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sa-weet!! you guys are so responsive. thank you!! 2016
o Ruby, by Cynthia Bond
o A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara
2015
o The Bees, by Laline Paull
o How to be both, by Ali Smith
2014
The Undertaking, by Audrey Magee
o A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, by Eimear McBride
2013
May We Be Forgiven, by A.M. Homes
o NW, by Zadie Smith
o Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
2012
o Foreign Bodies, by Cynthia Ozick
o The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
Painter of Silence, by Georgina Harding
2011
o Great House, by Nicole Krauss
o Room, by Emma Donoghue
Grace Williams Says It Loud, by Emma Henderson
o The Memory of Love, by Aminatta Forna
2010
o The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Very Thought of You, by Rosie Alison
2009
Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie
o Home, by Marilynne Robinson
Scottsboro, by Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey
o The Invention of Everything Else, by Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox's Birthday, by Deirdre Madden
2008
The Outcast, by Sadie Jones
The Road Home, by Rose Tremain
Lottery, by Patricia Wood
o Lullabies for Little Criminals, by Heather O'Neill
When We Were Bad, by Charlotte Mendelson
o Fault Lines, by Nancy Huston
2007
The Observations, by Jane Harris
o Arlington Park, by Rachel Cusk
2006
o On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
o The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters
Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel
2005
Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy
The Mammoth Cheese, by Sheri Holman
o Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
Billie Morgan, by Joolz Denby
2004
The Colour, by Rose Tremain
Ice Road, by Gillian Slovo
o Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
2003
Property, by Valerie Martin
o The Autograph Man, by Zadie Smith
Heligoland, by Shena Mackay
o The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
Buddha Da, by Anne Donovan
2002
The Siege, by Helen Dunmore
No Bones, by Anna Burns
The White Family, by Maggie Gee
A Child's Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper
2001
o The Idea of Perfection, by Kate Grenville
Horse Heaven, by Jane Smiley
Homestead, by Rosina Lippi
Hotel World, by Ali Smith
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Fred & Edie, by Jill Dawson
2000
When I Lived in Modern Times, by Linda Grant
The Dancers Dancing, by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
If I Told You Once, by Judy Budnitz
1999
Paradise, by Toni Morrison
A Crime in the Neighborhood, by Suzanne Berne
Short History of a Prince, by Jane Hamilton
The Leper's Companions, by Julia Blackburn
Visible Worlds, by Marilyn Bowering
1998
The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve
The Ventriloquist's Tale, by Pauline Melville
Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis
Love Like Hate Adore, by Deirdre Purcell
1997
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
One by One in the Darkness, by Deirdre Madden
Hen's Teeth, by Manda Scott
I Was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn
1996
A Spell of Winter, by Helen Dunmore
Eveless Eden, by Marianne Wiggins
The Hundred Secret Senses, by Amy Tan
Spinsters, by Pagan Kennedy
The Book of Color, by Julia Blackburn
strikethrough = read
o = owned, unread
unmarked = unowned & unread
Mod
i will claim my spot here, and come ba..."
WOW Jennifer you are fast! I was still fiddling about re-naming. I've called this one the SHORTLIST CHALLENGE. There are 6 books on each year's shortlist. I will gradually add them to a dedicated shelf as well so they will be easier to find.
Not sure if people are up for the entire longlist but we could add one of those too!
Mod
2015
How to be Both
The Bees
A God in Every Stone
2014
Americanah
A Girl is a half-formed Thing
The Lowland
2013
N W
Bring Up The Bodies
Flight Behaviour
2012
The Song of Achilles
2011
Great House
The Tiger's Wife
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love
2010
The Lacuna
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
A Gate At The Stairs
Wolf Hall
The Very Thought of YOU
2009
Burnt Shadows
Home
The Wilderness
The Invention of Everything Else
Molly Fox's Birthday
2008
Lottery
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines
2007
Digging to America
A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers
The Inheritance of Loss
Arlington Park
2006
Beyond Black
The History of Love
2005
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Liars and Saints
The Mammoth Cheese
Billie Morgan
2004
Ice Road
Oryx and Crake
The Great Fire
2003
Property
The Autograph Man
Heligoland
The Little Friend
Buddha Da
2002
The Seige
No Bones
The White Family
A Child's Book of True Crime
Fingersmith
2001
The Idea of Perfection
Horse Heaven
Homestead
Hotel World
Fred and Edie
2000
When I Lived in Modern Times
White Teeth
Amy and Isabelle
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once
1999
Paradise
A Crime in the Neighbourhood
The Short History of a Prince
The Leper's Companions
Visible Worlds
1998
Larry's Party
The Weight of Water
The Ventriloquist's Tale
The Magician's Assistant
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
Alias Grace
One by One in the Darkness
Hen's Teeth
I was Amelia Earhart
Accordion Crimes
1996
Ladder of Years
Eveless Eden
The Hundred Secret Senses
Spinsters
The Book of Colour
Jayme's Short list Challenge 54/114 books read
2017
♥ The Power
Stay With Me
The Dark Circle
The Sport of Kings
First Love
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
2016
♥
2015
♥
Outline
A God in Every Stone
The Paying Guests
2014
♥ A Girl is a half-formed Thing
The Undertaking
Americanah
2013
♥ May We be Forgiven
NW
Bring Up the Bodies
2012
♥
Foreign Bodies
Half Blood Blues
Painter of Silence
The Forgotten Waltz
2011
♥
Great House
Room
Annabelle
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love
2010
♥ The Lacuna
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
A Gate at the Stairs
Black Water Rising
The Very Thought of You
2009
♥
Scottsboro
The Wilderness
The Invention of Everything Else
2008
♥
The Outcast
Lottery
Lullabies for Little Criminals
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines
2007
♥
The Observations
The Inheritance of Lose
Arlington Park
2006
♥ On Beauty
The Night Watch
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
2005
♥ We Need to Talk About Kevin
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Liars and Saints
Billie Morgan
Old Filth
2004
♥ Small Island
The Colour
Ice Road
The Great Fire
2003
♥
The Autograph Man
Heligoland
Unless
The Little Friend
Buddha Da
2002
♥
Fingersmith
A Child's Book of True Crime
The White Family
The Siege
No Bones
2001
♥
Horse Heaven
Homestead
Fred & Edie
Hotel World
2000
♥
White Teeth
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once
Amy and Isabelle
1999
♥
Short History of a Prince
Paradise
Visible Worlds
The Leper's Companion
1998
♥
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
♥
Alias Grace
One by One in the Darkness
Accordion Crimes
1996
♥
♥ = winner that year
Fun! I have a long way to go.2023
Pod
Black Butterflies
Trespasses
The Marriage Portrait
Demon Copperhead
2022
The Bread the Devil Knead
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Great Circle
Sorrow and Bliss
The Island of Missing Trees
2021
Piranesi
Transcendent Kingdom
Unsettled Ground
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
No One is Talking About This
2020
Dominicana
A Thousand Ships
Hamnet
2019
The Silence of the Girls
Milkman
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Ordinary People
2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Sight
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
The Idiot
2017
Stay With Me
The Dark Circle
The Sport of Kings
2016
Ruby
The Green Road
The Glorious Heresies
The Portable Veblen
The Improbability of Love
2015
A Spool of Blue Thread
A God in Every Stone
2014
The Undertaking
A Girl is a half-formed Thing
The Lowland
2013
Where'd You go Bernadette?
May We Be Forgiven
N W
Flight Behaviour
2012
Foreign Bodies
The Song of Achilles
Half Blood Blues
Painter of Silence
2011
Great House
Annabel
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love
2010
The Lacuna
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Black Water Rising
The Very Thought of YOU
2009
*Burnt Shadows
Home
Scottsboro
The Wilderness
The Invention of Everything Else
Molly Fox's Birthday
2008
The Outcast
The Road Home
Lottery
*Lullabies for Little Criminals
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines
2007
Half A Yellow Sun
The Observations
Digging to America
A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers
*The Inheritance of Loss
Arlington Park
2006
On Beauty
The Night Watch
The Accidental
2005
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Liars and Saints
The Mammoth Cheese
Billie Morgan
2004
*The Colour
Ice Road
Purple Hibiscus
The Great Fire
2003
Property
The Autograph Man
Heligoland
The Little Friend
Buddha Da
2002
The Seine
No Bones
The White Family
A Child's Book of True Crime
2001
Horse Heaven
Homestead
Hotel World
Fred and Edie
2000
When I Lived in Modern Times
Amy and Isabelle
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Dancers Dancing
*If I Told You Once
1999
Paradise
A Crime in the Neighbourhood
The Short History of a Prince
The Leper's Companions
Visible Worlds
1998
*Larry's Party
The Weight of Water
The Ventriloquist's Tale
The Magician's Assistant
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
One by One in the Darkness
Hen's Teeth
I was Amelia Earhart
Accordion Crimes
1996
*Ladder of Years
A Spell of Winter
Eveless Eden
The Hundred Secret Senses
Spinsters
The Book of Colour
You have done a lot of work on setting this up Penny. I'm awed!I have tried setting up a Group Challenge for the winners, but I have never done this before, so I apologise if it doesn't work.
Thanks Penny for putting the list together.
Mod
2021
Transcendent Kingdom
No One is Talking About This
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps...
Piranesi
Unsettled Ground
2020
Girl, Woman, Other
A Thousand Ships
The Mirror and the Light
Hamnet
2019
Ordinary People
2018
The Idiot
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Sight
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
2017
The Dark Circle
The Power
The Sport of Kings
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
First Love
2016
The Improbability Of Love
The Portable Veblen
The Glorious Heresies
Ruby
The Green Road
2015
How to be Both
Outline
The Paying Guests
2014
Burial Rites
2013
May We Be Forgiven
N W
Bring Up The Bodies
Flight Behaviour
2012
State of Wonder
Foreign Bodies
Painter of Silence
The Forgotten Waltz
2011
Great House
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love
2010
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Black Water Rising
Wolf Hall
The Very Thought of YOU
2009
Burnt Shadows
Scottsboro
The Wilderness
The Invention of Everything Else
Molly Fox's Birthday
2008
The Outcast
The Road Home
Lottery
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines
2007
The Observations
A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers
Arlington Park
2006
The Night Watch
Beyond Black
2005
Liars and Saints
The Mammoth Cheese
Old Filth
Billie Morgan
2004
The Colour
The Great Fire
2003
Heligoland
Unless
Buddha Da
2002
No Bones
The White Family
A Child's Book of True Crime
2001
The Idea of Perfection IN PROGRESS
Homestead
Fred and Edie
2000
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once
1999
Paradise
The Leper's Companions
Visible Worlds
1998
The Ventriloquist's Tale
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
One by One in the Darkness
Hen's Teeth
I was Amelia Earhart
Accordion Crimes
1996
Ladder of Years
Eveless Eden
Spinsters
I have read quite a lot of them from recent shortlists and very few from the earlier ones.Most of them were borrowed from the library, although I did buy some in paperback or kindle format.
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Scottsboro
Molly Fox's Birthday
2008
When We Were Bad
2007
Arlington Park
2006
2005
Liars and Saints
Billie Morgan
2004
2003
2002
No Bones
The White Family
A Child's Book of True Crime
2001
Horse Heaven
Homestead
Fred and Edie
2000
Amy and Isabelle
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once
1999
The Short History of a Prince
Visible Worlds
1998
The Magician's Assistant
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
Hen's Teeth
I was Amelia Earhart
1996
Eveless Eden
The Hundred Secret Senses
Spinsters
The Book of Colour
I decided to challenge myself and commit to read 10 books for this challenge from June-August. I am currently reading How to Be Both and have several others lined up. I am starting with the early years, but am finding it difficult to get my hands on some titles. Is anyone else having that problem?
The library is less likely to have copies of the old ones, although I presume they did at the time. Quite a lot of them have been republished for kindle though. If you don't have a kindle, have you tried looking for second-hand copies?
Val wrote: "The library is less likely to have copies of the old ones, although I presume they did at the time. Quite a lot of them have been republished for kindle though, so I am not finding it too difficult..."I have found several on Paperback Swap. I have a kindle, but I'm cheap and would rather not pay for a book if I don't have to :)
I'm with you, Tasha - I can't resist either a book challenge or a list! I've read some of these for the Tournament of Books.2015
&*How to be Both
&✔The Bees
&✔A Spool of Blue Thread
&The Paying Guest
A God in Every Stone
Outline
2014
The Undertaking
&✔Burial Rites
Americanah
*A Girl is a half-formed Thing
&The Goldfinch
The Lowland
2013
&Where'd You go Bernadette?
&*May We Be Forgiven
N W
&✔Life After Life
Bring Up The Bodies
Flight Behaviour
2012
&✔State of Wonder
Foreign Bodies
&✔*The Song of Achilles
&✔Half Blood Blues
Painter of Silence
The Forgotten Waltz
2011
Great House
&*The Tiger's Wife
&✔Room
Annabel
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love
2010
&✔*The Lacuna
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
A Gate At The Stairs
Black Water Rising
&Wolf Hall
The Very Thought of YOU
2009
Burnt Shadows
*Home
Scottsboro
The Wilderness
The Invention of Everything Else
Molly Fox's Birthday
2008
The Outcast
*The Road Home
Lottery
Lullabies for Little Criminals
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines
2007
*Half A Yellow Sun
✔The Observations
Digging to America
A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers
The Inheritance of Loss
Arlington Park
2006
*On Beauty
The Night Watch
The Accidental
Beyond Black
✔The History of Love
2005
*We Need to Talk about Kevin
&✔A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Liars and Saints
The Mammoth Cheese
Old Filth
Billie Morgan
2004
The Colour
Ice Road
Purple Hibiscus
&*Small Island
&Oryx and Crake
The Great Fire
2003
*Property
&The Autograph Man
Heligoland
Unless
The Little Friend
Buddha Da
2002
&业*Bel Canto
The Seige
No Bones
The White Family
A Child's Book of True Crime
&✔Fingersmith
2001
*The Idea of Perfection
Horse Heaven
Homestead
Hotel World
&✔The Blind Assassin
Fred and Edie
2000
*When I Lived in Modern Times
&White Teeth
Amy and Isabelle
&Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once
1999
&✔The Poisonwood Bible
Paradise
*A Crime in the Neighbourhood
The Short History of a Prince
The Leper's Companions
Visible Worlds
1998
*Larry's Party
✔The Weight of Water
The Ventriloquist's Tale
&The Magician's Assistant
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
*Fugitive Pieces
&Alias Grace
One by One in the Darkness
Hen's Teeth
I was Amelia Earhart
Accordion Crimes
1996
Ladder of Years
*A Spell of Winter
Eveless Eden
&The Hundred Secret Senses
Spinsters
The Book of Colour
Mod
Penny wrote: "I think I will have to be sure to read each year's books before the end of that year or I will never catch up! I was making steady progress until I realised I hadn't added 2015's books yet"I know how you feel... I have read 8 books for my own personal challenge to read 10 short-listed books during the summer. Crossing my fingers to have read all of 1996 before school starts and teachers have to go back to work
Well I hit my goal for my summer challenge and read 12 short-listed books. I really enjoyed Eveless Eden and I Was Amelia Earhart.
I have a long way to go!2016
Ruby
The Green Road
The Glorious Heresies
The Portable Veblen
The Improbability of Love
A Little Life
2015
How to be Both
A Spool of Blue Thread
Outline
The Bees
A God in Every Stone
The Paying Guests
2014
The Undertaking
Burial Rites
A Girl is a half-formed Thing
The Goldfinch
The Lowland
2013
May We Be Forgiven
N W
Flight Behaviour
2012
State of Wonder
Foreign Bodies
Painter of Silence
The Forgotten Waltz
2011
Great House
The Tiger's Wife
Room
Annabel
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love
2010
The Lacuna
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
A Gate At The Stairs
Black Water Rising
The Very Thought of YOU
2009
Burnt Shadows
Home
Scottsboro
The Wilderness
The Invention of Everything Else
Molly Fox's Birthday
2008
The Outcast
The Road Home
Lottery
Lullabies for Little Criminals
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines
2007
Half A Yellow Sun
The Observations
Digging to America
A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers
The Inheritance of Loss
Arlington Park
2006
The Night Watch
The Accidental
Beyond Black
The History of Love
2005
We Need to Talk about Kevin
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Liars and Saints
The Mammoth Cheese
Old Filth
Billie Morgan
2004
Ice Road
Purple Hibiscus
Oryx and Crake
The Great Fire
2003
Property
The Autograph Man
Heligoland
The Little Friend
Buddha Da
2002
The Seige
No Bones
The White Family
A Child's Book of True Crime
2001
The Idea of Perfection
Horse Heaven
Homestead
Hotel World
Fred and Edie
2000
When I Lived in Modern Times
Amy and Isabelle
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once
1999
Paradise
A Crime in the Neighbourhood
The Short History of a Prince
The Leper's Companions
Visible Worlds
1998
Larry's Party
The Ventriloquist's Tale
The Magician's Assistant
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
Fugitive Pieces
Alias Grace
One by One in the Darkness
Hen's Teeth
I was Amelia Earhart
Accordion Crimes
1996
Ladder of Years
A Spell of Winter
Eveless Eden
The Hundred Secret Senses
Spinsters
The Book of Colour
Kai wrote: "I have a long way to go!..."
Don't worry, Kai. Me too!
2018
The Idiot
2016
Ruby
The Portable Veblen
A Little Life
*How to be Both
2013
Where'd You go Bernadette?
Life After Life
Flight Behaviour
2012
State of Wonder
Foreign Bodies
Painter of Silence
2011
Great House
*The Tiger's Wife
Annabel
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love
2010
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
A Gate At The Stairs
Black Water Rising
The Very Thought of YOU
2009
*Home
Scottsboro
The Wilderness
The Invention of Everything Else
Molly Fox's Birthday
2008
The Outcast
*The Road Home
Lottery
Lullabies for Little Criminals
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines
2007
*
The Observations
Digging to America
A Concise English-Chinese Dictionary for Lovers
The Inheritance of Loss
Arlington Park
2006
*On Beauty
The Night Watch
The Accidental
Beyond Black
The History of Love
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
2005
*
Liars and Saints
The Mammoth Cheese
Old Filth
Billie Morgan
2004
The Colour
Ice Road
Purple Hibiscus
*
The Great Fire
2003
The Autograph Man
Heligoland
Unless
The Little Friend
Buddha Da
2002
*
The Siege
No Bones
The White Family
A Child's Book of True Crime
Fingersmith
2001
*The Idea of Perfection
Horse Heaven
Homestead
Hotel World
Fred and Edie
2000
*When I Lived in Modern Times
White Teeth
Amy and Isabelle
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once
1999
Paradise
A Crime in the Neighbourhood
The Short History of a Prince
The Leper's Companions
Visible Worlds
1998
*
The Weight of Water
The Magician's Assistant
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Love Like Hate Adore
1997
*
Alias Grace
One by One in the Darkness
Hen's Teeth
I was Amelia Earhart
Accordion Crimes
1996
*
Eveless Eden
The Hundred Secret Senses
Spinsters
The Book of Colour
At least you have plenty of good books to look forward to.
It seems I only attack this challenge when I am off for summer vacation. I am going to try and read 7 books this summer. Just finished The Green Road - depressing story with unlikable characters.
This will be a very long term challenge but looking forward to it👍2025👍
The Safekeep✅
Fundamentally✅
All Fours✅
The Persians✅
Good Girl✅
Tell Me Everything✅
👍2024👍
Enter Ghost ✅
Brotherless Night ✅
River East, River West✅
The Wren, the Wren ✅
Restless Dolly Maunder ✅
Soldier Sailor ✅
👍2023👍
Fire Rush✅
Pod✅ DNF
Black Butterflies✅
Trespasses ✅
The Marriage Portrait ✅
*Demon Copperhead ✅
👍2022👍
The Bread the Devil Knead ✅
*The Book of Form and Emptiness✅
Great Circle ✅
The Sentence ✅ Wow! What a book 😊
Sorrow and Bliss✅
The Island of Missing Trees ✅
👍2021👍
Transcendent Kingdom ✅
The Vanishing Half ✅
*Piranesi ✅
Unsettled Ground✅
No One Is Talking About This✅
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House ✅
👍2020👍
Dominicana✅
Girl, Woman, Other ✅
A Thousand Ships ✅
The Mirror & the Light ✅
*Hamnet✅
Weather ✅
👍2019👍
Circe✅
The Silence of the Girls ✅
Milkman ✅
My Sister, the Serial Killer ✅
Ordinary People ✅
*An American Marriage ✅
👍2018👍
*Home Fire ✅
Sing, Unburied, Sing ✅
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife ✅
Sight ✅
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock ✅
The Idiot ✅ DNF
2017
Stay with Me ✅
*The Power ✅
The Dark Circle ✅
The Sport of Kings
First Love
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
2016
Ruby
The Green Road ✅
* The Glorious Heresies✅
The Portable Veblen
The Improbability of Love ✅
A Little Life ✅❤️
👍2015👍
*How to Be Both ✅
The Bees✅
Outline ✅
A God in Every Stone ✅
A Spool of Blue Thread ✅
The Paying Guests ✅
2014
The Undertaking ✅
Burial Rites ✅
Americanah ✅
* A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing ✅
The Goldfinch ✅
The Lowland 📚K
👍2013👍
Where'd You Go, Bernadette ✅
* May We Be Forgiven ✅
NW ✅
Life after Life ✅❤️
Bring Up the Bodies ✅
Flight Behavior ✅
2012
State of Wonder ✅
Foreign Bodies✅
*The Song of Achilles ✅
Half-Blood Blues ✅
Painter of Silence✅
The Forgotten Waltz
2011
Great House ✅
* The Tiger's Wife✅
Room✅
Annabel
Grace Williams Says It Loud
The Memory of Love ✅
2010
*The Lacuna ✅
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle🐝
A Gate at the Stairs ✅
Black Water Rising
Wolf Hall ✅
The Very Thought of You ✅
2009
Burnt Shadows✅
* Home✅
Scottsboro
The Wilderness ✅
The Invention of Everything Else
Molly Fox's Birthday📚
2008
The Outcast ✅
* The Road Home ✅
Lottery
Lullabies for Little Criminals
When We Were Bad
Fault Lines ✅
2007
*Half of a Yellow Sun ✅ I loved this book ❤️
The Observations ✅
Digging to America
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
The Inheritance of Loss ✅
Arlington Park
2006
*On Beauty ✅
The Night Watch ✅
The Accidental ✅
Beyond Black 🐝
The History of Love ✅
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
2005
*We Need to Talk About Kevin ✅
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian✅
Liars and Saints ✅
The Mammoth Cheese
Old Filth ✅
Billie Morgan ✅
2004
The Colour ✅
Ice Road 🎅
Purple Hibiscus ✅
* Small Island ✅
Oryx & Crake ✅
The Great Fire ✅
2003
* Property ✅
The Autograph Man ✅
Heligoland📚
Unless ✅
The Little Friend✅
Buddha Da 🎅
2002
* Bel Canto ✅
The Siege ✅
No Bones
The White Family📚
A Child's Book of True Crime ✅
Fingersmith ✅
2001
* The Idea of Perfection ✅
Horse Heaven📚
Homestead ✅
Hotel World ✅
The Blind Assassin✅
Fred & Edie ✅
2000
*When I Lived in Modern Times✅
White Teeth ✅
Amy and Isabelle
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 📚
The Dancers Dancing
If I Told You Once📚
1999
The Poisonwood Bible ✅
Paradise 🐝
*A Crime in the Neighbourhood ✅
The Short History of a Prince 📚
The Leper's Companions ✅
Visible Worlds
1998
*Larry's Party✅
The Weight of Water ✅
The Ventriloquist's Tale✅
Lives of the Monster Dogs ✅
Love Like Hate Adore 🎅
👍1997👍
* Fugitive Pieces✅
Alias Grace✅
One by One in the Darkness ✅
Hen's Teeth ✅
I Was Amelia Earhart ✅
Accordian Crimes ✅
👍1996👍
Ladder of Years ✅
* A Spell of Winter✅
Eveless Eden ✅
The Hundred Secret Senses ✅
Spinsters ✅
The Book Of Colour: A Family Memoir ✅
Progress 142 / 180
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✅ read
📚have but haven’t read yet
* winner for that year
Carol wrote: "I finished the incredible Americanah today so have updated my progress to 42 😊" Read a few more, progress now 46 out of 150, just finished the chilling Burial Rites
Today I finished reading the epic Life after Life what an incredible book, absolutely loved it. What a wonderful 5 ⭐️book.
Carol wrote: "This will be a very long term challenge but looking forward to it👍2021👍
Transcendent Kingdom ✅
The Vanishing Half ✅
*Piranesi ✅
[book:Unsettled Gro..."
Just updated my shortlist thread to add in this years books, which puts the total up to 162. I’m 72 in so still a long way to go.UPDATE Sept 22 I’m now 82 in of 162 which means over halfway! Whoop!
Have updated my challenge thread to include the 23 shortlist and progress is now on 92/168 so I’m getting there.
Carol wrote: "Now on 110 😊"Carol that's incredible!
Jen wrote: "Carol wrote: "Now on 110 😊"Carol that's incredible!"
Thanks Jen, I’m really enjoying it and have found some real treasures I probably would never got to otherwise and actually think I probably will read the whole list
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