Hi Readers! I just finished the 36th
book of the year – Whisper Network by Chandler Baker. I wasn’t
expecting to, but I really quite loved reading this one. More on it in a
different post! With about 2 months to go, I really hope I will be able to
achieve the target of 50 books! If not, I have already passed my target, so no
guilt!
I had bought a bunch of books in June, which you
can check out here. Now, in November, there are again few more additions to my
beauty of a bookshelf! Here are the books I bought recently & cannot wait
to devour them!
~~A MAN CALLED OVE
by FREDRIK BACKMAN~~
I have read only one book by Fredrik Backman, which
is, ‘And
Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer.’ This book really touched me, it was so full of
emotions, written in the simplest manner. Ever since this read, I had decided
to read all his books. But, as it often happens with me, I lose track of time
& get caught up in the ‘so many books, so little time’ dilemma &
end up reading whatever I get my hands on. But, now, I have finally decided to
read this book, which is very highly rated & talked about.
337
Pages
4.36/5
stars on Goodreads
Published
August 2012
~~KAFKA ON THE SHORE
by HARUKI MURAKAMI~~
As you all know that I have recently started
reading books by Murakami. I really enjoyed A Wild Sheep Chase, but didn’t
quite enjoy Norwegian Wood. So, this will be a tie-breaker, I suppose! I have
already heard many good things about this novel, so excited to finally read it!
I also want to read more Murakami books from The Rat series. So, that will
happen soon too.
467 Pages
4.13/5
stars on Goodreads
Published
2002
~~NOTHING VENTURED
by JEFFREY ARCHER~~
I have always loved reading about crime, thriller
& mystery novels. Some of my favorite authors in this genre are
Dan Brown, Jane Harper. Yet, it is shocking, even to me, that I haven’t read a
single book by Jeffrey Archer. So, it is about time to fix it. Unlike most
Jeffrey Archer stories, quoting Goodreads, this one is not a detective story,
but a story about making of a detective. I already am sure that I will love it.
And, post this, I am definitely reading Kane & Abel, which is the author’s most
popular & well-known novel.
320 Pages
4.05/5
stars
Published
September 2019
~~JOY IN THE MORNING
by P.G. WODEHOUSE~~
Last month I read The Adventures of Sally by P.G.Wodehouse. I absolutely loved his style of writing & his ability to play
with words. But, my twitter fellows told me that though that’s a nice book,
it’s not his funniest. So, now I’m going to read ‘Joy in the Morning’ which is
a part of the Jeeves Series. And, since my dad is an ardent Wodehouse fan &
has a lot of his books, he recommended this one. So, this is also one of the
books on my TBR!
272 Pages
4.34/5
stars on Goodreads
Published
1947
~~THE ATLAS OF REDS
& BLUES by DEVI S. LASKAR~~
This title kept showing up in a lot of
recommendations & so I finally bought the book. This is her first novel, so
naturally I had never before heard about the author. I checked it out on
Goodreads & thought that it could be an interesting story. It kind of seems
similar to AngieThomas’s ‘The Hate U Give’. Goodreads describes it as ‘an arresting
debut novel which bears witness to American racism & abuse of power.’ It is
only 258 pages, so I will probably just need one Saturday to finish it!
258 Pages
3.85/5
stars on Goodreads
Published
February 2019
~~POSTSCRIPT by
CECELIA AHERN~~
We all know how wonderful ‘PS: I Love You’ was. I felt like it was the benchmark on which
romantic stories were written later on. I had read it way back in 2010 or so
& now that I know there is a sequel, of course I had to read it! Over the
years, I read many books by Cecelia Ahern, but I only truly LOVED ‘Where Rainbows
End’. All others didn’t quite hit that romantic level as these two
did for me. So, I am really excited to read ‘Postscript’!
368 Pages
4.33 stars
on Goodreads
Published
September 2019
~~MAYBE YOU SHOULD
TALK TO SOMEONE by LORI GOTTLEIB~~
Last & the best of all! I have already read
this one on e-book. But, I LOVED it so
much that I had to have a PHYSICAL COPY of
it! (I just cannot control myself when it comes to books, despite climate
change. Sorry!) Now that I have it in my hands, I feel like reading it again!
You can check out my review on this one here.
432 Pages
4.4/5
stars on Goodreads
Published
April 2019
So, this is all for now! Some of the classics that
I will read really soon are ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott (because there’s a film coming with Emma Watson in it, so of course I gotta read the book before
watching the movie!) Also, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale & The Testaments!
‘All the
Light We Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr is
another one I am yet to read & is awaiting in the bookshelf. And, so the
list is pretty bottomless, but these are definitely the ones I look forward to
reading soon enough!
Also, I am
really glad that there are now only a few books in my bookshelf that are
unread. That is such an improvement in just one year. As always, if you have
some great book
recommendations, I’m all ears! And, if you have read any of the
books above, let’s discuss in the comments below!!
Until next time,
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