As we hurtle towards the end of the year, I look back at all the books that I’d thought I’d get to and largely failed to do so. So many book but so little time. This month is a case of catching up on a couple of challenges that I have been doing and still have books to read for and trying to work my way through what is an ever-increasing review TBR!
Award Winner Challenge
The idea behind this was to choose books that were winners or long and shortlisted for a variety of types of literary prizes. The ones that I have left to read by the end of the year are:
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Our Endless Numbered Days – Clare Fuller
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
In the Days of Rain – Rebecca Stott
Blood on the Page – Thomas Harding
#20BooksOfSummer
Two left to go on this, (still!!!), even British it is almost winter…
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce
Library Books
Messy – Tim Harford
The Gentle Art of Tramping – Stephen Graham
Superheavy: Making And Breaking The Periodic Table – Kit Chapman
The Edge Of The World: A Cultural History Of The North Sea And The Transformation Of Europe – Michael Pye
Winter Themed
The Library of Ice – Nancy Campbell
The Nature Of Winter – Jim Crumley
Father Christmas’s Fake Beard – Terry Pratchett
Review Books
Time and Place – Alexandra Harris
The Many Lives of Carbon – Dag Olav Hessen, Tr. Kerri Pierce
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novrik
Stealing With The Eyes – Will Buckingham
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers by Moritz Thomsen
The Book of Puka-Puka: A Lone Trader in the South Pacific by Robert Dean Frisbie
Irreplaceable: The Fight To Save Our Wild Places by Julian Hoffman
Incandescent – Ann Levin
The House of Islam – Ed Husain
Blue Mind – Wallace J. Nichols
When the Rivers Run Dry – Fred Pearce
Wintering – Stephen Rutt
The Glass Woman – Caroline Lea
Vickery’s Folk Flora – Roy Vickery
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
Own Books / Wishful thinking
The Art of Life Admin – Elizabeth Emens (To be read after Messy!)
The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett
Any there that you have read, or perhaps take your fancy (I know that some have been on previous TBRs!)
The only one of those I’ve read is the Pratchett. I’ve got Spinning Silver and The Glass Woman on my own tbr though
The Christmas Pratchett was £4 in the Works and I hadn’t got a copy
I very much enjoyed Messy, and Our Endless Numbered Days was my book of the year when first published. The Library of Ice is still in my own TBR stack. Happy December reading!
Thank you, Annabel. Finally started Our Endless Numbered Days last night and am now 100 pages in
You will like The Library of Ice, I haven’t read any of the others but it looks like a good list!
I have been meaning to read it for absolutely ages!!!