Book Connections Challenge - Book Lists

[Paul]

A place to tell us your books and links

[Jason]

Gonna put my list here.

1. Wanderland
Link: Marram Grass
2. Marram
Link: Islands
3. Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific
Link: Male Author
4. Gone: A search for what remains of the world's extinct creatures
Link: Birds
5. H is for Hawk
Link: Account of a writer from the past
6. Walking Pepys’s London
Link: Maps
7. Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places and What They Tell Us About the World
Link: White Cover
8. Raiders of the Hidden Ark: The Story of the Parker Expedition to Jerusalem
Link: Religion
9. Full Tilt
Link: Snow
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[Pamela]

My list and links will be here

✅ 1. The Portrait of a Lady

Link: ‘Lady’ in the title

✅ 2. Diary of a Provincial Lady

Link: Set in Devon

✅ 3. Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac

Link: Female authors writing under pseudonyms

✅ 4. Indiana by George Sand

Link: Included in Boyd Tonkin’s 100 Best Novels in Translation The 100 Best Novels in Translation

✅ 5. Journey by Moonlight

Link: Moon in the title

✅ 6. The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Link: Literary Award winner

✅ 7. In the Castle of My Skin

Link: Post-colonial novels set in the Caribbean

✅ 8. A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

Link: Nobel Laureate authors

✅ 9. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

Link: Title taken from a poem

✅ 10. The Catcher in the Rye

Link: US classic novels

✅ 11. To Kill a Mockingbird

Link: Book made into a film

✅ 12. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Link: Author born in France

✅ 13. Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec

Link: Art as a central theme

✅ 14. The Unconsoled

Link: Booker Prize winning authors

✅ 15. Visitors

Link: Main character called Thea

✅ 16. Deception in the Cotswolds

[Jazzy]

Jazzy's 'It's Always Something' or 'One Thing Leads to Another' Challenge 2021

✅ 1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) - Agatha Christie

✅ 2. Murder on the Orient Express (1934) - Agatha Christie (Inspector Poirot)

✅ 3. The Old Nurse's Story (1852) - Elizabeth Gaskell (snow)

✅ 4. The Birds (1952) - Daphne du Maurier (horror)

✅ 5. El Señor Presidente (1946) - Miguel Ángel Asturias (under attack)

✅ 6. The Worm Ouroboros (1922) - E.R. Eddison (magical elements)

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[Pat]

Here we go
1 Signs for lost children. Sarah Moss.
Link. Women who fought against what was considered proper in employment and general despite physical/ mental strain.
2. Josephine Butler. a very brief history. Jane Robinson.
Link. Author of this book is Honorary Senior Associate of Somerville College, Oxford. Morse is set in Oxford.
3. Last bus to Woodstock. Colin Dexter.
Link. Colin and Rosanne were both teachers at some point prior to becoming writers.
4.Growing goats and girls. Rosanne Hodin
Link. Cornwall
5.Betjemans’s Cornwall. John Betjeman.
Link. Both were journalists before branching out. Plus both make stories and non fiction intertwine in their love of a place. Isn’t that what journalists do?
6.Through the children’s gate. Adam Gopnik
Link. Memoir of a family. Written by a member of that family.
7. Dadland. Keggie Carew.
Link. Award winners.
8. Bernardine Evaristo. Girl, woman, other.
Link. Novel re people that are LBGBT+
9. The line of beauty. Alan Hollinghurst
Link. The concept of beauty.
10. A book of beauty. John Hadfield.
LInk. People who changed their lives due to circumstances
11. Bosh. How to live vegan. Henry Firth and Ian Theasby.
Link. A “how to do” book
12. Mindfulness. Dr Danny Penman and Mark Williams
Link. Mindfulness
13. The doctor who sat for a year. Brendan Kelly
Link. Two men that recount their lives and add their own, as well as others, philosophies about life.
14.The happiest man on earth. Eddie Jaku
Link. Autobiography written by ghostwriter
15. Me. Elton John.
Link. Both main characters led a rock opera life with a mother that appeared not to like them. Despite this both overcame whatever difficulties to get to the top.
16. I Claudius by Robert Graves. Read as an audiobook via Radio 4 production.

[Jim]

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1. Travels on a Greyhound Bus by Beckie Henderson
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[Paul]

My list and links will be here

Book 1 The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story John Gimlette
Link MARS
Book 2 One Way S.J. Morden
Link RED COVER
Book 3 Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland Caroline Eden
Link TRAVEL WRITING
Book 4 Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran Jason Elliot
Link MIDDLE EAST
Book 5 A Reed Shaken By The Wind: Travels Among The Marsh Arabs Of Iraq Gavin Maxwell
Link WATER
Book 6 Springlines: Exploring Hidden and Mysterious Bodies of Water Clare Best and Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis
Link BLUE COVER
Book 7 Islands Of Abandonment: Life In The Post-Human Landscape Cal Flyn
Link BLUE COVER
Book 8 How To Be Sad: Everything I’ve Learned About Getting Happier, By Being Sad, Better Helen Russell
Link SADNESS & LOSS
Book 9 Save Our Species: Endangered Animals and How You Can Save Them Dominic Couzens& Sarah Edmunds (Ill.)
Link BIRD ON COVER
Book 10 The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest Neil Ansell
Link ORANGE COVER
Book 11 Notes From Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past And Future Worlds Helen Gordon
Link BROWN COVER
Book 12 Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure Helena Attlee
Link ITALY
Book 13 Summer In The Islands: An Italian Odyssey Matthew Fort
Link FOOD
Book 14 Pie Fidelity: In Defence Of British Food Pete Brown
Link ENGLAND
Book 15 Trimming England M.J. Nicholls
Link MISSING PARTS
Book 16 These Towers Will One Day Slip Into The Sea Gary Budden & Maxim Griffin

[Rebecca]

1. Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

Link: Subject - Characters hearing voices

2. Chocky by John Wyndham

Link: Author Name

3. The One by John Marrs

Link: Word in Title

4. One by One by Ruth Ware

Link: Setting - Snowed in

5. The Shining by Stephen King

Link: Subject - Addiction

6. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Link: Author Name

7. The Key by Penny Reid

Link: Word in Title

8. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Link: Character Name - Julia

9. Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

Link: Place - Georgia

10. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Link: Genre - Contemporary

11. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Link: Place - Japan

12. Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

Link: Subject - Food

13. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

Link: Place - New York

14. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks

Link: Genre - Mystery/Thriller

15. The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

Link: Author Name

16. The Inheritance by Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb

[Jessica]

I'm not sure how much reading I'll get done this year but I'll give this challenge a try and hope to at least get a few connections. It looks like lots of fun!

1. Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea
Link: Repression

2. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Link: Women whose family are not there for them.

3. An Unnecessary Woman
Link: Lonely characters

4. A Ladder to the SkyA Ladder to the Sky
Link: A story about an entire life

5. Ice Walker: A Polar Bear's Journey through the Fragile Arctic
Link: Story about a generation of a family

6. Pachinko
Link: Grandparents as central characters

7. The Lake House
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8. Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
Link: Going on a journey

9. The Birthday Boys
Link: Harsh climates

10. The Rent Collector
Link: Sending kids away

11. The Exiles
Link: Orphanage

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[Ruth]

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[Annie]

Here goes …

1. Jill Paton Walsh Fireweed
↑Child protagonist↓
2. Susan Cooper The Dark Is Rising
↑Featured on a Backlisted podcast (Dec 2020/Jul 2017)↓
3. Charles Sprawson Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero
↑Author died in 2020↓
4. Brad Watson The Heaven of Mercury
↑Longlisted for US National Book Awards (2002/2020)↓
5. Nona Fernández Space Invaders translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
↑Women translating women↓
6. María Sonia Cristoff False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver
↑Argentinian author↓
7. Luis Sagasti Fireflies translated from the Spanish by Fionn Petch
↑Published by Charco Press↓
8. Julián Fuks Resistance translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
↑Autofiction↓
9. Jocelyn Brooke The Military Orchid
↑Botanical memoir↓
10. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett The Grassling
↑Prose works by poets↓
11. Edward Thomas In Pursuit of Spring
↑Illustrated with photographs by the author↓
12. Isa Leshko Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries
↑Animal Rights/Vegan author↓
13. David G. Brooks The Grass Library: Essays
↑Dogs↓
14. Geoffrey Willians The Dog's Ear Book
↑Humour↓
15. Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love
↑Penguin Classics↓
16. Antony Trollope The Warden

[Anetq]

Hmmm I'll give this a try!
Book Connections, 16 books! 7/16 read.
The idea behind this is to read a book that is in some way linked to the last book that you read for this challenge. Some suggested links can be:
Genre, Place, Subject, Title Words, Main character names, Author Names, Cover Image/Colour.
1 On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe
↑Theme: Friendships formed by living together in close quarters and a sudden death (none of these are crime novels, btw).↓
2 Tour de chambre by Tine Høeg
↑ Place/Theme Studying in Denmark (and more death, still no crime fiction!))↓
3 Blomsterdalen (The Valley of Flowers) by Niviaq Korneliussen
↑ Genre/Theme: Being young, growing up and finding it very, very hard. (also rather explicit sex in both!) ↓
4 New Passengers by Tine Høeg
↑Pale green cover ↓
5 Ikke afsendt by Lærke Winther
↑Theme: Thawing to interact with people again ↓
6 The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
↑ Theme: Love/Friendship between a couple of 9 year old girls↓
7 The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
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[Ruby]

Ruby's List - 3/4 read

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass - Read 01/17

Link: Author name> Lewis

2. The First Sister - Read 01/29

Link: Title word> Sister

3. Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home - Read 02/05

Link: Genre> Nonfiction

4. Midnight's Children - DNF 02/09

4. (second attempt) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - 08/06

[Leila]

And there goes my LIST:
1. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Link: Asian Author

2. کافکا در کرانه by Haruki Murakami

Link: An Animal On Cover

3.Feral Sins by Suzzane Wright

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[Patricia]

Starting late but starting just the same!
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Link: Teen with austism
2. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Link: Boy in the title
3. The Boy Who Conspired with a King, R. L. Patton

[Pat]

Never too late.

[Paul]

Finished the challenge and have added my books above

[Pat]

Excellent Paul.

[Jason]

Well done Paul. I've managed 10, struggled to find links between the books I've read :-)