Booksie's Shelves, October 23, 2022

 

It was August and hot when I last updated Booksie's Shelves.  Now it is late October and finally the gorgeous days of autumn are here.  Carolina blue skies and temperatures in the seventies.  Goodreads tells me I've read 189 books so far this year so I'm hoping to make that over two hundred by the end of the year.  I've been reading the Booker nominees and I'm not sure if Trust or Glory were my favorite so far but I just started Colony and it is wonderful as well. I'm also reading and streeting from my own extensive library and have a binful to give away at my gym. Of these older books, my favorite has been Last Night At Twisted River by John Irving but when did he ever write a book I didn't love?   Here's what's come through the door lately:

1. The Color Storm, Damian Dibben, literary fiction, sent by publisher
2. Gone Like Yesterday, Janelle Williams, multicultural fiction, sent by publisher
3. The Blinds, Adam Sternbergh, mystery, purchased
4. Chatterton, Peter Ackroyd, literary fiction, purchased
5. Volunteers, Jerad Alexander, memoir, sent by publisher
6. My Last Innocent Year, Daisy Alpert Florin, literary fiction, sent by publisher
7. Carry The Dog, Stephanie Gangi, literary fiction, sent by publisher
8. The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz, science fiction, sent by publisher
9. A Beautiful Crime, Christopher Bollen, mystery, purchased
10. Night Of Demons And Saints, Menna van Praag, fantasy, sent by publisher
11. Gorsky, Vesna Goldsworthy, literary fiction, purchased
12. The Green Road, Anne Enright, literary fiction, purchased
13. Whispers Through A Megaphone, Rachel Elliott, literary fiction, purchased
14. The Book Of Memory, Petina Gappah, literary fiction, purchased
15. Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet, literary fiction, purchased
16. Old Baggage, Lissa Evans, literary fiction, purchased
17. The Dog, Joseph O'Neill, literary fiction, purchased
18. I Meant To Tell You, Fran Hawthorne, literary fiction, sent by publisher
19. Glacier's Edge, R.A. Salvatore, fantasy, sent by publisher

Here are the e-books I've bought lately:

1. Aspects, John Ford, fantasy
2. The Glass Room, Ann Cleaves, mystery
3. Us Against You, Fredrik Backman, literary fiction
4. A Guide For Murdered Children, Sarah Sparrow, mystery
5. The Heretic's Daughter, Kathleen Kent, historical fiction
6. 14, J.T. Ellison, mystery
7. Beware, Beware, Steph Cha, mystery
8. Kill For Me. M. William Phelps, true crime
9. Inmate 1557, Alan Jacobson, mystery
10. No Way Out, Alan Jacobson, mystery
11. She Who Become The Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan, fantasy
12. Where The Dead Sit Talking, Brandon Hobson, mystery
13. To Love And To Kill, M. William Phelps, true crime
14. A Winter Haunting, Dan Simmons, horror
15. Slow Bear, Anthony Neil Smith, noir mystery
16. The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West, historical fiction
17. This Real Night, Rebecca West, historical ficion
18. Cousin Rosamund, Rebecca West, historical fiction
19. Pacific, Tom Drury, literary fiction
20. The Calling Of The Grave, Simon Beckett, mystery
21. Little Girls, Sleeping, Jennifer Chase, mystery
22. The Girl From Silent Lake, Leslie Wolfe, mystery
23. The Liar's Girl, Catherine Ryan Howard, mystery
24. The Spider, Lou Carew, fantasy
25. The Wolf, Lou Carew, fantasy
26. Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein, memoir
27. Rubicon, Tom Holland, historical fiction
28. Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand, mystery
29. Peeler, Kevin McCarthy, mystery
30. The Lie, Helen Dunmore, literary fiction
31. The Crimson Shadow series, R.A. Salvatore, fantasy
32. Watch Her Disappear, Lisa Regan, mystery
33. Forcing Amaryllis, Louise Ure, mystery
34. Ted Bundy's Murderous Mysteries, Kevin Sullivan, true crime
35. The Burn Farm, Michael Benson, true crime
36. First Degree Rage, Paula May, true crime
37. True Colors, Kristin Hannah, literary fiction
38. Buried Angels, Patricia Gibney, mystery
39. The River Wife, Jonis Agee, literary fiction
40. The Memory Of Love, Aminatta Forna, literary fiction
41. Dance With The Devil, David Bagby, true crime
42. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, literary fiction
43. America's First Female Serial Killer, Mary Kay McBrayer, true crime
44. Witchmark, C.L. Polk, fantasy
45. The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie, literary fiction
46. The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honoree Jeffers, multicultural fiction
47. City Dark, Roger Canaff, mystery
48. Porky, Deborah Moggach, literary fiction
49. Comfort Me With Apples, Peter De Vries, literary fiction
50. Shadows Of Self, Brandon Sanderson, fantasy
51. A Separation, Katie Kitamura, literary fiction
52. The Sandman, Neil Gaiman, fantasy
53. Stone Of Tears, Terry Goodkind, fantasy
54. Blood Of The Fold, Terry Goodkind, fantasy
55. In My Dreams I Hold A Knife, Ashley Winstead, mystery
56. Witches Abroad, Terry Prachett, fantasy
57. Tropical Freeze, James Hall, mystery
58. Written In Bone, Simon Beckett, mystery
59. The Chemistry Of Death, Simon Beckett, mystery
60. Northanger Abbey, Val McDermid, mystery
61. The Face Of Clara Morgan, J.A. Baker, mystery
62. The Cleansing, J.A. Baker, mystery
63. Killing The Lawyers, Reginald Hill, mystery
64. The Jury Master, Robert Dugoni, legal thriller
65. Authority, Jeff VanderMeer, science fiction
66. Live To Tell, Lisa Gardner, mystery
67. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami, literary fiction
68. The Angels Of Resistance, David Mammina, fantasy
69. Little, Big, John Crowley, literary fiction
70. Beasts Of A Little Land, Juhea Kim, literary fiction
71. A Great Reckoning, Louise Penney, mystery
72. The Last House On The Street, Diane Chamberlain, women's fiction
73. Early Graves, Thomas H. Cook, mystery
74. Sacrificial Ground, Thomas H. Cook, mystery
75. The Dark Ability, D.K. Holmberg, fantasy
76. Innocent Victims, Scott Whisnant, true crime
77. The Quaker, Liam McIlvanney, mystery
78. Lucky Turtle, Bill Roorbach, literary fiction
79. The Wisdom Of Crowds, Joe Abercrombie, fantasy
80. The Trouble With Peace, Joe Abercrombie, fantasy
81. We That Are Left, Clare Clark, literary fiction
82. Companion Piece, Ali Smith, literary fiction
83. Death In Holy Orders, P.D. James, mystery
84. Death Masks, Jim Butcher, fantasy
85. Bogeyman, Steve Johnson, true crime
86. The Stolen Child, Keith Donohue, fantasy
87. A Suitable Vengence, Elizabeth George, mystery
88. The Lies Of Lock Lamora, Scott Lynch, fantasy
89. The Harbor, Katrine Engberg, mystery
90. The Position, Meg Woltizer, literary fiction
91. Sunset Express, Robert Crais, mystery
92. An Echo Of Things To Come, James Islington, fantasy
93. Severance, Ling Ma, literary fiction
94. The Break, Katie Sise, mystery
95. The Doctor's Wife, Brain Moore, literary fiction
96. Inside The Mind Of BTK, John Douglas and Johnny Dodd, true crime
97. Lyre Of Orpheus, Robertson Davies, literary fiction
98. The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies, literary fiction
99. What's Bred In The Bone, Robertson Davies, literary fiction
100. Death's End, Cixin Liu, science fiction
101. Freak, Jennifer Hillier, mystery
102. The Listeners, Jordan Tannehill, literary fiction
103. Under The Midnight Sun, Keigo Higashino, mystery
104. Dope, Sarah Gran, mystery
105. Chronicles Of The Black Company, Glen Cook, fantasy
106. Elric Of Melniborne, Michael Moorcock, fantasy
107. Rooms, Lauren Oliver, literary fiction
108. The Enigma Of Ted Bundy, Kevin Sullivan, true crime
109. The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin, literary fiction

Here's what I'm reading:

1. The Colony, Audrey Magee, literary fiction, Kindle
2. Cage Of Bones, Tania Carver, mystery, Kindle
3. Elmet, Fiona Mozley, literary fiction, Kindle
4. The Inquisitor's Wife, Jeanne Kalogridis, historical fiction, paperback
5. The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu, nonfiction, hardback
6. Fast Friends, Jill Mansell, women's fiction, paperback
7. Her Final Breath, Robert Dugoni, mystery
8. The Vanished Man, Jeffery Deaver, mystery
9. Gondar, Nicholas Luard, historical fiction

Happy Reading!

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