All About Books discussion

My Alphabet Challenge list will suffice as a place to start! Generally speaking my reading goal for the year is not to set goals, but given how many books I read, matching an author’s surname to every letter of the alphabet shouldn’t be so hard (I even have an Xiques on my shelves). The list starts with my fireside and bedside TBR piles and continues (in italics) with books from my ‘recently acquired’, ‘read soon’, and ‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’ shelves … lets see how many of them I actually read!

A 1. Almada, Selva The Wind that Lays Waste (Argentina/2012) translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
A 2. Arnhem, Rudolf Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Germany and USA/first pub. 1954, revised 1974) ebook
B 1. Burnside, John Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction (2021)
B 2. Barker-Mawjee, Kate The Coldest Place on Earth (2022)
B 3. Blackie, Sharon Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life (2022)
B 4. Baker, Frank Miss Hargreaves (1940) #1940Club Kindle
C 1. Campbell, Hayley All the Living and the Dead (2022)
C 2. Cook, Corinna Leavetakings: Essays (Alaska/2018)
READ D 1. Dennys, Joyce Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942
D 2. Dennys, Joyce Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front, 1942-1945
E Ely, Steve The European Eel (2021)
F 1. Flyn, Cal Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (2021)
F 2. Farrier, David Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020) Kindle
G 1. George, Josie A Still Life: A Memoir (2021)
G 2. Grumbach, Doris Fifty Days of Solitude (USA/1994)
H 1. Hinton, David Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape (USA/2012)
H 2. Hildyard, Daisy The Second Body (2017)
H 3. Vigdis, Hjorth Long Live the Post Horn! (Norway/2012) translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
I 1. Ingold, Tim Correspondences (2021)
I 2. Ingold, Tim Lines: A Brief History (2007)
J 1. Jamie, Kathleen Sightlines (2012)
J 2. Jamie, Kathleen Surfacing (2019)
K Klinkenborg, Verlyn Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile (USA/2006)
L 1. Linford, Jenny The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour (2019)
L 2. Laurence, Margaret The Stone Angel (Canada/1986)
L. 3. Laxness, Halldór The Fish Can Sing (Iceland/1957) translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson
M 1. Miller, Andrew H. On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives (USA/2020)
M 2. Miller, Lulu Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (USA/2020)
M 3. Morselli, Guido Divertimiento 1889 (Italy/1975) translated from the Italian by Hugh Shankland
M 4. Mukasonga, Scholastique The Barefoot Woman (Rwanda/2008) translated from the French by Jordan Stump
N Newham C.B. Country Church Monuments (2022)
O Odell, Jenni How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (USA/2019)
P 1. Perec, George An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (France/1975) translated from the French by Marc Lowenthal
P. 2. Peters, John Durham The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (USA/2015)
P 3. Peck, Winifred Bewildering Cares (1940) #1940Club
Q Quindlen, Anna Good Dog. Stay. (USA/2007)
R Roberts, Sophy The Lost Pianos of Siberia (2020)
S 1.Shadrick, Tanya The Cure for Sleep (2022)
S 2. Sarton, May Journal of a Solitude (USA/1973) Kindle
S 3. Street, Seán The Sound of a Room: Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place (2020)
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V Van Dooren, Thom Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (2014)
W Welty, Eudora The Ponder Heart (USA/1954)
X Xiques, Donez Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer (USA & Canada/2005) Kindle
Y Young, Jeff Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (2020)
Z 1. Zambra, Alejandro Not to Read (Chile/2010) translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
Z. 2. Zweig, Connie The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul (USA/2021)

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