After what seems like half a lifetime, we have finally reached February. So it must be time for another TBR. And here it is. I didn’t get to as many of the books planned in January because of library reservations that were requested on some of the books I had out so it is a bit longer than I had been planning to do. This is partly because I am trying to clear some of the books that I have in the house. This could take a while…
Daily Books
A Tree A Day – Amy-Jane Beer
An Insect a Day: Bees, Bugs, And Pollinators For Every Day Of The Year – Dominic Couzens & Gail Ashton
Standford Shortlist
Wild Twin – Jeff Young
The Place of Tides – James Rebanks
On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar – Clare Hammond
Review Books
Handbook of Mammals of Madagascar Hardcover – Nick Garbutt
From Utmost East to Utmost West: My Life Of Exploration And Adventure – John Blashford-Snell
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
Your Journey Your Way: The Recovery Guide to Mental Health – Horatio Clare
Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love – Joanne Ella Parsons
On the Narrow Road to the Deep North: Journey into a Lost Japan – Lesley Chan Downer
WFMAC
Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe – Robert Twigger (halfway through this at the moment…)
An Englishman in Patagonia – John Pilkington
Themed Reads
This month is London:
This is London: Life and Death in the World City – Ben Judah
London Made Us: A Memoir Of A Shape-Shifting City – Robert Elms
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now—As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It – Craig Taylor
The Groundwater Diaries: Trials, Tributaries and Tall Stories from Beneath the Streets of London – Tim Bradford
Plus the one I didn’t get to last month:
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation – Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
Clearance
Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty & Change – Philip Davies
Dilbert 2.0 – Scott Adams
In England – Don McCullen
Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (Tr)
Library
The Story of Silbury Hill – Jim Leary & David Field
Weathering – Ruth Allen
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry – Ben Aiken
Birdgirl: Discovering the Power of Our Natural World – Mya-Rose Craig
Bookclub
Secrets Of Flowers – Sally Page
Poetry
the sun and her flowers – Rupi Kaur
Are there any from the list above that you’ve read or like the look of? Let me know in the comments below
Cracking list you’ve got there. I’ve read Birdgirl and Here Comes the Fun and enjoyed both.
Thank you, Jennifer.
As I don’t have any other specific challenges for February, I was thinking of making it ‘Finish It In February’ or words to that effect. Your non-annotated list looks far more elegant than my over-specific one which I have yet to post. I may well adopt your approach.
I’ve heard very good things about the Rebanks and ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ sounds interesting. I’m surprised to see ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ was on clearance. Could the Japanese/Korean cosy cat/coffee/café/bookshop trend finally be coming to an end?
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by non-annotated, but feel free to copy and develop a method that works for you.
Rebanks is a fantastic author, I still haven’t read his second book!!
By clearance, I mean books I have that I will read and pass on elsewhere, i.e. clear from my home
I’m intrigued by London Made Us and Londoners, both of which are on my radar. I enjoyed Birdgirl but she does travel a lot to see birds and I feel a bit uneasy about that side of the hobby (always have done, going back to a bird fair years ago with so many trips on offer). Happy reading!
I’ll pop them in the post when I have read them!
I found a copy of Birdgirl in a charity shop today so this library copy can go back. That is always a dilemma and is a difficult path to traverse with regards traveling for a natural history hobby
You’re very kind. And I have one I owe you!