December is flying by already. This was supposed to come out a few days ago, but last week was Dervla Murphy week on the blog, hence why this is delayed.
So this month is a much shorter TBR. I have 10 books to go on my Good Reads Challenge of 190 books for the year and then I want to start getting ahead for next year by reading some of the monsters that I have around the house. So these are the final books of the year below. I have two seasonal / Christmassy books in the pile and then a list of the big books that I am hoping to make some inroads too. The only spanner in the works is library reservations as when I went to renew last time four others were reserved, so they have gone on the list…
The Shepherds Crown – Terry Pratchett
The Intimate Resistance – Josep Maria Esquirol Tr. Douglas Suttle
Extraction to Extinction – David Howe
Troubled Water – Jens Mühling Tr. Simon Pare
The Art Of More – Michael Brooks
River Kings – Cat Jarman
Treasure Of Folklore: Seas And Rivers – Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham
Nests – Susan Ogilvy
Christmas Books
Mistletoe Winter – Roy Dennis
Sunless Solstice – Ed. Lucy Evans & Tanya Kirk
BIG Books
The Sea Is Not Made Of Water – Adam Nicholson
Finding the Mother Tree – Suzanne Simard
Mordew – Alex Pheby
Putin’s People – Catherine Belton
The Border – Erika Fatland Tr. Kari Dickson
Elephant Complex: Travels In Sri Lanka – John Gimlette
Lotharingia – Simon Winder
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends – Nicole Perlroth
Concretopia – John Grindrod
The Night Lies Bleeding – M.D. Lachlan
Opened Ground Poems 1966 – 1996 – Seamus Heaney
Survival of the City – Edward Glaeser & David Cutler
The Metal Heart – Caroline Lea
Britain Alone – Philip Stephens
The Germans and Europe – Peter Millar
Tweet Of The Day – Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
Women On Nature – Katherine Norbury
Any here that you have heard of or that take your fancy?
I have the Adam Nicolson but it’s waiting to be one of me and my best friend’s together reads and I think we have a few ahead of it, so I’ll have to save your review. I have worked my way through some light but non-Christmassy NetGalley reads and now have three Christmassy ones left, plus two novels and a bird book, but at the moment struggling a bit with a really dense nonfiction “How to Read Water”. Sigh. Happy reading!
It may get nudged to 2022 depending on library reservations. I have a copy of How to Read Water sitting right by my desk. Not read it yet though…