

1. The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah [P]
2. The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis (NF) [P]
3. Deadly Cross - James Patterson [P]
4. The Silent Wife - Karin Slaughter
5. Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty
6. The Lost Notebook - Louise Douglas
7. The Sky Beneath Us - Fiona Valpy
8. The Sea House - Louise Douglas
9. Giraffe & Flamingo - Curtis Sittenfield (short story)
10. Red Sauce, Brown Sauce - Felicity Cloake (NF) [P]
11. Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose - Alison Weir
12. This Is Why We Lied - Karin Slaughter
13. Drowning Rose - Marika Cobbold
14. The Long Call - Ann Cleeves
15. The Glassmaker - Tracy Chevalier
16. Hex - Jennie Fagan
17. Taken as Red - Anoushka Asthana
18. Human Remains - Elizabeth Haynes
19. Never Never - Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
20. The Stranger Diaries - Elly Griffiths
21. Velocity - Dean Koontz
22. Bone and Cane - David Belbin
23. The Keeper of Stories - Sally Page
24. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent - Judi Dench (NF)
25. The Postscript Murders - Elly Griffiths
26. Layla - Colleen Hoover
27. The Spy and the Traitor - Ben McIntyre (NF)
28. The Midnight Hour - Elly Griffiths [P]
29. Goodfellowe MP - Michael Dobbs
30. Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 - Mitchell Zuckoff (NF)
31. The Man of My Dreams - Curtis Sittenfield
32. The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connolly
33. Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown - Alison Weir
34. Over Sharing - Jane Fallon
35. The Return - Victoria Hislop
36. Bleeding Heart Yard - Elly Griffiths
37. A Bookshop of One’s Own - Jane Cholmeley (NF)
38. Storm In A Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life - Helen Czerski (NF)
39. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
40. A Most Desirable Marriage - Hilary Boyd
41. Daughter - Jane Shemilt
42. Vaxxers - Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green (NF) [P]
43. Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams (NF)

Just finished book 43 - written by a former employee at Facebook. I will review it properly tomorrow as I’m too sleepy now!

Thanks for the new thread Southeast.

I'm dreadfully absent this year and running at about 50% of my usual total for the time of year.

The Women's Prize List has reinvigorated me somewhat. I've got 4 left to go on the fiction list and I've read 4 from the non-fiction.

I've particularly enjoyed
Nesting
The Dream Hotel
Fundamentally

I wanted to like Dream Count more than I did, but found the start a bit of a slog, but redeemed by the end.

I'm trying to find some time to have a proper catch up on the thread and get some reviews done.