1. Red Sparrow by Justin Haythe
2. The Girl Who Lost Her Smile by Miranda Hart
3. Brave by Rose McGowan

I have so many to read books from years and years ago that I’ve yet to read, these titles were just the ones that came to me.

Slightly OT, but I’m really behind with the reading, life has been so busy!

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Very interesting bunch of books!! Hard to decide which to read first, when you get some time! I hope you do, but I know what busy can be like :D

I hope life will let you read more soon!!

Dark Passage by David Goodis I watched the Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall movie on Turner Classic Movies and the announcer spoke about this author's classic noir books and was intrigued.
A Contract With God and other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth This YA novel was recommended by the lead singer of a band I really like.

Unfortunately, none of these are going to fill a BINGO square and neither have the last several books I've read.

Wow. I must get hold of that YA book. My daughter would love it as well!!
Another fascinating pile of reads there. Enjoy!
You can always use your wild cards or squeeze them into a square somehow... :D

You're right, I really need to revisit my card to see if I can somehow fit at least one of these in.

Never heard about any of this books so I'm definitely going have a look at them! ;-)

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I'm looking at your list, too. Like we need to stack more on our To Read piles :D

I guessed that could be the downside of this post! ;-)

I've got a fair pile by my bed at the mo... three of them are...

Crisis by Felix Francis
Here There Be Gerblins by the McElroy brothers
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not sure which to read!

I should read a K. Vonnegut book, once! *looks at her towering to-read pile, menacing to bury her*

Slaughterhouse Five was mentioned in Footloose, not that's why I want to read it at all.... *g*

I move my piles around and pretend they aren't there, lol!

Gerblins? I'm intrigued.

My daughter got me listening to the Adventure Zone podcasts, it's these brothers and their dad playing D'n'D, and they are so good! The Gerblins graphic novel is just out, the story from an earlier set of podcasts I haven't heard yet! Hopefully I will find out what Gerblins are, hahaa. They are great storytellers, and very silly and fun.

1. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, D. Adams
(As a geek I'm a little ashamed, here!)
2. False Nine, Philip Kerr
(My godmother pushed that book in my hands last time I saw her. It's a crime, it's about English football... It seems to have been made with me in mind!)
3. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
(A book I've wanted to read for years!)

I highly recommended Hitchhiker's!

I still don't know how I managed not to have read it yet!

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I hope you enjoy!!

Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson

A lot to get stuck into there! Do you read a lot of non-fiction?

They are really big books so not going to be quick reads! I do read a lot of non-fiction, especially about women.

You are wonderfully well read!

1. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
2. Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Ever since I saw a few episode's of The Alienist on television I have been wanting to read that book. Have you seen the show? I kind of lost track of the series so I never finished it. I'll probably wait now until I read the book so the ending will be more suspenseful.

I watched the first two episodes and thought the series started off well but the rest are languishing on my DVR until I read the book.

Once I realized it was based on a book I knew I wanted to read it first before I finished watching the show.

I have seen the show, that's why I want to read the book, too. I also just read the other day that it's coming back for a second season.

Very nice! I will definitely try to read the book and watch the first season before the second comes out.

I want to try to read the first book before the second season starts, too!

American Gods was great! It's a favorite of mine.

Excellent! I can't wait to read it!

The Alienist is on my short list for the TV tie-in square!

Ooooh, yay! :D Have you watched the show as well?

1. The Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
2. Agatha Christie, an autobiography
3. The Martian by Andy Weir

I have many more but I chose these three because they are the one's that I REALLY want to read but I have to put off until I finish the one's I am already reading. lol

Oh! I should see if Agatha Christie's biography has been translated in French! That could interest my mother!

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Very cool! I assume she is a big fan of her books?

She read a lot of her books when I was a child. Then, she stopped reading completely. Now she's retired since March and she had started reading again! Like a lot! ;-) And the other day she told me she was looking for autobiographies so...

And it seems it's available in French but only since 2002! It wasn't translated before that!

Awesome. I hope she likes it!

I have 5 books in my "on deck" stack in my room, and the top 3 I can't wait to read are:

1. The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield
2. Filth by Irvine Welsh
3. The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century edited by Otto Penzler

Filth is the only book I'm counting toward the bingo, to fill the Mystery/Crime square. I'll probably start the anthology of 19th century mystery stories in November, after I finish the compendium of weird fiction stories I'm reading for the Free Space square.

Is your compendium called "Weird"? It's on my wishlist on bookdepository... but for next year, I think ;-)

it's called "The Weird", it was edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

That's the one! What do you think about it?

It's great! I've really liked a lot of the stories so far and I like that it has both popular and lesser-known authors from around the world.

Thanks! It's out of stock at the moment, but I'll definitely order it... or put it on my Christmas gifts list ;-)

1. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, by Natalie Haynes. I heard Natalie speak at a conference type thing last year and she was a very entertaining speaker, so I bought her book on the strength of that.

2. In Bed With the Ancient Greeks, by Paul Chrystal. Just look at the title - anyone who knows me knows this topic is right up my street! :-)

3. Streets of Darkness, by A. A. Dhand. This was a complete shot in the dark, I'm not normally a fan of crime fiction, but there was a big article about the author in a writing magazine that I subscribe to, and it sounded a bit different, so I decided to give it a go when I saw the book going cheap on offer in Tesco. Sadly, I have already filled both the 'crime' square and the 'out of your comfort zone' square, so it might not actually fit a bingo even if I do get to it this year :-(