Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

Start date: 7 September 2013
End date: 7 September 2014
Revised end date: 7 September 2015

Books completed: 14/26

A - Affinity - Read 9/9/13 5*
B - Bitter Water - Read 27/9/13 3*
C - Cloud Atlas - Read 21/10/13 4*
D - The Damned Utd - Read 27/10/13 3*
E - The Eyre Affair - Read 24/11/13 5*
F - The Founding- Read 3/12/13 4*
G - The Green Mile - Read 22/12/13 4*
H - High-Rise - Read 6/1/14 2*
I - The Invisible Man
J - Jamaica Inn
K - The Kite Runner
L - London Falling
M - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Read 24/9/14 5*
N - Noughts & Crosses
O - Oryx and Crake
P - Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd
Q - The Quiche of Death- Read 14/4/14 3*
R - The Red Queen- Read 12/4/14 4*
S - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Read 7/9/14 4*
T - Tales of the City
U - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman - Read 16/4/14 4*
V - Valentine Grey
W - Watership Down
X - Xingu
Y - The Year of the Flood
Z - Zero Day- Read 15/5/14 3*

Welcome to the challenge, Claire. I really liked The Quiche of Death, I generally like Beaton's series. I also have Cloud Atlas on my TBR list. Share your thought on the reads, please :)

Have a great time reading :)

Thanks Anima, will do.

Wow, not one book on there that I've read .... I'm not sure I dare look at them though, I already have enough on my TBR! :)

Watership Down; now that's a classic! Have fun completing this challenge :-)

Thanks Cathie. I read Watership Down when I was in school (so a very long while ago!) but I don't remember anything about it so I am looking forward to reading it again.

First book finished. Affinity is the fourth Sarah Waters book I have read and they were all great. Tipping the Velvet is still my favourite though.

Yay Claire! lol. Now onto the next one :-)

Second book finished!

Did you enjoy Bitter Water, Claire?

Cathie wrote: "Did you enjoy Bitter Water, Claire?"

I did! It started off quite slowly but ended up with a gun battle by Loch Lomond. It definitely wasn't dull.

Finished Cloud Atlas, really enjoyed it.

It is six separate but connected stories, they are quite different to each other but all are good. Would definitely recommend it.

Oh, Claire, I have this book for a long time on my TBR, glad to know that it is worth reading :)

I started my own list but only have 6 letters :) I will check out yours and see if there is anything I am interested in :) Thanks for posting.

Finished The Damned United. A slightly strange book. It was OK but not something I would recommend to anyone unless they were especially interested in the subject.

Read The Eyre Affair, really good. It reminded me a little of the series and Doctor Who.

Claire, Rivers of London looks really interesting, I added it to my TBR :)

Anima, hope you enjoy Rivers of London its the start of a good series.

Finished The Founding. I think I have read it before there were little bits that I recognised, my Mum loved this series so I probably borrowed it off her. Interesting story it covered a period of about 50 years and there were lots of marriages and everyone having lots of babies and I did get a bit confused about who was who. I would like to read the rest of the series there are 35 so far!

I've decided to change my G book to The Green Mile.

Hi Claire, wow you're reading yours in alpha order.... That really really makes it challenging! I might try that next year (2015)

Hi Heather, it would really irritate me to do them out of order!

I've also changed K to The Kite Runner and P to Prime Suspect 2.

And S to The Shining Girls.

Finished another two. The Green Mile was good and quite sad at the end. I didn't really enjoy High Rise only 173 pages but still felt too long.

Only 2 days from original end date and I'm not even halfway! So I'll give myself another year.