When I started reading my third book of the year, I decided it might be interesting to keep a record of what I had read: and whether or not it would eventually make it to publication, the drafts folder of my blog seemed like as good a place to keep it as any. And hey now it is written, it might as well be published. So this is what I have read this year ...
Two Lives - Vikram Seth
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende
A Change of Climate - Hilary Mantel
The Pier Falls - Mark Haddon
Little Brother - Ibrahima Balde and Amets Arzallus Antia
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler - Gene Kemp
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord - Louis de Bernieres
In the Full Light of the Sun - Clare Clark
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
The Silent Boy - Andrew Taylor
Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage - Tori Amos
The Wreck - Meg Kenneally
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul - Deborah Rodriguez
Those Who are Loved - Victoria Hislop
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Lisa See
The Wall - John Lanchester
The Humans - Matt Haig
Resistance - Anita Shreve
My Name is Why? - Lemn Sissay
The History of Bees - Maja Lunde
Circle Song - Nawal El Saadawi (from God dies by the Nile and other Stories)
The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
The Echo Chamber - John Boyne
The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
The Second City Trilogy - Steven Camden
Redemption Song and Other Stories - The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018
Spanish Steps - Tim Moore
Summer - Ali Smith
The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
Hope in the Dark - Rebecca Solnit
The Girl in the Picture - Denise Chong
Home - Salman Rushdie
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
The Kindness of Strangers - Edited by Don George
No Friend but the Mountains - Behrouz Boochani
I have also read far too many social media posts! I sometimes wonder just how many more good books I could read if I didn't waste quite so much time on twitter ... but there you have it, my reading list for the year
So out of that list, which would be your favourite and were there any you wished you hadn't bothered reading?
ReplyDeleteMore reading, less scrolling, could be a New Year's resolution for many of us, at a guess!
Happy New Year.
40 books ! ! Are you a quick reader ? These are mostly not short easy reads. I can manage 24 a year, one a month for book group and one a month for myself. I recently enjoyed and recommend "The Island of Missing Trees" by Elif Shafak. Also Letting Go by an author who lives near me. The stories start in a village near me, come to Peebles where I live , then to Edinburgh and gradually spread out from there all over the world finishing in the Arctic. They also follow a time line from 1850 to Covid and after and behind all the stories is the theme of the title. Happy reading in 2023. Helen
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