Maybe This Year? Books to Look Forward To

1

Cinderella Goes to the Morgue

by Nancy Spain

34 members

2 reviews

3.8

3 Members: merrystar, elkiedee, PaulCranswick

2

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

1,930 members

133 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 3 January 2022; Library ebook

3

Insidious Intent

by Val McDermid

358 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle/paperback TBR, read 25 July - 9 October 2022; , favourite series/author catchup, Scottish woman writer, West Yorkshire setting

4

A Passage North

by Anuk Arudpragasam

325 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, Booker shortlist, Library reading group February 2022, Read 17 January to 28 February 2022

5

Shuggie Bain

by Douglas Stuart

2,488 members

128 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, 2021 acquisition, Booker Prize winner 2020

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The Man Who Died Twice

by Richard Osman

2,762 members

136 reviews

4.2

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 17-27 February 2023; Library ebook

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Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

4,181 members

232 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963
Explanations: dara85: Read 12-9-2022

8

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

5,315 members

286 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dhm, elkiedee
Explanations: dhm: a friend: "I loved this book"
elkiedee: Read 25 July - 28 August 2022; reviewed 2022; Library hardback

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Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

by Lorna Goodison

9 members

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR, potential shared read. No page numbers. Welcome Paul. Just bought this with an Amazon credit given for a small part of my overspending on Kindle books recently.

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The Paper Palace

by Miranda Cowley Heller

1,403 members

49 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, elkiedee
Explanations: dara85: Dara, Read 3-24-2024
elkiedee: Read 29 March - 11 April 2022. Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 longlist. Library ebook loan.

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Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

by Diana Athill

674 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

12

The Lacuna

by Barbara Kingsolver

5,328 members

256 reviews

3.9

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: Recommended as a sympathetic depiction of the "science-suspicious"

13

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

by Caitlin Doughty

2,489 members

125 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 3-15-23

14

The Thousand Eyes

by A K Larkwood

159 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Books of Jacob

by Olga Tokarczuk

960 members

21 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Library ebook TBR

16

Memorial

by Bryan Washington

804 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR Welcome to this list and thanks for sharing the books you're looking forward to. I bought this one as a Kindle offer the other night.

17

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

4,693 members

88 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

18

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

4,963 members

237 reviews

3.9

2 Members: elkiedee, ahef1963
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

19

Homeland Elegies

by Ayad Akhtar

845 members

40 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Kindle TBR

20

The Longest Journey

by E. M. Forster

1,495 members

15 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: want to restore my memory of my least-clearly remembered Forster

21

Midnight at the Blackbird Café

by Heather Webber

624 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Read 4-15-2023

22

Don't Fear the Reaper

by Stephen Graham Jones

428 members

17 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

23

Devotion

by Hannah Kent

239 members

11 reviews

4

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Read 2-17 January 2022; Netgalley

24

Encounters with the Archdruid

by John McPhee

1,062 members

22 reviews

4.1

Member: dhm
Explanations: dhm: next John McPhee and long overdue

25

Love and Fury

by Samantha Silva

108 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Netgalley, read 18-25 January 2022

26

Claiming Georgia Tate

by Gigi Amateau

93 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85
Explanations: dara85: Reed 3-31-23

27

You Are My Dear Friend

by Madhuri Vijay

4 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

Absolution by Murder

by Peter Tremayne

926 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: elkiedee, PaulCranswick
Explanations: elkiedee: Need to find a copy of this and #2 to borrow - a series I've been interested in (and I might still have a paperback copy hidden somewhere around but not catalogued....). I have #3 to #8 and 5 later instalments in this long series on Kindle.

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