Maybe This Year? Books to Look Forward To

1

Cinderella Goes to the Morgue

by Nancy Spain

44 members

2 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 2 July - 8 August 2025; Library paperback

2

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

4,400 members

239 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 3 January 2022; Library ebook

3

Insidious Intent

by Val McDermid

458 members

22 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle/paperback TBR, read 25 July - 9 October 2022; , favourite series/author catchup, Scottish woman writer, West Yorkshire setting

4

A Passage North

by Anuk Arudpragasam

455 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 17 January to 28 February 2022, Kindle TBR, Booker shortlist, Library reading group February 2022

5

Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

3,804 members

159 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, 2021 acquisition, Booker Prize winner 2020

6

The Man Who Died Twice

by Richard Osman

4,927 members

196 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 17-27 February 2023; Library ebook

7

Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

6,089 members

307 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963
Explanations: dara85: Read 12-9-2022

8

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

10,324 members

439 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dhm, elkiedee
Explanations: dhm: a friend: "I loved this book"
elkiedee: Read 25 July - 28 August 2022; reviewed 2022; Library hardback

9

Memorial

by Bryan Washington

1,067 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR Welcome to this list and thanks for sharing the books you're looking forward to. I bought this one as a Kindle offer the other night.

10

Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

by Lorna Goodison

11 members

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR. Welcome Paul. Just bought this with an Amazon credit given for a small part of my overspending on Kindle books recently.

11

The Paper Palace

by Miranda Cowley Heller

2,384 members

61 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee
Explanations: dara85: Dara, Read 3-24-2024
elkiedee: Read 29 March - 11 April 2022. Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist. Library ebook loan.

12

The Lacuna

by Barbara Kingsolver

5,971 members

273 reviews

3.9

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: Recommended as a sympathetic depiction of the "science-suspicious"

13

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematorium

by Caitlin Doughty

3,152 members

142 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 3-15-2023

14

Tuff

by Paul Beatty

279 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: baaic

15

You Are My Dear Friend

by Madhuri Vijay

4 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

16

Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

by Diana Athill

730 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

17

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

7,674 members

307 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 11 May-19 July 2025; Library book group read; Kindle

18

The Book of Lost Friends

by Lisa Wingate

1,798 members

82 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee
Explanations: dara85: Read 5-8-2023

19

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

6,307 members

110 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

20

Homeland Elegies

by Ayad Akhtar

1,091 members

48 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

21

A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine

3,987 members

165 reviews

4

Member: baaic

22

Dawnshard

by Brandon Sanderson

1,873 members

26 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

The Longest Journey

by E. M. Forster

1,666 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: want to restore my memory of my least-clearly remembered Forster

24

Midnight at the Blackbird Café

by Heather Webber

912 members

50 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 4-15-2023

25

Devotion

by Hannah Kent

364 members

14 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 2-17 January 2022; Netgalley

26

Encounters with the Archdruid

by John McPhee

1,178 members

21 reviews

4.1

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: next John McPhee and long overdue

27

Afterglow

by Catherine Coulter

236 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: baaic

28

Love and Fury

by Samantha Silva

168 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley, read 18-25 January 2022

29

Claiming Georgia Tate

by Gigi Amateau

102 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Reed 3-31-2023

30

Exiles

by Jane Harper

1,252 members

74 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee
Explanations: dara85: Read 9-15-2023

31

Absolution by Murder

by Peter Tremayne

1,010 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Need to find a copy of this and #2 to borrow - a series I've been interested in (and I might still have a paperback copy hidden somewhere around but not catalogued....). I have #3 to #8 and 5 later instalments in this long series on Kindle.

32

Madonna in a Fur Coat

by Sabahattin Ali

1,067 members

27 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley/Kindle TBR

33

Crossing

by Pajtim Statovci

202 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick

34

A Fire upon the Deep

by Vernor Vinge

7,205 members

165 reviews

4.1

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: realize I could appreciate this in a new way after reading Jo Walton's comments in "Why This Book is Great"

35

In the Lives of Puppets

by TJ Klune

2,402 members

69 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

36

Mrs Lincoln's Dressmaker

by Jennifer Chiaverini

1,352 members

72 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 6-12-2023

37

These Precious Days

by Ann Patchett

1,280 members

76 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 6-26 January 2022; Library ebook

38

The Family Moskat

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

960 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

39

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

by Sam Maggs

298 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: baaic

40

The Giver of Stars

by Jojo Moyes

4,509 members

191 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee
Explanations: dara85: Read 9-6-2022 This was my best book of 2022.
elkiedee: Kindle TBR

41

The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

8,643 members

148 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, Nonconformisto
Explanations: Nonconformisto: Completed: July 15, 2026

42

The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

21,725 members

407 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, Nonconformisto

43

Black Moses

by Alain Mabanckou

246 members

11 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick

44

Dead Land

by Sara Paretsky

316 members

33 reviews

3.8

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 10 January to 8 February 2022; paperback

45

Dirty Birds

by Morgan Murray

25 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: baaic

46

The Last Thing He Told Me

by Laura Dave

5,574 members

185 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee
Explanations: dara85: Read 6-23-2026

47

The Lost Man

by Jane Harper

2,241 members

131 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee

48

Sometimes I Lie

by Alice Feeney

2,712 members

152 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee

49

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,131 members

478 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

50

My Name Is Red

by Orhan Pamuk

7,788 members

186 reviews

3.8

Member: PaulCranswick

51

Winesburg, Ohio

by Sherwood Anderson

6,571 members

137 reviews

3.8

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: never got here, always mentioned

52

The Untold Legend of the Batman

by Len Wein

162 members

½ 3.5

Member: baaic

53

The Housing Lark

by Sam Selvon

56 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 2-17 February 2022; Library ebook

54

Silas Marner

by George Eliot

12,990 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: just finished Daniel Deronda and am ready to extend my Eliot -- never got this in high school

55

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

9,633 members

345 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

56

Salem Falls

by Jodi Picoult

4,876 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 3-23-2023

57

The Machine Crusade

by Brian Herbert

2,782 members

22 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: baaic

58

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

by Anne Sebba

233 members

14 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 2-26 February 2022; Library hardback - reviewed, acquired

59

Up With the Larks: Starting Again in Cornwall

by Tessa Hainsworth

59 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: PaulCranswick

60

Educated: A Memoir

by Tara Westover

13,359 members

608 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: a friend: "read the text -- don't do the audiobook"

61

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

11,671 members

320 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

62

Goodnight Mister Tom

by Michelle Magorian

3,080 members

76 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: PaulCranswick

63

Young Claudia

by Rose Franken

24 members

3

Member: dara85

64

The Burden of Choice: Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture

by Jonathan Cohn

7 members

Member: baaic

65

The Tombs of Atuan

by Ursula K. Le Guin

10,152 members

190 reviews

4

Member: baaic

66

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

9,265 members

348 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

67

Lucky's Lady

by Tami Hoag

912 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 4-29-2023

68

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

by Bernardine Evaristo

224 members

7 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Library TBR - Read 10 February - 11 March 2022

69

It Ends with Us

by Colleen Hoover

12,884 members

280 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 8-27-2023

70

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

by Jorge Amado

1,708 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: PaulCranswick

71

A Gesture Life

by Chang-Rae Lee

1,347 members

27 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

72

Orwell's Roses

by Rebecca Solnit

607 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley, library loan. Read 28 February to 10 April 2022. To review.

73

The Impossible Resurrection of Grief

by Octavia Cade

33 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: baaic

74

Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec

4,279 members

66 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

75

Live to Tell

by Lisa Gardner

1,684 members

95 reviews

4

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 6-5-2023

76

Sex, Lies, and Online Dating

by Rachel Gibson

868 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: baaic

77

Burntcoat

by Sarah Hall

295 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Library loan/Kindle acquisition, Read 24 January to 15 February 2022, Reviewed 23 June 2022

78

Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

18,482 members

232 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

79

A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir

by Jason Schmidt

128 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: baaic

80

Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul

by Ayse Kulin

107 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: PaulCranswick

81

The Body Box

by Lynn Abercrombie

47 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 8-15-2023

82

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin A. Abbott

10,897 members

203 reviews

3.8

Member: baaic

83

Memed, My Hawk

by Yaşar Kemal

1,010 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: PaulCranswick

84

Sunflower Sisters

by Martha Hall Kelly

627 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 5-21-2024

85

Death Goes on Skis

by Nancy Spain

64 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 18 February - 8 June 2022. Bought 05.01.22, Nancy Spain reading project.

86

A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

9,256 members

359 reviews

3.9

Member: baaic

87

The Bone People

by Keri Hulme

4,163 members

123 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

88

Blackwater

by Kerstin Ekman

1,086 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: PaulCranswick

89

The Velvet Hours

by Alyson Richman

278 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 8-22-2023 Probably one of the worst books I read in 2023. Just did not like it. Interestingly, I loved another of this author's book.

90