Talisman Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) I know it seems a bit late to start this now, as we are in 2017, but I didn't get round to it last year for various reaons and if I want to post a link to books read last year in my books read this year thread, then I have to start somewhere, so here goes: January Follow You Home: Mark Edwards The Venus Trap: Louise Voss Love in the Time of Cholera: Gabriel Marquez Garcia (Colombia) Death of a River Guide: Richard Flanagan (Australia) A Father's Betrayal: Gabrielle Gillespie (Yemen) The World of Yesterday: Stefan Zweig (Austria) Our Musseque: Luandino Jose Viera (Angola) Moors Account: Laila Lalami (United States) Stone Tree: Gyrdir Eliasson (Iceland) Nightblind: Ragnar Jonasson (Iceland) Catch Your Death: Louise Voss February Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery: Henry Marsh The Great Tax Robbery: Richard Brooks The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Mary Ann Shaffer (Guernsey) The Dead Lake: Hamid Ismailov (Kazakstan) Journey: Adombire Gheysika Agambila (Ghana) The Blissfully Dead: Louise Voss March Beneath the Lions Gaze: Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia) The Heart of Man: Kalman Jon Stefansson (Iceland) HHhH: Laurent Binet (Czech Republic) Lifesaver: Louise Voss Quicksand: Steve Toltz (Australia) April The Tea Lords: Hella S Haaase (Indonesia) The Mussel Feast: Birgit Vanderbeke (Germany) Fractured: Clar Ni Chonghaile (Somalia) The Girl in the Spiders Web: David Lagercrantz (Sweden) I Need Your Love - Is That True: Byron Katie Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All: Jonas Jonasson (Sweden) May Madeira Car Tours and Walks: John Underwood Lonely Planet Pocket Madeira How to Deal with Difficult People: Gill Hasson The Motorcycle Diaries: Ernesto Che Guevera (Argentina) Popco: Scarlett Thomas Are You My Mother: Louise Voss Abynssian Chronicles: Moses Isegawa (Tanzania) He Who Dares: Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter June The Vegetarian: Kang Han (South Korea) Stiletto: Daniel O'Malley Gould's Book of Fish: Richard Flanagan (Australia) The Undesired: Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Iceland) Menopause Mondays: Ellen Dolgen The Boy in the Dress: David Wailliams Into Thin Air: Jon Krakaurer (Nepal) Butterfly Fish: Irene Irenosen Okojie (Benin) July God and the Gay Christian: Matthew Vines Blackout: Ragnar Jonasson (Iceland) Circular Walks on the Gower Peninsula: Harry Garrod Roberts The Japanese Lover: Isobel Allende The Mirror World of Melody Black: Gavin Extence Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain: David Eagleman August What Milo Saw: Virginia Macgregor Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today: Hibo Wardere Management: Guide for First Time Manager: James Stevens The Many: Wyl Menmuir The Wandering Falcon: Jamil Ahmad (Pakistan) Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body: Jo Marchant Written in Black: KH Lim (Brunei) The Sellout: Paul Beatty Land of Love and Drowning: Tiphanie Yanique (US Virgin Islands) Secrets of the Vatican: Cyrus Shahrad (Vatican City) September The Book of Memory: Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe) Forward Slash: Louise Voss My Heart Will Cross this Ocean: Kadiatou Diallo (Guinea) The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Monk Kidd Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body: Sara Pascoe Making Friends with the Menopause: Sarah Rayner October End of the Spear: Steve Saint (Ecuador) Lonely Planet Pocket Prague Daughter of Eden: Chris Beckett The Devil's Work: Mark Edwards From Here to Anywhere: Jason Smart Jonathon Livngstone Seagull: Richard Bach November When Hoopoes Go to Heaven: Gaile Parkin (Swaziland) My Beautiful Bahrain: Robin Barratt (Bahrain) The Madman of Freedom Square: Hassan Blasim (Iraq) Who Slashed Celanire's Throat: Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe) A Street Cat Named Bob: James Bowen Frozen Out: Quentin Bates (Iceland) All Quiet on the Western Front: Erich Maria Remarque (Germany) Gone Bamboo: Anthony Bourdain (Sint Maarten) Never Alone: Elizabeth Haynes The World According to Bob: James Bowen December Sleep Smarter: Shawn Stevenson Island on Fire: Alexandra Witze (Iceland) To Be Someone: Louise Voss A Way of Seeing: Coran Foddering Sex at Dawn: Christopher Ryan Before Night Falls: Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba) Politics: Between the Extremes: NIck Clegg The Man I Became: Peter Verheist (Belgium) The Kind Worth Killing: Peter Swanson Desirada: Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe) Africa to Asia: Jason Smart Losing Israel: Jasmine Donahaye (Israel) Edited January 4, 2017 by Talisman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Are you planning to have a thread for this year too? As this has 2016 in the title it technically should be in the Past Blogs forum. If it's going to continue this year then it could do with re-titling as 'ongoing' with the 2016 removing. I hope you have a good year. You must be well on the way to finishing your World Challenge now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 Yes I will start one for this year as well, probably in a minute in fact. Sorry if I put this in the wrong place, and please do feel free to move it if you need to. I don't really need to add it as it purely for my own records more than anything else and so I can link to it from the new thread I will start. As for the challenge - I must be about two thirds through by now yes. It has certainly been interesting and thought provoking. I suspect I will still continue to look for interesting foreign books after I have finished it to be honest, as these are the types of books I have always enjoyed reading. No chick lit for me - I definitely prefer something more literary for want of a better word, not that there is anything wrong with chick lit if you do happen to like that sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Chick lit is not really my thing, although it was great when I had small children. No apology necessary - I will move it later when I'm on my laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 I hope you don't mind me jumping in Janet, I've moved this thread to the Past Book Blogs section. You made great progress on the challenge last year, June . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talisman Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 That#s fine with me Athena - and yes, I am very happy with the progress I am making. I expect to make further inroads this year as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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