Where did October go? I cannot believe that it is November tomorrow. The clocks have gone back, it is now dark early evening and we are probably going to be in lockdown (again)… Seems like I am going to have plenty of time to read then. I have 28 books to go on my Good Reads Challenge and a huge pile of books to read for various other challenges and reviews. Might get to more of them this month, but we’ll see. The list below is what I am planning to pick from, but there are always extras that sneak in from the side, like library books that others have reserved,
Finishing Off (Still!)
Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants – Roy Vickery
Lotharingia: A Personal History Of Europe’s Lost Country – Simon Winder
The Saints of Salvation – Peter F. Hamilton
Nine Pints – Rose George
Blog Tours
The Saints of Salvation – Peter F. Hamilton
Music To Eat Cake By – Lev Parikian
The Greatest Beer Run Ever – John Donohue
Review Copies
Thank you to the publishers that have sent me these review copies:
American Dirt – Jeanie Cummins
The Maths Of Life And Death – Kit Yates
Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico – Ronald Wright
A Bird a Day – Dominic Couzens
The Age of Static: How TV Explains Modern Britain – Phil Harrison
Rotherweird – Andrew Caldecot
Wyntertide – Andrew Caldecot
Featherhood – Charlie Gilmour
Blood Ties – Ben Crane
On Fiji Islands – Ronald Wright
It’s the End of the World – Adam Roberts
The Secret Life of Fungi – Aliya Whiteley
How Spies Think – David Omand
Behind the Enigma – John Ferris
One Day in August – David O’Keefe
Democracy for Sale – Peter Geoghegan
Library Books
Did get to read three last month. These are next up
Nightingales In November – Mike Dilger
Nine Pints – Rose George
Buzz – Thor Hanson
Britain by the Book – Oliver Tearle
Footnotes – Peter Fiennes
Challenge Books & Own Books
From Rome to San Marino – Oliver Knox
Hokkaido Highway Blues – Will Ferguson
A Dragon Apparent – Norman Lewis
In Search of Conrad – Gavin Young
Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger – Nigel Slater
Poetry
Ended up reading two other poetry books last month so these will be definitely read this month
Rapture – Carol Ann Duffy
Mancunian Ways – Isabelle Kenyon (Editor)
Science Fiction
Read Attack Surface, which is excellent by the way, so this is still on the list:
One Way – S.J. Morden
Any take your fancy?
Your review copies list makes me feel less bad about mine! I still want you to read Hokkaido Highway Blues and then I want to re-read it next year.
I have so many review copies still to read, Liz!!! I am intending on reading along with The Bells of Old Tokyo and A Beginner’s Guide To Japan when I get to it.