75 Books...More or Less! discussion

52 books this year is my goal.
On my TBR list so far:

Magpie Murders
The Widows of Malabar Hill
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
I'll Be Your Blue Sky
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Good Daughter
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of EtnaAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions: Auntie Poldi 1Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of EtnaAuntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord

Completed:
Lethal White - Robert Galbraith
The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith
Harry's Trees - Jon Cohen
House of Spies - Daniel Silva
The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz
The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
Seven 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turtan
She has her Mother's Laugh - Carl Zimmer
Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne
The English Spy - Daniel Silva
Seven Women & the Secret to their Greatness - Eric Metaxas
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujuta Massey
The Crane Wife - Patrick Ness
Days of Awe and Wonder - Marcus J. Borg
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
O is for Outlaw - Sue Grafton
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. Alan Bradley
Bookshop of Yesterdays - Amy Meyerson
Q is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
Crime and Poetry - Amanda Flower
Prose and Cons - Amanda Flower
The Strange Journey of Alice Pendlebury - Marc Levy
By Book or by Crook - Eva Gates
The Lost Man - Jane Harper
The Heist - Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
Booked for Trouble - Eva Gates
Murders and Metaphors - Amanda Flower
The Dry - Jane Harper
The Spook in the Stacks - Eva Gates
The Lola Quartet - Emily St. John Mandel
The Chase - Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
The Job - Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
The Messenger - Daniel Silva
Force of Nature - Janet Harper
The Hiding Place - C.J. Tudor
The Girl who Drank the Moon - Kelly Barnhill
A Study in Charlotte - Brittany Cavallaro
The Mysterious Affair at Styles: - Agatha Christie
A Share in Death - Deborah Crombie
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
Your Guide to Forest Bathing: M. Amos Clifford
You Learn by Living - Eleanor Roosevelt
The Good Byline - Jill Orr
The Bad Break - Jill Orr
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
In the Shadow of Blackbirds - Cat Winters
The Pursuit of Holiness - Jerry Bridges
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions - Mario Giordano ****
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax - Dorothy Gillman
The Secret, Book, & Scone Society - Ellery Adams
Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
The Last Romantics - Tara Conklin
Pruning the Dead - Julia Henry
Voice of the Violin - Andrea Camilleri
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
The Merlot Murders - Ellen Crosby
The Chardonnay Charade - Ellen Crosby
Where the Forest meets the Stars - Glendy Vanderah
The Amazing Mrs Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
N is for Noose - Sue Grafton
The Clockmaker's Daughter - Kate Morton
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot Against George Washington Brad Meltzer
Night of Miracles - Elizabeth Berg
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled - Dorothy Gilman
The Pursuit - Janet Evanovich/Lee Goldberg
The Elusive Mrs Pollifax - Dorothy Gilman
The Chocolate Chip Cookier Murder - Joanne Fluke
Death by Darjeeling - Laura Childs
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag - Alan Bradley
Murder in the Locked Library - Ellery Adams
The Story of Arthur Truluv - Elizabeth Berg
Murder in the Paperback Parlor - Ellery Adams
On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle
Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters
A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George
A House Among the Trees - Julia Glass
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
The Strange Files of Fremont Jones - Dianne Day
The Whispered Word - Ellery Adams
Murder in the Secret Garden - Ellery Adams
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
The Ravens Tale - Cat Winters
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe. (Illustrated by Gustave Dore)
The Satapur Moonstone - Sujata Massey
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters - Balli Kaur Jaswal
Murder in the Reading Room - Ellery Adams
The Curse of the Pharaohs - Elizabeth Peters
Payment in Blood - Elizabeth George
Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
The Great Influenza - John M Berry
The Salaryman's Wife - Sujata Massey
A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley
Assaulted Caramel - Amanda Flower
Elementary, She Read - Vicki Delany
I am Half-Sick of Shadows - Alan Bradley
The Other Woman - Daniel Silva
The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan
Messenger of Truth - Jacqueline Winspear
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chong
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - Alan Bradley
Cocaine Blues - Kerry Greenwood
The Things She’s Seen - Ambelin & Ezeliel Kwaymullina
The Stationary Shop - Marjan Kamali
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse - Alan Bradley
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mewed - Alan Bradley
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place - Alan Bradley
The Sugar Queen - Sarah AddisonAllen
A Wolf Called Romeo - Nick Jans
The Golden Tresses of the Dead - Alan Bradley
The Tenth Island, Finding joy, beauty and unexpected love in the Azores - Diana Marcum
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Relative Fortunes - Marlowe Benn
Dog On It - Spencer Quinn
The Night Gardner - Jonathan Auxier
The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
Once Upon a River - Diane Setterfield
Flying Too High - Kerry Greenwood
A Better Man - Louise Penny
When We Believe in Mermaids - Barbara O'Neil
Her Last Goodbye - Melinda Leigh
The Big Kahuna - Janet Evanovich
Magic for Liars - Sarah Gaily
Rebecca - Daphane duMaurier
Elephants Can Remember - Agatha Christie
Zen Attitude - Sujata Massey
Well Schooled in Murder - Elizabeth George
The Mummy Case - Elizabeth Peters
Murder on the Ballarat Train - Kerry Greenwood
Underground Railroad - Colon Whitehead
An Uncollected Death - Meg Wolfe
Murder with Peacocks - Donna Andrews
Maude - Donna Foley Mabry
Vicious Vet - MC Beaton
Night Circus - Erin Morgernstern
The Potted Gardner MC Beaton
Kafka on the Shore - Hauki Muramoki
I Miss You When I Blink - Mary Laura Philpott
The Overstory - Richard Powers
The Christmas Train - Robert Baldacci
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Our House - Louise Clandish
Verse & Vengence - Amanda Flower
Ask Again, Yes - Mary Beth Keene
Olive Ketteridge - Elizabeth Strout

I loved Eleanor Oliphant last year! It was the perfect book to enjoy in audiobook format, too.

Juli wrote: "I loved Eleanor Oliphant last year! It was the perfect book to enjoy in audiobook format, too."

😀

Just finished The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz. Thoroughly enjoyed this story and the characters. Fast, easy read - more brain candy!

Connie wrote: "

Just finished The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz. Thoroughly enjoyed this story and the characters. Fast, easy read - more brain candy!"

This is in my TBR.

Good story, but Joe is a little unbelievable at only 21 or 22 years of age.

I really enjoyed the Robert Galbraith series! I finished the 4 books and I'm hoping the rumors of more are true. Based on the way the forth book ends I'm optimistic.

2 whodunits for the price of 1 - Clever!

Connie wrote: "

2 whodunits for the price of 1 - Clever!"

I just love this cover!

Connie wrote: ""

Did you enjoy this one? I've heard good things about it! I got an ARC of it and never got around to reading it. Now it's not advanced...lol. I will be reading it this year though!

Elyse wrote: "Connie wrote: ""

Did you enjoy this one? I've heard good things about it! I got an ARC of it and never got around to reading it. Now it's ..."

Hi Elyse, I did enjoy it. There is a lot going on in this one, I enjoyed the shifting from character to character. I am still puzzling over some aspects of the story that did not seem to be resolved by the end of the book. It's a good thing to ponder the story and its characters once finished.

Connie wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Connie wrote: ""

Did you enjoy this one? I've heard good things about it! I got an ARC of it and never got around to reading..."

Sounds intriguing!

. She has her Mother's Laugh - Carl Zimmer

I thought this was going to be a book on Genealogy and genetics , but it was totally on the science of genetics! Interesting and just a little bit over my head!

Latest book in the Armand Gamache series, it did not disappoint.

Honestly, I keep coming here to check on your progress but all I can think about is how much I love the title of your discussion board! It's high time I tell you. So, there you have it!

LOL - thank you. So far so good! A book a week is more than I've read since my teens! I am creating a buffer for those months I'll be too busy to read!

Connie wrote: "LOL - thank you. So far so good! A book a week is more than I've read since my teens! I am creating a buffer for those months I'll be too busy to read!"

You're doing great!

I simply loved this book! Maurice is an unforgettable character.

Connie wrote: "

I simply loved this book! Maurice is an unforgettable character."

The synopsis sounds so cool!

I give this a 3 star rating. This is a book of essays on the faith/strength of 7 women. Joan of Arc, Corrie ten Boom, Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa, to name a four. Their faith, undoubtedly, was the secret of their strength and greatness. The writing was a little weak.

A favorite from my childhood.

Connie wrote: "

A favorite from my childhood."

I loved this book as well!

Connie wrote: "

A favorite from my childhood."

I never liked this series. My teacher read the first book to us in 4th grade and I read the series in 6th grade. I'm going to try and read them in the near future, see if anything changes with a new perspective. I have not seen the new movie, it looked horrendous.

Elyse wrote: "Connie wrote: "

A favorite from my childhood."

I never liked this series. My teacher read the first book to us in 4th grade and I read the series in 6th grad..."


I have not read the other book in the series or seen the movie, but I did love the first one when I read it so very long ago.

I had a little trouble getting into this one and almost laid it aside. I am glad I kept reading; this is a good mystery story.

The Crane Wife - Patrick Ness

I picked this up at the library while looking for Patrick Ness's book The Knife of Never Letting Go. I am so glad I did. I was surprised and pleased by the story and the prose.

Connie wrote: "
The Crane Wife - Patrick Ness

I picked this up at the library while looking for Patrick Ness's book The Knife of Never Letting Go. I am so glad I did. I was sur..."

I like Patrick Ness a lot. I should read this one.

Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century
Marcus Borg offers challenging insights to modern Christianity and Christian living.

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears"

I have loved this book since first reading it in college.

Connie wrote: "
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears"

I have loved this book since first reading it in college."

Yesss! Read it in French class in high school and then re-read it in English last year. So wonderful!

Connie wrote: "
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears"

I have loved this book since first reading it in college."

I love, love, love this book!

The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A true life love story in the worst of times.

Connie wrote: "
The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A true life love story in the worst of times."

Everyone is reading this!!!! I think I need to read it too. I have such a hard time with anything related to Nazi Germany as I have total "Im German" guilt.

Juli wrote: "Connie wrote: "
The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A true life love story in the worst of times."

Everyone is reading this!!!! I think I need to read it to..."

Evil isn't exclusive to the Germans!
This book is not too brutal to read.

Connie wrote: "Juli wrote: "Connie wrote: "
The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
A true life love story in the worst of times."

Everyone is reading this!!!! I think I need ..."

Thanks!

The Nightingale -

Loved this story, and loved Kristin Hannah's writing.

O is for Outlaw - Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone is one of my favorite detectives. Somehow I must have missed this one when it came out.
This series is helpful for the ABC Challenge and fun to read or re-read.

Connie wrote: "
O is for Outlaw - Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone is one of my favorite detectives. Somehow I must have missed this one when it came out.
This series is helpful for ..."

Aww Kinsey! Carol and I read the whole series between 2017 and 2018. It was a lot of fun. So sad that Grafton passed away before she could finish Z!

Bummer, I did not know that she had passed.

Connie wrote: "Bummer, I did not know that she had passed."

Yeah, in December 2017. Of cancer, I believe.

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. Alan Bradley

I enjoyed this story, but can't see myself reading all the books in the series. But one never knows!

Connie wrote: "
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. Alan Bradley

I enjoyed this story, but can't see myself reading all the books in the series. But one never k..."

I personally really get annoyed when I decide to pick up a series and the first book is just meh, because why only read one book of a series? I feel like I wasted my time that could've spend on another book. Coincidentally, this totally explains my reluctance to pick up series :p

Connie wrote: "
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. Alan Bradley

I enjoyed this story, but can't see myself reading all the books in the series. But one never k..."

Can I ask why you started with #7?

It am impatient! It was the only one available at the library.

Connie wrote: "It am impatient! It was the only on available at the library."

lol ohhhh

The Bookshop of Yesterdays - Amy Meyerson

I enjoyed this story; more so, if I had been familiar with all the literary references. It is not a whodunit mystery, but does involve solving a riddle/mystery; which makes it a good book for me.

Connie wrote: "
The Bookshop of Yesterdays - Amy Meyerson

I enjoyed this story; more so, if I had been familiar with all the literary references. It is not a whodun..."

Ohhh that does sound good!

Connie wrote: "Bummer, I did not know that she had passed."

No Z... :(

Carol wrote: "Connie wrote: "Bummer, I did not know that she had passed."

No Z... :("

Agreed!