2026 Reading Challenge discussion

Summary Stats & Links:

# Books YTD: 155
# Pages YTD: 55,060

By Genre:
59 - Non-Fiction
25 - Historical Fiction
13 - Contemporary Fiction
14 - Fantasy
5 - Science Fiction
39 - Literary Fiction

By # Pages:
20 - <=200
94 - 201-400
30 - 401-600
8 - 601-800
3 - 801+

By Star Rating:
12 - 5 stars
95 - 4 stars
42 - 3 stars
5 - 2 stars
1 - 1 star

Authors:
63 - Female
88 - Male
4 - Other

Original Language:
138 - English
1 - Albanian
1 - Chinese
1 - Dutch
4 - French
2 - German
0 - Hungarian
1 - Italian
1 - Japanese
1 - Korean
2 - Norwegian
0 - Portuguese
3 - Spanish

2026 Challenges

Personal Challenge 326 in 2026:
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Overall PBT 2026 Challenge Tracking:
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Down the Rabbit Hole:
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Grab Tag:
Planning:
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Tracking:
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ATW80 - 24 Countries:
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Ongoing Reading Around the World (ATW80)
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2026 P1FM and Color Challenges:
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PBT Chunksters aka Fat Books
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Tome Reader (at least 12 over 600 pages):
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Tomes & Chunksters Tracking Post Below:
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2026 PBT Trim List
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Trim Reporting:
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2026 TBR Jar
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2026 Joy D's 12+4
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2026 ATY52:
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2025-2026 Gridlock - Reporting:
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Gridlock - My Shelf:
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Help Me Decide - CCC: Every 2 Weeks
Links to Selection Pairs: 2025-2026
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My Personal Tracking: Post 1
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My Personal Tracking: Post 2
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Help Me Decide: 2026-2027
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Reading Roulette - High Roller:
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2025/2026: Connections Challenge
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Astrology Challenge:
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Pretty Cover, Ugly Cover, & 6 Authors:
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Hoard No More:
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Randomizer 24:
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Boxall List Site:
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Boxall List Books Read in 2026 (My List):
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Boxall Complete List of Books Read to Date:
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Ranking the Booker Winners
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Ranking the Booker Nominees and Winners
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2026 Booker Nominees Read:
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D-Trim:
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Postcards from the Edge:
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D-World Wanderings:
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Non-Fiction Team Challenge: Team Hemlock
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Crazy Cover Color
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Double, Double:
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2026 Favorites:

1. Transcription by Ben Lerner - 4/21/26 - 5* - My Review
2. Kin by Tayari Jones - 3/10/26 - 5* - My Review
3. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card - 4/11/26 - 5* - My Review
4. Smoke City by Keith Rosson - 3/20/26 - 5* - My Review
5. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger - 1/1/26 - 5* - My Review
6. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll - 1/21/26 - 5* - My Review
7. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - 2/28/26 - 5* - My Review
8. Son of Nobody by Yann Martel - 5/1/26 - 5* - My Review
9. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow - 1/31/26 - 5* - My Review
10. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander - 1/10/26 - 5* - My Review
11. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney - 2/13/26 - 5* - My Review
12. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer - 1/14/26 - 5* - My Review
13. Departure by Julian Barnes - 2/8/26 - 4.5* - My Review
14. Discontent by Beatriz Serrano - 1/4/26 - 4.5* - My Review

2026 Favorite Fiction:

1. Transcription by Ben Lerner - 4/21/26 - 5* - My Review
2. Kin by Tayari Jones - 3/10/26 - 5* - My Review
3. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card - 4/11/26 - 5* - My Review
4. Smoke City by Keith Rosson - 3/20/26 - 5* - My Review
5. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger - 1/1/26 - 5* - My Review
6. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - 2/28/26 - 5* - My Review
7. Son of Nobody by Yann Martel - 5/1/26 - 5* - My Review
8. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney - 2/13/26 - 5* - My Review
9. Departure by Julian Barnes - 2/8/26 - 4.5* - My Review
10. Discontent by Beatriz Serrano - 1/4/26 - 4.5* - My Review

2026 Favorite Non-Fiction:

1. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll - 1/21/26 - 5* - My Review
2. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow - 1/31/26 - 5* - My Review
3. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander - 1/10/26 - 5* - My Review
4. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer - 1/14/26 - 5* - My Review

January: Month - 38; YTD - 38
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Culpability by Bruce Holsinger - 1/1/26 - 5* - My Review

The Next Everest by Jim Davidson - 1/2/26 - 4* - My Review

Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay - 1/3/26 - 3* - My Review

Discontent by Beatriz Serrano - 1/4/26 - 4.5* - My Review

The Pawn by Paco Cerdà - 1/4/26 - 4* - My Review

Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami - 1/5/26 - 3* - My Review

The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro - 1/5/26 - 4* - My Review

Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera - 1/6/26 - 4* - My Review

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue - 1/7/26 - 3* - My Review

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill - 1/8/26 - 4.5* - My Review

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester - 1/9/26 - 4.5* - My Review

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander - 1/10/26 - 5* - My Review

The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend by Adam Shoalts - 1/11/26 - 4* - My Review

Grendel by John Gardner - 1/11/26 - 3.5* - My Review

Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor - 1/12/26 - 4.5* - My Review

Full Circle by Michael Palin - 1/12/26 - 4* - My Review

The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje - 1/13/26 - 4* - My Review

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer - 1/14/26 - 5* - My Review

The Successor by Ismail Kadare - 1/14/26 - 4* - My Review

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson - 1/15/26 - 3.5* - My Review

Anima Rising by Christopher Moore - 1/16/26 - 3* - My Review

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby - 1/16/26 - 4* - My Review

Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene by Tim Butcher - 1/17/26 - 4* - My Review

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman - 1/18/26 - 4* - My Review

Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin - 1/18/26 - 3.5* - My Review

The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt - 1/19/26 - 4* - My Review

Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor - 1/20/26 - 4* - My Review

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll - 1/21/26 - 5* - My Review

The Lion by Conn Iggulden - 1/22/26 - 4* - My Review

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara - 1/23/26 - 4* - My Review

The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles - 1/24/26 - 4* - My Review

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick - 1/25/26 - 4* - My Review

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach - 1/26/26 - 4* - My Review

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie - 1/27/26 - 3* - My Review

The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind by Simon Winchester - 1/28/26 - 4* - My Review

The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West by Gregory Crouch - 1/29/26 - 4.5* - My Review

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose - 1/30/26 - 4.5* - My Review

Mark Twain by Ron Chernow - 1/31/26 - 5* - My Review (hide spoiler)]

February: Month - 36; YTD - 74
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How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle - 2/1/26 - 4* - My Review

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson - 2/2/26 - 4* - My Review

This Is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin - 2/3/26 - 3* - My Review

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - 2/4/26 - 4* - My Review

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna - 2/5/26 - 4* - My Review

The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer - 2/6/26 - 3* - My Review

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt - 2/7/26 - 4* - My Review

Departure by Julian Barnes - 2/8/26 - 4.5* - My Review

Up: My Life Journey to the Top of Everest by Ben Fogle and Marina Fogle - 2/8/26 - 4* - My Review

Love is Blind by William Boyd - 2/9/26 - 4* - My Review

The Tiny Things Are Heavier by Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo - 2/10/26 - 3* - My Review

Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward - 2/11/26 - 4* - My Review

Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC by Reed Tucker - 2/12/26 - 4* - My Review

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney - 2/13/26 - 5* - My Review

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis - 2/14/26 - 4* - My Review

The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams - 2/14/26 - 4* - My Review

Home by Cailean Steed - 2/15/26 - 2* - My Review

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 2/16/26 - 3.5* - My Review

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend - 2/17/26 - 4* - My Review

Taipei by Tao Lin - 2/18/26 - 2* - My Review

American by Day by Derek B. Miller - 2/19/26 - 4 stars - My Review

It's Fine By Me by Per Petterson - 2/19/26 - 3 stars - My Review

Rutherford B. Hayes by Rob Maddock - 2/20/26 - 1* - My Review

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins - 2/20/26 - 4* - My Review

The Making of Doctor Who by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke - 2/21/26 - 3* - My Review

The Lover by Marguerite Duras - 2/21/26 - 3* - My Review

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - 2/22/26 - 4* - My Review

The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West by Will Grant - 2/23/26 - 4* - My Review

History of the Rain by Niall Williams - 2/23/26 - 4* - My Review

Venetian Vespers by John Banville - 2/24/26 - 3* - My Review

The Stranger from the Sea by Paul Binding - 2/24/26 - 3* - My Review

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 2/25/26 - 4* - My Review

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma - 2/26/26 - 4* - My Review

Solo Leveling, Vol. 1 by Chugong, adapted by Dubu - 2/27/26 - 3* - My Review

The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes - 2/27/26 - 3.5* - My Review

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - 2/28/26 - 5* - My Review (hide spoiler)]

March: Month - 41; YTD - 115
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Telephone by Percival Everett - 3/1/26 - 3* - My Review

President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear - 3/2/26 - 4* - My Review

Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky - 3/3/26 - 4* - My Review

You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker - 3/3/26 - 4* - My Review

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan - 3/4/26 - 4* - My Review

On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis - 3/5/26 - 3.5* - My Review

Chester Alan Arthur by Zachary Karabell - 3/5/26 - 4* - My Review

Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton - 3/6/26 - 4.5* - My Review

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - 3/6/26 - 4* - My Review

Red Clay by Charles B. Fancher - 3/7/26 - 4* - My Review

Woman On The Edge Of Time by Marge Piercy - 3/7/26 - 4* - My Review

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner - 3/8/26 - 3* - My Review

Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch - 3/8/26 - 3* - My Review

The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten - 3/9/26 - 4* - My Review

Kin by Tayari Jones - 3/10/26 - 5* - My Review

Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - 3/11/26 - 4.5* - My Review

An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. Paul Jeffers - 3/11/26 - 4* - My Review

Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante - 3/12/26 - 2* - My Review

I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy - 3/13/26 - 4* - My Review

When the Nightingale Sings by Suzanne Kelman - 3/14/26 - 3* - My Review

Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel by Pamela Mulloy - 3/15/26 - 3* - My Review

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie - 3/15/26 - 3* - My Review

Dominion by Addie E. Citchens - 3/16/26 - 3.5* - My Review

Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively - 3/16/26 - 4.5* - My Review

The Life of Benjamin Harrison by David Fisher - 3/17/26 - 3* - My Review

No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns - 3/18/26 - 4* - My Review

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ - 3/19/26 - 4.5* - My Review

Smoke City by Keith Rosson - 3/20/26 - 5* - My Review

The Blue Period by Luke Jerod Kummer - 3/21/26 - 3* - My Review

William McKinley by Kevin Phillips - 3/21/26 - 2* - My Review

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - 3/22/26 - 4* - My Review

Lion by Sonya Walger - 3/23/26 - 4* - My Review

The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol - 3/24/26 - 4* - My Review

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - 3/25/26 - 4.5* - My Review

How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston - 3/26/26 - 4* - My Review

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard - 3/26/26 - 3* - My Review

The Toll by Neal Shusterman - 3/27/26 - 4* - My Review

Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy - 3/28/26 - 4* - My Review

The Android's Dream by John Scalzi - 3/29/26 - 3* - My Review

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang - 3/30/26 - 3* - My Review

The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar - 3/31/26 - 4* - My Review (hide spoiler)]

April: Month - 32 YTD - 148
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor - 4/1/26 - 4* - My Review

Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler - 4/2/26 - 4* - My Review

I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right by Matt Kaplan - 4/3/26 - 4* - My Review

So Big by Edna Ferber - 4/4/26 - 4* - My Review

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington - 4/5/26 - 3* - My Review

Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi - 4/6/26 - 4* - My Review

Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried - 4/7/26 - 3* - My Review

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond - 4/8/26 - 4* - My Review

Heart the Lover by Lily King - 4/9/26 - 3* - My Review

Wintering by Peter Geye - 4/10/26 - 3* - My Review

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card - 4/11/26 - 5* - My Review

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - 4/12/26 - 4* - My Review

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey - 4/13/26 - 4* - My Review

The Bees by Laline Paull - 4/14/26 - 4* - My Review

Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan - 4/15/26 - 4.5* - My Review

A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry - 4/16/26 - 4* - My Review

A Wedding in Maine by Jen McLaughlin - 4/17/26 - 2* - My Review

Run by Ann Patchett - 4/17/26 - 4* - My Review

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple - 4/18/26 - 4* - My Review

The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma - 4/19/26 - 4.5* - My Review

The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World by Harriet Rix - 4/20/26 - 3.5 - My Review

The Witch by Marie NDiaye - 4/21/26 - 3* - My Review

Transcription by Ben Lerner - 4/21/26 - 5* - My Review

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim - 4/22/26 - 4* - My Review

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny - 4/22/26 - 4* - My Review

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe - 4/23/26 - 4* - My Review

The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh - 4/24/26 - 3* - My Review

Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street by Michael Lewis - 4/25/26 - 4* - My Review

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar - 4/26/26 - 4* - My Review

Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Aida D. Donald - 4/27/26 - 4* - My Review

The Silence of the Choir: A Novel by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr - 4/28/26 - 3.5* - My Review

Kala by Colin Walsh - 4/29/26 - 3* - My Review

Alaska by James A. Michener - 4/30/26 - 4* - My Review (hide spoiler)]

May: Month - 7; YTD - 155

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel - 5/1/26 - 5* - My Review

Upward Bound by Woody Brown - 5/2/26 - 4* - My Review

William Howard Taft by Jeffrey Rosen - 5/2/26 - 4* - My Review

I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch - 5/3/26 - 4* - My Review

The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano - 5/4/26 - 4* - My Review

The Physics of Star Wars: The Science Behind a Galaxy Far, Far Away by Patrick Johnson - 5/4/26 - 4* - My Review

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer - 5/5/26 - 3.5* - My Review

June: Month - 0; YTD - 0

July: Month - 0; YTD - 0

August: Month - 0; YTD - 0

September: Month - 0; YTD - 0

October: Month - 0; YTD - 0

November: Month - 0; YTD - 0

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Author's Body of Work:

Penelope Lively: 2026
1. Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively - 3/16/26 - 4.5* - My Review
2. Dancing Fish and Amonites - upcoming
3. A Stitch in Time - upcoming
4. tbd
5. tbd

Author's Bodies of Work - Prior Years:

Richard Powers: 2025

Lydia Millet: 2024

Haruki Murakami: 2023

Iris Murdoch: 2022

Barbara Kingsolver: 2021

José Saramago: 2020

Isabel Allende: 2019

Margaret Atwood: 2018

Erik Larson: 2017

Favorite Authors:

A

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1. Dream Count - 4.5* - My Review
2. Half of a Yellow Sun - 4* - My Review
3. Americanah - 4* - My Review
4. Purple Hibiscus - 4* - My Review
5. We Should All Be Feminists - 3* - Not Reviewed

Isabel Allende: 2019
1. Daughter of Fortune – 5* - My Review
2. Eva Luna - 4* - My Review
3. The Japanese Lover - 4* - My Review
4. Portrait in Sepia - 4* - My Review
5. Zorro - 4* - My Review
6. Violeta - 4* - My Review
7. A Long Petal of the Sea - 4* - My Review
8. The House of the Spirits - 4* - My Review
9. In the Midst of Winter - 4* - My Review
10. Inés of My Soul - 4* - My Review
11. Paula - 4* - My Review
12. My Name Is Emilia del Valle - 4* - My Review
13. Island Beneath the Sea - 3* - My Review
14. City of the Beasts - 3* - My Review
15. The Wind Knows My Name - 3* - My Review
16. Maya's Notebook - 2* - My Review

Kate Atkinson
1. A God in Ruins - 4* - My Review
2. Transcription - 4* - My Review
3. Life After Life - 4* - My Review
4. Behind the Scenes at the Museum - 3* - My Review
5. Shrines of Gaiety - 3* - My Review

Rick Atkinson
1. An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 - 5* - My Review
2. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 - 5* - My Review
3. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princet on, 1775-1777 - 5* - My Review
4. The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 - 5* - My Review
5. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 - 4* - My Review

Margaret Atwood: 2018
1. The Blind Assassin - 5* - My Review
2. Cat's Eye - 5* - My Review
3. The Handmaid's Tale - 5* - My Review
4. The Testaments - 5* - My Review
5. The Robber Bride - 4* - My Review
6. Oryx and Crake - 4* - My Review
7. MaddAddam - 4* - My Review
9. The Year of the Flood - 4* - My Review
10. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2021 - 4* - My Review
11. Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold - 4* - My Review
12. Lady Oracle - 4* - My Review
13. Alias Grace - 3* - My Review
14. Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - 3* - My Review
15. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories - 3* - not reviewed
16. Surfacing - 2* - My Review

B

John Banville
1. The Sea - 4* - My Review
2. The Blue Guitar - 4* - My Review
3. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir - 4* - My Review
4. Doctor Copernicus - 3.5* - My Review
5. The Untouchable - 3.5* - My Review
6. Snow - 3.5* - My Review
7. Venetian Vespers - 3* - My Review
8. The Singularities - 3* - My Review

Pat Barker
1. Regeneration - 5* - My Review
2. The Ghost Road - 4* - My Review
3. The Eye in the Door - 4* - My Review
4. The Women of Troy - 4* - My Review
5. The Silence of the Girls - 4* - My Review
6. The Voyage Home - 4* - My Review
7. Life Class - 4* - My Review
8. Toby's Room - 4* - My Review

Julian Barnes
1. Flaubert's Parrot - 5* - My Review
2. Arthur & George - 5* - My Review
3. Departure - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Noise of Time - 4* - My Review
5. The Only Story - 4* - My Review
6. The Sense of an Ending - 4* - My Review
7. The Man in the Red Coat - 4* - My Review
8. Elizabeth Finch - 3* - My Review

Sebastian Barry
1. The Secret Scripture - 5* - My Review
2. The Temporary Gentleman - 4* - My Review
3. Old God's Time - 4* - My Review
4. A Long Long Way - 4* - My Review
5. Days Without End - 4* - My Review
6. On Canaan's Side - 4* - My Review
7. Annie Dunne - 4* - My Review
8. A Thousand Moons - 4* - My Review

Sara Baume
1. Seven Steeples - 5* - My Review
2. Spill Simmer Falter Wither - 4* - My Review
3. A Line Made by Walking - 4* - My Review

Laurent Binet
1. HHhH - 4* - My Review
2. Civilizations - 4* - My Review
3. Perspective - 4* - My Review

John Boyne
1. A Ladder to the Sky - 5* - My Review
2. The Heart's Invisible Furies - 4* - My Review
3. The Absolutist - 4* - My Review
4. The House Of Special Purpose - 4* - My Review
5. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - 4* - My Review
6. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom - 4* - My Review
7. This House Is Haunted - 4* - My Review
8. All The Broken Places - 3* - My Review
9. A History of Loneliness - 3* - My Review

Geraldine Brooks
1. People of the Book - 4.5* - My Review
2. Year of Wonders - 4* - My Review
3. March: A Novel - 4* - My Review
4. Horse - 4* - My Review
5. Memorial Days - 4* - My Review
6. The Secret Chord - 3* - My Review
7. Caleb's Crossing - 2* - Not Reviewed

Natasha Brown
1. Assembly - 5* - My Review
2. Universality - 4* - My Review

NoViolet Bulawayo
1. Glory: A Novel - 5* - My Review
2. We Need New Names - 4* - My Review

Tim Butcher
1. Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart - 4* - My Review
2. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War - 4* - My Review
3. Chasing the Devil - 4* - RTC

C

Peter Carey
1. Jack Maggs - 4* - My Review
2. Oscar and Lucinda - 4* - My Review
3. True History of the Kelly Gang - 4* - My Review
4. Parrot and Olivier in America - 4* - My Review
5. A Long Way From Home - 3.5* - My Review
6. Theft: A Love Story - 3.5* - My Review

Michael Chabon
1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - 5* - My Review
2. Wonder Boys - 5* - My Review
3. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - 4* - My Review
4. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - 3.5* - My Review
5. Gentlemen of the Road - 3* - My Review
6. Moonglow - 2* - My Review

Alexander Chee
1. The Queen of the Night - 5* - My Review
2. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - 4* - My Review
3. Edinburgh - 2* - My Review

Ron Chernow
1. Alexander Hamilton - 5* - My Review
2. Washington: A Life - 5* - My Review
3. Mark Twain - 5* - My Review
4. House of Morgan - 4.5* - My Review
5. Grant - 4* - My Review

Tracy Chevalier
1. Remarkable Creatures - 5* - My Review
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring - 4* - My Review
3. The Glassmaker - 4* - My Review
4. The Lady and the Unicorn - 4* - My Review
5. At the Edge of the Orchard - 2* - not reviewed

Catherine Chidgey
1. The Book of Guilt - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Axeman's Carnival - 4.5* - My Review
3. The Wish Child - 4* - My Review

Bernard Cornwell
1. The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur - 5* - My Review
2. Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur - 4* - My Review
3. Fools and Mortals - 4* - My Review
4. The Pale Horseman - 4* - My Review
5. The Last Kingdom - 4* - My Review
6. Sharpe's Tiger - 4* - My Review
7. Enemy of God - 4* - My Review
8. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles - 4* - My Review
9. Sharpe's Triumph - 4* - My Review
10. 1356 - 2* - not reviewed

Michael Crummey
1. River Thieves - 4* - My Review
2. Sweetland - 4* - My Review
3. Galore - 4* - My Review
4. The Adversary - 3* - not reviewed

Louis de Bernières
1. Corelli's Mandolin - 4* - My Review
2. Birds Without Wings - 4* - My Review

Patrick deWitt
1. The Sisters Brothers - 4* - My Review
2. Ablutions - 4* - My Review
3. The Librarianist - 4* - My Review
4. French Exit - 4* - My Review
5. Undermajordomo Minor - 3* - My Review

Hernan Diaz
1. In the Distance - 5* - My Review
2. Trust - 3* - My Review

E.L. Doctorow
1. The March - 5* - My Review
2. World's Fair - 5* - My Review
3. Ragtime - 4* - not reviewed, read long ago
4. Homer & Langley - 4* - My Review
5. Andrew's Brain - 3* - My Review

Anthony Doerr
1. All the Light We Cannot See - 5* - My Review
2. Cloud Cuckoo Land - 5* - My Review
3. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World - 4* - My Review

D

Louis de Bernières
1. Corelli's Mandolin - 4* - My Review
2. Birds Without Wings - 4* - My Review

Patrick deWitt
1. The Sisters Brothers - 4* - My Review
2. Ablutions - 4* - My Review
3. The Librarianist - 4* - My Review
4. French Exit - 4* - My Review
5. Undermajordomo Minor - 3* - My Review

Hernan Diaz
1. In the Distance - 5* - My Review
2. Trust - 3* - My Review

E.L. Doctorow
1. The March - 5* - My Review
2. World's Fair - 5* - My Review
3. Ragtime - 4* - not reviewed, read long ago
4. Homer & Langley - 4* - My Review
5. Andrew's Brain - 3* - My Review

Anthony Doerr
1. All the Light We Cannot See - 5* - My Review
2. Cloud Cuckoo Land - 5* - My Review
3. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World - 4* - My Review

E

Timothy Egan
1. Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis - 5* - My Review
2. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero - 4* - My Review
3. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith - 4* - My Review
4. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America - 4* - My Review
5. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - 4* - My Review
6. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - 4* - My Review

Dave Eggers
1. The Every - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Parade - 4* - My Review
3. Contrapposto - 4* - RTC
4. The Circle - 4* - My Review
5. A Hologram for the King - 4* - My GR Review
6. The Monk of Mokha - 4* - My Review
7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - 3* - did not review

Louise Erdrich
1. The Round House - 5* - My Review
2. The Master Butchers Singing Club - 4.5* - My Review
3. The Sentence - 4* - My Review
4. The Night Watchman - 4* - My Review
5. Love Medicine - 4* - My Review
6. Four Souls - 4* - My Review
7. The Mighty Red - 4* - My Review
8. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - 4* - My Review
9. Future Home of the Living God - 3.5* - My Review
10. The Birchbark House - 3* - My Review
11. LaRose - 3* - My Review

Bernardine Evaristo
1. Mr Loverman - 4* - My Review
2. Girl, Woman, Other - 4* - My Review
3. Blonde Roots - 3.5* - My Review

Percival Everett
1. So Much Blue - 5* - My Review
2. James - 4.5* - My Review
3. The Trees - 4* - My Review
4. Erasure - 4* - My Review
5. Dr. No - 3* - My Review
6. Walk Me to the Distance - 3* - My Review
7. Telephone- 3* - My Review

F

Michel Faber
1. The Book of Strange New Things - 5* - My Review
2. Under the Skin - 4* - My Review
3. The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories - 3.5* - My Review
4. The Crimson Petal and the White - 3* - My Review

Richard Flanagan
1. Narrow Road to the Deep North - 5* - My Review
2. Question 7 - 4* - My Review
3. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - 4* - My Review
4. Death Of A River Guide - 4* - My Review

Aminatta Forna
1. The Memory of Love - 5* - My Review
2. Happiness - 4* - My Review
3. The Hired Man - 4* - My Review
4. The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion - 4* - My Review
5. Ancestor Stones: A Novel - 4* - My Review
6. The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest - 4* - My Review

Karen Joy Fowler
1. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - 4* - My Review
2. Booth - 4* - My Review

Michael Frayn
1. Spies - 5* - My Review
2. Skios - 4* - My Review
3. Headlong - 3* - My Review

G

Amity Gaige
1. Sea Wife - 4* - My Review
2. Heartwood - 4* - My Review

Damon Galgut
1. The Impostor - 5* - My Review
2. In a Strange Room - 4* - My Review
3. The Promise - 3* - My Review

Tim Gautreaux
1. The Clearing - 5* - My Review
2. The Missing - 4* - My Review

Amitav Ghosh
1. The Hungry Tide - 5* - My Review
2. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories - 4* - My Review
3. Sea of Poppies - 4* - My Review
4. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - 4* - My Review
5. The Shadow Lines - 3.5* - My Review
6. Gun Island - 3* - My Review

Julia Glass
1. Three Junes - 5* - My Review
2. Vigil Harbor - 4* - My Review

H

Matt Haig
1. The Humans - 5* - My Review
2. The Midnight Library - 4* - My Review
3. Reasons to Stay Alive - 4* - My Review
4. How to Stop Time - 4* - My Review
5. The Life Impossible - 3* - My Review

Louisa Hall
1. Speak - 5* - My Review
2. The Carriage House - 3* - My Review

Nathan Harris
1. The Sweetness of Water - 4.5* - My Review
2. Amity - 4* - My Review

Robert Harris
1. Dictator - 5* - My Review
2. Act of Oblivion - 5* - My Review
3. Precipice - 4.5* - My Review
4. Conspirata - 4.5* - My Review
5. Conclave - 4* - My Review
6. An Officer and a Spy - 4* - My Review
7. Pompeii - 4* - My Review
8. Fatherland - 4* - My Review
9. Imperium - 3* - My Review
10. The Fear Index - 2* - My Review

Nadia Hashimi
1. Sparks Like Stars - 5* - My Review
2. When the Moon Is Low - 4* - My Review
3. A House Without Windows - 4* - My Review
4. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell - 4* - My Review

Robert Hellenga
1. The Sixteen Pleasures - 4* - My Review
2. Love, Death & Rare Books - 4* - My Review
3. The Fall of a Sparrow - 2* - My Review

Nathan Hill
1. The Nix - 5* - My Review
2. Wellness - 5* - My Review

Michelle Huneven
1. Search - 5* - My Review
2. Bug Hollow - 3* - My Review

Siri Hustvedt
1. What I Loved - 5* - My Review
2. The Blazing World - 3* - My Review

I - J

Walter Isaacson
1. Leonardo da Vinci - 5* - My Review
2. Einstein: His Life and Universe - 4* - My Review

Kazuo Ishiguro
1. The Remains of the Day - 5* - My Review
2. Klara and the Sun - 5* - My Review
3. An Artist of the Floating World - 5* - My Review
4. Never Let Me Go - 4* - My Review
5. The Buried Giant - 4* - My Review
6. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nighfall - 4* - My Review
7. When We Were Orphans - 4* - My Review
8. A Pale View of Hills - 3.5* - My Review
9. The Unconsoled - 3* - My Review

Eowyn Ivey
1. To the Bright Edge of the World - 5* - My Review
2. The Snow Child - 4* - My Review
3. Black Woods, Blue Sky - 3* - My Review

Paulette Jiles
1. News of the World - 5* - My Review
2. The Color of Lightning - 4* - My Review
3. Simon the Fiddler - 3* - My Review

K

Siddharth Kara - added in 2026
1. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives - 5* - My Review
2. The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery - 4* - My Review

Daniel Kehlmann
1. The Director - 5* - My Review
2. Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann - 4.5* - My Review
3. Measuring the World - 4.5* - My Review

Thomas Keneally
1. Schindler’s List - 4* - My Review
2. The Widow and Her Hero - 4* - My Review
3. The Dickens Boy: A Novel - 4* - My Review
4. To Asmara: A Novel of Africa - 3* - My Review
5. The Book of Science and Antiquities - 3* - My Review

Barbara Kingsolver: 2021
1. The Poisonwood Bible - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Lacuna - 4.5* - My Review
3. Demon Copperhead - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Bean Trees - 4* - My Review
5. Pigs in Heaven - 4* - My Review
6. Animal Dreams - 4* - My Review
7. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never - 4* - My Review
8. Flight Behavior - 4* - My Review
9. Small Wonder - 4* - My Review
10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - 4* - My Review
11. Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - 4* - My Review
12. Prodigal Summer - 3* - My Review
13. Unsheltered - 3* - My Review
14. How to Fly: In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons - 3* - My Review

Katie Kitamura
1. Intimacies - 5* - My Review
2. Audition - 5* - My Review
3. A Separation - 3* - My Review
4. Gone to the Forest - 1* - My Review

Elizabeth Kolbert
1. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - 5* - My Review
2. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future - 4* - My Review

R.F. Kuang
1. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - 5* - My Review
2. Yellowface - 4* - My Review
3. Katabasis - 4* - My Review
4. The Poppy War - 3* - My Review

Hari Kunzru
1. Red Pill - 4* - My Review
2. White Tears - 3.5* - My Review
3. Blue Ruin - 3* - My Review

L

Benjamín Labatut:
1. When We Cease to Understand the World - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Maniac - 4* - My Review

Laila Lalami
1. The Moor's Account - 5* - My Review
2. The Dream Hotel - 4* - My Review
3. The Other Americans - 4* - My Review
4. Secret Son - 3.5* - My Review
5. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits - 3* - My Review

Tsering Yangzom Lama
1. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies - 5* - My Review

Erik Larson: 2017
1. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - 5* - My Review
2. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - 5* - My Review
3. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - 4.5* - My Review
4. Thunderstruck - 4.5* - My Review
5. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War - 4* - My Review
6. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History - 4* - My Review
7. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin - 4* - My Review

Christy Lefteri
1. The Book of Fire - 5* - My Review
2. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - 5* - My Review

Ursula K. Le Guin
1. The Lathe of Heaven - 5* - My Review
2. The Left Hand of Darkness - 4* - My Review
3. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia - 4* - My Review
4. A Wizard of Earthsea - 4* - My Review
5. Lavinia - 4* - My Review

Ben Lerner
1. Transcription - 5* - My Review
2. 10:04 - 4.5* - My Review
3. The Topeka School - 3* - Not Reviewed
4. Leaving the Atocha Station - 2* - My Review

Deborah Levy
1. Swimming Home - 4* - My Review
2. The Man Who Saw Everything - 4* - My Review
3. August Blue - 4* - My Review
4. The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies - 4* - My Review
5. Hot Milk - 3* - not reviewed

Penelope Lively: 2026
1. Moon Tiger - 5* - My Review
2. How It All Began - 4.5* - My Review - may bump this to 5 stars
3. Life in the Garden - 4.5* - My Review
4. Dancing Fish and Ammonites - 4* - RTC
5. A Stitch in Time - 4* - RTC
6. The Road to Lichfield - 4* - My Review
7. Judgement Day - 2* - My Review

Barry Lopez
1. Arctic Dreams - 5* - My Review
2. Horizon - 5* - My Review

Ma - Me

Robert Macfarlane
1. Underland: A Deep Time Journey - 5* - My Review
2. Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination - 4* - My Review
3. Landmarks - 4* - My Review
4. Is a River Alive? - 4* - My Review

Martin MacInnes
1. In Ascension - 5* - My Review

David Malouf
1. Ransom - 4* - My Review
2. Remembering Babylon - 4* - My Review

Hilary Mantel
1. The Mirror & the Light - 5* - My Review
2. Wolf Hall - 5* - My Review
3. A Place of Greater Safety - 4* - My Review
4. Bring Up the Bodies - 4* - My Review
5. An Experiment in Love - 3* - My Review

Yann Martel
1. Life of Pi - 5* - My Review
2. Son of Nobody - 5* - My Review
3. The High Mountains of Portugal - 3* - My Review

Tara Lynn Masih
1. My Real Name Is Hanna - 5* - My Review
2. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories - 4* - My Review

Daniel Mason
1. The Winter Soldier - 5* - My Review
2. Country People - 5* - RTC
3. The Piano Tuner - 5* - My Review
4. North Woods - 4* - My Review
5. A Far Country - 3* - My Review

Hisham Matar
1. My Friends - 5* - My Review
2. The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between - 4* - My Review
3. In the Country of Men: A Novel - 4* - My Review

Colum McCann
1. Twist - 5* - My Review
2. Apeirogon: A Novel - 5* - My Review
3. Dancer - 4* - My Review
4. TransAtlantic - 4* - My Review
5. Let the Great World Spin - 3.5* - My Review

Cormac McCarthy
1. The Road - 5* - My Review
2. All The Pretty Horses - 4* - My Review
3. Cities of the Plain - 4* - My Review
4. The Crossing - 4* - My Review
5. Suttree - 4* - My Review
6. No Country for Old Men - 3*- My Review
7. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West - 3* - My Review

David McCullough
1. The Wright Brothers - 5* - My Review
2. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge - 5* - My Review
3. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - 4.5* - My Review
4. Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt - 4* - My Review
5. John Adams - 4* - My Review
6. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough - 4/29/23 - 4* - My Review
7. Brave Companions: Portraits in History - 4* - My Review
8. 1776 - 3* - My Review
9. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris - 3* - My Review

Ian McEwan
1. Atonement - 5* - My Review
2. What We Can Know - 4.5* - My Review
3. Saturday - 4.5 - My Review
4. Machines Like Me - 4* - My Review
5. Nutshell - 4* - My Review
6. Lessons - 4* - My Review
7. Enduring Love - 4* - My Review
8. Amsterdam - 4* - My Review
9. On Chesil Beach - 3* - My Review
10. Black Dogs - 3* - My Review
11. The Comfort of Strangers - 2* - My Review
12. The Cement Garden - 2* - My Review

Philipp Meyer
1. American Rust - 5* - My Review
2. The Son - 4* - My Review

Mi - Mu

China Miéville
1. Embassytown - 5* - My Review
2. The City & the City - 4* - My Review
3. Un Lun Dun - 4* - My Review

Derek B. Miller
1. The Girl in Green - 5* - My Review
2. American by Day - 4* - My Review
3. Norwegian by Night - 4* - My Review

Lydia Millet: 2024
1. Dinosaurs - 5* - My Review
2. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life - 4* - My Review
3. Pills and Starships - 4* - My Review
4. Mermaids in Paradise - 4* - My Review
5. Love in Infant Monkeys - 3* - My Review
6. Fight No More: Stories - 2* - My Review

Rohinton Mistry
1. A Fine Balance - 5* - My Review
2. Family Matters - 5* - My Review

David Mitchell
1. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - 5* - My Review
2. Ghostwritten - 5* - My Review
3. Cloud Atlas - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Bone Clocks - 4* - My Review
5. Black Swan Green - 4* - My Review
6. Utopia Avenue - 4* - My Review
7. Number9Dream - 3.5* - My Review
8. Slade House - 3* - My Review

Antonio Muñoz Molina
1. Sepharad: A Novel - 5* - My Review

Haruki Murakami: 2023
1. Norwegian Wood - 5* - My Review
2. Killing Commendatore - 4.5* - My Review
3. Kafka on the Shore - 4.5* - My Review
4. Men Without Women - 4*- My Review
5. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - 4* - My Review
6. South of the Border, West of the Sun - 4* - My Review
7. The City and Its Uncertain Walls - 4* - My Review
8. The Strange Library - 4* - Not Reviewed
9. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - 3.5* - Not Reviewed
10. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - 3.5* - My Review
11. After Dark - 3.5* - My Review

Iris Murdoch: 2022
1. The Sea, The Sea - 5* - My Review
2. The Black Prince - 4.5* - My Review
3. Bruno's Dream: A Novel - 4* - My Review
4. A Severed Head - 4* - My Review
5. The Italian Girl - 3* - My Review
6. The Time of the Angels - 3* - My Review
7. The Red and the Green - 3* - My Review
8. Flight From The Enchanter - 3* - My Review

N

Ray Nayler
1. The Mountain in the Sea - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Tusks of Extinction - 3.5* - My Review

Rémy Ngamije
1. The Eternal Audience of One - 5* - My Review
2. Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape - 3* - My Review

Viet Thanh Nguyen
1. The Sympathizer - 5* - My Review
2. The Committed - 4* - My Review
3. The Refugees - 4* - My Review

David Nicholls
1. Us - 5* - My Review
2. You Are Here - 3.5* - My Review

Naomi Novik
1. Victory of Eagles - 4.5* - My Review
2. Crucible of Gold - 4* - My Review
3. Tongues of Serpents - 4* - My Review
4. His Majesty's Dragon - 4* - My Review
5. Black Powder War - 4* - My Review
6. Empire of Ivory - 4* - My Review
7. Throne of Jade - 3* - My Review
8. Spinning Silver - 2* - My Review

O

Téa Obreht
1. Inland - 4* - My Review
2. The Tiger's Wife - 4* - My Review
3. The Morningside - 3* - not reviewed

Tim O'Brien
1. In the Lake of the Woods - 5* - My Review
2. Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried - 5* - My Review
3. Going After Cacciato - 5* - My Review
4. If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home - 4* - My Review

Joseph O'Connor
1. My Father's House - 5* - My Review
2. Shadowplay - 4.5* - My Review
3. Star of the Sea: A Novel - 4* - My Review

Maggie O'Farrell
1. Hamnet - 5* - My Review
2. The Marriage Portrait - 4* - My Review
3. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - 4* - My Review
4. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death - 4* - My Review
5. The Hand That First Held Mine - 4* - My Review
6. This Must Be the Place - 3* - My Review
7. After You'd Gone - 2* - My Review
8. Instructions for a Heatwave - 2* - not reviewed

Yōko Ogawa
1. The Memory Police - 4* - My Review
2. The Housekeeper and the Professor - 4* - My Review
3. Revenge - 3* - My Review
4. Mina's Matchbox - 3* - My Review

Michael Ondaatje
1. Anil's Ghost - 4* - My Review
2. The English Patient (read a long time ago)
3. Warlight - 4* - My Review
4. The Cat's Table - 4* - My Review
5. In the Skin of a Lion - 3* - My Review
6. Divisadero - 3* - My Review
7. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - 3* - My Review
8. Coming Through Slaughter - 2* - My Review

Joseph O'Neill
1. Godwin - 4.5* - My Review
2. Netherland - 4* - My Review

P - Q

Ann Patchett
1. Tom Lake - 5* - My Review
2. State of Wonder - 4.5* - My Review
3. Bel Canto - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Dutch House - 4* - My Review
5. The Patron Saint of Liars - 4* - My Review
6. These Precious Days: Essays - 4* - My Review
7. Run - 4* - My Review
8. The Magician's Assistant - 4* - My Review
9. Commonwealth - 3* - My Review
10. Truth and Beauty - 3* - My Review
11. Taft - 2* - My Review

Laline Paull
1, Pod - 4* - My Review
2. The Bees - 4* - My Review

Per Petterson
1. Out Stealing Horses - 4* - My Review
2. To Siberia - 4* - My Review
3. I Refuse - 3* - My Review

Nathaniel Philbrick
1. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown - 4* - My Review
2. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - 4* - My Review
3. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War - 4* - My Review
4. Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick - 4*- My Review
5. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution - 4* - My Review
6. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - 4* - My Review
7. Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 - 4* - My Review

Richard Powers: 2025
1. Playground - 5* - My Review
2. The Time of Our Singing - 5* - My Review
3. Galatea 2.2 - 5* - My Review
4. Bewilderment - 4* - My Review
5. Generosity: An Enhancement - 4* - My Review
6. The Overstory - 4* - My Review
7. Operation Wandering Soul - 4* - My Review
8. Prisoner's Dilemma - 4* - My Review
9. Orfeo - 3.5* - My Review
10. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance - 3.5 - My Review

Annie Proulx
1. The Shipping News - 4* - My Review
2. Barkskins - 4* - My Review

Michael Punke
1. Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West - 4* - My Review
2. The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge - 4* - My Review
3. Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 - 4* - My Review
4. Ridgeline - 3.5* - My Review

Barbara Pym
1. Quartet in Autumn - 5* - My Review
2. Jane and Prudence - 4* - My Review
3. A Glass of Blessings - 4* - My Review
4. Excellent Women - 3.5* - My Review
5. Some Tame Gazelle - 3* - My Review
6. Less Than Angels - 3* - My Review

No Q's Yet

R

Tom Rachman
1. The Italian Teacher - 5* - My Review
2. The Imperfectionists - 4* - My Review
3. The Imposters - 4* - My Review
4. The Rise & Fall of Great Powers - 3* - My Review

Vaddey Ratner
1. In the Shadow of the Banyan - 5* - My Review
2. Music of the Ghosts - 4* - My Review

Philip Roth
1. The Plot Against America - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Ghost Writer - 4* - My Review
3. The Human Stain - 4* - My Review
4. American Pastoral - 4* - My Review
5. Goodbye, Columbus - 4* - not reviewed
6. Nemesis - 4* - My Review
7. Indignation - 3* - My Review
8. Portnoy's Complaint - 3* - not reviewed

Salman Rushdie
1. Victory City - 5* - My Review
2. Quichotte: A Novel - 4* - My Review
3. The Moor's Last Sigh - 4* - My Review
4. The Golden House - 4* - My Review
5. Shalimar the Clown - 4* - My Review
6. Midnight's Children - 4* - My Review
7. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder - 4* - My Review
8. The Enchantress of Florence - 3* - My Review
9. The Satanic Verses - 3* - not reviewed

Mary Doria Russell
1. The Sparrow - 5* - My Review
2. Children of God - 4* - My Review
3. Dreamers of the Day - 4* - My Review
4. Doc - 4* - My Review
5. A Thread of Grace - 4* - My Review
6. The Women of the Copper Country - 3* - My Review
7. Epitaph - 3* - My Review

Donal Ryan
1. Heart, Be at Peace - 4* - My Review
2. The Spinning Heart - 4* - My Review
3. Strange Flowers - 4* - My Review
4. From a Low and Quiet Sea - 3.5* - My Review
5. All We Shall Know - 3.5* - My Review
6. The Queen of Dirt Island - 3* - not reviewed

S

Mark Salzman
1. The Soloist - 5* - My Review
2. Lying Awake - 4* - My Review
3. The Man in the Empty Boat - 4* - My Review
4. Iron & Silk - 4* - My Review

José Saramago: 2020
1. The Cave - 5 * - My Review
2. Blindness - 4* - My Review
3. Seeing - 4* - My Review
4. The Stone Raft - 4* - My Review
5. Baltasar and Blimunda - 4* - My Review
6. All the Names - 4* - My Review
7. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis - 4* - My Review
8. The Elephant's Journey - 4* - My Review
9. The History of the Siege of Lisbon - 3* - My Review
10. Cain - 3* - My Review

Diane Setterfield
1. Once Upon a River: A Novel - 5* - My Review
2. The Thirteenth Tale - 5* - My Review

Elif Shafak
1. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - 5* - My Review
2. There Are Rivers in the Sky - 5* - My Review
3. Three Daughters of Eve - 4* - My Review
4. The Island of Missing Trees - 4* - My Review
5. The Bastard of Istanbul - 4* - My Review
6. The Forty Rules of Love - 4* - My Review
7. The Architect's Apprentice - 4* - My Review

Eleanor Shearer
1. River Sing Me Home - 5* - My Review
2. Fireflies in Winter - 5* - My Review

Carol Shields
1. Unless - 5* - My Review
2. Small Ceremonies: A Novel - 4* - My Review
3. The Stone Diaries - 4* - My Review
4. The Box Garden: A Novel - 4* - My Review

Nevil Shute
1. Pied Piper - 5* - My Review
2. A Town Like Alice - 4.5* - My Review
3. Beyond the Black Stump - 4* - My Review
4. On The Beach - 4* - My Review
5. The Far Country - 4* - My Review
6. Trustee from the Toolroom - 4* - My Review
7. Pastoral - 4* - My Review
8. An Old Captivity - 3.5* - My Review

Hampton Sides
1. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette - 5* - My Review
2. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook - 5* - My Review
3. Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West - 5* - My Review
4. On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle - 4* - My Review
5. Ghost Soldiers - 3* - My Review

Jane Smiley
1. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton - 5* - My Review
2. Lidie - 4* - RTC
3. Perestroika in Paris - 4* - My Review
4. A Thousand Acres - 3* - My Review
5. Private Life - 3* - My Review

Ali Smith
1. Winter - 4* - My Review
2. Autumn - 4* - My Review
3. Gliff - 4* - My Review
4. Summer - 4* - My Review
5. Spring - 4* - My Review
6. Companion Piece - 4* - My Review
7. How to Be Both - 4* - My Review
8. The Accidental - 3* - My Review

Zadie Smith
1. On Beauty - 4* - My Review
2. White Teeth - 4* - My Review
3. Swing Time - 3.5* - My Review
4. The Fraud - 3* - My Review
5. NW - 3* - My Review

Edward St. Aubyn
1. Double Blind - 5* - My Review
2. Parallel Lines - 4* - My Review
3. Some Hope - 4* - My Review
4. Mother's Milk - 4* - My Review
5. Dunbar - 4* - My Review
6. At Last - 3.5* - My Review
7. Bad News - 2* - not reviewed
8. Never Mind - 1* - My Review

Emily St. John Mandel
1. The Glass Hotel - 4* - My Review
2. Station Eleven - 4* - My Review
3. Sea of Tranquility - 4* - My Review
4. Last Night in Montreal - 3* - My Review

Wallace Stegner
1. The Big Rock Candy Mountain - 5* - My Review
2. Angle of Repose - 4.5* - not reviewed
3. All the Little Live Things - 4.5* - My Review
4. Crossing to Safety - 4.5* - My Review
5. Recapitulation - 4* - My Review
6. The Spectator Bird - 4* - My Review
7. Remembering Laughter - 4* - My Review

Neal Stephenson
1. Anathem - 4.5* - My Review

Magda Szabó
1. The Door - 4* - My Review
2. Abigail - 4* - My Review

T

Tan Twan Eng
1. The Garden of Evening Mists - 5* - My Review
2. The Gift of Rain - 5* - My Review
3. The House of Doors - 4* - My Review

Colm Tóibín
1. The Master - 5* - My Review
2. Long Island - 4.5* - My Review
3. The Magician - 4* - My Review
4. Brooklyn - 4* - My Review
5. The Testament of Mary - 3* - My Review
6. The South - 3* - not reviewed

Ian W. Toll
1. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 - 5* - My Review
2. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 - 5* - My Review
3. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 - 4* - My Review

Rose Tremain
1. The Colour - 5* - My Review
2. The Road Home - 4* - My Review
3. Trespass - 4* - My Review
4. The Gustav Sonata - 3* - My Review

U

Thrity Umrigar
1. The Secrets Between Us - 5* - My Review
2. The Space Between Us - 4* - My Review
3. The World We Found - 4* - My Review
4. The Story Hour - 4* - My Review
5. The Museum of Failures - 4* - My Review

Barry Unsworth
1. Morality Play - 5* - My Review
2. The Ruby in Her Navel - 4.5* - My Review

Luis Alberto Urrea
1. Good Night, Irene - 4.5* - My Review
2. The Devil's Highway: A True Story - 4* - My Review
3. The House of Broken Angels - 4* - My Review
4. Into the Beautiful North - 4* - My Review
5. The Hummingbird's Daughter - 3* - not reviewed

V

Vauhini Vara
1. The Immortal King Rao - 5* - My Review
2. Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age - 4* - My Review

Abraham Verghese
1. The Covenant of Water - 5* - My Review
2. Cutting for Stone - 4* - My Review

Susan Vreeland
1. Girl in Hyacinth Blue - 4* - My Review
2. Luncheon of the Boating Party - 4* - My Review

W

Richard Wagamese
1. Indian Horse - 5* - My Review
2. Medicine Walk: A Novel - 4* - My Review

Andy Weir
1. Project Hail Mary - 5* - My Review
2. The Martian Chronicles - 4* - My Review
3. Artemis - 4* - My Review

Kevin Wilson
1. Now Is Not the Time to Panic - 4.5* - My Review
2. Run for the Hills - 4* - My Review
3. Nothing to See Here - 3* - My Review

Simon Winchester
1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - 5* - My Review
2. The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible - 5* - My Review
3. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic - 4.5* - My Review
4. The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - 4* - My Review
5. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology - 4* - My Review
6. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom - 4* - My Review
7. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America & the Great California Earthquake of 1906 - 4* - My Review
8. The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind - 4* - My Review
9. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World - 4* - My Review
10. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories - 3* - My Review

Michael Wood
1. Conquistadors - 4.5* - My Review
2. In the Footsteps of Du Fu - 4* - My Review

X - Z

No X's

No Y's

Markus Zusak
1. The Book Thief - 5* - My Review
2. Bridge of Clay - 4* - My Review
3. I Am the Messenger - 4* - My Review
4. Three Wild Dogs - 4* - My Review

Keiichirō Hirano*
Bruce Holsinger*
Shehad Karunatilaka*
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka - 9/2/22 - 5* - My Review
Rebecca Makkai*
Sandor Marai*
Larry Watson*

* = read one

Boxall List Read in 2026

1. The Successor by Ismail Kadare - 1/14/26 - 4* - My Review
2. The Lover by Marguerite Duras - 2/21/26 - 3* - My Review
3. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - 2/22/26 - 4* - My Review

P1FM & Cover Color

January P1FM:
Snow Road Station Elizabeth Hay
How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby
Wild Swans Jung Chang
Shadowplay Joseph O'Connor

January Cover Color: White & Silver
Empireland Sathnam Sanghera
The Stowaway Laurie Gwen Shapiro

February P1FM:
Nimona N.D. Stevenson
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
Intermezzo Sally Rooney
The Bookbinder of Jericho Pip Williams
Home Cailean Steed

February Cover Color: Lavender & Pink
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Mandanna
Sunrise on the Reaping - Collins

March P1FM:
You Don't Belong Here - Becker
The Lost Apothecary - Penner
Kin - Jones
When the Nightingale Sings - Kelman
The Lightkeeper's Daughter - Pendziwol

March Color
On the Edge of Gone - Duyvis - Navy
Snowdrops - Miller - Light Grey

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Booker Candidates

Worthy of consideration:
Transcription - Ben Lerner
Kin - Tayari Jones
Son of Nobody - Yann Martel
Departure - Julian Barnes
A Guardian and a Thief - Megha Majumdar
Paradiso 17 - Hannah Lillith Assadi
The Wayfinder - Adam Johnson

Tomes

Tomes (over 600 pages):

1. We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill - 1/8/26 - 4.5* - My Review (676 pages)
2. The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt - 1/19/26 - 4* - My Review (704 pages)
3. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll - 1/21/26 - 5* - My Review (944 pages)
4. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow - 1/31/26 - 5* - My Review (1196 pages)
5. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 2/25/26 - 4* - My Review (662 pages)
6. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear - 3/2/26 - 4* - My Review
7. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - 3/25/26 - 4.5* - My Review (608 pages)
8. The Toll by Neal Shusterman - 3/27/26 - 4* - My Review (625 pages)
9. Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried - 4/7/26 - 3* - My Review (608 pages)
10. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond - 4/8/26 - 4* - My Review (626 pages)
11. Alaska by James A. Michener - 4/30/26 - 4* - My Review (915 pages)

Chunksters - PBT (over 500 pages):

1. We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill - 1/8/26 - 4.5* - My Review (676 pages)
2. The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander - 1/10/26 - 5* - My Review (552 pages)
3. The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje - 1/13/26 - 4* - My Review (576 pages)
4. The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt - 1/19/26 - 4* - My Review (704 pages)
5. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll - 1/21/26 - 5* - My Review (944 pages)
6. Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose- 1/30/26 - 4.5* - My Review (592 pages)
7. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow - 1/31/26 - 5* - My Review (1196 pages)
8. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - 2/22/26 - 4* - My Review (562 pages)
9. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 2/25/26 - 4* - My Review (662 pages)
10. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - 2/28/26 - 5* - My Review (592 pages)
11. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear - 3/2/26 - 4* - My Review (624 pages)
12. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - 3/22/26 - 4* - My Review (528 pages)
13. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - 3/25/26 - 4.5* - My Review (608 pages)
14. The Toll by Neal Shusterman - 3/27/26 - 4* - My Review (625 pages)
15. Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried - 4/7/26 - 3* - My Review (608 pages)
16. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond - 4/8/26 - 4* - My Review (626 pages)
17. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple - 4/18/26 - 4* - My Review (544 pages)
18. Alaska by James A. Michener - 4/30/26 - 4* - My Review (915 pages)

Booker Nominees Read in 2026

1. Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward - 2/11/26 - 4* - My Review
2. History of the Rain by Niall Williams - 2/23/26 - 4* - My Review
3. An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma - 2/26/26 - 4* - My Review
4. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - 2/28/26 - 5* - My Review
5. Snowdrops by A.D. Miller - 3/11/26 - 4.5* - My Review
6. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie - 3/15/26 - 3* - My Review