24 for 2024
- A Season in Hell & Illuminations (Arthur Rimbaud)
- Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (Louise Erdrich)
- Crossing the Line (Kareem Rosser)
- Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)
- Eros the Bittersweet (Anne Carson)
Euphoria (Lily King)– read: Apr 24 6.79 (3.5*)Godkiller (Hannah Kaner)– read: Jan 24 6.93 (3.5*)Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)– read: Apr 24 2.43 (1.5*)- Impossible Creatures (Katherine Rundell)
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke)
- Passing (Nella Larsen)
Remnant Population (Elizabeth Moon)– read: Mar 24 8.64 (4.25*)- Sparrow (James Hynes)
- Tender is the Night (F Scott Fitzgerald)
- The Anchoress (Robyn Cadwallader)
- The Black Tulip (Alexandre Dumas)
- The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (Mark Lawrence)
The Burning Chambers (Kate Mosse)– read: Mar 24 8.86 (4.5*)- The Covenant of Water (Abraham Verghese)
- The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon)
- The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding (Holly Ringland)
The Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan)– read: Feb 24 8.07 (4*)- The Will of the Many (James Islington)
Us Against You (Fredrik Backman)– read: Feb 24 9.79 (5*)
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23 for 2023 (COMPLETED)
Still Life (Louise Penny)read: Nov 23 (7.71)We Hunt the Flame (Hafsah Faizal)read: July 23 (6.21)The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)read: Jan 23 (8.93)How to be Happy (Eva Woods)read: Oct 23 (8.07)Driving Over Lemons (Chris Stewart)read: July 23 (8.50)My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)– read: Feb 23 (8.86)Snow Like Ashes (Sara Raasch)– read: Jan 23 (7.71)A Ghost in the Throat (Doireann Ni Ghriofa)– read: Jan 23 (7.57)The Angel’s Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)– read: Feb 23 (8.86)Spellslinger (Sebastien de Castell)– read: Nov 23 (7.93)A Good Scot is Hard to Find (Angeline Fortin)– read: Apr 23 (7.93)When All is Said (Ann Griffin)– read: June 23 (8.64)Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)read: July 23 (8.11)Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)read: Nov 23 (7.86)Carmilla (J Sheridan Le Fanu)read: Jan 23 (7.93)The Makioka Sisters (Junichiro Tanizaki)read: May 23 (8.64)Near To The Wild Heart (Clarice Lispector)read: Jan 23 (8.00)Zofloya, or the Moor (Charlotte Dacre)read: March 23 (8.43)Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)read: March 23 (7.57)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson)read: Feb 23 (7.36)The Moon is Down (John Steinbeck)read: June 23 (5.64)Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)read: June 23 (8.71)Apocalypse Postponed (Umberto Eco)DNF
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22 for 2022 (all e-books) (COMPLETED)
Bear Town (Fredrik Backman)– read: 8 Feb 22 (7*)To Kill A Kingdom (Alexandra Christo)– read: 10 July 22 (4*)Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)– read: 13 Jan 22 (6*)The Girl With The Louding Voice (Abi Daré)read: 21 Mar 22 (6*)The Shack By The Bay (Lea Davey)– read: 10 Jan 22 (4*)Clean (Juno Dawson)– read: 12 Nov 22 (6*)American Gods (Neil Gaiman)– read: 6 July 22 (5*)Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)– read: 19 Nov 22 (5*)Exit West (Hamid Mohsin)– read: 19 May 22 (5*)The Wife Between Us (Hendricks/Pekkanen)– read: 11 Oct 22 (5*)Lost Boy (Christina Henry)– read: 9 Dec 22 (4*)It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover)– read: 20 Dec 22 (4*)The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins-Reed)– read: 4 April 22 (5*)The Curse of the Raven (Nicholas Kotar)– read: 10 Dec 22 (6*)When We Found Home (Susan Mallery)– read: 5 May 22 (4*)Lolita (Vladimir Nobokov)– read: 28 March 22 (5*)Room (Emma O’Donoghue)– read: 5 October 22 (5*)Sarum (Edward Rutherford)– read: 8 September 22 (5*)Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)– read: 22 December 22 (6*)The Chalk Man (C J Tudor)– read: 16 October 22 (4*The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware)– read: 2 August 22 (4*)Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)– read: 4 December 22 (5*)
I am also participating in the Back To The Classics Challenge.
21 for 2021 (COMPLETED)
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Hanif Abdurraqib)– read: Nov 21 (7*)Flames (Robbie Arnott)– read: June 21 (6*)Don Casmurro (Machado de Assis)– read: Aug 21 (5*)The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)– read: April 21 (7*)A Small Town in Germany (John le Carre)– read: Oct 21 (2*)Chronicles (Bob Dylan)– read: Feb 21 (4*)The Border (Diarmaid Ferriter)– read: Oct 21 (6*)Moonwalking With Einstein (Joshua Foer)– read: Oct 21 (5*)The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)– read: Jan 21 (6*)The Stationery Shop (Marjan Kamali)– read: Jan 21 (7*)The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years (Bernard Lewis)– read: Dec 21 (5*)-
Quell (Clare Littlemore)– read: Aug 21 (5*) Palace Walk (Naguib Mahfouz)– read: Jan 21 (6*)Johannesburg (Fiona Melrose)– read: March 21 (6*)The Sport of Kings ( C E Morgan)– read: October 21 (4*)Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami)– read: May 21 (5*)Hamnet (Maggie O’Farrell)– read: Feb 21 (7*)The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry)– read: Dec 21 (4*)A Sweet, Wild Note (Richard Smyth)– read: July 21 (6*)In The Days of Rain (Rebecca Stott)– read: April 21 (6*)The Secret History (Donna Tartt)– read: March 21 (6*)
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20 for 2020 (standalones): COMPLETED
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Life After Life (Kate Atkinson)– read: Mar 20 ★★★★★★☆Wolf Hall (Hillary Mantel)– read: July 20 ★★★★☆☆☆The History of Bees (Maja Lunde)– read: Mar 20 ★★★★★☆☆How To Stop Time (Matt Haig)– read: June 20 ★★★★★★★Imagine Me Gone (Adam Haslett)– read: Jan 20 ★★★★☆☆☆The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart(Holly Ringland) – read: July 20 ★★★★★★★Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie)– read: Feb 20 ★★★★★☆☆All The Crooked Saints (Maggie Stiefvater)– read: Apr 20 ★★★★★★☆To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)– read: Dec 20 ★★★★★☆☆The Book of Lost Things (John Connolly)read: Feb 20 ★★★★☆☆☆The Dinner (Herman Koch)– read: July 20 ★★★★☆☆☆Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Saenz)– read: Jan 20 ★★★★★☆☆English Animals (Laura Kaye)– read: June 20 ★★★★★☆☆Good Omens (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman)– read: Oct 20 ★★★★★★☆The Power (Naomi Alderman) – read: Nov 20 ★★★☆☆☆☆Lab Girl (Hope Jahren)– read: Dec 20 ★★★★★☆☆Feathers (Thor Hanson)– read: August 20 ★★★★★☆☆Wilding (Isabella Tree)– read: May 20 ★★★★★★★H is for Hawk (Helen McDonald)– read: Feb 20 ★★★★★★☆Meet Me in the Bathroom (Lizzy Goodman)– read: May 20 ★★★★★★☆
Lola Et La Vie 