Hello!Following Shelley's Lean Coffee question of "What are you reading?" I promised at our last catch-up that I would share the list of books the RAH Bookclub had been reading in the previous two years. They are all fiction with the exception of one memoir. Caryl
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern.
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Pine by Francine Toon.
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan.
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Motherwell by Deborah Orr (Memoir)
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Ali
Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty
Goodnight, Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Pew by Catherine Lacey
Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Maid by Nita Prose
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Business as Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford
Thanks Caryl! That's wonderful.
On recommendation (Shellys) I'm reading Edward Snow's translation "The poems of Rilke" and have cheated by skipping to Sonnets to Orpheus. I feel ok about cheating considering the solid emotional tax I'm (willingly) paying. It's my new-job/no-time/ADHD read whilst I transition jobs, and can read in bursts. Ranier Maria Rilke is exceptional so I'm taking it slowly (lest I burst, which on a crowded bus can be eyebrow raising).
Katherine May's new book "Enchantment: Re-awakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age" is out soon and that's on my list. I loved "Wintering" and "Electricity of Every Living Thing".
Thanks for these. I am a very fiction-based reader and need to expand my non-fiction reading so will take a look at these when I can.I always love a book recomendation.