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Links to Specific 2022 Challenges: Completed 12/31/22Goal of 200 Books in 2022 (2022RC): Individual Books
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Monthly PBT Tag:
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Group Sites:
Reading the 20th Century (list books set or published in 20th Century Only):
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Round Table - Fiction:
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Round Table - Non-Fiction:
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Non-Fiction Books Read: (NFBC)
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Non-Fiction Annual Challenge (NFBC):
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AtW80 Reviews:
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AtWi80B List International Books Only:
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Ongoing Reading Around the World (AtWi80B)
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Ranking the Booker Winners
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Ranking the Booker Nominees and Winners
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Jade Dragons (Private Group):
Dragon Hoard Rules: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My Hoard 2021: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My Hoard 2022:
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Reading Roulette:
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Completed:
✅The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr - 10/27/22 - 5* - My Review
✅ Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse - 11/6/22 - 4* - My Review
✅A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi - 11/26/22 - 4* - My Review
✅Zorro by Isabel Allende - 12/3/22 - 4* - My Review
✅Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert - 12/17/22 - 3* - My Review
In Progress:
Wait Til Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The O'Briens by Peter Behrens
Goldsmith Shortlist and Winners Ranking:
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CC Shrink the TBR:
My Challenge:
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Group Instructions:
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Chip Away Challenge:
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✅ Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie - 10/20/22 - 4* - My Review
✅ Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah - 10/31/22 - 4* - My Review
✅ The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff - 12/8/22 - 4* - My Review
✅Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner - 12/20/22 - 4* - My Review
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
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Gridlock Shelf:
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Callouts:
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- Column 1: Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith
- R2C4: The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
- Row 3: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
- Row 1: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- Row 5, Column 6: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
- Row 5, Column 1: Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
- Row 3 Column 3: Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
- Column 6: Salt Lick by Lulu Alison
- Row 3: Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden
Winter Challenge 2022-2023
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Mookse Top Reads of 2022 (New Releases Only):
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Challenges Completed:
See post 37 below
Favorites (So Far):1. The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara - 7/31/22 - 5* - My Review
2. The Colony by Audrey Magee - 8/13/22 - 5* -My Review
3. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama - 8/12/22 - 5* - My Review
4. The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason - 6/17/22 - 5* - My Review
5. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
6. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - 3/5/22 - 5* - My Review
7. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 1/21/22 - 5* - My Review
8. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng - 9/14/22 - 5* - My Review
9. Glory: A Novel by NoViolet Bulawayo - 9/1/22 - 5* - My Review
10. Speak by Louisa Hall - 11/24/22 - 5* - My Review
11. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat - 9/9/22 - 5* - My Review
12. A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne - 5/3/22 - 5* - My Review
13. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow - 4/3/22 - 5* - My Review
14. Seven Steeples by Sara Baume - 12/7/22 - 5* - My Review
15. The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman - 5/18/22 - 5* - My Review
16. The Master by Colm Tóibín - 2/23/22 - 5* - My Review
17. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard - 2/5/22 - 5* - My Review
18. The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat - 3/15/22 - 5* - My Review
19. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane - 3/18/22 - 5* - My Review
20. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton - 6/2/22 - 5* - My Review
21. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry - 8/19/22 - 5* - My Review
22. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princet on, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson - 5/1/22 - 5* - My Review
23. What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri - 12/18/22 - 5* - My Review
24. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks - 9/6/22 - 5* - My Review
25. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym - 10/14/22 - 5* - My Review
26. Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow - 7/26/22 - 5* - My Review
27. The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung - 9/27/22 - 5* - My Review
28. Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada - 10/21/22 - 5* - My Review
29. Intimacies by Katie Kitamura - 10/10/22 - 5* - My Review
30. Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris - 12/10/22 - 5* - My Review
31. Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet - 11/10/22 - 5* - My Review
32. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr - 10/27/22 - 5* - My Review
33. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - 5/24/22 - 5* - My Review
34. Sepharad: A Novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina - 4/28/22 - 5* - My Review
35. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli - 9/21/22 - 5* - My Review
36. Children of God by Mary Doria Russell - 5/4/22 - 4* - My Review
37. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut - 1/10/22 - 4* - My Review
38. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - 10/28/22 - 4* - My Review
39. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel - 5/5/22 - 4* - My Review
40. The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale - 12/10/22 - 4* - My Review
41. The Winners by Fredrik Backman - 11/10/22 - 4* - My Review
42. Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks by Mark Woods - 12/25/22 - My Review
43. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - 1/27/22 - 4* - My Review
44. Possession by A.S. Byatt - 5/15/22 - 4* - My Review
45. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - 9/23/22 - 4* - My Review
46. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery - 12/5/22 - 4* - My Review
47. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - 12/4/22 - 4* - My Review
48. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières - 6/1/22 - 4* - My Review
49. HHhH by Laurent Binet - 10/15/22 - 4* - My Review
50. The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant - 6/8/22 - 4* - My Review
51. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari - 3/16/22 - 4* - My Review
52. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - 4/22/21 - 4* - My Review
53. Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh - 9/25/22 - 4* - My Review
54. The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir - 6/11/22 - 4* - My Review
55. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham - 6/20/22 - 4* - My Review
56. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune - 6/25/22 - 4* - My Review
57. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler - 6/23/22 - 4* - My Review
58. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - 10/12/22 - 4* - My Review
59. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 9/15/22 - 4* - My Review
60. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 12/1/22 - 4* - My Review
61. The Every by Dave Eggers - 12/2/22 - 4* - My Review
62. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham - 12/24/22 - 4* - My Review
63. Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood - 8/21/22 - 4* - My Review
64. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - 5/17/22 - 4* - My Review
65. The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga - 5/12/22 - 4* - My Review
66. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson - 11/3/22 - 4* - My Review (last of the 4.5 star ratings so far)
Favorite Fiction (So Far):1. The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara - 7/31/22 - 5* - My Review
2. The Colony by Audrey Magee - 8/13/22 - 5* -My Review
3. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama - 8/12/22 - 5* - My Review
4. The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason - 6/17/22 - 5* - My Review
5. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
6. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - 3/5/22 - 5* - My Review
7. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 1/21/22 - 5* - My Review
8. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng - 9/14/22 - 5* - My Review
9. Glory: A Novel by NoViolet Bulawayo - 9/1/22 - 5* - My Review
10. Speak by Louisa Hall - 11/24/22 - 5* - My Review
11. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat - 9/9/22 - 5* - My Review
12. A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne - 5/3/22 - 5* - My Review
13. Seven Steeples by Sara Baume - 12/7/22 - 5* - My Review
14. The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman - 5/18/22 - 5* - My Review
15. The Master by Colm Tóibín - 2/23/22 - 5* - My Review
16. The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat - 3/15/22 - 5* - My Review
17. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry - 8/19/22 - 5* - My Review
18. What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri - 12/18/22 - 5* - My Review
19. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks - 9/6/22 - 5* - My Review
20. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym - 10/14/22 - 5* - My Review
21. The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung - 9/27/22 - 5* - My Review
22. Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada - 10/21/22 - 5* - My Review
23. Intimacies by Katie Kitamura - 10/10/22 - 5* - My Review
24. Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris - 12/10/22 - 5* - My Review
25. Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet - 11/10/22 - 5* - My Review
26. The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr - 10/27/22 - 5* - My Review
27. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - 5/24/22 - 5* - My Review
28. Sepharad: A Novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina - 4/28/22 - 5* - My Review
29. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli - 9/21/22 - 5* - My Review
30. Children of God by Mary Doria Russell - 5/4/22 - 4* - My Review
31. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut - 1/10/22 - 4* - My Review
32. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - 10/28/22 - 4* - My Review
33. A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel - 5/5/22 - 4* - My Review
34. The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale - 12/10/22 - 4* - My Review
35. The Winners by Fredrik Backman - 11/10/22 - 4* - My Review
36. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - 1/27/22 - 4* - My Review
37. Possession by A.S. Byatt - 5/15/22 - 4* - My Review
38. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - 9/23/22 - 4* - My Review
39. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery - 12/5/22 - 4* - My Review
40. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - 12/4/22 - 4* - My Review
41. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières - 6/1/22 - 4* - My Review
42. HHhH by Laurent Binet - 10/15/22 - 4* - My Review
43. The Egyptian by Mika Waltari - 3/16/22 - 4* - My Review
44. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - 4/22/21 - 4* - My Review
45. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune - 6/25/22 - 4* - My Review
46. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler - 6/23/22 - 4* - My Review
47. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - 10/12/22 - 4* - My Review
48. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 9/15/22 - 4* - My Review
49. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 12/1/22 - 4* - My Review
50. The Every by Dave Eggers - 12/2/22 - 4* - My Review
Favorite Non-Fiction (So Far):1. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow - 4/3/22 - 5* - My Review
2. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard - 2/5/22 - 5* - My Review
3. Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane - 3/18/22 - 5* - My Review
4. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton - 6/2/22 - 5* - My Review
5. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princet on, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson - 5/1/22 - 5* - My Review
6. Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow - 7/26/22 - 5* - My Review
7. Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks by Mark Woods - 12/25/22 - 4* - My Review
8. The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant - 6/8/22 - 4* - My Review
9. Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh - 9/25/22 - 4* - My Review
10. The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir - 6/11/22 - 4* - My Review
11. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham - 6/20/22 - 4* - My Review
12. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham - 12/24/22 - 4* - My Review
13. Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood - 8/21/22 - 4* - My Review
14. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson - 11/3/22 - 4* - My Review
15. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien - 1/4/22 - 4* - My Review
16. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough - 12/31/22 - 4* - My Review
17. Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs by Marc Lewis - 8/11/22 - 4* - My Review
18. One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow - 7/12/22 - 4* - My Review
19. Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 by Martin J. Sherwin - 8/14/22 - 4* -My Review
20. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre - 7/5/22 - 4* - My Review
21. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis - 2/27/22 - 4* - My Review
22. Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian - 7/27/22 - 4* - My Review
23. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway - 5/31/22 - 4* - My Review
24. John Adams by David McCullough - 5/21/22 - 4* - My Review
25. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin - 4/17/22 - 4* - My Review
26. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro - 2/16/22 - 4* - My Review
27. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich - 12/16/22 - 4* - My Review
28. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell - 10/24/22 - 4* - My Review
29. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker - 10/26/22 - 4* - My Review
30. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe - 4/9/22 - 4* - My Review
31. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker - 12/17/22 - 4* - My Review
32. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson - 2/7/22 - 4* - My Review
33. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg - 1/15/22 - 4* - My Review
34. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - 2/26/22 - 4* - My Review
35. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff - 12/8/22 - 4* - My Review
36. Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit - 1/5/22 - 4* - My Review
37. The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria by Edmund Richardson - 1/16/22 - 4* - My Review
38. The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson - 7/18/22 - 4* - My Review
39. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff - 9/10/22 - 4* - My Review
40. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen - 9/19/22 - 4* - My Review
41. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee - 6/4/22 - 4* - My Review
42. The Other Side of Normal: How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior by Jordan Smoller - 2/15/22 - 4* - My Review
43. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - 3/21/22 - 4* - My Review
44. Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts - 11/20/22 - 4* - My Review
45. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides - 7/6/22 - 4* - My Review
46. These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett - 7/6/22 - 4* - My Review
47. The Man in the Empty Boat by Mark Salzman - 7/13/22 - 4* - My Review
48. Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity by Ejnar Mikkelsen - 12/14/22 - 4* - My Review
49. The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord - 7/16/22 - 4* - My Review
50. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King - 7/2/22 - 4* - My Review
January: Month - 32; YTD - 32Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys - 1/1/22 - 3* - My Review
What Willow Says by Lynn Buckle - 1/2/22 - 4* - My Review
Learwife: A Novel by J.R. Thorpe - 1/3/22 - 4* - My Review
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien - 1/4/22 - 4* - My Review
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky - 1/4/22 - 3* - My Review
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit - 1/5/22 - 4* - My Review
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 1/6/22 - 3* - My Review
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution by Susan Hockfield - 1/7/22 - 3* - My Review
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine G. Johnson - 1/8/22 - 4* - My Review
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - 1/9/22 - 2* - My Review
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut - 1/10/22 - 4* - My Review
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher - 1/11/22 - 4* - My Review
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler - 1/12/22 - 4* - My Review
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - 1/13/22 - 4* - My Review
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert - 1/14/22 - 4* - My Review
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg - 1/15/22 - 4* - My Review
The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria by Edmund Richardson - 1/16/22 - 4* - My Review
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 1/17/22 - 4* - My Review
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green - 1/18/22 - 4* - My Review
Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt - 1/19/22 - 2* - My Review
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis - 1/20/22 - 1* - My Review
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - 1/21/22 - 5* - My Review
Faithful by Alice Hoffman - 1/22/22 - 2* - My Review
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - 1/23/22 - 4* - My Review
The Secret River by Kate Grenville - 1/24/22 - 4* - My Review
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders - 1/25/22 - 3* - My Review
Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz - 1/26/22 - 4* - My Review
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - 1/27/22 - 4* - My Review
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck - 1/28/22 - 4* - My Review
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark Miodownik - 1/29/22 - 3* - My Review
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James - 1/30/22 - 3 stars - My Review
The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound by Roger Kahn - 1/31/22 - 4* - My Review
February: Month - 28; YTD - 60This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger - 2/1/22 - 3* - My Review
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy - 2/2/22 - 3* - My Review
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 2/3/22 - 3* - My Review
The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin - 2/4/22 - 1* - My Review
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard - 2/5/22 - 5* - My Review
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - 2/6/22 - 4* - My Review
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson - 2/7/22 - 4* - My Review
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro - 2/8/22 - 3* - My Review
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury - 2/9/22 - 3* - My Review
Love, Death & Rare Books by Robert Hellenga - 2/10/22 - 4* - My Review
Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young - 2/11/22 - 2* - My Review
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson - 2/12/22 - 3* - My Review
The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression by Edward Bullmore - 2/13/22 - 3* - My Review
When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning - 2/14/22 - 4* - My Review
The Other Side of Normal: How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior by Jordan Smoller - 2/15/22 - 4* - My Review
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro - 2/16/22 - 4* - My Review
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - 2/17/22 - 4* - My Review
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman - 2/18/22 - 4* - My Review
The Late Show by Michael Connelly - 2/19/22 - 3* - My Review
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo - 2/20/22 - 4* - My Review
The Far Country by Nevil Shute - 2/21/22 - 4* - My Review
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante - 2/22/22 - 3* - My Review
The Master by Colm Tóibín - 2/23/22 - 5* - My Review
Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout - 2/24/22 - 2* - My Review
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate- 2/25/22 - 3* - My Review
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - 2/26/22 - 4* - My Review
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis - 2/27/22 - 4* - My Review
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See - 2/28/22 - 2* - My Review
March: Month - 32; YTD - 92Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum - 3/1/22 - 4* - My Review
The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard - 3/2/22 - 4* - My Review
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis - 3/3/22 - 3* - My Review
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories by Agatha Christie - 3/4/22 - 4* - My Review
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell - 3/5/22 - 5* - My Review
Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood - 3/6/22 - 4* - My Review
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 3/7/22 - 2* - My Review
Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work by Alex Pattakos - 3/8/22 - 3* - My Review
Paradise by Toni Morrison - 3/9/22 - 4* - My Review
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult - 3/10/22 - 2* - My Review
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman - 3/10/22 - 3* - My Review
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut - 3/11/33 - 4* - My Review
A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum - 3/12/22 - 4* - My Review
Adam Bede by George Eliot - 3/13/22 - 4* - My Review
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul - 3/14/22 - 4* - My Review
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat - 3/15/22 - 5* - My Review
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari - 3/16/22 - 4* - My Review
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon - 3/17/22 - 3* - My Review
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane - 3/18/22 - 5* - My Review
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - 3/19/22 - 4* - My Review
July's People by Nadine Gordimer - 3/20/22 - 4* - My Review
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - 3/21/22 - 4* - My Review
Spring by Ali Smith - 3/22/22 - 4* - My Review
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki - 3/23/22 - 3* - My Review
Small Ceremonies: A Novel by Carol Shields - 3/24/22 - 4* - My Review
Lady Susan by Jane Austen - 3/25/22 - 3* - My Review
The Ambassadors by Henry James - 3/26/22 - 3* - My Review
Independent People by Halldór Laxness - 3/27/22 - 4* - My Review
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro - 3/28/22 - 4* - My Review
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell - 3/29/22 - 4* - My Review
Saving Lucia by Anna Vaught - 3/30/22 - 4* - My Review
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood - 3/31/22 - 4* - My Review
April: Month - 30; YTD - 122Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner - 4/1/22 - 4* - My Review
The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly - 4/2/22 - 3* - My Review
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow - 4/3/22 - 5* - My Review
The Things Our Fathers Saw: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater by Matthew A. Rozell - 4/4/22 - 4* - My Review
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout - 4/5/22 - 3* - My Review
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights by Steven Levingston - 4/6/22 - 4* - My Review
The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom - 4/7/22 - 3* - My Review
Justine by Lawrence Durrell - 4/8/22 - 3* - My Review
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe - 4/9/22 - 4* - My Review
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 4/10/22 - 3* - My Review
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 4/11/22 - 4* - My Review
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel - 4/12/22 - 4* - My Review
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens - 4/13/22 - 3* - My Review
The Candy House: A Novel by Jennifer Egan - 4/14/22 - 4* - My Review
Flower Net by Lisa See - 4/15/22 - 3* - My Review
Making a Psychopath: My Journey into Seven Dangerous Minds by Mark Freestone - 4/16/22 - 4* - My Review
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea by Jonathan Franklin - 4/17/22 - 4* - My Review
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nighfall by Kazuo Ishiguro - 4/18/22 - 4* - My Review
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro - 4/19/22 - 4* - My Review
The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga - 4/20/22 - 2* - My Review
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury - 4/21/22 - 4* - My Review
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - 4/22/21 - 4* - My Review
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow - 4/23/22 - 3* - My Review
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman - 4/24/22 - 3* - My Review
This Noble Land: My Vision for America by James A. Michener - 4/25/22 - 4* - My Review
Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman - 4/26/22 - 3* - My Review
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver - 4/27/22 - 4* - My Review
Sepharad: A Novel by Antonio Muñoz Molina - 4/28/22 - 5* - My Review
Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West by Heather Hansman - 4/29/22 - 2* - My Review
Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold - 4/30/22 - 3* - My Review
May: Month - 33; YTD - 155The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princet on, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson - 5/1/22 - 5* - My Review
Beloved by Toni Morrison - 5/2/22 - 4* - My Review
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne - 5/3/22 - 5* - My Review
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell - 5/4/22 - 4* - My Review
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel - 5/5/22 - 4* - My Review
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - 5/6/22 - 4* - My Review
The House Of Special Purpose by John Boyne - 5/7/22 - 4* - My Review
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo - 5/8/22 - 4* - My Review
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - 5/9/22 - 2* - My Review
Jazz by Toni Morrison - 5/9/22 - 3* - My Review
The Absolutist by John Boyne - 5/10/22 - 4* - My Review
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood - 5/11/22 - 4* - My Review
The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga - 5/12/22 - 4* - My Review
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - 5/13/22 - 3* - My Review
Eventide by Kent Haruf - 5/13/22 - 3* - My Review
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - 5/14/22 - 4* - My Review
Possession by A.S. Byatt - 5/15/22 - 4* - My Review
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed - 5/16/22 - 3* - My Review
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - 5/17/22 - 4* - My Review
The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman - 5/18/22 - 5* - My Review
Baba Dunja's Last Love by Alina Bronsky - 5/19/22 - 4* - My Review
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari - 5/20/22 - 2* - My Review
John Adams by David McCullough - 5/21/22 - 4* - My Review
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - 5/22/22 - 3* - My Review
Judgement Day by Penelope Lively - 5/23/22 - 2* - My Review
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - 5/24/22 - 5* - My Review
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold - 5/25/22 - 2* - My Review
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver - 5/26/22 - 3* - My Review
Taft by Ann Patchett - 5/27/22 - 2* - My Review
Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin - 5/28/22 - 2* - My Review
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman - 5/29/22 - 4* - My Review
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Henry Fountain - 5/30/22 - 4* - My Review
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway - 5/31/22 - 4* - My Review
June: Month - 37; YTD - 192Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières - 6/1/22 - 4* - My Review
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton - 6/2/22 - 5* - My Review
The White Darkness by David Grann - 6/3/22 - 4* - My Review
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee - 6/4/22 - 4* - My Review
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey - 6/5/22 - 4* - My Review
How to Fly: In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons by Barbara Kingsolver - 6/6/22 - 3* - My Review
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - 6/6/22 - 4* - My Review
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo - 6/7/22 - 4* - My Review
The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant - 6/8/22 - 4* - My Review
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos - 6/9/22 - 3* - My Review
Trust by Hernan Diaz - 6/10/22 - 3* - My Review
Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle by Gordon Thomas - 6/10/22 - 4* - My Review
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir - 6/11/22 - 4* - My Review
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee - 6/12/22 - 2* - My Review
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing - 6/12/22 - 3* - My Review
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack - 6/13/22 - 4* - My Review
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs - 6/14/22 - 4* - My Review
The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge - 6/15/22 - 3* - My Review
Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt - 6/16/22 - 4* - My Review
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell - 6/16/22 - 3* - My Review
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason - 6/17/22 - 5* - My Review
Sula by Toni Morrison - 6/18/22 - 4* - My Review
The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch - 6/18/22 - 3* - My Review
Innocent by Scott Turow - 6/19/22 - 4* - My Review
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham - 6/20/22 - 4* - My Review
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong - 6/21/22 - 4* - My Review
The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold - 6/22/22 - 3* - My Review
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler - 6/23/22 - 4* - My Review
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales by Margaret Atwood - 6/24/22 - 3* - My Review
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune - 6/25/22 - 4* - My Review
The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan Seisenbayev - 6/26/22 - 4* - My Review
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold - 6/26/22 - 2* - My Review
A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne- 6/27/22 - 3* - My Review
Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold - 6/27/22 - 3* - My Review
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman - 6/28/22 - 2* - My Review
Elevation by Stephen King - 6/29/22 - 3* - My Review
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin - 6/30/22 - 4* - My Review
July: Month - 36; YTD - 228Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason - 7/1/22 - 3* - My Review
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman - 7/2/22 - 3* - My Review
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King - 7/2/22 - 4* - My Review
How We Disappear: Novella & Stories by Tara Lynn Masih - 7/3/22 - 4* - My Review
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - 7/4/22 - 3* - My Review
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre - 7/5/22 - 4* - My Review
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett - 7/6/22 - 4* - My Review
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides - 7/6/22 - 4* - My Review
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma - 7/7/22 - 2* - My Review
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison - 7/8/22 - 3* - My Review
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King - 7/9/22 - 4* - My Review
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout - 7/10/22 - 4* - My Review
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood - 7/11/22 - 4* - My Review
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver - 7/11/22 - 4* - My Review
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow - 7/12/22 - 4* - My Review
The Man in the Empty Boat by Mark Salzman - 7/13/22 - 4* - My Review
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See - 7/14/22 - 4* - My Review
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold - 7/14/22 - 3* - My Review
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez - 7/15/22 - 4* - My Review
The Dawn's Early Light by Walter Lord - 7/16/22 - 4* - My Review
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead - 7/17/22 - 2* - My Review
The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson - 7/18/22 - 4* - My Review
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall - 7/19/22 - 3* - My Review
James Madison: America's First Politician by Jay Cost - 7/20/22 - 4* - My Review
The Telling Time by P.J. McKay - 7/21/22 - 3* - My Review
The People of the Abyss by Jack London - 7/22/22 - 4* - My Review
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu - 7/23/22 - 3* - My Review
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt - 7/24/22 - 3* - My Review
Paula by Isabel Allende - 7/25/22 - 4* - My Review
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow - 7/26/22 - 5* - My Review
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian - 7/27/22 - 4* - My Review
The Time of the Angels by Iris Murdoch - 7/28/22 - 3* - My Review
The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor - 7/29/22 - 3* - My Review
War and Me by Faleeha Hassan - 7/30/22 - 4* - My Review
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara - 7/31/22 - 5* - My Review
Nobody Will Bury Us If We Die Here by Carolyn Chun - 7/31/22 - 2* - My Review
August: Month - 34; YTD - 262Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - 8/1/22 - 4* - My Review
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe - 8/2/22 - 4* - My Review
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu - 8/3/22 - 4* - My Review
Horse by Geraldine Brooks - 8/4/22 - 4* - My Review
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen - 8/5/22 - 3* - My Review
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone - 8/6/22 - 4* - My Review
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler - 8/7/22 - 4* - My Review
The Great Passage by Shion Miura - 8/8/22 - 4* - My Review
The Trees by Percival Everett - 8/9/22 - 4* - My Review
French Braid by Anne Tyler - 8/10/22 - 4* - My Review
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs by Marc Lewis - 8/11/22 - 4* - My Review
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama - 8/12/22 - 5* - My Review
The Colony by Audrey Magee - 8/13/22 - 5* -My Review
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 by Martin J. Sherwin - 8/14/22 - 4* -My Review
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi - 8/15/22 - 4* - My Review
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer - 8/16/22 - 3* - My Review
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood - 8/17/22 - 4* - My Review
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley - 8/18/22 - 2* - My Review
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry - 8/19/22 - 5* - My Review
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. - 8/19/22 - 2* - My Review
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet - 8/20/22 - 4* - My Review
Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood - 8/21/22 - 4* - My Review
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson - 8/22/22 - 3* - My Review
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell - 8/23/22 - 4* - My Review
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner - 8/24/22 - 3* - My Review
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz - 8/25/22 - 3* - My Review
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende - 8/26/22 - 3* - My Review
Popisho by Leone Ross - 8/26/22 - 2* - My Review
Flight From The Enchanter by Iris Murdoch - 8/27/22 - 3* - My Review
I Refuse: A Novel by Per Petterson - 8/28/22 - 3* - My Review
How to Be Both by Ali Smith - 8/29/22 - 4* - My Review
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 by Barbara Kingsolver - 8/29/22 - 4* - My Review
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick - 8/30/22 - 4* - My Review
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González - 8/31/22 - 2* - My Review
September: Month - 33; YTD - 295Glory: A Novel by NoViolet Bulawayo - 9/1/22 - 5* - My Review
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - 9/1/22 - 3* - My Review
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
Fight Night by Miriam Toews - 9/3/22 - 3* - My Review
The Stand by Stephen King - 9/4/22 - 4* - My Review
Sanditon by Jane Austen - 9/5/22 - 3* - My Review
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks - 9/6/22 - 5* - My Review
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson - 9/7/22 - 3* - My Review
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman - 9/8/22 - 3* - My Review
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat - 9/9/22 - 5* - My Review
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff - 9/10/22 - 4* - My Review
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra - 9/11/22 - 4* - My Review
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami - 9/12/22 - 3* - My Review
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - 9/13/22 - 4* - My Review
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng - 9/14/22 - 5* - My Review
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 9/15/22 - 4* - My Review
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald - 9/16/22 - 3* - My Review
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard - 9/17/22 - 4* - My Review
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - 9/18/22 - 4* - My Review
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen - 9/19/22 - 4* - My Review
Sweetland by Michael Crummey - 9/20/22 - 4* - My Review
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli - 9/21/22 - 5* - My Review
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - 9/22/22 - 4* - My Review
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler - 9/23/22 - 4* - My Review
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill - 9/24/22 - 4* - My Review
Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh - 9/25/22 - 4* - My Review
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams - 9/26/22 - 4* - My Review
The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung - 9/27/22 - 5* - My Review
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant - 9/28/22 - 4* - My Review
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt - 9/28/22 - 4* - My Review
Writers & Lovers by Lily King - 9/29/22 - 3* - My Review
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh - 9/29/22 - 4* - My Review
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah - 9/30/22 - 4* - My Review
October: Month - 32; YTD - 327The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen - 10/1/22 - 3* - My review
Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai - 10/2/22 - 4* - My Review
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 10/3/22 - 4* - My Review
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid - 10/4/22 - 2* - My Review
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown - 10/5/22 - 4* - My Review
Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss - 10/6/22 - 3* - My Review
Vigil Harbor by Julia Glass - 10/7/22 - 4* - My Review
A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - 10/8/22 - 4* - My Review
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink - 10/9/22 - 4* - My Review
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura - 10/10/22 - 5* - My Review
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout - 10/11/22 - 4* - My Review
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - 10/12/22 - 4* - My Review
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt - 10/13/22 - 3* - My Review
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym - 10/14/22 - 5* - My Review
HHhH by Laurent Binet - 10/15/22 - 4* - My Review
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson - 10/16/22 - 4* - My Review
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski - 10/17/22 - 3* - My Review
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks - 10/18/22 - 4* - My Review
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger - 10/19/22 - 4* - My Review
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie - 10/20/22 - 4* - My Review
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada - 10/21/22 - 5* - My Review
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman - 10/22/22 - 3* - My Review
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm Of 1894 by Daniel James Brown - 10/22/22 - 4* - My Review
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes - 10/23/22 - 3* - My Review
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell - 10/24/22 - 4* - My Review
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi - 10/25/22 - 3* - My Review
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker - 10/26/22 - 4* - My Review
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr - 10/27/22 - 5* - My Review
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - 10/28/22 - 4* - My Review
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - 10/29/22 - 3* - My Review
Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell - 10/30/22 - 4* - My Review
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah - 10/31/22 - 4* - My Review
November: Month - 36; YTD - 363The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather - 11/1/22 - 4* - My Review
Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams - 11/2/22 - 3* - My Review
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson - 11/3/22 - 4* - My Review
The Revolution of the Moon by Andrea Camilleri - 11/4/22 - 3* - My Review
Lessons by Ian McEwan - 11/5/22 - 4* - My Review
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse - 11/6/22 - 4* - My Review
Touch by Olaf Olafsson - 11/7/22 - 4* - My Review
The Wall by John Lanchester - 11/8/22 - 4* - My Review
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson - 11/9/22 - 3* - My Review
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr - 11/9/22 - 4* - My Review
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet - 11/10/22 - 5* - My Review
The Winners by Fredrik Backman - 11/10/22 - 4* - My Review
Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga - 11/11/22 - 3* - My Review
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford - 11/11/22 - 4* - My Review
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 11/12/22 - 4* - My Review
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - 11/12/22 - 3* - My Review
The Book of Science and Antiquities by Thomas Keneally - 11/13/22 - 3* - My Review
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel - 11/13/22 - 4* - My Review
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen - 11/14/22 - 3* - My Review
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild - 11/15/22 - 4* - My Review
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson - 11/16/22 - 3* - My Review
Foundation by Isaac Asimov - 11/17/22 - 4* - My Review
The Measure by Nikki Erlick - 11/18/22 - 4* - My Review
Mecca by Susan Straight - 11/19/22 - 4* - My Review
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts - 11/20/22 - 4* - My Review
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie - 11/21/22 - 4* - My Review
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel - 11/22/22 - 3* - My Review
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li - 11/23/22 - 4* - My Review
Speak by Louisa Hall - 11/24/22 - 5* - My Review
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang - 11/25/22 - 3* - My Review
A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi - 11/26/22 - 4* - My Review
Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi - 11/27/22 - 3* - My Review
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic - 11/27/22 - 4* - My Review
Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly - 11/28/22 - 4* - My Review
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams - 11/29/22 - 4* - My Review
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan - 11/30/22 - 3* - My Review
December: Month - 47; YTD - 410Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 12/1/22 - 4* - My Review
The Every by Dave Eggers - 12/2/22 - 4* - My Review
Zorro by Isabel Allende - 12/3/22 - 4* - My Review
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - 12/4/22 - 4* - My Review
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery - 12/5/22 - 4* - My Review
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk - 12/5/22 - 3* - My Review
The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch - 12/6/22 - 3* - My Review
Seven Steeples by Sara Baume - 12/7/22 - 5* - My Review
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff - 12/8/22 - 4* - My Review
Abigail by Magda Szabó - 12/8/22 - 4* - My Review
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka - 12/9/22 - 4* - My Review
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow - 12/9/22 - 3* - My Review
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris - 12/10/22 - 5* - My Review
The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale - 12/10/22 - 4* - My Review
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler - 12/11/22 - 4* - My Review
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss - 12/11/22 - 4* - My Review
Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Faladé - 12/12/22 - 4* - My Review
Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig - 12/12/22 - 3* - My Review
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien - 12/13/22 - 4* - My Review
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian - 12/13/22 - 4* - My Review
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi - 12/14/22 - 4* - My Review
Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity by Ejnar Mikkelsen - 12/14/22 - 4* - My Review
The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar - 12/15/22 - 4* - My Review
Clea by Lawrence Durrell - 12/15/22 - 4* - My Review
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanich - 12/16/22 - 4* - My Review
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - 12/16/22 - 4* - My Review
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker - 12/17/22 - 4* - My Review
Last Night at the Blue Angel by Rebecca Rotert - 12/17/22 - 3* - My Review
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri - 12/18/22 - 5* - My Review
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd - 12/18/22 - 3* - My Review
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng - 12/19/22 - 4* - My Review
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn - 12/19/22 - 3* - My Review
On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - 12/20/22 - 4* - My Review
Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner - 12/20/22 - 4* - My Review
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - 12/21/22 - 4* - My Review
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai - 12/22/22 - 3* - My Review
Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen - 12/22/22 - 4* - My Review
The Singularities by John Banville - 12/23/22 - 3* - My Review
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham - 12/24/22 - 4* - My Review
Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks by Mark Woods - 12/25/22 - My Review
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel - 12/26/22 - 3* - My Review
Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer - 12/26/22 - 4* - My Review
West by Carys Davies - 12/27/22 - 4* - My Review
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke - 12/28/22 - 4* - My Review
Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin - 12/29/22 - 3* - My Review
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee - 12/30/22 - 4* - My Review
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough - 12/31/22 - 4* - My Review
PBT Fall Flurries:October:
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
World War Z by Max Brooks
November
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic
December
Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen
Author's Body of Work - 2023:Thomas Keneally: 2023
1. Schindler's Ark - 4* - read a long time ago
2. The Widow and Her Hero - 4* - My Review
3. To Asmara: A Novel of Africa - 3* - My Review
4. The Book of Science and Antiquities - 3* - My Review
Author's Bodies of Work - Prior Years:
Iris Murdoch: 2022
Barbara Kingsolver: 2021
José Saramago: 2020
Isabel Allende: 2019
Margaret Atwood: 2018
Erik Larson: 2017
A - E:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1. Half of a Yellow Sun - 4* - My Review
2. Americanah - 4* - My Review
3. Purple Hibiscus - 4* - My Review
Isabel Allende: 2019
1. Daughter of Fortune – 5* - My Review
2. Eva Luna - 4* - My Review
3. The Japanese Lover - 4* - My Review
4. Portrait in Sepia - 4* - My Review
5. Zorro - in progress
6. Violeta - 4* - My Review
7. A Long Petal of the Sea - 4* - My Review
8. The House of the Spirits - 4* - My Review
9. In the Midst of Winter - 4* - My Review
10. Inés of My Soul - 4* - My Review
11. Paula - 4* - My Review
12. Island Beneath the Sea - 3* - My Review
13. City of the Beasts - 3* - My Review
Rick Atkinson
1. An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 - 5* - My Review
2. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 - 5* - My Review
3. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princet on, 1775-1777 - 5* - My Review
4. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - 4* - My Review
Margaret Atwood: 2018
1. The Blind Assassin - 5* - My Review
2. Cat's Eye - 5* - My Review
3. The Handmaid's Tale - 5* - My Review
4. The Testaments - 5* - My Review
5. The Robber Bride - 4* - My Review
6. Oryx and Crake - 4* - My Review
7. MaddAddam - 4* - My Review
9. The Year of the Flood - 4* - My Review
10. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 - 4* - My Review
11. Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold - 4* - My Review
12. Lady Oracle - 4* - My Review
13. Alias Grace - 3* - My Review
14. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - 3* - My Review
15. Surfacing - 2* - My Review
Pat Barker
1. Regeneration - 5* - My Review
2. The Ghost Road - 4* - My Review
3. The Eye in the Door - 4* - My Review
4. The Silence of the Girls - 4* - My Review
Julian Barnes
1. Arthur & George - 5* - My Review
2. The Noise of Time - 4* - My GR Review
3. The Only Story - 4* - My Review
4. The Sense of an Ending - 4* - My Review
5. Elizabeth Finch - 3* - My Review
Sebastian Barry
1. The Secret Scripture - 5* - My Review
2. The Temporary Gentleman - 4* - My Review
Sara Baume
1. Seven Steeples - 5* - My Review
2. Spill Simmer Falter Wither - 4* - My Review
John Boyne
1. A Ladder to the Sky - 5* - My Review
2. The Heart's Invisible Furies - 4* - My Review
3. The Absolutist - 4* - My Review
4. The House Of Special Purpose - 4* - My Review
5. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom - 4* - My Review
6. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - 4* - My Review
Tim Butcher
1. Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart - 4* - My Review
2. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War - 4* - My Review
Peter Carey
1. Jack Maggs - 4* - My Review
2. Oscar and Lucinda - 4* - My Review
3. True History of the Kelly Gang - 4* - My Review
4. A Long Way From Home - 3* - My Review
Michael Chabon
1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - 5* - My Review
2. Wonder Boys - 5* - My Review
3. Moonglow - 2* - My Review
Alexander Chee
1. The Queen of the Night - 5* - My Review
2. Edinburgh - 2* - My Review
Ron Chernow
1. Alexander Hamilton - 5* - My Review
2. Washington: A Life - 5* - My Review
3. Grant - 4* - My Review
Michael Crummey
1. River Thieves - 4* - My Review
2. Sweetland - 4* - My Review
3. Galore - 4* - My Review
Louis de Bernières
1. Corelli's Mandolin - 4* - My Review
Patrick deWitt
1. The Sisters Brothers - 4* - My Review
2. Ablutions - 4* - My Review
3. Undermajordomo Minor - 3* - My Review
Hernan Diaz
1. In the Distance - 5* - My Review
2. Trust - 3* - My Review
Anthony Doerr
1. All the Light We Cannot See - 5* - My Review
2. Cloud Cuckoo Land - 5* - My Review
Timothy Egan
1. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero - 4* - My Review
2. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - 4* - My Review
3. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - 4* - My Review
Louise Erdrich
1. The Round House - 5* - My Review
2. The Master Butchers Singing Club - 4* - My Review
3. The Sentence - 4* - My Review
4. The Night Watchman - 4* - My Review
5. Love Medicine - 4* - My Review
6. LaRose - 3* - My Review
Percival Everett
1. So Much Blue - 5* - My Review
2. The Trees - 4* - My Review
F - J:Richard Flanagan
1. Narrow Road to the Deep North - 5* - My Review
2. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - 4* - My Review
Aminatta Forna
1. The Memory of Love - 5* - My Review
2. Happiness - 4* - My Review
3. The Hired Man - 4* - My Review
4. The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion - 4* - My Review
5. Ancestor Stones: A Novel - 4* - My Review
6. The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest - 4* - My Review
Karen Joy Fowler
1. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - 4* - My Review
2. Booth - 4* - My Review
Damon Galgut
1. In a Strange Room - 4* - My Review
2. The Promise - 3* - My Review
Amitav Ghosh
1. The Hungry Tide - 5* - My Review
2. Sea of Poppies - 4* - My Review
3. Gun Island - 3* - My Review
Julia Glass
1. Three Junes - 5* - My Review
2. Vigil Harbor - 4* - My Review
Matt Haig
1. The Humans - 5* - My Review
2. The Midnight Library - 4* - My Review
3. Reasons to Stay Alive - 4* - My Review
Nathan Harris
1. The Sweetness of Water - 4* - My Review
Robert Hellenga
1. The Sixteen Pleasures - 4* - My Review
2. Love, Death & Rare Books - 4* - My Review
3. The Fall of a Sparrow - 2* - My Review
Siri Hustvedt
1. What I Loved - 5* - My Review
2. The Blazing World - 3* - My Review
Kazuo Ishiguro
1. The Remains of the Day - 5* - My Review
2. Klara and the Sun - 5* - My Review
3. Never Let Me Go - 4* - My Review
4. An Artist of the Floating World - 4* - My Review
5. The Buried Giant - 4* - My Review
6. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nighfall - 4* - My Review
7. A Pale View of Hills - 3* - My Review
8. The Unconsoled - 3* - My Review
Eowyn Ivey
1. To the Bright Edge of the World - 5 * - My Review
2. The Snow Child - 4* - My Review
K - M:Thomas Keneally
1. Schindler's Ark - 4* - read a long time ago
2. The Widow and Her Hero - 4* - My Review
3. To Asmara: A Novel of Africa - 3* - My Review
4. The Book of Science and Antiquities - 3* - My Review
Barbara Kingsolver: 2021
1. The Poisonwood Bible - 4* - My Review
2. The Lacuna - 4* - My Review
3. The Bean Trees - 4* - My Review
4. Demon Copperhead - 4* - My Review
5. Pigs in Heaven - 4* - My Review
6. Animal Dreams - 4* - My Review
7. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never - 4* - My Review
8. Flight Behavior - 4* - My Review
9. Small Wonder - 4* - My Review
10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - 4* - My Review
11. Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - 4* - My Review
12. Prodigal Summer - 3* - My Review
13. Unsheltered - 3* - My Review
14. How to Fly: In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons - 3* - My Review
Katie Kitamura
1. Intimacies - 5* - My Review
Elizabeth Kolbert
1. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - 5* - My Review
2. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future - 4* - My Review
Laila Lalami
1. The Moor's Account - 5* - My Review
2. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - 3* - My Review
Tsering Yangzom Lama
1. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies - 5* - My Review
Erik Larson: 2017
1. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - 5* - My Review
2. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - 5* - My Review
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - 4* - My Review
4. Thunderstruck - 4* - My Review
5. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History - 4* - My Review
6. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - 4* - My Review
Penelope Lively
1. Moon Tiger - 4* - My Review
2. How It All Began - 4* - My Review
3. The Road to Lichfield - 4* - My Review
4. Judgement Day - 2* - My Review
Hilary Mantel
1. The Mirror & the Light - 5* - My Review
2. Wolf Hall - 5* - My Review
3. A Place of Greater Safety - 4* - My Review
4. Bring Up the Bodies - 4* - My Review
Tara Lynn Masih
1. My Real Name Is Hanna - 5* - My Review
2. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories - 4* - My Review
Daniel Mason
1. The Winter Soldier - 5* - My Review
Cormac McCarthy
1. The Road - 4* - My Review
2. All The Pretty Horses - 4* - My Review
3. Cities of the Plain - 4* - My Review
4. The Crossing - 4* - My Review
5. Suttree - 4* - My Review
6. No Country for Old Men - 3*- My Review
David McCullough
1. The Wright Brothers - 5* - My Review
2. Mornings on Horseback - 4*
3. John Adams - 4* - My Review
4. Brave Companions: Portraits in History - 4* - My Review
5. 1776 - 3* - My Review
6. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris - 3* - My Review
Ian McEwan
1. Atonement - 5* - My Review
2. Machines Like Me - 4* - My Review
3. Nutshell - 4* - My Review
4. Lessons - 4* - My Review
5. Amsterdam - 4* - My Review
Philipp Meyer
1. American Rust - 5* - My Review
2. The Son - 4* - My Review
Lydia Millet
1. Dinosaurs - 5* - My Review
Rohinton Mistry
1. A Fine Balance - 5* - My Review
2. Family Matters - 5* - My Review
Antonio Muñoz Molina
1. Sepharad: A Novel - 5* - My Review
Iris Murdoch: 2022
1. The Sea, The Sea - 5* - My Review
2. The Black Prince - 4* - My Review
3. The Italian Girl - 3* - My Review
4. The Time of the Angels - 3* - My Review
5. The Red and the Green - 3* - My Review
6. Flight From The Enchanter - 3* - My Review
N - S:Téa Obreht
1. Inland - 4* - My Review
2. The Tiger's Wife - 4* - My Review
Tim O'Brien
1. In the Lake of the Woods - 5* - My Review
2. Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried - 5* - My Review
3. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home - 4* - My Review
Maggie O'Farrell
1. Hamnet - 5* - My Review
2. The Marriage Portrait - 4* - My Review
3. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - 4* - My Review
4. This Must Be the Place - 3* - My Review
Michael Ondaatje
1. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje - 12/4/22 - 4* - My Review
2. The English Patient (read a long time ago)
3. Warlight - 4* - My Review
4. The Cat's Table - 4* - My Review
Ann Patchett
1. State of Wonder - 4* - My Review
2. Bel Canto - 4* - My Review
3. The Dutch House - 4* - My Review
4. These Precious Days: Essays - 4* - My Review
5. Commonwealth - 3* - My Review
6. Truth and Beauty - 3* - My Review
7. Taft - 2* - My Review
Per Petterson
1. Out Stealing Horses - 4* - My Review
2. To Siberia - 4* - My Review
Richard Powers
1. The Time of Our Singing - 5* - My Review
2. Bewilderment - 4* - My Review
3. The Overstory - 4* - My Review
4. Orfeo - 3* - My Review
Annie Proulx
1. The Shipping News - 4* - My Review
2. Barkskins - 4* - My Review
Michael Punke
1. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West - 4* - My Review
2. The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge - 4* - My Review
3. Fire and Brimstone
Tom Rachman
1. The Italian Teacher - 5* - My Review
2. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - 3* - My Review
Vaddey Ratner
1. In the Shadow of the Banyan - 5* - My Review
2. Music of the Ghosts - 4* - My Review
Mary Doria Russell
1. The Sparrow - 5* - My Review
2. Children of God - 4* - My Review
3. Doc - 4* - My Review
4. The Women of the Copper Country - 3* - My Review
Mark Salzman
1. Lying Awake - 4* - My Review
2. The Man in the Empty Boat - 4* - My Review
José Saramago: 2020
1. The Cave - 5 * - My Review
2. Blindness - 4* - My Review
3. Seeing - 4* - My Review
4. The Stone Raft - 4* - My Review
5. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - 4* - My Review
6. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - 3* - My Review
Diane Setterfield
1. Once Upon a River: A Novel - 5* - My Review
2. The Thirteenth Tale - 5* - My Review
Elif Shafak
1. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - 5* - My Review
2.Three Daughters of Eve - 4* - My Review
3. The Island of Missing Trees - 4* - My Review
Carol Shields
1. Unless - 5* - My Review
2. Small Ceremonies: A Novel - 4* - My Review
3. The Stone Diaries - 4* - My Review
Hampton Sides
1. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - 5* - My Review
2. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West - 5* - My Review
3. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle - 4* - My Review
4. Ghost Soldiers - 3* - My Review
Jane Smiley
1. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton - 5* - My Review
2. A Thousand Acres - 3* - My Review
3. Private Life - 3* - My Review
Ali Smith
1. Winter - 4* - My Review
2. Autumn - 4* - My Review
3. Spring - 4* - My Review
4. Companion Piece
5. How to Be Both - 4* - My Review
6. The Accidental - 3* - My Review
Zadie Smith
1. On Beauty - 4* - My Review
2. White Teeth - 4* - My Review
3. Swing Time - 3* - My Review
Wallace Stegner
1. The Big Rock Candy Mountain - 5* - My Review
2. Angle of Repose - 4* - not reviewed
3. Crossing to Safety - 4* - My Review
4. The Spectator Bird - 4* - My Review
Emily St. John Mandel
1. The Glass Hotel - 4* - My Review
2. Station Eleven - 4* - My Review
3. Sea of Tranquility - 4* - My Review
Magda Szabó
1. The Door - 4* - My Review
2. Abigail - 4* - My Review
T - Z:Tan Twan Eng
1. The Garden of Evening Mists - 5* - My Review
2. The Gift of Rain - 5* - My Review
Colm Tóibín
1. The Master - 5* - My Review
2. Brooklyn - 4* - My Review
Thrity Umrigar
1. The Secrets Between Us - 5* - My Review
2. The Space Between Us - 4* - My Review
3. The World We Found - 4* - My Review
4. The Story Hour - 4* - My Review
Andy Weir
1. Project Hail Mary - 5* - My Review
2. The Martian Chronicles - 4* - My Review
Simon Winchester
1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - 5* - My Review
2. The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible - 5* - My Review
3. The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - 4* - My Review
4. The Map That Changed the World
5. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories - 3* - My Review
Markus Zusak
1. The Book Thief - 5* - My Review
2. Bridge of Clay - 4* - My Review
2022 Boxall Books Read:Completed:
✅1. The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing - 1/13/22 - 4* - My Review
✅2. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 1/17/22 - 4* - My Review
✅3. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis - 1/20/22 - 1* - My Review
✅4. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - 1/23/22 - 4* - My Review
✅5. Miramar by Naguib Mahfouz - 1/26/22 - 4* - My Review
✅6. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - 2/6/22 - 4* - My Review
✅7. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro - 2/8/22 - 3* - My Review
✅8. The Master by Colm Tóibín - 2/23/22 - 5* - My Review
✅9. Adam Bede by George Eliot - 3/13/22 - 4* - My Review
✅10. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul - 3/14/22 - 4* - My Review
✅11. July's People by Nadine Gordimer- 3/20/22 - 4* - My Review
✅12. The Ambassadors by Henry James - 3/26/22 - 3* - My Review
✅13. Independent People by Halldór Laxness - 3/27/22 - 4* - My Review
✅14. Justine by Lawrence Durrell - 4/8/22 - 3* - My Review
✅15. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - 4/10/22 - 3* - My Review
✅16. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch - 4/22/21 - 4* - My Review
✅17. Beloved by Toni Morrison - 5/2/22 - 4* - My Review
✅18. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison - 5/6/22 - 4* - My Review
✅19. Jazz by Toni Morrison - 5/9/22 - 3* - My Review
✅20. Possession by A.S. Byatt - 5/15/22 - 4* - My Review
✅21. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker - 5/17/22 - 4* - My Review
✅22. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières - 6/1/22 - 4* - My Review
✅23. Sula by Toni Morrison - 6/18/22 - 4* - My Review
✅24. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - 7/4/22 - 3* - My Review
✅25. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino - 8/1/22 - 4* - My Review
✅26. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry - 8/19/22 - 5* - My Review
✅27. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. - 8/19/22 - 2* - My Review
✅28. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks - 9/6/22 - 5* - My Review
✅29. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 9/15/22 - 4* - My Review
✅30. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - 4* - not reviewed
✅31. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai - 10/2/22 - 4* - My Review
✅32. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym - 10/14/22 - 5* - My Review
✅33. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - 10/29/22 - 3* - My Review
✅34. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - 11/12/22 - 3* - My Review
✅35. Foundation by Isaac Asimov - 11/17/22 - 4* - My Review
✅36. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - 11/20/22 - 3* - not reviewed
✅37. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - 11/22/22 - 4* - not reviewed
✅38. Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - 12/1/22 - 4* - My Review
✅39. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow - 12/9/22 - 3* - My Review
✅40. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - 12/16/22 - 4* - My Review
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Authors List (to read more of their back catalogue):E.L. Doctorow (only 1 recently - others long ago)
Michel Faber*
Tim Gautreaux*
Jennifer Haigh*
Keiichirō Hirano*
Shehad Karunatilaka*
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
Hari Kunzru*
Rebecca Makkai*
David Malouf*
Sandor Marai*
Haruki Murakami*
Remy Ngamije*
Chris Offutt*
Philip Roth (only 1 recently - others long ago)
Mark Salzman *
Lying Awake - 4* - My Review
William Trevor*
Larry Watson*
* = read one
Booker Nominated Completed:
1. The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
2. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
3. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
4. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
5. The Master by Colm Tóibín
6. In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
7. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
8. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
10. Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
11. Possession by A.S. Byatt
12. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
13. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
14. The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
15. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
16. The Bottle Factory Outlet by Beryl Bainbridge
17. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
18. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
19. Trust by Hernan Diaz
20. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
21. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
22. Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
23. The Trees by Percival Everett
24. The Colony by Audrey Magee
25. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
26. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
27. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
28. Case Study by Graeme Burnet Macrae
29. Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
30. After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
31. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
32. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
33. The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
34. The Bookshope by Penelope Fitzgerald
35. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
36. Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
37. Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
38. Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
39. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
40. The Wall by John Lanchester
41. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
P1FM Monthly Selections:Jan - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, The Secret River by Kate Grenville, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Feb - When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning, A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Master by Colm Toibin
Mar - The Power of Myth, Saving Lucia, The Farming of Bones
Apr - Illumination Night, Nocturnes, Pigs in Heaven
May - We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Lean on Pete, Song of Solomon
Jun - The Lightning Thief, The Princes in the Tower, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Jul - The Man in the Empty Boat, News of a Kidnapping, How We Disappear
Aug - Flight from the Enchanter, The Simulacra, Requiem from a Dream
Sep - Mercury Pictures Presents, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, The Gift or Rain
Oct - The Last Founding Father, All for Nothing, Lucy by the Sea
Nov - The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, Shrines of Gaeity, Foundation
Dec - Act of Oblivion, What We Fed to the Manticore, The Swimmers
P1FM Monthly Colors:
2022 Choices:
January - White or Dark Gray - The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
February - Rust or Pink - Love, Death, & Rare Books by Robert Hellenga
March - Spring Green or Lemon - Spring by Ali Smith
April - Tangerine or Lavender - Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner
May - Blue or Brown - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
June - Green or Silver - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
July - Yellow or Fuschia - Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason, The Man in the Empty Boat
August - Red or Black - Horse by Geraldine Brooks, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
September - Lime or Purple - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
October - Orange or White or Black - Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt, The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, bonus - World War Z by Max Brooks
November - Teal or Gold - The Measure by Nikki Erlick, Mecca by Susan Straight
December - Sky Blue or Khaki - The Mountain in the Sea, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak, The Swimmers
"Predicted" Booker Longlist - I make no claims to know how a panel of judges will think. Here are some I have read (the first ten) or hear good things about (the final three) that I personally believe are worthy of consideration. - The Immortal King Rao
- How High We Go in the Dark
- Sea of Tranquility
- The Candy House
- Lessons
- Small Things Like These
- Learwife
- Trust
- Burntcoat
- The Sentence
- The Colony
- We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
- Glory
Predictions that ended up on the Booker Longlist:Small Things Like These
The Colony
Trust
Glory
The list:
Trust – read - 3*
Oh William! – read - 4*
Small Things Like These – read - 4*
The Colony – read - 5*
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies – read - 3*
Booth – read - 4*
Glory – read - 5*
The Trees – read - 4*
Nightcrawling – read - 2*
Treacle Walker – read - 3*
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – 5*
Case Study – read - 4*
After Sappho – read - 3*
Order of Preference:
1. The Colony (5*)
2. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (5*)
3. Glory (5*)
4. The Trees (4*)
5. Small Things Like These (4*)
6. Case Study (4*)
7. Booth (4*)
8. Oh William! (4*)
9. Trust (3*)
10. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (3*)
11. Treacle Walker (3*)
12. After Sappho (3*)
13. Nightcrawling (2*)
Shortlist Prediction:If I had my way:
1. The Colony
2. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
3. Glory
4. The Trees
5. Small Things Like These
6. Case Study
What I think the Judges will pick - in no particular order:
- The Colony
- Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
- Glory
- Seven Moons
- The Trees
- Treacle Walker
Individual Fall - Challenge Completed 9/17/22Tracking: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Carrots: A book published in or before 2012
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - 1930
Edamame: A translated book
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - translated from Japanese
Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (460 pages)
Peas: A book that is part of a series
Garlic: A book that features food
Green Beans: A book under 250 pagesd
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*
Onions: A book with more than one point of view
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Spring Challenge (ATY52):https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Winter Challenge (ATY52): Completed 1/12/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tarot Challenge (AtY52): Completed 3/10/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Around the Year in 52 Books: (AtY52): Challenge Completed 6/15/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Also post in specific thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
ATY52 Summer Reading Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
AtWi80B Magic Squares: Challenge completed 8/15/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Interactive (Standalone) Challenge - Author Backlist: (OtSP) - Discontinued 8/20/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
I Spy Challenge (2022YC): Completed 8/24/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2022 Individual Fall Challenge Tracking: Completed 9/17/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
12+4 Challenge: (16): (OtSP) - Challenge Completed 10/2/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PBT Annual Challenge - History Walk:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Mookse Goldsmith 2022 Prize Order of Preference:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Winner: Diego Garcia
My 2022 Booker Longlist Rankings:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Winner: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Fall Challenge 2022: Completed 11/11/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PBT Annual - WPF: Challenge Completed 11/28/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
TBR Jar 20: (2022RC) - Challenge completed 12/10/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Motley Reading Challenge (OtSP): Challenge completed 12/12/22
(Not planning to do this one next year)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2022 TBR Takedown (ATW TBR Takedown - ATWi80B) - Challenge completed 12/14/22)
Eliminate from next year's list - add several books to Gridlock or other Chip Away or PBT Trim
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Boxall List Site: Challenge Completed 12/16/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Boxall List Books Read (My List):
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Boxall Complete List of Books Read to Date:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PBT Fall Flurries: Challenge Completed 12/14/22
October: Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, World War Z by Max Brooks, Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt, Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
November: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic
December: Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen
Around the World in 80 Books Tourist Plus Challenge: Challenge Completed 12/21/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Countries/Regions visited: 58 and all 7 continents
Afghanistan, Antarctica, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bhutan, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales), United States, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
P1FM and Color Challenge (OtSP): Completed 12/22/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
My List of Individual Books for P1FM and Color:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Color Choices by Month (OtSP):
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
12 Tomes (OtSP): Challenge Completed 12/24/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
OtSP - Help the Group Read 2500 books: Challenge Completed 12/27/22
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PBT Unofficial Trim: Challenge Completed 12/29/22
Planning thread: List of 24:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Reporting thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dragonopoly: Challenge Completed 12/30/22
Round 1
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Round 2:
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Round 3:
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Round 4:
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Round 5:
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Round 6:
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Round 7:
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Round 8:
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Round 9:
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Round 10:
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Round 11:
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Round 12:
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Round 13:
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Round 14:
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Round 15:
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Round 16:
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Round 17:
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Round 18:
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Round 19:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Round 20:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Audiobooks Read: (separate monthly threads) - decided not to keep posting here
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
2023 Planning:Link to 2023 Member's Corner:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(where I track all my challenges and stats)
2023 ATY:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2023 To Boldy Go: 24 countries
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dragon Heist:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dragon Hop:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dragon Trim:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
TBR Jar:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PBT Tracking Thread: Tags, Challenges, Trim
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Joy's Gems 2023 (250+)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PBT Subdue the Shelf - Official Tracking Thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Boxall List Site:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Boxall List Books Read (My List):
xxxx (insert link to my book list for 2023)
Boxall Complete List of Books Read to Date:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2023 P1FM & Color Challenges:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
OtSP List of Books Read:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
OtSP Tome Reader: 20
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
AtW80 Tourist Plus: 24 countries
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The World We Found (other topics)Mornings on Horseback (other topics)
Schindler's Ark (other topics)
To Asmara: A Novel of Africa (other topics)
The Book of Science and Antiquities (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Thomas Keneally (other topics)Iris Murdoch (other topics)
David McCullough (other topics)
Nate Blakeslee (other topics)
Samanta Schweblin (other topics)
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2022 Summary Stats & Links:
# Books YTD: 410
# Pages YTD: 143,693
By Genre:
109 - Non-Fiction
33 - Contemporary Fiction
12 - Fantasy
72 - Historical Fiction
163 - Literary Fiction
21 - Science Fiction
By # Pages:
48 - <200
252 - 201-400
93 - 401-600
12 - 601-800
5 - 801+
By Star Rating:
35 - 5 stars
234 - 4 stars
112 - 3 stars
27 - 2 stars
2 - 1 star
Authors:
203 - Female
205 - Male
2 - Non-Binary/Other
My Year in Review 2022