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By Viccie
1. Falling - Colin Thurbron ****1/2
2. Burnt Island - Kate Rhodes ****
3. Brooklyn - Colm Toibin (RR for book club) *****
4. The Seven Wives of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Read ***1/2
5. The Telling - Jo Baker ****
6. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman ****
7. Educated - Tara Westover (RR for book group) *****
8. The Confession - Jo Spain ***
9. The Dutch House - Ann Parchet *****
10. The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker ****1/2
11. Monsieur Ka - Vesna Goldsworthy ****
12. Melted Into Air - Sandi Toksvig ***
13. The Jupiter <myth - Lindsay Davies ****
14. Mrs Everything - Jennifer Weiner ***
15. The Future Homemakers of America - Laurie Graham ***1/2
16. Blue Sky - Kate Atkinson ****1/2
17. The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew - Milly Jhnson ***1/2
18. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens ****
19. The Third Nero - Lindsay Davis ****1/2
20. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon ****1/2
21. The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - Imogen HermesGower ****1/2
22. Silver - Chris Hammer *****
23. The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell **
24. She Merchants, Bucaneers and Gentlewomen, British women in India 1600-1900 - Katie Hickman ****1/4
25. Saving Missy - Beth Morrey DNF
26.Six Wicked Reasons - Jo Spain ****
27. Miss Mapp - E F Benson ****
28. Pandora's Boy - Lindsay Davies ****
29. Second Helpings - Laurie Graham ***1/2
30. The Silent Dead - Claire McGowan ****1/2
31. Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid ****
32. Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok ****
33. The Debt to Pleasure - John Lanchester ***/****
34. The Museum of Broken Promises - Elizabeth Buchan ***1/2
35. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ***1/2
36. The Farm - Joanne Ramos **
37. Lady in Waiting - Anne Glenconner ****
38. Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho ****1/2
39. France - John Julius Norwich
40. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman ****1/2
41;Breathing Lessons - AnneTyler ***
42. City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert ****1/2
43. Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi DNF
44; Three Hours - Rosamund Lupton *****
45. Magpie Lane - Lucy Atkins ****1/2
46. Watch her Disappear - Jane Casey ****1/2
47. The Reckoning - Jane Casey ****12
48. The Stranger you Know - Jane Casey ****12
49.. The Kill - Jane Casey ****12
50. After the Fire - Jane Casey****
51. My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout *****
52. Chanel's Riviera - Anne de Courcey ***first half, ****1/2 second part
53. Let the Dead Speak - Jane Casey ****
54. An Equal Stillness - Francesca Kay ****
55. Cruel Acts - Jane Casey ****1/2
56. Madame tussaud - Michelle Moran (for book group) ***
57. The Cutting Place - Jane Casey ****1/2
58. The Ashes of London - Andrew Taylor ****1/2
59. Hamnet - Maggie O farrell *****
60. Growing Up for Beginners - Claire Calman ****
61. The Splendid and the Vile - Eric Larson *****
62. The Seven Sisters - Lucinda Riley **
63. Rough Magic - Lara Prior Palmer ****
64. All the Old Knives - Olen Steinhauer ****
65. The Women in Black - Madelaine St John ****1/2
66. The People You Know - Shari Lapena ***1/2
67. Dancing Backwards - Salley Vickers ****
68. a Share in Death - Deborah Crombie ***
69. Disobedience - Naomi Alderson ****
70. The Watchmaker of Filligree Street - Natasha Pulley *****
71. Missing Presumed - Susie Steiner ***1/2
72. The Split - Sharon Bolton *****
73. A Day Like Any Other - Isla Dewar ****
74. My Grandmother asked me to say she's sorry... - Frederik Bachmann ****1/2 (rr for book club)
75. the Switch - Beth o leary ***
76. The Book of Hidden Things - Francesco Dimitri *****
77. Commonwealth - Ann Patchett *****
78. Queen Bees - Sian Evans ***
79. Friendly Fire - Patrick Gale *****
80. The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler ****1/2
81. Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan ****
82. One, Two, Three, Four The Beatles in Time - Craig Brown *****
83. Fifty Fifty Steve Cavanagh *****
84. The Weekend - Charlotte Wood ***
85. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi (RR for book group) ****1/2
86. The Long Call - Anne Cleeves ***1/2
87. The True Queen- Zen Cho ****
88. Before We Visit the Goddess - Chitra Banerjee Divrakani ****
89. The Insider - MariHannah ***
90. The Liar - Steve Cavanagh ****1/2
91. Endurance - Alfred Lansing *****
92. Bitter Wash Road - Gary Disher ***
93. Old Baggage - Lissa Evans ****
94. The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E Harrow ****1/2
95. Death Comes to the Archbishop - Willa Cather ****1/2
96. The Laughter of Dead Kings - Elizabeth Peters ***1/2
97. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis ****1/4
98. The Year of the Griffin - Diana Wynne Jones ****1/2
99. The Guest List - Lucy Foley **
100. The Secret Commonwealth - Phillip Pullman ****
Audio Books
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel *****
Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller ***
Miss Austen - Gill Hornby *****
My Sweet Revenge - Jane Fallon ***
The Ides of April - Lindsay Davies ****
The Boy Who Fell - Jo Spain ****
It is Rocket Science - Helen Keen *****
Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel *****
Pole to Pole - Michael palin ****1/2
Saturnalia - Lindsay Davies *****
Foundation - Isaac Asimov ***
Leave it to Psmith - PG Wodehouse *****
The Corset - Laura Purcell ****
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley *****
Shadows in Bronze - Lindsay Davies ****
Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope *****
The Ninth House - Leigh Bardago ****
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By lunababymoonchild
1 Deborah Harkness, Time's Convert - completed (hardback)
2 Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders - completed (paperback)
3 Anna Burns, Milkman - completed (paperback)
4 James Clear, Atomic Habits - completed (paperback)
5 H E Bates, The Jacaranda Tree - completed (paperback)
6 Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf - completed (paperback)
7 Hans Christian Andersen, The Ice Virgin, novella - completed (paperback)
8 Stuart Turton,The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - completed (paperback)
9 Stacy Halls, The Familiars - completed (hardback)
10 Emma Goldman, My Life - completed (paperback)
11 China Miéville, Railsea - completed (paperback)
12 Hans Christian Andersen, The Dunes and other stories - completed (paperback)
13 E S Thomson, Surgeon's Hall - completed (hardback)
14 The Binding, Bridget Collins - completed (hardback)
15 The Smart, Sarah Bakewell - completed (paperback)
16 The Corset, Laura Purcell - completed (hardback)
17 What Not, Rose Macauley - completed (paperback)
18 Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner - completed (paperback)
19 Poldark 4, Warleggan, Winston Graham - completed (paperback)
20 The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden - completed (paperback)
21 Old Masters, Thomas Bernhard - completed (paperback)
22 Darkness Take My Hand, Dennis Lehane - completed (paperback)
23 The Pearl, John Steinbeck - completed (paperback) novella
24 Clock Without Hands, Carson McCullers - completed (paperback)
25 The Time to Kill (Carter Blake 3), Mason Cross - completed (paperback)
26 All That Remains, Sue Black - completed (paperback)
27 Catch-22, Joseph Heller - completed (paperback)
28 Gentleman Jack, the real Anne Lister, Anne Choma - completed (paperback)
29 The Giver, Lois Lowry - completed (hardback)
30 Honeycomb, Dorothy Richardson - completed (paperback)
31 Furious Hours, Casey Cep - completed (paperback)
32 The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden - completed (paperback)
33 Notes From Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky - completed (paperback)
34 The Jungle Book I &II, Rudyard Kipling - completed (paperback)
35 The Warlow Experiment, Alix Nathan - completed (hardback)
36 Poverty Safari, Darren McGarvey - completed (paperback)
37 The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood - completed (paperback)
38 A Short Treatise On the Joys of Morphinism, Hans Fallada - completed (ebook, very short story)
39 The Borgias, Paul Strathern - completed (paperback)
40 Maigret and the Man on the Bench, Georges Simenon - completed (paperback)
41 The Testaments, Margaret Atwood - completed (hardback)
42 The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli - completed (paperback)
43 The Institute, Stephen King - completed (hardback)
44 Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - completed (paperback)
45 Ten Days in a Madhouse, Nellie Bly - completed (e-book)
46 Rappaccini's Daughter! Nigel Hawthorne - completed (short story, paper)
47 Bone China, Laura Purcell - completed (hardback)
48 Molloy, Samuel Beckett - completed (paperback)
49 The Inheritors, William Golding - completed (paperback)
50 Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin - completed (paperback)
51 Howard's End, E M Forster - completed (paperback)
52 Westwind, Ian Rankin - completed (paperback)
53 Ness, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood - completed (hardback)
54 The Chimes, Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens Christmas books - completed (hardback)
55 Like Death, Guy de Maupassant - completed (paperback)
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By lunababymoonchild
1 The Loser, Thomas Bernhard - completed (paperback)
2 Tales of the Peculiar, Ransom Riggs - completed (paperback)
3 Midwinter Break, Bernard MacLaverty - completed (paperback)
4 The Quantum Ten, Sheilla Jones - completed (hardback)
5 This Census Taker, China Mielville - completed (paperback)
6 My Own Story, Emmaline Pankhurst - completed (paperback)
7 Poldark: Jeremy Poldark - completed (paperback)
8 The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe - completed (short story, ebook)
9 The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe - completed (short story, ebook)
10 The Spire, William Golding - completed (paperback)
11 The Accident on the A35, Graeme Macrae Burnet - completed (paperback)
12 Sanctuary, William Faulkner - completed (paperback)
13 The City and the City, China Mieville - completed (paperback)
14 The End, Samuel Beckett - completed, short story (paperback)
15 The Calmative, Samuel Beckett - completed, short story (paperback)
16 My Cousin Rachel, Daphne Du Maurier - completed (paperback)
17 Bleak House, Charles Dickens - completed (paperback)
18 The Blood, E S Thomson - completed (hardback)
19 Why I Am So Clever, Friedrich Nietzsche - completed (ebook)
20 The Silent Companions, Laura Purcell - completed (paperback)
21 Woodcutters, Thomas Bernhard - completed (paperback)
22 Manuel, Portrait of a Serial Killer - completed (paperback)
23 The Dead, James Joyce - completed (paperback)
24 Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky - completed (paperback)
25 Fear, Trump in the Whitehouse, Bob Woodward - completed (hardback)
26 In a House of Lies, Ian Rankin - completed (hardback)
27 A Map of Days, Ransom Riggs - completed (hardback)
28 The Heather Blazing, Colm Tóibin - completed (paperback)
29 Mrs Rosie and the Priest, Giovanni Boccaccio - completed, short story (paperback)
30 The Luckiest Guy Alive, John Cooper Clarke - completed, (hardback) poetry
31 Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking - completed (hardback)
32 A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness - completed (paperback)
33 Shadow of Night, Deborah Harkness - completed (paperback)
34 The Book of Life, Deborah Harkness - completed (paperback)
35 A Literary Christmas, Various - completed (hardback)
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By Binker
Is it possible that I am first? Here's what I think I've read since the beginning of the year, in no particular order:
1. A Question of Identity Susan Hill ***
2. The Shadow Woman by Ake Edwardson
3. Sun and Shadow by Ake Edwardson
4. Outrage Arnaldur Indridason[/u] ***
5. A Death in Small Hours Charles Finch ***
6. The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey ***1/2
Y7. The Epigenetics Revolution Nessa Carey *****t
8. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card ****yyt
9. A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black ****
10. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt****
11. Standing in Another Man's Grave Ian Rankin****u
12. Proof of Guilt by Charles Todd***
13. Pure by Andrew Miller****1/2, maybe*****(03/01/13)
14. The Small Hand by Susan Hill ****
15. Never End by Ake Edwardson***1/2, maybe **** (03/12/13)
16. Frozen Tracks by Ake Edwardson***1/2(03/16/13)
17. Sail of Stone by Ake Edwardson**** (03/24/13)
18. Room No. 10by Ake Edwardson****(04/01/13)
19. Blackout by Connie Willis****
20. All Clear by Connie Willis****(04/27/13)
21. Last Friends by Jane Gardam****1/2(04/30/13)
22. Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott****1/2 (05/06/13)
23. Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterson***1/2 (05/10/13)
24. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan***** (05/21/13)
25. Derby Day by D.J. Taylor***1/2 (05/27/13)
26. The Dangerous Animals Club by Stephen Tobolowsky****(06/03/13)
27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides****1/2 (06/07/13)
28. Armadillo by William Boyd ***1/2 but may get to 4 stars (06/15/13)
29. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker****1/2 (06/22/13)
30. Meet me in Malmo by Torquil MacLeod***1/2 (06/24/13)
31. Murder in Malmo by Torquil MacLeod***1/2 (06/29/13)
32. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman*****(06/30/13)
33. The Golden Egg by Donna Leon****(07/04/13)
34. Inferno by Dan Brown**1/2 (07/07/13)
35. The Untouchable by John Banville *****(07/28/13)
36. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan ***1/2(08/02/13)
37. Portobello by Ruth Rendell****1/2 (08/04/13)
38. The Bat by Jo Nesbo***1/2 (08/08/13)
39. Bad Monkey by Carl Hiassen****(08/13/13)
40. The Telling Room, a Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese by Michael Paterniti****(08/26/13)
41. Eva's Eye by Karin Fossum***1/2(09/01/13)--may get to 4 stars
__. The Care of Wooden Floors [abandoned--too much like a painfully long episode of Fawlty Towers]
42. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
43. The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill (09/17/13) ***1/2 (may get to 4 stars)
44. Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (09/22/13)***1/2
45. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (10/10/13)****1/2
46. Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson (10/19/13)***1/2 (may get to 4 stars)
47. The Monster of Florence (10/24/13) by Magdalen Nabb***1/2
48. Angle of Repose (11/09/13) by Wallace Stegner*****
49. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith (11/10/13)***1/2
50. Identical by Scott Turow (11/16/13)***1/2
51. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle ****
52. Young Philby by Robert Littrell (11/28/13)****
53. Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (11/30/13)***1/2
54. The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (12/02/13)****
55. Divergent (12/05/13)****
56. Insurgent by Veronica Roth (12/08/13)****
57. Allegiant by Veronica Roth (12/16/13)****
58. Bereft by Chris Womersley (sp?) (12/21/13)****
59. Solo by William Boyd (12/24/13)****
60. Dead Simple by Peter James (12/27/13)***1/2
61. Looking Good Dead by Peter James (12/29/13)*** 1/2
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By MisterHobgoblin
88 Cairo - Louis Armand **
87 Understanding Public Leadership - Paul 't Hart ***
86 Demons - Wayne MacAuley ***
85 Rethinking Public Service Delivery - John Alford *****
84 Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult ****
83 The Blunders of our Governments - Anthony King and Ivor Crewe ***
82 Wanting – Richard Flanagan ****
81 Foe – JM Coetzee ***
80 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck *****
79 Delete This At Your Peril – The Bob Servant Emails****
78 Stasiland – Anna Funder ****
77 The Lot: In Words – Michael Leunig *
76 Amnesia – Peter Carey ***
75 Dominion – CJ Samson *
74 The Sound and The Fury – William Faulkner ***
73 How I Became The Mr Big Of People Smuggling – Martin Chambers ****
72 Purge – Sofi Oksanen **
71 Care of Wooden Floors – Will Wiles ****
70 Hotel Iris – Yoko Ogawa *****
69 Confessions – Kanae Minato *****
68 Strange Weather in Tokyo – Hiromi Kawakami**
67 How’s The Pain – Pascal Garnier ***
66 When The Night Comes – Favel Parrett ***
65 The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell *****
64 Not In Front Of The Corgis – Brian Hoey ***
63 How To Be Both – Ali Smith ***
62 Orfeo – Richard Powers *
61 The Lives Of Others – Neel Mukherjee ***
60 To Rise Again At A Decent Hour – Joshua Ferris ****
59 The Blazing World – Siri Hustvedt ****
58 The Narrow Road To The Deep North – Richard Flanagan *****
57 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler ***
56 History Of The Rain – Niall Williams **
55 The Dog – Joseph O’Neill ****
54 The Wake – Paul Kingsnorth ****
53 The Ruby Slippers – Keir Alexander *****
52 All That Is Solid Melts Into Air – Darragh McKeon *****
51 Animals – Emma Jane Unsworth **
50 Fourth Of July Creek – Smith Henderson ***
49 All The Birds, Singing – Evie Wyld *****
48 Layla – Nina De La Mer ****
47e A&U Shorts: Nanoparticles – Charlotte Wood ****
47d A&U Shorts: Blackberries – Tom Keneally ****
47c A&U Shorts: Ithaca In My Mind – Peter Temple ****
47b A&U Shorts: Manuka - Alex Miller *****
47a A&U Shorts: Sticks, Stones, Christos Tsiolkas ****
46 In The Approaches – Nicola Barker ****
45 Burial Rites – Hannah Kent **
44 Barracuda – Christos Tsiolkas *****
43 The Farm – Tom Rob Smith ****
42 Where There’s Smoke – Jodi Picoult ****
41 Dept of Speculation – Jenny Offill ***
40 Irene – Pierre Lamaitre *****
39 Glow – Ned Beauman ***
38 Moon In A Dead Eye – Pascal Garnier ****
37 A Mad and Wonderful Thing – Mark Mulholland ****
36 The Pedant In The Kitchen – Julian Barnes ***
35 Blue Is The Night – Eoin McNamee ****
34 The Bees – Laline Paull **
33 Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson ***
32 The Light Of Amsterdam – David Park ****
31 The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales – Kirsty Logan **
30 The Book Of You – Claire Kendal ****
29 The Ghost of the Mary Celeste – Valerie Martin **
28 600 Hours of Edward – Craig Lancaster **
27 Cooking With Fernet Branca – James Hamilton-Patterson ****
26 The Falling Sky – Pippa Goldschmidt ***
25 Company – Max Barry ****
24 In The Morning I’ll Be Gone – Adrian McKinty ****
23 An Elegant Young Man – Luke Carman ***
22 Cairo – Chris Womersley *****
21 Dogs at the Perimeter – Madeleine Thien ***
20 419 – Will Ferguson *****
19 Walk The Lines – Mark Mason **
18 The Matrix – Jonathan Aycliffe ***
17 Dust – Hugh Howey **
16 The Rest Just Follows – Glenn Patterson ***
15 Tenth of December – George Saunders ****
14 A Naked Singularity – Sergio De La Pava ****
13 Fragrant Harbour - John Lanchester **
12 Lexicon - Max Barry ****
11 Trusting A Stranger - Kimberley Brown (unrated as I am married to the author)
10 Ablutions - Patrick de Witt ***
9 Nine Days - Toni Jordan ****
8 Night At The Pink Poodle - Matthew Condon **
7 The Amber Fury - Natalie Haynes ***
6 Unity - Michael Arditti ***
5 After Such Kindness - Gaynor Arnold ****
4 Alex - Pierre LeMaitre *****
3 A Capital Union - Victoria Hendry ***
2 Big Brother - Lionel Shriver *****
1 The Burial - Courteney Collins ****
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