2023 TBR

23 for 2023:

• Still Life (Louise Penny)
• We Hunt the Flame (Hafsah Faizal)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) read: Jan 23 (8.93)
• How to be Happy (Eva Woods)
• Driving Over Lemons (Chris Stewart)
• 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)
• A Good Scot is Hard to Find (Angeline Fortin)
• When All is Said (Ann Griffin)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
• Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
• Carmilla (J Sheridan Le Fanu) – read: Jan 23 (7.93)
• The Makioka Sisters (Junichiro Tanizaki)
• 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)
• Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)
• Apocalypse Postponed (Umberto Eco)

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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

• • 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 ★★★☆☆☆☆
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  • 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 ★★★★★★☆

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