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2025 Challenges:Goal of 325 in 2025:
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PBT Challenge Tracking 2025:
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ATW80: 24 Countries
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Ongoing Reading Around the World (ATW80)
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Non-Fiction Team Kilimanjaro:
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Non-Fiction 5-star Reads:
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Monthly Pretty and Ugly Covers:
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2025 P1FM and Cover Color:
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2025 Gridlock:
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2025 D-Trim
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2025 Long Books PBT:
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PBT Trim 2025:
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My Trim List:
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TBR Jar 2025: 24
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Tome Reader: 12
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Boxall List Site:
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Boxall Complete List of Books Read to Date:
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Ranking the Booker Winners
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Ranking the Booker Nominees and Winners
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2025 Booker Nominees Read:
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Author's Body of Work: Richard Powers
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Postcards from the Edge:
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D-World Wanderings:
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Help Me Decide - CCC: Every 2 Weeks
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My Personal Tracking:
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Reading Roulette - High Roller:
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Hoard No More:
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TBR Takedown:
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Dynamic Rankings (Mookse):
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Autumn Challenge 2025:
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2025 Favorites:1. Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell - 3/13/25 - 5* - My Review
2. Devil Is Fine by John Vercher - 3/4/25 - 5* - My Review
3. All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Sullivan - 1/22/25 - 5* - My Review
4. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers - 6/19/25 - 5* - My Review
5. Endling by Maria Reva - 6/23/25 - 5* - My Review
6. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson - 5/25/25 - 5* - My Review
7. Dictator by Robert Harris - 9/1/25 - 5* - My Review
8. The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri - 7/10/25 - 5* - My Review
9. The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie - 7/24/25 - 5* - My Review
10. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 7/16/25 - 5* - My Review
11. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham - 2/8/25 - 5* - My Review
12. The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands by Aidan Hartley - 5/3/25 - 5* - My Review
13. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason - 5/15/25 - 5* - My Review
14. Twist by Colum McCann - 4/3/25 - 5* - My Review
15. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - 2/24/25 - 5* - My Review
16. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides - 1/27/25 - 5* - My Review
17. Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy - 2/19/25 - 5* - My Review
18. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review
19. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - 4/18/25 - 5* - My Review
20. Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff - 6/5/25 - 5* - My Review
21. Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford - 6/9/25 - 5* - My Review
22. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson - 5/28/25 - 5* - My Review
23. Horizon by Barry Lopez - 2/13/25 - 5* - My Review
24. Audition by Katie Kitamura - 4/29/25 - 5* - My Review
25. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review
26. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter - 6/27/25 - 5* - My Review
27. The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr - 4/26/25 - 4.5* - My Review
28. Dream Count - 4.5* - My Review
29. The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting - 4/28/25 - 4.5* - My Review
30. Precipice by Robert Harris - 3/23/25 - 4.5* - My Review
31. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea - 5/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
32. Conquistadors by Michael Wood - 7/3/25 - 4.5* - My Review
2025 Favorite Fiction:1. Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell - 3/13/25 - 5* - My Review
2. Devil Is Fine by John Vercher - 3/4/25 - 5* - My Review
3. All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Sullivan - 1/22/25 - 5* - My Review
4. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers - 6/19/25 - 5* - My Review
5. Endling by Maria Reva - 6/23/25 - 5* - My Review
6. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson - 5/25/25 - 5* - My Review
7. Dictator by Robert Harris - 9/1/25 - 5* - My Review
8. The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri - 7/10/25 - 5* - My Review
9. The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie - 7/24/25 - 5* - My Review
10. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 7/16/25 - 5* - My Review
11. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason - 5/15/25 - 5* - My Review
12. Twist by Colum McCann - 4/3/25 - 5* - My Review
13. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review
14. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - 4/18/25 - 5* - My Review
15. Audition by Katie Kitamura - 4/29/25 - 5* - My Review
16. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review
17. The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr - 4/26/25 - 4.5* - My Review
18. Dream Count - 4.5* - My Review
19. The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting - 4/28/25 - 4.5* - My Review
20. Precipice by Robert Harris - 3/23/25 - 4.5* - My Review
21. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea - 5/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
2025 Favorite Non-Fiction:1. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham - 2/8/25 - 5* - My Review
2. The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands by Aidan Hartley - 5/3/25 - 5* - My Review
3. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - 2/24/25 - 5* - My Review
4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides - 1/27/25 - 5* - My Review
5. Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy - 2/19/25 - 5* - My Review
6. Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff - 6/5/25 - 5* - My Review
7. Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford - 6/9/25 - 5* - My Review
8. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson - 5/28/25 - 5* - My Review
9. Horizon by Barry Lopez - 2/13/25 - 5* - My Review
10. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter - 6/27/25 - 5* - My Review
11. Conquistadors by Michael Wood - 7/3/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Boxall List Read in 2025:1. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - 1/31/25 - 4* -My Review
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review
3. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - 3/9/25 - 3* - My Review
4. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 3/10/25 - 4* - My Review
5. The Iron Heel by Jack London - 3/15/25 - 4* - My Review
6. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - 4/2/25 - 4* - My Review
7. Troubles by J.G. Farrell - 5/12/25 - 4* - My Review
8. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch - 6/3/25 - 4* - My Review
9. The Years by Virginia Woolf - 6/25/25 - 3.5* - My Review
10. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster - 7/1/25 - 3.5* - My Review
11. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review
12. Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf - 8/4/25 - 3* - My Review
13. Dispatches by Michael Herr - 7/23/25 - 4* - My Review
14. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - 8/7/25 - 4* - My Review
15. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West - 8/26/25 - 4* - My Review
16. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Read in prior years - just found & updated the list:
Solaris by Stanisław Lem - 10/5/23 - 5* - My Review
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe - read long ago, just added to prior list
Re-read in 2025:
1. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
2. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review
Booker Nominees Read in 2025:1. Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey - 1/19/25 - 4* - My Review
2. Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
3. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 2/4/25 - 3* - My Review
4. The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing - 3/19/25 - 3* - My Review
5. The Bone People by Keri Hulme - 4/17/25 - 4* - My Review
6. His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick MacRae by Graeme Macrae Burnet - 4/21/25 - 4* - My Review
7. Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy - 5/6/25 - 3* - My Review
8. Troubles by J.G. Farrell - 5/12/25 - 4* - My Review
9. The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris - 5/14/25 - 4* - My Review
10. The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer - 5/24/25 - 4* - My Review (winner)
11. The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan - 6/1/25 - 4* - My Review
12. Bruno's Dream: A Novel by Iris Murdoch - 6/14/25 - 4* - My Review
13. This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 6/16/25 - 3.5* - My Review
14. The Famished Road by Ben Okri - 6/18/25 - 3.5* - My Review (winner)
15. C by Tom McCarthy - 7/13/25 - 4* - My Review
16. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner - 7/15/25 - 4* - My Review
17. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review (winner)
18. Endling by Maria Reva - 6/23/25 - 5* - My Review
19. Audition by Katie Kitamura - 4/29/25 - 5* - My Review
20. Flashlight by Susan Choi - 7/8/25 - 4.5* - My Review
21. Universality by Natasha Brown - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review
22. Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga - 7/27/25 - 3* - My Review
23. Flesh by David Szalay - 8/9/25 - 2* - My Review
24. The South by Tash Aw - 8/15/25 - 3* - My Review
25. Love Forms by Claire Adam - 8/24/25 - 4* - My Review
26. One Boat by Jonathan Buckley - 8/25/25 - 4* - My Review
27. The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits - 8/27/25 - 2* - My Review
January: Month - 33; YTD - 33The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk - 1/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 1/2/25 - 4* - My Review
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur - 1/3/25 - 4* - My Review
In Winter I Get Up at Night by Jane Urquhart - 1/4/25 - 4* - My Review
The Box by Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 1/5/25 - 3* - My Review
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips - 1/6/25 - 4* - My Review
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright - 1/7/25 - 4* - My Review
The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable - 1/8/25 - 4* - My Review
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works by Helen Czerski - 1/9/25 - 4* - My Review
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo - 1/10/25 - 4* - My Review
Greenwood by Michael Christie - 1/11/25 - 4* - My Review
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell - 1/12/25 - 4* - My Review
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay - 1/13/25 - 4* - My Review
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis - 1/14/25 - 4* - My Review
Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework - 1/15/25 - 4* - My Review
Fatherland by Robert Harris - 1/16/25 - 4* - My Review
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir - 1/17/25 - 4* - My Review
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice - 1/18/25 - 3* - My Review
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey - 1/19/25 - 4* - My Review
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts - 1/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon - 1/21/25 - 3.5* - My Review
All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Sullivan - 1/22/25 - 5* - My Review
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara - 1/23/25 - 4* - My Review
State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg - 1/24/25 - 3* - My Review
The Book of George by Kate Greathead - 1/25/25 - 4* - My Review
My Work by Olga Ravn - 1/26/25 - 3* - My Review
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides - 1/27/25 - 5* - My Review
Godwin by Joseph O'Neill - 1/28/25 - 4* - My Review
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum - 1/29/25 - 4* - My Review
Jack by Marilynne Robinson - 1/30/25 - 3* - My Review
The Rest Is Memory by Lily Tuck - 1/30/25 - 3* - My Review
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - 1/31/25 - 4* -My Review
Ulysses S. Grant by Josiah Bunting - 1/31/25 - 4* - My Review
February: Month - 40; YTD - 74Heartwood by Amity Gaige - 2/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen - 2/2/25 - 4* - My Review
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall - 2/3/25 - 4* - My Review
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari - 2/4/25 - 4.5* - My Review
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite - 2/4/25 - 3* - My Review
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor - 2/5/25 - 4* - My Review
Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen Fisher - 2/6/25 - 4* - My Review
King William's War: The First Contest for North America, 1689–1697 by Michael G. Laramie - 2/6/25 - 4* - My Review
Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity by Steven Shwartz - 2/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik - 2/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham - 2/8/25 - 5* - My Review
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf - 2/9/25 - 4* - My Review
Gliff by Ali Smith - 2/9/25 - 4* - My Review
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick - 2/10/25 - 4.5 - My Review
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May - 2/11/25 - 4* - My Review
We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler - 2/12/25 - 4* - My Review
Horizon by Barry Lopez - 2/13/25 - 5* - My Review
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende - 2/14/25 - 2* - My Review
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum - 2/16/25 - 4* - My Review
Secret Son by Laila Lalami - 2/17/25 - 3.5* - My Review
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of Ai by Max Solomon Bennett - 2/17/25 - 4* - My Review
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich - 2/18/25 - 4* - My Review
The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler - 2/19/25 - 2* - My Review
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue by Buddy Levy - 2/19/25 - 5* - My Review
The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville - 2/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - 2/20/25 - 4* - My Review
Mbaqanga Nights by Leonora Meriel - 2/21/25 - 4* - My Review
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks - 2/21/25 - 4* - My Review
An Ivy Hill Christmas by Julie Klassen - 2/22/25 - 3* - My Review
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling - 2/22/25 - 4* - My Review
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller - 2/23/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb - 2/24/25 - 5* - My Review
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley - 2/25/25 - 4* - My Review
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn - 2/25/25 - 3* - My Review
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell - 2/26/25 - 4* - My Review
Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger and John Hawks - 2/27/25 - 4* - My Review
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane - 2/27/25 - 4* - My Review
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition by Stephen R. Bown - 2/28/25 - 4* - My Review
The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island by Terry L. Hunt - 2/28/25 - 4* - My Review
March: Month - 38; YTD - 112We Do Not Part by Han Kang - 3/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey - 3/2/25 - 3* - My Review
Three Wild Dogs by Markus Zusak - 3/3/25 - 4* - My Review
Devil Is Fine by John Vercher - 3/4/25 - 5* - My Review
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renee DiResta - 3/5/25 - 4* - My Review
The Escape by Lisa Harris - 3/6/25 - 3* - My Review
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom - 3/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith - 3/8/25 - 3* - My Review
The Voyage Home by Pat Barker - 3/9/25 - 4* - My Review
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - 3/9/25 - 3* - My Review
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 3/10/25 - 4* - My Review
Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen - 3/11/25 - 4* - My Review
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman - 3/12/25 - 3* - My Review
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell - 3/13/25 - 5* - My Review
An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson - 3/14/25 - 2* - My Review
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers - 3/14/25 - 4* - My Review
The Iron Heel by Jack London - 3/15/25 - 4* - My Review
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz - 3/16/25 - 3* - My Review
The Wedding People by Alison Espach - 3/17/25 - 4* - My Review
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers - 3/18/25 - 4* - My Review
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami - 3/19/25 - 4* - My Review
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing - 3/19/25 - 3* - My Review
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - 3/20/25 - 4* - My Review
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron - 3/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Family Experiment by John Marrs - 3/21/25 - 3* - My Review
Delta-v by Daniel Suarez - 3/22/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Precipice by Robert Harris - 3/23/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke - 3/24/25 - 4* - My Review
The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl - 3/25/25 - 4* - My Review
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux - 3/26/25 - 4* - My Review
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 3/27/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks - 3/28/25 - 4* - My Review
Good Girl by Aria Aber - 3/29/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré - 3/29/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Universality by Natasha Brown - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review
Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy - 3/31/25 - 4* - My Review
The Echoes by Evie Wyld - 3/31/25 - 3* - My Review
April: Month - 34; YTD - 146The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell - 4/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson - 4/2/25 - 4* - My Review
Twist by Colum McCann - 4/3/25 - 5* - My Review
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler - 4/4/25 - 4* - My Review
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - 4/5/25 - 3* - My Review
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre - 4/6/24 - 4* - My Review
The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig - 4/7/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer - 4/8/25 - 4* - My Review
Liars by Sarah Manguso - 4/9/25 - 3* - My Review
Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling - 4/10/25 - 4.5 - My Review
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett - 4/11/25 - 3* - My Review
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer - 4/12/25 - 4* - My Review
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett - 4/13/25 - 3* - My Review
Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell - 4/14/25 - 4* - My Review
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee - 4/14/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal - 4/15/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade - 4/16/25 - 4* - My Review
Daily Rituals: Women at Work by Mason Currey - 4/16/25 - 3* - My Review
The Bone People by Keri Hulme - 4/17/25 - 4* - My Review
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - 4/18/25 - 5* - My Review
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe - 4/19/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - 4/20/25 - 4* - My Review
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick MacRae by Graeme Macrae Burnet - 4/21/25 - 4* - My Review
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 4/22/25 - 4* - My Review
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - 4/23/25 - 3* - My Review
Exile Music: A Novel by Jennifer Steil - 4/24/25 - 4* - My Review
The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak - 4/25/25 - 4* - My Review
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce - 4/26/25 - 3* - My Review
The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr - 4/26/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum - 4/27/25 - 4* - My Review
The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting - 4/28/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Audition by Katie Kitamura - 4/29/25 - 5* - My Review
The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler - 4/30/25 - 3* - My Review
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know by Dov Waxman - 4/30/25 - 4* - My Review
May: Month - 34; YTD - 180The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens - 5/1/25 - 3* - My Review
My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende - 5/2/25 - 4* - My Review
The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands by Aidan Hartley - 5/3/25 - 5* - My Review
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher - 5/4/25 - 4* - My Review
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance - 5/5/25 - 4* - My Review
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy - 5/6/25 - 3* - My Review
Dream State by Eric Puchner - 5/7/25 - 4* - My Review
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay - 5/8/25 - 4.5* - My Review
All That Is by James Salter - 5/9/25 - 2* - My Review
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain by Margaret Willson - 5/10/25 - 4* - My Review
The Rebel Nun by Marj Charlier - 5/10/25 - 4* - My Review
Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi - 5/11/25 - 3* - My Review
Troubles by J.G. Farrell - 5/12/25 - 4* - My Review
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff - 5/13/25 - 3* - My Review
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris - 5/14/25 - 4* - My Review
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason - 5/15/25 - 5* - My Review
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller - 5/16/25 - 3* - My Review
Sing to Me by Jesse Browner - 5/17/25 - 4* - My Review
The Pretender by Jo Harkin - 5/17/25 - 4* - My Review
The Women by Kristin Hannah - 5/18/25 - 4* - My Review
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy - 5/19/25 - 3* - My Review
Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea - 5/20/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition by Margaret Ferguson - 5/21/25 - 4* - My Review
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah - 5/22/25 - 4* - My Review
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 5/23/25 - 4* - My Review
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer - 5/24/25 - 4* - My Review
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson - 5/25/25 - 5* - My Review
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama - 5/26/25 - 4* - My Review
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis - 5/27/25 - 4* - My Review
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson - 5/28/25 - 5* - My Review
Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins - 5/29/25 - 4* - My Review
Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan - 5/29/25 - 4* - My Review
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers - 5/30/25 - 3.5 - My Review
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - 5/31/25 - 4* - My Review
June: Month - 40; YTD - 220The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan - 6/1/25 - 4* - My Review
The Scent of Burnt Flowers by Blitz Bazawule - 6/2/25 - 3* - My Review
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch - 6/3/25 - 4* - My Review
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson - 6/4/25 - 4* - My Review
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff - 6/5/25 - 5* - My Review
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder - 6/6/25 - 3* - My Review
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman - 6/6/25 - 4* - My Review
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America by Douglas R. Egerton - 6/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan - 6/8/25 - 4* - My Review
The Accomplice by Joseph Kanon - 6/8/25 - 3* - My Review
Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford - 6/9/25 - 5* - My Review
Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein - 6/10/25 - 4* - My Review
My Friends by Fredrik Backman - 6/11/25 - 4* - My Review
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 6/11/25 - 3* - My Review
Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will by Scott Miller - 6/12/24 - 4* - My Review
Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison - 6/13/25 - 4* - My Review
Bruno's Dream: A Novel by Iris Murdoch - 6/14/25 - 4* - My Review
Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik - 6/15/25 - 4* - My Review
Beyond the Black Stump by Nevil Shute - 6/15/25 - 4* - My Review
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga - 6/16/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Beach by Alex Garland - 6/17/25 - 4* - My Review
The Famished Road by Ben Okri - 6/18/25 - 3.5* - My Review
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott - 6/19/25 - 4* - My Review
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers - 6/19/25 - 5* - My Review
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 by Ian W. Toll - 6/20/25 - 4* - My Review
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson - 6/21/25 - 4* - My Review
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates - 6/22/25 - 4* - My Review
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters - 6/22/25 - 4* - My Review
Endling by Maria Reva - 6/23/25 - 5* - My Review
Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s by Jason Turbow - 6/24/25 - 3* - My Review
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs - 6/24/25 - 4* - My Review
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir - 6/25/24 - 4* - My Review
The Years by Virginia Woolf - 6/25/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon - 6/26/25 - 4* - My Review
Two Old Women, Anniversary Edition : An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis - 6/27/25 - 4* - My Review
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It by Lawrence S. Ritter - 6/27/25 - 5* - My Review
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree: A Novel by Shokoofeh Azar - 6/28/25 - 3* - My Review
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong - 6/29/25 - 4* - My Review
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien - 6/29/25 - 4* - My Review
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien - 6/30/25 - 5* - My Review
July: Month - 50; YTD - 270The Music of Chance by Paul Auster - 7/1/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna - 7/2/25 - 4* - My Review
The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter - 7/3/25 - 4* - My Review
Conquistadors by Michael Wood - 7/3/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The Taste of Air by Gail Cleare - 7/4/25 - 3* - My Review
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip - 7/4/25 - 4* - My Review
To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape by Charles Spencer - 7/5/25 - 4* - My Review
The House on the Lagoon: A Novel by Rosario Ferré - 7/5/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali - 7/6/25 - 4* - My Review
Farthing by Jo Walton - 7/6/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Civilizations by Laurent Binet - 7/7/25 - 4* - My Review
A Fable by William Faulkner - 7/7/25 - 3* - My Review
Flashlight by Susan Choi - 7/8/25 - 4* - My Review
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas - 7/8/25 - 3* - My Review
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara - 7/9/25 - 4* - My Review
Ubik by Philip K. Dick - 7/9/25 - 4* - My Review
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri - 7/10/25 - 5* - My Review
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins - 7/11/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman - 7/11/25 - 4* - My Review
The Waves Take You Home by María Alejandra Barrios Vélez - 7/12/25 - 3* - My Review
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett - 7/12/25 - 4.5* - My Review
C by Tom McCarthy - 7/13/25 - 4* - My Review
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein - 7/13/25 - 4* - My Review
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner - 7/14/25 - 4* - My Review
Green Island by Shawna Yang Ryan - 7/14/25 - 4* - My Review
The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker - 7/15/25 - 4* - My Review
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner - 7/15/25 - 4* - My Review
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 7/16/25 - 5* - My Review
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green - 7/17/25 - 4* - My Review
Daughter of Fire by Sofia Robleda - 7/17/25 - 3.5* - My Review
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell - 7/18/25 - 4* - My Review
Starter Villain by John Scalzi - 7/19/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard - 7/19/25 - 4* - My Review
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami - 7/20/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas - 7/20/25 - 4* - My Review
Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn - 7/21/25 - 4* - My Review
Wool by Hugh Howey - 7/21/25 - 4* - My Review
The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds - 7/22/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 7/22/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders - 7/23/25 - 3* - My Review
Dispatches by Michael Herr - 7/23/25 - 4* - My Review
The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie - 7/24/25 - 5* - My Review
99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai - 7/25/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler - 7/26/25 - 7/26/25 - 3..5* - My Review
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga - 7/27/25 - 3* - My Review
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost - 7/28/25 - 4* - My Review
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley - 7/29/25 - 4* - My Review
The Prestige by Christopher Priest - 7/30/25 - 4* - My Review
Ridgeline by Michael Punke - 7/31/25 - 3.5* - My Review
August: Month - 39; YTD - 309The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis by William Geroux - 8/1/25 - 4* - My Review
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter - 8/2/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga - 8/3/25 - 4* - My Review
Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie - 8/3/25 - 4.5* - My Review
Helm: A Novel by Sarah Hall - 8/4/25 - 4* - My Review
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf - 8/4/25 - 3* - My Review
A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart by Nishant Batsha - 8/5/25 - 3* - My Review
Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson - 8/6/25 - 4* - My Review
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson - 8/7/25 - 4* - My Review
Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven - 8/8/25 - 3* - My Review
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks - 8/9/25 - 4* - My Review
Flesh by David Szalay - 8/9/25 - 2* - My Review
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans - 8/10/25 - 4* - My Review
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker - 8/11/25 - 4* - My Review
The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett - 8/12/25 - 2* - My Review
Pastoral by Nevil Shute - 8/13/25 - 4* - My Review
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby - 8/14/25 - 4* - My Review
The South by Tash Aw - 8/15/25 - 3* - My Review
Version Control by Dexter Palmer - 8/16/25 - 4.5* - My Review
The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett - 8/17/25 - 4* - My Review
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland - 8/18/25 - 4* - My Review
Rosarita by Anita Desai - 8/19/25 - 4* - My Review
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje - 8/19/25 - 3* - My Review
Where Butterflies Wander by Suzanne Redfearn - 8/20/25 - 4* - My Review
The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist by Anthony M. Amore - 8/21/25 - 4* - My Review
Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani - 8/22/25 - 4* - My Review
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout - 8/23/25 - 4* - My Review
Love Forms by Claire Adam - 8/24/25 - 4* - My Review
One Boat by Jonathan Buckley - 8/25/25 - 4* - My Review
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West - 8/26/25 - 4* - My Review
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez - 8/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review
The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits - 8/27/25 - 2.5* - My Review
Days of Light by Megan Hunter - 8/27/25 - 4* - My Review
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom - 8/28/25 - 4* - My Review
My Giants by Russ Hodges - 8/28/25 - 4* - My Review
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 8/29/25 - 4* - My Review
Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig - 8/30/25 - 3.5* - My Review
IQ by Joe Ide - 8/31/25 - 4* - My Review
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - 8/31/25 - 4* - My Review
September: Month - 8; YTD - 317The Curse of the Flores Women by Angélica Lopes - 9/1/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Dictator by Robert Harris - 9/1/25 - 5* - My Review
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler - 9/2/25 - 4* - My Review
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett - 9/3/25 - 3.5* - My Review
Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future by Neil Shubin - 9/4/25 - 4* - My Review
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 9/5/25 - 4* - My Review
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse - 9/5/25 - 3* - My Review
Author's Body of Work - 2025:Richard Powers: 2025
1. Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers - 3/14/25 - 4* - My Review
2. Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers - 3/18/25 - 4* - My Review
3. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers - 5/30/25 - 3.5 - My Review
4. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers - 6/19/25 - 5* - My Review
5. tbd
Author's Bodies of Work - Prior Years:
Lydia Millet: 2024
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. Dream Count - 4.5* - My Review
2. Half of a Yellow Sun - 4* - My Review
3. Americanah - 4* - My Review
4. Purple Hibiscus - 4* - My Review
5. 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. My Name Is Emilia del Valle - 4* - My Review
13. Island Beneath the Sea - 3* - My Review
14. City of the Beasts - 3* - My Review
15. The Wind Knows My Name - 3* - My Review
16. Maya's Notebook - 2* - 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 Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 - 5* - My Review
5. 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. The Voyage Home - 4* - My Review
7. Life Class - 4* - My Review
8. 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 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
Laurent Binet
1. HHhH - 4* - My Review
2. Civilizations - 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. Memorial Days - 4* - My Review
6. The Secret Chord - 3* - My Review
7. Caleb's Crossing - 2* - Not Reviewed
Natasha Brown
1. Assembly - 5* - My Review
2. Universality - 4* - My Review
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. Parrot and Olivier in America - 4* - My Review
5. A Long Way From Home - 3.5* - My Review
6. Theft: A Love Story - 3.5* - 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. Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur - 4* - My Review
3. Fools and Mortals - 4* - My Review
4. The Pale Horseman - 4* - My Review
5. The Last Kingdom - 4* - My Review
6. Sharpe's Tiger - 4* - My Review
7. Enemy of God - 4* - My Review
8. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles - 4* - My Review
9. 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. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - 4* - My Review
9. Future Home of the Living God - 3.5* - My Review
10. The Birchbark House - 3* - My Review
11. LaRose - 3* - My Review
Bernardine Evaristo
1. Mr Loverman - 4* - My Review
2. Girl, Woman, Other - 4* - My Review
3. Blonde Roots - 3.5* - 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. Question 7 - 4* - My Review
3. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - 4* - My Review
4. 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 - H:Amity Gaige
1. Sea Wife - 4* - My Review
2. Heartwood - 4* - My Review
Damon Galgut
1. In a Strange Room - 4* - My Review
2. The Promise - 3* - My Review
Tim Gautreaux
1. The Clearing - 5* - My Review
2. The Missing - 4* - 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
5. The Life Impossible - 3* - 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. Dictator - 5* - My Review
2. Act of Oblivion - 5* - My Review
3. Precipice - 4.5* - My Review
4. Conspirata - 4.5* - My Review
5. Conclave - 4* - My Review
6. An Officer and a Spy - 4* My Review
7. Pompeii - 4* - My Review
8. Fatherland - 4* - My Review
9. Imperium - 3* - My Review
10. 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
1. Search - 5* - My Review
2. Bug Hollow - 3* - My Review
Siri Hustvedt
1. What I Loved - 5* - My Review
2. The Blazing World - 3* - My Review
I - J: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
3. Black Woods, Blue Sky - 3* - My Review
Paulette Jiles
1. News of the World - 5* - My Review
2. The Color of Lightning - 4* - My Review
3. Simon the Fiddler - 3* - My Review
K - L: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
Katie Kitamura
1. Intimacies - 5* - My Review
2. Audition - 5* - My Review
3. A Separation - 3* - My Review
4. Gone to the Forest - 1* - 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 Dream Hotel - 4* - My Review
3. The Other Americans - 4* - My Review
4. Secret Son - 3.5* - My Review
5. 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
Christy Lefteri
1. The Book of Fire - 5* - My Review
2. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - 5* - My Review
Ursula K. Le Guin
1. The Lathe of Heaven - 5* - My Review
2. The Left Hand of Darkness - 4* - My Review
3. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia - 4* - My Review
4. A Wizard of Earthsea - 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
Barry Lopez
1. Arctic Dreams - 5* - My Review
2. Horizon - 5* - My Review
Ma - Mum:Robert Macfarlane
1. Underland: A Deep Time Journey - 5* - My Review
2. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination - 4* - My Review
3. Landmarks - 4* - My Review
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. The Piano Tuner - 5* - My Review
3. North Woods - 4* - My Review
4. 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. Twist - 5* - My Review
2. Apeirogon: A Novel - 5* - My Review
3. Dancer - 4* - My Review
4. TransAtlantic - 4* - My Review
5. Let the Great World Spin - 3.5* - My Review
Cormac McCarthy
1. The Road - 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
7. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West - 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: 2024
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
Mun - O:Antonio Muñoz Molina
1. Sepharad: A Novel - 5* - My Review
Haruki Murakami: 2023
1. Norwegian Wood - 5* - My Review
2. Killing Commendatore - 4.5* - My Review
3. Kafka on the Shore - 4.5* - My Review
4. Men Without Women - 4*- My Review
5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - 4* - My Review
6. South of the Border, West of the Sun - 4* - My Review
7. The City and Its Uncertain Walls - 4* - My Review
8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 3.5* - Not Reviewed
9. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - 3.5* - My Review
10. After Dark - 3.5* - My Review
Iris Murdoch: 2022
1. The Sea, The Sea - 5* - My Review
2. The Black Prince - 4.5* - My Review
3. Bruno's Dream: A Novel - 4* - My Review
4. A Severed Head - 4* - My Review
5. The Italian Girl - 3* - My Review
6. The Time of the Angels - 3* - My Review
7. The Red and the Green - 3* - My Review
8. Flight From The Enchanter - 3* - My Review
Ray Nayler
1. The Mountain in the Sea - 4.5*
2. Tusks of Extinction - 3*
David Nicholls
1. Us - 5* - My Review
2. You Are Here - 3.5* - My Review
Naomi Novik
1. Victory of Eagles - 4.5* - My Review
2. Crucible of Gold - 4* - My Review
3. Tongues of Serpents - 4* - My Review
4. His Majesty's Dragon - 4* - My Review
5. Black Powder War - 4* - My Review
6. Empire of Ivory - 4* - My Review
7. Throne of Jade - 3* - My Review
8. Spinning Silver - 2* - My Review
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. Going After Cacciato - 5* - My Review
4. 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. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - 3* - My Review
8. Coming Through Slaughter - 2* - My Review
Joseph O'Neill
1. Godwin - 4.5* - My Review
2. Netherland - 4* - My Review
P - Q: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. The Patron Saint of Liars - 4* - My Review
6. These Precious Days: Essays - 4* - My Review
7. The Magician's Assistant - 4* - My Review
8. Commonwealth - 3* - My Review
9. Truth and Beauty - 3* - My Review
10. 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: 2025
1. Playground - 5* - My Review
2. The Time of Our Singing - 5* - My Review
3. Galatea 2.2 - 5* - My Review
4. Bewilderment - 4* - My Review
5. Generosity: An Enhancement - 4* - My Review
6. The Overstory - 4* - My Review
7. Operation Wandering Soul - 4* - My Review
8. Orfeo - 3.5* - My Review
9. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance - 3.5 - 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
4. Ridgeline - 3.5* - 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
R: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
Donal Ryan
1. Heart, Be at Peace - 4* - My Review
2. The Spinning Heart - 4* - My Review
3. Strange Flowers - 4* - My Review
4. From a Low and Quiet Sea - 3.5* - My Review
5. All We Shall Know - 3.5* - My Review
6. The Queen of Dirt Island - 3* - not reviewed
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
6. The Architect's Apprentice - 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 - 4.5* - My Review
3. Beyond the Black Stump - 4* - My Review
4. On The Beach - 4* - My Review
5. The Far Country - 4* - My Review
6. Trustee from the Toolroom - 4* - My Review
7. Pastoral - 4* - My Review
8. An Old Captivity - 3.5* - My Review
Hampton Sides
1. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - 5* - My Review
2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook - 5* - My Review
3. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West - 5* - My Review
4. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle - 4* - My Review
5. 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. Gliff - 4* - My Review
4. Summer - 4* - My Review
5. Spring - 4* - My Review
6. Companion Piece - 4* - My Review
7. How to Be Both - 4* - My Review
8 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. Parallel Lines - 4* - My Review
3. Some Hope - 4* - My Review
4. Mother's Milk - 4* - My Review
5. At Last - 3.5* - My Review
6. Bad News - 2* - not reviewed
7. 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
4. Last Night in Montreal - 3* - My Review
Wallace Stegner
1. The Big Rock Candy Mountain - 5* - My Review
2. Angle of Repose - 4* - not reviewed
3. Crossing to Safety - 4* - My Review
4. 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 - U: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
2. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 - 4* - My Review
Thrity Umrigar
1. The Secrets Between Us - 5* - My Review
2. The Space Between Us - 4* - My Review
3. The World We Found - 4* - My Review
4. The Story Hour - 4* - My Review
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
Luis Alberto Urrea
1. Good Night, Irene - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Devil's Highway: A True Story - 4* - My Review
3. The House of Broken Angels - 4* - My Review
4. Into the Beautiful North - 4* - My Review
5. The Hummingbird's Daughter - 3* - not reviewed
V - W:Vauhini Vara
1. The Immortal King Rao - 5* - My Review
2. Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age - 4* - My Review
Abraham Verghese
1. The Covenant of Water - 5* - My Review
2. Cutting for Stone - 4* - My Review
Susan Vreeland
1. Girl in Hyacinth Blue - 4* - My Review
2. Luncheon of the Boating Party - 4* - My Review
Richard Wagamese
1. Indian Horse - 5* - My Review
2. Medicine Walk: A Novel - 4* - My Review
Andy Weir
1. Project Hail Mary - 5* - My Review
2. The Martian Chronicles - 4* - My Review
3. Artemis - 4* - My Review
Kevin Wilson
1. Now Is Not the Time to Panic - 4.5* - My Review
2. Run for the Hills - 4* - My Review
3. Nothing to See Here - 3* - My Review
Simon Winchester
1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - 5* - My Review
2. The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible - 5* - My Review
3. The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - 4* - My Review
4. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology - 4* - My Review
5. 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
Michael Wood
1. Conquistadors - 4.5* - My Review
X - Z:No X's
No Y's
Markus Zusak
1. The Book Thief - 5* - My Review
2. Bridge of Clay - 4* - My Review
3. I Am the Messenger - 4*
4. Three Wild Dogs - 4* - My Review
Authors List (to read more of their back catalogue):Keiichirō Hirano*
Shehad Karunatilaka*
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
Rebecca Makkai*
Sandor Marai*
Remy Ngamije*
Larry Watson*
* = read one
Pick It for Me and Cover Color:Pick It for Me:
Jan - Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo, It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir, Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey, All the Glimmering Stars by Mark T. Anderson
Feb - The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf, Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Mar - Dissolution by CJ Sansom, Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman, Generosity by Richard Powers, Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers, The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
Apr - Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee, The Architect's Apprentice by Elif Shafak, Three Days in June by Anne Tyler, The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
May - My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers, Good Night Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea, The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris, Code Girls by Liza Mundy
Jun - My Friends by Fredrik Backman, Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson, Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein, God of Jade and Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison
Jul - The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter, The Taste of Air by Gail Cleare, Red Clocks by Leni Zumas, Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
Aug - Pastoral by Nevil Shute, The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland, Flawless by Scott Andrew Selby, The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
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Dec
Cover Color:
Jan - It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, The Box by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Feb - Gliff by Ali Smith
Mar - Precipice by Robert Harris, Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers, Generosity by Richard Powers
Apr - Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade, Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
May - The Rebel Nun by Marj Charlier, Woman Rebel Nun by Margaret Willson
Jun - Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein, The Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
Jul - A Fable by William Faulkner, The Book of Fires by Christi Lefteri
Aug - Version Control by Dexter Palmer, Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
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Dec
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Booker Longlist Predictions (or at least a list of worthy candidates):Endling by Maria Reva
Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell - Scribner UK
Time of the Child by Niall Williams - Bloomsbury Publishing
Twist by Colum McCann - Bloomsbury Publishing
Audition by Katie Kitamura - Riverhead Books
Universality by Natasha Brown - Random House
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler - Knopf
The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr - Knopf
Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah - Riverhead Books
The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien - Granta Books
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Alfred a Knopf Inc
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong - Penguin Press
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai - Hogarth (not read but there's always at least one that hasn't been released yet)
Others I have read that would also be good choices for the Longlist:
Gliff by Ali Smith - may not have been submitted - Hamish Hamilton
The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter
Parallel Lines by Edward St. Aubyn
Flashlight by Susan Choi
The Great Mann by Kyra Davis Lurie
The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds
Others I have not read that might be listed (judging from the author and book's description):
People Like Us by Jason Mott - not yet read - has a uk publisher
Sing to Me by Jesse Browner - Little, Brown and Company - not elibile
Devil Is Fine by Jesse Vercher - eligible last year
Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan - eligible last year
Booker Longlist (Actual):Dynamic Rankings (Mookse):
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Love Forms by Claire Adam - zho md
The South by Tash Aw - in progress
Universality by Natasha Brown - read
One Boat by Jonathan Buckley - eb on hold nyr
Flashlight by Susan Choi - read
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai - nyr - au on hold
Audition by Katie Kitamura - read
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits - hc only
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller - hc only
Endling by Maria Reva - read
Flesh by David Szalay - read
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood - hc only
Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga - read
Booker Shortlist Predictions:Endling by Maria Reva
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Flashlight by Susan Choi
Universality by Natasha Brown
Tomes: Goal is 12 (also works for PBT Long Books):1. Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright - 1/7/25 - 4* - My Review (774 pages)
2. Greenwood by Michael Christie - 1/11/25 - 4* - My Review (512 pages)
3. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset - 1/31/25 - 4* -My Review (1169 pages)
4. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari - 2/4/25 - 4.5* - My Review (528 pages)
5. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham - 2/8/25 - 5* - My Review (576 pages)
6. Horizon by Barry Lopez - 2/13/25 - 5* - My Review (572 pages)
7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë - 2/15/25 - 5* - My Review (576 pages)
8. Tiananmen Square by Lai Wen - 3/11/25 - 4* - My Review (528 pages)
9. The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré - 3/29/25 - 4.5* - My Review (515 pages)
10. Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom - 3/30/25 - 4* - My Review (501 pages)
11. The Bone People by Keri Hulme - 4/17/25 - 4* - My Review (546 pages)
12. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy - 5/19/25 - 3* - My Review (640 pages)
13. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition by Margaret Ferguson - 5/21/25 - 4* - My Review (1424 pages)
14. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 by Rick Atkinson - 5/28/25 - 5* - My Review (880 pages)
15. Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff - 6/5/25 - 5* - My Review (832 pages)
16. Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music by Richard Crawford - 6/9/25 - 5* - My Review (560 pages)
17. The Famished Road by Ben Okri - 6/18/25 - 3.5* - My Review (594 pages)
18. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 by Ian W. Toll - 6/20/25 - 4* - My Review (688 pages)
19. One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson - 6/21/25 - 4* - My Review (509 pages)
20. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon - 6/26/25 - 4* - My Review (512 pages)
21. Wool by Hugh Howey - 7/21/25 - 4* - My Review (594 pages)
22. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky - 7/22/25 - 3.5* - My Review (608 pages)
23. Version Control by Dexter Palmer - 8/16/25 - 4.5* - My Review (514 pages)
24. The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 8/29/25 - 4* - My Review (715 pages)
5-star individual books I've enjoyed: Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris - 11/6/24 - 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
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - 5* - My Review
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Read1 Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell– 5*
2 Time of The Child by Niall Williams - 5*
3 Endling by Maria Reva – 5*
4 Twist by Colum McCann - 5*
5 Audition by Katie Kitamura– 5*
6 The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr - 4.5 - not on GY list
7 Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 4.5*
8 The Artist and the Feast by Lucy Steeds - 4.5*
9 Parallel Lines by Edward St. Aubyn - 4* - not on GY list
10 The Pretender by Jo Harkin - 4* - not on GY list
11 Three Days in June by Anne Tyler - 4*
12 Flashlight by Susan Choi - 4*
13 Gliff by Ali Smith - 4*
14 Helm by Sarah Hall – ?
15 The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami– 4*
16 Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah - 4*
17 Universality by Natasha Brown - 4*
18 Dream State by Eric Puchner - 4* - not on GY list
19 The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien – 4*
20 The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong - 4*
21 The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter - 4*
22 The Names by Florence Knapp - 3.5*
23 Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis - 3*
24 The Antidote by Karen Russell - 3*
25 Flesh by David Szalay – 2*
not read
1 Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst – au borrowed
2 We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown – oh has eb
3 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai – nyr
4 Ripeness by Sarah Moss – zho nyr
5 The City Changes Its Face by Eimeear McBride – aav not at lib
6 Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko – aav not at lib - md has eb
7 Open Heaven by Sean Hewitt - zho mo
8 The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey - aav for cr also nyr
9 What We Can Know by Ian McEwan - nyr
10 Theory and Practice by Michelle de Krester - aav not at lib
11 Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal - aav not at lib
12 Juice by Tim Winton - nyr? nav?
13 Days of Light by Megan Hunter - or borrowed
14 The Land In Winter by Andrew Miller - nav
15 The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley - zho ar and or
16 Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood - aav nyr
17 A Room Above A Shop by Anthony Shapland - nav
18 Call Me Ishmaelle by Xiaolu Guo - nav
19 Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by Elaine Feeney - nav
10 The Tiny Things Are Heavier by Esther Ifesinachi Okwonko - aav cm has eb zho
21 The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine - nav
22 Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett - au borrowed or
23 Ghost Wedding by David Park - nyr aav eb only at bk currently
24 Muckleflugga by Michael Pederson - pub 7-30 aav not at libs
25 Seascraper by Benjamin Wood - nav
26 Nova Scotia House by Charlie Porter - nav - no libs have it
27 Stag Dance by Torrey Peters - wc borrowed
28 Dusk by Robbie Arnott - nyr rel 8-4 eb at or - no au at libs yet
5-9 Votes: Nova Scotia House, Stag Dance, The Antidote, Disappoint Me, Love Forms, Ordinary Saints, The Language of Remembering, The South, Tonyinterruptor, A New New Me, Cloudless, Death of the Author, The Accidental Immigrants, The Boy From The Sea, Beautyland, The Pretender, Madame Sokratis and the Festival for the Broken Hearted, Necessary Fiction, Quarterlife, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, Good Girl, Confessions, Parallel Lines, Life Cycle of a Moth, Misinterpretation, The Hounding, The Mobius Book, The Tigers Share
2-4 Votes: Among Friends, People Like Us, Spent, Happiness and Love, Pick A Colour, The Lamb, A Family Matter, Aerth, Black Woods Blue Sky, Gloss, Good Dirt, Rapture, Sunbirth, The Homemade God, The Other Wife, The Sisters, The Two Roberts, Tilt, We Hexed The Moon, The Expansion Project, Buckeye, A House for Miss Pauline, Air, Another Man In The Street, Dream State, Great Black Hope, Gunk, Kataraina, Mere, Moderation, Monaghan, Our Beautiful Boys, Sister Europe, Sunstruck, The Catch, The Dissenters, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth, This Immaculate Body, This Kind of Trouble, Eden's Shore, Fun and Games, I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There
1 Vote: A Beautiful Family, A Splintering, Absence, Amity, And Notre Dame Is Burning, Atmosphere, Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil, Catalina, Deviants, Elegy Southwest, Frogs for Watchdogs, Human, Animal, I Want To Talk To You, Land of Hope, Landscapes, Lion, Luminous, Model Home, Playworld, Poor Ghost, Room On The Sea, Rooms for Vanishing, Salutation Road, Shamiso, Shibboleth, Sleep, Sugartown, The Boyhood of Cain, The Boys, The Devil Three Times, The Drowned, The Mires, The Original Daughter, The Party, The Passenger Seat, The Phoenix Pencil Company, The Proof of My Innocence, The Scrapbook, The Volcano Daughter, Venetian Vespers, What You Make of Me, Wood Working
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# Books YTD: 317
# Pages YTD: 110,146
By Genre:
84 - Non-Fiction
76 - Historical Fiction
35 - Contemporary Fiction
13 - Fantasy
22 - Science Fiction
87 - Literary Fiction
By # Pages:
24 - <=200
217 - 201-400
67 - 401-600
5 - 601-800
4 - 801+
By Star Rating:
25 - 5 stars
205 - 4 stars
80 - 3 stars
7 - 2 stars
0 - 1 star
Authors:
160 - Female
154 - Male
3 - Other