1AnneDC
Welcome 2024!
And welcome to my thread. I more or less gave up on last year's thread--apologies to the faithful friends who continued to visit. I vow to do better this year despite the late start.
I am Anne, I live in Washington, DC, and I've been an LT member and a member of the 75 group since 2010, although I took a few years off, and the last few years I've had a hard time keeping up with my thread not to mentional all of yours. My reading went well last year but it got harder and harder to post or even to check in.
I read very diversely and across most genres. I love reading challenges, and this year will try to participate in the British Author Challenge, the American Author Challenge, and the Non-Fiction Challenge, as well as Paul's challenge on wars. I try to make sure every book I read fits into at least one TIOLI challenge. I also have numerous personal reading challenges I track.
I also hope to do a little more thread visiting this year, as last year I did very little and have missed a lot!
Happy New Year!
Books read:
January
1. Agatha's First Case - M.C. Beaton
2. In the Woods - Tana French (R)
3. An Immense World - Ed Yong
4. Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
5. The Best of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (R)
6. Heidi - Johanna Spyri (R)
7. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (R)
8. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
9. A Red Death - Walter Mosley
10. Uncanny Valley - Anna Weiner
February
11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (R)
12. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken (R)
13. Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope
14. The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
15. Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020 - Fred d'Aguiar
16. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States - Sarah Vowell (R)
17. North Woods - Daniel Mason
18. Small Country -Gaël Faye
19. Between Two Thorns - Emma Newman
20. Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham
21. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare (R)
22. Dubliners - James Joyce (R)
23. Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler (R)
March
24. A Man of Iron - Troy Senik
25. The Likeness - Tana French (R)
26. Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
27. Faithful Place - Tana French (R)
28. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
29. The Tin Can Tree - Anne Tyler
30. Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution - Christopher S. Wren
31. Cursed Bread - Sophie Mackintosh
32. Next to Nature, Art - Penelope Lively
33. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
34. The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
April
35. He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
36. Basin and Range - John McPhee
37. Milkman - Anna Burns
38. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
39. Ours Was the Shining Future - David Leonhardt
40. The Hunter - Tana French
41. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
May
42. Waiting to be Arrested at Night - Tahir Hamut Izgil
43. White Butterfly - Walter Mosley
44. Green Frog - Gina Chung
45. Restless Dolly Maunder - Kate Grenville
46. Emma - Jane Austen
47. The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
48. The Wren, The Wren - Anne Enright
49. Brotherless Night - V. V. Ganeshanathan
June
50. So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan
51. The Black Count - Tom Reiss
52. Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
53. Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler
54. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
55. Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
56. Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
July
57. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
58. The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerny
59. Rebellion - Peter Ackroyd
August
60. The Sisterhood - Liza Mundy
61. Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
62. The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
63. Persuasion - Jane Austen
64. James - Percival Everett
65. The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
66. And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliott
67. Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian
68. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee
69. Dublin Tales - Eve Patten, ed.
70. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
71. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White
72. Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal
September
73. Boundary Waters - William Kent Krueger
74. Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
75. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Satoshi Yagisawa
76. H.M.S.Surprise - Patrick O'Brian
77. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemison
78. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
79. White Nights - Ann Cleeves
80. King Lear - William Shakespeare
90. On Being Blue - William H. Gass
91. The End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck
92. Unstoppable - Joshua M. Green
October
93. Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista
94. Disunited Nations - Peter Zeihan
95. Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
96. Death at the Sign of the Rook - Kate Atkinson
97. A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
98. The Farm in the Green Mountains - Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
November
99. The Zig Zag Girl - Elly Griffiths
100 The Grey Wolf - Louise Penny
101. Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
102. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
103. Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
104. Love That Dog - Sharon Creech
105. All-of-a-Kind Family - Sydney Taylor
106. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
107. In Suspect Terrain - John McPhee
108. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich
109. Benjamin Harrison - Charles W. Calhoun
December
110. A Nest of Vipers - Andrea Camilleri
111. Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
112. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
113. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas
114. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler
115. Perfect Happiness - Penelope Lively
116. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
117. Under Sea, Over Stone - Susan Cooper
118. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy Sayers
Currently Reading:
The Comfort of Ghosts
Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
River East, River West - Aube Rey Lescure
Against Interpretation - Susan Sontag
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
The Book of Saladin - Tariq Ali
Just Action - Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein
2AnneDC
Best of 2023
Making this list felt easier this year than it usually is for me--I was able to keep it to five in each category, which is usually impossible.
Fiction (in no particular order)
1. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
2. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
3. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
4. Trust - Hernan Diaz
5. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
Also Notable:
Foster - Claire Keegan, The Overstory - Richard Powers, Trespasses - Louise Kennedy, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin, The Alexandria Quarter - Laurence Durrell, The Last Remains - Elly Griffiths, Black Butterflies - Priscilla Morris
Non-Fiction:
1. The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
2. Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
3. No Visible Bruises - Rachel Louise Snyder
4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
Also Notable:
Unworthy Republic - Claudio Saunt, Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond, The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk, We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole, The Half Has Never Been Told - Edward E. Baptist
Notable Re-reads:
All childhood favorites
Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Girl Who Ran Away - Joan Robinson
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
4AnneDC
Group Challenges 2024
Nonfiction Challenge
JANUARY: Prizewinners
An Immense World - Ed Yong
FEBRUARY: Women's Work
MARCH: Forensic Sciences
The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddartha Mukherjee
APRIL: Globalization
MAY: Wild Wild West
JUNE: Middle Europe
JULY: Insect World
AUGUST: Being Jewish
SEPTEMBER: Essays
OCTOBER: Music
NOVEMBER: Too Small to See
DECEMBER: As You Like It OR Political Biography
American Author Challenge
JANUARY: Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
FEBRUARY: Susan Sontag
MARCH: Truman Capote
APRIL: General Non-Fiction
MAY: William Maxwell
JUNE: Queer Authors
JULY: Susan Power a/k/a Mona Susan Power
AUGUST: Jeffrey Lent
SEPTEMBER: Living American authors who were born outside the US but adopted this country as their home.
OCTOBER: Katharine Anne Porter
NOVEMBER: Jewish American Authors
DECEMBER: The Heartland (regional authors from the middle of the country)
British Author Challenge
JANUARY: Joan Aiken & Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
FEBRUARY: Emma Newman & Ronald Firbank
Between Two Thorns - Emma Newman
MARCH: Welsh Authors
APRIL: Barbara Pym & Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
MAY: Portal Fantasy
JUNE: Kiran Millwood Hargrave & DH Lawrence
July: Animal Tales
AUGUST: KJ Charles & Winston Churchill
SEPTEMBER: The 1980s
OCTOBER: Gothic Fiction
NOVEMBER: EM Delafield & TH White
DECEMBER: Books Acquired in 2024
The War Room
JANUARY - The Ancients (Greeks, Romans etc)
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
FEBRUARY - The American War of Independence
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States - Sarah Vowell
Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution - Christopher Wren
MARCH - The War of the Roses
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
APRIL - Wars of Religion
Milkman - Anna Burns
MAY - The Napoleonic Wars
The Black Count - Tom Reiss
JUNE - The English Civil War
Rebellion - Peter Ackroyd
JULY - Colonial Wars
AUGUST - World War Two
SEPTEMBER - The American Civil War
OCTOBER - American Follies (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the Gulf Wars)
NOVEMBER - World War One
DECEMBER - The Spanish Civil War
WILDCARD - Pick your own fight!
Nonfiction Challenge
JANUARY: Prizewinners
An Immense World - Ed Yong
FEBRUARY: Women's Work
MARCH: Forensic Sciences
The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddartha Mukherjee
APRIL: Globalization
MAY: Wild Wild West
JUNE: Middle Europe
JULY: Insect World
AUGUST: Being Jewish
SEPTEMBER: Essays
OCTOBER: Music
NOVEMBER: Too Small to See
DECEMBER: As You Like It OR Political Biography
American Author Challenge
JANUARY: Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
FEBRUARY: Susan Sontag
MARCH: Truman Capote
APRIL: General Non-Fiction
MAY: William Maxwell
JUNE: Queer Authors
JULY: Susan Power a/k/a Mona Susan Power
AUGUST: Jeffrey Lent
SEPTEMBER: Living American authors who were born outside the US but adopted this country as their home.
OCTOBER: Katharine Anne Porter
NOVEMBER: Jewish American Authors
DECEMBER: The Heartland (regional authors from the middle of the country)
British Author Challenge
JANUARY: Joan Aiken & Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
FEBRUARY: Emma Newman & Ronald Firbank
Between Two Thorns - Emma Newman
MARCH: Welsh Authors
APRIL: Barbara Pym & Anthony Trollope
He Knew He Was Right - Anthony Trollope
MAY: Portal Fantasy
JUNE: Kiran Millwood Hargrave & DH Lawrence
July: Animal Tales
AUGUST: KJ Charles & Winston Churchill
SEPTEMBER: The 1980s
OCTOBER: Gothic Fiction
NOVEMBER: EM Delafield & TH White
DECEMBER: Books Acquired in 2024
The War Room
JANUARY - The Ancients (Greeks, Romans etc)
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
FEBRUARY - The American War of Independence
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States - Sarah Vowell
Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution - Christopher Wren
MARCH - The War of the Roses
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
APRIL - Wars of Religion
Milkman - Anna Burns
MAY - The Napoleonic Wars
The Black Count - Tom Reiss
JUNE - The English Civil War
Rebellion - Peter Ackroyd
JULY - Colonial Wars
AUGUST - World War Two
SEPTEMBER - The American Civil War
OCTOBER - American Follies (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and the Gulf Wars)
NOVEMBER - World War One
DECEMBER - The Spanish Civil War
WILDCARD - Pick your own fight!
5AnneDC
Literary Prizes and Awards
I like to make lists and I like to check things off, and I have completist tendencies, so I like to think I will eventually read all of these award winners.
Women's Prize (Orange/Baileys)
My favorite book prize. Every year I try to read the whole short list before the winner is announced.
The 2024 longlist (and 2022 and 2023) follows with the shortlist in bold. :
2024 Longlist
✔ 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee
✔ And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliott
The Blue, Beautiful World - Karen Lord
✔Brotherless Night - V. V. Ganeshanathan
✔Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
Hangman - Maya Binyam
In Defence of the Act - Effie Black
The Maiden - Kate Foster
Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan
✔Restless Dolly Maunder - Kate Grenville
River East, River West- Aube Rey Lescure
✔Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
A Trace of Sun - Pam Williams
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
✔The Wren, The Wren- Anne Enright
2023 Longlist
✔Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
✔ Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
✔Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver WINNER
✔Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
✔Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
✔Homesick by Jennifer Croft
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
✔Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
✔Pod by Laline Paull
✔Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
✔The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
✔The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
✔Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
✔Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
2022 Longlist (Shortlist in bold)
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
Careless by Kirsty Capes
✔Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé
Flamingo by Rachel Elliott
✔Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Salt Lick by Lulu Allison
✔Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
✔The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
✔The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
✔The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
✔The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
✔The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
✔The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
Winners
1996 A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore
1997 Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
1998 Larry's Party - Carol Shields 2022
1999 A Crime in the Neighborhood - Suzanne Berne
2000 When I Lived in Modern Times - Linda Grant
2001 The Idea of Perfection - Kate Grenville
2002 Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
2003 Property - Valerie Martin
2004 Small Island - Andrea Levy
2005 We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
2006 On Beauty - Zadie Smith
2007 Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2008 The Road Home - Rose Tremain
2009 Home - Marilynne Robinson
2010 The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
2011 The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht
2012 The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
2013 May We Be Forgiven - A.M. Homes
2014 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
2015 How to Be Both - Ali Smith
2016 The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney
2017 The Power - Naomi Alderman
2018 Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
2019 An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
2020 Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
2021 Piranesi - Susanna Clark
2022 The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki
2023 Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
2024 Brotherless Night - V. V. Ganeshanathan
Booker Winners
1969: Something to Answer For - P. H. Newby
1970: The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
1970: Troubles - J. G. Farrell (Lost Man Booker Prize)
1971: In a Free State - V. S. Naipaul
1972: G - John Berger
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
1974: The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer and
Holiday - Stanley Middleton
1975: Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1976: Saville - David Storey
1977: Staying On - Paul Scott
1978: The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
1979: Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
1980: Rites of Passage - William Golding
1981: Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
1982: Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
1983: Life & Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee (2022)
1984: Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
1985: The Bone People - Keri Hulme
1986: The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
1987: Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
1988: Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
1989: The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
1990: Possession - A. S. Byatt
1991: The Famished Road - Ben Okri
1992: The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje and
Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth
1993: Paddy Clarke - Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle (2021)
1994: How late it was, how late - James Kelman
1995: The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
1996: Last Orders - Graham Swift
1997: The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
1998: Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
1999: Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
2000: The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2021)
2002: Life of Pi - Yann Martel
2003: Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
2004: The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
2005: The Sea - John Banville
2006: The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
2007: The Gathering - Anne Enright
2008: The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
2009: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
2010: The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
2011: The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
2012: Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
2013: The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
2016: The Sellout - Paul Beatty
2017: Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
2018: Milkman - Anna Burns (2024)
2019: The Testaments - Margaret Atwood and
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (2021)
2020: Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart (2021)
2021: The Promise - Damon Galgut
2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
2023: Prophet Song - Paul Lynch (2024)
2024: Orbital - Samantha Harvey
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1918 His Family - Ernest Poole
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
1921 The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1922 Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
1923 One Of Ours - Willa Cather
1924 The Able Mclaughlins - Margaret Wilson
1925 So Big - Edna Ferber
1926 Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis (Declined)
1927 Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield
1928 The Bridge Of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin
1930 Laughing Boy - Oliver Lafarge
1931 Years Of Grace - Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
1933 The Store - Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1934 Lamb In His Bosom - Caroline Miller
1935 Now In November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 Honey In The Horn - Harold L Davis
1937 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
1938 The Late George Apley - John Phillips Marquand
1939 The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
1942 In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow
1943 Dragon's Teeth - Upton Sinclair
1944 Journey In The Dark - Martin Flavin
1945 A Bell For Adano - John Hersey
1947 All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
1948 Tales Of The South Pacific - James Michener
1949 Guard Of Honor - James Gould Cozzens
1950 The Way West - A.B. Guthrie
1951 The Town - Conrad Richter
1952 The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
1953 The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
1955 A Fable - William Faulkner
1956 Andersonville - Mckinlay Kantor
1958 A Death In The Family - James Agee
1959 The Travels Of Jaimie Mcpheeters - Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 Advise And Consent - Allen Drury
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1962 The Edge Of Sadness - Edwin O'connor
1963 The Reivers - William Faulkner
1965 The Keepers Of The House - Shirley Ann Grau
1966 The Collected Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter
1967 The Fixer - Bernard Malamud (2022)
1968 The Confessions Of Nat Turner - William Styron
1969 House Made Of Dawn - N Scott Momaday (2021)
1970 The Collected Stories Of Jean Stafford - Jean Stafford
1972 Angle Of Repose - Wallace Stegner
1973 The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
1975 The Killer Angels - Jeff Shaara
1976 Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow (2022)
1978 Elbow Room - James Alan Mcpherson
1979 The Stories Of John Cheever - John Cheever
1980 The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
1981 A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1982 Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
1983 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1984 Ironweed - William Kennedy
1985 Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
1986 Lonesome Dove - Larry Mcmurtry
1987 A Summons To Memphis - Peter Taylor
1988 Beloved - Toni Morrison (R2022)
1989 Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
1991 Rabbit At Rest - John Updike
1992 A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
1993 A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler
1994 The Shipping News - E Annie Proulx
1995 The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
1996 Independence Day - Richard Ford
1997 Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
1998 American Pastoral - Philip Roth
1999 The Hours - Michael Cunningham
2000 Interpreter Of Maladies - Jumpha Lahiri (2022)
2001 The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
2002 Empire Falls - Richard Russo
2003 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 The Known World - Edward P. Jones
2005 Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
2006 March - Geraldine Brooks
2007 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (R 2021)
2009 Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (2022)
2010 Tinkers - Paul Harding
2011 A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
2013 Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
2014 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
2015 All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
2016 The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (2022)
2017 The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
2018 Less - Andrew Sean Greer
2019 The Overstory - Richard Powers (2023)
2020 The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (2021)
2021 The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (2021)
2022 The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen
2023 Trust - Hernan Diaz (2023) and Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (2023)
2024 Night Watch - Jayne Ann Phillips
I like to make lists and I like to check things off, and I have completist tendencies, so I like to think I will eventually read all of these award winners.
Women's Prize (Orange/Baileys)
My favorite book prize. Every year I try to read the whole short list before the winner is announced.
The 2024 longlist (and 2022 and 2023) follows with the shortlist in bold. :
2024 Longlist
✔ 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster - Mirinae Lee
✔ And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliott
The Blue, Beautiful World - Karen Lord
✔Brotherless Night - V. V. Ganeshanathan
✔Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad
Hangman - Maya Binyam
In Defence of the Act - Effie Black
The Maiden - Kate Foster
Nightbloom - Peace Adzo Medie
Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan
✔Restless Dolly Maunder - Kate Grenville
River East, River West- Aube Rey Lescure
✔Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
A Trace of Sun - Pam Williams
Western Lane - Chetna Maroo
✔The Wren, The Wren- Anne Enright
2023 Longlist
✔Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova
✔ Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
✔Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver WINNER
✔Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
✔Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
✔Homesick by Jennifer Croft
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
✔Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
✔Pod by Laline Paull
✔Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
✔The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie
✔The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
✔Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
✔Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
2022 Longlist (Shortlist in bold)
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
Careless by Kirsty Capes
✔Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé
Flamingo by Rachel Elliott
✔Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Salt Lick by Lulu Allison
✔Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
✔The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
✔The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson
✔The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
✔The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
✔The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
✔The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
Winners
1996 A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore
1997 Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
1998 Larry's Party - Carol Shields 2022
1999 A Crime in the Neighborhood - Suzanne Berne
2000 When I Lived in Modern Times - Linda Grant
2001 The Idea of Perfection - Kate Grenville
2002 Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
2003 Property - Valerie Martin
2004 Small Island - Andrea Levy
2005 We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
2006 On Beauty - Zadie Smith
2007 Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2008 The Road Home - Rose Tremain
2009 Home - Marilynne Robinson
2010 The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
2011 The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht
2012 The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
2013 May We Be Forgiven - A.M. Homes
2014 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
2015 How to Be Both - Ali Smith
2016 The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney
2017 The Power - Naomi Alderman
2018 Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
2019 An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
2020 Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
2021 Piranesi - Susanna Clark
2022 The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki
2023 Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
2024 Brotherless Night - V. V. Ganeshanathan
Booker Winners
1969: Something to Answer For - P. H. Newby
1970: The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
1970: Troubles - J. G. Farrell (Lost Man Booker Prize)
1971: In a Free State - V. S. Naipaul
1972: G - John Berger
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
1974: The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer and
Holiday - Stanley Middleton
1975: Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1976: Saville - David Storey
1977: Staying On - Paul Scott
1978: The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
1979: Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
1980: Rites of Passage - William Golding
1981: Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
1982: Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
1983: Life & Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee (2022)
1984: Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
1985: The Bone People - Keri Hulme
1986: The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
1987: Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
1988: Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
1989: The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
1990: Possession - A. S. Byatt
1991: The Famished Road - Ben Okri
1992: The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje and
Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth
1993: Paddy Clarke - Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle (2021)
1994: How late it was, how late - James Kelman
1995: The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
1996: Last Orders - Graham Swift
1997: The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
1998: Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
1999: Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
2000: The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2021)
2002: Life of Pi - Yann Martel
2003: Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
2004: The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
2005: The Sea - John Banville
2006: The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
2007: The Gathering - Anne Enright
2008: The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
2009: Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
2010: The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
2011: The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
2012: Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
2013: The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
2016: The Sellout - Paul Beatty
2017: Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
2018: Milkman - Anna Burns (2024)
2019: The Testaments - Margaret Atwood and
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo (2021)
2020: Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart (2021)
2021: The Promise - Damon Galgut
2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
2023: Prophet Song - Paul Lynch (2024)
2024: Orbital - Samantha Harvey
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1918 His Family - Ernest Poole
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
1921 The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton
1922 Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
1923 One Of Ours - Willa Cather
1924 The Able Mclaughlins - Margaret Wilson
1925 So Big - Edna Ferber
1926 Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis (Declined)
1927 Early Autumn - Louis Bromfield
1928 The Bridge Of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin
1930 Laughing Boy - Oliver Lafarge
1931 Years Of Grace - Margaret Ayer Barnes
1932 The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
1933 The Store - Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1934 Lamb In His Bosom - Caroline Miller
1935 Now In November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
1936 Honey In The Horn - Harold L Davis
1937 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
1938 The Late George Apley - John Phillips Marquand
1939 The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1940 The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
1942 In This Our Life - Ellen Glasgow
1943 Dragon's Teeth - Upton Sinclair
1944 Journey In The Dark - Martin Flavin
1945 A Bell For Adano - John Hersey
1947 All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
1948 Tales Of The South Pacific - James Michener
1949 Guard Of Honor - James Gould Cozzens
1950 The Way West - A.B. Guthrie
1951 The Town - Conrad Richter
1952 The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
1953 The Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
1955 A Fable - William Faulkner
1956 Andersonville - Mckinlay Kantor
1958 A Death In The Family - James Agee
1959 The Travels Of Jaimie Mcpheeters - Robert Lewis Taylor
1960 Advise And Consent - Allen Drury
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
1962 The Edge Of Sadness - Edwin O'connor
1963 The Reivers - William Faulkner
1965 The Keepers Of The House - Shirley Ann Grau
1966 The Collected Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter
1967 The Fixer - Bernard Malamud (2022)
1968 The Confessions Of Nat Turner - William Styron
1969 House Made Of Dawn - N Scott Momaday (2021)
1970 The Collected Stories Of Jean Stafford - Jean Stafford
1972 Angle Of Repose - Wallace Stegner
1973 The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
1975 The Killer Angels - Jeff Shaara
1976 Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow (2022)
1978 Elbow Room - James Alan Mcpherson
1979 The Stories Of John Cheever - John Cheever
1980 The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
1981 A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
1982 Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
1983 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
1984 Ironweed - William Kennedy
1985 Foreign Affairs - Alison Lurie
1986 Lonesome Dove - Larry Mcmurtry
1987 A Summons To Memphis - Peter Taylor
1988 Beloved - Toni Morrison (R2022)
1989 Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
1991 Rabbit At Rest - John Updike
1992 A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
1993 A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler
1994 The Shipping News - E Annie Proulx
1995 The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
1996 Independence Day - Richard Ford
1997 Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
1998 American Pastoral - Philip Roth
1999 The Hours - Michael Cunningham
2000 Interpreter Of Maladies - Jumpha Lahiri (2022)
2001 The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
2002 Empire Falls - Richard Russo
2003 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 The Known World - Edward P. Jones
2005 Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
2006 March - Geraldine Brooks
2007 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (R 2021)
2009 Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (2022)
2010 Tinkers - Paul Harding
2011 A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
2013 Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
2014 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
2015 All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
2016 The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (2022)
2017 The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
2018 Less - Andrew Sean Greer
2019 The Overstory - Richard Powers (2023)
2020 The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (2021)
2021 The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich (2021)
2022 The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen
2023 Trust - Hernan Diaz (2023) and Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (2023)
2024 Night Watch - Jayne Ann Phillips
6AnneDC
Other Personal Challenges
50 States List
Alabama (Transcendent Kingdom, Train Whistle Guitar)
Alaska (Julie of the Wolves, 2022 Coming Into the Country - John McPhee)
Arizona (Lost Children Archive, The Water Knife)
Arkansas
California (Devil in a Blue Dress)
2022Colorado (The Song of the Lark)
2022 Connecticut (Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan)
Delaware
DC (Henry and Clara, State of Terror, 2022 Creatures of Passage)
Florida (The Nickel Boys)
Georgia (Home, The March)
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois (The Great Believers) (2022 A Year Down Yonder)
Indiana
Iowa
2022 Kansas (In Cold Blood - Truman Capote)
2022 Kentucky (Beloved)
Louisiana (The Vanishing Half)
2022 Maine (Olive Kitteridge)
Maryland (Kindred)
Massachusetts (The House of the Seven Gables, 2022 The Paper Palace, Writers and Lovers - Lily King)
Michigan (Song of Solomon)
2022 Minnesota (The Sentence)
2022 Mississippi (The Trees - Percival Everett)
Missouri
2022 Montana (Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead)
2022 Nebraska (The Lincoln Highway)
Nevada (The Water Knife)
New Hampshire
New Jersey (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
New Mexico (House Made of Dawn, 2022 The Five Wounds))
New York (Jazz, Red at the Bone, The Godfather)
North Carolina (The March - E. L. Doctorow, 2022 If Morning Ever Comes - Anne Tyler)
North Dakota (The Night Watchman) (Tracks 2022)
Ohio (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved)
Oklahoma (Paradise)
Oregon (Henry Huggins)
Pennsylvania - (Seven Guitars, Fences, Jitney, Two Trains Running, King Hedley II, Such a Fun Age) (2022 Fun Home, The Stone Face)
Rhode Island
South Carolina - The March
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas (No Country for Old Men; Bluebird, Bluebird)
Utah
Vermont (Radio Free Vermont)
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
2022 Wisconsin (Bewilderment - Richard Powers)
Wyoming
Around the World: Countries Visited (settings):
2021
2023 Angola (The Book of Chameleons - Jose Eduardo Agualusa)
Australia (True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey)
Barbados (How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones)
Belgium (A Nail, A Rose - Madeleine Bourdouxhe)
2023 Bosnia (Black Butterflies)
Canada (The Madness of Crowds - Louise Penny, My Darling Detective - Howard Norman)
2022 Chile (Violeta - Isabel Allende)
2022 Cyprus (The Island of Missing Trees)
2023 Czech Republic (Too Loud a Solitude)
Dominican Republic (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz)
2022 Egypt (Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie, 2023: Beer in the Snooker Club, That Smell, Miramar, Justine, Balthazar, Midaq Alley, Slipping)
England/UK (Theater Shoes - Noel Streatfeild, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Autumn - Ali Smith, Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller)
2022 Finland (The Year of the Hare)
France (Transit - Anna Seghers, The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai, In the Cafe of Lost Youth - Patrick Modiano)
Germany (All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski)
Ghana (Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi, Search Sweet Country - Kojo Laing
Iceland (Outrage - Arnaldur Indridason)
India (The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Singh, Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi)
2022 Iran (My Part of Her, A Door Between Us, Reading Lolita in Tehran)
Ireland(Good Behaviour - Molly Keane)
2022 Israel (A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz)
Italy (The Age of Doubt - Andrea Camilleri, The Story of the Lost Chlld - Elena Ferrante)
2022 Jamaica (Redemption Ground)
Japan (Moshi Moshi - Banana Yoshimoto, A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro, )
2022 Kenya (The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
Laos (The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill)
2022 Lebanon (Little Mountain - Elias Khoury)
2022 Malaya (The Gift of Rain - Tae Twan Eng)
2022 Mexico (The Story of My Teeth - Valeria Luiselli)
Mozambique (Sea Loves Me)
Netherlands (The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong)
New Zealand (Colour Scheme - Ngaio Marsh)
Nigeria (Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Norway (Nemesis - Jo Nesbo)
2022 Oman (Celestial Bodies)
Pakistan (Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar, In the City by the Sea - Khamila Shamsie, Moth Smoke- Mohsin Hamid)
2022 Palestine (Mornings in Jenin)
Poland (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk)
Scotland (Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart)
2022 Senegal (At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop)
2022 South Africa (Life and Times of Michael K)
2022 South Korea (The Vegetarian - Han Kang)
Spain (The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
2022 Sri Lanka (A Passage North)
2023 Sudan (Season of Migration to the North)
Thailand (Cockroaches - Jo Nesbo)
2023 Sweden (Firewall, Fishing in Utopia)
2022 Trinidad and Tobago (The Bread the Devil Kneads)
2022 Turkey (My Name is Red, Dare to Disappoint)
2023 Uganda (All Our Names)
2022 Ukraine (The Fixer - Bernard Malamud)
2022 Vietnam (The Sympathizer, The Mountains Sing)
2023 Zimbabwe (We Need New Names, Glory)
2024
NYRB Classics
2023
Arabesques - Anton Shammas
On the Marble Cliffs - Ernst Junger
The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela
The Fawn - Magda Szabo
2022
The Silentiary
Woman Running in the Mountains
Gold - Rumi
Guston in Time - Ross Feld
Kilometer 101 - Maxim Osipov
Cheri and the End of Cheri - Colette
2021
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood - Richard Wollheim
Little Snow Landscape - Robert Walser
Other Worlds:Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints - Teffi
✔Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
The Dead Girls' Class Trip - Anna Seghers
✔The Stone Face - William Gardner Smith
Storm - George R. Stewart
Kapo - Aleksandar Tišma
The Open Road - Jean Giono
✔Generations - Lucille Clifton
✔Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
Other:
The Violins of Saint-Jacques - Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
U.S. Presidents
Asian Book Challenge backlog
NYT Top Ten Gift Books
Every year my husband gifts these to me for Christmas. Every year I aim to read them all before next Christmas.
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
✔Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
✔North Woods - Daniel Mason
The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs - Kerry Rowley
Fire Weather - John Vaillant
Master Slave Husband Wife - Ilyon Woo
✔Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista
But then there are the ones I got last Christmas:
✔The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett
✔Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
✔The Furrows - Namwali Serpell
✔Trust - Hernan Diaz
✔An Immense World - Ed Yong
Stay True - Hua Hsu
Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv
Under the Skin - Linda Villarosa
✔We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole
And before that:
2021
The Love Songs of W. E. B. Dubois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
✔Intimacies - Katie Kitamura
✔When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue
Red Comet - Heather Clark
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevson
Invisible Child - Andrea Elliott
✔On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed
2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America - James Shapiro
✔Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener
2019
The Club - Leo Damrosch
✔No Visible Bruises - Rachel Louise Snyder
✔Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham
2018
American Prison - Shane Bauer
How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2017
The Evolution of Beauty - Richard Prum
Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
2016
The Association of Small Bombs - Karan Mahajan
The North Water - Ian McGuire
War and Turpentine - Stefan Hertmans
At the Existentialist Cafe - Sarah Bakewell
In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi
Author Projects
Kazuo Ishiguro
✔A Pale View of Hills
✔An Artist of the Floating World
✔The Remains of the Day
The Unconsoled
When We Were Orphans
✔Never Let Me Go
✔The Buried Giant
✔Klara and the Sun (read 2021)
Early Louise Erdrich, mostly re-reads
✔Tracks
✔Four Souls
✔Love Medicine
✔The Beet Queen
✔The Bingo Palace
✔The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Tales of Burning Love
The Master Butcher's Singing Club
The Painted Drum
Penelope Lively
✔The Road to Lichfield
✔Treasures of Time
✔Judgment Day
✔Next to Nature, Art
✔Perfect Happiness
According to Mark
Moon Tiger
Passing On
City of the Mind
Cleopatra's Sister
Heat Wave
Spiderweb
The Photograph
Making it Up
Consequences
Family Album
How it All Began
50 States List
Alabama (Transcendent Kingdom, Train Whistle Guitar)
Alaska (Julie of the Wolves, 2022 Coming Into the Country - John McPhee)
Arizona (Lost Children Archive, The Water Knife)
Arkansas
California (Devil in a Blue Dress)
2022Colorado (The Song of the Lark)
2022 Connecticut (Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan)
Delaware
DC (Henry and Clara, State of Terror, 2022 Creatures of Passage)
Florida (The Nickel Boys)
Georgia (Home, The March)
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois (The Great Believers) (2022 A Year Down Yonder)
Indiana
Iowa
2022 Kansas (In Cold Blood - Truman Capote)
2022 Kentucky (Beloved)
Louisiana (The Vanishing Half)
2022 Maine (Olive Kitteridge)
Maryland (Kindred)
Massachusetts (The House of the Seven Gables, 2022 The Paper Palace, Writers and Lovers - Lily King)
Michigan (Song of Solomon)
2022 Minnesota (The Sentence)
2022 Mississippi (The Trees - Percival Everett)
Missouri
2022 Montana (Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead)
2022 Nebraska (The Lincoln Highway)
Nevada (The Water Knife)
New Hampshire
New Jersey (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
New Mexico (House Made of Dawn, 2022 The Five Wounds))
New York (Jazz, Red at the Bone, The Godfather)
North Carolina (The March - E. L. Doctorow, 2022 If Morning Ever Comes - Anne Tyler)
North Dakota (The Night Watchman) (Tracks 2022)
Ohio (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved)
Oklahoma (Paradise)
Oregon (Henry Huggins)
Pennsylvania - (Seven Guitars, Fences, Jitney, Two Trains Running, King Hedley II, Such a Fun Age) (2022 Fun Home, The Stone Face)
Rhode Island
South Carolina - The March
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas (No Country for Old Men; Bluebird, Bluebird)
Utah
Vermont (Radio Free Vermont)
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
2022 Wisconsin (Bewilderment - Richard Powers)
Wyoming
Around the World: Countries Visited (settings):
2021
2023 Angola (The Book of Chameleons - Jose Eduardo Agualusa)
Australia (True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey)
Barbados (How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones)
Belgium (A Nail, A Rose - Madeleine Bourdouxhe)
2023 Bosnia (Black Butterflies)
Canada (The Madness of Crowds - Louise Penny, My Darling Detective - Howard Norman)
2022 Chile (Violeta - Isabel Allende)
2022 Cyprus (The Island of Missing Trees)
2023 Czech Republic (Too Loud a Solitude)
Dominican Republic (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz)
2022 Egypt (Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie, 2023: Beer in the Snooker Club, That Smell, Miramar, Justine, Balthazar, Midaq Alley, Slipping)
England/UK (Theater Shoes - Noel Streatfeild, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Autumn - Ali Smith, Unsettled Ground - Claire Fuller)
2022 Finland (The Year of the Hare)
France (Transit - Anna Seghers, The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai, In the Cafe of Lost Youth - Patrick Modiano)
Germany (All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski)
Ghana (Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi, Search Sweet Country - Kojo Laing
Iceland (Outrage - Arnaldur Indridason)
India (The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra - Vaseem Singh, Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi)
2022 Iran (My Part of Her, A Door Between Us, Reading Lolita in Tehran)
Ireland(Good Behaviour - Molly Keane)
2022 Israel (A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz)
Italy (The Age of Doubt - Andrea Camilleri, The Story of the Lost Chlld - Elena Ferrante)
2022 Jamaica (Redemption Ground)
Japan (Moshi Moshi - Banana Yoshimoto, A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro, )
2022 Kenya (The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o)
Laos (The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill)
2022 Lebanon (Little Mountain - Elias Khoury)
2022 Malaya (The Gift of Rain - Tae Twan Eng)
2022 Mexico (The Story of My Teeth - Valeria Luiselli)
Mozambique (Sea Loves Me)
Netherlands (The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong)
New Zealand (Colour Scheme - Ngaio Marsh)
Nigeria (Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Norway (Nemesis - Jo Nesbo)
2022 Oman (Celestial Bodies)
Pakistan (Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar, In the City by the Sea - Khamila Shamsie, Moth Smoke- Mohsin Hamid)
2022 Palestine (Mornings in Jenin)
Poland (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk)
Scotland (Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart)
2022 Senegal (At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop)
2022 South Africa (Life and Times of Michael K)
2022 South Korea (The Vegetarian - Han Kang)
Spain (The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
2022 Sri Lanka (A Passage North)
2023 Sudan (Season of Migration to the North)
Thailand (Cockroaches - Jo Nesbo)
2023 Sweden (Firewall, Fishing in Utopia)
2022 Trinidad and Tobago (The Bread the Devil Kneads)
2022 Turkey (My Name is Red, Dare to Disappoint)
2023 Uganda (All Our Names)
2022 Ukraine (The Fixer - Bernard Malamud)
2022 Vietnam (The Sympathizer, The Mountains Sing)
2023 Zimbabwe (We Need New Names, Glory)
2024
NYRB Classics
2023
Arabesques - Anton Shammas
On the Marble Cliffs - Ernst Junger
The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela
The Fawn - Magda Szabo
2022
The Silentiary
Woman Running in the Mountains
Gold - Rumi
Guston in Time - Ross Feld
Kilometer 101 - Maxim Osipov
Cheri and the End of Cheri - Colette
2021
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood - Richard Wollheim
Little Snow Landscape - Robert Walser
Other Worlds:Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints - Teffi
✔Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
The Dead Girls' Class Trip - Anna Seghers
✔The Stone Face - William Gardner Smith
Storm - George R. Stewart
Kapo - Aleksandar Tišma
The Open Road - Jean Giono
✔Generations - Lucille Clifton
✔Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
Other:
The Violins of Saint-Jacques - Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Siege of Krishnapur - J. G. Farrell
U.S. Presidents
Asian Book Challenge backlog
NYT Top Ten Gift Books
Every year my husband gifts these to me for Christmas. Every year I aim to read them all before next Christmas.
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
✔Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal
The Fraud - Zadie Smith
✔North Woods - Daniel Mason
The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs - Kerry Rowley
Fire Weather - John Vaillant
Master Slave Husband Wife - Ilyon Woo
✔Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista
But then there are the ones I got last Christmas:
✔The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett
✔Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
✔The Furrows - Namwali Serpell
✔Trust - Hernan Diaz
✔An Immense World - Ed Yong
Stay True - Hua Hsu
Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv
Under the Skin - Linda Villarosa
✔We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole
And before that:
2021
The Love Songs of W. E. B. Dubois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
✔Intimacies - Katie Kitamura
✔When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue
Red Comet - Heather Clark
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevson
Invisible Child - Andrea Elliott
✔On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed
2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America - James Shapiro
✔Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener
2019
The Club - Leo Damrosch
✔No Visible Bruises - Rachel Louise Snyder
✔Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham
2018
American Prison - Shane Bauer
How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2017
The Evolution of Beauty - Richard Prum
Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
2016
The Association of Small Bombs - Karan Mahajan
The North Water - Ian McGuire
War and Turpentine - Stefan Hertmans
At the Existentialist Cafe - Sarah Bakewell
In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi
Author Projects
Kazuo Ishiguro
✔A Pale View of Hills
✔An Artist of the Floating World
✔The Remains of the Day
The Unconsoled
When We Were Orphans
✔Never Let Me Go
✔The Buried Giant
✔Klara and the Sun (read 2021)
Early Louise Erdrich, mostly re-reads
✔Tracks
✔Four Souls
✔Love Medicine
✔The Beet Queen
✔The Bingo Palace
✔The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Tales of Burning Love
The Master Butcher's Singing Club
The Painted Drum
Penelope Lively
✔The Road to Lichfield
✔Treasures of Time
✔Judgment Day
✔Next to Nature, Art
✔Perfect Happiness
According to Mark
Moon Tiger
Passing On
City of the Mind
Cleopatra's Sister
Heat Wave
Spiderweb
The Photograph
Making it Up
Consequences
Family Album
How it All Began
10figsfromthistle
Happy reading in 2024!
12BLBera
Happy New Year, Anne. Love all your lists. Good luck with those. One thing I didn't see yet was your list of favorites from last year. I'm with you; I love the Women's Prize for Fiction. Of the list for last year, I did love The Bandit Queens but HATED Cursed Bread.
13PaulCranswick
Happy new year, dear Anne.
Needless to say I am pleased to see you back and I do hope that you'll stay a bit longer this time around. :D
Star dropped hopefully.
Needless to say I am pleased to see you back and I do hope that you'll stay a bit longer this time around. :D
Star dropped hopefully.
14FAMeulstee
Happy reading in 2024, Anne!
Love to browse through your lists, and compare our accomplishements :-)
Love to browse through your lists, and compare our accomplishements :-)
15norabelle414
Happy New Year, Anne!
16AnneDC
>8 drneutron: Thanks Jim--and as always, thank you for setting up the group.
>9 katiekrug: Happy new year Katie and nice to see you--it's been an age since I visited threads but I will try dropping some stars next.
>10 figsfromthistle: The same to you Anita!
>11 Tess_W: Thank you Tess. I've been in DC a long time and I love it.
>12 BLBera: Happy New Year Beth! I've fallen so far behind and have completely lost touch with what you were reading last year, which is a shame. Well, plenty of book bullets in my future. You didn't see my favorites list because it wasn't ready, but it's posted now, and I'll drop it below as well. Now off to check out your 2023 favorites.
>13 PaulCranswick: Wonderful to see you Paul! Sorry to disappear. I hope I am back for a while. Quietly lurking on your thread a couple of weeks ago it looks like I missed a lot of news. plan to participate in the War Room challenge and will try to post on the threads every once in a while.
>14 FAMeulstee: Thank you Anita, and happy reading to you too. I look forward to shared TIOLI reads in 2024.
>15 norabelle414: Thanks, Nora, and Happy New Year to you too. I feel like I'm still getting settled into the year.
>9 katiekrug: Happy new year Katie and nice to see you--it's been an age since I visited threads but I will try dropping some stars next.
>10 figsfromthistle: The same to you Anita!
>11 Tess_W: Thank you Tess. I've been in DC a long time and I love it.
>12 BLBera: Happy New Year Beth! I've fallen so far behind and have completely lost touch with what you were reading last year, which is a shame. Well, plenty of book bullets in my future. You didn't see my favorites list because it wasn't ready, but it's posted now, and I'll drop it below as well. Now off to check out your 2023 favorites.
>13 PaulCranswick: Wonderful to see you Paul! Sorry to disappear. I hope I am back for a while. Quietly lurking on your thread a couple of weeks ago it looks like I missed a lot of news. plan to participate in the War Room challenge and will try to post on the threads every once in a while.
>14 FAMeulstee: Thank you Anita, and happy reading to you too. I look forward to shared TIOLI reads in 2024.
>15 norabelle414: Thanks, Nora, and Happy New Year to you too. I feel like I'm still getting settled into the year.
17AnneDC
Favorite Reads of 2023
Making this list felt easier this year than it usually is for me--I was able to keep it to five in each category, which is usually impossible. But upon reflection, I had to add some runners-up.
Fiction (in no particular order)
1. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
2. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
3. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
4. Trust - Hernan Diaz
5. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
Also Notable:
Foster - Claire Keegan, The Overstory - Richard Powers, Trespasses - Louise Kennedy, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin, The Alexandria Quarter - Laurence Durrell, The Last Remains - Elly Griffiths, Black Butterflies - Priscilla Morris
Non-Fiction:
1. The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
2. Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
3. No Visible Bruises - Rachel Louise Snyder
4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer
5. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life - Benjamin Alire Saenz
Also Notable:
Unworthy Republic - Claudio Saunt, Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond, The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk, We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole, The Half Has Never Been Told - Edward E. Baptist
Notable Re-reads:
All childhood favorites
Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Girl Who Ran Away - Joan Robinson
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
18BLBera
No surprise that we have some crossover with the favorites, Anne. And the ones I haven't read are on my WL.
19PaulCranswick
>17 AnneDC: I had The Inexplicable Logic of My Life down as fiction, Anne, although influenced by his personal experiences. Was I wrong?
20PaulCranswick
Hope you are ok, Anne.
21AnneDC
Hello, I'm back.
>18 BLBera: Beth, we always do seem to have some overlapping favorites. I saw a few on your favorites list that are now on my "want to read" list.
>19 PaulCranswick: Paul you are 100% correct! I don't know what I was thinking--I had in my head (maybe misled by the title) that the book was autobiographical, and I definitely read it as if it were true. Still a good story, but different.
>20 PaulCranswick: Thanks Paul--I am very well, just inexplicably busy, and really struggling to make it to LT. However, I'm in the midst of a nice, quiet, chilly long weekend, and I hope to do some reading as well as catch up on some threads, including my own! Thanks for not giving up on me.
>18 BLBera: Beth, we always do seem to have some overlapping favorites. I saw a few on your favorites list that are now on my "want to read" list.
>19 PaulCranswick: Paul you are 100% correct! I don't know what I was thinking--I had in my head (maybe misled by the title) that the book was autobiographical, and I definitely read it as if it were true. Still a good story, but different.
>20 PaulCranswick: Thanks Paul--I am very well, just inexplicably busy, and really struggling to make it to LT. However, I'm in the midst of a nice, quiet, chilly long weekend, and I hope to do some reading as well as catch up on some threads, including my own! Thanks for not giving up on me.
22BLBera
Hi Anne - I just read Family Lore by Dominican American writer Elizabeth Acevedo, and I think you might like that; I know you have been to the DR.
23AnneDC
Hi Beth--I noticed that book on your thread and you're right, I was interested! From the description it made me think of Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, which I liked. Have you read that one?
24PaulCranswick
>21 AnneDC: I'll never give up on you my friend!
Enjoy a little more peace and quiet for a while.
Enjoy a little more peace and quiet for a while.
25BLBera
>23 AnneDC: I've read EVERYTHING by Alvarez. I love her. Did you know she has a new one coming out this spring? I am really looking forward to it.
