Note – I am sharing this blog again at the request of one of my book club friends. Also, my reading time since arriving in the USA has been very limited, so I’m not sure when I will have a “new” Reading Wednesday to share. I’m currently half way through the epic novel “Ahab’s Wife” by Sena Jeter Naslund, a brilliant but very long book. So watch for a new Reading Wednesday as soon as I get through that masterpiece. Meanwhile, enjoy this blog once again.
I’ve had a great deal of time to read over the past year and a half. I enjoy reading very much and the Grand Adventure has offered me a wonderful opportunity to read more than ever before. I started a list of the books I read and after nearly a year set my sights on finishing 100 books before we returned to the United States.
I almost made it. I read 93 books in 18 months. Almost all (not all but almost) of these books I reviewed in the Reading Wednesday series on this blog. I didn’t start Reading Wednesday until after we had been traveling for a few months, and since then it has become one of the most popular features on My Fab Fifties Life blog. That makes me happy.
I doubt I will be reading as much during my two and half months in the USA because I will be busy with family matters. But I still have some books I haven’t reviewed so hopefully I can continue to review one book per week and you can continue to enjoy the weekly reviews. Meanwhile, if you are interested, I have listed below all 93 books and the ones that have been reviewed are highlighted in green if you would like to go to that review on the blog just click on the link. I’ve also put a gold star by some of my all time favorites!!
Happy Reading everyone! Reading is Fabulous!
1. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
2. Bangkok Secret by Anthony Gray
3. Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
4. Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
5. Today will be Different by Maria Simple
6. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
7. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
8. I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb
9. ⭐These is My Words by Nancy Turner
10.⭐ 97 Orchard Street by Jane Ziegelman
12. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
13. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
14. The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
15. Tulip Fever by Deborah Muggach
16. ⭐Michlings by Affinity Konar
17. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
18. Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
19. War of the Worlds by HG Wells
20. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
21. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
22. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
24. Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
26. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
27. ⭐Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
28. Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
29. The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
30. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
31. Thank you for Being Late by Thomas Friedman
32. Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
33. ⭐Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
34. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
35. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
36. Dirty Chicks by Antonia Murphy
38.⭐ Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
39. News of the World by Paulette Giles
40. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
42. A 1000 Acres by Jane Smiley
43. H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald
44. A Twist of the Knife by Becky Masterson
45. The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
46. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
47. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
48. The Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Allameddine
49. The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
50. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
52.⭐ The Paris Wife by Paula McLean
53. The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
54. Al Franken Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
55. The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
57. The Zookeepers Wife by Angela Workman
58. After the Fall by Charity Normal
59. A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
60. Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
61. ⭐The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
62. ⭐The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
63. The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
64. Circling the Sun by Paula McLean
65. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
66. A Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
67. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
68. The Rent Collector by Camron Wright
69.⭐ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows
70. Star Dust by Neil Gaiman
71. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
72. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
73. Counting by Sevens by Holly Goldberg Sloan
74. ⭐My Antonia by Willa Cather
75.⭐ Elinor Oiliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
76. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
77. A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
78. Sing Unburried Sing by Jesmyn Ward
79. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
80. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
81. ⭐Station Eleven by Emily Saint John Mandel
82. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
83. The Girl Before by JP Delaney
84. The Maze Runner by
85. Still Water by Viveca Sten
86. The Light of the Firefly by Paul Pen
87. A River in the Darkness
88. The Question of Red
89. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
90. The Rapture of Canaan by Sherri Reynolds
91. Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
92. Neverhome by Laird Hunter
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