Over the past year I’ve actually done really well in my goal to read lots of new books and try to read lots of the books on my shelves (giving away the ones I don’t like). I have a bad habit of buying books- I do try to buy lots from charity shops- and whilst I read roughly 100 books a year, I LOVE the comfort and experiencing of rereading, so it can take me a long time to get round to all of my new books. I’d love to end 2020 with some reading highs (given the riot that the year has been otherwise hahaha), so I’m going to list the books that I own and haven’t read yet and I’d love your opinions on what books I should priories. 😊 Please, please let me know if you’ve read any of these and why you’d recommend them (or why you absolutely hated them). I have 20 books left to read to reach my yearly goal! (I’ve made the books that I’m currently most interested in reading bold).
- N-W- Zadie Smith
- Blonde Roots- Bernardine Evaristo
- The Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishaguro
- The Mothers- Brit Bennett
- Calypso- David Sedaris
- The Sellout- Paul Beatty
- Northern Lights- Philip Pullman
- The Book of Dust- Philip Pullman
- Morbid Relations- Jonathan Whitelaw
- Theology and Works and Days- Hesiod
- The White Boy Shuffle- Paul Beatty
- Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian- Rick Riordan
- The Book of Strange Things- Michel Faber
- Under the Skin- Michel Faber
- The Republic- Plato
- Jesus: A Life- A. N. Wilson
Books that I’ve owned for at least a year (some are honestly 5+ years old hahaha):
17. George Harrison: Behind the locked door- Graeme Thomson
18. The Light Between Oceans- M L Steadman
19. The Wasp Factory- Iain Banks
20. The Understudy- David Nicholls
21. Lanark- Alasdair Gray
22. Them- Jon Ronson
23. The Trial- Franz Kafka
24. Being Elvis- Ray Connolly
25. The Post Birthday World- Lionel Shriver
26. The Secret Garden- Francis Hodgson Burnett
27. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
28. Horns- Joe Hill
29. I am the Messenger- Markus Zusak
30. School Daze- Elaine McGeachy
31. The White Queen- Philippa Gregory
32. The Lost Books of the Odyssey- Zachary Mason
33. The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison
34. The Miniaturist- Jessie Burton
35. David Bowie: A Life- Dylan Jones
36. The Lie Tree- Frances Hardinge
37. Casting Off- Elizabeth Jane Howard
38. All the Light We Cannot See- Anthony Doerr
39. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
40. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Ken Kensey
41. Not the Life Imagined- Anne Pettigrew
42. Utopia for Realists- Rutger Bregman
43. American Gods- Neil Gaiman
44. The Elephant Keeper- Christopher Nicholson
45. The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales- The Brothers Grimm
Oh dear, 45 hahaha. Although it was genuinely about 100 a couple of years ago. There are some on the list that I really should just give away, but I’m quite the hoarder and don’t want to miss out on a potentially interesting read. Also, I’ll definitely take into account any comments, but I’m such a mood reader so please, please don’t be offended if I end up reading completely different books haha! Also, I rarely know anything about authors so please let me know if any are a bit dodgy/controversial for any reason. I hope you’re well and have read great books so far this year! 😊
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