50 books in 2020!

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett - I recommend the audio version - Tom Hanks was an excellent narrator!
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

[Serendip]

1) Born A Crime, Trevor Noah (audiobook)
2) The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
3) The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides (bookclub)
4) Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection, Brian Grazer
5) The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
6) Self-Knowledge, The School of Life (Alain de Botton) :
7) Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright
8) A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
9) How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: Jenny Odell
10) The Working Mind & Drawing Hand of Oliver Jeffers (art book)
11) A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations, Pico Iyer

[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 half.
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

Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry in a special vers form called Olleke Bolleke) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P. Read halfway so far.

Currently reading:
Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi

[qbird]

1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

My Book Club read Little Fires Everywhere.  How did you like it?

I liked it, definitely recommend.  I struggle with time so a book has to capture my interest right away, this book did that.

[jeroly]

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Where did the other 1/2 death go? Or does it have a different title in Norwegian?

[Linea_Norway]

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Where did the other 1/2 death go? Or does it have a different title in Norwegian?

When I ordered the book in the library app, I noticed there were two different titles. But they suggested they were the same book. I read the English version.

Apparently the original book title was changed for the American market.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2018/sep/13/us-uk-book-titles-changed

[jeroly]

1. Severance by Ling Ma

A Chinese immigrant to America tells the story of being one of the few survivors of a mysterious epidemic that zombifies almost all of humanity.  No brain eating, just good writing.
[edit: link to cover photo removed]

2.  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Moscow Hotel and over the course of thirty some years, his life there unfolds.  Sweet and light, with occasional interesting philosophical observations.
[edit: link to cover photo removed]

3. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley

An Illinois girl marries and moves to the Kansas Territory in 1855.  Long and slow in parts, it does provide an interesting lens into the story of "Bleeding Kansas," a chapter of American history I didn't know much about before.
[edit: link to cover photo removed]

4. Quit like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung

A pretty great life story / intro to FIRE by a couple who FIREd at 31.  With the caveat that, IMNSHO, they miss the boat on the problems with yield chasing (they recommend high dividend, REITs, and preferred shares as a separate component of a FIRE portfolio to create a “yield shield”), it’s filled with good information.
[edit: link to cover photo removed]

5. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Focused on eighties high schoolers at a southern performing arts school, this book has some surprising twists that I'll save the spoilers on. Well written.


[edit: link to cover photo removed]

6. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
The (true) history of Theranos’ rise and fall. An astonishing story of gullibility, greed, salesmanship, corporate malfeasance, and legal thuggery.

[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


Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry in a special vers form called Olleke Bolleke) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P. Read halfway so far.

[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*

* Audiobook

[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 - biography of my grandad's teenage hero, Learie Constantine, the Trinidadian cricketer and first black man to be knighted and become a member of the House of Lords in Britain.

8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami

[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 .... some back to basics exercise as I am still struggling with knowing how wet the paper is

[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

Hmmm.  Why do I feel like baking something...

[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.

[ahptex]

(1) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
(2) Faithful Place by Tana French

(3) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

[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

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer - I read it before, but wanted to listen to the audio version.

[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). Ohhhh this was good. It was a little slow to start, but it's weird and twisty and a little heart-wrenchy, and overall just full of McGuire's ability to gut-punch you good.

Currently reading:
The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)

Pre-2020 books: 0/15

Local natural history and ecology: 0/9

I wasn't really feeling books most of January. Am luckily now diving back in.

[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 (the author is coming to my city for a presentation!)

Currently working on:
-Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki
-Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell

In Queue:
-Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (What is the What by the same author is one of my favorite books, so I'm looking forward to this one)
-The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

[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

I ordered a bunch of new books from the library. They are now available and I will pick them up tomorrow.

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
11) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur - this is a very quick listen on audio for someone who is looking for a quick option for the "Read an audiobook of poetry" prompt in the Book Riot 2020 Read Harder challenge

[QuillScroll]

1. Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High - Kerry Patterson
2. The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
3. Deep Work - Cal Newport
4. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth
5. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. A Search in secret India - Paul Brunton (Re-read)
7. The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results - Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan
8. Face to face - Brian Grazer
9. Who am I - Teaching of Sri Ramana Maharishi
10. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (Re-read)
11. A Time to Kill - John Grisham
12. The seven habits of highly effective people - Stephen Covey
13. Think and grow rich - Napolean Hill

[haypug16]

1. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson - Finished 2/11/2020
2. Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey - Currently reading


1/50

[Serendip]

1) Born A Crime, Trevor Noah (audiobook)
2) The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
3) The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides (bookclub)
4) Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection, Brian Grazer
5) The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
6) Self-Knowledge, The School of Life (Alain de Botton) :
7) Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright
8) A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
9) How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: Jenny Odell
10) The Working Mind & Drawing Hand of Oliver Jeffers (art book)
11) A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations, Pico Iyer

12) Burn the Place: a memoir, Iliana Regan
13) The Beauty of Everyday Things, Soetsu Yanagi

[travelbug]

Thank you to this who recommended Louise Penny. I hadn't heard of her and absolutely love her writing!

The list so far:

1. A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles. this is a marvellous book. I enjoyed reading it immensely. Wonderful prose.
2. The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Alex E. Harrow.  I enjoyed this book, would recommend it.
3. The Binding. Bridget Collins. I really loved this style and the storytelling.
4. The 5am Club. Robin S. Sharma. I couldn't finished this book. It was terrible. I really like his other books. Disappointing.
5. Fleishman is in Trouble. Taffy Brodesser-Akner. An easy read, I enjoyed the narrative about modern relationships.
6. Still Life. Louise Penny. A wonderful and addictive read.
7. A Fatal Grace. Louise Penny. Still fabulous.
8. Less. Andrew Sean Greer. An easy, fun read.
9. The Cruellest Month. Louise Penny. Left wanting more...
10. A rule against Murder. Louise Penny. What will I do when this series ends?????
11. The Katharina Code. Jorn Lier Horst. A slow burn, enjoyable read.
12. My sister, the Serial Killer.  Oyinkan Braithwaite. I wanted to like this but it fizzled out for me. It could have been so wonderful, but lacked a depth (IMHO.)
13. Mrs Sherlock Holmes. Brad Ricca. I really, really enjoyed this.
14. The Art of Frugal Hedonism. Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland. OK.
15. Meet the Frugalwoods. Elisabeth Willard Thames. I have followed her blog on and off since their Cambridge days and when she posted here. The book gave some extra insights.

[travelbug]

Next up:
The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.

I loved this book. Enjoy!

[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

[Calimerostache]

Jan: Proteinaholic - Garth Davis - 15/20
Read after watching game changer on Netflix. Turning me into a vegan ! Recommend
Jan: Recursion - Blake crouch - 13/20
By the writer of dark matter . I enjoyed but not as much as dark matter
Jan: cut and Run - Mary burton - 12/20
An ok thriller
Feb: Measure what matters - John Doerr - 14/20
Really enjoyed it ... but I’m a nerd
Feb: ultralearning - Scott young - 11/20
was hoping I would enjoy it a little more. I preferred  the anecdotes to the science part .
Still pushed me to learn sql in 2 weeks and get certified. Now want to move to python.

[sui generis]

1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio). Excellent writing and timely with respect to Indian politics and Hindu nationalism, even though I was a bit disappointed in the predictable ending.

2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished (read it two times through!) 01/10/2020.  I learned so much from this book, but feel I have so much more to learn!  I'd hope there are even better books out there for complete novice gardeners (regardless of geography), but this was a good start and it is super helpful with specific charts, suggestions and helpful tips on what grows best and when to plant in our area.

3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020. Took me a while to get around to this.  Depressing that it's still so on point.  Happy to read how intersectional she was/is.  I would not have expected that.

4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.  Couldn't sleep last night, so this quick read went even quicker than expected.  I probably shouldn't delve too deep into a beach-read like this, but I was fascinated how it revealed so much of the mystery really early on.  That's different!  And, in the opposite problem than usual, I thought the ending helped the book rather than hindering it (see, e.g. #1 on my list). It was slightly unpredictable, which always helps, but still was not my favorite ending.  So middling overall.

5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.  Finally read an Alice Walker book.  Very worthwhile and a good read.  I'll have to get to The Color Purple at some point.

6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020. Wow, why did it take me so long to get around to reading this?  Or even hearing of it?  I've tried to dig into SF genre a number of times over the years and enjoyed my forays and many of the famous books. So how did I miss this?  It's amazing and I loved it and the rest of the trilogy is already on hold.

7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020.  Based off of a couple of speeches she gave, it doesn't feel like a book per se (and is only about 100 pages).  I enjoyed it and learned from it, but I didn't realize its origins when I began so my expectations were a bit off, and it ended up feeling underdeveloped to me.  Nevertheless, I liked what I was seeing and have added more Beard to my to-read list.

8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.  I liked Americanah and maybe liked this better (but can't remember for sure).  Definitely like learning some bits of the actual history of a country by way of a fictional novel.  Very engaging.

And thus ends my run of women authors.  I'm in the middle of two books by male authors now.

[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

One whole book today because of bad weather.

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
11) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
12) The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

[Tess]

1.  A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
2.  A Woman of No Importance, Sonia Purnell
3.  Celine, Peter Heller
4.  Lives Other Than My Own, Emmanuel Carre
5.  Tapestry of Fortunes, Elizabeth Berg
6.  Towelhead, Alicia Erian
7.  The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown
8.  Aging with Wisdom, Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
9.  Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk

[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

Hmmm.  Why do I feel like baking something...

11. Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson

[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

[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
(So, so fascinating. Makes me wish I had considered a career in pathology in my early twenties)

Currently working on:
-Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki
-Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

In Queue:
-The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

[dblaace]

   1. The Long Road Back to Boston  by Phillip Fields Ph.D
   2. Fearvana  by Akshay Nanavati
   3. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Shonda Rhimes
   4. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
   5. Black Echo by Michael Connelly
   6. Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
   7. Angels Flight by Michael Connelly

[jeroly]

1. Severance by Ling Ma
A Chinese immigrant to America tells the story of being one of the few survivors of a mysterious epidemic that zombifies almost all of humanity.  No brain eating, just good writing.

2.  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Moscow Hotel and over the course of thirty some years, his life there unfolds.  Sweet and light, with occasional interesting philosophical observations.

3. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley
An Illinois girl marries and moves to the Kansas Territory in 1855.  Long and slow in parts, it does provide an interesting lens into the story of "Bleed
ing Kansas," a chapter of American history I didn't know much about before.

4. Quit like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
A pretty great life story / intro to FIRE by a couple who FIREd at 31.  With the caveat that, IMNSHO, they miss the boat on the problems with yield chasing (they recommend high dividend, REITs, and preferred shares as a separate component of a FIRE portfolio to create a “yield shield”), it’s filled with good information.

5. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Focused on eighties high schoolers at a southern performing arts school, this book has some surprising twists that I'll save the spoilers on. Well written.

6. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
A memoir of a dysfunctional family, a la Running with Scissors or The Glass Castle, but with war and racism thrown in for good measure.  Recommended.

[jeroly]

6. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
A memoir of a dysfunctional family, a la Running with Scissors or The Glass Castle, but with war and racism thrown in for good measure.  Recommended.

Recommendation seconded.  I first learned about Alexandra Fuller when I heard her speak on the Live at Politics and Prose podcast.  May I suggest you seek out her follow up book Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.   It's  an in depth look into how her parents ended up raising their children in Africa in the first place.

I picked up "Leaving Before the Rains Come" which apparently tells the story of the breakup of her marriage and the subsequent soul-searching it engendered, but it's about #600 in the queue :-)

Currently reading "Strange Antics - A History of Seduction" by Clement Knox, which got reviewed in this week's NY Times Book Review (under its slightly different American title).

[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

[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). Fun book overall. I like my medieval stuff, and this was a really nice look into the way that courtiers of Renaissance Italy thought about themselves and their lives and their place in the world.

6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new). This guy is such a fantastic writer, and his spiritually-focused works are just chock full of good things. This is a great book for supporting long-term internal + spiritual development -- I think I will probably be referencing it a ton.

Started a book that I got for free ages ago and it turns out I'm not that into it -- it's in the donate pile and I have sorta-crossed-off another book from my pre-2020 list. (Not for reading, but for getting through that books I own and haven't read, this is actually helpful. Also freeing up space on my shelves...)

Currently reading:

The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
Beowful, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)

Pre-2020 books: 1/15

Local natural history and ecology: 0/9

[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).  I'm a sucker for a murder mystery.  This story was intricate and well-done.  I was very interested to see how it all came together in the end.  So, why did I only give it 3/5 stars?  It's like all the parts were there but there was no soul holding it together. Classic potato chip novel - can't stop eating, but no nutritional value.

[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

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
11) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
12) The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
13) The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graff - listened to the audio version

[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.


Abandoned: Six Gun Tarot – R S Belcher .  It was a very read paperback from the library.  Narrow yellowed pages. My sleep the second night after reading was full of vivid nightmares. After 31 pages, life is short and gave up. 

[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

[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.  Ate this up. Probably biased since the setting is my city.  Hella good and refreshingly unique.

[Serendip]

1) Born A Crime, Trevor Noah (audiobook)
2) The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
3) The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides (*fiction*bookclub)
4) Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection, Brian Grazer
5) The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
6) Self-Knowledge, The School of Life (Alain de Botton) :
7) Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright
8) A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles *fiction
9) How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: Jenny Odell
10) The Working Mind & Drawing Hand of Oliver Jeffers (art book)
11) A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations, Pico Iyer
12) Burn the Place: a memoir, Iliana Regan
13) The Beauty of Everyday Things, Soetsu Yanagi

14) Starlight: Richard Wagamese (*fiction, bookclub)
15) The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism): Charles Eisenstein

[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

Currently working on:
-Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

In Queue:
-The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

[mustachepungoeshere]

I'm late to this thread but here we go.

Finished:
1. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

Current:
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McGinty

[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*

* Audiobook

Finishing my "re-read" of the Harry Potter series is almost over. I have the Deathly Hallows already checked out and downloaded for work this week!

[dblaace]

   1. The Long Road Back to Boston  by Phillip Fields Ph.D
   2. Fearvana  by Akshay Nanavati
   3. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Shonda Rhimes
   4. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
   5. Black Echo by Michael Connelly
   6. Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
   7. Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
   8. Gray Ghost by William G. Tapply