April 2026 TBR

My, not very short, list of books to read for April is below:

Still Reading

Roads To Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Land and History of Spain – Cees Noteboom

Possessions: A Memoir Of Transformation In An Era Of Precarity – Davina Quinlivan

Tiny Experiments: How To Live Freely In A Goal-Obsessed World – Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Review Books

What We Have Lost – James Hamilton-Paterson

Your Journey Your Way: The Recovery Guide to Mental Health – Horatio Clare

Slow Trains Around Britain: Notes from a 4,088-Mile Adventure on 143 Rides – Tom Chesshyre

Return of the Ancients: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird – Katy Soar (Ed)

Little Ruins – Manni Coe

Cry of the Wild: Tales Of Sea, Woods and Hill – Charles Foster

Politics, But Better: An A – Z Guide to Creating a More Hopeful Future – Tatton Spiller

Farewell to Russia: A Journey through the Former USSR – Joe Luc Barnes

News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir – Peter Flemming

Saints of Sind – Peter Mayne

The Waterlands: Follow A Raindrop From Source To Sea – Stephen Rutt

Possessed: A Lost Novel of the Occult – Rosalie Synton & Edward Synton

Books I’m Clearing

Russians Among Us – Gordon Corera

Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Attack on the West – Luke Harding

Chris Hoy: The Autobiography – Chris Hoy

Volkswagen Camper: Six Decades of Success – Richard Copping & Ken Cservenka

I’m a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity – Robin Ince

WFMAC

The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country – Helen Russell

Along the River that Flows Uphill: From the Orinoco to the Amazon – Richard Starks

Stanfords Shortlist

A Training School for Elephants – Sophy Roberts (This was the Winner!!!)

Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train – Monisha Rajesh

Library

Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry – Ben Aiken

Fiesta: A Journey Through Festivity – Daniel Stables

Climbing Days – Dorothy Pilley

Meditations For Mortals: Four Weeks To Embrace Your Limitations And Make Time For What Counts – Oliver Burkeman

Poetry

Hemisphere – Pete Green

Bookclub

There is a book this month and I can’t remember the title of it!

#20BooksOfSummer (Still going…)

Sunfall – Jim Al-Khalili

Revenger – Alastair Reynolds

Shadow Captain – Alastair Reynolds

So are there any from that list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.