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Favorites (So Far):1. Victory City by Salman Rushdie - 3/14/23 - 5* - My Review
2. Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois - 12/5/23 - 5* - My Review
3. In Ascension by Martin MacInnes - 6/29/23 - 5* - My Review
4. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer - 7/9/23 - 5* - My Review
5. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - 5/19/23 - 5* - My Review
6. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review
7. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang - 2/4/23 - 5* - My Review
8. Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn - 1/16/23 - 5* - My Review
9. Search by Michelle Huneven - 1/9/23 - 5* - My Review
10. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/20/23 - 5* - My Review
11. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett - 8/29/23 - 5* - My Review
12. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My Review
13. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis - 10/26/23 - 5* - My Review
14. Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever - 11/8/23 - 5* - My Review
15. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 12/28/23 - 5* - My Review
16. Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 3/6/23 - 5* - My Review
17. A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa - 7/18/23 - 5* - My Review
18. Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang - 1/2/23 - 5* - My Review
19. The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - 1/9/23 - 5* - My Review
20. The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller - 1/23/23 - 5* - My Review
21. Us by David Nicholls - 3/1/23 - 5* - My Review
22. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell - 3/15/23 - 5* - My Review
23. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review
24. Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger - 12/20/23 - 5* - My Review
25. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell - 6/24/23 - 5* - My Review
26. Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan - 5/2/23 - 5* - My Review
27. The Wife by Meg Wolitzer - 8/9/23 - 5* - My Review
28. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 3/4/23 - 5* - My Review
29. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph - 4/26/23 - 5* - My Review
30. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese - 5/25/23 - 5* - My Review
31. The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - My Review
32. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough - 4/14/23 - 5* - My Review
33. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher - 2/19/23 - 5* - My Review
34. World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow - 2/1/23 - 5* - My Review
35. Brave Men by Ernie Pyle - 2/15/23 - 5* - My Review
36. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 2/12/23 - 5* - My Review
37. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review
38. Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein - 9/9/23 - 5* - My Review
39. Wellness by Nathan Hill - 10/8/23 - 5* - My Review
40. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 12/9/23 - 5* - My Review (a re-read)
41. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - 2/18/23 - 4.5* - My Review
42. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami - 3/24/23 - 4.5* - My Review
43. The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips - 5/5/23 - 4.5* - My Review
44. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - 4/11/23 - 4.5* - My Review
45. The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin - 10/4/23 - 4.5* - My Review
46. Bleak House by Charles Dickens - 5/15/23 - 4.5* - My Review
47. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 9/17/23 - 4.5 stars - My Review
48. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert - 8/12/23 - 4.5* - My Review
49. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough - 7/2/23 - 4.5* - My Review
50. Ice by Anna Kavan - 9/10/23 - 4.5* - My Review
51. Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation by Peter Stark - 10/12/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Favorite Fiction (So Far):1. Victory City by Salman Rushdie - 3/14/23 - 5* - My Review
2. Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois - 12/5/23 - 5* - My Review
3. In Ascension by Martin MacInnes - 6/29/23 - 5* - My Review
4. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer - 7/9/23 - 5* - My Review
5. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - 5/19/23 - 5* - My Review
6. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review
7. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang - 2/4/23 - 5* - My Review
8. Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn - 1/16/23 - 5* - My Review
9. Search by Michelle Huneven - 1/9/23 - 5* - My Review
10. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/20/23 - 5* - My Review
11. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett - 8/29/23 - 5* - My Review
12. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My Review
13. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 5* - My Review
14. Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 3/6/23 - 5* - My Review
15. A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa - 7/18/23 - 5* - My Review
16. Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang - 1/2/23 - 5* - My Review
17. The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - 1/9/23 - 5* - My Review
18. The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller - 1/23/23 - 5* - My Review
19. Us by David Nicholls - 3/1/23 - 5* - My Review
20. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell - 3/15/23 - 5* - My Review
21. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review
22. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell - 6/24/23 - 5* - My Review
23. The Wife by Meg Wolitzer - 8/9/23 - 5* - My Review
24. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 3/4/23 - 5* - My Review
25. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph - 4/26/23 - 5* - My Review
26. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese - 5/25/23 - 5* - My Review
27. The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - My Review
28. World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow - 2/1/23 - 5* - My Review
29. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 2/12/23 - 5* - My Review
30. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review
31. Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein - 9/9/23 - 5* - My Review
32. Wellness by Nathan Hill - 10/8/23 - 5* - My Review
33. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 12/9/23 - 5* - My Review (a re-read)
34. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - 2/18/23 - 4.5* - My Review
35. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami - 3/24/23 - 4.5* - My Review
36. The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips - 5/5/23 - 4.5* - My Review
37. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - 4/11/23 - 4.5* - My Review
38. The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin - 10/4/23 - 4.5* - My Review
39. Bleak House by Charles Dickens - 5/15/23 - 4.5* - My Review
40. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 9/17/23 - 4.5* - My Review
41. Ice by Anna Kavan - 9/10/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Favorite Non-Fiction (So Far):1. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis - 10/26/23 - 5* - My Review
2. Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever - 11/8/23 - 5* - My Review
3. Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger - 12/20/23 - 5* - My Review
4. Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan - 5/2/23 - 5* - My Review
5. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough - 4/14/23 - 5* - My Review
6. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher - 2/19/23 - 5* - My Review
7. Brave Men by Ernie Pyle - 2/15/23 - 5* - My Review
8. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert - 8/12/23 - 4.5* - My Review
9. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough - 7/2/23 - 4.5* - My Review
10. Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation by Peter Stark - 10/12/23 - 4.5* - My Review
January: Month - 52; YTD - 522 A.M. in Little America by Ken Kalfus - 1/1/23 - 4* - My Review
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang - 1/2/23 - 5* - My Review
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee - 1/2/23 - 4* - My Review
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett - 1/3/23 - 3* - My Review
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb - 1/4/23 - 4* - My Review
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene - 1/4/23 - 4* - My Review
Dr. No by Percival Everett - 1/5/23 - 3* - My Review
Vox by Christina Dalcher - 1/5/23 - 2* - My Review
Last Orders by Graham Swift - 1/5/23 - 3* - My Review
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - 1/6/23 - 4* - My Review
The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson - 1/7/23 - 4* - My Review
All The Broken Places by John Boyne - 1/8/23 - 3* - My Review
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor - 1/8/23 - 3* - My Review
Search by Michelle Huneven - 1/9/23 - 5* - My Review
Haven by Emma Donoghue - 1/9/23 - 4* - My Review
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - 1/9/23 - 5* - My Review
Sugar Street by Jonathan Dee - 1/10/23 - 3* - My Review
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker - 1/12/23 - 3* - My Review
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams - 1/12/23 - 4* - My Review
Companion Piece by Ali Smith - 1/13/23 - 4* - My Review
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan - 1/13/23 - 3* - My Review
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad - 1/14/23 - 3* - My Review
Arcadia by Lauren Groff - 1/14/23 - 4* - My Review
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott - 1/15/23 - 3* - My Review
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire by Andrew O'Shaughnessy - 1/15/23 - 4* - My Review
Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn - 1/16/23 - 5* - My Review
Foster by Claire Keegan - 1/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov - 1/17/23 - 4* - My Review
The Convert by Stefan Hertmans - 1/17/23 - 4* - My Review
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson - 1/18/23 - 4* - My Review
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard - 1/18/23 - 3* - My Review
A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford - 1/18/23 - 4* - My Review
The World to Come by Dara Horn - 1/19/23 - 4* - My Review
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - 1/19/23 - 4* - My Review
The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming - 1/20/23 - 3* - My Review
Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese - 1/20/23 - 3* - My Review
Salt Lick by Lulu Allison - 1/21/23 - 4* - My Review
Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith - 1/22/23 - 2* - My Review
The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller - 1/23/23 - 5* - My Review
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton - 1/24/23 - 4* - My Review
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi - 1/25/23 - 3* - My Review
Home by Marilynne Robinson - 1/26/23 - 4* - My Review
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au - 1/27/23 - 4* - My Review
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky - 1/27/23 - 3* - My Review
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester - 1/28/23 - 4* - My Review
Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss - 1/29/23 - 3* - My Review
Pew by Catherine Lacey - 1/29/23 - 2* - My Review
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories by Omer Friedlander - 1/30/23 - 4* - My Review
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald - 1/30/23 - 4* - My Review
Saint Sebastian's Abyss by Mark Haber - 1/31/23 - 3* - My Review
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - 1/31/23 - 3* - My Review
February: Month - 56; YTD - 108Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch - 2/1/23 - 3* - My Review
World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow - 2/1/23 - 5* - My Review
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner - 2/2/23 - 4* - My Review
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones - 2/2/23 - 4* - My Review
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell - 2/3/23 - 3* - My Review
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 2/3/23 - 4* - My Review
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang - 2/4/23 - 5* - My Review
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre - 2/4/23 - 4* - My Review
The O'Briens by Peter Behrens - 2/5/23 - 3* - My Review
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik - 2/5/23 - 4* - My Review
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt - 2/6/23 - 4* - My Review
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton - 2/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin - 2/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger - 2/8/23 - 4* - My Review
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell - 2/8/23 - 2* - My Review
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth - 2/9/23 - 3* - My Review
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter - 2/9/23 - 3* - My Review
Quicksand by Nella Larsen - 2/10/23 - 3* - My Review
Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser - 2/10/23 - 3* - My Review
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa - 2/11/23 - 4* - My Review
Mink River by Brian Doyle - 2/11/23 - 4* - My Review
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid - 2/12/23 - 4* - My Review
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry - 2/12/23 - 4* - My Review
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 2/12/23 - 5* - My Review
The Human Stain by Philip Roth - 2/13/23 - 4* - My Review
Monarch by Candice Wuehle - 2/14/23 - 3* - My Review
Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg - 2/14/23 - 4* My Review
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2/15/23 - 4* - My Review
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle - 2/15/23 - 5* - My Review
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne - 2/16/23 - 3* - My Review
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre - 2/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon - 2/17/23 - 3* - My Review
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James - 2/17/23 - 3* - My Review
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - 2/18/23 - 4* - My Review
Libra by Don DeLillo - 2/18/23 - 3* - My Review
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher - 2/19/23 - 5* - My Review
Solo by Kwame Alexander - 2/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi - 2/20/23 - 3* - My Review
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré - 2/20/23 - 3* - My Review
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry - 2/21/23 - 4* - My Review
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham - 2/21/23 - 4* - My Review
The Bear by Andrew Krivak - 2/22/23 - 4* - My Review
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday - 2/22/23 - 3* - My Review
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster - 2/22/23 - 4* - My Review
Mr Beethoven by Paul Griffiths - 2/23/23 - 4* - My Review
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende - 2/24/23 - 3* - My Review
The Detour by Andromeda Romano-Lax - 2/24/23 - 3* - My Review
The Strays by Emily Bitto - 2/25/23 - 4* - My Review
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - 2/25/23 - 4* - My Review
The White Book by Han Kang - 2/26/23 - 4* - My Review
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich - 2/26/23 - 1* - My Review
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel - 2/27/23 - 3* -My Review
On the Road by Jack Kerouac - 2/27/23 - 3* - My Review
The Septembers of Shiraz: A Novel by Dalia Sofer - 2/28/23 - 4* - My Review
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My Review
March: Month - 38; YTD - 146Us by David Nicholls - 3/1/23 - 5* - My Review
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald - 3/1/23 - 3* - My Review
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper - 3/2/23 - 3* - My Review
So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger - 3/2/23 - 4* - My Review
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy - 3/3/23 - 3* - My Review
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym - 3/3/23 - 3* - My Review
Light Years by James Salter - 3/4/23 - 4* - My Review
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 3/4/23 - 5* - My Review
Shining Sea by Anne Korkeakivi - 3/5/23 - 3* - My Review
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami - 3/5/23 - 4* - My Review
Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 3/6/23 - 5* - My Review
American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3/7/23 - 4* - My Review
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber - 3/8/23 - 3* - My Review
Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson by Daniel Mark Epstein - 3/9/23 - 4* - My Review
Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki - 3/9/23 - 4* - My Review
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson - 3/10/23 - 4* - My Review
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill - 3/11/23 - 3* - My Review
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble - 3/11/23 - 4* - My Review
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri - 3/12/23 - 4* - My Review
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - 3/13/23 - 4* - My Review
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar - 3/13/23 - 4* - My Review
If You Love Me: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Opioid Addiction by Maureen Cavanagh - 3/14/23 - 4* - My Review
Victory City by Salman Rushdie - 3/14/23 - 5* - My Review
North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey by Shannon Huffman Polson - 3/15/23 - 4* - My Review
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell - 3/15/23 - 5* - My Review
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson - 3/16/23 - 3* - My Review
Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway - 3/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng - 3/17/23 - 3* - My Review
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel - 3/17/23 - 4* - My Review
The Blue Guitar by John Banville - 3/18/23 - 4* - My Review
The Wide Circumference of Love by Marita Golden - 3/18/23 - 3* - My Review
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon by Christopher Paolini - 3/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Neuromancer by William Gibson - 3/19/23 - 3* - My Review
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes - 3/20/23 - 3* - My Review
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - 3/20/23 - 4* - My Review
The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey - 3/21/23 - 4* - My Review
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell - 3/22/23 - 3* - My Review
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe - 3/23/23 - 3* - My Review
April: Month - 51; YTD - 211The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak - 4/1/23 - 4* - My Review
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon - 4/2/23 - 3* - My Review
10:04 by Ben Lerner - 4/3/23 - 4* - My Review
Trespass by Rose Tremain - 4/4/23 - 4* - My Review
Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan - 4/5/23 - 3* - My Review
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton - 4/5/23 - 4* - My Review
The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry - 4/6/23 - 3* - My Review
Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan - 4/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger - 4/7/23 - 3* - My Review
On The Beach by Nevil Shute - 4/8/23 - 4* - My Review
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier - 4/8/23 - 4* - My Review
Dalva: A Novel by Jim Harrison- 4/9/23 - 4* - My Review
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - 4/9/23 - 3* - My Review
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo - 4/10/23 - 4* - My Review
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates - 4/10/23 - 2* - My Review
The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams - 4/11/23 - 4* - My Review
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - 4/11/23 - 4* - My Review
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman - 4/12/23 - 4* - My Review
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami - 4/12/23 - 4* - My Review
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett - 4/13/23 - 4* - My Review
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan - 4/14/23 - 2* - My Review
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough - 4/14/23 - 5* - My Review
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion - 4/15/23 - 4* - My Review
March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks - 4/15/23 - 4* - My Review
Dry by Neal Shusterman - 4/16/23 - 4* - My Review
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson - 4/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner - 4/17/23 - 4* - My Review
After Dark by Haruki Murakami - 4/18/23 - 3* - My Review
Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden - 4/18/23 - 4* - My Review
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson - 4/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Homesick by Jennifer Croft - 4/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami - 4/20/23 - 4*- My Review
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernández-Armesto - 4/20/23 - 4* - My Review
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - 4/21/23 - 4* - My Review
What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan - 4/21/23 - 3* - My Review
The Divers' Game by Jesse Ball - 4/22/23 - 4* - My Review
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara - 4/22/23 - 4* - My Review
The Risen by Ron Rash - 4/23/23 - 3* - My Review
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow - 4/23/23 - 4* - My Review
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin - 4/23/23 - 4* - My Review
Rosewater by Tade Thompson - 4/24/23 - 4* - My Review
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose - 4/25/23- 4* - My Review
The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer - 4/25/23 - 3* - My Review
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph - 4/26/23 - 5* - My Review
The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman - 4/27/23 - 2* - My Review
My Antonia by Willa Cather - 4/28/23 - 4* - My Review
The Waves by Virginia Woolf - 4/28/23 - 4* - My Review
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough - 4/29/23 - 4* - My Review
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar - 4/29/23 - 4* - My Review
The River by Peter Heller - 4/30/23 - 4* - My Review
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin - 4/30/23 - 4* - My Review
May: Month - 57; YTD - 268The Tesseract by Alex Garland - 5/1/23 - 3* - My Review
The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz - 5/1/23 - 4* - My Review
Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan - 5/2/23 - 5* - My Review
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells - 5/3/23 - 4* - My Review
The Astonishing Life of August March by Aaron Jackson - 5/3/23 - 4* - My Review
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - 5/4/23 - 3* - My Review
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru - 5/4/23 - 4* - My Review
The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips - 5/5/23 - 4* - My Review
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein - 5/5/23 - 3* - My Review
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel - 5/6/23 - 4* - My Review
The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker - 5/6/23 - 4* - My Review
Summer by Edith Wharton - 5/7/23 - 3* - My Review
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum - 5/7/23- 4* - My Review
Caribou Island by David Vann - 5/8/23 - 3* - My Review
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry - 5/8/23 - 4* - My Review
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom - 5/9/23 - 3* - My Review
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym - 5/9/23 - 4* - My Review
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - 5/10/23 - 4* - My Review
Martin Van Buren: A Fascinating Biography of the 8th United States President by Steven Wallace - 5/10/23 - 2* - My Review
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson - 5/11/23 - 4* - My Review
Life Class by Pat Barker - 5/12/23 - 4* - My Review
Augustus by John Williams - 5/12/23 - 4* - My Review
Orlando by Virginia Woolf - 5/13/23 - 4* - My Review
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill - 5/13/23 - 4* - My Review
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish by Zeb Hogan - 5/14/23 - 4* - My Review
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell - 5/14/23 - 3* - My Review
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson - 5/15/23 - 4* - My Review
Bleak House by Charles Dickens - 5/15/23 - 4* - My Review
The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor - 5/16/23 - 3* - My Review
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim - 5/16/23 - 4* - My Review
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann - 5/17/23 - 4* - My Review
All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan - 5/17/23 - 3* - My Review
A Separation by Katie Kitamura - 5/18/23 - 3* - My Review
Middle Passage by Charles R. Johnson - 5/18/23 - 3* - My Review
Four Souls by Louise Erdrich - 5/19/23 - 4* - My Review
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese - 5/19/23 - 5* - My Review
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan - 5/20/23 - 4* - My Review
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson - 5/20/23 - 4* - My Review
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon - 5/21/23 - 4* - My Review
Still I Miss You by Inês Pedrosa - 5/21/23 - 4* - My Review
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot - 5/22/23 - 4* - My Review
The Third Man by Graham Greene- 5/22/23 - 4* - My Review
Medicine Walk: A Novel by Richard Wagamese - 5/23/23 - 4* - My Review
Snap by Belinda Bauer - 5/23/23 - 3* - My Review
White on White by Aysegül Savas - 5/24/23 - 3* - My Review
The Yield by Tara June Winch - 5/24/23 - 4* - My Review
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese - 5/25/23 - 5* - My Review
The Dickens Boy: A Novel by Thomas Keneally - 5/25/23 - 4* - My Review
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson - 5/26/23 - 2* - My Review
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien - 5/26/23 - 4* - My Review
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich - 5/27/23 - 3* - My Review
The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson - 5/27/23 - 4* - My Review
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami - 5/28/23 - 4* - My Review
The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash - 5/29/23 - 4* - My Review
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee - 5/30/23 - 4* - My Review
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin - 5/31/23 - 4* - My Review
June: Month - 49; YTD - 317Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - 6/1/23 - 4* - My Review
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow - 6/2/23 - 3* - My Review
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - 6/3/23 - 3* - My Review
Under the Skin by Michel Faber - 6/3/23 - 4* - My Review
When the Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi - 6/4/23 - 4* - My Review
Love and Summer by William Trevor - 6/5/23 - 3* - My Review
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang - 6/5/23 - 4* - My Review
The January 6 Report: Findings from the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the U.S. Capitol with Reporting, Analysis and Visuals by The New York Times by The January 6 Select Committee - 6/6/23 - 4* - My Review
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard - 6/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland - 6/8/23 - 1* - My Review
Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris - 6/8/23 - 4* - My Review
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House - 6/9/23 - 3* - My Review
The Golden Bowl by Henry James - 6/9/23 - 4* - My Review
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung - 6/10/23 - 4* - My Review
The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld - 6/10/23 - 4* - My Review
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash - 6/11/23 - 3* - My Review
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker - 6/11/23 - 4* - My Review
Smiley's People by John le Carré - 6/12/23 - 4* - My Review
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom - 6/12/23 - 4* - My Review
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley - 6/13/23 - 4* - My Review
I, the Sun by Janet E. Morris - 6/13/23 - 3* - My Review
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan - 6/14/23 - 2* - My Review
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh - 6/14/23 - 4* - My Review
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne - 6/15/23 - 3* - My Review
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook - 6/15/23 - 4* - My Review
Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow - 6/16/23 - 3* - My Review
Beneath The Greater Sky by Andrew Voelker - 6/16/23 - 2* - My Review
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey - 6/17/23 - 2* - My Review
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar - 6/17/23 - 4* - My Review
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - 6/18/23 - 4* - My Review
Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Adin Dobkin - 6/18/23 - 3* - My Review
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor - 6/19/23 - 2* - My Review
Day by Michael Cunningham - 6/19/23 - 4* - My Review
The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow - 6/20/23 - 2* - My Review
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin - 6/21/23 - 4* - My Review
The Awakening: A Solitary Story by Kate Chopin - 6/22/23 - 3* - My Review
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - 6/23/23 - 3* - My Review
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell - 6/23/23 - 4* - My Review
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi - 6/24/23 - 4* - My Review
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell - 6/24/23 - 5* - My Review
A Far Country by Daniel Mason - 6/25/23 - 3* - My Review
Women Talking by Miriam Toews - 6/26/23 - 4* - My Review
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh - 6/27/23 - 2* - My Review
North to Paradise by Ousman Umar - 6/28/23 - 4* - My Review
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers - 6/28/23 - 4* - My Review
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik - 6/29/23 - 4* - My Review
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes - 6/29/23 - 5* - My Review
The Carriage House by Louisa Hall - 6/30/23 - 3* - My Review
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore - 6/30/23 - 4* - My Review
July: Month - 44; YTD - 361Loot by Tania James - 7/1/23 - 4* - My Review
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough - 7/2/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - 7/3/23 - 3* - My Review
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos - 7/4/23 - 2* - My Review
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen - 7/5/23 - 4* - My Review
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion - 7/6/23 - 2* - My Review
Anathem by Neal Stephenson - 7/7/23 - 4.5* - My Review
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien - 7/8/23 - 4* - My Review
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt by Karen Harper - 7/9/23 - 3* - My Review
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer - 7/9/23 - 5* - My Review
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym - 7/10/23 - 3* - My Review
A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin - 7/10/23 - 4* - My Review
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - 7/11/23 - 3* - My Review
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel - 7/12/23 - 3* - My Review
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster - 7/13/23 - 4* - My Review
The Parade by Dave Eggers - 7/14/23 - 4* - My Review
The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson - 7/15/23 - 4* - My Review
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann - 7/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Golden State by Ben H. Winters - 7/16/23 - 2* - My Review
The Bottom of the Sky by William C. Pack - 7/17/23 - 4* - My Review
The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton - 7/18/23 - 3* - My Review
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa - 7/18/23 - 5* - My Review
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman - 7/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon - 7/20/23 - 4* - My Review
The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout - 7/21/23 - 3* - My Review
August Blue by Deborah Levy - 7/21/23 - 4* - My Review
The Man in My Basement: A Novel by Walter Mosley - 7/22/23 - 4* - My Review
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War by Neal Bascomb - 7/22/23 - 4* - My Review
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann - 7/23/23 - 4.5* - My Review
The Murmur of Bees by Sofía Segovia - 7/23/23 - 4* - My Review
Scythe by Neal Shusterman - 7/24/23 - 4* - My Review
This Other Eden by Paul Harding - 7/24/23 - 4* - My Review
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter - 7/25/23 - 4* - My Review
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad - 7/25/23 - 4* - My Review
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion - 7/26/23 - 4* - My Review
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - 7/26/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Maame by Jessica George - 7/27/23 - 4* - My Review
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World by Edward Shawcross - 7/27/23 - 4* - My Review
Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn - 7/28/23 - 1* - My Review
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy - 7/29/23 - 3* - My Review
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey - 7/29/23 - 3* - My Review
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick - 7/30/23 - 4* - My Review
Roughing It by Mark Twain - 7/31/23 - 4* - My Review
August: Month - 43; YTD - 404The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg - 8/1/23 - 4* - My Review
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson - 8/2/23 - 4* - My Review
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo - 8/2/23 - 3* - My Review
In the Country of Men: A Novel by Hisham Matar - 8/3/23 - 4* - My Review
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - 8/4/23 - 4* - My Review
2666 by Roberto Bolaño - 8/5/23 - 4* - My Review
Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan - 8/6/23 - 4* - My Review
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - 8/6/23 - 3* - My Review
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich - 8/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Antarctica by Claire Keegan - 8/7/23 - 3* - My Review
Irma Voth by Miriam Toews - 8/8/23 - 3* - My Review
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle - 8/8/23 - 4* - My Review
The Imposters by Tom Rachman - 8/9/23 - 4* - My Review
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer - 8/9/23 - 5* - My Review
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson - 8/10/23 - 3* - My Review
Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise by Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz - 8/11/23 - 4* - My Review
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert - 8/12/23 - 4* - My Review
The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett - 8/13/23 - 4* - My Review
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat - 8/14/23 - 2* - My Review
Song Yet Sung: A Novel by James McBride - 8/15/23 - 4* - My Review
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert - 8/16/23 - 4* - My Review
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 8/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - 8/17/23 - 4* - My Review
Solo Faces: A Novel by James Salter - 8/17/23 - 3* - My Review
Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio - 8/18/23 - 4* - My Review
Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A True Story of Friendship, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War by Charles Glass - 8/18/23 - 4* - My Review
Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute - 8/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead - 8/20/23 - 4* - My Review
Actress by Anne Enright - 8/21/23 - 3* - My Review
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon - 8/22/23 - 3* - My Review
The Road Home by Rose Tremain - 8/22/23 - 4* - My Review
Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry - 8/23/23 - 2* - My Review
Invisible by Paul Auster - 8/24/23 - 3* - My Review
Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin - 8/25/23 - 3* - My Review
All the Names by José Saramago - 8/26/23 - 4* - My Review
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald - 8/26/23 - 4* - My Review
French Exit by Patrick deWitt - 8/27/23 - 4* - My Review
Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn - 8/28/23 - 4* - My Review
Pearl by Siân Hughes - 8/28/23 - 4* - My Review
A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder by Robert B. Oxnam - 8/29/23 - 4* - My Review
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett - 8/29/23 - 5* - My Review
Bournville by Jonathan Coe - 8/30/23 - 4* - My Review
This Passing World: A Novel About Geoffrey Chaucer by Michael Herzog - 8/31/23 - 4* - My Review
September: Month - 41; YTD - 445Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li - 9/1/23 - 3* - My Review
I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart - 9/2/23 - 4* - My Review
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez - 9/3/23 - 4* - My Review
Sight by Jessie Greengrass - 9/4/23 - 4* - My Review
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis - 9/4/23 - 4*- My Review
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - 9/5/23 - 4* - My Review
North Woods by Daniel Mason - 9/5/23 - 4* - My Review
Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym - 9/6/23 - 3* - My Review
Summer by Ali Smith - 9/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - 9/8/23 - 2* - My Review
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester - 9/8/23 - 4* - My Review
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell - 9/9/23 - 4* - My Review
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein - 9/9/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Ice by Anna Kavan - 9/10/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Zero K by Don DeLillo - 9/11/23 - 4* - My Review
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang - 9/11/23 - 3* - My Review
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney - 9/12/23 - 3* - My Review
The Magician by Colm Tóibín - 9/13/23 - 4* - My Review
The Glass Room: A Novel by Simon Mawer - 9/14/23 - 4* - My Review
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak - 9/15/23 - 4* - My Review
The Fraud by Zadie Smith - 9/16/23 - 3* - My Review
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - 9/16/23 - 2* - My Review
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 9/17/23 - 4.5* - My Review
The East Indian by Brinda Charry - 9/18/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler - 9/18/23 - 3.5* - My Review
The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan - 9/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa - 9/19/23 - 3.5* - My Review
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy - 9/20/23 - 4* - My Review
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/20/23 - 5* - My Review
Translation State by Ann Leckie - 9/21/23 - 4* - My Review
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma - 9/22/23 - 3* - My Review
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
Rabbit, Run by John Updike - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami - 9/24/23 - 4* - My Review
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron - 9/24/23 - 2* - My Review
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge - 9/25/23 - 3.5 - My Review
Cain by José Saramago - 9/26/23 - 3* - My Review
Nuclear Family by Joseph Han - 9/27/23 - 3* - My Review
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel - 9/28/23 - 4* - My Review
Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher - 9/29/23 - 4* - My Review
The Heavens by Sandra Newman - 9/30/23 - 3* - My Review
October: Month - 35; YTD - 480The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus - 10/1/23 - 4* - My Review
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams - 10/2/23 - 4*
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville - 10/3/23 - 4* - My Review
The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin - 10/4/23 - 4.5* - My Review
The Aspern Papers by Henry James - 10/5/23 - 4* - My Review
Eggshells by Caitriona Lally - 10/6/23 - 3* - My Review
Brass by Xhenet Aliu - 10/7/23 - 3* - My Review
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler - 10/8/23 - 4* - My Review
Wellness by Nathan Hill - 10/8/23 - 5* - My Review
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry - 10/9/23 - 4* - My Review
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko - 10/10/23 - 4* - My Review
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang - 10/11/23 - 3* - My Review
Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation by Peter Stark - 10/12/23 - 4.5* - My Review
A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume - 10/13/23 - 4* - My Review
Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road by Bernard Ollivier - 10/13/23 - 4* - My Review
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin - 10/14/23 - 3* - My Review
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom - 10/15/23 - 4* - My Review
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead - 10/16/23 - 4* - My Review
The Odds: A Love Story by Stewart O'Nan - 10/17/23 - 4* - My Review
John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward P. Crapol - 10/17/23- 4* - My Review
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym - 10/18/23 - 4* - My Review
The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin - 10/19/23 - 3* - My Review
The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul - 10/20/23 - 3* - My Review
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King - 10/21/23 - 4* - My Review
The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar - 10/22/23 - 4* - My Review
The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut - 10/23/23 - 4* - My Review
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride - 10/23/23 - 4* - My Review
Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell - 10/24/23 - 4* - My Review
Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson by Tim Hornbaker - 10/25/23 - 4* - My Review
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis - 10/26/23 - 5* - My Review
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild - 10/27/23 - 4* - My Review
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell - 10/28/23 - 4* - My Review
This House Is Haunted by John Boyne - 10/29/23 - 4* - My Review
Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 10/30/23 - 3* - My Review
The Emissary by Yōko Tawada - 10/31/23 - 4* - My Review
November: Month - 35; YTD - 515River Spirit by Leila Aboulela - 11/1/23 - 4* - My Review
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - My Review
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose - 11/2/23 - 4* - My Review
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss - 11/3/23 - 4* - My Review
Where the Desert Meets the Sea by Werner Sonne - 11/3/23 - 3* - My Review
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik - 11/4/23 - 3* - My Review
Highfire by Eoin Colfer - 11/5/23 - 3* - My Review
Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck - 11/6/23 - 4* - My Review
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton - 11/6/23 - 4* - My Review
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III - 11/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever - 11/8/23 - 5* - My Review
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey - 11/9/23 - 3* - My Review
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward - 11/10/23 - 3* - My Review
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng - 11/11/23 - 4* - My Review
Good Enough to Dream by Roger Kahn - 11/12/23 - 4* - My Review
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury - 11/13/23 - 4* - My Review
Peony in Love by Lisa See - 11/14/23 - 3* - My Review
We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan - 11/15/23 - 3* - My Review
The Boy Between Worlds by Annejet van der Zijl - 11/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey - 11/17/23 - 3.5 - My Review
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry - 11/17/23 - 3* - My Review
City of Bones by Martha Wells - 11/18/23 - 4* - My Review
The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells - 11/19/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle - 11/20/23 - 3.5* - My Review
Absolution by Alice McDermott - 11/21/23 - 4* - My Review
The Midnight News by Jo Baker - 11/22/23 - 4* - My Review
The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories by Michel Faber - 11/23/23 - 3.5* - My Review
System Collapse by Martha Wells - 11/24/23 - 4.5* - My Review
The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar - 11/25/23 - 4* - My Review
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano - 11/26/23 - 3* - My Review
A History of Burning by Janika Oza - 11/27/23 - 4* - My Review
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis - 11/28/23 - 4* - My Review
Breath by Tim Winton - 11/28/23 - 3* - My Review
Lone Women by Victor LaValle - 11/29/23 - 3* - My Review
Sing Her Down by Ivy Pochoda - 11/30/23 - 2* - My Review
December: Month - 32; YTD - 547The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth - 12/1/23 - 4* - My Review
Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Nancy Campbell - 12/2/23 - 4* - My Review
The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo - 12/3/23 - 4* - My Review
Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry - 12/4/23 - 4* - My Review
Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois - 12/5/23 - 5* - My Review
White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link - 12/6/23 - 3* - My Review
Murmur by Will Eaves - 12/7/23 - 4* - My Review
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson - 12/8/23 - 4* - My Review
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 12/9/23 - 5* - My Review
All The Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow - 12/9/23 - 4* - My Review
Cold People by Tom Rob Smith - 12/10/23 - 2* - My Review
The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John - 12/11/23 - 3* - My Review
The Long Take: A noir narrative by Robin Robertson - 12/12/23 - 4* - My Review
Dayswork by Chris Bachelder & Jennifer Habel - 12/13/23 - 3.5* - My Review
The Many by Wyl Menmuir - 12/14/23 - 3* - My Review
The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II by Anne R. Keene - 12/15/23 - 4* - My Review
Chemistry by Weike Wang - 12/16/23 - 4* - My Review
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor - 12/17/23 - 3* - My Review
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit - 4* - My Review
Blackouts by Justin Torres - 12/19/23 - 4* - My Review
Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger - 12/20/23 - 5* - My Review
The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar - 12/21/23 - 3* - My Review
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama - 12/22/23 - 4* - My Review
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - 12/23/23 - 4* - My Review
The Details by Ia Genberg - 12/24/23 - 3.5* - My Review
Charles Dickens' Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens - 12/25/23 - 4* - My Review
This Magnificent Dappled Sea by David Biro - 12/26/23 - 3.5* - My Review
Tremor by Teju Cole - 12/27/23 - 4* - My Review
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 12/28/23 - 5* - My Review
Zachary Taylor: 12th President of the United States by Heidi Elston - 12/29/23 - 3* - My Review
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín - 12/30/23 - 3* = My Review
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn - 12/31/23 - 4.5* - My Review
Author's Body of Work - 2023:Haruki Murakami: 2023
1. Norwegian Wood - 5* - My Review
2. Killing Commendatore - 4.5* - My Review
3. Kafka on the Shore - 4.5* - My Review
4. Men Without Women - 4*- My Review
5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - 4* - My Review
6. South of the Border, West of the Sun - 4* - My Review
7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 3.5* - Not Reviewed
8. After Dark - 3.5* - 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
Authors I Enjoy:A - B:
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 - 4* - My Review
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
13. The Wind Knows My Name - 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. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories - 3* - not reviewed
16. Surfacing - 2* - My Review
John Banville
1. The Sea - 4* - My Review
2. The Blue Guitar - 4* - My Review
3. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir - 4* - My Review
4. The Untouchable - 3* - My Review
5. The Singularities - 3* - 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 Women of Troy - 4* - My Review
5. The Silence of the Girls - 4* - My Review
6. Life Class - 4* - My Review
Julian Barnes
1. Flaubert's Parrot - 5* - My Review
2. Arthur & George - 5* - My Review
3. The Noise of Time - 4* - My GR Review
4. The Only Story - 4* - My Review
5. The Sense of an Ending - 4* - My Review
6. Elizabeth Finch - 3* - My Review
Sebastian Barry
1. The Secret Scripture - 5* - My Review
2. The Temporary Gentleman - 4* - My Review
3. Old God's Time - 4* - My Review
4. A Long Long Way - 4* - My Review
5. Days Without End - 4* - My Review
6. On Canaan's Side - 4* - My Review
7. Annie Dunne - 4* - My Review
Sara Baume
1. Seven Steeples - 5* - My Review
2. Spill Simmer Falter Wither - 4* - My Review
3. A Line Made by Walking - 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. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - 4* - My Review
6. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom - 4* - My Review
7. This House Is Haunted - 4* - My Review
8. All The Broken Places - 3* - My Review
9. A History of Loneliness - 3* - My Review
Geraldine Brooks
1. People of the Book - 4.5* - My Review
2. Year of Wonders - 4* - My Review
3. March: A Novel - 4* - My Review
4. Horse - 4* - My Review
5. The Secret Chord - 3* - My Review
6. Caleb's Crossing - 2* - Not Reviewed
NoViolet Bulawayo
1. Glory: A Novel - 5* - 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
C - F: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. Theft: A Love Story - 3.5* - My Review
5. 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. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - 4* - My Review
4. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - 3.5* - My Review
5. Gentlemen of the Road - 3* - My Review
6. Moonglow - 2* - My Review
Alexander Chee
1. The Queen of the Night - 5* - My Review
2. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - 4* - My Review
3. Edinburgh - 2* - My Review
Ron Chernow
1. Alexander Hamilton - 5* - My Review
2. Washington: A Life - 5* - My Review
3. Grant - 4* - My Review
Tracy Chevalier
1. Remarkable Creatures - 5* - My Review
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring - 4* - My Review
3. The Lady and the Unicorn - 4* - My Review
4. At the Edge of the Orchard - 2* - not reviewed
Bernard Cornwell
1. The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur - 5* - My Review
2. Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell - 4* - My Review
3. Sharpe's Tiger - 4* - My Review
4. Enemy of God - 4* - My Review
5. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles - 4* - My Review
6. 1356 - 2* - not reviewed
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. The Librarianist - 4* - My Review
4. Undermajordomo Minor - 3* - My Review
Hernan Diaz
1. In the Distance - 5* - My Review
2. Trust - 3* - My Review
E.L. Doctorow
1. The March - 5 stars - My Review
2. World's Fair - 5* - My Review
3. Ragtime - 4* - not reviewed, read long ago
4. Homer & Langley - 4* - My Review
5. Andrew's Brain - 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. Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis - 5* - My Review
2. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero - 4* - My Review
3. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - 4* - My Review
4. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - 4* - My Review
Dave Eggers
1. The Every - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Parade - 4* - My Review
3. The Circle - 4* - My Review
4. A Hologram for the King - 4* - My GR Review
5. The Monk of Mokha - 4* - My Review
6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - 3* - did not 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. Four Souls - 4* - My Review
7. Future Home of the Living God - 3.5* - My Review
8. LaRose - 3* - My Review
Percival Everett
1. So Much Blue - 5* - My Review
2. The Trees - 4* - My Review
3. Dr. No - 3* - My Review
Michel Faber
1. The Book of Strange New Things - 5* - My Review
2. Under the Skin - 4* - My Review
3. The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories - 3.5* - My Review
4. The Crimson Petal and the White - 3* - My Review
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
G - K: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. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - 4* - My Review
4. 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
Louisa Hall
1. Speak - 5* - My Review
2. The Carriage House - 3* - 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
Nathan Hill
1. The Nix - 5* - My Review
2. Wellness - 5* - My Review
Michelle Huneven
Search - 5* - My Review
Siri Hustvedt
1. What I Loved - 5* - My Review
2. The Blazing World - 3* - My Review
Walter Isaacson
1. Einstein: His Life and Universe - 4* - 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
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 - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Lacuna - 4.5* - My Review
3. Demon Copperhead - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Bean Trees - 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
2. A Separation - 3* - 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
R.F. Kuang
1. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - 5* - My Review
2. Yellowface - 4* - My Review
3. The Poppy War - 3* - My Review
Hari Kunzru
1. Red Pill - 4* - My Review
2. White Tears - 3* - My Review
L - N:Benjamín Labatut:
1. When We Cease to Understand the World - 4.5 - My Review
2. The Maniac - 4* - My Review
Laila Lalami
1. The Moor's Account - 5* - My Review
2. The Other Americans - 4* - My Review
3. 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
Martin MacInnes
1. In Ascension - 5* - 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
5. An Experiment in Love - 3* - 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
2. North Woods - 4* - My Review
3. A Far Country - 3* - 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. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge - 5* - My Review
3. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - 4.5* - My Review
4. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt - 4* - My Review
5. John Adams - 4* - My Review
6. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough - 4/29/23 - 4* - My Review
7. Brave Companions: Portraits in History - 4* - My Review
8. 1776 - 3* - My Review
9. 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
6. On Chesil Beach - 3* - My Review
7. Black Dogs - 3* - My Review
8. The Comfort of Strangers - 2* - My Review
9. The Cement Garden - 2* - My Review
Philipp Meyer
1. American Rust - 5* - My Review
2. The Son - 4* - My Review
Derek B. Miller
1. The Girl in Green - 5* - My Review
Lydia Millet
1. Dinosaurs - 5* - My Review
Rohinton Mistry
1. A Fine Balance - 5* - My Review
2. Family Matters - 5* - My Review
David Mitchell
1. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - 5* - My Review
2. Ghostwritten - 5* - My Review
3. Cloud Atlas - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Bone Clocks - 4* - My Review
5. Black Swan Green - 4* - My Review
6. Utopia Avenue - 4* - My Review
7. Slade House - 3* - My Review
Antonio Muñoz Molina
1. Sepharad: A Novel - 5* - My Review
Haruki Murakami
1. Norwegian Wood - 5* - My Review
2. Killing Commendatore - 4.5* - My Review
3. Kafka on the Shore - 4.5* - My Review
4. Men Without Women - 4*- My Review
5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - 4* - My Review
6. South of the Border, West of the Sun - 4* - My Review
7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 3.5* - Not Reviewed
8. After Dark - 3.5* - 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
O - Q: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. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death - 4* - My Review
5. This Must Be the Place - 3* - My Review
Yōko Ogawa
1. The Memory Police - 4* - My Review
2. The Housekeeper and the Professor - 4* - My Review
Michael Ondaatje
1. Anil's Ghost - 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. Tom Lake - 5* - My Review
2. State of Wonder - 4.5* - My Review
3. Bel Canto - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Dutch House - 4* - My Review
5. These Precious Days: Essays - 4* - My Review
6. The Magician's Assistant - 4* - My Review
7. Commonwealth - 3* - My Review
8. Truth and Beauty - 3* - My Review
9. Taft - 2* - My Review
Per Petterson
1. Out Stealing Horses - 4* - My Review
2. To Siberia - 4* - My Review
Nathaniel Philbrick
1. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown - 4* - My Review
2. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - 4* - My Review
3. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War - 4* - My Review
4. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick - 4*- My Review
5. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution - 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: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 - 4* - My Review
Barbara Pym
1. Quartet in Autumn - 5* - My Review
2. Jane and Prudence - 4* - My Review
3. A Glass of Blessings - 4* - My Review
4. Excellent Women - 3.5* - My Review
5. Some Tame Gazelle - 3* - My Review
6. Less Than Angels - 3* - My Review
R - S:Tom Rachman
1. The Italian Teacher - 5* - My Review
2. The Imposters - 4* - My Review
3. 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
M.L. Rio
1. If We Were Villains - 4.5* - My Review
Philip Roth
1. The Plot Against America - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Ghost Writer - 4* - My Review
3. The Human Stain - 4* - My Review
4. American Pastoral - 4* - My Review
5. Goodbye, Columbus - 4* - not reviewed
6. Portnoy's Complaint - 3* - not reviewed
Salman Rushdie
1. Victory City - 5* - My Review
2. Quichotte: A Novel - 4* - My Review
3. The Moor's Last Sigh - 4* - My Review
4. The Golden House - 4* - My Review
5. Shalimar the Clown - 4* - My Review
6. Midnight's Children - 3* - My Review
Mary Doria Russell
1. The Sparrow - 5* - My Review
2. Children of God - 4* - My Review
3. Doc - 4* - My Review
4. A Thread of Grace - 4* - My Review
5. 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. All the Names - 4* - My Review
6. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - 4* - My Review
7. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - 3* - My Review
8. Cain - 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
4. The Forty Rules of Love - 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
Nevil Shute
1. A Town Like Alice - 4* - My Review
2. On The Beach - 4* - My Review
3. The Far Country - 4* - My Review
4. An Old Captivity - 3.5 stars - 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. Summer - 4* - My Review
4. Spring - 4* - My Review
5. Companion Piece - 4* - My Review
6. How to Be Both - 4* - My Review
7. 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
4. The Fraud - 3* - My Review
Edward St. Aubyn
1. Double Blind - 5* - My Review
2. Some Hope - 4* - My Review
3. Bad News - 2* - not reviewed
4. Never Mind - 1* - 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
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. Recapitulation - 4* - My Review
5. The Spectator Bird - 4* - My Review
Neal Stephenson
1. Anathem - 4.5* - 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
3. The House of Doors - 4* - My Review
Colm Tóibín
1. The Master - 5* - My Review
2. The Magician - 4* - My Review
3. Brooklyn - 4* - My Review
4. The Testament of Mary - 3*
5. The South - 3* - not reviewed
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
5. The Museum of Failures - 4* - My Review
Abraham Verghese
1. The Covenant of Water - 5* - My Review
2. Cutting for Stone - 4* - My Review
Richard Wagamese
1. Indian Horse - 5* - My Review
2. Medicine Walk: A Novel - 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: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology - 4* - My Review
5. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World - 4* - My Review
6. 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
2023 Boxall Books Read:1. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - 1/6/23 - 4* - My Review
2. The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor - 1/8/23 - 3* - My Review
3. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - 1/11/23 - 5* - My Review
4. The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald - 1/30/23 - 4* - My Review
5. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell - 2/3/23 - 3* - My Review
6. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 4* - My Review
7. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review
8. Quicksand by Nella Larsen - 2/10/23 - 3* - My Review
9. The Human Stain by Philip Roth - 2/13/23 - 4* - My Review
10. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James - 2/17/23 - 3* - My Review
11. Libra by Don DeLillo - 2/18/23 - 3* - My Review
12. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré - 2/20/23 - 3* - My Review
13. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - 2/25/23 - 4* - My Review
14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac - 2/27/23 - 3* - My Review
15. The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My Review
16. American Pastoral by Philip Roth - 3/7/23 - 4* - My Review
17. Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki - 3/9/23 - 4* - My Review
18, Neuromancer by William Gibson - 3/19/23 - 3* - My Review
19. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell - 3/22/23 - 3* - My Review
20. 10:04 by Ben Lerner - 4/3/23 - 4.5* - My Review
21. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - 4/9/23 - 3* - My Review
22. The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan - 4/14/23 - 2* - My Review
23. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - 4/21/23 - 4* - My Review
24. The Waves by Virginia Woolf - 4/28/23 - 4* - My Review
25. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells - 5/3/23 - 4* - My Review
26. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - 5/4/23 - 3* - My Review
27. Summer by Edith Wharton - 5/7/23 - 3* - My Review
28. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - 5/10/23 - 4* - My Review
29. Orlando by Virginia Woolf - 5/13/23 - 4* - My Review
30. Bleak House by Charles Dickens - 5/15/23 - 4.5* - My Review
31. Home by Marilynne Robinson - 1/26/23 - 4* - My Review
32. The Third Man by Graham Greene- 5/22/23 - 4* - My Review
33. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien - 5/26/23 - 4* - My Review
34. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie - 5/28/23 - 4* - My Review
35. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee - 5/30/23 - 4* - My Review
36.Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - 6/1/23 - 4* - My Review
37. Seize the Day by Saul Bellow - 6/2/23 - 3* - My Review
38. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - 6/3/23 - 3* - My Review
39. Under the Skin by Michel Faber - 6/3/23 - 4* - My Review
40. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland - 6/8/23 - 1* - My Review
41. The Golden Bowl by Henry James - 6/9/23 - 4* - My Review
42. Smiley's People by John le Carré - 6/12/23 - 4* - My Review
43. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan - 6/14/23 - 2* - My Review
44. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor - 6/19/23 - 2* - My Review
45. The Awakening: A Solitary Story by Kate Chopin - 6/22/23 - 3* - My Review
46. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - 6/23/23 - 3* - My Review
47. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos - 7/4/23 - 2* - My Review
48. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review
49. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion - 2* - My Review
50. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien - 7/8/23 - 4* - My Review
51. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym - 7/10/23 - 3* - My Review
52. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster - 7/13/23 - 4* - My Review
53. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann - 7/23/23 - 4.5* - My Review
54. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño - 8/6/23 - 4* - My Review
55. The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat - 8/14/23 - 2* - My Review
56. Invisible by Paul Auster - 8/24/23 - 3* - My Review
57. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez - 9/3/23 - 4* - My Review
58. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - 9/5/23 - 4* - My Review
59. Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - 9/8/23 - 2* - My Review
60. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 9/17/23 - 4.5 stars - My Review
61. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
62. Rabbit, Run by John Updike - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
63. The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt - 3* - not reviewed
64. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter - 2/9/23 - 3* - My Review
65. Cain by José Saramago - 9/26/23 - 3* - My Review
66. Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 10/30/23 - 3* - My Review
67. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor - 12/17/23 - 3* - My Review
68. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 12/28/23 - 5* - My Review
69. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 8/16/23 - 4* - My Review
And a re-read: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - 12/9/23 - 5* - My Review
2023 Booker Nominees & Winners Read:1. Last Orders by Graham Swift - 1/5/23 - 3* - My Review
2. Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan - 1/13/23 - 3* - My Review
3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - 1/31/23 - 3* - My Review
4. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner - 2/2/23 - 4* - My Review
5. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - 2/6/23 - 5* - My Review
6. The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth - 2/9/23 - 3* - My Review
7. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry - 2/12/23 - 4* - My Review
8. Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg - 2/14/23 - 4* My Review
9. Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi - 2/20/23 - 3* - My Review
10. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry - 2/21/23 - 4* - My Review
11. 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster - 2/22/23 - 4* - My Review
12. Us by David Nicholls - 3/1/23 - 5* - My Review
13. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell - 3/15/23 - 5* - My Review
14. Any Human Heart by William Boyd - 3/28/23 - 3* - My Review
15. Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves - 3/31/23 - 4* - My Review
16. Trespass by Rose Tremain - 4/4/23 - My Review
17. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - 4/21/23 - 4* - My Review
18. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid - 5/10/23 - 4.5* - My Review
19. Snap by Belinda Bauer - 5/23/23 - 3* - My Review
20. The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie - 5/28/23 - 4* - My Review
21. Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee - 5/30/23 - 4* - My Review
22. Love and Summer by William Trevor - 6/5/23 - 3* - My Review
23. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland - 6/8/23 - 1* - My Review
24. In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne - 6/15/23 - 3* - My Review
25. The New Wilderness by Diane Cook - 6/15/23 - 4* - My Review
26. The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh - 6/27/23 - 2* - My Review
27. Satin Island by Tom McCarthy - 7/29/23 - 3* - My Review
28. Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry - 5/8/23 - 4* - My Review
29. In Ascension by Martin MacInnes - 6/28/23 - 5* - My Review
30. This Other Eden by Paul Harding - 7/24/23 - 4* - My Review
31. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo - 8/2/23 - 3* - My Review
32. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery - 12/5/22 - 4.5* - My Review (read in 2022 but it was nominated in 2023)
33. In the Country of Men: A Novel by Hisham Matar - 8/3/23 - 4* - My Review
34. A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - 8/6/23 - 3* - My Review
35. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle - 8/8/23 - 4* - My Review
36. The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald - 8/26/23 - 4* - My Review
37. Pearl by Siân Hughes - 8/28/23 - 4* - My Review
38. Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein - 9/9/23 - 4.5* - My Review
39. How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney - 9/12/23 - 3* - My Review
40. The Glass Room: A Novel by Simon Mawer - 9/14/23 - 4* - My Review
41. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - 9/16/23 - 2* - My Review
42. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 9/17/23 - 4.5* - My Review
43. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/20/23 - 5* - My Review
44. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
45. A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry - 10/9/23 - 4* - My Review
46. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng - 11/11/23 - 4* - My Review
47. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey - 11/17/23 - 3.5 - My Review
48. All The Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow - 12/9/23 - 4* - My Review
49. The Long Take: A noir narrative by Robin Robertson - 12/12/23 - 4* - My Review
50. The Many by Wyl Menmuir - 12/14/23 - 3* - My Review
51. The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín - 12/30/23 - 3* = My Review
Tools:Shelf Searches:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf
Create Your Own Countries Map:
https://map1.maploco.com/visited-coun...
TinEye for determining cover colors:
https://labs.tineye.com/color/
Distance Calculator:
https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...
Antipode:
https://www.geodatos.net/
Roll 2 Dice: https://www.random.org/dice/
Authors List (to read more of their back catalogue):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*
Christy Lefteri
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - 5* - My Review
Rebecca Makkai*
David Malouf*
Sandor Marai*
Remy Ngamije*
Larry Watson*
Kevin Wilson
Now Is Not the Time to Panic - 4.5* - My Review
* = read one
Pick It For Me:Monthly Selections:
Jan - Haven by Emma Donoghue, The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
Feb - The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende, Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre, The Strays by Emily Bitto
Mar - Sister Aimee by Daniel Mark Epsein, Neuromancer by William Gibson, The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
Apr - If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, The Orphan Master's Son by Orhan Pamuk
May - The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubenstein,
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum, Martin Van Buren: A Fascinating Biography of the 8th United States President by Steven Wallace
Jun - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris, The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
Jul - The Bottom of the Sky by William C. Pack, The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia, The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross
Aug - Maame by Jessica George, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Bournville by Jonathan Coe
Sep - Rabbit, Run by John Updike, The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang, I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
Oct - The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin, Gallop Toward the Sun by Peter Stark, Brass by Xhenet Aliu
Nov - Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey, Good Enough to Dream by Roger Kahn, Peony in Love by Lisa See
Dec - Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois, The Cloudbuster Nine by Anne R. Keene, Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
Colors:
Jan - White or Blue - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Feb - Pink or Light Gray - Monarch by Candice Wuehle
Mar - Navy or Rose Gold - The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Apr - Teal or Bronze - Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
May - Tan or Hot Pink - Four Souls by Louise Erdrich, Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
Jun - Yellow or Grape - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Jul - brown or light blue - The Escape Artists by Neal Bascomb
Aug - silver or lavender - Antarctica by Claire Keegan
Sep - dark gray or mustard yellow - The Glass Room by Siimon Mawer
Oct - orange or black or red - The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin
Nov - rust or gold - The Journey of Crazy Horse Joseph M. Marshall III
Dec - emerald green or purple - Annie Dunne
Predictions for Booker Longlist:Victory City by Salman Rushdie
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
The Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Wellness by Nathan Hill
A House for Alice by Diana Evans
Other Worthy Candidates (that I have read or currently reading):
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Loot by Tania James
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
August Blue by Deborah Levy
Lucy By the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Bournville by Sebastian Coe
Other Possibilities: (These are on my TBR but I have not read them yet)
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Reproduction by Louisa Hall
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant
The East Indian by Brinda Charry
Actual Booker Longlist:The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
All the Little Bird-Hearts - Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Pearl - Sian Hughes
This Other Eden - Paul Harding
How to Build a Boat - Elaine Feeney
If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery
Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
Old God’s Time - Sebastian Barry
A Spell of Good Things - Ayobami Adebayo
Booker Shortlist Predictions:
(What I think the judges will pick)
A Spell of Good Things
If I Survive You
Pearl
All the Little Bird-Hearts
Prophet Song
The House of Doors
My Preferences:
1. In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
2. Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
3. If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery
4. Old God’s Time - Sebastian Barry
5. Pearl - Sian Hughes
6. This Other Eden - Paul Harding
7. Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
8. A Spell of Good Things - Ayobami Adebayo
9. How to Build a Boat - Elaine Feeney
10. The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
My Personal Shortlist:
1. In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
2. Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
3. Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
4. If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery
5. Old God’s Time - Sebastian Barry
6. Pearl - Sian Hughes
Note: I expect to enjoy The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng but have not read it yet since it has not been released in the US
Upcoming:
The House of Doors - Tan Twan Eng
All the Little Bird-Hearts - Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Other Random Individual Challenges
Completed Challenges:Bibliopoly: Challenge Completed 2/26/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Mookse Top Translated Books: read as many as planned 2/26/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Winter Challenge 2022-2023 - Completed 3/1/23 (all but one)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
ATY Spring Challenge: Completed 3/14/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jade Dragons (Private Group): Calling this one "complete" as of March 2023 - read as many as I'm going to read
Dragon Hoard Rules: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My Hoard 2021: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My Hoard 2022:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2023 - my hoard and remaining tasks:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Mookse Top Reads of 2022 (New Releases Only):
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Mookse Women's Prize 2023:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2023 ATY52: Completed 5/16/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Happy BD PBT: Challenge Completed 6/12/23
The Candles:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tracking:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dragon Hop: Completed 6/14/23
My List & Tracking: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Reviews:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Chip Away Challenge: Calling this one completed 6/14/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
OtSP List of Books Read: Calling it finished as of 6/15/23
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CC Shrink the TBR: Completed 6/18/23
My Challenge:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Instructions:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Reading Roulette: Completed 6/24/23
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Completions: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
ATY Summer Challenge 23 - Completed 8/13/23
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TBR Jar: Challenge Completed 8/26/23
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ATY Fall Read-a-Thon Individual Challenge: Completed 9/16/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
12+4 Challenge: Completed 10/4/23
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ATY Multi-Month Fall Challenge: Challenge completed 10/29/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
CC Gridlock - Tracking and Callouts: Challenge Completed 11/2/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Gridlock Shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Completed:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2023 Booker Longlist - My Rankings:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
D-Heist: Challenge Completed 12/11/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
2023 P1FM & Color Challenges: Completed 12/15/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
D-Trim: Completed 12/17/23
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PBT Subdue the Shelf: Challenge Completed 12/19/23
Conductor Loop 11:
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Conductor Loop 10:
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Conductor Loop 9:
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Conductor Loop 8:
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Conductor - Loop 7:
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Conductor - Loop 6:
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Conductor - Loop 5:
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Conductor - Loop 4:
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Conductor - Loop 3:
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Conductor - Loop 2:
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Conductor - Loop 1:
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Station Master - Loop 2:
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Station Master - Loop 1:
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Engineer Round - Loop 2:
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Engineer Round - Loop 1:
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Porter Round:
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Clerk Round:
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Roll Requests:
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List of Special Rolls:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
New Rules for Porter Level & Above:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PBT Trim: Challenge Completed 12/20/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My Trim List:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
My Trim List Tracking:
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AtWi80B List International Books Only: Completed 12/30/23 -Discontinued
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Non-Fiction Annual Challenge (NFBC): Challenge Completed 12/30/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
AtW80 Tourist Plus: 24 countries - Completed 12/31/23 - Challenge Discontinued
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2023 To Boldy Go: 24 countries: Completed 12/31/23 - Challenge Discontinued
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OtSP Tome Reader: 20 - Completed 12/31/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Boxall List Books Read (My List):
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List of Booker Nominees/Winners Read in 2023:
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OtSP Help the Group read 3500 books: Completed 12/31/23 - will not participate next year
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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:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Round Table - Non-Fiction:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Non-Fiction Books Read: (NFBC) update link
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5-star individual books I've enjoyed:The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher - 2/19/23 - 5* - My Review
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My Review
Us by David Nicholls - 3/1/23 - 5* - My Review
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph - 4/26/23 - 5* - My Review
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer - 7/9/23 - 5* - My Review
If you roll:1-1: The current leader must move back 3 spaces on their game board and read the book where they have landed next.
Any combination totaling 7: You move 7 spaces and stay on that space, but you may read the book you land on OR one book forward or one book back - - your choice.
6-6: Don't like the book you will land on? You may roll again.
3-1: You get to take pick someone's next move on the board. The admins will use random.org to decide who will be moved. You get to decide which book they must move to next on their game board - - backward or forward -- within a 15 book radius. So you can move your opponent up to 15 spaces back or up to 15 spaces forward to the book of your choosing. Should you be reluctant to move another player ,or if you do not respond to an administrator's request to designate the move, random.org will move the player - odd rolls will move the player backward and even rolls will move the player forward.
2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.
6-5: You must read a book that's on someone else's board and NOT on your own before you may roll again. (extra note here: you may read the book you land on first and then read the other person's book, or vice-versa. So two books must be completed before you re-roll).
4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review.
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.
6-4 Earn a surprise advantage to use anytime during the game
Other clarifications:When you want to actually take your extra move forward, please let me know on your roll request, and I will denote it as your roll plus X. ie. 6-2 (+5). If you want to see your roll first, that's okay, but I do need you to tell me (in the roll request thread) that you are moving additional spaces just so I can note it in my spreadsheet, and Joanne is alerted as well.
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Reading Roulette - Challenge Completed 6/24/23:✅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
✅The O'Briens by Peter Behrens - 2/5/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin - 2/15/23 - 4* - My Review
✅My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel - 3/17/23 - 4* - My Review
✅The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough - 4/14/23 - 5* - My Review
✅What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan - 4/21/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Yellowface by R.F. Kuang - 6/5/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Beneath The Greater Sky by Andrew Voelker - 6/16/23 - 2* - My Review
✅The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow - 6/20/23 - 2* - My Review
✅Ghostwritten by David Mitchell - 6/24/23 - 5* - My Review
Chip Away - Completed:✅ 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 - 1/4/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Salt Lick by Lulu Allison - 1/21/23 - 4* - My Review
✅ World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow - 2/1/23 - 5* - My Review
✅The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid - 2/12/23 - 4* - My Review
✅All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami - 3/5/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates - 4/10/23 - 2* - My Review
✅The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld - 6/10/23 - 4* - My Review
CC Gridlock - Completed:✅Column 1: Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith - 1/22/23 - 2* - My Review
✅Row 2 Column 4 (R2C4): The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller - 1/23/23 - 5* - My Review
✅Row 3: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner - 2/2/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 1: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss - 1/6/23 - 4* - My Review
✅ Row 5, Column 6: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday - 2/22/23 - 3* - My Review
✅ Row 5, Column 1: Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch - 2/1/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 3 Column 3: Butcher's Crossing by John Williams - 1/12/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 6: Salt Lick by Lulu Allison - 1/21/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 3: Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden - 4/18/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 3, Column 6: March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks - 4/15/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 4 Column 2: Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway - 3/16/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 5: Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter - 2/9/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 1: Mr Beethoven by Paul Griffiths - 2/23/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 6: Quicksand by Nella Larsen - 2/10/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 3 Column 1: The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald - 3/20/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 2: Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson by Daniel Mark Epstein - 3/8/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 2: Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France by Adin Dobkin - 6/18/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 4 Column 6: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien - 5/26/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 4 Column 3: On The Beach by Nevil Shute - 4/8/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 1 Column 3: Medicine Walk: A Novel by Richard Wagamese - 5/23/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 2 Column 2: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron - 9/24/23 - 2* - My Review
✅Row 2: The Astonishing Life of August March by Aaron Jackson - 5/3/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 2 Column 1: The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld - 6/10/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 1 Column 4: The Bottom of the Sky by William C. Pack - 7/17/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 5, Column 5: Rabbit, Run by John Updike - 9/23/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Colmun 3: Still I Miss You by Inês Pedrosa - 5/21/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 1: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim - 5/16/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 4: Snap by Belinda Bauer - 5/23/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 1 Column 2: I, the Sun by Janet E. Morris - 6/13/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 2 Column 6: Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris - 6/8/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 3 Column 2: A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell - 6/23/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 2, Column 3: The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan - 9/19/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 4, Column 1: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis - 10/26/23 - 5* - My Review
✅Row 4: This Is Happiness by Niall Williams - 10/2/23 - 4*
✅Row 3, Column 5: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - 8/17/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 5, Column 2: Clock Dance by Anne Tyler - 10/8/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 3: A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume - 10/13/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 1 Column 5: The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat - 8/14/23 - 2* - My Review
✅Row 1 Column 1: Eggshells by Caitriona Lally - 10/6/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 5, Column 3 - The Glass Room: A Novel by Simon Mawer - 9/14/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 1, Column 6 - Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell - 10/24/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 3 Column 4: The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester - 9/8/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 2: Brass by Xhenet Aliu - 10/7/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Row 4: The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin - 10/19/23 - 3* - My Review
✅Column 5: Translation State by Ann Leckie - 9/21/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 4 Column 5: The Art Thief by Michael Finkel - 9/28/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 5 Column 4: The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar - 10/22/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 4 Column 4: A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym - 10/18/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Row 5: The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut - 10/23/23 - 4* - My Review
✅Column 4: The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - My Review
✅Row 2 Column 5: River Spirit by Leila Aboulela - 11/1/23 - 4* - My Review
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(formerly Joy D's Book Balcony)
# Books YTD: 547
# Pages YTD: 175,914
By Genre:
100 - Non-Fiction
100 - Historical Fiction
34 - Contemporary Fiction
14 - Fantasy
30 - Science Fiction
269 - Literary Fiction
By # Pages:
65 - <200
380 - 201-400
76 - 401-600
17 - 601-800
9 - 801+
By Star Rating:
40 - 5 stars
321 - 4 stars
158 - 3 stars
25 - 2 stars
3 - 1 star
Authors:
225 - Female
315 - Male
7 - Non-Binary/Other