Maybe This Year? Books to Look Forward To

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Cinderella Goes to the Morgue

by Nancy Spain

31 members

2 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, elkiedee, PaulCranswick

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Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

1,506 members

103 reviews

4.2

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

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Insidious Intent

by Val McDermid

338 members

19 reviews

3.8

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

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A Passage North

by Anuk Arudpragasam

303 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

2,243 members

116 reviews

4.2

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

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The Man Who Died Twice

by Richard Osman

2,321 members

116 reviews

4.2

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

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Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

3,931 members

219 reviews

4.2

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

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Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

4,064 members

217 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

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Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

by Lorna Goodison

9 members

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, potential shared read. No page numbers. Welcome Paul. Just bought this with an Amazon credit given for a small part of my overspending on Kindle books recently.

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Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

by Diana Athill

660 members

35 reviews

½ 3.6

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

11

The Lacuna

by Barbara Kingsolver

5,208 members

254 reviews

3.9

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

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

by Caitlin Doughty

2,342 members

117 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 3-15-23

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The Thousand Eyes

by A K Larkwood

136 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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The Books of Jacob

by Olga Tokarczuk

845 members

17 reviews

3.8

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Library ebook TBR

15

Memorial

by Bryan Washington

752 members

39 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.

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

4,386 members

84 reviews

4.1

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

17

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4,362 members

207 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

18

Homeland Elegies

by Ayad Akhtar

782 members

36 reviews

4.1

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

19

The Longest Journey

by E. M. Forster

1,460 members

14 reviews

½ 3.4

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

20

Midnight at the Blackbird Café

by Heather Webber

560 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

21

Don't Fear the Reaper

by Stephen Graham Jones

286 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

Devotion

by Hannah Kent

215 members

10 reviews

4

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

23

Encounters with the Archdruid

by John McPhee

1,035 members

21 reviews

4.1

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

24

Love and Fury

by Samantha Silva

97 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

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

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Claiming Georgia Tate

by Gigi Amateau

90 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Reed 3-31-23

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You Are My Dear Friend

by Madhuri Vijay

4 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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Absolution by Murder

by Peter Tremayne

910 members

31 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.

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