Ted-want to actually read 50+ books in 2023!

Once again, a very hectic year for me in 2022, so I didn't finish 50 books. However, I'm aiming to work even less in 2023 than I have been AND my little terrier is finally maturing and is calm and resting in the evenings now, so I very much hope to get more reading in. I have literally stacks of books in various rooms in my house that I want to read, so I hope to make inroads in my TBR list this year.

So glad to hear someone else has stacks of books to read :) Good luck!

I’m a stacker too. I find these tbr piles comforting.

Another person who can relate to TBR stacks here. May you have better luck catching up that I've had!

Yes, I think we all have TBR stacks that never seem to get smaller. :) Happy reading!

Well, not tooo bad of a start for 2023, though the first one read was more of a novella than a full novel.

1. Kate Shackleton's First Case by Frances Brody
2. The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves

3. Death at the Seaside by Frances Brody

4. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

5. Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald

6. Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths

7. This is How We Love by Lisa Moore

8. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

9. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

10. All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

11. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

12. The Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

13. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

14. The Magdalen Girls by V. S. Alexander

15. The Long Weekend by Gilly MacMillan

16. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz by Lucy Adlington

17. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

18. The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

19. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny

20. The Company We Keep by Frances Itani

21. The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill

22. The Son of a Certain Woman by Wayne Johnston

23. Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson

I'm obviously not going to get 50 books read this year, as I've hardly read anything all summer and now into the fall. #24 The lover, the lake by Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau

#25 When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill

Actually finished 2 books in the last week or two!

#26 My book club selection for November was The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont. Having been an Agatha Christie fan since my early teens, I really enjoyed this little mystery within a mystery. Not as well crafted as an Agatha Christie novel would have been, but clever and entertaining nonetheless.

#27 A big disappointment-I've been nearly 2 months trying to finish this one. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James.

28. Homecoming by Kate Morton

29 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman