On The Same Page discussion

I didn't manage my goal of 30 books (averaging 300 pages per book) last year, but hopefully this year I'll manage a proper return to that and more!

I want to continue reading more women writers and min. 5 books to progress my Around the World Challenge (list at the bottom). I also want to read more books than me (and my SO) pick up.

Links will be inserted into this post and the list will be updated as I start/complete books - books without links remain ideas and aren't fixed.

r = reread

academic/non-fiction: 1
pre-1900:
poetry:
plays:
Vida: 28 [17F/11M]

pages/books: 8,071/28 = 288 pages per book on average

January
1. The Translator [196pp.]
2. Peter Rabbit #7: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher [29pp.]
3. Peter Rabbit #8: The Tale of Tom Kitten [29pp.]
4. Longbourn [448pp.]
5. Peter Rabbit #9: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck [29pp.]
6. Peter Rabbit #10: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies [29pp.]

February
7. I, Jedi [577pp.]
8. The BFG [199pp.]

June
9. Poldark #6: The Four Swans [581pp.]

July
10. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [328pp.]
11. Allah Is Not Obliged [215pp.]
12. Bluestockings [252pp.]

August
13. Thrawn Ascendancy #1: Chaos Rising [383pp.]
14. Tipping the Velvet [477pp.]
15. Billy and the Minpins [98pp.]

September
16. The Scholomance #1: A Deadly Education [320pp.]
17. The Scholomance #2: The Last Graduate [388pp.]
18. The Scholomance #3: The Golden Enclaves [405pp.]
19. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me [73pp.]

October
20. Sharpe #8: Sharpe's Eagle [320pp.]
21. Lemon [147pp.]

November
22. The Raven Tower [416pp.]
23. Poldark #7: The Angry Tide [612pp.]
24. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 [163pp.]
25. James and the Giant Peach [150pp.]
26. Wilderwood #1: For the Wolf [434pp.]

December
27. Wilderwood #2: For the Throne [496pp.]
28. Sharpe #9: Sharpe's Gold [277pp.]

Currently reading
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism [283pp.]
Frauen Literatur Geschichte [669pp.]
That Glimpse of Truth [936pp.]


Plays

Non-fiction (1)
- Bluestockings

Publication dates
1800-1849 (0)
1814: Waverley [UK]
1850-1899 (0)
1859: A Tale of Two Cities [UK]
1861: Memoirs from the House of the Dead [Russia]
1876: Daniel Deronda [UK]
1885: Bel-Ami [France]
1886: The Mayor of Casterbridge [UK]
1892: Bruges-la-Morte [Belgium]
1900-1949 (4)
1906: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher [UK]
1907: The Tale of Tom Kitten [UK]
1908: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
1909: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
1936: Gone with the Wind [US]
1950-1999 (9)
1953: Go Tell It on the Mountain [US]
1956: Palace Walk [Egypt]
1957: Palace of Desire [Egypt]
1961: James and the Giant Peach [UK]
1976: The Four Swans [UK]
1978: The Angry Tide [UK]
1981: Sharpe's Eagle [UK], Sharpe's Gold [UK]
1982: The BFG [UK], The Color Purple [US], The Book of Disquiet [Portugal]
1985: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me [UK]
1987: Taliesin [US]
1990: Gender Trouble [US]
1991: Billy and the Minpins [UK], Generation X [Canada]
1993: Birdsong [UK]
1996: Neverwhere [UK], Alias Grace [Canada]
1997: Sexuality [UK], The God of Small Things [India]
1998: I, Jedi [US], Tipping the Velvet [UK]
1999: The Translator [Sudan], Stonehenge [UK]
2000-2021 (8)
2000: Allah Is Not Obliged [Cote d'Ivoire]
2002: That Old Ace in the Hole [US]
2005: The Book Thief [Australia], The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [Sweden]
2006: We, the Drowned [Denmark]
2007: Diary of a Bad Year [South Africa]
2009: Bluestockings [UK], Detour de France [UK]
2013: Longbourn [UK], We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves [US], The Luminaries [New Zealand], The Circle [US]
2014: Emma [Zimbabwe/UK], A Brief History of Seven Killings [Jamaica]
2016: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 [South Korea], The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories [US]
2017: Exit West [Pakistan]
2019: Lemon [South Korea], The Raven Tower [US]
2020: Chaos Rising [US], A Deadly Education [US]
2021: The Last Graduate [US], For the Wolf [US]
2022: The Golden Enclaves [US], For the Throne [US]


Around the World


2023
40. Sudan: Leila Aboulela
41. Cote d'Ivoire: Ahmadou Kourouma
42. South Korea: Kwon Yeo-sun

2018
1. Nigeria: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. UK: Wendy Moore
3. Canada: Margaret Atwood
4. Australia: Trudi Canavan
5. France: Joris-Karl Huysmans
6. Poland: Ryszard Kapuscinski
7. Vietnam: Viet Thanh Nguyen
8. Dominica: Jean Rhys
9. US: Frank Herbert
10. Pakistan: Mohsin Hamid
11. Zambia: Ellen Banda-Aaku

2019
12. South Africa: Willem Frost
13. Ireland: Lisa McInerney
14. Cameroon: Imbolo Mbue
15. Dominican Republic: Junot Díaz
16. Lithuania: Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė
17. Russia: Mikhail Bulgakov
18. Kenya: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
19. India: Salman Rushdie
20. Chile: Isabel Allende
21. Brazil: Paulo Coelho

2020
22. Argentina: Jorge Luis Borges
23. Uganda: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
24. China: Yiyun Li
25. Malaysia: Tash Aw

2021
26. Ethiopia: Maaza Mengiste
27. Colombia: Gabriel García Márquez
28. Zimbabwe: Petina Gappah
29. Morocco: Tahar ben Jelloun
30. The Netherlands: Gerbrand Bakker
31. Spain: Federico García Lorca
32. Italy: Elena Ferrante
33. Germany: Sophie Hardach
34. Barbados: Cherie Jones

2022
35. Hungary: Sándor Márái
36. Turkey: Elif Shafak
37. Tanzania: Abdulrazak Gurnah
38. Bosnia & Herzegovina: Lana Bastasic
39. Ghana: Yaa Gyasi

I like your ideas. Good luck in 2023.

Looks like you've found a way to have a lot of variety on your reading list! Good luck! I hope you read a lot of great books!

I like your list! I enjoyed The Translator, but I think Lyrics Alley is the best I've read so far by Leila Aboulela. I picked up Minaret yesterday in a second-hand bookshop.

Carolien wrote: "I like your list! I enjoyed The Translator, but I think Lyrics Alley is the best I've read so far by Leila Aboulela. I picked up Minaret yesterday in a s..."

Oh that's good to know, thank you for the recommendation! I really enjoyed the writing, it flowed beautifully, so would definitely be keen to explore more. Lyrics Alley shall be added to my wanted list :)

Thanks everyone! Variety in my reading tends to be quite important, otherwise I'd just be reading historical fiction all day long :D

Good luck and happy reading, Jules.