December 2023 TBR

We have made it to December! And it snowed in Dorset yesterday. It means that we can mention the C word now. I have 14 books to go to reach my Good Reads Challenge of 190 so there are some very short books in this list:

 

Still Reading

Travellers Through Time: A Gypsy History by Jeremy Harte

 

Challenge Books

Bloom: From Food to Fuel, the Epic Story of How Algae Can Save Our World by Ruth Kassinger

be/longing: Understories Of Nature, Family And Home by Amanda Thomson

Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone by Jackie Morris

 

Winter / Christmas Books

The Holly King by Mark Stay

I Hate Christmas: A Manifesto for the Modern-day Scrooge by Daniel Blythe

Nature Tales for Winter Nights by Ed. Nancy Campbell

Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks by Ed. Pam Lock

 

Other Books

Malarkoi by Alex Pheby

Shitstorm by Fernando Sdrigotti

Wild Isles by Patrick Barkham

Soundings: Journeys In The Company Of Whales by Doreen Cunningham

 

Review Books

On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche

Yew by Fred Hageneder

Now is the Time to Know Everything by Simon Moreton

Wild Wanderings by Phil Gribbon

Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking by Kerri Andrews

The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane Cooper

The Purple Land: An Adventure in Uruguay Or The Banda Oriental by W. H. Hudson

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

Moderate Becoming Good Later: Sea Kayaking the Shipping Forecast by Katie Carr & Toby Carr

 

Poetry

The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres & Alice Tait

 

So that is it for the year. Some of those have been on numerous TBRs and others haven’t. A couple of these are Christmas presents and need to be read before I wrap them. (Doesn’t everyone do that?)

Any that take your fancy? Let me know in the comments below

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2 Comments

  1. Liz Dexter

    Hm, I’ve got Barkham’s “Islander” – is that the same book, I wonder? Have a good reading month in December. I’m alternating chewy nonfiction to review for Shiny with Dean Street Press novels for the challenge I’m hosting!

    • Paul

      This is a different book, Liz, it was a tie into the BBC tv series of the same name

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