2025 Reading Challenge discussion

2024 Summary Stats & Links:
(formerly Joy D's Book Balcony)

# Books YTD: 488
# Pages YTD: 155,376

By Genre:
114 - Non-Fiction
90 - Historical Fiction
52 - Contemporary Fiction
49 - Fantasy
19 - Science Fiction
164 - Literary Fiction

By # Pages:
53 - <200
348 - 201-400
76 - 401-600
7 - 601-800
4 - 801+

By Star Rating:
33 - 5 stars
284 - 4 stars
134- 3 stars
32 - 2 stars
5 - 1 star

Authors:
219 - Female
265 - Male
4 - Non-Binary/Other

Challenges:

Goal of 300 in 2024:
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2025 Gridlock: (starts in 2024 and finishes in 2025)
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Ongoing Reading Around the World (AtWi80B)
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Ranking the Booker Winners
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Ranking the Booker Nominees and Winners
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List of Booker Nominees/Winners Read in 2024:
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Listopia Challenge (through April 2025)
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Monthly Pretty and Ugly Covers:
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Fall Flurries:
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2024 Favorites:

1. My Friends by Hisham Matar - 8/3/24 - 5* - My Review
2. Playground by Richard Powers - 9/8/24 - 5* - My Review
3. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan - 2/1/24 - 5* - My Review
4. Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris - 11/6/24 - 5* - My Review
5. Time of the Child by Niall Williams - 12/15/24 - 5* - My Review
6. Q & A by Vikas Swarup - 8/6/24 - 5* - My Review
7. Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - 2/29/24 - 5* - My Review
8. The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma - 7/3/24 - 5* - My Review
9. Embassytown by China Miéville - 3/17/24 - 5* - My Review
10. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll - 4/20/24 - 5* - My Review
11. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - 6/18/24 - 5* - My Review
12. The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 6/27/24 - 5* - My Review
13. Open City by Teju Cole - 2/4/24 - 5* - My Review
14. An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood - 10/30/24 - 5* - My Review
15. The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin - 6/14/24 - 5* - My Review
16. Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi - 8/11/24 - 5* - My Review
17. The Soloist by Mark Salzman - 9/13/24 - 5* - My Review
18. The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore - 1/4/24 - 5* - My Review
19. There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - 9/5/24 - 5* - My Review
20. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - 9/24/24 - 5* - My Review
21. A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam - 10/26/24 - 5* - My Review
22. Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler - 11/13/24 - 5* - My Review
23. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon - 10/9/24 - 5* - My Review
24. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie - 10/20/24 - 5* - My Review
25. Mobility by Lydia Kiesling- 3/1/24 - 5* - My Review
26. Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier - 1/16/24 - 5* - My Review
27. My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor - 6/3/24 - 5* - My Review
28. Pied Piper by Nevil Shute - 6/23/24 - 5* - My Review
29. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill - 2/25/24 - 5* - My Review
30. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - 2/9/24 - 5* - My Review
31. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson - 4/2/24 - 5* - My Review
32. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara - 5/12/24 - 5* - My Review
33. Spies by Michael Frayn - 11/19/24 - 5* - My Review
34. The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth - 6/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review
35. Saturday by Ian McEwan - 5/6/24 - 4.5 - My Review
36. Long Island by Colm Tóibín - 7/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review
37. Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger - 11/18/25 - 4.5* - My Review
38. Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman - 10/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review
39. The Coast Road by Alan Murrin - 11/9/24 - 4.5* - My Review
40. James by Percival Everett - 5/20/24 - 4.5* - My Review
41. Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde - 10/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
42. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger - 12/6/24 - 4.5* - My Review
43. Nicked by M.T. Anderson - 12/13/24 - 4.5* - My Review
44. Conspirata by Robert Harris - 3/18/24 - 4.5* - My Review
45. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular sadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 12/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
46. The Deep by Rivers Solomon - 1/23/24 - 4.5* - My Review
47. Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meaning by Jonathan Raban - 8/30/24 - 4.5* - My Review
48. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow - 1/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review
49. Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China by Bernard Ollivier - 6/29/24 - 4.5* - My Review
50. Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen - 8/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review
51. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review

2024 Favorite Fiction:

1. My Friends by Hisham Matar - 8/3/24 - 5* - My Review
2. Playground by Richard Powers - 9/8/24 - 5* - My Review
3. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan - 2/1/24 - 5* - My Review
4. Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris - 11/6/24 - 5* - My Review
5. Time of the Child by Niall Williams - 12/15/24 - 5* - My Review
6. Q & A by Vikas Swarup - 8/6/24 - 5* - My Review
7. Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - 2/29/24 - 5* - My Review
8. The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma - 7/3/24 - 5* - My Review
9. Embassytown by China Miéville - 3/17/24 - 5* - My Review
10. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - 6/18/24 - 5* - My Review
11. The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 6/27/24 - 5* - My Review
12. Open City by Teju Cole - 2/4/24 - 5* - My Review
13. Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi - 8/11/24 - 5* - My Review
14. The Soloist by Mark Salzman - 9/13/24 - 5* - My Review
15. The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore - 1/4/24 - 5* - My Review
16. There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - 9/5/24 - 5* - My Review
17. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - 9/24/24 - 5* - My Review
18. A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam - 10/26/24 - 5* - My Review
19. Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler - 11/13/24 - 5* - My Review
20. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon - 10/9/24 - 5* - My Review
21. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie - 10/20/24 - 5* - My Review
22. Mobility by Lydia Kiesling- 3/1/24 - 5* - My Review
23. My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor - 6/3/24 - 5* - My Review
24. Pied Piper by Nevil Shute - 6/23/24 - 5* - My Review
25. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill - 2/25/24 - 5* - My Review
26. Spies by Michael Frayn - 11/19/24 - 5* - My Review
27. The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth - 6/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review
28. Saturday by Ian McEwan - 5/6/24 - 4.5 - My Review
29. Long Island by Colm Tóibín - 7/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review
30. Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger - 11/18/25 - 4.5* - My Review
31. The Coast Road by Alan Murrin - 11/9/24 - 4.5* - My Review
32. James by Percival Everett - 5/20/24 - 4.5* - My Review
33. Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde - 10/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
34. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger - 12/6/24 - 4.5* - My Review
35. Nicked by M.T. Anderson - 12/13/24 - 4.5* - My Review
36. Conspirata by Robert Harris - 3/18/24 - 4.5* - My Review
37. The Deep by Rivers Solomon - 1/23/24 - 4.5* - My Review
38. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review

2024 Favorite Non-Fiction:

1. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll - 4/20/24 - 5* - My Review
2. An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood - 10/30/24 - 5* - My Review
3. The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin - 6/14/24 - 5* - My Review
4. Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier - 1/16/24 - 5* - My Review
5. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - 2/9/24 - 5* - My Review
6. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson - 4/2/24 - 5* - My Review
7. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara - 5/12/24 - 5* - My Review
8. Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman - 10/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review
9. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 12/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
10. Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meaning by Jonathan Raban - 8/30/24 - 4.5* - My Review
11. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow - 1/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review
12. Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China by Bernard Ollivier - 6/29/24 - 4.5* - My Review
13. Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen - 8/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review
14. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark - 12/30/24 - 4.5* - My Review
15. Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill Fredston - 10/13/24 - 4* - My Review

Boxall List Read in 2024:

1. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 1/6/24 - 4* - My Review
2. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 1/7/23 - 4* - My Review
3. The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker - 3* - Not Reviewed
4. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 1/18/24 - 2* - My Review
5. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - 1/29/24 - 4* - My Review
6. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov - 3/3/24 - 4* - My Review
7. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis - 3/22/24 - 4* - My Review
8. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride - 3/26/24 - 2* - My Review
9. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford - 3/30/24 - 3.5* - My Review
10. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 4/1/24 - 4* - My Review
11. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review
12. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë - 4/10/24 - 3* - My Review
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 4/23/24 - 4* - My Review (a re-read)
14. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett - 4/15/24 - 3* - My Review
15. The Outsider by Albert Camus - 4* - read previously not reviewed
16. Saturday by Ian McEwan - 5/6/24 - 4.5 - My Review
17. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - 6/2/24 - 4* - My Review
18. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov - 6/4/24 - 4* - My Review
19. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin - 6/13/24 - 3* - My Review
20. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan - 6/25/24 - 4* - My Review
21. Persuasion by Jane Austen - 7/2/24 - 4* - My Review (re-read)
22. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - 7/9/24 - 1* - My Review
23. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - 7/13/24 - 3* - My Review
24. Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago - 8/9/24 - 4* - My Review
25. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson - 8/16/24 - 4* - My Review
26. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster - 8/28/24 - 2* - My Review
27. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 9/10/24 - 3* - My Review
28. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh - 9/16/24 - 3.5* - My Review
29. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - 9/21/24 - 4* - My Review
30. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review (re-read)
31. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante - 9/27/24 - 3* - My Review
32. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - 9/28/24 - 3* - My Review
33. Death In Venice by Thomas Mann - 1/20/24 - 3* - not reviewed
34. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare - 11/20/24 - 3* - My Review
35. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf - 11/25/24 - 4* - My Review

Booker Nominees Read in 2024:

1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - 1/14/24 - 3* - My Review
2. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan - 2/1/24 - 5* - My Review
3. Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - 2/29/24 - 5* - My Review
4. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones - 3/23/24* - My Review
5. Elmet by Fiona Mozley - 3/29/24 - 3* - My Review
6. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil - 4/29/24 - 3* - My Review
7. Saturday by Ian McEwan - 5/6/24 - 4.5 - My Review
8. Number9Dream by David Mitchell - 5/19/24 - 3.5* - My Review
9. The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth - 6/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review
10. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo - 7/5/24 - 4* - My Review
11. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - 7/7/24 - 4* - My Review
12. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill - 7/17/24 - 4* - My Review
13. Brick Lane by Monica Ali - 7/18/24 - 4* - My Review
14. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 7/21/24 - 3* - My Review
15. The Bird of Night by Susan Hill - 7/24/24 - 4.5 - My Review
16. Wild Houses by Colin Barrett - 7/30/24 - 2* - My Review
17. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel - 7/30/24 - 2* - My Review
18. James by Percival Everett - 5/20/24 - 4* - My Review
19. This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud - 7/29/24 - 4* - My Review
20. Held by Anne Michaels - 7/31/24 - 3.5* - My Review
21. My Friends by Hisham Matar - 8/3/24 - 5* - My Review
22. Orbital by Samantha Harvey - 8/18/24 - 3.5* - My Review
23. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange - 8/19/24 - 4* - My Review
24. Enlightenment by Sarah Perry - 8/20/24 - 3.5* - My Review
25. Lila by Marilynne Robinson - 8/25/24 - 4* - My Review
26. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood - 9/2/24 - 4* - My Review
27. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden - 9/3/24 - 2* - My Review
28. Playground by Richard Powers - 9/8/24 - 5* - My Review
29. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner - 9/10/24 - 4* - My Review
30. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review (re-read)
31. Swimming Home by Deborah Levy - 10/11/24 - 4* - My Review
32. Rites of Passage by William Golding - 10/27/24 - 4* - My Review
33. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann - 10/29/24 - 4* - My Review
34. Spies by Michael Frayn - 11/19/24 - 5* - My Review
35. Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn - 11/23/24 - 4* - My Review
36. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf - 11/25/24 - 4* - My Review
37. Skios by Michael Frayn - 11/30/24 - 4* - My Review
38. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby - 12/12/24 - 4* - My Review

January: Month - 39; YTD - 39

A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly - 1/1/24 - 3* - My Review

Snow by John Banville - 1/2/24 - 3.5* - My Review

The General and Julia by Jon Clinch - 1/3/24 - 4* - My Review

The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore - 1/4/24 - 5* - My Review

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton - 1/5/24 - 4* - My Review

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 1/6/24 - 4* - My Review

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 1/7/24 - 4* - My Review

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict - 1/7/24 - 4* - My Review

The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles - 1/8/24 - 4* - My Review

Sea Wife by Amity Gaige - 1/9/24 - 4* - My Review

The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - 1/9/24 - 4* - My Review

South of Broad by Pat Conroy - 1/10/24 - 4* - My Review

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - 1/11/24 - 4* - My Review

Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes - 1/12/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Landscapes by Christine Lai - 1/13/24 - 3* - My Review

Artemis by Andy Weir - 1/13/24 - 4* - My Review

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - 1/14/24 - 3* - My Review

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant - 1/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier - 1/16/24 - 5* - My Review

The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir - 1/17/24 - 4* - My Review

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 1/18/24 - 2* - My Review

"I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt - 1/19/24 - 4* - My Review

Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Richard Snow - 1/20/24 - 4* - My Review

Millard Fillmore: 13th President of the United States by Heidi Elston - 1/20/24 - 3* - My Review

House of Morgan by Ron Chernow - 1/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review

A Casualty of War by Charles Todd - 1/22/24 - 3* - My Review

A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols - 1/22/24 - 4* - My Review

The Deep by Rivers Solomon - 1/23/24 - 4.5* - My Review

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - 1/24/24 - 3* - My Review

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson - 1/25/24 - 4* - My Review

The Pole by J.M. Coetzee - 1/26/24 - 3* - My Review

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling - 1/26/24 - 4* - My Review

The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger - 1/27/24 - 4* - My Review

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig - 1/28/24 - 4* - My Review

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - 1/29/24 - 4* - My Review

Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne - 1/29/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller - 1/30/24 - 2* - My Review

Open Throat by Henry Hoke- 1/31/24 - 3* - My Review

Carry Me by Peter Behrens - 1/31/24 - 4* - My Review

February: Month - 33; YTD - 72

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan - 2/1/24 - 5* - My Review

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell - 2/2/24 - 3* - My Review

Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell - 2/3/24 - 3* - My Review

River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon by Buddy Levy - 2/4/24 - 4* - My Review

Open City by Teju Cole - 2/4/24 - 5* - My Review

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi - 2/5/24 - 4* - My Review

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - 2/6/24 - 4* - My Review

The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) by C.S. Lewis - 2/7/24 - 4* My Review

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - 2/8/24 - 3* - My Review

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - 2/9/24 - 5* - My Review

The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - 2/10/24 - 4* - My Review

A House For Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul - 2/10/24 - 4* - My Review

The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander - 2/11/24 - 4* - My Review

The Princess Bride by William Goldman - 2/12/24 - 4* - My Review

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman - 2/12/24 - 4* - My Review

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar - 2/13/24 - 3* - My Review

Murtagh by Christopher Paolini - 2/14/24 - 4* - My Review

The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon - 2/15/24 - 1* - My Review

Chances Are . . . by Richard Russo - 2/16/24 - 4* - My Review

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya - 2/17/24 - 4* - My Review

Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili - 2/17/24 - 4* - My Review

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino - 2/18/24 - 4* - My Review

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 2/19/23 - 4* - My Review

Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller - 2/20/24 - 4* - My Review

Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong - 2/21/24 - 4* - My Review

Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth - 2/22/24 - 4* - My Review

The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor - 2/23/24 - 4* - My Review

Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok - 2/24/24 - 3* - My Review

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill - 2/25/24 - 5* - My Review

Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow - 2/26/24 - 3* - My Review

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis - 2/27/24 - 4* - My Review

You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue - 2/28/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - 2/29/24 - 5* - My Review

March: Month - 35; YTD - 107

Mobility by Lydia Kiesling- 3/1/24 - 5* - My Review

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse - 3/1/24 - 4* - My Review

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan - 3/2/24 - 4* - My Review

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov - 3/3/24 - 4* - My Review

Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet - 3/4/24 - 4* - My Review

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard - 3/5/24 - 4* - My Review

The Girl in the Tree by Şebnem İşigüzel - 3/6/24 - 3.5 - My Review

Chronicle in Stone: A Novel by Ismail Kadare - 3/7/24 - 4* - My Review

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur - 3/8/24 - 3* - My Review

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa - 3/9/24 - 3* - My Review

In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas - 3/10/24 - 3* - My Review

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell - 3/11/24 - 4 stars - My Review

Mr. Flood's Last Resort by Jess Kidd - 3/12/24 - 4 stars - My Review

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin - 3/13/24 - 4* - My Review

Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen - 3/14/24 - 3* - My Review

Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier - 3/15/24 - 3* - My Review

Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks - 3/16/24 - 4* - My Review

Embassytown by China Miéville - 3/17/24 - 5* - My Review

Sourdough by Robin Sloan - 3/18/24 - 4* - My Review

Conspirata by Robert Harris - 3/18/24 - 4* - My Review

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane - 3/19/24 - 4* - My Review

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray - 3/20/24 - 4* - My Review

The Hard Blue Sky: A Novel by Shirley Ann Grau - 3/21/24 - 3* - My Review

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis - 3/22/24 - 4* - My Review

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones - 3/23/24* - My Review

It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - 3/24/24 - 2* - My Review

The Hunters by James Salter - 3/25/24 - 3* - My Review

Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey - 3/25/24 - 4* - My Review

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride - 3/26/24 - 2* - My Review

The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti - 3/27/24 - 4* - My Review

Indignation by Philip Roth - 3/28/24 - 3* - My Review

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis - 3/29/24 - 4* - My Review

Elmet by Fiona Mozley - 3/29/24 - 3* - My Review

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford - 3/30/24 - 3.5* - My Review

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - 3/31/24 - 4* - My Review

April: Month - 35; YTD - 142

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 4/1/24 - 4* - My Review

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson - 4/2/24 - 5* - My Review

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Foe by Iain Reid - 4/4/24 - 4* - My Review

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie - 4/5/24 - 3* - My Review

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow - 4/6/24 - 2* - My Review

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky - 4/7/24 - 4* - My Review

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie - 4/8/24 - 3* - My Review

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis - 4/9/24 - 4* - My Review

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë - 4/10/24 - 3* - My Review

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett - 4/11/24 - 4* - My Review

The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden - 4/12/24 - 4* - My Review

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh - 4/13/24 - 3* - My Review

The Affirmation by Christopher Priest - 4/14/24 - 4* - My Review

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett - 4/15/24 - 3* - My Review

Swamp Songs: Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands by Tom Blass - 4/15/24 - 4* - My Review

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins - 4/16/24 - 4* - My Review

Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey - 4/17/24 - 3* - My Review

Leviathan by Paul Auster - 4/17/24 - 4* - My Review

The Planets by Dava Sobel - 4/18/24 - 3* - My Review

A Feather on the Water by Lindsay Jayne Ashford - 4/18/24 - 4* - My Review

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard - 4/19/24 - 4* - My Review

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll - 4/20/24 - 5* - My Review

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel - 4/20/24 - 4* - My Review

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - 4/21/24 - 2* - My Review

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden - 4/22/24 - 4* - My Review

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough - 4/22/24 - 4* - My Review

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 4/23/24 - 4* - My Review

Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 4/24/24 - 4* - My Review

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4/25/24 - 4* - My Review

Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash - 4/26/24 - 3* - My Review

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett - 4/27/24 - 4* - My Review

Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor - 4/28/24 - 2* - My Review

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil - 4/29/24 - 3* - My Review

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young - 4/30/24 - 1* - My Review

May: Month - 33; YTD - 175

Erasure by Percival Everett - 5/1/24 - 4* - My Review

Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore - 5/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara - 5/2/24 - 3* - My Review

Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption by Benjamin Rachlin - 5/3/24 - 4* - My Review

The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie - 5/4/24 - 3* - My Review

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 5/5/24 - 4* - My Review

Saturday by Ian McEwan - 5/6/24 - 4.5 - My Review

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - 5/7/24 - 4* - My Review

Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indriðason - 5/8/24 - 3* - My Review

The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis - 5/9/24 - 3* - My Review

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee - 5/10/24 - 4* - My Review

Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner - 5/11/24 - 4* - My Review

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy - 5/12/24 - 4* - My Review

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara - 5/12/24 - 5* - My Review

The Children of Men by P.D. James - 5/13/24 - 4* - My Review

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - 5/14/24 - 4* - My Review

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan - 5/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet - 5/16/24 - 4* - My Review

An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell - 5/17/24 - 3* - My Review

Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner - 5/18/24 - 3* - My Review

Number9Dream by David Mitchell - 5/19/24 - 3.5* - My Review

James by Percival Everett - 5/20/24 - 4* - My Review

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara - 5/21/24 - 2* - My Review

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie - 5/22/24 - 4* - My Review

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 5/23/24 - 4* - My Review

Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman - 5/24/24 - 4* - My Review

A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel - 5/25/24 - 3* - My Review

Revenge by Yōko Ogawa - 5/26/24 - 3* - My Review

The Unfortunate Expiration of Mr. David S. Sparks by William F. Aicher - 5/27/24 - 4* - My Review

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney - 5/28/24 - My Review

This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor - 5/29/24 - 3* - My Review

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell - 5/30/24 - 4* - My Review

Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham - 5/31/24 - 4* - My Review

June: Month - 44; YTD - 219

The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman - 6/1/24 - 4* - My Review

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - 6/2/24 - 4* - My Review

My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor - 6/3/24 - 5* - My Review

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov - 6/4/24 - 4* - My Review

Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo - 6/5/24 - 4* - My Review

Pod by Laline Paull - 6/6/24 - 4* - My Review

The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero - 6/6/24 - 3* - My Review

One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle - 6/7/24 - 2* - My Review

Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark - 6/8/24 - 4* - My Review

East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands - 6/9/24 - 4* - My Review

The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell - 6/10/24 - 4* - My Review

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams - 6/11/24 - 4* - My Review

Star of the Sea: A Novel by Joseph O'Connor - 6/12/24 - 4* - My Review

The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard - 6/13/24 - 4 stars - My Review

On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin - 6/13/24 - 3* - My Review

Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher - 6/14/24 - 4* - My Review

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin - 6/14/24 - 5* - My Review

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis - 6/15/24 - 2* - My Review

Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - 6/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - 6/16/24 - 3* - My Review

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - 6/17/24 - 4* - My Review

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - 6/18/24 - 5* - My Review

The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth - 6/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner - 6/20/24 - 4* - My Review

Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor - 6/20/24 - 4* - My Review

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds - 6/21/24 - 4* - My Review

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf - 6/22/24 - 3* - My Review

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck - 6/22/24 - 2* - My Review

Monster by Walter Dean Myers - 6/23/24 - 4* - My Review

Pied Piper by Nevil Shute - 6/23/24 - 5* - My Review

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett - 6/24/24 - 3* - My Review

Sideways by Rex Pickett - 6/25/24 - 3* - My Review

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan - 6/25/24 - 4* - My Review

Insurgent by Veronica Roth - 6/26/24 - 4 stars - My Review

On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason - 6/26/24 - 4* - My Review

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams - 6/27/24 - 3* - My Review

The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 6/27/24 - 5* - My Review

The Circus Train by Amita Parikh - 6/28/24 - 3* - My Review

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed - 6/28/24 - 4* - My Review

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley - 6/29/24 - 4* - My Review

The Undertaking by Audrey Magee - 6/29/24 - 3* - My Review

Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China by Bernard Ollivier - 6/29/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron - 6/30/24 - 4* - My Review

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje - 6/30/24 - 3* - My Review

July: Month - 46; YTD - 265

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - 7/1/24 - 3* - My Review

The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord - 7/1/24 - 2* - My Review

Persuasion by Jane Austen - 7/2/24 - 4* - My Review

Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn - 7/2/24 - 3* - My Review

The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma - 7/3/24 - 5* - My Review

Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan - 7/3/24 - 4* - My Review

Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper - 7/4/24 - 4* - My Review

Laddertop Volume 1 by Orson Scott Card - 7/5/24 - 3* - My Review

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo - 7/5/24 - 4* - My Review

Black Powder War by Naomi Novik - 7/6/24 - 4* - My Review

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen - 7/7/24 - 2* - My Review

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - 7/7/24 - 4* - My Review

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester - 7/8/24 - 4* - My Review

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - 7/9/24 - 1* - My Review

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry - 7/10/24 - 4* - My Review

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel - 7/11/24 - 3* - My Review

Praise of Folly by Erasmus - 7/12/24 - 3* - My Review

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - 7/13/24 - 3* - My Review

Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard - 7/13/24 - 2* - My Review

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik - 7/14/24 - 4* - My Review

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - 7/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks - 7/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - 7/16/24 - 4* -

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill - 7/17/24 - 4* - My Review

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson - 7/17/24 - 4* - My Review

Brick Lane by Monica Ali - 7/18/24 - 4* - My Review

Long Island by Colm Tóibín - 7/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson - 7/20/24 - 4* - My Review

Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 7/21/24 - 3* - My Review

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat - 7/22/24 - 4* - My Review

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich - 7/23/24 - 3* - My Review

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - 7/24/24 - 3.5* - My Review

The Bird of Night by Susan Hill - 7/24/24 - 4.5 - My Review

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott - 7/25/24 - 3* - My Review

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer - 4* - 7/26/24 - My Review

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart - 2* - 7/27/24 - My Review

A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang- 4* - 7/27/24 - My Review

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - 7/28/24 - 4* - My Review

Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru - 7/28/24 - 3* - My Review

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - 7/29/24 - 3* - My Review

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud - 7/29/24 - 4* - My Review

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr - 7/30/24 - 4* - My Review

Wild Houses by Colin Barrett - 7/30/24 - 2* - My Review

Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel - 7/30/24 - 2* - My Review

Atalanta by Jennifer Saint - 7/31/24 - 4* - My Review

Held by Anne Michaels - 7/31/24 - 3.5* - My Review

August: Month - 48; YTD - 313

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 8/1/24 - 3* - My Review

Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia - 8/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs - 8/2/24 - 4* - My Review

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay - 8/2/24 - 3* - My Review

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen - 8/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review

My Friends by Hisham Matar - 8/3/24 - 5* - My Review

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein - 8/4/24 - 3* - My Review

Quinn by Em Strang - 8/4/24 - 2* - My Review

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan - 8/5/24 - 3* - My Review

Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings - 8/5/24 - 3* - My Review

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel - 8/6/24 - 4* - My Review

Q & A by Vikas Swarup - 8/6/24 - 5* - My Review

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre - 8/7/24 - 4* - My Review

Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut - 8/7/24 - 3* - My Review

The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan - 8/8/24 - 4* - My Review

The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena - 8/8/24 - 3* - My Review

Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago - 8/9/24 - 4* - My Review

To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann - 8/9/24 - 3* - My Review

The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah - 8/10/24 - 4* - My Review

The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam - 8/10/24 - 3* - My Review

Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi - 8/11/24 - 5* - My Review

The Spare Room by Helen Garner - 8/11/24 - 4* - My Review

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin - 8/12/24 - 4* - My Review

The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov - 8/13/24 - 4* - My Review

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro - 8/14/24 - 4* - My Review

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery - 8/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson - 8/16/24 - 4* - My Review

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera - 8/17/24 - 2* - My Review

The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel - 8/18/24 - 3* - My Review

Orbital by Samantha Harvey - 8/18/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Still Life by Sarah Winman - 8/19/24 - 3* - My Review

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange - 8/19/24 - 4* - My Review

Stardust by Neil Gaiman - 8/20/24 - 3* - My Review

Enlightenment by Sarah Perry - 8/20/24 - 3.5* - My Review

A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - 8/21/24 - 3* - My Review

Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich - 8/22/24 - 4* - My Review

The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan - 8/23/24 - 4.5 - My Review

The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier - 8/23/24 - 4* - My Review

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 8/24/24 - 3* - My Review

Lila by Marilynne Robinson - 8/25/24 - 4* - My Review

After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell - 8/26/24 - 2* - My Review

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery - 8/27/24 - 4* - My Review

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster - 8/28/24 - 2* - My Review

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler - 8/29/24 - 4* - My Review

The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah - 8/30/24 - 3* - My Review

Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meaning by Jonathan Raban - 8/30/24 - 4.5* - My Review

The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport - 8/31/24 - 4* - My Review

A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar - 8/31/24 - 2.5* - My Review

September: Month - 46; YTD - 359

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales - 9/1/24 - 4* - My Review

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood - 9/2/24 - 4* - My Review

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden - 9/3/24 - 2* - My Review

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass - 9/4/24 - 4* - My Review

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - 9/5/24 - 5* - My Review

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick - 9/6/24 - 4* - My Review

Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh - 9/7/24 - 4* - My Review

The sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur - 9/8/24 - 3* - My Review

Playground by Richard Powers - 9/8/24 - 5* - My Review

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - 9/9/24 - 4* - My Review

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 9/10/24 - 3* - My Review

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner - 9/10/24 - 4* - My Review

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa - 9/11/24 - 4* - My Review

Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld - 9/12/24 - 3* - My Review

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick - 9/12/24 - 4* - My Review

The Soloist by Mark Salzman - 9/13/24 - 5* - My Review

Death Of A River Guide by Richard Flanagan - 9/14/24 - 4* - My Review

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar - 9/14/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - 9/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See - 9/16/24 - 4* - My Review

The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh - 9/16/24 - 3.5* - My Review

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant - 9/17/24 - 4* - My Review

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez - 9/18/24 - 3* - My Review

And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier - 9/18/24 - 4* - My Review

Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life by Ron Darling - 9/19/24 - 4* - My Review

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Life on a Mediterranean Island by Lawrence Durrell - 9/20/24 - 4* - My Review

The Seville Communion by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 9/20/24 - 3* - My Review

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - 9/21/24 - 4* - My Review

Savage Country by Robert Olmstead - 9/22/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy by David O. Stewart - 9/22/24 - 4* - My Review

The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle - 9/23/24 - 2* - My Review

The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer - 9/23/24 - 4* - My Review

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - 9/24/24 - 5* - My Review

Parade by Rachel Cusk - 9/24/24 - 3* - My Review

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review

The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith - 9/26/24 - 4* - My Review

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood - 9/26/24 - 1* - My Review

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - 9/27/24 - 4* - My Review

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante - 9/27/24 - 3* - My Review

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - 9/28/24 - 3* - My Review

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell - 9/28/24 - 4* - My Review

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson - 9/29/24 - 4* - Review

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb - 9/29/24 - 2* - My Review

Allegiant by Veronica Roth - 9/30/24 - 2* - My Review

Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman - 9/30/24 - 4* - My Review

October: Month - 48; YTD - 407

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews - 10/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea by Michael J. Tougias - 10/2/24 - 4* - My Review

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff - 10/3/24 - 4* - My Review

To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron - 10/4/24 - 4* - My Review

Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde - 10/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review

The Taster by V.S. Alexander - 10/6/24 - 3* - My Review

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester - 10/6/24 - 4* - My Review

Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin - 10/7/24 - 4* - My Review

Mosquitoland by David Arnold - 10/8/24 - 4* - My Review

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon - 10/9/24 - 4* - My Review

A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter - 10/10/24 - 4* - My Review

Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie - 10/11/24 - 2* - My Review

Swimming Home by Deborah Levy - 10/11/24 - 4* - My Review

Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck - 10/12/24 - 4* - My Review

Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill Fredston - 10/13/24 - 4* - My Review

Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris - 10/14/24 - 4* - My Review

The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago - 10/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui - 10/16/24 - 4* - My Review

The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy - 10/17/24 - 3.5* - My Review

They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill - 10/17/24 - 4* - My Review

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy - 10/18/24 - 4* - My Review

The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye - 10/19/24 - 3* - My Review

The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler - 10/19/24 - 4* - My Review

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie - 10/20/24 - 5* - My Review

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman - 10/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review

To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson - 10/22/24 - 4* - My Review

Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle - 10/23/24 - 4* - My Review

The Invisible Circus: A Novel by Jennifer Egan - 10/23/24 - 3* - My Review

The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier by Jim Davidson - 10/24/24 - 4* - My Review

Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas by Harley Rustad - 10/25/24 - 4* - My Review

Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams - 10/26/24 - 4* - My Review

A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam - 10/26/24 - 5* - My Review

A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan - 10/27/24 - 4* - My Review

Rites of Passage by William Golding - 10/27/24 - 4* - My Review

The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis - 10/27/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez - 10/28/24 - 3.5* - My Review

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig - 10/28/24 - 4* - My Review

The River of Kings by Taylor Brown - 10/28/24 - 2* - My Review

Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson - 10/29/24 - 4* - My Review

TransAtlantic by Colum McCann - 10/29/24 - 4* - My Review

An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood - 10/30/24 - 5* - My Review

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez - 10/30/24 - 3* - My Review

Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner - 10/30/24 - 2* - My Review

The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review

Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review

All the Way to the Tigers by Mary Morris - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review

November: Month - 50; YTD - 457

You Are Here by David Nicholls - 11/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Malagash by Joey Comeau - 11/2/24 - 4* - My Review

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich - 11/3/24 - 4* - My Review

Un Lun Dun by China Miéville - 11/4/24 - 4* - My Review

The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy - 11/5/24 - 4* - My Review

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez - 11/5/24 - 4* - My Review

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris - 11/6/24 - 5* - My Review

Swift River by Essie J. Chambers - 11/7/24 - 4* - My Review

A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle - 11/7/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Shanghailanders by Juli Min - 11/8/24 - 2* - My Review

Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner - 11/8/24 - 4* - My Review

The Coast Road by Alan Murrin - 11/9/24 - 4.5* - My Review

The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time by Alex Korb - 11/10/24 - 4* - My Review

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher - 11/10/24 - 3* - My Review

Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells - 11/11/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Fight No More: Stories by Lydia Millet - 11/12/24 - 2* - My Review

Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet - 11/12/24 - 3* - My Review

Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler - 11/13/24 - 5* - My Review

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket - 11/14/24 - 3.5* - My Review

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket - 11/14/24 - 3* - My Review

Toby's Room by Pat Barker - 11/15/24 - 4* - My Review

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein - 11/16/24 - 4* - My Review

Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa - 11/16/24 - 3* - My Review

The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant - 11/17/24 - 4* - My Review

Morning in This Broken World by Katrina Kittle - 11/18/24 - 3* - My Review

Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger - 11/18/25 - 4.5* - My Review

Spies by Michael Frayn - 11/19/24 - 5* - My Review

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare - 11/20/24 - 3* - My Review

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick - 11/20/24 - 4* - My Review

The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket - 11/21/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - 11/21/24 - 4* - My Review

Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura - 11/22/24 - 1* - My Review

Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard - 11/22/24 - 4* - My Review

Private Rites by Julia Armfield - 11/23/24 - 3* - My Review

Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn - 11/23/24 - 4* - My Review

Baumgartner by Paul Auster - 11/24/24 - 4* - My Review

At Last by Edward St. Aubyn - 11/24/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf - 11/25/24 - 4* - My Review

1919 by John Dos Passos - 11/25/24 - 3* - My Review

Colored Television by Danzy Senna - 11/26/24 - 4* - My Review

The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket - 11/26/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik - 11/27/24 - 4* - My Review

Someone by Alice McDermott - 11/27/24 - 3* - My Review

The Master of the World by Jules Verne - 11/28/24 - 3* - My Review

The Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle - 11/28/24 - 4* - My Review

We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet - 11/29/24 - 4* - My Review

The City & the City by China Miéville - 11/29/24 - 4* - My Review

Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu - 11/30/24 - 4* - My Review

Skios by Michael Frayn - 11/30/24 - 4* - My Review

The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket - 11/30/24 - 3* - My Review

December: Month - 31; YTD - 488

Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid - 12/1/24 - 4* - My Review

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami - 12/2/24 - 4* - My Review

Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - 3* - My Review

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino - 12/4/24 - 4* - My Review

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 12/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger - 12/6/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek - 12/7/24 - 4* - My Review

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan - 12/8/24 - 4* - My Review

The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard - 12/9/24 - 3* - My Review

The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies - 12/10/24 - 3* - My Review

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje - 12/11/24 - 2* - My Review

How to Be Good by Nick Hornby - 12/12/24 - 4* - My Review

Nicked by M.T. Anderson - 12/13/24 - 4.5* - My Review

The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton - 12/14/24 - 4* - My Review

Time of the Child by Niall Williams - 12/15/24 - 5* - My Review

The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa - 12/16/24 - 3* - My Review

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry - 12/17/24 - 4* - My Review

The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas - 12/18/24 - 3.5* - My Review

California Gold by John Jakes - 12/19/24 - 4* - My Review

Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera - 12/20/24 - 3.5* - My Review

The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball - 12/21/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman - 12/22/24 - 4* - My Review

What I Know About You by Éric Chacour - 12/23/24 - 3.5* - My Review

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières - 12/24/24 - 4* - My Review

The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life by Rachel Clarke - 12/25/24 - 4* - My Review

Faith by Jennifer Haigh - 12/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter - 12/27/24 - 4* - My Review

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson - 12/28/24 - 4.5* - My Review

The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard - 12/29/24 - 3* - My Review

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark - 12/30/24 - 4.5* - My Review

Fire Exit by Morgan Talty - 12/31/24 - 4* - My Review

Author's Body of Work - 2024:

Lydia Millet: 2024 - completed 11/29/24

Author's Bodies of Work - Prior Years:

Haruki Murakami: 2023

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
4. We Should All Be Feminists - 3* - Not Reviewed

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 - 3.5* - My Review
5. Snow - 3.5* - My Review
6. 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
7. Toby's Room - 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
2. We Need New Names - 4* - My Review

Tim Butcher
1. Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart - 4* - My Review
2. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War - 4* - My Review

C - D:

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. House of Morgan - 4.5* - My Review
4. Grant - 4* - My Review

Tracy Chevalier
1. Remarkable Creatures - 5* - My Review
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring - 4* - My Review
3. The Glassmaker - 4* - My Review
4. The Lady and the Unicorn - 4* - My Review
5. 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 - 4* - My Review
3. The Pale Horseman - 4* - My Review
4. The Last Kingdom - 4* - My Review
5. Sharpe's Tiger - 4* - My Review
6. Enemy of God - 4* - My Review
7. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles - 4* - My Review
8. 1356 - 2* - not reviewed

Michael Crummey
1. River Thieves - 4* - My Review
2. Sweetland - 4* - My Review
3. Galore - 4* - My Review
4. The Adversary - 3* - not reviewed

Louis de Bernières
1. Corelli's Mandolin - 4* - My Review
2. Birds Without Wings - 4* - My Review

Patrick deWitt
1. The Sisters Brothers - 4* - My Review
2. Ablutions - 4* - My Review
3. The Librarianist - 4* - My Review
4. French Exit - 4* - My Review
5. 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* - 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
3. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World - 4* - My Review

E - F:

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. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith - 4* - My Review
4. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - 4* - My Review
5. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - 4* - My Review
6. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - 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 - 4.5* - 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. The Mighty Red - 4* - My Review
8. Future Home of the Living God - 3.5* - My Review
9. The Birchbark House - 3* - My Review
10. LaRose - 3* - My Review

Percival Everett
1. So Much Blue - 5* - My Review
2. James - 4.5* - My Review
3. The Trees - 4* - My Review
4. Erasure - 4* - My Review
5. 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
3. Death Of A River Guide - 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

Michael Frayn
1. Spies - 5* - My Review
2. Skios - 4* - My Review

G - I:

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. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories - 4* - My Review
3. Sea of Poppies - 4* - My Review
4. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - 4* - My Review
5. The Shadow Lines - 3.5* - My Review
6. 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
4. How to Stop Time - 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 Harris
1. Act of Oblivion - 5* - My Review
2. Conspirata - 4.5* - My Review
3. Conclave - 4* - My Review
4. An Officer and a Spy - 4* My Review
5. Pompeii - 4* - My Review
6. Imperium - 3* - My Review
7. The Fear Index - 2* - My Review

Nadia Hashimi
1. Sparks Like Stars - 5* - My Review
2. When the Moon Is Low - 4* - My Review
3. A House Without Windows - 4* - My Review
4. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell - 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. Leonardo da Vinci - 5* - My Review
2. 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. An Artist of the Floating World - 5* - My Review
4. Never Let Me Go - 4* - My Review
5. The Buried Giant - 4* - My Review
6. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nighfall - 4* - My Review
7. When We Were Orphans - 4* - My Review
8. A Pale View of Hills - 3.5* - My Review
9. 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

J - L:

No J's

Thomas Keneally
1. Schindler’s List - 4* - My Review
2. The Widow and Her Hero - 4* - My Review
3. The Dickens Boy: A Novel - 4* - My Review
4. To Asmara: A Novel of Africa - 3* - My Review
5. 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

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 - 3.5* - My Review
3. Blue Ruin - 3* - My Review

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 - 4.5* - My Review
4. Thunderstruck - 4.5* - My Review
5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War - 4* - My Review
6. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History - 4* - My Review
7. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - 4* - My Review

Deborah Levy
1. Swimming Home - 4* - My Review
2. The Man Who Saw Everything - 4* - My Review
3. August Blue - 4* - My Review
4. The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies - 4* - My Review
5. Hot Milk - 3* - not reviewed

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

M:

Martin MacInnes
1. In Ascension - 5* - My Review

David Malouf
1. Ransom - 4* - My Review
2. Remembering Babylon - 4* - 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

Hisham Matar
1. My Friends - 5* - My Review
2. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between - 4* - My Review
3. In the Country of Men: A Novel - 4* - My Review

Colum McCann
1. Apeirogon: A Novel - 4* - My Review
2. Dancer - 4* - My Review
3. TransAtlantic - 4* - My Review
4. Let the Great World Spin - 3.5* - My Review

Cormac McCarthy
1. The Road - 4.5* - 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. Saturday - 4.5 - My Review
3. Machines Like Me - 4* - My Review
4. Nutshell - 4* - My Review
5. Lessons - 4* - My Review
6. Enduring Love - 4* - My Review
7. Amsterdam - 4* - My Review
8. On Chesil Beach - 3* - My Review
9. Black Dogs - 3* - My Review
10. The Comfort of Strangers - 2* - My Review
11. The Cement Garden - 2* - My Review

Philipp Meyer
1. American Rust - 5* - My Review
2. The Son - 4* - My Review

China Miéville
1. Embassytown - 5* - My Review
2. The City & the City - 4* - My Review
3. Un Lun Dun - 4* - My Review

Derek B. Miller
1. The Girl in Green - 5* - My Review
2. Norwegian by Night - 4* - My Review

Lydia Millet
1. Dinosaurs - 5* - My Review
2. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life - 4* - My Review
3. Pills and Starships - 4* - My Review
4. Mermaids in Paradise - 4* - My Review
5. Love in Infant Monkeys - 3* - My Review
6. Fight No More: Stories - 2* - 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. Number9Dream - 3.5* - My Review
8. 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 City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami - 12/2/24 - 4* - My Review
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 3.5* - Not Reviewed
9. 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

N - O:

No N's Yet

Téa Obreht
1. Inland - 4* - My Review
2. The Tiger's Wife - 4* - My Review
3. The Morningside - 3* - not reviewed

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

Joseph O'Connor
1. My Father's House - 5* - My Review
2. Star of the Sea: A Novel - 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
6. After You'd Gone - 2* - My Review
7. Instructions for a Heatwave - 2* - not reviewed

Yōko Ogawa
1. The Memory Police - 4* - My Review
2. The Housekeeper and the Professor - 4* - My Review
3. Revenge - 3* - My Review
4. Mina's Matchbox - 3* - 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
5. In the Skin of a Lion - 3* - My Review
6. Divisadero - 3* - My Review
7. Coming Through Slaughter - 2* - My Review

P - R:

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
3. I Refuse - 3* - 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
6. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 - 4* - My Review

Richard Powers
1. Playground - 5* - My Review
2. The Time of Our Singing - 5* - My Review
3. Bewilderment - 4* - My Review
4. The Overstory - 4* - My Review
5. 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

No Q's Yet

Tom Rachman
1. The Italian Teacher - 5* - My Review
2. The Imperfectionists - 4* - My Review
3. The Imposters - 4* - My Review
4. 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

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. Indignation - 3* - My Review
7. 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 - 4* - My Review
7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder - 4* - My Review
8. The Satanic Verses - 3* - not reviewed

Mary Doria Russell
1. The Sparrow - 5* - My Review
2. Children of God - 4* - My Review
3. Dreamers of the Day - 4* - My Review
4. Doc - 4* - My Review
5. A Thread of Grace - 4* - My Review
6. The Women of the Copper Country - 3* - My Review
7. Epitaph - 3* - My Review

S:

Mark Salzman
1. The Soloist - 5* - My Review
2. Lying Awake - 4* - My Review
3. The Man in the Empty Boat - 4* - My Review
4. Iron & Silk - 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. Baltasar and Blimunda - 4* - My Review
6. All the Names - 4* - My Review
7. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - 4* - My Review
8. The Elephant's Journey - 4* - My Review
9. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - 3* - My Review
10. 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. There Are Rivers in the Sky - 5* - My Review
3. Three Daughters of Eve - 4* - My Review
4. The Island of Missing Trees - 4* - My Review
5. 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. Pied Piper - 5* - My Review
2. A Town Like Alice - 4* - My Review
3. On The Beach - 4* - My Review
4. The Far Country - 4* - My Review
5. 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. Perestroika in Paris - 4* - My Review
3. A Thousand Acres - 3* - My Review
4. 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. Mother's Milk - 4* - My Review
4. At Last - 3.5* - My Review
5. Bad News - 2* - not reviewed
6. 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
6. Remembering Laughter - 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 - V:

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. Long Island - 4.5* - My Review
3. The Magician - 4* - My Review
4. Brooklyn - 4* - My Review
5. The Testament of Mary - 3* - My Review
6. The South - 3* - not reviewed

Ian W. Toll
1. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 - 5* - My Review

Thrity Umrigar
1. The Secrets Between Us - 5* - My Review
2. The Space Between Us - 4* - My Review
3. The World We Found - 4* - My Review
4. The Story Hour - 4* - My Review
5. The Museum of Failures - 4* - My Review

Barry Unsworth
1. Morality Play - 5* - My Review
2. The Ruby in Her Navel - 4.5* - My Review

Abraham Verghese
1. The Covenant of Water - 5* - My Review
2. Cutting for Stone - 4* - My Review

W - Z:

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
3. Artemis - 4* - My Review

Kevin Wilson
1. Now Is Not the Time to Panic - 4.5* - My Review
2. Nothing to See Here - 3*

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. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 - 4* - My Review
6. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World - 4* - My Review
7. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories - 3* - My Review

No X's

No Y's

Markus Zusak
1. The Book Thief - 5* - My Review
2. Bridge of Clay - 4* - My Review

Authors List (to read more of their back catalogue):

Tim Gautreaux*
Keiichirō Hirano*
Shehad Karunatilaka*
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
Christy Lefteri
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri - 5* - My Review
Rebecca Makkai*
Sandor Marai*
Remy Ngamije*
Larry Watson*


* = read one

Pick It for Me and Cover Color:

P1FM
Jan - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles, South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Feb - Mobility by Lydia Kiesling, Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell, Chances Are...by Richard Russo
Mar - The Hard Blue Sky by Shirley Ann Grau, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Twomey
Apr - Leviathan by Paul Auster, Pacific Crucible by Ian Toll, Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
May - James by Percival Everett, Case Closed by Gerald Posner, Saturday by Ian McEwan
Jun - Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett, Pied Piper by Nevil Shute, East West Street by Philippe Sands
Jul - Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks, The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Aug - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
Sep - Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick, Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See, Savage Country by Robert Olmstead
Oct - Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie, The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy
Nov - You Are Here by David Nicholls, The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich, Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dec - Mr Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva, We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

Cover Color
January -- White or Sky Blue - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Landscapes by Christine Lai
February -- Light Pink or Chocolate Brown - Murtagh by Christopher Paolini
March -- Goldenrod or Purple -Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier, In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
April -- Bright Deep Green (not neon: think emerald or green crayon) or Pewter Gray - Swamp Songs by Tom Blass
May -- Ruby Red or Sapphire Blue - 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee, Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
June -- Lavender or Yellow - Pod by Laline Paull, The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
July -- Burgundy or Pale Gold (think the color of a nice white wine) - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
August--Hot Pink or Forest Green - Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
September-- Cream/Beige or Salmon/Coral - The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
October-- Deep Orange or Black - The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
November-- Teal or Violet - The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
December-- Silver or Holiday Red - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

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Booker Longlist Predictions:

My List of Books with Prize-Worthy Writing:
* The Road to the Country Chigozi Obioma +
* My Friends by Hisham Matar +
* Wellness by Nathan Hill +
* James by Percival Everett +
* Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili +
* Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor +
* Long Island by Colm Toibin +

Those I've Partially Read:
* Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
* Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

The rest from authors who have previously made the list:
* Playground by Richard Powers
* Parade by Rachel Cusk
* There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
* Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

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Possibilities:
* The Road to the Country Chigozi Obioma (Hutchinson Heinemann) +
* Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf) +
* Wellness by Nathan Hill (Knopf) +
* James by Percival Everett (Knopf Doubleday) +
* Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili (Riverhead) +
* Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor (Pantheon/Picador) +
* Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) + (partially read before I had to return it to the library)
* Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (Hogarth)
* There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Knopf)
* Private Rites by Julia Armfield (Fourth Estate)
* My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)
* Parade by Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* Playground by Richard Powers (Penguin)
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud (W. W. Norton & Company) +
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan (W. W. Norton & Company)
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud (Faber & Faber)
Long Island by Colm Toibin +


+ = I've read these and feel they are worthy of being Longlisted.

Booker Longlist Actual:

* My Friends by Hisham Matar
* James by Percival Everett
* Playground by Richard Powers
* Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
* This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
* Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
* Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
* Orbital by Samantha Harvey
* Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
* Held by Anne Michaels
* Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
* The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
* Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

Booker Shortlist Predictions: My Shortlist

* My Friends by Hisham Matar
* Playground by Richard Powers
* James by Percival Everett
* Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
* Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
* Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Booker Shortlist Actual:

* James by Percival Everett
* Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
* Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
* Held by Anne Michaels
* The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
* @ Orbital by Samantha Harvey @

@ = winner

My Year in Review 2023

My Year in Review 2024

Tome Reader

1. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 1/6/24 - 4* - My Review (672 pages)
2. South of Broad by Pat Conroy - 1/10/24 - 4* - My Review (530 pages)
3. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - 1/14/24 - 3* - My Review (865 pages)
4. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow - 1/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review (850 pages)
5. Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell - 2/3/24 - 3* - My Review (592 pages)
6. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - 5* - My Review (624 pages)
7. A House For Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul - 2/10/24 - 4* - My Review (578 pages)
8. Murtagh by Christopher Paolini - 2/14/24 - 4* - My Review (688 pages)
9. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis - 3/22/24 - 4* - My Review (560 pages)
10. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - 3/31/24 - 4* - My Review (512 pages)
11. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review (658 pages)
12. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll - 4/20/24 - 5* - My Review (659 pages)
13. Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor - 4/28/24 - 2* - My Review (528 pages)
14. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner - 5/11/24 - 4* - My Review (608 pages)
15. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark - 6/8/24 - 4* - My Review (1152 pages)
16. East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands - 6/9/24 - 4* - My Review (535 pages)
17. The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin - 6/14/24 - 5* - My Review (549 pages)
18. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - 6/18/24 - 5* - My Review (572 pages)
19. Insurgent by Veronica Roth - 6/26/24 - 4 stars - My Review (525 pages)
20. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson - 7/17/24 - 4* - My Review (565 pages)
21. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin - 8/12/24 - 4* - My Review (916 pages)
22. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - 9/28/24 - 3* - My Review (577 pages)
23. Allegiant by Veronica Roth - 9/30/24 - 2* - My Review (526 pages)
24. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 12/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review (505 pages)
25. California Gold by John Jakes - 12/19/24 - 4* - My Review (768 pages)
26. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières - 12/24/24 - 4* - My Review (578 pages)
27. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson - 12/28/24 - 4.5* - My Review (566 pages)

5-star individual books I've enjoyed:

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris - 11/6/24 - 5* - My Review

Spies by Michael Frayn - 11/19/24 - 5* - My Review

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - 5* - My Review

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio - 4.5* - My Review

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My Review

River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer - 7/9/23 - 5* - My Review

Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois - 12/5/23 - 5* - My Review

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - 9/20/23 - 5* - My Review

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis - 10/26/23 - 5* - My Review

Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places by Bill Streever - 11/8/23 - 5* - My Review

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig - 12/28/23 - 5* - My Review

Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 3/6/23 - 5* - My Review

A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa - 7/18/23 - 5* - My Review

Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang - 1/2/23 - 5* - My Review

Us by David Nicholls - 3/1/23 - 5* - My Review

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann - 7/4/23 - 5* - My Review

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer - 8/9/23 - 5* - My Review

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler - 3/4/23 - 5* - My Review

The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph - 4/26/23 - 5* - My Review

The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - 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

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 2/12/23 - 5* - My Review

Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein - 9/9/23 - 5* - My Review

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - 2/18/23 - 4.5* - My Review

The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips - 5/5/23 - 4.5* - My Review

The Keys of the Kingdom by A.J. Cronin - 10/4/23 - 4.5* - My Review

Ice by Anna Kavan - 9/10/23 - 4.5* - 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

The Painter of Battles - 5* - My Review

Intimacies - 5* - My Review

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Steeplechase Tracking:
Level 11 BC7: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 11 BC6: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 11 BC5: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 11 BC4: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 11 BC3: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 11 BC2: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 11 BC1: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 10: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 9: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 8: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 7: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 6: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 5: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 4: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 3: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 2: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Level 1: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Non-Fiction Goal of 36:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

ATY Winter Challenge 2023-2024:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Spring Rainbow Challenge 2024:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Mookse Favorites 2023:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Goldsmith Shortlist and Winners Ranking: (not planning to continue to track these - most are outside my reading preferences)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2025 Planning

Monthly Pretty and Ugly Covers:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

2025 P1FM and Cover Color:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

Goal of 325 in 2025:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

ATY52: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2025 Gridlock:
Reporting: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Gridlock Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

World Wanderings (Yoj):
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

12+4 in 2025:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Motley Challenge 2025:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2025 Dragon Trim (Probable)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

2025 "Fat" Books PBT:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

PBT Trim 2025:
List:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Non-Fictions (OtSP): 30
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

TBR Jar 2025: 24
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Tome Reader: 12
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

PBT Challenge Tracking 2025:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Fall Flurries:

October - Indigenous Peoples, Hispanic Heritage:
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez - 10/28/24 - 3.5* - My Review

October - Halloween:
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review

November - Armistice Day:
Toby's Room by Pat Barker - 11/15/24 - 4* - My Review

December - Christmas:
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - 12/3/24 - 3* - My Review
Nicked by M.T. Anderson - 12/13/24 - 4.5* - My Review
Time of the Child by Niall Williams - 12/15/24 - 5* - My Review
Winter:
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry - 12/17/24 - 4* - My Review