Reading List 2021

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