A New Year and a new decade too. Lots to read this month the start of the annual Good Reads reading challenge. I have set mine at 190 again, and just need to crack on with it.
I also run a group on Good Reads where I design and set an annual challenge for the members. This year it is Dusty Shelf Bingo and the bingo grid for books to select for this is below. Just selecting the books that I want to read for this list is great fun. Will post about this more soon.
Anyway onto my TBR for this month. I am hoping to make these a little more focused based on my reading intentions here.
Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Shortlist
I am judging this shortlist in early February, but want to get them read ASAP
From The Lion’s Mouth: A Journey Along the Indus – Iain Campbell
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life – Mark Synnott
Where There’s A Will – Emily Chappell
Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of a Cameraman – Gavin Thurston
There are two more on the list but I have already read them:
Outpost – Dan Richards
Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Wildest Horse Race – Lara Prior-Palmer
Review Copies
American Dirt – Jeanie Cummins
A Good Neighbourhood -Therese Anne Fowler
Vickery’s Folk Flora – Roy Vickery
The Many Lives of Carbon – Dag Olav Hessen, Tr. Kerri Pierce
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novrik
Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths – Charlotte Higgins
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
The Glass Woman – Caroline Lea
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
Library Books
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History – Esther Rutter
The Edge Of The World: A Cultural History Of The North Sea And The Transformation Of Europe – Michael Pye
The Ice House – Tim Clare
Pie Fidelity: In Defence Of British Food – Pete Brown
Defender – G X Todd
On The Marsh: A Year Surrounded By Wildness And Wet – Simon Barnes
Challenge Books
The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett
Poetry
Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad – Alice Oswald
Threads – Nathan Evans
Science Fiction
Before Mars – Emma Newman
I think that will do!
I’ve bought Journeys in the Wild for my best friend for Christmas and unfortunately have to give it to her on Saturday – hopefully I can borrow it back from her once she’s read it! The Indus one would be interesting but I am averting my eyes, given the state of my TBR (I’ll be OK I reckon if I can just read about 10-15 books regularly every month … maybe).
I had a proof copy and a full copy. Which my brother in law got for Christmas… I am here to make everyone’s TBRs much longer