Last year I did an end of year review of everything I’d read in 2015. I read one book a month in 2015 and set myself the challenge of two a month for 2016. Now it’s worth remembering that I spent three months of this year travelling around the world on trains with ample time to read which certainly made it easier but this year I’ve read 30 books. Well 30 and a half as I’m only half way through Eowyn Ivey’s “The Snow Child” which is a beautifully written novel based in Alaska in the 1920s.
The total might have only been 29 and a half had I not accidentally read, “Girl on a Train” thinking it was “The Girl on the Train” which I read once I realised my mistake. I haven’t done a review of each book like last year because there are too many of them so instead I’ve taken a leaf out of the Chief Whip’s book and underlined the ones I highly recommend. For 2017 I will be taking on the “50 Book Challenge” – you can get involved on Twitter by following the hashtag #50BookChallenge.
Oryx & Crake – Margaret Atwood
The Circle – Dave Eggers
The End of the World Running Club – Adrian J. Walker
Mortal Engines – Philip Reeve
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo – Amy Schumer
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Room – Emma Donoghue
Not That Kind Of Girl – Amy Poehler
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse – David Mitchell
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Art of Travel – Alain De Botton
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling
The Lady In The Van – Alan Bennett
Committed – Elizabeth Gilbert
Sweet Bitter – Stephanie Danler
How To Build A Girl – Caitlin Moran
Girl On A Train – AJ Waines
The Girl On The Train – Paula Hawkins
Nod – Adrian Barnes
High Challenge Low Threat: How the best leaders find the balance – Mary Myatt
A Perfectly Good Family – Lionel Shriver
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
I Love Dick – Chris Kraus
The Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert
High Rise – JG Ballard
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
The Shock of the Fall – Nathan Filer
A Boy Called Christmas – Matt Haig
The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
Thanks for sharing the #50bookChallenge. My first book of the year is The Muralist by BA Shapiro
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Well done! Puts me to shame, 50 books seems an awful lot but I have just read two books over the past two weeks. Blitzed about the drug culture in the third Reich. Life in parts by Bryan Cranston aka Walter White! For very different reasons, I would recommend both! Here’s to more good books in 2017. Not sure I’ll make 50 but will give it a go. Thank you
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I only read 24 books this year… 50 seems like a realistic goal! 😛
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Nice list! I’ve read a lot, but not THAT much! I tend to read 3 or 4 books at a time, and pick the one that …I guess….matches my mood? Not that there’s much of a match when I’m reading about the murder of JonBenet Ramsay. Perfect Murder, Perfect Town. Not so much a ‘story’ as a VERY long report. What a debacle that was!! Jumping from that into Steven King’s Langoliers, to Big Little Lies – Liane MOriarty, one of my own, a Sydneysider….what an author!! Good luck with 2017.
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