Mount TBR 2019 discussion

for Mount Ararat

Hi, Guy! Welcome back and good luck for 2019.

Welcome back!

Thanks, you know this group really works.

Guy wrote: "Thanks, you know this group really works."

Glad it helps! It keeps me (almost) on an even keel. I only bring in "a few" more new books than I manage to read each year. :-)

It's like a therapy group :) Happy trekking!

Good luck on your 2019 challenge Guy!

I see you're back climbing Mt Ararat again Guy. I'm doing Mt Blanc again this year but may try higher later on. Good luck!

Tx to all for the comments. Just now checking in two months later..

1) Midnight all Day: Hanif Kureishi (8/11)

TBR Pick: Tentative and subject to change depending on what I feel like reading
Left overs from decades

1) Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky
2) Getting it Right: Elizabeth Jane Howard

5) The Wicked Boy: Kate Summerscale
6) Entry Island: Peter May
7) Murder at the Manor: ed. Martin Edwards
8) The Insect Farm: Stuart Prebble
9) The Fourth Secret: Andrea Camilleri
10) Fatherhood: Thomas Cook
11) The Moth: James Cain
12) Trouble Follows Me: Ross Macdonald
13) The Thicket: Joe R. Lansdale
14) The Man Who Loved Children: Christina Stead
15) Edge of Dark Water: Joe R. Lansdale
16) After Midnight: Irmgard Keun

20) A Few Days in the Country: Elizabeth Harrower
21) Martutene: Ramón Saizarbitoria
22) Yvegeny Onegin: Pushkin
23) Private Life: Josep Maria De Sagarra
24) Stalin's Daughter: Rosemary Sullivan

26) Black Run: Antonio Manzini
27) A Start in Life: Anita Brookner
28) All These Condemned: John D. MacDonald

30) Young Adolf: Beryl Bainbridge
31) Zerozerozero: Roberto Saviano
32) The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans: Balzac
33) Aunts Up the Cross: Robin Dalton
34) Forty Rooms: Olga Grushin
35) Ask For Me Tomorrow: Margaret Millar
36) H.M. Pulham Esq: Marquand
37) Dusty Answer: Rosamond Lehmann

40) The Pigeon Tunnel: John Le Carre

49) Just Relations: Rodney Hall

52) The Devotion of Suspect x: Higashino
53) Winter Sleep: Kenzo Kitakata


56) Snake: Kate Jennings
57) Journey Under the Midnight Sun: Higashino

61) Life Drawing: Robin Black
62) We Are Not Ourselves: Matthew Thomas
63) A Friend From England: Brookner

65) In Times of Fading Light: Eugen Ruge
66) Altered States: Anita Brookner
67) The Cage: Kenzo Kitakata
68) A Start in Life: Brookner
69) Honeymoon to Nowhere: Akimitsu Takagi
70) Adam's Rib: Antonio Manzini
72) After the Death of the Prince: Philip Hensher
73) Miss Owen-Owen: Margaret Forster
74) The Third Tower: Antal Szerb
75) The Misalliance: Anita Brookner
76) Brief Lives: Anita Brookner
77) Providence: Anita Brookner


81) Love Without Hope: Rodney Hall
82) Salvation of a Saint: Higashino
83) When I was Old: Simenon
84) The Ghostly Lover: Elizabeth Hardwick
85) My Name is Lucy Barton: Elizabeth Strout


87) Lovers and Murderers: Vladimir Parel


91) Mission London: Alek Popov
92) The Days of the King: Florian Filip
93) Judge on Trial: Ivan Klima
94) The Widow Killer: Pavel kahout
95) The Trail of the Serpent" Mary Elizabeth Braddon
96) I am Snowing: Pavel Kahout
97) Wonderful Women By the Sea: Monica Fagerholm
98) Stranded: Ester Tusquets
99) Death Puppet: Jim Nisbet

102) Perlmann's Silence: Pascal Mercier
103) The First Bad Man: Miranda July
104) In the Sky: Mirbeau
105) Disagreeable Tales: leon Bloy
106) The Upstairs People: jennifer Dawson
107) The Man in the High Castle: Philip Dick
108) Heed the thunder: Jim Thompson
109) Recoil: Jim Thompson
110) An Innocent Gentleman: Elizabeth Jolley
111) All I could Get: Scott Lasser
112) What remains of Me: Alison Gaylin

114) Country of the Blind: Brookmyre

116) The Tale: Joseph Conrad
117) Voyage Around My Room: Xavier de Maistre
118) A Small Town Marriage: Marchesa Colombi
119) The Princesse de Cleves: Madame de Lafayette

121) Colours and Years: Margitt Kafka


126) The Matter of Desire: Edmundo Paz Soldan
127) The Darkness that Divides Us: Renate Dorrestein

129) The Assassination Bureau: London
130) Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: kate Summerscale
131) Nobody's Fool: Richard Russo
132) Weatherly Parade: Richmal Crompton
133) Master of the Day of Judgement: perutz
134) Shroud of Darkness: Lorac
135) The Sea, The Sea: iris Murdoch
136) You've Got it Coming: james Hadley Chase
137) Tiger by the Tail: james hadley Chase
138) Try This one for Size: James hadley Chase

2) Happy All the Time: Laurie Colwin (2007)

3) Dreamland: Sam Quinones (2015)

4) A Working Mother: Agnes Owen (7/09)

5) Binstead's Safari: Rachel Ingalls (the 90s)

6) Sleep of memory; Patrick Modiano (2018)

7) The Truth About Marie: Touissant (3/12)

8) Reticence: Touissant (2017)

9) Waveland: Frederick Barthelme (2014)

10) The Assault on Tony's John O'Brien

11) Honour and Other People's Children: Helen Garner (2018)

12) Quite Ugly One Morning: Chris Brookmyre (2016)

13) The Children: Edith Wharton (80/90s?)

14) Robinson: Muriel Spark (2000?)

15) Cape Fear: John D. MacDonald (3/13)

16) The Glass Cell: Patricia Highsmith (2009)

17) My Late Wives: John Dickson Carr (10/16)

18) Prater Violet: Isherwood (1/15)

19) Three Novels: Berberova (11/11)

20) death in Pont-Aven: Jean-luc Bannalec (2014?)

21) The Step-daughter: Caroline Blackwood (10/13)

22) Holiday: Stanley Middleton (?)

23) Factotum: Charles Bukowski (5/10)

24) Olive Kitteridge (2/16)

25) Dodsworth: Sinclair Lewis (1991) Only took me 28 years to read it.

26) And then Put Out the Light: ECR Lorac (9/15)

27) A Little Lumpen Novelita: Bolano (9/15)

Guy wrote: "25) Dodsworth: Sinclair Lewis (1991) Only took me 28 years to read it."

Yeah, I have books like that.

I ask myself if I would have reacted differently to a book if I'd read it years earlier. In this case, I think reading it now (older), I appreciated it more.

28) Hotel Splendid: Marie Redonnet (3/17)

29) The Leviathan: Roth (2011)

30) A Very Scotch Affair: Robin Jenkins (2004)

31) Delay: Tim Krabbe (11/14)

32) Splitting: Fay Weldon (12/13)

33) More Anatomy of Murder: Sayers, Iles, Freeman Wills Crofts (7/15)

34) Paris Spleen: Baudelaire (10/10)

35) The Scholl Case: Anja Reich-Osang (17)

36) Women in Black: Madeleine St. John (2001)

37) Artists' Wives: Daudet (2011)

38) Bel Canto: Ann Patchett (9/16)