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Upcoming Monthly Reads > January 2023 - What will you be reading?

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message 1: by Greg (new)

Jan 02, 2023 04:55PM

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What is everyone planning to read on the first month of the new year?

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message 2: by Greg (last edited Jan 27, 2023 10:42PM) (new)

Jan 02, 2023 04:55PM

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My plans for January:

very likely:
✔ 1. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice (Wilkie Collins) ★★★ (3.0)
✔ 2. Twelve Angry Men (Reginald Rose) ★★★★ (4.0)
✔ 3. Colorful (Eto Mori) ★★★★★ (4.5)
✔ 4. Binti (Nnedi Okorafor) ★★★★ (3.5)
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories (Truman Capote)

probably:
✔ 1. The Inferno of Dante (trans. Robert Pinsky) ★★★★ (4.0)
✔ 2. City of Ash and Red (Hye-Young Pyun) ★★★ (3.5)

possibly:
✔ 1. The Disaster Tourist (Yun Ko-eun) ★★★★ (4.0)
2. Fairy Tale (Stephen King)
✔ 3. Pawn of Prophecy (David Eddings) ★★★★ (3.5)

unplanned:
✔ 1. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems: For the Love of Moses (A.E. Housman) ★★★ (3.5)

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message 3: by Laurel (new)

Jan 02, 2023 05:25PM

Laurel Bradshaw (llawryf) | 703 comments

Carrying over: The Thursday Murder Club and Cat's Eyewitness

Needed something brand new on New Year's Day though, so I started Ygerna: A Pendragon Chronicles Prequel Novel

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message 4: by Kat (new)

Jan 03, 2023 12:43AM

already started:
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts
Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
The Right to Sex
Der Gotteswahn
Operation Romanow: Roman

pre-ordered:
Hell Bent
Spare
Love, Pamela

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message 5: by Pam (new)

Jan 04, 2023 09:09AM

I've started all of these;
Fairy Tale by Stephen King - audiobook
The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
Island by Aldous Huxley
The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure by Xavier Dollo
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

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message 6: by Deborah (new)

Jan 06, 2023 03:10PM

I’m planning to read the following books.

1. A Single Spy by William Christie

2. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces
by Margaret Atwood

3. The Agitators: Three Friends who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights by Dorothy Wickenden

4. The Red Sandals, a Memoir by Jing Li

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message 7: by LauraT (last edited Jan 13, 2023 01:49AM) (new)

Jan 10, 2023 03:17AM

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My plan for the remain of the month!

~~Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls Read ***1/2~~
~~Piero Dorfles Il lavoro del lettore. Perché leggere ti cambia la vita Read ***1/2~~

Piergiorgio Pulixi L'isola delle anime Reading now
Nadine Gordimer World of Strangers Reading now
Piergiorgio Pulixi La libreria dei gatti neri Reading now

Holly Jackson A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Jane Howard Odd Girl Out
Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Elisabeth Åsbrink, Abbandono

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message 8: by Tweedledum (last edited Jan 12, 2023 03:59PM) (new)

Jan 11, 2023 05:41AM

Currently reading January :
The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures
Grey Bees
A Spoonful Of Murder
Our Happy Time👍
Jeoffry the Poet's Cat
A Dog So Small👍
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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message 9: by Alannah (new)

Jan 12, 2023 08:21AM

Alannah Clarke (alannahclarke) | 14704 comments

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I hope to get started on some of the books waiting on my bookshelf but so far I have

Finish The Fire Sermon
Spare
The Forever Ship
The Map of Bones
Angel of Greenwood

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