I quite enjoyed finding books for Booksandlala’s Buzwordathon this year, so when she released her video for next year’s I had to watch it and think about a TBR. Unlike last year, I will incorporate these books in my yearly TBR, so I don’t add TBRs on TBRs on TBRs. I want to have a more relaxing reading year in 2023. My 23 for 2023 TBR will be made up of this challenge and a classics challenge and I won’t actually make my post for that until I knew the categories of the Classics challenge. That should make for a good mix of books.
By the way, I won’t read these in order in their specified months, but just as and when the mood takes me.
So, let’s look at the challenges and I will add some options below. All are books already on my owned TBR (some digital/some physical):
JANUARY: Life / Death
- Still Life (Louise Penny
- Death at the Opera (Gladys Mitchell)
- The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)
- The Painter of Modern Life (Charles Baudelaire)
FEBRUARY: Verbs
- The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea (Yukio Mishima)
- The Silence that Remains (Ghassan Zaqtan)
- Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion)
- We Hunt The Flame (Hafsah Faisal)
- Call Down The Hawk (Maggie Stiefvater)
- What Lies Between Us (John Marrs)
MARCH: “Secret”
- The Secret River (Kate Grenville)
- The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- Lady Audley’s Secret (Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
APRIL: Emotions (apparently very few of my books do emotions 🤣)
- How To Be Happy (Eva Woods)
- Malice (John Gwynne)
- Happiness for Beginners (Carole Matthews)
MAY: Flavours/Seasonings/Herbs
- Tasting Salt (Stephanie Dowrick)
- Driving Over Lemons (Chris Stewart)
- The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding (Carole Matthews)
- Suite as Sugar and Other Stories (Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar)
JUNE: “Other”
- My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)
- Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories (R K Narayan)
- Suite as Sugar and Other Stories (Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar)
- The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (Edgar Allan Poe)
- The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories (Nikolai Leskov)
JULY: Weather
- The Ninth Rain (Jen Williams)
- Drinkers of the Wind (Carl Raswan)
- Isle of Winds (James Fahy)
- Embers on the Wind (Lisa Williamson Rosenberg)
- Snow Like Ashes (Sara Raasch)
- Lord of Snow and Shadows (Sarah Ash)
AUGUST: Body Parts
- The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (Edgar Allan Poe)
- A Ghost in the Throat (Doireann Ni Ghriofa)
- The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Amin Malouf)
SEPTEMBER: Game-Related Words
- The Angel’s Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
- My First and Only Love (Sahar Khalifeh)
- Last Tang Standing (Lauren Ho)
OCTOBER: Magic and related words (all the Terrys! 😲)
- Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold! (Terry Brooks) would be re-read
- The Colour of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
- Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
NOVEMBER: “good” (I thought I would have more, but no… only two options, but that’s ok)
- The Good Daughter (Karen Slaughter)
- A Good Scot is Hard to Find (Angeline Fortin)
DECEMBER: sound-related
- When All is Said (Ann Griffin)
- The Screaming Staircase (Jonathan Stroud)
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Pablo Neruda)
- Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
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I am not quite sure which books I am going to read for the challenges. If you have particular books you see above that you should think I should read, let me know!
Lola Et La Vie 