My Year in Books – Lists Upon Lists

There is something seductive about articles called The TEN Best Books…or 16 Desert Island You Must Visit or even 101 Cats Foods for Fastidious Felines.

Lists are like letters, we love reading them and kid ourselves that we can work out the code that will reveal something of the list maker. (Or is it only me who reads the shopping list left behind in a trolley and wonder what is going to happen to 4 cans of extra strong larger, 12 bottles of tonic water, a large block of Cadbury’s dark chocolate and a solitary tin of expensive cat food)

List of audio books I downloaded and listened to in 2023

Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
Into The Woods by John Yorke
There’s Something I Have to Tell You by Michelle McDonagh
The Three Graces by Amanda Craig
Maigret Defends Himself by Georges Simenon
Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent
We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole
Small Bones in a Fist by Blindboy
Master, Slave, Husband, Wife by Llyon Woo
Verity by Coleen Hoover
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
The Foundling by Stacey Halls
The Complete George Orwell Collection
Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O’ Donohue
Bad Debts by Peter Temple
Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ni Ghriota

Three were brilliant and I regret not buying the paper back version, one I left after five chapters and I sometimes fall asleep to George Orwell which makes for interesting dreams.

The Books I am Reading Right Now

The March by E.L.Doctorow
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
The True Detective by Tove Janson

I have no idea why I have three books on the go, I don’t usually.

What I have Just Finished

Borderliners by Peter Hoeg

What I Dip Into All the time

The Oxford Book of Saints
How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman

The TBR pile is too big to list here.

Have you read any of these? What’s on your list?

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