lunababymoonchild Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 1 The Dollmaker, Harriette Arnow - completed (paperback) 2 Small Spaces, Katherine Arden - completed (paperback) 3 The Seagull (Vera Stanhope, eight) - completed (paperback) 4 History of a Drowning Boy, Dennis Nilsen - completed (e-book) 5 Dark Voices, Katherine Arden - completed (paperback) 6 The Shape of Darkness, Laura Purcell - completed (hardback) 7 Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant - completed (paperback) 8 The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope 9), Ann Cleeves - completed (hardback) 9 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers - completed (paperback) 10 The Desolations of Devil's Acre, Ransom Riggs - completed (hardback) 11 The House of the Dead, Fyodor Dostoevsky - completed (paperback and e-book) 12 Presumed Dead, Mason Cross - completed (paperback) 13 Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking, S.J. Scott, Barrie Davenport - completed (paperback) 14 The Wee Free Men: A Tiffany Aching Novel (Discworld Novels), Terry Pratchett - completed (paperback) 15 The Drinker, Hans Fallada - completed (paperback) 16 The Four Swans (book 6 Poldark series), Winston Graham - completed (paperback) 17 Nightshade, E S Thomson - completed (hardback) 18 The Voice Imitator, Thomas Bernhard - completed (paperback) 19 The Strings of Murder (Frey and McGray 1), Oscar de Muriel - completed (paperback) 20 The Hunt (short story), Oscar de Muriel - completed (paperback) 21 Maigret's Mistake, Georges Simenon - completed (paperback) 22 The Red Pony, (novella) John Steinbeck - completed (paperback) 23 The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens - completed (paperback) 24 A Fire in the Blood (Frey and McGray 2), Oscar de Muriel - completed (paperback) 25 Kraken, China Mieville - completed (paperback) 26 Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse - completed (paperback) 27 Mrs England, Stacy Halls - completed (hardback) 28 Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Kate Summerscale - completed (ebook) 29 Hunger, Knut Hamsun - completed (paperback) 30 Candide by Voltaire - completed (paperback) 31 A Mask of Shadows (Frey and McGray 3), Oscar de Muriel - completed (paperback) 32 Chess Story, Stefan Zweig - completed (paperback) 33 The Messenger, Lois Lowry - completed (hardback, number 3 in the quartet) 34 Death At The Boston Tea Party, Deryn Lake - completed (ebook) 35 In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka - completed (paperback, short story) 36 Loch of the Dead (Frey and McGray 4), Oscar de Muriel - completed (paperback) 37 Maigret's Holiday, Georges Simenon - completed (paperback) 38 Rainbow in the Dark, Ronnie James Dio - completed (hardback) 39 The Old Manse (short story), Nathaniel Hawthorne - completed (paperback) 40 War and War, László Krasznahorkai - completed (paperback) 41 The Darker Arts, Oscar de Muriel - completed (paperback) 42 Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell-completed (paperback) 43 The Florentines, Paul Strathern - completed (hardback) 44 The Asylum, Karen Coles - completed (paperback) 45 Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor - completed (paperback) 46 The Impossible Dead, Ian Rankin - completed (paperback) 47 Dance of the Serpents, Oscar de Muriel - completed (e-book) 48 Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon - completed (paperback) 49 Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet - completed (hardback) 50 Carmilla, J Sheridan le Fanu - completed (e-book) 51 The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat, Naveed Noori - completed (paperback) 52 The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson - completed (paperback 53 Le Chants de Maldorer, Comte de Lautrémont - completed (paperback) 54 The Body, Stephen King - completed (paperback, short story 200 pgs) 55 The Unvanquished, William Faulkner - completed (paperback) 56 Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë - completed (paperback) 57 Maigret Goes to School, Georges Simenon -completed (paperback) 58 The Story of the Year, Hans Christian Andersen - completed (e-book, short story) 59 Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, Friedrich Nietzsche - completed (paperback) 60 Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings (Tales of the Weird), Tanya Kirk - completed (paperback) 61 The Sundays of Jean Dézert, Jean De La Ville De Mirmont - completed (paperback) 62 A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov - completed (paperback) 63 Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (Tales of the Weird) edited by Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk - completed (paperback) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megustaleer Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 Well, I'll put my marker here - just in case I manage to read something. Can't do worse than 2020, when, as far as I recall, I didn't manage to finish one book. Edit Jan 2nd 2022: The Playmaker, the only book I started in 2020 is still sitting by my chair, unfinished and gathering dust. I will not waste space on the Booklist 2022 thread by putting a marker down, as I am clearly not going to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvincent Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 (edited) Before We Was We: Madness by Madness - Mike Barson et a [Kindle] [Started 2020] The Broons Annual 1990 [Started 2020] Middle England - Jonathan Coe [Started 2020] Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings On Terror - Stephen Volk [Started 2020] Days In The Life - Jonathon Green The Race - Nina Allan Oor Wullie Annual 1991 Inside No.9: The Scripts, Series 1-3 - Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith The Broons Annual 1992 In A Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu I Wanna Be Yours - John Cooper Clarke The Broons Annual 1994 This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone R Is For Rocket & S Is For Space - Ray Bradbury The Broons Annual 2000 Times & Sounds - Jan Reetze David Lynch: The Unified Field - Robert Cozzolino The Dark Masters Trilogy - Stephen Volk The Broons Annual 2004 The Broons Annual 2006 The Little Gift - Stephen Volk Studio Of Screams - Bissette / Golden / Lebbon / Morris / Volk Oor Wullie Annual 2007 The Broons Annual 2008 A Saucer Of Loneliness - Theodore Sturgeon The Broons Annual 2010 Wayfinding - Michael Bond Bright Segment - Theodore Sturgeon Lynch On Lynch - Chris Rodley (ed.) And Now The News... - Theodore Sturgeon Room To Dream - David Lynch & Kristine McKenna The Man Who Lost The Sea - Theodore Sturgeon The Nail And The Oracle - Theodore Sturgeon The Gameshouse - Claire North Reflections Of Alan Turing - Dermot Turing The Fire Starters - Jan Carson You Know What You Could Be: Tuning Into The 1960s - Mike Heron & Andrew Greig The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again - M. John Harrison Under A Raven's Wing - Stephen Volk Becoming Superman - J. Michael Straczynski The Good Neighbours - Nina Allan Somebody's Voice - Ramsey Campbell Slow Sculpture - Theodore Sturgeon Remain In Love - Chris Frantz Case And The Dreamer - Theodore Sturgeon The Kind Folk - Ramsey Campbell Mister Invincible - Local Hero - Pascal Jousselin The West Highland Way - Terry Marsh Medical Grade Music - Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi Ghosts Know - Ramsey Campbell The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton The 32 - Paul McVeigh ed. The Art Of Space Travel - Nina Allan Mister Invincible Local Hero - Pascal Jousselin Ayrshire And Arran Coastal Paths - Keith Fergus Just Behind You - Ramsey Campbell A Calculated Life - Anne Charnock [Kindle] Baking With Kafka - Tom Gauld You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack - Tom Gauld Van Der Graaf Generator: Every Album, Every Song - Dan Coffey Wilson - Daniel Clowes Embers Of War - Gareth L Powell Notebook - Tom Cox Mooncop - Tom Gauld Just For One Day - Louise Wener [Kindle] Goliath - Tom Gauld Humble Pi - Matt Parker Fleet Of Knives - Gareth L Powell Castle Waiting - Linda Medley Light Of Impossible Stars - Gareth L Powell Toast On Toast - Steven Toast Forgotten Heroes Of Comedy - Robert Ross Thirteen Days By Sunset Beach - Ramsey Campbell Think Yourself Lucky - Ramsey Campbell Zero Bomb - M.T.Hill Mazes & Labyrinths - W.H.Matthews Castle Waiting Volume II - Linda Medley The Smoke - Simon Ings Spirits of The Season: Christmas Hauntings - Tanya Kirk (ed.) Chill Tidings: Dark Tales Of The Christmas Season - Tanya Kirk (ed.) Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales For The Longest Nights - Tanya Kirk & Lucy Evans (eds.) Broken Greek - Pete Paphides [Kindle] The Bishop Of Hell - Marjorie Bowen Brilliant Maps - Ian Wright The Broons Annual 2022 The Elements Of Eloquence - Mark Forsyth The Magic Box - Rob Young Previous years' booklists: 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Edited December 29, 2021 by pvincent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viccie Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 (edited) Print/Kindle 1. Begin Again - Ursula Orange **** 2. A Single Thread - Tracy Chevalier ****1/2 3. The Left Handed Booksellers - Garth Nix**** 4. The Sixteen Trees of the Somme - Lars Mitterling ***** 5. All The Ever Afters - Danielle Teller DNF 6 The Last Painting of Sara de Voss -Dominic Smith **** 7. The Burning Jane Casey **** 8. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout ****1/2 9. Snow Song - Sally Gardner ***1/2 10. Trust -Chris Hammer ****1/2 11. On Chapel Sands - Laura Cummings ****1/2 12. The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman ***** 13. The Second Sleep - Robert Harris 14. Closed for Winter - Jorn Lier Horst *** 15. Eve in Hollywood - Amor Towles ***** 16; Olive Again - Elizabeth Strout ***** 17. A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik****1/2 18. Ayesha Again - Uzma Jaluddin ****1/2 19. The Unfinished Clue - Georgette Heyer ***1/2 20. Tales from the Folly - Ben Aaronovitch **** 21. The Mystery of Henri Pick ** 22. The Religious Body - Catherine Aird *** 23. A Madness of Sunshone - Nalini Singh **1/2 24.Ink & Sigil - Kevin Hearne **** 25. The Strings of Murder - Oscar de Muriel **** 26. The Queen of Bloody Everything - Joanna Nadin ****1/2 27. The Grove of the Caesars - Lindsay Davis ****1/2 28. I Am, I Am, I Am - Maggie O'Farrell ***** 29. Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith ***** 30. Three Women and a Boat - Anna Youngsen ***1/2 31. Pulpit Rock - Kate Rhodes **** 32. After the Fire - Jo Spain **** 33. Writers and Lovers - Lily King ****1/2 34. The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes ****1/2 35. Normal People - Sally Rooney ****1/2 36. The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective - Susanna Stapelton **** 37. The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley ***** 38. MI5 andMe - Charlotte Bingham ****1/2 39. The Most Fun We Ever Had - Claire Lombardo ***1/2 40. The Penguin Lessons - Tom Mitchell ****1/2 41. Fanny Burney: Her Life - Kate Chisholm **** 42. Spies and Stars - Charlotte Bingham *** 43. The Tropic of Serpents - Marie Brennan **** 44. Abide With Me - Elizabeth Strout ***** 45. The Whole Truth - Cara Hunter **** 46. Jane Austen at Home - Lucy Worsley ****1/2 47 The Fire Court - Andrew Taylor **** 48. Euphoria - Lily King **** 49. A Country Road, A Tree - Jo Baker ****1/2 50. The Darkest Evening - Ann Cleeves ****1/2 51. She Lies in Wait - Gytha Lodge ** 52. The Killing Season - Mason Cross**** 53. The Midnight Queen - Sylvia Hunter ****1/2 54. The Fifth Season - N K Jemisin ***** 55. Close to Home - Cara Hunter ***** 56. Dog days - Ericka Waller ** 57. Bordeaux, Private Eye - Rorie Smith *** 58. The Miseducation of Evie Epworth ****1/2 59. The Great Alone - Kirsten Hannah *** 60. The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley +++++ 61. The Water Clock - Jim Kelly ++++ 62. Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell ++ Behind Closed Doors - B A Paris DNF, completely ludicrous 63. In The Name of the Family - Sarah Dunant +++++ 64. Confusion - Elizabeth Jane Howard ++++ 65. Casting Off - Elizabeth Jane Howard ++++ - both r/r for book club 66. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey ++++1/2 67. Beach Read - Emelie Henry ++ 68. V2 - Robert Harris ++++1/2 69. Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane ++++ 70. The Perfect Lie - Jo Spain +++++ 71. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N K Jemisin ++++1/2 72. The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley +++++ 73. Big Summer - Jennifer Weiner ++ 74. A Town Called Solace - Mary Lawson +++++ 75. Lady of Devices - Shelly Adina +++1/2 76. Lady of Magic - Sylvia Hunter ++++ 77. One More Croissant for the Road - Felicity Cloake +++ 78. The Night Raven - Sarah Painter +++ 79. The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams ++++ 80. Mother May I? - Joshilyn Jackson +++++for first 5/6, ++ for last 1/6 81. The Reckoning - Jane casey ++++1/2 82. The Samaritan - Mason Cross ++++1/2 83. Missing Pieces - Tim Weaver ++ 84. Writing Jane Austen - Elizabeth Aston +++ 85. 1971, Never A Dull Moment - David Hepworth ++++1/2 86. Kindred - Octavia E Butler +++++ 87. The Third Girl - Jane Casey ++++ 88. Ghosting - Jennie Erdal ++++1/2 89 The Stranger You Know - Jane Casey ++++ 90. The Kill - Jane Casey ++++ 91. Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan +++1/2 92. The Art of Dying - Ambrose Parry +++1/2 94. Small Spaces - Katherine Arden ++++ 95. Anything is Possible - Elizabeth Strout +++++ 96. The Firebird - Susanna Kearsley +++1/2 97. No Way Out - Cara Hunteer ++++ 98. The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave ++++1/2 99. Anxious People - Frederick Backman ++++1/2 100. Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny ++++ 101. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym- Paula Byrne ++++1/2 102. Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo ++++1/2 103. Getting Rid of Bradley - Jennifer Crusie ++++ 104. Sorcery and Cecilia - Patricia Wrede & Caroline Steventon ++++1/2 105. A Master of Djinn - P Djeli Clark ++++ 106. Love After Love - Ingrid Persaud +++++ 107. Darkness Fall - Robert Bryndza ++++1/2 108. Devil's Table - Kate Rhodes ++++1/2 109. Property - Valerie Martin 110. The Girl in the Ice - Robert Bryndza +++ 111. Small Pleasures - Claire Chambers +++ Audio books The Rules of Magic - Alice Hoffman **** The Survivors - Jane Harper ****1/2 The Accusers - Lindsay Davies **** The Postscript Murders - Elly Griffiths returned See Delphi And Die - Lindsay Davies **** A Room with a View - E M Forster (read by Emilia Fox) La Belle Sauvage _ Phillip Pullman***** Deep Secret - Diana Wynne Jones ***** The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue - V Swarb - returned due to infuriating historical inacuracies which really started to grate. Brazil - Michael Palin ****1/2 The Night Circus - Erin Morganstern ***** Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Gerald Durrell **** The Huntress - Kate Quinn ***** narrator, ** story A Dying Light in Cordoba _ Lindsay Davies ****1/2 The Sea Gate - Jane Johnson - sent back Miss benson's Beetle - Rachel Joyce ++++ story +++++ narration Erebus - Michael Palin +++++ The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters ++++ Unholy Harmonies - Elizabeth Aston ++++ The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim +++++ Cranford - Mrs Gaskell +++++ Die for Love - Elizabeth Peters ++++ Children of Chance - Elizabeth Aston ++++ The World, The Flesh and the Bishop - Elizabeth Aston ++++ Volcanic Airs - " " Unaccustomed Spirits " " Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth Von Armim +++++ Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith +++++ Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman ++++1/2 The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman +++++ The Telephone Box on the Edge of the World ++++ Miss Mapp -E H Benson ++++1/2 Poseidon's Gold - Lindsay Davis ++++ 1/2 Her Husband's Secret - Liane Moriaty Edited December 31, 2021 by Viccie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tay Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 (edited) 1 – Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin (audio) 2 – The Children’s War by J N Stroyar – started 2020 3 - Smoke & Ashes by Abir Mukherjee (audio) 4 – The Other Side of the Dales by Gervase Phinn – re read 5 – The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri (audio) 6 – The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub – re-read 7 – Erebus by Michael Palin (audio) 8 – Reporting Civil Rights Vol 2 pages 300 – 600 9 – Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down by Alan Jones 10 – A Month in the Country by J L Carr - re-read 11 – Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (audio) 12 - The Freedom Line by Peter Eisner 13 - A Higher Call by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander (audio) 14 - Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer 15 - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (audio) 16 - Death in the East by Abir Muckherjee (audio) 17 - Sacred Sierra by Jason Webster 18 – Thinner by Stephen King - re-read 19 - The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg (audio) – Re-read 20 - Over Hill and Dale by Gervase Phinn 21 – Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin (audio) 22 – The Fortune of War by Patrick O’Brian 23 – Poverty Safari by Darren MacGarvey (audio) 24 – The Master & the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (audio) 2nd time unfinished 25 – Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally (audio) re read 26 – North From Granada by Roy Nash 27 – Swan Song by Robert McCammon (audio) 28 – Consider Her Ways and other stories by John Wyndham 29 – The Chimes by Charles Dickens (audio) unfinished 30 – The Fog by James Herbert (audio) re read 31 – A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford (audio) 32 – Later by Stephen King Edited September 28, 2021 by Tay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) 1. Sula - Toni Morrison 2. A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ni Ghriofa 3. Tatty - Christine Dwyer Hickey 4. Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid 5. Love - Roddy Doyle 6. To Calais in Ordinary Time - James Meek 7. Beloved - Toni Morrison 8. Urban Grimshaw & the Shed Crew - Bernard Hare 9. The Red and the Black - Stendhal 10. Lowborn - Kerry Hudson 11. Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves 12. Grief is the Thing With Feathers - Max Porter 13. Snow - John Banville 14. Inglorious Empire - Shashi Tharoor 15. The End of Eddy - Edouard Louis 16. Who They Was - Gabriel Krauze 17. Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli 18. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk 19. The Odyssey - Homer 20. Heroes - Simon Sebag Montefiore 21. Monsters - Simon Sebag Montefiore 22. The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue 23. Motherwell - Deborah Orr 24. 1974 - David Peace 25. The Scholar - Dervla McTiernan 26. The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian - Pat Walsh 27. Morality Play - Barry Unsworth 28. Mayflies - Andrew O'Hagan 29. The Hungry Grass - Richard Power 30. Leonard & Hungry Paul - Ronan Hession 31. Howards End - E.M. Forster 32. Through the Narrow Gate - Karen Armstrong 33. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami 34. Practicing Catholic - James Carroll 35. The Familiars - Stacey Halls 36. Black Water Rising - Attica Locke 37. The Good Turn - Dervla McTiernan 38. The Accidental Woman - Jonathan Coe 39. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig 40. Padre Pio Irish Encounters With the Saint - Colm Keane 41. The City Always Wins - Omar Robert Hamilton 42. The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman 43. The Immoralist - Andre Gide 44. The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 45. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James 46. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell 47. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill 48. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut 49. Double Blind - Edward St Aubyn 50. Catch and Kill - Ronan Farrow 51. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 52. History of Violence - Edouard Louis 53. Panther in the Basement - Amos Oz 54. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn 55. Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi 56. Night - Elie Wiesel 57. When I Hit You - Meena Kandasamy 58. Abdication - Juliet Nicolson 59. The Wandering Jews - Joseph Roth 60. There's No Home - Alexander Baron 61. The Five - Hallie Rubenhold 62. A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne 63. My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell 64. A Separate Peace - John Knowles 65. Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell 66. That Could Never Be - Kevin Dalton 67. State of Wonder - Ann Patchett 68. The Bachelor of Arts - RK Narayan 69. Panenka - Ronan Hession 70. The Language of Kindness - Christie Watson 71. The Cut Out Girl - Bart van Es 72. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion 73. Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf 74. The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal 75. The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb 76. The Two Popes - Anthony McCarten 77. Pope Francis - Paul Vallely 78. It Can't Happen Here - Sinclair Lewis 79. How Much Of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang 80. The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard 81. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster 82. Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keane 83. The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht 84. Winter - Ali Smith 85. Farthest Field - Raghu Karnad 86. A House of Ghosts - W.C. Ryan 87. An Orchestra of Minorities - Chigozie Obioma 88. God's Politician - David Willey 89. OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea - Patrick Freyne 90. American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins 91. Bad Boy - Peter Robinson 92. Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos 93. The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel 94. The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson 95. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett 96. On Chapel Sands - Laura Cumming 97. The Shepherd's Hut - Tim Winton 98. Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss 99. The Rules of Revelation - Lisa McInerney 100. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari 101. Dirt Music - Tim Winton 102. The 100 Best Novels in English - Robert McCrum 103. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee 104. Apeirogon - Colum McCann 105. Snowflake - Louise Nealon 106. Ex Libris - Michiko Kakutani 107. Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro 108. Glorious Rock Bottom - Bryony Gordon 109. Empress Dowager Cixi - Jung Chang 110. Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith 111. Our Spoons Came From Woolworths - Barbara Comyns 112. Honour - Elif Shafak 113. The Book of Forgotten Authors - Christopher Fowler 114. The Madness of Grief - Richard Coles 115. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones 116. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Oliver Sacks 117. Left You Dead - Peter James 118. The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman 119. Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller 120. Swimming Home - Deborah Levy 121. Adele - Leila Slimani 122. Lanzarote - Michel Houellebecq 123. The Runaways - Fatima Bhutto 124. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens 125. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister - Jung Chang 126. A Room With A View - EM Forster 127. Hungry - Grace Dent 128. A Change of Circumstance - Susan Hill 129. Church, Interrupted - John Cornwell 130. O Pioneers! - Willa Cather 131. Still Life - Sarah Winman Edited December 10, 2021 by Zeus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brightphoebus Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 (edited) 56. The Fell Sarah Moss (Audio) **** 55. The Hunters Claire Messud **** 54. Doreen Barbara Noble ***(*) 53. The Occupation Trilogy P1 Patrick Modiano **** 52. The Promise Damon Galgut ***** 51. After Midnight Irmgard Keun **** 50. The Dry Heart Natalia Ginzburg **** 49. Austerlitz W.G Sebald 48. Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi (Audio) ****(*) 47. The Greengage Summer Rumer Godden ****(*) 46. Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell 45. Dear Reader Cathy Rentzenbrink (Audio) **** 44. A Town Called Solace Mary Lawson **** 43. A Shepherd's Life James Reebanks (Audio) ***** 42. Elmet Fiona Mozley ****? 41. Small Pleasures Clare Chambers *** 40. Ghosts Dolly Alderton (Audio) **** 39. Maps For Lost Lovers Nadeem Aslam ***(*) 38. Letters To Camondo Edward de Waal ???? 37 Sorrow And Bliss Meg Mason 36. The Green Road Ann Enright Audio 35. Child Of All Nations Irmgard Keun ****(*) 34. That Reminds Me Derek Owusu (Audio) **** 33. The China Room Sunjeev Sahota **** 32. The Glass Kingdom Lawrence Osborne (Audio) ***(*) 31. Darkness Falls From The Air Nigel Balchin ****(*) 30. The Silence Of The Girls Pat Barker *** 29. Early Morning Riser Katharine Heiney (Audio) **** 28. A Room Made Of Leaves Kate Grenville (Audio) **** 27. Love After Love Ingrid Persaud ***(*) 26. Magpie Lane Lucy Atkins ***(*) 25. A Lonely Man Chris Power ****(*) 24. Pilgrims Matthew Kneale ***(*) 23. The Startup Wife Tahmima Ahnum (Audio) ***(*) 22. Summer Brother Jaap Robben **** 21. Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground ****(*) 20. Peace Talks Tim Finch ***(*) 19. At Hawthorn Time Melissa Harrison **** 18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Audio RR) ***** 17. Old School Tobias Wolff (RR) ***** 16. Leonard And Hungry Paul Ronam Hession (Audio) ***(*) 15. Where I Left My Soul Jerome Ferrari (RR) ****(*) 14. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Wells Tower ***** 13. Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart (Audio) **** 12. The Weather In the Streets Rosamund Lehmann (RR) ****(*) 11. An Unsuitable Attatchment Barbara Pym **** 10. Light Perpetual Frances Spufford ***(*) 9. Summerwater Sarah Moss (Audio) ***(*) 8. The Other Americans Laila Lalami *** 7. The Long View Elizabeth Jane Howard ****(*) 6. Stasiland (Audio) Anna Funder ***** 5. The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry ***(*) 4. The Mirror And The Light Hilary Mantel ****(*) 3. Mother For Dinner (Audio) Shalom Auslander ***(*) 2. Some Kids I Taught And What They Taught Me (Audio) Kate Clanchy ****(*) 1. The Narrow Land Christine Dwyer Hickey ***(*) Edited December 21, 2021 by brightphoebus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 (edited) Here's mine January The Christmas Collection - Victoria Connelly 7/10 A Winter beneath the Stars - Jo Thomas 8/10 The Chalet - Catherine Cooper 7/10 February The Devils' Garden - Aline Templeton 7/10 Now you see them - Elly Griffiths 7/10 March The Moor - L J Ross 7/10 Echoes of the Runes - Christina Courtenay 7/10 The Potter's Field - Andrea Camilleri 7/10 April The Darkest Evening - Ann Cleeves 7/10 Dreaming of Italy - T A Williams 6/10 May Tidelands - Philippa Gregory 8/10 Death in Delft - Graham Brack 8/10 June The Light Within Us - Charlotte Betts 6/10 Penshaw - L J Ross 6.5/10 July Hell Bay - Kate Rhodes 7.5/10 Chasing the Italian Dream - Jo Thomas 5/10 August Unto us a son is Given - Donna Leon 6/10 The River Between Us - Liz Fenwick 7/10 Borderlands - L J Ross 8/10 September The Silver Collar - Antonia Hodgson 8/10 The Night Hawks - Elly Griffiths 8/10 October The Long Call - Ann Cleeves 7.5/10 The Survivors - Jane Harper 8/10 The Strings of Murder - Oscar de Meriel 8/10 November The Shape of Darkness - Laura Purcell 7/10 The Shrine - L J Ross 7.5/10 The Cook of the Halcyon - Andrea Camilleri 8/10 December The Warrior's Princess - Barbara Erskine DNF A Noel Killing - M L Longworth 7/10 Dreaming of Christmas - T A Williams 6.5/10 Murder after Christmas - Rupert Latimer DNF Edited January 2 by Madeleine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuntzy Posted January 12, 2021 Report Share Posted January 12, 2021 (edited) Love is Blind - William Boyd *not one of his best Patisserie Made Simple: Ed Kimber Butter:Elaine Khorsova Stolen Children: Michael Wood *needed better editing content and spelling Blood and Sugar: Edited March 10, 2021 by chuntzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuntzy Posted April 1, 2021 Report Share Posted April 1, 2021 On 12/01/2021 at 20:46, chuntzy said: Love is Blind - William Boyd *not one of his best Patisserie Made Simple: Ed Kimber Butter:Elaine Khorsova N.F. Stolen Children: Michael Wood *needed better editing content and spelling Blood and Sugar: Trust: Chris Hammer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuntzy Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 Miss Benson's Beetle:Rachel Joyce : excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagesmann Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 I'm a bit behind this year. I blame work and TV. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett Spy Line - Len Deighton Pachinko - Min Jin Lee Kings and Emperors - Dewey Lambdin Grimson's Prime Ministers - Andrew Gimson Zoo Station - David Downing Silesian Station - David Downing Stetting Station - David Downing Potsdam Station - David Downing Lehrter Station - David Downing Masaryk Station - David Downing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hux Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 (edited) January Review posted on January 10 - The Map and the Territory (Michel Houellebecq) 7/10 March Review posted on March 3 - The Book of Disquiet (Pessoa) 9\10 Review posted on March 23 - A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Tool) 6/10 April Review posted on April 1 - If on a Winters Night a Traveller (Italo Calvino) 7/10 Review posted on April 19 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers) 8/10 Review posted on April 27 - Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami) 8/10 May Review posted on May 28 - Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) 7/10 June Review posted on June 9 - The Land of Green Plums (Herta Müller) 8/10 Review posted on June 17 - No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai) 9/10 Review posted on June 24 - The Invention of Morel (Adolfo Bioy Casares) 8/10 Review posted on June 28 - Hunger (Knut Hamsun) 9/10 July Review posted on July 15 - Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami) 7/10 Review posted on July 18 - Submission (Michel Houellebecq) 8/10 Review posted on July 31 - Man's Fate (André Malraux) 5/10 August Review posted on August 5 - Nightwood (Djuna Barnes) 5/10 Review posted on August 12 - Ask The Dust (John Fante) 8/10 Review posted on August 22 - The Drinker (Hans Fallada) 8/10 Review posted on August 29 - Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban) 6/10 September Review posted on September 2 - A Month in the Country (J.L Carr) 7/10 Review posted on September 9 - Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse) 9/10 Review posted on September 15 - The Rings of Saturn (W.G Sebald) 8/10 Review posted on September 23 - Good Morning, Midnight (Jean Ryhs) 6/10 Review posted on September 29 - One, No-One, And One Hundred Thousand (Luigi Pirandello) 8/10 December Review posted on December 3 - The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil) 8/10 Review posted on December 7 - The Sundays of Jean Dezert (Jean de La Ville de Mirmont) 10/10 Review posted on December 23 - Zeno's Conscience (Italo Svevo) 7/10 Review posted on December 26 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi) 5/10 Could have sworn I read something in February. 🤔 Edited December 26, 2021 by hux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) So, hoping this year will be better than last (but it can't be much worse!) RATING: *****5 stars - Outstanding! Brilliant! Highly recommended, read it, read it now! ****4 stars - Very good, recommended, ***3 stars - A good enjoyable read, read it if you want to, **2 stars - It was ok, not totally sure about it so don't blame me if you think its rubbish *1 star - Not good, just about readable but not recommended No stars - Utter crap, don't bother - should never have been published! (R) - Re-read FICTION: Finding Grace by K L Slater ** Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright * My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing ** The Daughter by Lucy Dawson *** The Secrets you Hide by Kate Helm *** The Man Behind Closed Doors by Maria Frankland **** Reapers Pack by Rhea Watson*** His Wife's Sister by A J Willis *** When She Returned by Lucinda Berry **** (I gave this 4 stars because of how good it was for the majority of the book) Without Her Consent by McGarvey Black **** What Lies Between Us by John Marrs *** Never Alone by Elizabeth Haynes *** Wicked All Night by Jeaniene Frost **** The Graveyard Shift by Darynda Jones *** Family by Owen Mullen ***** Beautifully Cruel by J T Geissinger *** Freed by E L James *** Blaze by Suzanne Wright *** Ashes by Suzanne Wright *** Embers by Suzanne Wright *** Shadows by Suzanne Wright * Omens by Suzanne Wright *** The Locksmith by Linda Calvey**** Behind Closed Doors by B A Paris *** Fallen by Suzanne Wright *** Choose Me by Tess Geritsen & Gary Braver **** Home Truths by Tina Seskis Her Last Breath by Hilary Davidson **** Leave Well Alone by A J Campbell * Insider by Owen Mullen *** Enchant Me by J Kenner* Good as Dead by Susan Walker **** The Charley Davidson series (13 book series) by Darynda Jones (R) NON-FICTION: Helter Skelter (The True Story of the Manson Murders) by Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry *** Inside Broadmoor by Jonathan Levi & Emma French ** Edited January 28 by Apple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagesmann Posted December 29, 2021 Report Share Posted December 29, 2021 Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett Spy Line - Len Deighton Pachinko - Min Jin Lee Kings and Emperors - Dewey Lambdin Grimson's Prime Ministers - Andrew Gimson Zoo Station - David Downing Silesian Station - David Downing Stetting Station - David Downing Potsdam Station - David Downing Lehrter Station - David Downing Masaryk Station - David Downing Spy Sinker - Len Deighton Faith - Len Deighton Hope - Len Deighton Without Remorse - Tome Clancy Patriot Games - Tom Clancy The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy Cadrinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy Danger UXB - Michael Booker The King's Hounds - Martin Jensen Oathbreaker - Martin Jensen The Anglo-Saxons - Marc Morris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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