2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Goal is 300 Books in 2024:
1 - 50:

1. A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly - 1/1/24 - 3* - My Review
2. Snow by John Banville - 1/2/24 - 3.5* - My Review
3. The General and Julia by Jon Clinch - 1/3/24 - 4* - My Review
4. The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore - 1/4/24 - 5* - My Review
5. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton - 1/5/24 - 4* - My Review
6. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 1/6/24 - 4* - My Review
7. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery - 1/7/24 - 4* - My Review
8. The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict - 1/7/24 - 4* - My Review
9. The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles - 1/8/24 - 4* - My Review
10. Sea Wife by Amity Gaige - 1/9/24 - 4* - My Review
11. The Greenhouse by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - 1/9/24 - 4* - My Review
12. South of Broad by Pat Conroy - 1/10/24 - 4* - My Review
13. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - 1/11/24 - 4* - My Review
14. Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes - 1/12/24 - 3.5* - My Review
15. Landscapes by Christine Lai - 1/13/24 - 3* - My Review
16. Artemis by Andy Weir - 1/13/24 - 4* - My Review
17. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke - 1/14/24 - 3* - My Review
18. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant - 1/15/24 - 4* - My Review
19. Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier - 1/16/24 - 5* - My Review
20. The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir - 1/17/24 - 4* - My Review
21. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 1/18/24 - 2* - My Review
22. "I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt - 1/19/24 - 4* - My Review
23. Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Richard Snow - 1/20/24 - 4* - My Review
24. Millard Fillmore: 13th President of the United States by Heidi Elston - 1/20/24 - 3* - My Review
25. House of Morgan by Ron Chernow - 1/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review
26. A Casualty of War by Charles Todd - 1/22/24 - 3* - My Review
27. A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols - 1/22/24 - 4* - My Review
28. The Deep by Rivers Solomon - 1/23/24 - 4.5* - My Review
29. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - 1/24/24 - 3* - My Review
30. Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson - 1/25/24 - 4* - My Review
31. The Pole by J.M. Coetzee - 1/26/24 - 3* - My Review
32. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling - 1/26/24 - 4* - My Review
33. The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger - 1/27/24 - 4* - My Review
34. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig - 1/28/24 - 4* - My Review
35. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto - 1/29/24 - 4* - My Review
36. Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne - 1/29/24 - 3.5* - My Review
37. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller - 1/30/24 - 2* - My Review
38. Open Throat by Henry Hoke- 1/31/24 - 3* - My Review
39. Carry Me by Peter Behrens - 1/31/24 - 4* - My Review
40. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan - 2/1/24 - 5* - My Review
41. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell - 2/2/24 - 3* - My Review
42. Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell - 2/3/24 - 3* - My Review
43. River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon by Buddy Levy - 2/4/24 - 4* - My Review
44. Open City by Teju Cole - 2/4/24 - 5* - My Review
45. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi - 2/5/24 - 4* - My Review
46. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness - 2/6/24 - 4* - My Review
47. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) by C.S. Lewis - 2/7/24 - 4* My Review
48. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - 2/8/24 - 3* - My Review
49. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - 2/9/24 - 5* - My Review
50. The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - 2/10/24 - 4* - My Review

51 - 100:

51. A House For Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul - 2/10/24 - 4* - My Review
52. The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander - 2/11/24 - 4* - My Review
53. The Princess Bride by William Goldman - 2/12/24 - 4* - My Review
54. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman - 2/12/24 - 4* - My Review
55. The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar - 2/13/24 - 3* - My Review
56. Murtagh by Christopher Paolini - 2/14/24 - 4* - My Review
57. The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon - 2/15/24 - 1* - My Review
58. Chances Are . . . by Richard Russo - 2/16/24 - 4* - My Review
59. Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya - 2/17/24 - 4* - My Review
60. Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili - 2/17/24 - 4* - My Review
61. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino - 2/18/24 - 4* - My Review
62. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen - 2/19/24 - 4* - My Review
63. Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller - 2/20/24 - 4* - My Review
64. Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong - 2/21/24 - 4* - My Review
65. Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North by Adam Weymouth - 2/22/24 - 4* - My Review
66. The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor - 2/23/24 - 4* - My Review
67. Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok - 2/24/24 - 3* - My Review
68. Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill - 2/25/24 - 5* - My Review
69. Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow - 2/26/24 - 3* - My Review
70. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis - 2/27/24 - 4* - My Review
71. You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue - 2/28/24 - 3.5* - My Review
72. Morality Play by Barry Unsworth - 2/29/24 - 5* - My Review
73. Mobility by Lydia Kiesling- 3/1/24 - 5* - My Review
74. Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse - 3/1/24 - 4* - My Review
75. A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan - 3/2/24 - 4* - My Review
76. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov - 3/3/24 - 4* - My Review
77. Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet - 3/4/24 - 4* - My Review
78. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard - 3/5/24 - 4* - My Review
79. The Girl in the Tree by Şebnem İşigüzel - 3/6/24 - 3.5 - My Review
80. Chronicle in Stone: A Novel by Ismail Kadare - 3/7/24 - 4* - My Review
81. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur - 3/8/24 - 3* - My Review
82. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa - 3/9/24 - 3* - My Review
83. In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas - 3/10/24 - 3* - My Review
84. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell - 3/11/24 - 4* - My Review
85. Mr. Flood's Last Resort by Jess Kidd - 3/12/24 - 4* - My Review
86. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin - 3/13/24 - 4* - My Review
87. Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen - 3/14/24 - 3* - My Review
88. Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier - 3/15/24 - 3* - My Review
89. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks - 3/16/24 - 4* - My Review
90. Embassytown by China Miéville - 3/17/24 - 5* - My Review
91. Sourdough by Robin Sloan - 3/18/24 - 4* - My Review
92. Conspirata by Robert Harris - 3/18/24 - 4* - My Review
93. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane - 3/19/24 - 4* - My Review
94. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray - 3/20/24 - 4* - My Review
95. The Hard Blue Sky: A Novel by Shirley Ann Grau - 3/21/24 - 3* - My Review
96. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis - 3/22/24 - 4* - My Review
97. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones - 3/23/24 - 4* - My Review
98. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - 3/24/24 - 2* - My Review
99. The Hunters by James Salter - 3/25/24 - 3* - My Review
100. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey - 3/25/24 - 4* - My Review

101 - 150:

101. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride - 3/26/24 - 2* - My Review
102. The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti - 3/27/24 - 4* - My Review
103. Indignation by Philip Roth - 3/28/24 - 3* - My Review
104. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis - 3/29/24 - 4* - My Review
105. Elmet by Fiona Mozley - 3/29/24 - 3* - My Review
106. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford - 3/30/24 - 3.5* - My Review
107. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - 3/31/24 - 4* - My Review
108. The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 4/1/24 - 4* - My Review
109. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson - 4/2/24 - 5* - My Review
110. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - 4/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review
111. Foe by Iain Reid - 4/4/24 - 4* - My Review
112. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding by Agatha Christie - 4/5/24 - 3* - My Review
113. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow - 4/6/24 - 2* - My Review
114. Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky - 4/7/24 - 4* - My Review
115. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie - 4/8/24 - 3* - My Review
116. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis - 4/9/24 - 4* - My Review
117. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë - 4/10/24 - 3* - My Review
118. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett - 4/11/24 - 4* - My Review
119. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden - 4/12/24 - 4* - My Review
120. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh - 4/13/24 - 3* - My Review
121. The Affirmation by Christopher Priest - 4/14/24 - 4* - My Review
122. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett - 4/15/24 - 3* - My Review
123. Swamp Songs: Journeys Through Marsh, Meadow and Other Wetlands by Tom Blass - 4/15/24 - 4* - My Review
124. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins - 4/16/24 - 4* - My Review
125. Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey - 4/17/24 - 3* - My Review
126. Leviathan by Paul Auster - 4/17/24 - 4* - My Review
127. The Planets by Dava Sobel - 4/18/24 - 3* - My Review
128. A Feather on the Water by Lindsay Jayne Ashford - 4/18/24 - 4* - My Review
129. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard - 4/19/24 - 4* - My Review
130. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 by Ian W. Toll - 4/20/24 - 5* - My Review
131. Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel - 4/20/24 - 4* - My Review
132. Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - 4/21/24 - 2* - My Review
133. Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden - 4/22/24 - 4* - My Review
134. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough - 4/22/24 - 4* - My Review
135. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 4/23/24 - 4* - My Review
136. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 4/24/24 - 4* - My Review
137. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - 4/25/24 - 4* - My Review
138. Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash - 4/26/24 - 3* - My Review
139. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett - 4/27/24 - 4* - My Review
140. Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor - 4/28/24 - 2* - My Review
141. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil - 4/29/24 - 3* - My Review
142. The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young - 4/30/24 - 1* - My Review
143. Erasure by Percival Everett - 5/1/24 - 4* - My Review
144. Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World by Peter Moore - 5/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review
145. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara - 5/2/24 - 3* - My Review
146. Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption by Benjamin Rachlin - 5/3/24 - 4* - My Review
147. The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie - 5/4/24 - 3* - My Review
148. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 5/5/24 - 4* - My Review
149. Saturday by Ian McEwan - 5/6/24 - 4.5 - My Review
150. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - 5/7/24 - 4* - My Review

151 - 200:

151. Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indriðason - 5/8/24 - 3* - My Review
152. The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis - 5/9/24 - 3* - My Review
153. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee - 5/10/24 - 4* - My Review
154. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner - 5/11/24 - 4* - My Review
155. The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy - 5/12/24 - 4* - My Review
156. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara - 5/12/24 - 5* - My Review
157. The Children of Men by P.D. James - 5/13/24 - 4* - My Review
158. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - 5/14/24 - 4* - My Review
159. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan - 5/15/24 - 4* - My Review
160. Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet - 5/16/24 - 4* - My Review
161. An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell - 5/17/24 - 3* - My Review
162. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner - 5/18/24 - 3* - My Review
163. Number9Dream by David Mitchell - 5/19/24 - 3.5* - My Review
164. James by Percival Everett - 5/20/24 - 4* - My Review
165. Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara - 5/21/24 - 2* - My Review
166. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie - 5/22/24 - 4* - My Review
167. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 5/23/24 - 4* - My Review
168. Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman - 5/24/24 - 4* - My Review
169. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel - 5/25/24 - 3* - My Review
170. Revenge by Yōko Ogawa - 5/26/24 - 3* - My Review
171. The Unfortunate Expiration of Mr. David S. Sparks by William F. Aicher - 5/27/24 - 4* - My Review
172. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney - 5/28/24 - My Review
173. This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor - 5/29/24 - 3* - My Review
174. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell - 5/30/24 - 4* - My Review
175. Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham - 5/31/24 - 4* - My Review
176. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman - 6/1/24 - 4* - My Review
177. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - 6/2/24 - 4* - My Review
178. My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor - 6/3/24 - 5* - My Review
179. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov - 6/4/24 - 4* - My Review
180. Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo - 6/5/24 - 4* - My Review
181. Pod by Laline Paull - 6/6/24 - 4* - My Review
182. The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero - 6/6/24 - 3* - My Review
183. One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle - 6/7/24 - 2* - My Review
184. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark - 6/8/24 - 4* - My Review
185. East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands - 6/9/24 - 4* - My Review
186. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell - 6/10/24 - 4* - My Review
187. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams - 6/11/24 - 4* - My Review
188. Star of the Sea: A Novel by Joseph O'Connor - 6/12/24 - 4* - My Review
189. The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard - 6/13/24 - 4 stars - My Review
190. On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin - 6/13/24 - 3* - My Review
191. Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher - 6/14/24 - 4* - My Review
192. The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin - 6/14/24 - 5* - My Review
193. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis - 6/15/24 - 2* - My Review
194. Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir - 6/15/24 - 4* - My Review
195. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - 6/16/24 - 3* - My Review
196. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - 6/17/24 - 4* - My Review
197. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - 6/18/24 - 5* - My Review
198. The Ruby in Her Navel by Barry Unsworth - 6/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review
199. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner - 6/20/24 - 4* - My Review
200. Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor - 6/20/24 - 4* - My Review

201 - 250:

201. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds - 6/21/24 - 4* - My Review
202. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf - 6/22/24 - 3* - My Review
203. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck - 6/22/24 - 2* - My Review
204. Monster by Walter Dean Myers - 6/23/24 - 4* - My Review
205. Pied Piper by Nevil Shute - 6/23/24 - 5* - My Review
206. Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett - 6/24/24 - 3* - My Review
207. Sideways by Rex Pickett - 6/25/24 - 3* - My Review
208. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan - 6/25/24 - 4* - My Review
209. Insurgent by Veronica Roth - 6/26/24 - 4 stars - My Review
210. On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason - 6/26/24 - 4* - My Review
211. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams - 6/27/24 - 3* - My Review
212. The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 6/27/24 - 5* - My Review
213. The Circus Train by Amita Parikh - 6/28/24 - 3* - My Review
214. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed - 6/28/24 - 4* - My Review
215. Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley - 6/29/24 - 4* - My Review
216. The Undertaking by Audrey Magee - 6/29/24 - 3* - My Review
217. Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China by Bernard Ollivier - 6/29/24 - 4.5* - My Review
218. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron - 6/30/24 - 4* - My Review
219. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje - 6/30/24 - 3* - My Review
220. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley - 7/1/24 - 3* - My Review
221. The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord - 7/1/24 - 2* - My Review
222. Persuasion by Jane Austen - 7/2/24 - 4* - My Review
223. Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn - 7/2/24 - 3* - My Review
224. The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma - 7/3/24 - 5* - My Review
225. Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan - 7/3/24 - 4* - My Review
226. Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper - 7/4/24 - 4* - My Review
227. Laddertop Volume 1 by Orson Scott Card - 7/5/24 - 3* - My Review
228. We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo - 7/5/24 - 4* - My Review
229. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik - 7/6/24 - 4* - My Review
230. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen - 7/7/24 - 2* - My Review
231. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - 7/7/24 - 4* - My Review
232. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester - 7/8/24 - 4* - My Review
233. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - 7/9/24 - 1* - My Review
234. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry - 7/10/24 - 4* - My Review
235. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel - 7/11/24 - 3* - My Review
236. Praise of Folly by Erasmus - 7/12/24 - 3* - My Review
237. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides - 7/13/24 - 3* - My Review
238. Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard - 7/13/24 - 2* - My Review
239. Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik - 7/14/24 - 4* - My Review
240. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - 7/15/24 - 4* - My Review
241. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks - 7/15/24 - 4* - My Review
242. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - 7/16/24 - 4* - My Review
243. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill - 7/17/24 - 4* - My Review
244. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson - 7/17/24 - 4* - My Review
245. Brick Lane by Monica Ali - 7/18/24 - 4* - My Review
246. Long Island by Colm Tóibín - 7/19/24 - 4.5* - My Review
247. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson - 7/20/24 - 4* - My Review
248. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 7/21/24 - 3* - My Review
249. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat - 7/22/24 - 4* - My Review
250. The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich - 7/23/24 - 3* - My Review

251 - 300:

251. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - 7/24/24 - 3.5* - My Review
252. The Bird of Night by Susan Hill - 7/24/24 - 4.5* - My Review
253. Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott - 7/25/24 - 3* - My Review
254. But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer - 4* - 7/26/24 - My Review
255. Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart - 2* - 7/27/24 - My Review
256. A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang- 4* - 7/27/24 - My Review
257. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - 7/28/24 - 4* - My Review
258. Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru - 7/28/24 - 3* - My Review
259. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - 7/29/24 - 3* - My Review
260. This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud - 7/29/24 - 4* - My Review
261. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr - 7/30/24 - 4* - My Review
262. Wild Houses by Colin Barrett - 7/30/24 - 2* - My Review
263. Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel - 7/30/24 - 2* - My Review
264. Atalanta by Jennifer Saint - 7/31/24 - 4* - My Review
265. Held by Anne Michaels - 7/31/24 - 3.5* - My Review
266. The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 8/1/24 - 3* - My Review
267. Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia - 8/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review
268. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs - 8/2/24 - 4* - My Review
269. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay - 8/2/24 - 3* - My Review
270. Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen - 8/3/24 - 4.5* - My Review
271. My Friends by Hisham Matar - 8/3/24 - 5* - My Review
272. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein - 8/4/24 - 3* - My Review
273. Quinn by Em Strang - 8/4/24 - 2* - My Review
274. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan - 8/5/24 - 3* - My Review
275. Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings - 8/5/24 - 3* - My Review
276. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel - 8/6/24 - 4* - My Review
277. Q & A by Vikas Swarup - 8/6/24 - 5* - My Review
278. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre - 8/7/24 - 4* - My Review
279. Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut - 8/7/24 - 3* - My Review
280. The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan - 8/8/24 - 4* - My Review
281. The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena - 8/8/24 - 3* - My Review
282. Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago - 8/9/24 - 4* - My Review
283. To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann - 8/9/24 - 3* - My Review
284. The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah - 8/10/24 - 4* - My Review
285. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam - 8/10/24 - 3* - My Review
286. Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi - 8/11/24 - 5* - My Review
287. The Spare Room by Helen Garner - 8/11/24 - 4* - My Review
288. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin - 8/12/24 - 4* - My Review
289. The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov - 8/13/24 - 4* - My Review
290. Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro - 8/14/24 - 4* - My Review
291. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery - 8/15/24 - 4* - My Review
292. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson - 8/16/24 - 4* - My Review
293. Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera - 8/17/24 - 2* - My Review
294. The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel - 8/18/24 - 3* - My Review
295. Orbital by Samantha Harvey - 8/18/24 - 3.5* - My Review
296. Still Life by Sarah Winman - 8/19/24 - 3* - My Review
297. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange - 8/19/24 - 4* - My Review
298. Stardust by Neil Gaiman - 8/20/24 - 3* - My Review
299. Enlightenment by Sarah Perry - 8/20/24 - 3.5* - My Review
300. A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - 8/21/24 - 3* - My Review

301 - 350:

301. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich - 8/22/24 - 4* - My Review
302. The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan - 8/23/24 - 4.5 - My Review
303. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier - 8/23/24 - 4* - My Review
304. Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell - 8/24/24 - 3* - My Review
305. Lila by Marilynne Robinson - 8/25/24 - 4* - My Review
306. After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell - 8/26/24 - 2* - My Review
307. Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery - 8/27/24 - 4* - My Review
308. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster - 8/28/24 - 2* - My Review
309. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler - 8/29/24 - 4* - My Review
310. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah - 8/30/24 - 3* - My Review
311. Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meaning by Jonathan Raban - 8/30/24 - 4.5* - My Review
312. The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport - 8/31/24 - 4* - My Review
313. A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar - 8/31/24 - 2.5* - My Review
314. What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales - 9/1/24 - 4* - My Review
315. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood - 9/2/24 - 4* - My Review
316. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden - 9/3/24 - 2* - My Review
317. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass - 9/4/24 - 4* - My Review
318. There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak - 9/5/24 - 5* - My Review
319. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick - 9/6/24 - 4* - My Review
320. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh - 9/7/24 - 4* - My Review
321. The sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur - 9/8/24 - 3* - My Review
322. Playground by Richard Powers - 9/8/24 - 5* - My Review
323. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - 9/9/24 - 4* - My Review
324. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 9/10/24 - 3* - My Review
325. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner - 9/10/24 - 4* - My Review
326. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa - 9/11/24 - 4* - My Review
327. Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld - 9/12/24 - 3* - My Review
328. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick - 9/12/24 - 4* - My Review
329. The Soloist by Mark Salzman - 9/13/24 - 5* - My Review
330. Death Of A River Guide by Richard Flanagan - 9/14/24 - 4* - My Review
331. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar - 9/14/24 - 3.5* - My Review
332. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - 9/15/24 - 4* - My Review
333. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See - 9/16/24 - 4* - My Review
334. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh - 9/16/24 - 3.5* - My Review
335. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant - 9/17/24 - 4* - My Review
336. Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez - 9/18/24 - 3* - My Review
337. And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier - 9/18/24 - 4* - My Review
338. Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life by Ron Darling - 9/19/24 - 4* - My Review
339. Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Life on a Mediterranean Island by Lawrence Durrell - 9/20/24 - 4* - My Review
340. The Seville Communion by Arturo Pérez-Reverte - 9/20/24 - 3* - My Review
341. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol - 9/21/24 - 4* - My Review
342. Savage Country by Robert Olmstead - 9/22/24 - 3.5* - My Review
343. Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy by David O. Stewart - 9/22/24 - 4* - My Review
344. The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle - 9/23/24 - 2* - My Review
345. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer - 9/23/24 - 4* - My Review
346. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - 9/24/24 - 5* - My Review
347. Parade by Rachel Cusk - 9/24/24 - 3* - My Review
348. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review
349. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally - 9/25/24 - 4* - My Review
350. The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith - 9/26/24 - 4* - My Review

351 - 400:

351. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood - 9/26/24 - 1* - My Review
352. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - 9/27/24 - 4* - My Review
353. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante - 9/27/24 - 3* - My Review
354. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño - 9/28/24 - 3* - My Review
355. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell - 9/28/24 - 4* - My Review
356. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson - 9/29/24 - 4* - My Review
357. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb - 9/29/24 - 2* - My Review
358. Allegiant by Veronica Roth - 9/30/24 - 2* - My Review
359. Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman - 9/30/24 - 4* - My Review
360. Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews - 10/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review
361. Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea by Michael J. Tougias - 10/2/24 - 4* - My Review
362. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff - 10/3/24 - 4* - My Review
363. To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron - 10/4/24 - 4* - My Review
364. Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde - 10/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
365. The Taster by V.S. Alexander - 10/6/24 - 3* - My Review
366. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester - 10/6/24 - 4* - My Review
367. Around the World in Eighty Days by Michael Palin - 10/7/24 - 4* - My Review
368. Mosquitoland by David Arnold - 10/8/24 - 4* - My Review
369. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon - 10/9/24 - 4* - My Review
370. A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter - 10/10/24 - 4* - My Review
371. Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie - 10/11/24 - 2* - My Review
372. Swimming Home by Deborah Levy - 10/11/24 - 4* - My Review
373. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck - 10/12/24 - 4* - My Review
374. Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge by Jill Fredston - 10/13/24 - 4* - My Review
375. Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris - 10/14/24 - 4* - My Review
376. The Elephant's Journey by José Saramago - 10/15/24 - 4* - My Review
377. Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui - 10/16/24 - 4* - My Review
378. The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy - 10/17/24 - 3.5* - My Review
379. They Are Trying to Break Your Heart by David Savill - 10/17/24 - 4* - My Review
380. Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy - 10/18/24 - 4* - My Review
381. The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye - 10/19/24 - 3* - My Review
382. The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler - 10/19/24 - 4* - My Review
383. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie - 10/20/24 - 5* - My Review
384. Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World by Rita Golden Gelman - 10/21/24 - 4.5* - My Review
385. To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson - 10/22/24 - 4* - My Review
386. Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle - 10/23/24 - 4* - My Review
387. The Invisible Circus: A Novel by Jennifer Egan - 10/23/24 - 3* - My Review
388. The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier by Jim Davidson - 10/24/24 - 4* - My Review
389. Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas by Harley Rustad - 10/25/24 - 4* - My Review
390. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier by Mark Adams - 10/26/24 - 4* - My Review
391. A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam - 10/26/24 - 5* - My Review
392. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan - 10/27/24 - 4* - My Review
393. Rites of Passage by William Golding - 10/27/24 - 4* - My Review
394. The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis - 10/27/24 - 3.5* - My Review
395. Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez - 10/28/24 - 3.5* - My Review
396. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig - 10/28/24 - 4* - My Review
397. The River of Kings by Taylor Brown - 10/28/24 - 2* - My Review
398. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home by Heather Anish Anderson - 10/29/24 - 4* - My Review
399. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann - 10/29/24 - 4* - My Review
400. An Arabian Journey: One Man's Quest Through the Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood - 10/30/24 - 5* - My Review

401 - 450:

401. The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez - 10/30/24 - 3* - My Review
402. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner - 10/30/24 - 2* - My Review
403. The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review
404. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review
405. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review
406. All the Way to the Tigers by Mary Morris - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review
407. The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers - 10/31/24 - 4* - My Review
408. You Are Here by David Nicholls - 11/1/24 - 3.5* - My Review
409. Malagash by Joey Comeau - 11/2/24 - 4* - My Review
410. The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich - 11/3/24 - 4* - My Review
411. Un Lun Dun by China Miéville - 11/4/24 - 4* - My Review
412. The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies by Deborah Levy - 11/5/24 - 4* - My Review
413. Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez - 11/5/24 - 4* - My Review
414. Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris - 11/6/24 - 5* - My Review
415. Swift River by Essie J. Chambers - 11/7/24 - 4* - My Review
416. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle - 11/7/24 - 4.5* - My Review
417. Shanghailanders by Juli Min - 11/8/24 - 2* - My Review
418. Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner - 11/8/24 - 4* - My Review
419. The Coast Road by Alan Murrin - 11/9/24 - 4.5* - My Review
420. The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time by Alex Korb - 11/10/24 - 4* - My Review
421. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher - 11/10/24 - 3* - My Review
422. Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells - 11/11/24 - 3.5* - My Review
423. Fight No More: Stories by Lydia Millet - 11/12/24 - 2* - My Review
424. Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet - 11/12/24 - 3* - My Review
425. Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler - 11/13/24 - 5* - My Review
426. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket - 11/14/24 - 3.5* - My Review
427. The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket - 11/14/24 - 3* - My Review
428. Toby's Room by Pat Barker - 11/15/24 - 4* - My Review
429. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein - 11/16/24 - 4* - My Review
430. Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa - 11/16/24 - 3* - My Review
431. The Story of the Forest by Linda Grant - 11/17/24 - 4* - My Review
432. Morning in This Broken World by Katrina Kittle - 11/18/24 - 3* - My Review
433. Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger - 11/18/25 - 4.5* - My Review
434. Spies by Michael Frayn - 11/19/24 - 5* - My Review
435. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare - 11/20/24 - 3* - My Review
436. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick - 11/20/24 - 4* - My Review
437. The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket - 11/21/24 - 3.5* - My Review
438. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne - 11/21/24 - 4* - My Review
439. Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura - 11/22/24 - 1* - My Review
440. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard - 11/22/24 - 4* - My Review
441. Private Rites by Julia Armfield - 11/23/24 - 3* - My Review
442. Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn - 11/23/24 - 4* - My Review
443. Baumgartner by Paul Auster - 11/24/24 - 4* - My Review
444. At Last by Edward St. Aubyn - 11/24/24 - 3.5* - My Review
445. Remembering Babylon by David Malouf - 11/25/24 - 4* - My Review
446. 1919 by John Dos Passos - 11/25/24 - 3* - My Review
447. Colored Television by Danzy Senna - 11/26/24 - 4* - My Review
448. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket - 11/26/24 - 3.5* - My Review
449. Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik - 11/27/24 - 4* - My Review
450. Someone by Alice McDermott - 11/27/24 - 3* - My Review

451 - 500:

451. The Master of the World by Jules Verne - 11/28/24 - 3* - My Review
452. The Small Rain by Madeleine L'Engle - 11/28/24 - 4* - My Review
453. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet - 11/29/24 - 4* - My Review
454. The City & the City by China Miéville - 11/29/24 - 4* - My Review
455. Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu - 11/30/24 - 4* - My Review
456. Skios by Michael Frayn - 11/30/24 - 4* - My Review
457. The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket - 11/30/24 - 3* - My Review
458. Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid - 12/1/24 - 4* - My Review
459. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami - 12/2/24 - 4* - My Review
460. Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - 12/3/24 - 3* - My Review
461. Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino - 12/4/24 - 4* - My Review
462. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - 12/5/24 - 4.5* - My Review
463. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger - 12/6/24 - 4.5* - My Review
464. Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek - 12/7/24 - 4* - My Review
465. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan - 12/8/24 - 4* - My Review
466. The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard - 12/9/24 - 3* - My Review
467. The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies - 12/10/24 - 3* - My Review
468. Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje - 12/11/24 - 2* - My Review
469. How to Be Good by Nick Hornby - 12/12/24 - 4* - My Review
470. Nicked by M.T. Anderson - 12/13/24 - 4.5* - My Review
471. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton - 12/14/24 - 4* - My Review
472. Time of the Child by Niall Williams - 12/15/24 - 5* - My Review
473. The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa - 12/16/24 - 3* - My Review
474. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry - 12/17/24 - 4* - My Review
475. The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas - 12/18/24 - 3.5* - My Review
476. California Gold by John Jakes - 12/19/24 - 4* - My Review
477. Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera - 12/20/24 - 3.5* - My Review
478. The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball - 12/21/24 - 3.5* - My Review
479. Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman & Amanda Padoan - 12/22/24 - 4* - My Review
480. What I Know About You by Éric Chacour - 12/23/24 - 3.5* - My Review
481. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières - 12/24/24 - 4* - My Review
482. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life by Rachel Clarke - 12/25/24 - 4* - My Review
483. Faith by Jennifer Haigh - 12/26/25 - 3.5* - My Review
484. We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter - 12/27/24 - 4* - My Review
485. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson - 12/28/24 - 4.5* - My Review
486. The Modern Fairies by Clare Pollard - 12/29/24 - 3* - My Review
487. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark - 12/30/24 - 4.5* - My Review
488. Fire Exit by Morgan Talty - 12/31/24 - 4* - My Review

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