Trying to get on top of things this month and be a bit more organised, so have been thinking about this for a few days. It is far too many, but I really need to put the pedal to the metal with the number of books I read each month, so here is my TBR for March:
Finishing Off
To the Island of Tides – Alistair Moffat
Blog Tour
I am participating in the blog tour for the Dylan Thomas Prize this year. This year’s longlist comprises of seven novels, three poetry collections and two short story collections with some amazing names on the list such as Jay Bernard, Helen Mort, Yelena Moskovich, Mary Jean Chan and many other wonderful writers. I will be reading two books from the longlist:
If All the World and Love Were Young – Stephen Sexton
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
Review Copies
American Dirt – Jeanie Cummins (wavering on this one a little with all the publicity about this)
Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice – C.J. Schuller
Liquid Gold: Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey – Roger Morgan-Grenville
A Good Neighbourhood – Therese Anne Fowler
We’re Living Through The Breakdown – Tatton Spiller
Marram: Memories of Sea and Spider Silk – Leonie Charlton
A Good Neighbourhood – Therese Anne Fowler
Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants – Roy Vickery
The Many Lives of Carbon – Dag Olav Hessen, Tr. Kerri Pierce
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers – Moritz Thomsen
The Book of Puka-Puka: A Lone Trader in the South Pacific Robert – Dean Frisbie
Irreplaceable: The Fight To Save Our Wild Places – Julian Hoffman
The House of Islam – Ed Husain
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do – Wallace J. Nichols
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century – Fred Pearce
The Glass Woman – Caroline Lea
Sunfall – Jim Al-Khalili
Library Books
Britain by the Book – Oliver Tearle
Footnotes – Peter Fiennes
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza – Dervla Murphy
The Secret DJ – Anonymous
A Pattern of Islands – Arthur Grimble
This Book Will Blow Your Mind -Frank Swain (Ed.)
Concretopia: A journey around the rebuilding of postwar Britain -John Grindrod
Challenge Books
A Hat Full of Sky – Terry Pratchett
This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
How the Light Gets In – Clare Fisher
Poetry
The lovely Isabelle from Fly on the Wall Press sent me these:
Awakening: Musing on Planetary Survival – Sam Love
Alcoholic Betty – Elisabeth Horan
Science Fiction
I ended up reading Sea of Rust last month so this is still on the list:
One Way – S.J. Morden
Oh, I will look out for your thoughts on Concretoptia with interest! Happy reading!
Thank you, Liz. I have met John at one of the Wainwright prizes and really enjoyed the other book on the green belt that he wrote.