2017 Reads
What will I be reading in 2017? A bloody good question, thanks for asking. Over the year, whenever someone recommends a book to me that I think I'd enjoy or when I come across something I'd like to read, I'll add it to the page here. This will help me keep track of my teetering TBR pile and who doesn't like a good list? No bibliofreak I know. As I review books, I'll add links to the review on here too. I'd love to have your recommendations - comment below or hit me up on Twitter (@thebibliofreak). (If you would like me to read your own book, check out my review policy here: http://www.bibliofreak.net/p/review-policy.html)
Here is my 2017 reading list so far:
Blindness by Jose Saramago (recommended by @frankiesaxxx)
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge (recommended by @muninnherself)
Beijing Coma by Ma Jian (recommended by @frankiesaxxx)
Orlando by Virginia Woolf (recommended by @jmc_hughy)
The Age of Earthquakes by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich (recommended by @jmc_hughy)
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (recommended by Bernadette)
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (recommended by @MissP_Psych)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (recommended by @MissP_Psych)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (recommended by @MissP_Psych)
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman (recommended by Di)
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (recommended by
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Heartof Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Glad to see The Catcher in the Rye, The Portrait of a Lady, Persuasion and Mrs Dalloway there.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have a hard time with the Henry James, but persevere. My posts on that novel are some of the best posts on my blog.
Are you by any chance interested in a Life and Fate read-along? By Vasily Grossman. I intend to start in summer.
Certainly - one of my aims this year is to read books outside of my comfort zone and challenge myself a bit so yes to Life and Fate. I'll stick it on the list above but you might have to remind me at the time!!
ReplyDeleteAll right. How do I contact you then? Here or in email or on whatsapp?
ReplyDeleteOff-topic: when do you intend to visit Leeds? :D
Email would be fine, or Twitter. My WhatsApp hasn't worked forever because my iPhone won't update anymore.
ReplyDeleteAhh, Leeds - who could resist its charms? Maybe this will be the year - a trip to see Bronte-land and Leeds all in one.
Email then. I don't have twitter.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe we can go to Haworth together? I haven't been there.
Not sure when I have time though. Too busy.
Yes please. I've cleared out my inbox especially (well, conveniently).
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you are busy - enjoying England and The North?
Yeah. Send me something sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI always welcome comments...