Litsy

A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel | Douglas Westerbeke

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A woman's extraordinary journey around the world, driven by an unseen illness. At the age of 9, Aubry was struck by a mysterious sickness that forced her to leave home and travel constantly, unable to stay in one place for too long without suffering intense pain. A very long book, but full of adventures of strength, wonder, love, loss, grief, and more. The end was a bit strange though. Book #22 in 2025

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Texreader

A Song of Comfortable Chairs: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (23) | Alexander McCall Smith

Two more books, books 23 & 24 of the series, from the Houston bookstore Murder by the Book. I now only need three books to complete the series

Bookwormjillk That sounds like a fun treasure hunt 4d

TheBookHippie Fun covers! 4d

Kristin_Reads I love this series, too! I‘m on #22. I think there‘s 26 total. I started reading this from the very first book when it first came out in the late 90s. I read about one a year but I missed a couple along the way. I‘m hoping to catch up this year! 4d

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Creme_de_la_them

Flowers from the Moon | Lynn Hughes

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Book #22 of 2024: “Flowers from the Moon” by L.J. Hughes

I picked this up from the Florence Regional Arts Alliance on a whim. I love reading the work of local poets and Hughes did not disappoint. She and I come from different generations and backgrounds but I found her poetry to be relatable, especially “Perspectives and Tack Shed Dreams” and “Dad and I”. I recommend checking her out!

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Steph.Titus

Zero Days | Ruth Ware

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#22.2024

Gissy

Campfire | Shawn Sarles

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July 2024 book #8

A group of friends and family members decided to camp and it seems that stories told around the 🔥came true next day. I recently read a book with a similar premise, very similar: The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy. But in Campfire, the stories are described in a graphic way, a slasher-ish story. The motive for the killings?...🤷🏽‍♀️2.8/3⭐️But I like the cover😳😂

Gissy #ReadAway2024 @DieAReader @Andrew65 @Ghabi4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin (#14) Wanted to read it @TheAromaofBooks #ISpyBingo (red font)
#Summerween YouTuber @GabyReads prompt set in summer
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DieAReader 🥳Great 6mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo

Gissy #52bookclub24 prompt #22 plot similar to another book-The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy 6mo

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vivastory

Untitled | Unknown

This post is inspired by the one that @billypar posted in response to the NY Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Like @billypar I will be posting 25 selections & they will be novels only. No short story collections, no graphic novels, no non-fiction & in no order whatsoever. I found this parameter very useful as there are quite a few novels published this century that I still intend on reading! But IMO you can do worse than these:

vivastory 1) House of Leaves: Mark Z. Danielewski
2) An Unnecessary Woman: Rabih Alameddine
3) The Likeness: Tana French
4) The Cartel: Don Winslow
5) The Slynx: Tatyana Tolstaya
6) Storm of Swords: George RR Martin
7) Underground Railroad: Colson Whitehead
8) The Historian: Elizabeth Kostova
9) True History of the Kelly Gang: Peter Carey
10) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Olga Tokarczuk
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vivastory 11) The Trees: Percival Everett
12) Brief History of Seven Killings: Marlon James
13) The Sympathizer: Viet Thanh Nguyen
14) NOS4A2: Joe Hill
15) The Three-Body Problem: Cixin Liu
16) American War: Omar El Akkad
17) White Is For Witching: Helen Oyeyemi
18) Big Machine: Victor Lavalle
19) The Animators: Kayla Whitaker
20) Stephen Florida: Gabe Habash
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vivastory 21) The Blazing World: Siri Hustvedt
22) At NIght All Blood Is Black: David Diop
23) The Outsider: Stephen King
24) The Orphan Master's Son: Adam Johnson
25) Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow: Gabrielle Zevin 7mo

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Aimeesue Great list! I read American War when it first came out and I think about it often. 7mo

vivastory @Aimeesue Thanks, Aimee! read it last year & have thought about it quite a bit ever since. 7mo

BarbaraBB Wow 🤩 I enjoyed @Billypar ‘s selection too and you encourage me to make mine too. Also, I still need to read American War and am glad it‘s one of your favorites 7mo

vivastory @BarbaraBB I'd love to see your list! 🙌 💙 7mo

Billypar Great list! I have vivid memories of reading House of Leaves on vacation in Florida during a thunderstorm and being freaked out. I'm really interested in #2, #18, and #22 which were already on my TBR (and #25 is on my shelf - should be coming up soon). I'm also intrigued by Stephen Florida, which I never heard of, and Roxane Gay has a gushing review of it on GR. I loved Slynx, Kelly Gang, and White/Witching as well. 7mo

vivastory @Billypar HoL def is an experience that sticks with you! I think that you will like all of the ones that you named. but I'm not sure how you will mesh with the Zevin, but I thought it was a beautiful story of friendship which is strangely under represented in contemporary lit. Everyone I have talked to who has read it has loved it. 7mo

sarahbarnes I loved White is for Witching and want to read more Oyeyemi 7mo

vivastory @sarahbarnes I also loved What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. I tried Peaces a couple of years ago but had pandemic brain. I want to tackle it again because I have heard that it is really influenced by Barbara Comyns who I love 7mo

Billypar Yeah, I've heard such great things about the Zevin - I'm really curious, and it's true that friendship gets short shrift in novels. My goal was to pair it with the tagged anthology that I started on writers playing video games, but I ran out of time reading it, so I'm back to waiting for my hold to come in.

Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games

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vivastory @Billypar That is an impressive group of contributors! J. Robert Lennon & Hanif Abdurraqib alone make it very intriguing. 7mo

merelybookish This is a great list and makes me see where our tastes converge and also how they differ! (The Slynx would not make the cut for me. 😂) But I loved Plow your Bones and Stephan Florida! Fun! Now off to peruse @Billypar list. 7mo

Reggie 14 and 17 🖤🖤🖤 7mo

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The Return of Ellie Black: A Novel | Emiko Jean

#22 of 2024! #BOTM May 2024
Nice twist I didn‘t see coming 🤣
Started: 7/12/24
Finished: 7/13/24
2 Days

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Gissy

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel | Emily St. John Mandel

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I didn‘t know that this book should be read after The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven because even though is not a sequel per se but it mentions characters and situations from previous novels. In GoodReads didn‘t appear as a sequel🤷🏽‍♀️I‘m not a big fan of multiverse topic, so there were parts where I lost interest but that is because I don‘t like this trope. I found it repetitive specially in those parts about Gaspery situation. 3⭐️