75 Books...More or Less! discussion

In 2017 I only listed print books in this folder, and my goal was to read two per month. I had some good months early on, then a couple bad months, but I ended up over my goal of 24.

In 2018, I’m going to list finished print, Kindle, and audible books that I owned before 1/1/18 here, so that should help. Also, Dawn Michelle and I are planning to buy almost no new books this year. We are allowing one a month at our book club outing and any that we need for Book clubs we’re in or for my job. When used book sale season comes around, you will hear us crying, but our current stash should get lots of love.

I’m going to set my goal for this year at 40.

1. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Format: Kindle doc (from NetGalley)

2. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Format: Paperback

3. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Format: Paperback

4. The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
Format: Kindle doc (from NetGalley)

5. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
Format: Paperback

6. Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad by Krystal A. Sital
Format: Kindle doc (from NetGalley)

7. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Format: Audio (from Hoopla) and hardback

8. Take the Monkey and Run by Laura Morrigan
Format: Paperback

9. Murder on Opening Night by Elizabeth Spann Craig
Format: Kindle

10. Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
Format: Paperback

11. Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Format: Paperback and audio (from Hoopla)

12. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Format: Paperback and audio (from Overdrive)

13. Knot What It Seams by Elizabeth Spann Craig
Format: Paperback

14. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Format: Hardback

15. Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
Format: Hardback and audio (from Overdrive)

16. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Format: hardback

17. Quilt Trip by Elizabeth Spann Craig
Format: Paperback

18. Cruising for Murder by Elizabeth Spann Craig
Format: Kindle

19. The Spirit is Willing by Max McCoy
Format: Paperback

20. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
Format: Paperback

21. The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Format: Paperback

22. Happy Dreams by Jia Pingwa
Format: Kindle

23. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Format: Paperback

24. Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
Format: Paperback

25. Cooking is Murder by Elizabeth Spann Craig
Format: Kindle

Joy wrote: "23. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Format: Paperback"

Was this your first book in the series? It is really cute :)

It is my first. I’ve had it in a bag from a used book sale for two years and finally, thanks to the read-your-shelves challenge, got around to reading it. I’ll definitely be reading more in the series. I love the main character and the setting.

I have read two books in the series but I would like to finish it. Your post inspired me to check my library and it looks like the whole series is available! I'm going to start downloading them one at a time. I also own a few :)

It was a series on Netflix I think. I started watching it and then forgot about it. The series was very well done and made me like the book even more!

Joy wrote: "It is my first. I’ve had it in a bag from a used book sale for two years and finally, thanks to the read-your-shelves challenge, got around to reading it. I’ll definitely be reading more in the ser..."

I've had the first one for a year, picked it up at a library book sale last summer!

That’s too funny, Elyse. People must be sharing them at used book sales a lot.

26. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Format: Hardback

27. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Format: Paperback

28. A Body in the Trunk by Elizabeth Spann Craig
Format: Kindle

29. Jerry of the Islands by Jack London
Format: Paperback

30. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Format: Paperback

Joy wrote: "27. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Format: Paperback"

I remember loving this book even though I read it ages ago.

31. A Red Herring Without Mustard
Format: Paperback

32. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
Format: Paperback

33. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
Format: Kindle

34. Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna by Maia Chance
Format: Kindle

35. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Format: Paperback

We are neck and neck my friend! I'm just 2 books behind you :)

Go, us!

36. The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun
Format: Paperback

37. Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis
Format: e-book

Joy wrote: "37. Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis
Format: e-book"

I so remember reading this in either high school or college :)

Andrea, it’s for the college American Lit class I teach.

38. Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews
Format: Paperback

Joy wrote: "Andrea, it’s for the college American Lit class I teach."

I didn't know you teach Joy!