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Martha's Big Books 2019/20

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message 1: by Martha (last edited Dec 20, 2019 08:19AM) (new)

Martha (marthais) | 11 comments In 2018 my target was 20 and I read 28 so in 2019 I'm really going to push myself and aim for 30, eek!

Read.
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, 656 pages
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, 459 pages
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty, 486 pages
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas, 435 pages
Columbine by Dave Cullen, 465 pages
The Time Traveler's Wife, 518 pages
Becoming by Michelle Obama 426 pages
Bitter Chocolate by Lesley Lokko, 577 pages
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, 400 pages
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg, 419 pages
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 462 pages
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 616 pages
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 800 pages
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 542 pages
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 620 pages
The Giver of Stars, 434 pages
Blackberry and Wild Rose, 416 pages
A Court of Thorns and Roses, 419 pages
A Court of Mist and Fury, 626 pages
A Court of Wings and Ruin, 707 pages
Seven Days, 416 pages
The Round House by Louise Erdrich, 416 pages
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, 498 pages

Currently Reading


Options from my shelf
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 721 pages
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, 616 pages
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson, 552 pages
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 534 pages
Eragon by Christopher Paolini, 528 pages
Sophia's Secret by Susanna Kearsley, 527 pages
Emma by Jane Austen, 514 pages
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 512 pages
Sons And Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 512 pages
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 504 pages
Brick Lane by Monica Ali, 492 pages
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, 481 pages
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, 479 pages
The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi, 469 pages
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, 463 pages
Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty, 448 pages
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman, 443 pages
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey, 440 pages
What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Holly Bourne, 432 pages
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry, 432 pages
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, 417 pages
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, 640 pages
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, 519 pages
Swing Time by Zadie Smith, 464 pages
Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach, 402 pages
The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 629 pages
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 580 pages
Middlemarch by George Eliot, 912 pages
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, 448 pages
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, 506 pages
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, 448 pages
Lit by Mary Karr, 436 pages
Telegraph Avenue: A Novel by Michael Chabon, 612 pages
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk, 417 pages
The Idiot by Elif Batuman, 432 pages
Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla, 400 pages
Equal Power: And How You Can Make It Happen by Jo Swinson, 400 pages
Greatest Hits by Laura Barnett, 464 pages
Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman, 627 pages
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson, 503 pages
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 464 pages
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, 464 pages
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, 666 pages
A History of the World by Andrew Marr, 500 pages
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 426 pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 688 pages
Small Island by Andrea Levy, 533 pages
The Backstreets of Purgatory by Helen Taylor, 496 pages
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, 468 pages
Future Popes of Ireland by Darragh Martin, 448 pages
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson, 434 pages
Diversify: A fierce, accessible, empowering guide to why a more open society means a more successful one by June Sarpong, 417 pages
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks, 416 pages
Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair by Emma Tarlo, 416 pages
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, 412 pages
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, 410 pages
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, 401 pages


message 2: by Martha (last edited Dec 22, 2020 07:56AM) (new)

Martha (marthais) | 11 comments Missed my target in 2019, so will try again for 30 in 2020

Currently Reading


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1. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, 453 pages
2. Emma, 514 pages
3. Rebecca, 441 pages
4 The Starless Sea, 498 pages
5. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, 534 pages
6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 401 pages
7. The Night Circus, 502 pages
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message 3: by Debra (new)

Debra (debrasbookcafe) | 207 comments Mod
You still did amazing in 2019. Good luck for 2020 :-)


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