I’ve read 109 Kindle samples this year – I reckon that downloading sample chapters is more prudent than impulse buying books that don’t quite pan out after the first few chapters.
Of the 109 I’ve read, I’ve said ‘yes’ to 64. Of those that I’ve said yes to, one I now own and a further nine I’ve read (via the library).
As always, I avoid a TBR-stack-blowout and narrow the shopping list down to the 15 that I’m busting to read –
Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
In Love by Amy Bloom
Last Resort by Andrew Lipstein
Built to Move by Juliet Starrett and Kelly Starrett
Should We Stay or Should We Go? by Lionel Shriver
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died by Séamas O’Reilly
Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
Good Girls by Hadley Freeman
We Need to Hang Out by Billy Baker
Lioness by Emily Perkins
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
Pet by Catherine Chidgey
Enchantment by Katherine May
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
I did the same review in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. I still haven’t read all of the books on those lists but I’m chipping away…
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