50 books in 2020!

[penguintroopers]

1. The Painted House by John Grisham*
2. Expecting Better by Emily Oster*
3. Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden, ND*
4. Scroogenomics by Joel Waldfogel*
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
6. The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs*
7. Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt*
8. The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling*
10. Still Waiting by Ann Swindell*
11. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling*
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
13. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood*
14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling*
15. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson*
16. The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer*
17. Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
18. The Accused by John Grisham
19. Why Didn't They Teach Me This In School? by Cary Siegel

[Serendip]

...
24) If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: the graduation speeches and other words to live by, Kurt Vonnegut
25) Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy
26) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: a memoir,  T Kira Madden
27) The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path, Norman Fischer
28) My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: a memoir, Amy Silverstein
28) Moby Dick, Herman Melville
29) The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Toni Morrison
30) The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See *bookclub
31) Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
32) Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 
33) The Light of the World: a memoir, Elizabeth Alexander
34) Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
35) The Lager Queen of Minnesota, a novel, J.Ryan Stradal
36) Happiness is a Choice You Make: Lessons From a Year Among the Oldest Old, John Leland
37) How To Be An Artist, Jerry Saltz
38) Goodbye Things: The New Japanese Minimalism, Fumio Sasaki
39) Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life, George Monbiot
40) Falling Up the Stairs, R.C. Hartson *memoir gifted by my MIL..not a good book but wanted to finish
41) Untamed, Glennon Doyle  *decided to see what the buzz was about

recently finished
42) Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Edward Abbey
43) No death, No fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, Thich Nhat Hanh

working on
44) Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
45) The Art of Being: Erich Fromm
46) To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker. Interesting walk-through generative linguistics, although the periodic table analaogy really didn't add much IMO.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.  Lovely novel which I've read previously. I love her work, but this is probably her best adult book, an artist and her granddaughter spend the summer together.
25) Holding - Graham Norton. So-so detective story from the Irish comedian and tv presenter.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh. Bit of planning for a future running trip.

27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan. A "classic" which I hadn't read before.

[Splashncash]

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (never read it as a kid, felt like I needed to)
2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Dinner by Herman Koch
4. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan (I'm a sucker for anything with 'bookshop' in the title)
5. The Book of Dreams by Nina George
6. Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
7. The Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
8. Beartown by Fredrik Backman.  O.M.G.
9. Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan
10. Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan
11. Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson
12. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
13. One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin
14. Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry
15. The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
16. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
17. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
18. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
19. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

DNFs:
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin  Got stuck in the October chapter.
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

20. More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin

Another DNF:
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

[diapasoun]

1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)

20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library). An extremely MMM/FIRE-compatible book (at least for some of us) -- not Stoic by any means but very much about attention, perception, rest, dialogue, and bioregionalism. Excellent book.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)
Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)

Pre-2020 books: 6/15

Local natural history and ecology: 1/9

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.  Loved this.  I've always loved mythology. And in novel form?  Swoon.  Plus a better backstory for the overlooked and often abused women of mythology?  Double swoon.  It was truer to the myths than I expected. I will definitely be seeking out her other famous book Song of Achilles as well.

[diapasoun]

Circe was amazing, and so was Song of Achilles -- I devoured that one in a single day. So so good, Miller is an utter delight.

[Frugal Lizard]

1)  Girl, Woman, Other  by Bernardine Evaristo
2) The Choice by Nicholas Spark
3) Into the Light - Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald by Sarah Milroy, Ian A. C. Dejardin and Michael Parke-Taylor
4) Why We Can't Sleep, Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
5) The Winemaker's Wife by Kristin Harmel    ......a light read.  I always enjoy historical /romance/World War 2 novel
6) The Watercolour enigma by Stephen Coates
7) Middlemarch by George Eliot - audiobook.  It was so nice to have a very long story being told to me.  I have never been able to get into Middlemarch.
8) Colour and Light in Watercolour - Jean Haines  The exercises are really hard to replicate - either I am not processing the instructions or the instructions need more pictures.
9) Watercolour Techniques - Micheal Reardon
10) Finding Fontainebleau - An American Boy in France by Thad Carhart
11) The Count of Monte Cristo audiobook
12) Careful What you Wish For - Hallie Ephron  - Pretty quick whodunit
13) Norwegian by Night - Derek B. Miller   - I enjoyed this one
14) My Brilliant Friend  - Elena Ferante.  I read this really fast.  Despite the big gap between the last post.  It is a library book that I was able to pick up from a hold.

still on deck: Food Security by Ralph Martin

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma (very relevant in this time, about an epidemic)
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alian Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44)  Snared by Ed James

[qbird]

1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
4) The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
5) Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
6) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7) Do Over by Jon Acuff
8) Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
9) The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
10) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moye
11) The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
12) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
13)The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
14) The 9 faces of HR by Kris Dunn
15) in a dark wood by Ruth Ware
16) Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
17) Love, Warrior by Glennon Doyle
18) HR On Purpose by Steve Browne
19) Open Book by Jessica Simpson
20) The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
21) Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
22) Happiness Is A Choice You Make by John Leland

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker. Interesting walk-through generative linguistics, although the periodic table analaogy really didn't add much IMO.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.  Lovely novel which I've read previously. I love her work, but this is probably her best adult book, an artist and her granddaughter spend the summer together.
25) Holding - Graham Norton. So-so detective story from the Irish comedian and tv presenter.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh. Bit of planning for a future running trip.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan. A "classic" which I hadn't read before.

30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek. First attempt at reading a Welsh language book. This is aimed at adult learners, and has uncommon vocabulary italicised with an English translation at the side of the page. Still ended up using Google translate for some words.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh. Fun children's book.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan. The subtitle of this novel “An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and Environs, 1978‑1986” tells you what it's nominally about - a fictional band in a small town in Scotland. Dark, funny, surreal, lots of experimental writing with structure and tone (there's a ~3000 word sentence at one point). Loved it.

[Luz]

1. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
2. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
4. Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (though I'm not sure I can count this one since it's quite short)
5. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks (the length of this one makes up for that of Sea Prayer)
6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
7. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
8. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki
9. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
10. Oh Crap! I Have A Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years- No Time-outs Needed by Jamie Glowacki
11. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Working on:
-Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley

[Staunch Aim]

Lots of books based on recs from friends in this installment. Quite a few that didn't resonate with me on this list.  I enjoyed parts of Trick Mirror, especially her thoughts on the performative aspect of identity.  Thinking in Bets was basically a distillation of Bayes' Theorum as it applies to self help. Ibram Kendi's book was excellent, I'm very grateful that it crossed my path.

27) Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Tolentino, Jia
28) Thinking In Bets - Duke, Annie
29) Libra - DeLillo, Don
30) How to Be an Antiracist - Kendi, Ibram X.
31) Pizza Girl - Frazier, Jean Kyoung
32) Gideon the Ninth - Muir, Tamsyn
33) Debt: The First 5,000 Years - Graeber, David

Up next: Haven't decided between Kafka's The Trial or Austen's Pride and Prejudice

[cerat0n1a]

Up next: Haven't decided between Kafka's The Trial or Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Two of the most famous opening lines in literature? "Someone must have slandered Josef K, for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested" vs "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

[diapasoun]

1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)

21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library). I kinda accidentally devoured this in one setting -- I figured "oh, I'll read a chapter before bed" and then suddenly it was 2am and I'd read the whole thing. So, it's that kind of book. This is another installment in her Wayfarers world, and it's just plain fun, like her other books. More vignette-y than plotty, but with real character arcs and growth nonetheless.

22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020). What it says on the tin. Not long, but basically a very good list. Very dated, though, as it was written in the 1960s and it talks about the Native peoples of California like a dude writing in the 1960s would talk about them.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)
The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own)

Pre-2020 books: 7/15

Local natural history and ecology: 2/9

[Frugal Lizard]

15)  A little F'd Up, Why feminism is not a dirty word, Julie Zeilinger

[Luz]

1. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
2. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
4. Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (though I'm not sure I can count this one since it's quite short)
5. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks (the length of this one makes up for that of Sea Prayer)
6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
7. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
8. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki
9. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
10. Oh Crap! I Have A Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years- No Time-outs Needed by Jamie Glowacki
11. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
12. Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley (reminded me a little of another graphic novel, "Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?"

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20. Fully the first 25% of the book was solely about the intracies and subtleties of butlering.  I had to check the blurb a couple of times to be sure I was reading the book I thought I was reading.  I'm surprised I was so taken in by this book - I found myself sneaking extra time to read more and more.  In the end, I'm going back and forth between thinking the writing technique was ingenious and worthy to thinking it was ham-handed and cloying. Fascinating book for sure.

[diapasoun]

Ohhh I loved Remains of the Day, in part because I was so fascinated by the butlering. I don't think it's always a subtle book, but it's got a lot of layers. It's like an onion that way. ;)

[Frugal Lizard]

Library pick up TODAY.  I have never been so excited about library holds coming in!

[Serendip]

...
27) The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path, Norman Fischer
28) My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: a memoir, Amy Silverstein
28) Moby Dick, Herman Melville
29) The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Toni Morrison
30) The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See *bookclub
31) Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
32) Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 
33) The Light of the World: a memoir, Elizabeth Alexander
34) Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
35) The Lager Queen of Minnesota, a novel, J.Ryan Stradal
36) Happiness is a Choice You Make: Lessons From a Year Among the Oldest Old, John Leland
37) How To Be An Artist, Jerry Saltz
38) Goodbye Things: The New Japanese Minimalism, Fumio Sasaki
39) Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life, George Monbiot
40) Falling Up the Stairs, R.C. Hartson *memoir gifted by my MIL..not a good book but wanted to finish
41) Untamed, Glennon Doyle  *decided to see what the buzz was about
42) Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Edward Abbey
43) No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, Thich Nhat Hanh

recently finished
44) Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
45) The Art of Being: Erich Fromm
46) To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee

working on
47) Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw
48) So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
49) The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Ian Baker

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio). I like her!  I did attempt to read one of her novels when I was in high school and I don't think I liked it, but now think I might be ready to give it another try. 

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma (very relevant in this time, about an epidemic)
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alian Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells

[grantmeaname]

I hit 52 books! Halfway done with my goal for the year! I had a massive three book day today. Time for a well deserved cocktail-and-tv evening! I have one book left on my Kindle, Finding Fontainebleau, and then it's empty and get to turn off airplane mode and send another dozen books over to it!

January
1. A Brief History of Indonesia by Tim Hannigan ★★★☆☆
2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ★★★★☆
3. On Love by Alain de Botton ★★★☆☆
4. Fool by Christopher Moore ★★★★☆
5. A Silent Voice, Vol.1 by Yoshitoki Oima ★★★☆☆
6. Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell. ★★☆☆☆
7. The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines ★★★★☆
8. The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher ★★★★☆
9. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl ★★★☆☆
10. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo ★★★★☆
11. The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu ★★★☆☆
February
12. The Comic Book Story of Beer by Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith, Aaron McConnell, Tom Orzechowski ★★★★☆
13. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan ★★★★☆
14. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane ★★★☆☆
15. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei ★★★★☆
16. The World Atlas of Coffee by James Hoffman ★★★★☆
17. Beneath the Vaulted Hills by Sean Russell ★★★★☆
18. The Unknown Craftsman by Soetsu Yanagi ★★★★☆
March
19. The Compass of the Soul by Sean Russell ★★★★☆
20. Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee ★★★★☆
21. Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters by Nate Sloan ★★★☆☆
22. How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie Zelinsky ★★★★☆
April
23. The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau ★★★☆☆
24. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ★★★★☆
25. The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers ★★★★☆
26. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal ★★★★★
27. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal ★★★★☆
28. The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin ★★★★☆
29. The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell ★★★★☆
30. Secondhand by Adam Minter ★★★★☆
31. Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter ★★★★☆
32. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
33. Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
May:
34. Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
35. Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
36. Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
37. The Tower of the Swallow by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★★
38. Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
39. Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆

40. Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway ★★★☆☆
41. Expecting Better by Emily Oster ★★★★★. Thanks for the recommendation @arebelspy
42. The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore ★★★★☆
43. News of the World by Paulette Jiles ★★★★☆. Read this one aloud with my wife alternating chapters, which was a nice change.
June:
44. The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner ★★★☆☆
45. Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright ★★★★☆
46. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb ★★★★☆
47. The Intelligent Asset Allocator by William Bernstein ★★★☆☆
48. The Word for World is Forest by Ursula LeGuin ★★★★☆
49. Exhalation by Ted Chiang ★★★★☆
50. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang ★★★★☆
51. Open Borders by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith ★★★★★
52. An Economist Walks into A Brothel by Allison Schrager ★★★☆☆

[grantmeaname]

I also added my goodreads ratings for the books for those of you who, like me, tend to source your reading list in part from this thread.
5 stars - I can and do recommend this book often to almost everyone I know. Less than 10% of the books I read each year. Books I still think about years later, unprompted, like Postwar.
4 stars - most books end up here by default. Novel or touching at times, and a good book I would recommend without reservations to someone in the market for that kind of book, but not a consistent masterpiece.
3 stars - a fine book either meaningfully worse than another work by the same author so I know they could do better (Alain de Botton's On Love is a tenth the achievement of The Course of Love), or worse than several other books on the same topic (The Happiness of Pursuit or The Geography of Bliss vs My Year of Living Danishly and Cal Newport). Pretty rare I give these out too...
2 stars - an absolute dog of a book, where I could have done a better job with the subject matter as a layperson accountant than the author did. 1-3 of these a year.

[Serendip]

I also added my goodreads ratings for the books for those of you who, like me, tend to source your reading list in part from this thread.
5 stars - I can and do recommend this book often to almost everyone I know. Less than 10% of the books I read each year. Books I still think about years later, unprompted, like Postwar.
4 stars - most books end up here by default. Novel or touching at times, and a good book I would recommend without reservations to someone in the market for that kind of book, but not a consistent masterpiece.
3 stars - a fine book either meaningfully worse than another work by the same author so I know they could do better (Alain de Botton's On Love is a tenth the achievement of The Course of Love), or worse than several other books on the same topic (The Happiness of Pursuit or The Geography of Bliss vs My Year of Living Danishly and Cal Newport). Pretty rare I give these out too...
2 stars - an absolute dog of a book, where I could have done a better job with the subject matter as a layperson accountant than the author did. 1-3 of these a year.

Thanks for including the ratings @grantmeaname --that's very helpful! I also source ideas from this thread but often just see what sounds interesting & then research on goodreads (so this saves me one step :) )

[Frugal Lizard]

16) Falling in Love, Donna Leon.  I find her stories of Venice and the culture so engaging.  I have only spent two night and three full days in Venice but it was so magical!

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad

[grantmeaname]

If you use the quote feature or even just manually put in a break it makes it way easier for everyone else to follow along on what you've read already.

[redhead84]

Checking in again. The pandemic has been a detriment to my ability to concentrate on reading, but I've been re-reading some old favorites on audio book. I'm up to #46 books this year, but this includes a lot of those re-read "listens" while working from home.

With everything going on, I've been putting more effort into reading books by BIPOC authors and members of the LGBTQIA+ community for Pride Month. My library access to Hoopla has some great audio book options.

Here is my June reading:

#45 - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (audio)
#46 - All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson (audio - read by the author)

The Splendid and The Vile by Erik Larson (kindle - in progress)
The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper (kindle- in progress)

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.

33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge. Interesting mix of travelogue and science.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. Funny/quirky Japanese comedy, with a feminist (and perhaps mustachian too) message. Very much enjoyed this.

[cupcakery]

I normally set my reading goal on Goodreads to 60 books for the year.  I always meet or exceed it by  bit.  Due to being gifted an Audible membership a few months ago and being home in quarantine, I'm up to 78 books and it is only June.  I haven't decided if I should exceed my goal significantly or set a new goal.

[grantmeaname]

Which option will lead to you reading more the rest of the year?

[Linea_Norway]

34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. Funny/quirky Japanese comedy, with a feminist (and perhaps mustachian too) message. Very much enjoyed this.

I found a book at my local library with a Norwegian title, which means "opened for 24 hours". I hope this is the same book as your nr 34. Then I will read it too quite soon.

[Frugal Lizard]

17) Banquet of Consequences, Elizabeth George.
18) Learn Flower Painting Quickly, Trevor Waugh

[cerat0n1a]

34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. Funny/quirky Japanese comedy, with a feminist (and perhaps mustachian too) message. Very much enjoyed this.

I found a book at my local library with a Norwegian title, which means "opened for 24 hours". I hope this is the same book as your nr 34. Then I will read it too quite soon.

It is her tenth novel, but was the first to be translated into English, last year. So I think if it is the same author, it will be the same book.

[qbird]

1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
4) The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
5) Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
6) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7) Do Over by Jon Acuff
8) Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
9) The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
10) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moye
11) The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
12) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
13)The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
14) The 9 faces of HR by Kris Dunn
15) in a dark wood by Ruth Ware
16) Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
17) Love, Warrior by Glennon Doyle
18) HR On Purpose by Steve Browne
19) Open Book by Jessica Simpson
20) The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
21) Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
22) Happiness Is A Choice You Make by John Leland
23) The Light of The World by Elizabeth Alexander

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde

[diapasoun]

1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)
21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library)
22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)

23. The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own). I read this for a book club over on another forum. It was light and easy and enjoyable -- not something I'd recommend if you're in a mood for very high-quality fiction, but 100% something I'd rec if you want light easy French-flavored wine-plus-witches fiction.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood (library)

Pre-2020 books: 7/15

Local natural history and ecology: 2/9

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata

[Raenia]

1	Warbreaker	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	1/6/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
2	The Complete Book of Home Organization	Toni Hammersley	Own	Educational	1/7/2020	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
3	Rocannon's World	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	1/14/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
4	Trickster's Choice	Tamora Pierce	Library	PopSugar	1/17/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
5	The Broken Universe	Paul Melko	Library	Sequel	1/25/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
6	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	Library	TBR List	2/3/2020	General Nonfiction
7	Eventide: Tales of the Dragon's Bard	Tracy and Laura Hickman	Library	PopSugar	2/13/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
8	Trickster's Queen	Tamora Pierce	Library	Sequel	2/15/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
9	Gilgamesh the King	Robert Silverberg	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Historical
10	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
11	Planet of Exile	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
12	Children of the Night	Mercedes Lackey	Library	Sequel	2/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
13	City of Illusions	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	3/3/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
14	The Aylesford Skull	James P. Blaylock	Library	Other	3/11/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
15	Starsight	Brandon Sanderson	Library	Sequel	3/13/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
16	The Deep	Rivers Solomon, et al	Library	PopSugar	3/16/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
17	The Dispossessed	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	3/22/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
18	Blood Price	Tanya Huff	Library	Other	3/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
19	Blood Trail	Tanya Huff	Library	Sequel	4/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
20	White Sand	Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin	Own	TBR List	4/3/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
21	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius, trans. A.S.L. Farquharson	Library	Educational	4/6/2020	Nonfiction - Philosophy
22	Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions	Johann Hari	Library	TBR List	4/8/2020	Nonfiction - Self-help
23	Hainish Stories	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	4/10/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
24	The Alloy of Law	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/11/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
25	Shadows of Self	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/12/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
26	The Bands of Mourning	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/13/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
27	The Word for World is Forest	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	4/19/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
28	The Way of Kings	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	4/26/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
29	Words of Radiance	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	5/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
30	Oathbringer	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	5/11/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
31	Hainish Stories Vol 2	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	5/18/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
32	Winds of Fate	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/22/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
33	Winds of Change	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/23/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
34	Winds of Fury	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/24/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
35	Storm Warning	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/25/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
36	Storm Rising	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/28/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
37	Storm Breaking	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/29/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
38	Owlflight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	5/30/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
39	Owlsight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	6/1/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
40	Owlknight	Mercedes Lackey	Own	Reread	6/3/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
41	Five Ways to Forgiveness	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	6/6/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction

42	Sapiens: A brief history of humankind	Yuval N Harari	Library	TBR List	6/14/2020	Nonfiction - History/Biography
43	Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening	Louise Riotte	Library	TBR List	6/20/2020	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
44	The Telling	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	6/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
45	Arcanum Unbounded	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	6/27/2020	Fiction - Fantasy

[ahptex]

(1) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
(2) Faithful Place by Tana French
(3) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
(4) Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
(5) The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
(6) Broken Harbor by Tana French
(7) If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham
(8) The Wisdom Way of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault
(9) The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey
(10) Zealot by Reza Aslan
(11) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
(12) The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Meyer
(13) The Secret Place by Tana French
(14) The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
(15) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
(16) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
(17) Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(18) Lagom (not too little, not too much): The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark
(19) The Trespasser by Tana French
(20) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
(21) Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun
(22) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
(23) One Year to an Organized Life by Regina Leeds
(24) The End of October by Lawrence Wright
(25) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
(26) The Nature Fix by Florence Wiliams
(27) The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
(28) This is How it Begins by Joan Dempsey

(29) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
(30) China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.

35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.

[Serendip]

..
27) The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path, Norman Fischer
28) My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: a memoir, Amy Silverstein
28) Moby Dick, Herman Melville
29) The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, Toni Morrison
30) The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See *bookclub
31) Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
32) Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 
33) The Light of the World: a memoir, Elizabeth Alexander
34) Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
35) The Lager Queen of Minnesota, a novel, J.Ryan Stradal
36) Happiness is a Choice You Make: Lessons From a Year Among the Oldest Old, John Leland
37) How To Be An Artist, Jerry Saltz
38) Goodbye Things: The New Japanese Minimalism, Fumio Sasaki
39) Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life, George Monbiot
40) Falling Up the Stairs, R.C. Hartson
41) Untamed, Glennon Doyle 
42) Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Edward Abbey
43) No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, Thich Nhat Hanh
44) Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder
45) The Art of Being: Erich Fromm
46) To Kill A Mockingbird: Harper Lee

recently finished
47) So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo--very good, practical info
48) The Book of Strange New Things, Michael Faber *scif-fi premise: a pastor sent to preach to 'aliens' as the world begins to fall apart.. not sure about this one but an interesting diversion

working on
49) The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Ian Baker (Tibetan Buddhism/adventure/search for Shangri-la)
50) Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw  (myth, legend, human development)
51) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk (heavy but a classic about trauma informed therapy)

[ahptex]

(1) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
(2) Faithful Place by Tana French
(3) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
(4) Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
(5) The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
(6) Broken Harbor by Tana French
(7) If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham
(8) The Wisdom Way of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault
(9) The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey
(10) Zealot by Reza Aslan
(11) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
(12) The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Meyer
(13) The Secret Place by Tana French
(14) The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
(15) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
(16) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
(17) Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(18) Lagom (not too little, not too much): The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark
(19) The Trespasser by Tana French
(20) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
(21) Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun
(22) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
(23) One Year to an Organized Life by Regina Leeds
(24) The End of October by Lawrence Wright
(25) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
(26) The Nature Fix by Florence Wiliams
(27) The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
(28) This is How it Begins by Joan Dempsey
(29) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
(30) China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

(31) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
(32) Severance by Ling Ma

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 

10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 

11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 

13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.

14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).

15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.

16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).

17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.

18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.

19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.

20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.

21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).

22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.

23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).

24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.

25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.

26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.

27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.

28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).

29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio). The name is accurate in that it is short.  But I didn't like it for an audiobook, because busy people usually like to do something else while listening (cleaning house, working out, doing a puzzle, driving) and I found I needed to pay closer attention than I could while doing anything else.  Anyway, pretty meh overall.

[Linea_Norway]

Our library app has a "suggest purchase" function, which pops up when you can't find a book in the library app. I clicked this function yesterday, and already today I got an email telling me that they ordered the book and will tell me when it has arrived and is abailable for me. Fast service!

[Linea_Norway]

January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

[cerat0n1a]

1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.

36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn. How oral histories of Aboriginal Australians (and traditional stories in Asia, North America & Europe) may contain folk memories of post-glacial sea level rises, floods, volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes, extinct fauna, other homo species etc.

[Linea_Norway]

If you use the quote feature or even just manually put in a break it makes it way easier for everyone else to follow along on what you've read already.

You didn't quote or mention anyone in your post, so I had no idea who this message was directed to. Today I suddenly realized that it might be me. In my posts, it is just the last book that is new, as simple as that.