Blogger often does have its little (or big) hitches. I'm a bit fed up of not being able to update my reading list. If I finished a book and put it on here you can generally consider it a general recommendation. Exceptions have (?) after the listing. I accept they may have been widely acclaimed, but I didn't much care for them; that said, I managed to finish them. I've finally given myself permission not to waste hours of my ever-shortening life on things I really hate that are completely voluntary (what took me so long?)
So I guess that will be at least a monthly update here about what I've read during the month.
Reading List 2021
Finished - 72 (61 / 11) *Non-fiction: 16; Orange titles new, black white titles re-reads)
July - 11
- Eliza Rose, Lucy Worsley
- The Dutch House, Anne Patchett
- The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley
- *Elizabeth David on Vegetables, compiled by Jill Norman
- *Mary's Household Tips and Tricks - Your Guide to Happiness in the Home, Mary Berry
- *Cute Clothes for Kids, Robert Merrett
- *RHS Vegetables for the Gourmet Gardener - old, new, common and curious vegetables, Simon Akeroyd
- Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
- The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles
- Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
- Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
June - 11
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- *The Miracle Pill, Peter Walker
- Turn on the Heat, A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)
- The Bigger They Come, A.A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)
- *A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough
- Raven Girl, Audry Niffenegger
- The Sweetness of Forgetting, Kristen Harmel
- The Day of the Storm, Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Forgotten Seamstress, Liz Trenow
- Y is for Yesterday, Sue Grafton
- X, Sue Grafton
May - 11
- W is for Wasted, Sue Grafton
- V is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton
- Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
- *There is No Planet B, Mike Berners-Lee
- Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (?)
- The Storm Sister, Lucinda Riley
- Phoenix Rising, Bryony Pearce
- *Murder on the Home Front, Molly LeFebrure
- Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld
- *Penelope Fitzgerald - a Life, Hermione Lee
April - 11
- Enola Holmes - The Case of the Missing Marquess, Nancy Springer
- The Rose Code, Kate Quinn
- Tehanu, Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Farthest Short, Ursula K. LeGuin
- Simple Genius, David Balducci
- The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. LeGuin
- 1st to Die, James Patterson
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Anne of the Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
March - 12
- A Time of Fire, Robert Westall
- The Mermaid of Black Conch, Monique Roffey
- The Violets are Blue, James Patterson
- Skellig, David Almond
- Dark Hollow, John Connolly
- *How Bad are Bananas?, Mike Berners-Lee
- Hour Game, David Balducci
- S is for Silence, Sue Grafton
- Mrs. Lincoln, Janis Cooke Newman
- The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
- *The Moment of Life - How Empowering Women Changes the World, Melinda Gates
- R is for Ricochet, Sue Grafton
February - 10
- *A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future, David Attenborough
- Split Second, David Baldacci
- Roses are Red, James Patterson
- *Threads of Life - A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle, Clare Hunter
- Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout (?)
- The Christmas Train, David Balducci
- The Giver of Stars, JoJo Moyes
- Q is for Quary, Sue Grafton
- *Permanent Record, Edward Snowden
- *Sew...The Garment-Making Book of Knowledge, Barbara Emodi
January - 6
- Every Dead Think, John Connolly
- Pop Goes the Weasel, James Patterson
- The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
- M is for Malice, Sue Grafton
- N is for Noose, Sue Grafton
- *Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
