Mount TBR 2019 discussion

18 views
Level 6: El Toro (75 Books) > trying for 75

Comments Showing 1-35 of 35 (35 new)    post a comment »
dateUp arrow    newest »

message 1: by Guy (last edited Oct 23, 2019 07:35PM) (new)

Guy | 106 comments Jumping in here
list of possibles
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



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

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


message 2: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 1) Midnight all Day: Hanif Kureishi (8/11)


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)
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)
39) Rendezvous in Black: Woolrich (2010?)

40) Daughter of Time: Josephine Tey (10/14)

41) A season in Sinji: J.L. Carr (10/15)

42) UV: Serge Joncour (2010?)

43) Who Saw Her Die: Patricia Moyes (7/14)

44) Black faces, White Faces: Jane Gardam (9/09)

45) King Cophetua: Julien Gracq (11/11)
46) In Custody: Anita Desai (7/04)

47) Life Drawing: Robin Black (2014)

48) The Luck of Ginger Coffey (7/1
49) The Thief: Ruth Rendell (8/09)

50) A Severed Head: Iris Murdoch (3/15)

51) Big Little Lies: Liane Moriarty (12/14)

52) The Headmistress: Angela Thirkell (2009?)
53) Little Sisters: Fay Weldon (early 90s?)
54) Killer in the Rain: Raymond Chandler (2011)

55) The Hours Before Dawn: Celia Fremlin (6/13)
56) Lemons Never Lie: Donald Westlake (2006)
57) Home Truths; David Lodge (5/15)
58) All Souls: Javier Marais (4/11)
59) Deadly Pick up : Milton Ozaki (4/15)
60) Killer Take All: James Causey (4/15)


message 3: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 61) The Bathroom: Jean-Philippe Toussaint (8/14)


message 4: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 62) The Little Girls: Elizabeth Bowen (3/14)
63) Bad debts: Peter Temple (10/13)


message 5: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 64) The Body of Jonah Boyd : David Leavitt (9/04)


message 6: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 65) Protection: Molly McCloskey (2018?)


message 7: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 66) Poor George: Paula Fox (10/14)


message 8: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 67) The Widow Killer: Pavel kahout (6/16)


message 9: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 68) The Candyfloss Coast: Barbara Crossley (6/15)
69) Close Relations: Deborah Moggach (3/18)


message 10: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 70) The Hotel: Elizabeth Bowen (3/14)


message 11: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 71) Every Man For Himself: Beryl Bainbridge (2003?)


message 12: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 72) Le Grand Meaulnes: Alain-Fournier (the Dark Ages)


message 13: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 73) And when she was good: Laura Lippmann (4/16)


message 14: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 74) Disturbing the Peace: Richard Yates (3/13)


message 15: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 75) Snake: kate Jennings (2/16)


message 16: by Leslie (new)

Leslie Woohoo! Congrats Guy on reaching the peak!


message 17: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments Thanks. Never expected to read this many TBR books this year.


message 18: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 76) The Emperor's Tomb: Joseph Roth (2010?)


message 19: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 77) Quota: Jock Serong (2015?)


message 20: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 78) Emperor of Ice Cream : Brian Moore (7/10)


message 21: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 79) Revolutionary Road: yates (3/04)


message 22: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 80) The Feast of Lupercal: Brian Moore (7/10)


message 23: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 81) The Five Thousand and One Nights: Penelope Lively (2003?)


message 24: by Pamela (new)

Pamela | 110 comments You've rocketed past your goal, Congratulations Guy!


message 25: by Guy (last edited Nov 21, 2019 11:17AM) (new)

Guy | 106 comments 82) According To Mark: Penelope Lively (2003?)


message 26: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 83) The Things Men Do: James Hadley Chase (8/15)


message 27: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 84) The Travels of Maudie Tipstaff: Margaret Forster (9/14)


message 28: by Bev (new)

Bev | 702 comments Mod
Look at you--almost to Everest!


message 29: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments I won't do it before the end of the year... oh well


message 30: by Bev (new)

Bev | 702 comments Mod
Guy wrote: "I won't do it before the end of the year... oh well"

But you've gone way past your original goal!


message 31: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments True. This group really helped me get a handle on the TBR ROOM.


message 32: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 85) Dead Babies: Martin Amis (10/03)


message 33: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 86) Four Novellas of Fear: Woolrich (7/10)


message 34: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 87) So Evil My Love: Joseph Shearing (12/15)


message 35: by Guy (new)

Guy | 106 comments 88) Wild Town: Jim Thompson (7/11)


back to top