I like the lists, so here's mine (although we are already on page 3...). I find it a useful way of keeping track for myself and it's also good to see what others who have similar tastes have enjoyed.
In terms of formatting, if it helps anyone, I keep a Word list with no dot/point after the number which seems to mean the formatting stays the same (we'll see when this posts!). It also keeps the bolds.
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
12 The Dispossessed – Ursula Le Guin
13 Dark Wives – Ann Cleeves
14 The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng
15 A Mouth full of Salt – Reem Gaafar
16 One of the Good Guys – Araminta Hall
17 Ghost Wall – Sarah Moss
18 Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
19 Why we Swim – Bonnie Tsui
20 Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid
21 Happiness – Aminatta Forna
22 Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent – Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea
23 Queen Macbeth – Val McDermid
24 Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
25 In a Lonely Place – Dorothy B. Hughes
26 The Anxious Generation – Jonathan Haidt
27 The In-Between – Christos Tsiolkas
28 When the Dust Settles – Lucy Easthope
29 The Safekeep – Yael van der Wouden
30 Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
31 The Death of Us – Abigail Dean
32 Rural Hours: the Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann – Harriet Baker
33 Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
34 The Transgender Issue – Shon Faye
35 White Tears/Brown Scars – Ruby Hamad
36 Latitudes of Longing – Shubhangi Swarup
37 Abundance – Amit Majmudar
38 The Thirteen Clocks – James Thurber
39 Childhood – Tove Ditlevsen
40 Youth – Tove Ditlevsen
41 Dependence – Tove Ditlevsen
42 Young Jane Young – Gabrielle Zevin
And my latest reads:
43 On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz
Non-fiction account of twelve city walks Horowitz took with people with particular specialisms (geology, insects, typefaces, an artist), of different ages (her toddler) and sensory experiences (a blind woman, a sound engineer) - and finally, with her dog. The idea was to see what different people notice when they walk in the same environment. I love walking in cities; my particular favourite pastime is spotting unsung or abandoned public art, and this was right up my street. Horowitz is endlessly enthusiastic about her subject and shoehorns an enormous amount of information about very different things into her book in a way that remains pleasurable to read. Recommended.
44 Ru by Kim Thuy
My annual read in French, this book comprises over 100 short vignettes which interlock to tell the author's story of her journey to Canada from Vietnam (via a Malaysian refugee camp) as part of the first wave of "boat people" - but also looks back to her childhood and forward to her adult life. I am not an advanced French reader (did A-level French many years ago, and visit France for a couple of weeks every summer where I struggle to maintain some of my knowledge!) but I was able to understand most of this without a dictionary. I no doubt missed out on many of the subtleties of the language, but I did enjoy reading the parts I could understand and I liked the way the different vignettes slotted together, like a jigsaw or mosaic, gradually building up a full picture. I also really liked the last line of the book (I hate books with bad last lines!):
"Et aussi, où une main tendue n’est plus un geste, mais un moment d’amour, prolongé jusqu-au sommeil, jusqu’au réveil, jusqu’au quotidien."