All About Books discussion

20 Books on my Goodreads TBR shelf prior to 1 Jan 2020

1. Daisy Jones & The Six (on my TBR sinc Jan 2019)
2. The Cutting Room (on my TBR since Aug 2019)
3. A History of New Zealand Women (on my TBR since May 2016)
4. The Doll Factory (on my TBR since May 2019)
5. If I Had Your Face (on my TBR since Oct 2019)
6. The Collector (on my TBR since Jan 2017)
7. Stalin Ate My Homework (on my TBR since Apr 2013)
8. A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip (on my TBR since Oct 2018)
9. Passing (on my TBR since Jun 2018)
10. Five Quarters of the Orange (on my TBR since Jul 2014)
11. The Grass Is Singing (on my TBR since Dec 2013)
12. The Lucky Galah (on my TBR since Apr 2018)
13. The Signature of All Things (on my TBR since Aug 2019)
14. Trust No One (on my TBR since Aug 2019)
15. The Girls (on my TBR since Dec 2015)
16. The American Lover (on my TBR since Aug 2019)
17. Ross Poldark (on my TBR since Apr 2015)

20 Books that have been on my Physical shelf since prior to 1 Jan 2021

1. The Shadow King
2. The Idea of Perfection
3. The Cutting Room
4. Faceless Killers
5. A History of New Zealand Women
6. The Doll Factory
7. The Collector
8. A Different Kind of Evil
9. Five Quarters of the Orange
10. The Lucky Galah
11. The Signature of All Things
12. Trust No One
13. The American Lover
14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

10 books from B.A.M.E authors

1. The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
2. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
3. My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
4. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
5. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6. Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
7. Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
8. If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
9. Passing by Nella Larsen
10. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman

11. Auē by Becky Manawatu
12. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
13. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
14. National Anthem by Mohamed Hassan
15. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
16. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
17. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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

1. Passing
2. The Grass Is Singing
3. Giovanni's Room
4.
5.

10 of the oldest books on my shelf

1. Sarum: The Novel of England
2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
4. Credo
5. Silent Spring
6. Into the Darkest Corner
7. The Rules of Inheritance
8. The Story of My Life
9. Is It Just Me?
10. Cloudstreet

Read 17 books set in 17 different countries

1. Australia
2. Ethiopia
3. U.S.A
4. Scotland (UK)
5. Japan
6. England (UK)
7. Sweden
8. New Zealand
9. India
10. Mexico
11. South Korea
12. Spain (Tenerife)
13. France
14. Ireland
15. South Africa
16.
17.

Nice set of challenges! Good reading in 2021.

Really nice!!! Good luck

These are great goals. Thanks for posting. I think I will take this on for myself... although I will definitely reduce some of the numbers.

Thanks :) I've done these challenges for a few years now and they keep my focussed without being overwhelming so I've stuck with them. Happy reading.

I'm really enjoying how diverse my reading feels so far this year as I've been focussing on reading books set in different countries.

But really need to read some more books off my TBR! I'm super behind in that.

Thanks for sharing your reading list. You have some pretty good titles that I've added. :) Curious when are done with The Collector.

Cathie wrote: "Thanks for sharing your reading list. You have some pretty good titles that I've added. :) Curious when are done with The Collector."

The Collector was interesting and very easy to read. But nothing revolutionary. 3.5* for me. But if it sounds like something you'd enjoy, give it a try :)

Erica wrote: "Cathie wrote: "Thanks for sharing your reading list. You have some pretty good titles that I've added. :) Curious when are done with The Collector."

The Collector was interesting and very easy to ..."

I've read it and was underwhelmed - not that I wanted it to be so gory, but I had a bit of high expectations. Seems you felt somewhat the same.

Some of the Guardian books I want to try pick from for my challenge in the second half of the year:

1. Middlemarch
2. The Midwich Cuckoos
3. Affinity
4. The Famished Road
5. Cloud Atlas
6. The Master and Margarita
7. The Accidental Tourist
8. Giovanni's Room

Erica wrote: "Some of the Guardian books I want to try pick from for my challenge in the second half of the year:

1. Middlemarch
2. The Midwich Cuckoos
3. Affinity
4. The Famished Road
5. Cloud Atlas
6. The Ma..."

Middlemarch is a real masterpiece!!! I've read it at least 3/4 times, and probably I'll pick it up again sometime...