A Year of Reading 2015 - 2021


2021

 








 





































 


  












 

















 

DNF





2020
















DNR

 



































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(e-book)

(Re-reading for book club)





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DNR


 












 









 





2019
























DNR







Audiobook, narrated by Michelle Obama

KOBO

KOBO


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Audio






DNR















DNF
































Gruesome!









DNR






DNF




















Did not finish. This just wasn't a book that appealed to me, especially right after reading Becoming Human. Maybe I'll come back to it later.









Audio Version














2018









Did Not Read - too gory!










DNR












Did not finish. Disappointed that 130 pages in I couldn't get interested. Moved on to other books in the queue















Didn't finish this: it was due at the library and I wasn't getting into it





I did not finish this book: normally I enjoy 
Michael Connelly whodunits but this one 
didn't capture my interest and 
there are a lot of other books on my shelf
















(I did not finish any of last 3 books
 - just didn't find them interesting, moved on)














Did not finish - just couldn't get into it













































I did not finish this book. I found it irritating, with no quotation marks.

Another novel without quotation marks, but I did soldier through.


























A Curious Beginning

Parting Shot

At the Edge of Summer

The Hidden Life of Trees

Let Darkness Bury the Dead

The Music Shop

Tomboy Survival Guide





2017


Hag-seed

By Gaslight

The Boy on the Porch

Victoria

The Royal Nanny



Persepolis
(second read for book club)

The German Girl

The Shepherd's View

Birds


Happy People Read & Drink Coffee
Gaaa...chick lit translated from French 😒

Below the Belt

Precious and Grace

The Twenty-three

Big Little Lies

Still Mine

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

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Unearthed

The Monsters of Templeton

The Empty House

Mary, Mary

She's Not There

The Girl on the Train
Second reading for book club

Radio Girls

Dinner With Edward



Dragon Springs Road

Stolen Beauty

A Piece of the World

Cooking for Picasso

Night School

Friends Like Us
Did not finish this book. It wasn't interesting so I moved on.


The Couple Next Door

Persepolis
Re-read

Lyrebird


Heartbreak Hotel


Angel Catbird

I Carried You Home


The Idea of Canada

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

Lilac Girls

The Murderer's Daughter

The Ballroom

The Hidden Keys

In This Grave Hour

A Man Called Ove

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The Family Way

The Queen's Accomplice

Burial Rites

Before I Go to Sleep

Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk

The Couturier of Milan

Lincoln in the Bardo

The Good Thief

What's Left Behind
(did not finish - I seem to have lost my interest in this story line)

Coming Ashore
(second time reading: enjoyed just as much this time!)

The Lake House

One Brother Shy
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Reykjavík Nights

The Stone Carvers

The Lonely Hearts Hotel

Full Dark House

The Wrong Side of Goodbye

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Natural Order

The Boys in the Boat

Commonwealth

Scarborough

Dead Ground in Between

Solitude
The Water Room

The Tiny Wife

The Excellent Lombards

The Bookseller

The Gilded Years

Front Runner



The Genius of Birds

Pretty Girls
DNR: not my kind of book

Precious Cargo

Motive

City of Darkness and Light

Word by Word

Dark Territory

Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone

Liberty Street

The Jesus Cow

Indian Horse
(second reading for book club)

No Is Not Enough

Barely Legal

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

The Book of Mirrors

Cover art
(Kobo)


Birdcage Walk


Sisters in the Wilderness


I See You

The Railwayman's Wife


Sister, Sister

Cool Water

Away in A Manger

Goodnight From London



Transit

The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr

Fast & Loose

Letters From Skye
This was a perfect book to read around Remembrance Day

The Breakdown

Be Ready for the Lightning


The Last Neanderthal

The Light of Paris

Copycat

Fifteen Dogs

(Re-reading for Book Club)

The Child Finder

The Paris Spy

Manhattan Beach

The Best Kind of People

Quick & Dirty

Woman Enters Left

How We Eat With Our Eyes and Think With Our Stomach

I Am A Truck

The Burning Girl

Hum If You Don't Know the Words

Little Fires Everywhere

The Boat Runner

The Witches of New York



Emma in the Night

The Child

Time of Fog and Fire

Total:127  


2016


The Crossing

A Whole Life

Tell Me, Pretty Maiden

A God in Ruins

Outline

Orphan Train
(second reading for book club meeting)

The Discovery of Middle Earth

Library of Souls

The Country Life

The Theory of Death

Landing Gear

The Evening Chorus

The Marble Collector

Still Life With Bread Crumbs

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The Plum Tree

Our Endless Numbered Days

In A Gilded Cage

Make Me

Fifteen Dogs

Mãn

The Last Illusion

Too Many Cooks
Gaaaah! Chick Lit :(

The Princeling of Nanjing


I'll Give You the Sun
Did not finish this book. Lots of people really love this book,
but the writing style wasn't for me.


If You Find Me

Road Ends
Rereading for Book Club

Sailor and Fiddler

The Shepherd's Life

Before He Finds Her


My Secret Mother

Breakdown

Stalin's Daughter

Under the Visible Life

The Life of Elves

At the Edge of the Orchard

Family Jewels

The Hatbox Letters
(second reading for book club)

The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
DNF

The Stranger

Chicago

The Three Sisters Bar & Hotel

The Summer Before the War

The Widow

Bless the Bride

All the Single Ladies

Bittersweet

The Dust That Falls From Dreams

A Year of Marvellous Ways

The Nest

The Daughter

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

The Beach Trees

Lullabies for Little Criminals

The Fixer

Journey to Munich

The Innocence Game

Kitchens of the Great Midwest

After I'm Gone

Redemption Road

Dishonorable Intentions

Villa America

The Nest

A Country Road, A Tree

Orphan #8

You Never Know

My Secret Sister

The English Girl

Voices in the Ocean

Different Class



The Truth Commission

Come Rain or Come Shine

The Golem of Paris

Career of Evil

Moonlight Over Paris

Hush Now, Don't You Cry

Me Before You

Vinegar Girl

End of Watch

The Secret Chord

Belgravia

Slade House

Remarkable Creatures

Gut

When Breath Becomes Air

The Drowned Boy

Matilda

Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus

Smooth Operator

My Brilliant Friend

The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin

Sex, Lies & Serious Money

Hellfire

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

The Spawning Grounds

Esther the Wonder Pig

Homegoing

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin


The Last Bookaneer

On Trails

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Wenjack

Love May Fail

Nutshell

A Gentleman in Moscow

The Lost Wife

The Orchardist

Book Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

Faithful

The Wonder

The Story of A New Name

Total: 114

2015



January 

Transatlantic

The Winter People

Human Remains

Rumours of Glory

The Invention of Wings

Bone and Bread

February 

The Paris Winter

Insatiable Appetites

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

Hello From the Gillespies


After the War Is Over

Great story, but read Robson's Somewhere in France first)

The Murder Man


March 

The Care and Management of Lies

Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good

This is Christian lit. I read the previous books in the series quite a few years ago and now Karon has come out with the first new one in 5 years so I had to catch up on what Father Tim, a retired Episcopalian minister and his wife Cynthia are up to. They live in a small village in rural North Carolina - the southwest part of the state in the Great Smoky Mountains. Father Tim has a way of active listening that is inspiring and Karon has him saying prayers that are quite wonderful. But don't read it if this isn't your " thing" !




All the Light We Cannot See

Second reading of this excellent book for a book club meeting next week.


They Left Us Everything


When You Reach Me


The Buried Giant


April 

12 Rose Street, Gail Bowen

12 Rose Street

*Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng

Everything I Never Told You


The Great Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms: How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century but Didn't Mean to, Ian Thornton


The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms


The Taxidermist's Daughter, Kate Mosse

The Taxidermist's Daughter


Republic of Dirt, Susan Juby

Republic of Dirt


A Dangerous Place, Jacqueline Winspear

A Dangerous Place


The Broken Hours, Jacqueline Baker


The Broken Hours


Consumed, David Cronenberg

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This book is back on the shelf not having been read. By the time I was 80 or so pages in I came to understand that this book just wasn't interesting, so I put it aside in favour of the many others on my to-read list.

The Boundless, Kenneth Oppel

The Boundless


Dead Wake, Erik Larson

Dead Wake


At the Water's Edge, Sara Gruen

At the Water's Edge


The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, Catharina Ingelman Sundberg

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules


Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline

Orphan Train

May

 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry



Paper Towns


Someone Is Watching

Hot Pursuit

The Hundred-foot Journey

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
I've read this before, but I needed to refresh my memory in order to read Ransom Rigg's next book in the series, Hollow City.


It's A Long Story



The Road Is How

Hollow City

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

 June 

All My Puny Sorrows

I confess I didn't finish All My Puny Sorrows. The subject matter was too sad. 

The Miniaturist

The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan
(Kobo)

Crooked House
(Kobo)


(Kobo)

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(Kobo)

Personal

July 

The Rosie Effect

Run

Close your Eyes, Hold Hands

Joyland

The Birthday Lunch

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

No Safe House

The Vacationers




August 

The Little Paris Bookshop

The Summer Girls

And Then There Were Nuns

The Weight of Blood

Mr. Mercedes

The Nightingale

Buddhaland Brooklyn

Deadline

The Organized Mind

Deadline

All the Birds, Singing

Mean Streak

Incontinent on the Continent

The Burning Room

The One and Only Ivan

Belonging

The Promise

Bones Never Lie

September 

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café

The Inconvenient Indian

The Afterlife of Stars

Elizabeth Is Missing

They Called Me Number One

The Murder of Harriet Krohn

Fossum's book, written in the voice of the murderer was so disturbing, I could not read it.

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon


The Bone Clocks

The Girl on the Train



October

Murphy's Law

Death of Riley

For the Love of Mike

Broken Promise

The Cuckoo's Calling
(a re-read)

Sandrine's Case

The Marriage of Opposites

A Measure of Light

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Thinking in Pictures

Tell

Nora Webster

Finders Keepers

Coming Ashore

Tapestry of Fortunes

The Dressmaker


 November 

In Like Flynn

The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up

A Long Way Gone

The King of Shanghai

Poles Apart
(Weekly Podcast)

Foreign Affairs

Not My Father's Son

Oh Danny Boy

The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

In Dublin's Fair City


Prune

The Story of Land and Sea
(didn't finish this book - just couldn't get into it)

 December

Speaking in Bones

A Siege of Bitterns

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise

Astonish Me

Total: 116


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