All About Books discussion

I'm gonna stick with the challenges I did last year as I find them really good.

20 Books on my Goodreads TBR shelf prior to 1 Jan 2021

1. Them: Adventures with Extremists (on my TBR since Jun 2017)
2. Orphan Train (on my TBR since Mar 2014)
3. Middlemarch (on my TBR since Jan 2014)
4. The Heart's Invisible Furies (on my TBR since Jul 2018)
5. The Chain (on my TBR since Sep 2019)
6. This Green and Pleasant Land (on my TBR since May 2020)
7. The Testaments (on my TBR since Dec 2019)
8. At the Water's Edge (on my TBR since Jan 2015)
9. The Red Queen (on my TBR since Jul 2014)
10. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (on my TBR since Jun 2016)
11. Oscar and Lucinda (on my TBR since Dec 2014)
12. A Man Lay Dead (on my TBR since Dec 2014)
13. Cloud Atlas (on my TBR since Jul 2014)
14. The Adulterants (on my TBR since May 2020)
15. The Wonder (on my TBR since Oct 2016)
16. Evelina (on my TBR since July 2016)
17. Ape House (on my TBR since Dec 2014)
18. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (on my TBR since Jan 2020)
19. Before the Coffee Gets Cold (on my TBR since Sept 2020)
20. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (on my TBR since Sept 2014)

20 Books that have been on my Physical shelf since prior to 1 Jan 2022

1. Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
2. Great Circle
3. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
4. Orphan Train
5.Middlemarch
6. Things I Learned At Art School
7. Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
8. Blue in Chicago: And Other Stories
9. The Chain
10. Lovesong
11. The Testaments
12. At the Water's Edge
13. As the Earth Turns Silver
14. The Red Queen
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. Cloud Atlas
17. Evelina
18. Ape House
19. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
20. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

10 books from B.A.M.E authors

1. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
2. Aroha: Maori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet by Hinemoa Elder
3. Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly
4. Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
5. This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik
6. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
7. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
8. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
9. As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong
10. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

11. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
12. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
13. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
14. Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
15. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi


5 Books from the Guardian list https://www.theguardian.com/books/200...

1. Middlemarch
2. Oscar and Lucinda
3. Cloud Atlas
4. Evelina
5.

Read 16 books in 16 countries

1. United States
2. England
3. Australia
4. South Africa
5. New Zealand
6. Ireland
7. Japan
8. France
9. Cyprus
10. Scotland
11. Argentina
12. Russia/USSR
13. Zimbabwe
14. The Netherlands
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Really happy with my progress so far of actually reading books from my bookshelf. Not doing so well with my spread of book settings (countries) and diversity of authors. Got a few books on reserve at the libs though that should help there.

Happy with my challenges so far - glad I've read a decent amount of books by B.A.M.E authors and set in a range of countries.

Need to read more books of my actual Goodreads TBR though - I keep getting distracted by book prize longlists etc and getting books out from the library :)

Really want to read some more books from the Guardian list. I'm thinking these are top of my list:

1. Cloud Atlas
2. Evelina
3. Any Human Heart
4. Behind the Scenes at the Museum
5. Excellent Women

Some more from the Guardian List i'm interested in reading, perhaps in 2023:

1. According to Queeney
2. Don Quixote
3. The Commitments
4. Cold Comfort Farm
5. The Girls of Slender Means
6. And Then There Were None
7. The Murder at the Vicarage
8. My Cousin RachelTess of the D’Urbervilles
9. A Time to Kill
10. The King of Torts
11. The Talented Mr. Ripley
12. My Family and Other Animals
13. The Mill on the Floss
14. The Remains of the Day
15. Love in the Time of Cholera
16. Music & Silence
17. Go Tell It to the Mountain
18. Shirley
19 American Pastoral
20. Trainspotting

Erica wrote: "Some more from the Guardian List i'm interested in reading, perhaps in 2023:

1. According to Queeney
2. Don Quixote
3. The Commitments
4. [book:Cold Comfort..."

The 2023 member sections will be set up over the weekend so keep an eye out for it.

Really stoked I managed to actually reach most of my goals this year to read books off my TBR and physical shelf :) Looking forward to getting a few more books knocked off before the end of the year but those will be newer books I've bought or received so won't contribute to any of my goals.