Aiming for 50: Finn's 2018 reading challenge...

[Finn]

Upping my aim from 2017 by 5 books....

[Finn]

1) Sophie Hannah - The Monogram Murders
2) M.L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans (R = Maggie)

[Finn]

I am also going to try and include at least 1 audio book (one I have not previously read as a novel or listened to), 1 short atory collection, 1 poegry anthology and at least 10 books recommended by 10 different friends...

[Tiffany, Administrator]

Finn wrote: "Upping my aim from 2017 by 5 books...."

Good luck! Sounds like you've got some good plans, too.

[Finn]

3) Lisa Jewell - Then She Was Gone (R=Paul)
4) Naomi Alderman - The Power

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5) Phillipa Ashley - Summer at the Cornish Cafe
6) Phillipa Ashley - Christmas at the Cornish Café

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7) Ransom Riggs - Hollow City

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8) Virginia Moffatt - Echo Hall

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9) Phillip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One

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10) Erica James - Gardens Of Delight

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11) Kate Mosse - The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales.

The first short story collection in my challenge - also recommended by a close friend (who bought it for me for Christmas!)

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12) Jacqueline Wilson - The Lottie Project

Going back to childhood to reread this one (probably for the 5th or 6th time!!)

[Finn]

13) Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

(R=Jess and Selina)

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14) Tove Jansson - Fair Play

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15) Marion Chesney - Snobbery with Violence

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16) Jacqueline Wilson - Double Act

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17) Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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18) Daphne du Maurier- Mary Anne

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19) Lucinda Riley - The Olive Tree

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20) Cecil Roberts - Victoria Four-Thirty

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21) Andrew O'Hagan - The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe (R= Adriana)

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22) Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns (R=Jannat)

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23) Jasper Fforde - The Song of the Quarkbeast (The Last Dragonslayer #2)

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24) Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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25) Erica James - Coming Home to Island House

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26) M C Beaton - The Quiche of Death

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27) Vanessa Diffenbaugh - The Language of Flowers

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28) Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

29) Margaret Forster - Daphne du Maurier

30) Sybille Bedford - The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover

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31) Katie Fforde - Highland Fling

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32) Judith McNaught - Whitney, My Love

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33) Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day

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34) Esi Edugyan - Washington Black

35) Rachel Hore - Last Letter Home

36) Early Riser - Jasper Fforde

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37) Liane Moriarty- Big Little Lies

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38) Joanna Cannon- Three Things About Elsie

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39) Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles

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40) Jill Mansell - Take a Chance on Me

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41) William S Burroughs- The Finger (short stories/recommendation)

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42) Curtis Sittenfeld- American Wife

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43) MC Beaton- Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
44) Helen Dunmore - Birdcage Walk

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43) MC Beaton- Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
44) Helen Dunmore - Birdcage Walk

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43) MC Beaton- Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
44) Helen Dunmore - Birdcage Walk
45) Kate Morton - The Clockmaker's Daughter

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43) MC Beaton- Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
44) Helen Dunmore - Birdcage Walk
45) Kate Morton - The Clockmaker's Daughter