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Annie’s 2025 books (6 new)

Sep 01, 2025 11:56AM

2026 Standard Bingo Card

1A
• A book with more than 500 pages 1A1/1D1
~ Paul Murray Skippy Dies F K
OR
~ Alexandra Harris The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape NF K
OR
~ Dan Richards The Beechwood Airship Interviews NF P
• A forgotten classic 1A2/2D1

• A book that became a movie 1A3/3D1

• A book published this year (2026) 1A4/4D1

• A book with a number in the title 1A5/5D1

2A
• A book written by someone under 30 2A1/1D2

• A book with non-human characters 2A2/2D2
~ Chloe Dalton Raising Hare: A Memoir (2024) NF K
OR
~ Isa Leshko Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries (2019) NF/Photo H *READING*
• A funny book 2A3/3D2

• A book by a female author 2A4/4D2

• A book with a mystery 2A5/5D2

3A
• A book with a one word title 3A1/1D3
~ Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel Dayswork: A Novel F P
OR
~ Samantha Harvey Orbital F K
OR
~ Maria Reva Endling F K
• A book of short stories 3A2/2D3

• Your choice 3A3/3D3

• A book set on a different continent 3A4/4D3
~ María Sonia Cristoff False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver NF P
OR
~ Hisham Matar A Month in Siena NF K
OR
~ Scholastique Mukasonga Our Lady of the Nile translated from the French by Melanie L. Mauthner F B
• A book of nonfiction 3A5/5D3

4A
• First book by a favourite author 4A1/1D4

• A book you heard about online 4A2/2D4

• A best selling book 4A3/3D4

• A book based on a true story 4A4/4D4

• A book at the bottom of your TBR 4A5/5D4

5A
• A book your friend [Joe @ Rough Ghosts] loves 5A1/1D5
~ Luis Felipe Fabre Recital of the Dark Verses translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary F P
OR
~ Jaroslav Rudiš Winterberg's Last Journey translated from the original Czech by Michaela Škultéty F P
• A book that scares you 5A2/2D5

• A book published before 2015 5A3/3D5

• The [first and] second book in a series 5A4/4D5

• A book with a blue cover 5A5/5D5

Annie’s 2025 books (6 new)

Aug 09, 2025 02:38AM

Somewhere to keep this list, started a few years ago …
Reading the Fictional 20th Century / Reading the Last 100 Years
… Fiction only (includes plays and short stories) and see footnote.

Part 3 - 2000 to date

2000
A - Edward Carey (UK) Observatory Mansions B
A • Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada) Anil's Ghost P
T - Daniela Kapitánová (Slovakia) Samko Tále's Cemetery Book translated from the Slovak by Julia Sherwood H
2001
A • Beryl Bainbridge (UK) According to Queenie H
A - Ursula K. Le Guin (USA) Tales from Earthsea/The Other Wind (Illustrated) H
A - Ann Patchett (USA) Bel Canto B
T - W.G. Sebald (Germany/UK) Austerlitz translated from the German by Anthea Bell B
T -
2002
A - Terry Pratchett (UK) Night Watch P
A - Brad Watson (USA) The Heaven of Mercury P
T • Carlos María Domínguez (Argentina) The Paper House: A Novel translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor H
2003
A • Terry Pratchett (UK) The Wee Free Men H
(I’ve also read all the other Tiffany Aching books)
A - Edward Carey (UK/USA) Alva & Irva K
T - Maria Matios (Ukraine) Sweet Darusya translated from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko K
T - Yoko Ogawa (Japan) The Housekeeper and the Professor translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder B
T - Richard Weihe (Switzerland) Sea of Ink P
2004
A • Kate Atkinson (UK) Case Histories P
A • Richard Greenberg (USA) The Violet Hour: A Play P
T - Pascal Mercier (Switzerland) Night Train To Lisbon translated from the German by Barbara Harshav B
2005
A • Marina Lewycka (UK) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian P
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T -
2006
A • Verlyn Klinkenborg (USA) Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile P
A -
T -
2007
A - Daniel Alarcón (USA/Peru) Lost City Radio: A Novel B
A - Ann Patchett (USA) Run B
T • Charif Majdalani (Lebanon) Moving the Palace translated from the French by Edward Gauvin P
T - Dušan Šarotar (Slovenia) Billiards at the Hotel Dobray P
T - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) Flights translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft B
2008
A • Neil Gaiman (UK) The Graveyard Book P
A -
T • Vladimir Lorchenkov (Moldova) The Good Life Elsewhere translated from the Russian by Ross Ufberg P
T • Pedro Mairal (Argentina) The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor P
T - Sergio Chejfec (Argentina) My Two Worlds translated from the Spanish by Margaret Carson P
2009
A - William Trevor (Ireland) Love and Summer B
A -
T • Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
2010
A - Howard Jacobson (UK) The Finkler Question B
A - Tom McCarthy (UK) C B
A - Paul Murray (Ireland) Skippy Dies K
T -
2011
A - Peter Benson (UK) Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke K
A -
T - Guðmundur Andri Thorsson (Iceland) And the Wind Sees All translated from the Icelandic by Björg Árnadóttir and Andrew Cauthery K
2012
A - Gabriel Josipovici (France/UK) Infinity: The Story of a Moment H
A - Ivan Vladislavic (South Africa) The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories H
T - Selva Almada (Argentina) The Wind that Lays Waste translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews P
T - Peter Krištúfek (Slovakia) The House of the Deaf Man translated from the Slovak by Julia and Peter Sherwood K
T - Scholastique Mukasonga (Rwanda/France) Our Lady of the Nile translated from the French by Melanie L. Mauthner K
T - Petri Tamminem (Finland) Crime Novel translated from the Finnish by Kristian London K
2013
A - Jhumpa Lahiri (UK/USA) The Lowland B
A -
T - Valeria Luiselli (Mexico) The Story of My Teeth translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney K
T - Alexis Ragougneau (France) The Madonna of Notre Dame translated from the French by Katherine Gregor P
2014
A - Simon Critchley (UK) Memory Theatre B
A - Damon Galgut (South Africa) Arctic Summer B
T - Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (Equatorial Guinea) By Night the Mountain Burns translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar P
T - Carlos Fonseca (Costa Rica) Colonel Lágrimas translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell B
T - Maria Gainza (Argentina) Optic Nerve translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead B
T - Hamid Ismailov (Uzbekistan/UK) The Dead Lake translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield K
T • Yu Miri (Japan) Tokyo Ueno Station translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles P
2015
A - Paul Murray (Ireland) The Mark and the Void B
A - Amy Stewart (USA) Girl Waits with Gun B
T - Narine Abgarian (Russia/Armenia) Three Apples Fell from the Sky translated from the Russian by Lisa C Hayden K
T - Renato Cisneros (Peru) The Distance Between Us translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch P
T • Edgardo Franzosini (Italy) The Animal Gazer translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore P
2016
A • Brad Watson (USA) Miss Jane P
A -
T - Therese Bohman (Sweden) Eventide translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy P
2017
A - John Burnside (UK) Havergey H
A • Benjamin Myers (UK) The Gallows Pole K
T - Inga Ābele (Latvia) The Year the River Froze Twice translated from the Latvian by Christopher Moseley P
T - Renato Cisneros (Peru) You Shall Leave Your Land translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch P
T - Yamen Manai (Tunisia) The Ardent Swarm translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud F B
T - Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine) The Orphanage translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler P
2018
A - Edward Carey (UK) Little B
A - Sigrid Nunez (USA) The Friend B
A - Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada) Warlight K
A - Amy Sackville (UK) Painter To The King B
A - Laura Wade (UK) The Watsons A play P
T - Keiichiro Hirano (Japan) A Man translated from the Japanese by Eli K.P. William K
T - Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine) Grey Bees translated from the Ukrainian by Boris Dralyuk B
2019
A - Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe) Out of Darkness, Shining Light B
A - Rónán Hession (Ireland) Leonard and Hungry Paul P
A - Toby Litt (UK) Patience P
A • Max Porter (UK) Lanny H
A. Niall Williams (Ireland/USA) This Is Happiness B
T - Jaroslav Rudiš (Czechia) Winterberg's Last Journey translated from the Czech by Michaela Škultéty P
2020
A • Susanna Clarke (UK) Piranesi P
A - Daniel Hornsby (USA) Via Negativa P
A - Kate Zambreno (USA) Drifts: A Novel B
T - Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine) The Silver Bone translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk B
T • Benjamín Labatut (Chile/Netherlands) When We Cease to Understand the World translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West P
2021
A - Douglas Bruton (UK) Blue Postcards P
A - Charles Boyle (UK) The Other Jack B
A - Linda Cracknell (UK) The Other Side of Stone P
T - Anne Berest (France) The Postcard translated from the French by Tina Kover K
T -
2022
A - Kate Barker-Mawjee (UK) The Coldest Place On Earth P
A -
A -
T -
2023
A - Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel (USA) Dayswork: A Novel P
A - Douglas Bruton (UK) With or Without Angels P
A - Angie Kim (Korea/USA) Happiness Falls B
A - Paul Murray (Ireland) The Bee Sting B
A - Sigrid Nunez (USA) The Vulnerables B
A • Charlotte Wood (Australia) Stone Yard Devotional P
T -
2024
A • Douglas Bruton (UK) Hope Never Knew Horizon P
A - Eliza Barry Callahan (USA) The Hearing Test B
A - Emily Howes (UK) The Painter's Daughters K
A - Hisham Matar (Libya/UK) My Friends K
A - C.D. Rose (UK) Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea K
T -
2025
A - Cary’s Davies (UK) Clear B
A • Robert Holtom (UK) A Queer Case: The Selby Bigge Mysteries P
T -

Key: K Kindle P Paperback H Hardback B Buy or borrow

Note: *Where possible* minimum two books for each year, one anglophone novel/novella/short story collection/play and one in translation ditto.

Annie’s 2025 books (6 new)

Aug 04, 2025 01:28AM

Somewhere to keep this list, started a few years ago …
Reading the Fictional 20th Century / Reading the Last 100 Years
… Fiction only (includes plays and short stories) and see footnote.

Part 2 - 1959 to 1999

1959
A - Barbara Comyns (UK) The Vet's Daughter P
A • Stella Gibbons (UK) A Pink Front Door P
T - Ana María Matute (Spain) The Island translated from the Spanish by Laura Lonsdale B
1960
A - Harper Lee (USA) To Kill a Mocking Bird B
A - Muriel Spark (UK) The Ballad of Peckham Rye B
T -
1961
A - John le Carré (UK) Call for the Dead Call for the Dead P
A - Joseph Heller (USA) Catch-22 B
A - Muriel Spark (UK) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie B
T - Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) No One Writes to the Colonel translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein B
T - Seichō Matsumoto (Japan) Inspector Imanishi Investigates translated from the Japanese by Beth Cary B
1962
A - John le Carré (UK) A Murder of Quality A Murder of Quality P
A • Barbara Comyns (UK) The Skin Chairs P
A - Margery Sharp (UK) The Wells of St Mary's B
A - R.C. Sherriff (UK) The Wells of St Mary's B
T - Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) The Old Capital translated from the Japaneses by J. Martin Holman and Vanja Lantz B
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) Tales from Moominvalley translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton H
T - Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) In Evil Hour translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa B
1963
A - Muriel Spark (UK) The Girls of Slender Means B
A -
T - Tarjei Vesaas (Norway) The Ice Palace B
1964
A - William Golding (UK) The Spire P
A - Margaret Laurence (Canada) The Stone Angel P
T -
1965
A - Muriel Spark (UK) The Mandelbaum Gate B
A - John Williams (USA) Stoner B
T - Bohumil Hrabal (Czech Republic) Closely Observed Trains translated from the Czech by Edith Pargeter B
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) Moominpappa at Sea translated from the Swedish by Kingsley Hart H
1966
A - Tom Stoppard (UK) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead: A play H
A -
T -
1967
A - Barbara Comyns (UK) A Touch of Mistletoe P
A -
T - Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) One Hundred Years of Solitude translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa B
1968
A - Ted Hughes (UK) The Iron Man P
A - Ursula K. Le Guin (USA) A Wizard of Earthsea (Illustrated) H
T -
1969
A • Elizabeth Jane Howard (UK) Something in Disguise K
A -
T -
1970
A - J.G. Farrell (UK) Troubles B
A - Joanne Greenberg (USA) In This Sign B
A - Ursula K. Le Guin (USA) The Tombs of Atuan (Illustrated) H
T - Gianfranco Calligarich (Italy) Last Summer in the City translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis B
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) Moominvalley in November translated from the Swedish by Kingsley Hart H
1971
A - Wallace Stegner (USA) Angle of Repose B
A - Elizabeth Taylor (UK) Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont B
A - Dylan Thomas (UK) Under Milk Wood: A play K & A
T-
1972
A - Beryl Bainbridge (UK) Harriet Said... (1st novel) B
A - Patricia Highsmith (USA) A Dog's Ransom B
A - Ursula K. Le Guin (USA) The Farthest Shore (Illustrated) H
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) The Summer Book translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal B
T - Yasunari Kawabata (Japan) Dandelions translated by Michael Emmerich B
1973
A • Susan Cooper (UK) The Dark Is Rising P
A • Elizabeth Mavor (UK) A Green Equinox K
T -
1974
A - Beryl Bainbridge (UK) The Bottle Factory Outing B
A - Stanley Middleton (UK) Holiday B
T • Daniel Moyano (Argentina) The Devil's Trill translated from the Spanish by Giovanni Pontiero P
1975
A - J.L. Carr (UK) How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup B
A - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Germany/England/India) Heat and Dust B
T - Seichō Matsumoto (Japan) A Quiet Place translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai B
T - Guido Morselli (Italy) Divertimiento 1889 translated from the Italian by Hugh Shankland H
1976
A - Beryl Bainbridge (UK) A Quiet Life E
(https://archive.org/details/quietlife...)
A • Richard Brautigan (USA) Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel P
T - Bohumil Hrabal (Czech Republic) Too Loud a Solitude translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim P
1977
A • JM Coetzee (South Africa) The Lives of Animals P
A - Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) The Golden Child P
T - Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter translated from the Spanish by Helen R Lane B
1978
A - A.S.Byatt (UK) The Virgin in the Garden B
A - Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) The Bookshop P
T - Patrick Modiano (France) Missing Person translated from the French by Daniel Weissbort B
T - Georges Perec (France) Life: A User's Manual translated from the French by David Bellis P
1979
A - Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) Offshore B
A - Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Burger's Daughter K
T -
1980
A • J.L. Carr (UK) A Month in the Country P
A - Isabel Colegate (UK) The Shooting Party B
A - Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) Human Voices B
A - Russell Hoban (UK) Riddley Walker P
A -
T -
1981
A - Bernice Rubens (UK) Birds of passage H
A - Molly Keane (Ireland) Good Behaviour B
A - Muriel Spark (UK) Loitering With Intent B
A - William Trevor (Ireland) Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel P
T • Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) Chronicle of a Death Foretold translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa P
T - Daniel Moyano (Argentina) Flight Of The Tiger P
1982
A - Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) At Freddie's
A • Penelope Lively (UK) Judgement Day K
A - Bruce Chatwin (UK) On the Black Hill K
T - Haruki Murakami (Japan) A Wild Sheep Chase translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum B
1983
A • Terry Pratchett (UK) The Colour of Magic P
(Also read all the other Discworld novels)
A -
T -
1984
A • Anita Brookner (UK) Hotel du Lac K
A - Julian Barnes (UK) Flaubert's Parrot K
T -
1985
A - Jeanette Winterson (UK) Oranges are not the Only Fruit K
A -
T - Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) Love in the time of Cholera translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman P
1986
A - Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) Innocence B
A - Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan/UK) An Artist of the Floating World B
T - José Saramago (Portugal) The Stone Raft translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero B
T - Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Who Killed Palomino Molero? translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam B
1987
A • Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada) In the Skin of a Lion P
A - Barbara Comyns (UK) Mr Fox B
T - Fernando del Paso (Mexico) News from the Empire translated from the Spanish by B
(700+ pages/2009 translation/apparently no copies available to buy anywhere!)
T -
1988
A • Nicholson Baker (USA) The Mezzanine P
A - Penelope Fitzgerald (UK) The Beginning of Spring B
T -
1989
A - Beryl Bainbridge (UK) An Awfully Big Adventure B
A - Barbara Comyns (UK) The House of Dolls P
T -
1990
A • William Boyd (UK) Brazzaville Beach P
A - Brian Friel (UK) Dancing at Lughnasa: A play B
A - Ursula K. Le Guin (USA) Tehanu (Illustrated) H
A - Muriel Spark (UK) Symposium B
T - W.G. Sebald (Germany/UK) Vertigo translated from the German by Michael Hulse P/K
1991
A • Beryl Bainbridge (UK) The Birthday Boys P
A -
T -
1992
A • Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada) The English Patient P
A -
T - W.G. Sebald (Germany/UK) The Emigrants translated from the German by Michael Hulse
1993
A - Roddy Doyle (Ireland) Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha B
A -
T - Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Death in the Andes translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman B
1994
A - David Guterson (USA) Snow Falling on Cedars B
A -
T - Yoko Ogawa (Japan) The Memory Police translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder K
T - Antonio Tabucchi (Italy) Pereira Maintains: A Testimony P
1995
A - Christopher Priest (UK) The Prestige B
A - Dorothy West (USA) The Wedding B
T - W.G. Sebald (Germany/UK) The Rings of Saturn translated from the German by Michael Hulse K
1996
A • Neil Gaiman (UK) Neverwhere P
A - Rhidian Brook (Wales, UK) The Testimony of Taliesin Jones P
T - José Luis de Juan (Spain) Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer P
1997
A • Mick Jackson (UK) The Underground Man P
A • Bernard MacLaverty (N.Ireland/Scotland, UK) Grace Notes P
T -
1998
A • Sigrid Nunez (USA) Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury P
A - Beryl Bainbridge (UK) Master Georgie H
T -
1999
A - Vikram Seth (India) An Equal Music B
A - Rose Tremain (UK) Music & Silence K
T - Erri De Luca (Italy) Three Horses translated from the Italian by Michael Moore K
T - Nan Östman (Sweden) Some Kind Of Company translated from the Swedish by Julia Rivers P

Key: K Kindle P Paperback H Hardback B Buy or borrow

Note: *Where possible* minimum two books for each year, one anglophone novel/novella/short story collection/play and one in translation ditto.

Annie’s 2025 books (6 new)

Jul 31, 2025 04:11AM

Somewhere to keep this list, started a few years ago: Reading the Fictional 20th Century / Reading the Last 100 Years • See footnote.

Part 1a - 1900 to 1918 - fewer readable novels in this era, particularly pre 1910* and the advent of Modernism, so include fiction, plays or poetry.

* “On or around December 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered or a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that, but a change there was, nevertheless.” Virginia Woolf

1900
A -
T -
1901
A -
T -
1902
A - Arnold Bennett (UK) Anna of the Five Towns B
T -
1903
A - Erskine Childers (UK) The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service B
T -
1904
A - Joseph Conrad (Poland/UK) Nostromo (Broadview Critical Edition) B
T - Knut Hansen (Norway) Dreamers translated from the Norwegian by Tom Geddes P
(https://archive.org/details/dreamersn...)
1905
A - Edith Wharton (USA) The House of Mirth B
T -
1906
A - John Galsworthy (UK) The Man of Property (Forsyte #1) B
T -
1907
A - Joseph Conrad (UK) The Secret Agent B
A - Ada Leverson (UK) The Twelfth Hour E
(https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...)
T -
1908
A - E.M. Forster (UK) A Room with a View P
A - Kenneth Graham (UK) The Wind In The Willows (Illustrated/Folio Society) H
A - Ada Leverson (UK) Love's Shadow B
T -
1909
A -
T -
1910
A - H.G. Wells (UK) The History of Mr. Polly B
T -
1911
A - William Pett Ridge (UK) Thanks to Sanderson E
(https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...)
A - Hugh Walpole (UK) Mr Perrin and Mr Traill K
T -
1912
A -
T -
1913
A -
T -
1914
A -
T -
1915
A - Virginia Woolf (UK) The Voyage Out E (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...)
T -
1916
A - Harold Brighouse (UK) Hobson's Choice A play P
T -
1917
A -
T -
1918
A -
T -

Part 1b - 1919 to 1958 - Fiction and plays only

1919
A - A.A. Milne (UK) Mr Pim Passes By: A play (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...)
A - Elizabeth Von Arnim (UK) Christopher and Columbus B
T -
1920
A - E.F. Benson (UK) Queen Lucia E
(https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/...)
A - John Galsworthy (UK) In Chancery (Forsyte #2) B
T -
1921
A - John Galsworthy (UK) To Let (Forsyte #3) B
A - Aldous Huxley (UK) Crome Yellow B & A
T -
1922
A - Elizabeth Von Arnim (UK) The Enchanted April B
A - E. Nesbit (UK) The Lark B
T -
1923
A - Winifred Holtby (UK) Anderby Wold B
A - William Pett Ridge (UK) Miss Mannering ?
(Not digitised/no second hand copies currently available)
T -
1924
A • Dorothy Canfield Fisher (USA) The Home-Maker P
A - E.M. Forster (UK) A Passage to India P
A - Winifred Holtby (UK) The Crowded Street P
T -
1925
A - Dennis Mackail (UK) Greenery Street P
T -
1926
A • Sylvia Townsend Warner (UK) Lolly Willowes K
T -
1927
A - Sylvia Townsend Warner (UK) Mr Fortune's Maggot P
A - Virginia Woolf (UK) To the Lighthouse P
A - Thornton Wilder (USA) The Bridge of San Luis Rey B
T -
1928
A - Dorothy Edwards (Wales, UK) Winter Sonata B
A - R.C. Sherriff (UK) Journey's End: A play B
T -
1929
A - Elizabeth Avon Arnim (UK) Expiation P
A - Lao She (China) Mr Ma and Son (the author wrote this work in English) B
T - Vicki Baum (Austrian) Grand Hotel translated from the German by Basil Creighton
(https://archive.org/details/in.ernet....)
1930
A - E.M. Delafield (UK) The Diary of a Provincial Lady B
A - Dorothy Canfield Fisher (USA) The Deepening Stream P
A - Jean Rhys (UK/Dominica) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie B
A - Margery Sharp (UK) Rhododendron Pie B (her first novel)
A - F.A.M Webster (UK) The Ivory Talisman H
A - Vita Sackville West (UK) The Edwardians P
A - Dorothy Whipple (UK) High Wages B
A - E.H. Young (UK) Miss Mole B
T -
1931
A - R.C. Sherriff (UK) The Fortnight in September P
A - Vita Sackville-West (UK) All Passion Spent P
A - Elizabeth Von Arnim (UK) Father B
T -
1932
A - Helen Ashton (UK) Bricks and Mortar P
A - Stella Gibbons (UK) Cold Comfort Farm K
A - Margery Sharp (UK) Fanfare for Tin Trumpets B
A - Leo Walmsley (UK) Three Fevers (Bramblewick Trilogy #1) B
T - Irmgard Keun (Germany) The Artificial Silk Girl translated from the German by Michael Hoffman (beware the Von Ankum translation!) B
T - Joseph Roth (Austria) The Radetzky March translated from the German by Michael Hofman P
1933
A - Jane Oliver (UK) Business as Usual P
T -
1934
A - Katherine Dunning (Ireland) The Spring Begins B
T -
1935
A - Willa Cather (USA) Lucy Gayheart P
A - Margery Sharp (UK) Four Gardens K
T - Georges Simenon (Belgium) The Pitards translated from the French by David Bellos B
1936
A • Lettuce Cooper (UK) The New House P
A - Elizabeth Goodge (UK) A City of Bells K
A - R.C. Sherriff (UK) Greengates P
T -
1937
A - A. J. Cronin (UK) The Citadel P
A - Margery Sharp (UK) The Nutmeg Tree B
T -
1938
A - Robin Hyde (South Africa/UK) The Godwits Fly P
A - Winifred Watson (UK) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day B
T -
1939
A - Rumer Godden (UK) Black Narcissus B
A - Henry Green (UK) Party Going B
A - Richard Llewellyn (UK) How Green Was My Valley B
A - Jan Struther (UK) Mrs Miniver P
T -
1940
A - Frank Baker (UK) Miss Hargreaves: A Novel K
A - Margery Sharp (UK) The Stone of Chastity B
T -
1941
A - Elizabeth Goudge (UK) The Castle on the Hill K
A - Virginia Woolf (UK) Between the Acts P
T -
1942
A - Maura Laverty (Ireland) Never No More B
A - C.S. Lewis (UK) The Screwtape Letters K
T -
1943
A • Barbara Noble (UK) The House Opposite K
A - Betty Smith (USA) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn B
(https://hudsonreview.com/2021/10/the-...)
T -
1944
A - Stella Gibbons (UK) The Bachelor
A - Jocelyn Plairfair (UK) A House in the Country B
A - Margery Sharp (UK) Cluny Brown: A Novel B
T -
1945
A - Norman Collins (UK) London Belongs to Me B
A - Nancy Mitford (UK) The Pursuit of Love P
A - George Orwell (UK) Animal Farm B
A - Denton Welch (UK) In Youth Is Pleasure K
T • Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) The Moomins and the Great Flood translated from the Swedish by David McDuff H
1946
A • Josephine Tey (UK) Miss Pym Disposes K
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) Comet in Moominland translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Portch H
1947
A - Barbara Comyns (UK) Sisters by a River P
A - Mollie Panter-Downes (UK) One Fine Day B
A - E.H. Young (UK) Chatterton Square B
T -
1948
A - Elizabeth Bowen (Ireland/UK) The Heat of the Day B
A - William Maxwell (USA) Time Will Darken It B
A - Dodie Smith (UK) I Capture the Castle P
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) Finn Family Moomintroll translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Portch H
T - Cesare Pavese (Italy) The House on the Hill translated from the Italian by Tim Parks (Alternative translation by R.W. Flint NYRB 2002 ) B
1949
A - Stella Gibbons (UK) Conference at Cold Comfort Farm K
A - C.H.B. Kitchin (UK) The Auction Sale P
T - Cesare Pavese (Italy) The Moon and the Bonfires translated from the Italian by Tim Parks B
1950
A - Margaret Kennedy (UK) The Feast B
A - Rose Macaulay (UK) The World My Wilderness B
A - Nevil Shute (UK) A Town Like Alice B
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) The Memoirs of Moominpappa translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton H
1951
- Stella Gibbons (UK) The Swiss Summer B
A • J.D. Salinger (USA) The Catcher in the Rye P
A • Howard Spring (UK) The Houses in Between H !Reread!
A • Josephine Tey (UK) The Daughter of Time K
T -
1952
A - Barbara Pym (UK) Excellent Women K
A - E.B. White (USA) Charlotte's Web B
T -
1953
A - Gwendolin Brooks (USA) Maud Martha P
A - Diana Tutton (UK) Guard Your Daughters H
T • Jean Giono (France) The Man Who Planted Trees translated from the French by Barbara Bray P
1954
A • Barbara Comyns (UK) Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead P
A - Sylvia Townsend Warner (UK) The Flint Anchor B
A - Eudora Welty (USA) The Ponder Heart P
T - Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) Moominsummer Madness translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton H
1955
A • Rumer Godden (UK) An Episode of Sparrows K
A - Margaret Kennedy (UK) The Oracles B
A - Barbara Pym (UK) Less Than Angels B
T -
1956
A - Rose Macaulay (UK) The Towers of Trebizond B
A - Rebecca West (UK) The Fountain Overflows B
T -
1957
A - Natalia Ginzburg Sagittarius B
A - Patrick White (Australia) Voss B
T • Tove Jansson (Finland/Sweden) Moominland Midwinter translated from the Swedish by Thomas Warburton H
T - Haldor Laxness (Iceland) The Fish Can Sing translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson K
1958
A - Rumer Godden (UK) The Greengage Summer B
A - Angus Wilson (UK) The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot B
T - Seichō Matsumoto (Japan) Tokyo Express translated from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood B

Key: K Kindle P Paperback H Hardback B Buy or borrow

Note: one Anglophone text for each year and for as many years as is feasible one translated text.

Annie’s 2025 books (6 new)

Jul 25, 2025 07:11AM

What I actually read …

1. Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (2004) D P ☆☆☆
2. Penelope Lively Judgement Day (1982) F K ☆☆☆☆
3. Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959) F K ☆☆☆☆
4. Robert Holtom A Queer Case: The Selby Bigge Mysteries series (2025) F P ☆☆☆
5. Kate Moore The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (2016) NF K ☆☆☆☆
6. Richard Brautigan Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (1976) F P ☆☆☆☆
7. Charlotte Wood Stone Yard Devotional (2024) F P ☆☆☆☆
8. David McCullough The Johnstown Flood (2007) NF K ☆☆☆
9. Leonard Koren Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (1994) NF P ☆☆☆☆
10. Jean Lock The Princess Alice Disaster (2013) NF K ☆☆
11. John Burnside Ruin, Blossom (2024) P P ★★★★★
12. Coralie Bickford Smith The Fox and the Star C H (a novelty read with visiting children, not rated)
13. Dylan Thomas Holiday Memory P P ☆☆☆☆
14. Douglas Bruton Hope Never Knew Horizon (2024) F P ★★★★★
15.
16. Denis Mackail Greenery Street (1925) F P ☆☆☆☆
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30.31.32. Ongoing ‘Campion’ challenge

Memoir and Biography - 0
Narrative nonfiction - 3
Miscellaneous nonfiction - 1
20thC Fiction - 7
21stC Fiction - 3
Play - 1
Poetry - 2
Children’s - 1

In translation - 0
Male author - 9
Female author - 9

AUS - 1
UK - 12
USA - 5

All About Books 2025 Challenge

1A
A book with more than 500 pages 1A1/1D1
~ Dorothy Whipple The Priory F P
A forgotten classic 1A2/2D1
~ Antonio Tabucchi Pereira Maintains: A Testimony, translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh F P
A book that became a movie 1A3/3D1
~ Daniel Hornsby Via Negativa (in production 2025) F P
A book published this year 1A4/4D1
~ Robert Holtom A Queer Case: The Selby Bigge Mysteries F P
A book with a number in the title 1A5/5D1
~ Sergio Chejfec My Two Worlds translated from the Spanish by Margaret Carson F P
OR
Narine Abgarian Three Apples Fell from the Sky translated from the Russian by Lisa C Hayden F K
OR
~ Erri De Luca Three Horses translated from the Italian by Michael Moore F K
OR
~ Marion Gibson Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials NF A
2A
A book written by someone under 30 2A1/1D2
~ Molly McCully Brown Places I've Taken My Body: Essays NF H
A book with non-human characters 2A2/2D2
~ Anna Quindlen Good Dog. Stay. H *READING*
A funny book 2A3/3D2
~ Richard Brautigan Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel F P
A book by a female author 2A4/4D2
~ Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door F K
A book with a mystery 2A5/5D2
~ Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police translated from the original Japanese by Stephen Snyder F K 2A5/5D2 AUGUST WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH / HOOKED ON BOOKS AUGUST READ

3A
A book with a one word title 3A1/1D3
~ Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel Dayswork: A Novel F P
OR
~ Samantha Harvey Orbital F K
OR
~ Michael Ondaatje Warlight F K
OR
~ Maria Reva Endling F K
OR
~ Ann Truitt ‘Turn’ in the collected Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist K
A book of short stories [or essays] 3A2/2D3
~ Linda Cracknell The Other Side of Stone F P
Your choice - a book of poetry 3A3/3D3
~ John Burnside Ruin, Blossom P P
A book set on a different continent 3A4/4D3
~ Jazmina Barrera On Lighthouses translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney NF P
OR
~ Yuri Herrera A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman NF P
OR
~ Keiichiro Hirano A Man translated from the original Japanese by Eli K.P. William F K
A book of nonfiction 3A5/5D3
~ David McCullough The Johnstown Flood NF K

4A
First book by a favourite author 4A1/1D4
~ Barbara Comyns Sisters by a River F P
A book you heard about online 4A2/2D4
Charlotte Wood Stone Yard Devotional F P
A best selling book 4A3/3D4
~ Leonard Koren Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers NF P
A book based on a true story 4A4/4D4
~ Douglas Bruton Hope Never Knew Horizon F P
A book at the bottom of your TBR 4A5/5D4
~ Kate Barker-Mawjee The Coldest Place On Earth F P *READING*

5A
A book your [Goodreads] friend loves 5A1/1D5
[Melissa @ The Book Binders Daughter]
~ Denis Mackail Greenery Street F P
STUCK IN A BOOK 1925 CLUB
A book that scares you 5A2/2D5
~ Kate Moore The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women NF K
A book published before 2015 5A3/3D5
~ Penelope Lively Judgement Day F K
The [first and] second book in a series 5A4/4D5
~ Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm F K
~ Stella Gibbons Conference at Cold Comfort Farm F K
A book with a blue cover 5A5/5D5
~ Valeria Luiselli The Story of My Teeth translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney F K AUGUST WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH

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Unallocated

~ Reread 2000 - T.E. Carhart The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier H
~ Coffee Table Challenge - Gilbert McCarragher Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House NF/Photobook H

Ongoing Challenge: Booker book or Booker author? 2025

~~Penelope Lively ‘Judgement Day (Lively won in 1987 with Moon Tiger~~
~~‘Stone Yard Devotional’, Charlotte Wood (Nominated book 2024)~~

OCT Wks 1&2 Wiston - ~~Greenery Street~~/On Lighthouses
Wk 3 Home - Good Dog. Stay./The Coldest Place On Earth
Wk 4 Garsdale - Via Negativa/Sisters by a River/Cold Comfort Farm K
NOV Conference at Cold Comfort Farm K/The Priory/Places I’ve Taken My Body/The Other Side of Stone
DEC Pereira Maintains: A Testimony/[Number in title]/Orbital K OR Turn K or ?/The Story of My Teeth/The Memory Police K

Annie’s 2025 books (6 new)

Feb 04, 2025 03:12PM

Personal challenge: read at least 26 of these books in the next 12 months, at least 2 from each baker’s dozen!

Memoir and Biography (0/15 - sometimes mission creep is unavoidable)

• Annabel Abbs Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self (2024) P
• T.E. Carhart The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier (2000) H
• Laura Cumming Vanishing Man (2016) P
• Laura Cumming Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death (2023) H/A
•? Chloe Dalton Raising Hare: A Memoir (2024) K 2A2/2D2 (or the Leshko or the Quindlen)
• Anna Funder Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life (2023) K
• Alice Hattrick Ill Feelings (2021) P
• Erica van Horn We Still Have The Telephone (2022) P
•? Hisham Matar A Month in Siena (2019) A/K 3A4/4D3 (or the Cristoff or the Mukasonga)
• Richard Mabey Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora IThompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford (2014) K
•• Molly McCully Brown Places I've Taken My Body: Essays (2020) H 2A1/1D2
• Mike Parker On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019) A/K
•? Anna Quindlen Good Dog. Stay. (2007) H 2A2/2D2 (or the Dalton or the Leshko)
• Rebecca Solnit Orwell's Roses (2021) P
•? Ann Truitt ‘Turn’ in the collected Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist (1986) K 3A1/1D3

Narrative nonfiction (3/13)

• Tim Anstey Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History (2024) NF P
• Polly Atkin Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (2021) NF P *READING*
• Martin Gayford Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (2010) NF P (in Gayford’s words, ‘not a biography’)
• Marion Gibson Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials (2023) NF A
•? Alexandra Harris The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape (2024) NF K 1A1/1D1 (or the Murray or the Richards)
•• William Least Heat-Moon Blue Highways (1982) NF P
• Wendy Hitchmough The Bloomsbury Look (2024) NF P
• Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (2024) NF A
• Jean Lock The Princess Alice Disaster (2013) NF K Read
• Simon Martin Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists (2022) NF H
• Robert Macfarlane Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019) NF K
•• David McCullough The Johnstown Flood (2007) NF K 3A5/5D3 Read
•• Kate Moore The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (2016) NF K 5A2/2D5 Read

Miscellaneous Nonfiction (Academic studies/Life skills/Art skills/Exhibition Catalogues/Photobooks/Essays, diaries, letters/Poetry) (2/13)

• Glenn Adamson Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018) NF P
•• John Burnside Ruin, Blossom (2024) P P 3A3/3D3 Read
• Tricia Hersey Rest Is Resistance: Free yourself from grind culture and reclaim your life (2022) NF P
• Lavinia Greenlaw The Vast Extent (2024) Essays NF H
• Derek Jarman Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook (2022) NF P
•• Leonard Koren Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (1994) NF P 4A3/3D4 Read
• Tania Kovats Drawing Water (2014) NF H
•? Isa Leshko Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries (2019) NF/Photo H 2A2/2D2 (or the Dalton or the Quindlen) *READING*
•• Gilbert McCarragher Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House (2024) NF/Photo H *READING*
• Adam Philips Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life (2012) NF K
• David Powell The Wood is Sweet: Poems of Clare P P
• Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything (2016) NF P
•? Dan Richards The Beechwood Airship Interviews (2015) NF P 1A1/1D1 (or the Murray or the Harris)

20th Century Fiction 1900-1950 (1/13)

• Harold Brighouse Hobson's Choice (1916) D P
•• Barbara Comyns Sisters by a River (1947) F P 4A1/1D4
• A. J. Cronin The Citadel (1937) F P *READING*
• E.M. Forster A Room with a View (1908) F P
• John Galsworthy The Man of Property (Forsyte #1) (1906) F P
•• Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm (1932) F K
•• Stella Gibbons Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949) F K 5A4/4D5
•• Denis Mackail Greenery Street (1925) F P
(1925 club 20-26 Oct @ Stuck in a book - https://www.stuckinabook.com/announci...) Read
• Jane Oliver Business as Usual (1933) F P
• Dorothy Whipple The Priory (1939) F P
• Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out (1915) F P
(https://www.gutenberg.org/files/144/1...)
•• Plus x 3 Campion novels

20th Century Fiction 1950-1999 (3/15 - sometimes mission creep is unavoidable)

• Beryl Bainbridge Master Georgie (1998) F H
• Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot (1984) F K
•• Richard Brautigan Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel (1976) F P 2A3/3D2 Read
• Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter (1959) P
• Erri De Luca (Italy) Three Horses translated from the Italian by Michael Moore (1999) K
• Penelope Fitzgerald The Beginning of Spring (1988) F K
• William Golding The Spire (1964) F P
•• Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959) F K 2A4/4D2 Read
•• Penelope Lively Judgement Day (1982) F K 5A3/3D5 Read
•• Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police translated from the original Japanese by Stephen Snyder (Japan 1994) F K 2A5/5D2 AUGUST WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH / HOOKED ON BOOKS AUGUST READ
• Bernice Rubens Birds of passage (1981) F H
• W.G. Sebald Vertigo (1990) F P
•• Antonio Tabucchi Pereira Maintains: A Testimony, translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh, (1994) F P/A 1A2/2D1
• Diana Tutton Guard Your Daughters (1953) F H
• Eudora Welty The Ponder Heart (1954) F P

21stC Fiction (3/16 - sometimes mission creep is unavoidable!)

• Narine Abgarian Three Apples Fell from the Sky translated from the Russian by Lisa C Hayden (2015) K
•? Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel Dayswork: A Novel (2023) F P 3A1/1D3 (or the Harvey or the Reva)
•• Kate Barker-Mawjee The Coldest Place On Earth (2022) F P 4A5/5D4 *READING*
•• Douglas Bruton Hope Never Knew Horizon (2024) F P 4A4/4D4 Read
• Douglas Bruton With or Without Angels (2023) F P
•• Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (USA 2004) D P Read
•• Samantha Harvey Orbital (2023) F K 3A1/1D3 (or the Bachelder or the Reva)
• Keiichiro Hirano A Man translated from the original Japanese by Eli K.P. William (Japan 2018) F K
•• Robert Holtom A Queer Case: The Selby Bigge Mysteries (2025) F P 1A4/4D1 Read
•• Daniel Hornsby Via Negativa (2020) F P 1A3/3D1 - in production 2025
•? Scholastique Mukasonga Our Lady of the Nile (2012) translated from the French by Melanie L. Mauthner F B 3A4/4D3 (or the Cristoff or the Matar)
•? Paul Murray Skippy Dies (2010) 1A1/1D1 (or the Harris or the Richards) K (500pp)
•? Maria Reva Endling (2025) F K 3A1/1D3 (or the Bachelder or the Harvey)
• C.D. Rose Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea K 3A2/2D3
•? Jaroslav Rudiš Winterberg's Last Journey translated from the original Czech by Michaela Škultéty (2019) F P 5A1/1D5 (or the Fabre - thanks Joe @ Rough Ghosts)
•• Charlotte Wood Stone Yard Devotional (2024) F P 4A2/2D4 Read

Translated from the Spanish - Fiction/Memoir/Nonfiction (0/13)

• Selva Almada The Wind that Lays Waste translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews (Argentina 2012) F P
• Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel By Night the Mountain Burns translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar (Equatorial Guinea 2014) F K
• Jazmina Barrera On Lighthouses translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Mexico 2017) NF P
• Sergio Chejfec Forgotten Manuscript translated from the Spanish by Jeffrey Lawrence (Argentina 2015) NF P *READING*
•• Sergio Chejfec My Two Worlds translated from the Spanish by Margaret Carson (Argentina 2008) F P 1A5/5D1
•? María Sonia Cristoff False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (Argentina (Patagonia) 2005) NF P 3A4/4D3 (or the Matar or the Mukasonga)
•? Luis Felipe Fabre Recital of the Dark Verses translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Mexico 2023) F P 5A1/1D5 (or the Rudiš - thanks Joe @ Rough Ghosts)
• Yuri Herrera A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (Mexico 2018) NF P
• Jose Luis de Juan Napoleon's Beekeeper (Spain 1996/2016) F PB translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer F P
• Dulce Maria Loynaz Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor (Cuba 1953 and posthumously) P P *READING*
•• Valeria Luiselli The Story of My Teeth translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Mexico 2013) F K 5A5/5D5 AUGUST WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH
• Luis Sagasti A Musical Offering translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Argentina 2017) NF P
• Luis Sagasti Fireflies translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch (Argentina 2017) NF P

Argentina 6 / Cuba 1 / Equatorial Guinea 1 / Mexico 4 / Spain 1

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Aug 03, 2024 01:36PM

To see out the year …

Paper

Nonfiction
Annabel Abbs Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self (2024) [973] PB
Glenn Adamson Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018) [819] PB Reading
(Polly Atkin Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (2021) PB Reading)
Dulce María Loynaz Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems (posthumously, 2016) Poetry PB Reading
Gilbert McCarragher Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House (2024) [gift] HB Reading
Sean Pritchard Outside In: A year of growing and displaying (2024) [2353] HB
Rebecca Solnit Orwell's Roses (2021) [899] PB

Fiction
A. J. Cronin The Citadel (1937) [1011] PB Reading
Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (2004) [903] PB Reading
(Jose Luis de Juan Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Brayer (1996) PB Reading)
Kate Barker-Mawjee The Coldest Place On Earth (2022) PB Reading

Kindle

Nonfiction
Mike Parker On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019) A Reading

Fiction
Marjorie Allingham Death of a Ghost (1934) [499] Reading
Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959) [299]

Into next year …

Paper

Nonfiction
Tim Anstey Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History (2024) [3081] PB
Suzanne Clothier Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs (2002) [497] PB
Laura Cumming Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death (2023) [1829+799] HB A
Lavinia Greenlaw The Vast Extent (2024) [1305] HB
Kathleen Jamie Cairn (2024) [849] PB
Simon Martin Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists (Gift) NF HB
Mark Rowlands The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living (2024) [Gift] NF HB
Edward Thomas In Pursuit of Spring (1914/2016) PB

Fiction
Diana Sutton Guard Your Daughters (1953) [1679] HB

Kindle

Nonfiction
Jennifer Lucy Allen Clay: A Human History (2024) [1199]
Joanne Bourne Flint: a lithic love letter (2024) [749]

Jen Hadfield Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland (2024) [999]
Laura Pashby Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud (2024) [1199]
Gareth E Rees Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds (2024) [999]

Fiction
Marjorie Allingham Flowers for the Judge (1936) [599]
Emily Howes The Painter's Daughters (2024) [1199]
Hisham Matar My Friends (2024) [899] A

Audible only
Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (2024) [799] NF

Also 2024s Oct/Nov/Dec books

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Jul 07, 2024 07:50AM

Long term challenges

20th Century Women (Fiction) #Reading20thCWomen
2024
Margery Allingham The Crime At Black Dudley (1929) K READ
Penelope Fitzgerald The Golden Child (1977)
Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959) K
Margaret Laurence The Stone Angel (1946)
Elizabeth Mavor A Green Equinox (1973) K READ
Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police trans. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (1994) K
Eudora Welty The Ponder Heart (1954)
Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) K
2025
Margaret Drabble The Millstone (1965) Buy
Buchi Emecheta The Joys of Motherhood (1979) Buy
Rose Macaulay The Towers of Trebizond (1956) Buy
Margery Sharp The Nutmeg Tree: A Novel (1937) Buy
Diana Sutton Guard Your Daughters (1953)

Loose flowers
Dominique Cardon The Dyer's Handbook: Memoirs of an 18th-Century Master Colourist (2016) NF
Ann Johnson *Wild Margins: Drawings and Inspirations (2018) READ
Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise A NF
Angie Lewin Wild Garden (2023) NF
Molly Peacock Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door (2021) [2300NF
Sean Pritchard [book:Outside In: A year of growing and displaying|198494015] [2353] NF
Rebecca Solnit *Orwell's Roses (2021) [899] NF

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Feb 09, 2024 11:22AM

Assorted reading challenges/online and in person book clubs/etc. etc. 2024

2024 European Reading Challenge - minimum 5 European authors/5 different countries (fiction F or nonfiction NF)
1. France
• Pierre Le Tan A Few Collectors translated from the French by Michael Z. Wise (2013) HB NF
2. Ireland
• William Trevor Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (1969) F
3. Italy
• Guido Morselli Divertimiento 1889 translated from the Italian by Hugh Shankland (1975) HB F
4. Norway
Torbjørn Ekelund In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature (2020) NF
5. Spain
• Jose Luis de Juan Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Brayer (1996) F
6. Ukraine
• Andrew Kurkov Grey Bees translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk (2018) F
7. Wales, UK
• Rhidian Brook The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (1996) K F
See also
Thomas Harding The House by the Lake (2015) (A history of Germany) NF

The ‘5 Books Quarterly Book Club’
Themes are agreed for each full year in January a full year ahead. Pick out and list 5 books for each theme, then read a minimum of 3 titles from the combined list of all participants suggestions.
Every year Q1 is a country, Q2 a narrow category of life-writing/memoir, Q3 nominees for a specific literary prize, and Q4 an aspect of the human condition.

Themes for 2024 (chosen Jan 2023):
Q1 - Wales/Welsh authors (fiction F or nonfiction NF)
1. A. J. Cronin The Citadel (1937) F
2. Mike Parker On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019) A+K NF
3. Iain Sinclair Black Apples of Gower (2015) HB
4. Rhidian Brook The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (1996) K F
5. John Bernie (ed.) Encounters with R.S. (2013) NF
Q2 - Memoirs written by Art Historians/Art Critics/Artists
1. Laura Cumming *Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death (2023) [1829 + 799 Audible] HB A NF
2. Martin Gayford Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (2019) [879]
3. Pierre Le Tan A Few Collectors translated from the French by Michael Z. Wise (2013) HB
4. Ann Johnson Wild Margins: Drawings and Inspirations (2018) READ
5. Sylvie Weil Selfies translated from the French by Ros Schwarz (2015/translation 2019)
Q3 - The Orwell Prize (fiction F or nonfiction NF)
1. Thomas Harding The House by the Lake (2015) Longlist 2016 NF
2. Bernard Hare Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew (2005) Longlist 2006 NF
3. Samantha Harvey Orbital (2023) Shortlist 2024 [599] K F
4. Hisham Matar My Friends (2024) Shortlist 2024 [899K] K/A F Reading
5. Rebecca Solnit Orwell's Roses (2021) Shortlist 2022 [899] NF
Q4 - Death and Burial (nonfiction only)
1. Stefan Buczacki Earth to Earth: A Natural History of Churchyards (2018) HB
2. Hayley Campbell All the Living and the Dead (2022)
3. Robert Pogue Harrison The Dominion of the Dead (2003)
4. Peter Ross A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards (2020)
5. Jean Sprackland These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards (2020)

Themes for 2025 (chosen Jan 2024):
Q1 - Mexico/Mexican Authors (fiction F or nonfiction NF)
1. Jazmina Barrera On Lighthouses translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (2017) [1410] NF
2. Yuri Herrera A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (1918) [-] NF
3. ? Valeria Luiselli The Story of My Teeth translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (2013) F
4. ? Ave Barrera The Forgery translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers (2013) F
5. ? Daniel Saldaña Paris Ramifications translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (2018) F
6. ? Edward Shawcross The Last Emperor of Mexico (2022) NF
Q2 - Memoirs re. Houses/Home/Homelessness
1. Catrina Davies Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed (2019) NF [999]
2. Walter Murray Copsford (1948) HB NF Reread
3. ? Emma Tarlo Under the Hornbeams (2024) NF Buy
4. Sarah Thomas The Raven's Nest: An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness (2022) [-] NF
5.
See also
Thomas Harding The House by the Lake (2015)
Susannah Walker The Life Of Stuff (2018) NF
Q3 - James Tait Black Memorial Prize: Biography and/or Fiction (minimum 5, at least 2 from each list)
Biography
1. Laura Cumming Vanishing Man (2016) 2016 winner
2. Carolyn What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (2019) 2019 Shortlist
3. Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat (2020) 2020 winner
4. Dorthe Nors A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast (2021) 2023 Shortlist
5.
See also
Susannah Walker Life Of Stuff (2018) 2019 Shortlist
Fiction
1. Rose Macaulay The Towers of Trebizond (1956) 1956 Winner
2. Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes (1997) 1997 Shortlist
3. Angus Wilson The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot (1958) 1958 Winner
4. Bruce Chatwin On the Black Hill (1982) [-] 1982 winner K
5.
Q4 Mothers/Mothering (fiction F or nonfiction NF)
1. Victoria Bennett All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden (2023) [1299] NF
2. Erica Van Horn We Still Have The Telephone (2022) [-] (NF)
3. Diana Sutton Guard Your Daughters (1953) [1679] HB F
4. Scholastique Mukasonga The Barefoot Woman translated from the French by Jordan Stump (2008) [-] NF
5. ? Margaret Drabble The Millstone (1965) F
6. ? Buchi Emecheta The Joys of Motherhood (1979) F
7. ? Margery Sharp The Nutmeg Tree: A Novel (1937) F
See also
Susannah Walker The Life Of Stuff (2018) NF

1937 Club (April 2024)
A. J. Cronin The Citadel (1937)
See http://tinyurl.com/yc5r7atn and http://tiny-url.com/5bfymfzv

The “New this month” Challenge: fiction F or nonfiction NF books *first* published in the stated month, be that in hardback, paperback only titles with no hardback release, or the digital versions thereof. (Translated books only count if published in the same month as the original language version)
January 2024
§ Lavinia Greenlaw The Vast Extent [1305] HB NF/E
AND
§ Hisham Matar My Friends [899] K/A F
February 2024
§ Emily Howes The Painter's Daughters [1199 K F
March 2024
§ Gareth E Rees [book:Sunken Lands|203895027] [899] K NF
April 2024
§ Tim Anstey Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History (2024) [3081] NF
AND
§ Sean Pritchard Outside In: A year of growing and displaying [2353] HB NF
May 2024
§ Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise A NF
Jun 2024
§ Kathleen Jamie Cairn [849] NF/P
Jul 2024
§ Jen Hadfield Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland (2024) [999] NF
Aug 2024
§ Laura Pashby Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud [1199] K NF
Sep 2024
Oct 2024
Nov 2024
Dec 2024

Colour Challenge
"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black." GK Chesterton
WHITE Tony Porter The Great White Palace (2002) K NF READ
RED Mike Parker On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019) A&K NF
BLACK Margery Allingham The Crime At Black Dudley (1929) K F READ

“Let me peer out at the world through your lens. … Let me see how your blue is my turquoise, and my orange is your gold.” Naomi Shihab Nye
BLUE Martin Gayford Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (2019) NF Reading
TURQUOISE Ellen Meloy The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (2002) NF
ORANGE Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) K F
GOLD Penelope Fitzgerald The Golden Child (1977) F
or
Michael Rips The Golden Flea: A Memoir of Obsession and Collecting (2020) NF

"I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil." Vincent Van Gogh
YELLOW Chris Riddle Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (2015) F READ
GREEN Elizabeth Mavor A Green Equinox (1973) [549K] K F READ
VIOLET Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (2004) S

”A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.” William Carlos Williams
PINK Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959) K F
ROSE Rebecca Solnit Orwell's Roses (2021) NF

From my mother’s library …
Mary Gaskell Cranford (Thomas Nelson edition 1928/no ISBN/illustrated by Heber Thompson) (1853) HB

Rejects 2024
Margareta Magnusson Dostadning: The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (2017) [999] NF
Kate Mann Unshrinking (2024) [Refunded] K NF

Possibles removed from lists 2024

Own
Robert Ashton Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay?: How Traditions From the Past Can Shape Our Future (Apr 2024) Unbound ebook NF
John Bossy Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (1991) 1992 Winner Wolfson History Prize [1355] NF
Victor Canning The Uncertain Future of the Silvermans (1937) K F
Steve Ely Eely Longbarrow Press [1400] HB NF/P
Flavia Frigeri Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970 NF
Tirzah Garwood Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood (posthumously, 2016) NF
Lulu Miller Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (2020)
Richard Lloyd Parry Ghosts Of The Tsunami (2017)
Adam Smyth The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives (2024) [1099 + 799] K/A NF
Edward Thomas In Pursuit of Spring (1914/2016) NF

Don’t own
Jack Cornish The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There K NF
Alexandra Harris The Rising Down K NF
Peter Marshall Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney (2024) K NF
Richard Ovenden Burning The Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack (2020) 2021 Shortlist Wolfson History Prize NF
Mike Parker All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between (2023)
Salman Rushdie Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (2024) K NF
Clover Stroud The Giant on the Skyline [2024] NF

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Feb 05, 2024 11:58PM

October/November/December 2024 Possibles

Nonfiction

Stefan Buczacki *Earth to Earth: A Natural History of Churchyards (2018) HB
Hayley Campbell *All the Living and the Dead (2022)

Torbjørn Ekelund In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature (2020)

Robert Pogue Harrison *The Dominion of the Dead (2003)

Patrick Laurie Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape (2020) [899]

Ellen Meloy The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (2002) [1653]

Peter Ross *A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards (2020)

Peter Ross Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church (2023)

Kerri Smith The Wander Society (2016) HB

Jean Sprackland *These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards (2020)

Fiction

Margery Allingham - KD challenge continued
Death of a Ghost (1934) [499] K READ
Flowers for the Judge (1936) [599] K
The Case of the Late Pig (1937) [599] K
Dancers in mourning (1937) [499] K

Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959) [299K] K

Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (2004) [903]

Andrew Kurkov Grey Bees translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk (2018)

William Trevor Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (1969)

Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) [399K] K

Eudora Welty The Ponder Heart (1954)

* Read at least 3 of the 5

Published Oct/Nov/Dec 2024
• October
~ Lee Alan Dugatkin Dr. Calhoun's Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
• November

• December

Other additions

Annabel Abbs Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self (2024) [973] NF PB
(Simon Martin Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists NF HB Christmas Present)
Alaistair Moffat The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads (2017) [1099] NF PB
Adam Philips Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life [499] NF K
Milli Proust From Seed to Bloom: A Year of Growing and Designing with Seasonal Flowers [699] NF K
Mark Rowlands The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living [1099] NF K

Books on the nightstand …

>Glenn Adamson Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018) [819] NF Reading
Polly Atkin Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (2021) NF Reading
>A. J. Cronin *The Citadel (1937) [1011] F Reading
Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (2004) [903] PB Reading
>Gilbert McCarragher Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House NF Reading
>Dulce María Loynaz Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems (posthumously, 2016) P Reading
Kate Barker-Mawjee The Coldest Place On Earth (2022) F Reading
>Mike Parker *On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019) NF Reading

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Jan 24, 2024 11:55AM

July/August/September 2024 Possibles

Nonfiction

Tim Anstey Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History (2024) [3081]

Philippe Costamagna The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art (2018) [1335] HB

Lavinia Greenlaw The Vast Extent (2024) [1305] HB

Thomas Harding *The House by the Lake (2015) [899K] K

Bernard Hare *Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew (2005) [919]

Dulce María Loynaz Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems (posthumously, 2016) P Reading

Michael Rips The Golden Flea: A Memoir of Obsession and Collecting (2020)
and/or The Golden Child below

Peter Ross Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church (2023) [1099]

Beatrice Searle Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology (2023) [1099] READ

Ben Short Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing (2022) [1011] READ

Rebecca Solnit *Orwell's Roses (2021) [899]

Elizabeth Winkler Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature (2023) [1099]

Fiction

Margery Allingham - KD challenge continued
Police at the Funeral (1931) [699] K READ
Sweet Danger (1933) [599] K READ
Penelope Fitzgerald The Golden Child (1977)
and/or The Golden Flea above

Mary Gaskell Cranford (Thomas Nelson edition 1928/no ISBN/illustrated by Heber Thompson) (1853) HB READ

Samantha Harvey *Orbital (2023) [599] K F

Margaret Laurence The Stone Angel (1946)

Hisham Matar *My Friends [899K] K/A Reading

Guido Morselli Divertimiento 1889 translated from the Italian by Hugh Shankland (1975) HB

Yoko Ogawa The Memory Police translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (1994) K

* Read at least 3 of the 5

Also outstanding from Q1 and Q2
Q1
>Rhidian Brook *The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (1996) [199K] K F
OR
>John Bernie (ed.) *Encounters with R.S. (2013) NF
Q2 2 of
>Laura Cumming *Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death (2023) [1829 + 799 Audible] NF HB A
>Pierre Le Tan *A Few Collectors translated from the French by Michael Z. Wise (2013) [1765] HB NF
>Sylvie Weil *Selfies translated from the French by Ros Schwarz (2015/translation 2019) NF
Also
>Suzanne Clothier Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs (2002) [497] NF
>Roger Grenier A Box of Photographs (2013) [690] HB NF
>Jose Luis de Juan Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Brayer (1996)

Published Jul/Aug/Sep 2024
• July
~Jennifer Lucy Allen Clay: A Human History [1199] K NF
~ Jen Hadfield Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland [999] K NF
• August
~Laura Pashby Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud [1199] K NF
Mark Rowlands The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life Is Most Worth Living [1099] K NF
• September
~ Joanne Bourne Flint: a lithic love letter [749] NF K

Other additions
John Burnside Ruin, Blossom (2024) [1075]
Benjamín Labatut The Maniac (2023) [999] K
Alison Light Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors (2014) [399] K NF
Alison Light Mrs Woolf And The Servants (2008) [999] K NF
Toby Litt Patience (2019) [999]
Rachel Morris The Museum Makers: A Journey Backwards - from Old Boxes of Dark Family Secrets to a Golden Era of Museums (2020) [919] NF PB
Skye Pennant Well Worn: Visible mending for the clothes you love (2024) [1149] K NF
Tim Robinson Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness ( ) [1299] NF
Tim Robinson Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom ( ) [1099] NF
Leonora Sansay Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura Broadview Editions (2007 - Secret History first published 1808) [1344]
Tanya Shadrick The Cure for Sleep (2022) [679] NF
Adam Smyth The Book Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Remarkable Lives (2024) [1099 + 799] A/K

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Jan 21, 2024 06:43PM

April/May/June 2024 Possibles

Nonfiction

Glenn Adamson Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018) [819]

Polly Atkin Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (2021) Reading

Suzanne Clothier Bones Would Rain from the Sky: Deepening Our Relationships with Dogs (2002) [497]

Laura Cumming *Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death (2023) [1829 + 799 Audible] HB A

Martin Gayford *Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (2019) [879] Reading

Ann Johnson *Wild Margins: Drawings and Inspirations (2018) READ

Pierre Le Tan *A Few Collectors translated from the French by Michael Z. Wise (2013) [1765] HB

Sylvie Weil *Selfies translated from the French by Ros Schwarz (2015/translation 2019)

Fiction

Margery Allingham - KD challenge!
The Crime At Black Dudley (1929) [499] K READ
Mystery Mile (1930) [499] K READ
Look To The Lady (1931) [499] K READ

Kate Barker-Mawjee The Coldest Place On Earth (2022) Reading

Jose Luis de Juan Napoleon's Beekeeper translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Brayer (1996)

Chris Riddle Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (2015) [687] READ

* Read at least 3 of the 5

Published Apr/May/June 2024
• April
~Tim Anstey Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History [3081] NF
AND
~Sean Pritchard Outside In: A year of growing and displaying [2353] HB NF
• May
~Olivia Laing The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise [7.99 Audible] A NF
• June
~Kathleen Jamie Cairn [849] NF/P

Other additions
Mike Billett Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond (2023) [1093] NF
Dominique Cardon The Dyer's Handbook: Memoirs of an 18th-Century Master Colourist (2016) [2400] K NF
Lotte Crawford Tirzah Garwood (2023) [1099] HB NF
Ella Felber Unter der Hohen Brücke - Digging in a Ditch Writing for a Place (2021) [2450] NF
Andy Friend Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship (2017) [1000] HB NF
Flavia Frigeri Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970
(Feb 2024) [1500] NF
William H Gass World Within The Word (1978/2012) [449] K NF
Sarah Gibson Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky [549] K NF
Ian Gouge Grimsby Docks (2024) [1000] HB P
Susan Howe Concordance (2020) [1197] NF/P
Susan Howe Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives (2014) [1199] NF/P
Sally Hubband Sea Bean (2023) [1099] NF
Anna Levin Incandescent: We Need to Talk about Light (2019) [500] NF
Richard Long Stones, Clouds, Miles: A Richard Long Reader (2017) [500] NF
David Shumate Kimonos in the Closet (2013) [1136] K P
Bob Thompson Horse Games: One Man's Search for the Tribal Horse Games of Asia and Africa (2018) [U219] HB NF

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Jan 21, 2024 06:00PM

January/February/March 2024 Possibles

Nonfiction

John Bernie (ed.) Encounters with R.S. (2013)

Nancy Campbell Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm (2022) READ

Roger Grenier A Box of Photographs (2013) [690] HB

Mike Parker On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019) A/K Reading

Tony Porter The Great White Palace (2002) [348K] READ

Iain Sinclair Black Apples of Gower (2015) HB

Scottish Arts Trust Scottish Portrait Awards 2023 (2023) [900] READ

Susannah Walker The Life Of Stuff (2018) [1379] READ

Fiction

Rhidian Brook The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (1996) [199K] K F

Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac (1984) K READ

A. J. Cronin The Citadel (1937) [1011] Reading

Verlyn Klinkenborg Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006) READ

Elizabeth Mavor A Green Equinox (1973) [549] K READ

Josephine Tey The Daughter of Time (1951) K READ

* Read at least 3 of the 5

Published for the first time in Jan/Feb/Mar 2024
• January
~ Lavinia Greenlaw The Vast Extent [1305] HB NF/E
~Hisham Matar My Friends [899] K/A F
• February
~Emily Howes The Painter's Daughters [1199K] K F
• March
~Gareth E Rees Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds [999K] K NF

Other additions
Alice Madicott Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place (2024) [1299 book token]
Ian Marchant One Fine Day (2023) [1299 book token]

2024 - The Colour Challenge (24 new)

Jan 21, 2024 01:32PM

Possibles for the colour challenge from my bookshelves:

"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black." GK Chesterton

Tony Porter The Great White Palace (2002) READ

Mike Parker On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place (2019)

Bruce Chatwin On The Black Hill (1982)

“Let me peer out at the world through your lens. … Let me see how your blue is my turquoise, and my orange is your gold.” Naomi Shihab Nye

Martin Gayford Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (2019)

Ellen Meloy The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (2002)

Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)

Benjamin Myers The Perfect Golden Circle (2022)
AND/OR
Penelope Fitzgerald The Golden Child (1977)

"I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil." Vincent Van Gogh

Chris Riddle Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (2015)

Elizabeth Mavor A Green Equinox (1973) READ

Richard Greenberg The Violet Hour: A Play (2004)

”A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.” William Carlos Williams

Stella Gibbons A Pink Front Door (1959)

Rebecca Solnit Orwell's Roses (2021)

Annie’s 2024 books (8 new)

Jan 21, 2024 01:02PM

Every year I start one of these threads and then most years recently I’ve kind of forgotten about it. I keep reading but I don’t keep much of a record. I find I actually mind about that so I’m trying again in 2024.

The only goal I’m setting is to read more from my existing library (at least 24 books across the year) because I really don’t need many more books. Quarterly tbrs reflect *possible* book club and challenge reads.

I do have a vague idea I might try to include 25 21stC books, published in each of the years 2000 to 2024.
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Annie’s 2023 Reading Lists (1 new)

Jan 06, 2023 04:53PM

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

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

A B C - E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

2023 - The Alphabet Challenge (79 new)

Jan 01, 2023 08:31AM

Tweedledum wrote: "That sounds like my sort of plan!" 😆

2023 - The Alphabet Challenge (79 new)

Dec 31, 2022 07:56PM

So my reading goal for the year is not to set goals, but given how many books I read this shouldn’t be so hard, I’m just going to see how much of the alphabet I cover, starting with my fireside and bedside TBR piles and continuing (in italics) with books from my ‘recently acquired’ and ‘read soon’ shelves … and then I’m going to see how many of them I actually read!
A 1. Almada, Selva The Wind that Lays Waste (Argentina/2012)
A 2. Arnhem, Rudolf Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Germany and USA/first pub. 1954, revised 1974)
B 1. Burnside, John Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction (2021)
B 2. Barker-Mawjee, Kate The Coldest Place on Earth (2022)
B 3. Blackie, Sharon Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life (2022)
C Cook, Corinna Leavetakings: Essays (Alaska/2018)
D 1. Dennys, Joyce Henrietta's War: News from the Home Front, 1939-1942 READ 1.1.23
D 2. Dennys, Joyce Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front, 1942-1945
E Ely, Steve The European Eel (2021)
F 1. Flyn, Cal Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (2021)
F 2. Farrier, David Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils (2020/Kindle)
G 1. George, Josie A Still Life: A Memoir (2021)
G 2. Grumbach, Doris Fifty Days of Solitude (USA/1994)
H 1. Hinton, David Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape (USA/2012)
H 2. Hildyard, Daisy The Second Body (2017)
I 1. Ingold, Tim Correspondences (2021)
I 2. Ingold, Tim Lines: A Brief History (2007)
J 1. Jamie, Kathleen Sightlines (2012)
J 2. Jamie, Kathleen Surfacing (2019)
K Klinkenborg, Verlyn Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile (USA/2006)
L 1. Linford, Jenny The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour (2019)
L 2. Lawrence, Margaret The Stone Angel (Canada/1986)
M 1. Miller, Andrew H. On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives (USA/2020)
M 2. Miller, Lulu Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (USA/2020)
N Newham C.B. Country Church Monuments (2022)
O Odell, Jenni How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (USA/2019)
P 1. Perec, George An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (France/1975)
P. 2. Peters, John Durham The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (USA/2015)
Q Quindlen, Anna Good Dog. Stay. (USA/2007)
R Roberts, Sophy The Lost Pianos of Siberia (2020)
S 1. Shadrick, Tanya The Cure for Sleep (2022)
S 2. Sarton, May Journal of a Solitude (USA/1973/Kindle)
S 3. Street, Seán The Sound of a Room: Memory and the Auditory Presence of Place (2020)
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V Van Dooren, Thom Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (2014)
W Welty, Eudora The Ponder Heart (USA/1954)
X Xiques, Donez Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer (USA & Canada/2005/Kindle)
Y Young, Jeff Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (2020)
Z 1. Zambra, Alejandro Not to Read (Chile/2010)
Z. 2. Zweig, Connie The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul (USA/2021)

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Annie’s 2022 Reading Lists (5 new)

Jan 05, 2022 02:22AM

Thanks Greg. I’m something of an eclectic when it comes to books.

Annie’s 2022 Reading Lists (5 new)

Jan 04, 2022 07:13PM

Inevitably, a few more lists are creeping in! Bu these are lists to select from, or not, no pressure.

Continuing my reading of 20th century women writers in 2022 … 22 from the TBR …

1. Drusilla Modjeska (Aus) Stravinsky's lunch (Picador/1999)
2. Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) The Unwomanly Face of War trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (Penguin/first pub. 1983)
3. Dorothy Canfield Fisher (d. 1858 USA) The Deepening Stream (Persephone Books/first pub. 1930)
4. Anne Cuneo (d. 2015 France) Tregian's Ground: The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician trans. from the French by Roland Glasser & Louise Rogers Lalaurie (And Other Stories/first pub. 1994) K
5. Magda Szabó (d. 2007 Hungary) The Door trans. from the Hungarian by Len Rix (NYRB Classics/first pub. 1987)
6. Lucy M. Boston (d. 1990 England, UK) The Children of Green Knowe (first pub. 1954)
7. Barbara Comyns (d. 1992 England, UK) Mr Fox (Turnpike Books/first pub. 1987)
8. Barbara Comyns (d. 1992 England, UK) The House of Dolls (Turnpike Books/first pub. 1989)
9. Tirzah Garwood (d. 1951 England, UK) Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood (Persephone/written 1942/unpub. until 2012)
10. R Elizabeth Jane Howard (d. 2014 England, UK) Something in Disguise (Picador/first pub. 1969)
11. Sylvia Townsend Warner (d. 1978 England, UK) Mr Fortune's Maggot (NYRB Classics/first pub. 1927)
12. May Sarton (d. 1995 USA) Journal of a Solitude (first pub. 1973) K
13. Annie Proulx (USA) The Shipping News (Fourth Estate/first pub. 1993)
14. Nan Inger Östman (d. 2015 Sweden) Some Kind Of Company trans. from the Swedish by Julia Rivers (Aspal Press/first pub. 1999)
15. Dorothy L. Sayers (d. 1957 England, UK) Gaudy Night (first pub. 1935) K
16. R Rumer Godden (d. 1998 UK) An Episode of Sparrows (Virago/first pub. 1955) K
17. Tove Jansson (d. 2001 Finland) Moominsummer Madness (Sort of Books/first pub. 1954)
18. Eudora Welty (d. 2001 USA) The Ponder Heart (Mariner Books/first pub. 1954)
19. Willa Cather (d. 1947 USA) Lucy Gayheart ((Vintage/first pub. 1935) A
20. Gwendoline Brooks (d. 2000 USA) Maud Martha (Faber/first pub. 1953)
21. Helen Ashton (d. 1958 UK) Bricks and Mortar (Persephone Books/first pub. 1932)
22. R Barbara Noble (UK) The House Opposite (Dean Street Press/first pub. 1943)

Limiting myself to no more than 12 books written by men in 2022 …

1. José Luis de Juan (Spain) Napoleon's Beekeeper trans. from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer (Giramondo Publishing/2019)
2. Halldór Laxness (Iceland) The Fish Can Sing trans. from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson (1957)
3. R Hisham Matar (USA/UK/Libya) The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between (2016)
4. John Burnside (Scotland, UK) Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction (Little Toller/2021)
5. Jeff Young (England) Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller/first pub. 2020)
6. J.A. Baker The Peregrine (Harper Collins/first pub. 1967)
7. Robert Poynton (UK) Do Pause: You are not a To Do list (The Do Book Company/first. pub. 2019)
8. Timothy Snyder (USA) On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (first pub. 2017)
9. Verlyn Klinkenborg (USA) Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile (first pub. 2006)
10. R.C. Sheriff (UK) Greengates (Persephone Books/first pub. 1936)
11. Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine) The Orphanage trans. from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (Yale Uni Press/first pub. 2017)
12. Andrew H. Miller (USA) On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives (Harvard Uni Press/first pub. 2020)

‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’ - I have a pile of books abandoned when other reads became more pressing …

1. Isa Leshko (USA) Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries (Uni of Chicago Press/2019)
2. Dulce María Loynaz (b. 1902 d. 1997 Cuba) Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems trans. from the Spanish by James O’Connor (Archipelago Books/first pub. 1953 & posthumously 1997/trans. 2015)
3. Sylvie Weil (France) Selfies trans. from the French by Roz Schwartz (Les Fugitives/2019)

Books bought (£), borrowed (B) or given (G) to me in 2022 (not in order of purchase) …

1. Kerri ní Dochartaigh (N. Ireland, UK) Thin Places: A Natural History of Healing and Home (Canongate/2021) £
2. Nia Williams (Wales, UK) The Colour of Grass (Seren/first pub. 2011) £
3. Elif Shafak How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division (Wellcome Collection/first pub. 2020) K £ (or rather pennies)
4. Johann Hari Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention K £
5. Nan Inger Östman Some Kind Of Company trans. from the Swedish by Julia Rivers (Aspal Press/first pub. 1999) £
6. Mikhail Bulgakov (Ukraine) The White Guard (first pub. 1925) P+K £
7. Serhii Plokhy (Ukraine/USA) The Gates of Europe (first pub. 2015) K £p
8. Dorothy L. Sayers (UK) Gaudy Night (first pub. 1935) K £
9. Cal Flynn (UK) Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (first pub. 2021) £
10. Robert Poynton (UK) Do Pause: You are not a To Do list (The Do Book Company/first. pub. 2019) £
11. Corinna Cook (Alaska, USA) Leavetakings: Essays (Uni of Alaska Press/2020) £
12. Deborah Suggs Ryan (UK) Ideal homes: Uncovering the history and design of the interwar house (Manchester Uni Press/first pub. 2020) £
13. Scholastique Mukasonga (Rwanda) The Barefoot Woman trans. from the French by Jordan Stump (Archipelago Books/first pub. 2008) £
14. Catherine Belton (UK) Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On the West (first pub. 2020) K £
15. Verlyn Klinkenborg (USA) Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile (first pub. 2006) £
16. Dorothy Canfield Fisher (USA) The Deepening Stream (Persephone Books/first pub. 1930) £
17. Helen Ashton (UK) Bricks and Mortar (Persephone Books/first pub. 1932) £
18. R.C. Sheriff (UK) Greengates (Persephone Books/first pub. 1936) £
19. Lisa Selin Davies (USA) Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different (Legacy Lit/first pub. 2020) £
20. Gwendoline Brooks (USA) Maud Martha (Faber/first pub. 1953) £
21. Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine) The Orphanage trans. from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (Yale University Press/first pub. 2017) £
22. Andrew H. Miller (USA) On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives (Harvard Uni Press/first pub. 2020) £
23. Maria Matios (Ukraine) Sweet Darusya trans. from the Ukrainian by Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing/first pub. 2004) K £p
24. Julie Bindel (UK) Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation (Constable/first pub. 2021) K £
25. Helen Lewis (UK) Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (Vintage Digital/first pub. 2020) K £p
26. Mary Midgley (UK) The Myths We Live by (Routledge/first pub. 2003) K Free
27. Willow Crossley (UK) Flourish (first pub. 2017) K £p
28. Grace Alexander (UK) Flourish and Flower: A year in a cut flower field (Quadrille/first pub. 2021) K £
29. Ernst Becker (USA) The Denial of Death (Souvenir/first pub. 1973) K £
30. Cormac McCarthy (USA) No Country for Old Men (first pub. 2005) K £
31. Peter Turchi (USA) A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic (Trinity Uni Press/first pub. 2014) K £
32. Antonia Fraser (UK) The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women (first pub. 2021) K £p
33. Heather Brunskell-Evans (ed.) and Michele Moore (ed.) (UK) Inventing Transgender Children and Young People (first pub. 2019) K £
34. Lucy M. Boston (UK) The Children of Green Knowe (first pub. 1954) £
35. Vincent Black (USA) iPhone 12 Pro Max: The Complete Photography Guide (first pub. 2020) K £
36. Raymond Briggs (UK) Notes From the Sofa (Unbound/first pub. 2015) £
37. Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) The Unwomanly Face of War trans. from the Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (first pub. 1983) £
38. Maxim Peter Griffin (UK) Field Notes (Unbound/first pub. 2022)
39. Willa Cather (USA) Lucy Gayheart ((Vintage/first pub. 1935)
40. R Jane Kite (UK) The Blanket (Maytree Press/first pub. 2022)
41. Wendell Berry (USA) The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems (first pub. 2018) £
42. Holly Lawford-Smith (NZ/AUS) Gender-Critical Feminism (Oxford Uni Press/first pub. 2022) £
43. Stefan Buczaki (UK) and Felicity Price-Smith (Illustrator) Earth to Earth: A Natural History of Churchyards (Unicorn/first pub. 2018) £
44. Keri Smith (Canada) The Wander Society (first pub. 2016) £
45. Shelley Rhodes (UK) Sketchbook Explorations: for mixed-media and textile artists (first. pub. 2018) £
46. Shelley Rhodes (UK) Fragmentation and Repair: for Mixed-Media and Textile Artists (first. pub. 2021) £
47. Georges Perec (France) An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris. (Wakefield Press/first pub. 1975) £
48. Georges Perec (France) Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (first pub. 1974) £
49. Deborah Solomon (USA) Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell (Other Press/first pub. 2015) £
50. Christopher Andreae (UK) Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations (Lund Humphries/first pub. 2014) ££
51. Peter Mrhar Cyanotype: Historical and alternative photography (first pub. 2013) £
52. Elizabeth Bishop (USA) Poems (first pub. 1980) £
53. Elizabeth Bishop (USA) Prose (first pub. 2011) £
54. Robert Pogue Harrison (USA) The Dominion of the Dead (Uni of Chicago Press/first pub. 2003) £
55. Kim Mahood (Australia) Craft for a Dry Lake (first pub. 2000) K £
56. Torbjørn Ekeland In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature (Greystone Books/first pub. 2020) £
57. Josie George A Still Life: A Memoir (Bloomsbury Publishing/first pub. 2021) £
58. Tanya Shadrick The Cure for Sleep: Memoir of a Late Waking Life (Weidenfield and Nicolson/first pub. 2022) &
59.
60.

(Also pre-ordered 2023 Victoria Smith (UK) Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women)
(Also set aside as future gifts:
1. Koran Millwood Hargrave (UK) illustrated by Tom de Freston (UK) Julia and the Shark (first pub. 2021)
2. Rebecca Elizegi (Spain) Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists (Promopress/first pub. 2019)

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