I’m waiting for… 2024 edition

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Non-fiction and tagged with 2024, Adele Dumont, Alina Grabowski, Amor Towles, Amy Brown, Bri Lee, Cal Newport, Caoilinn Hughes, Carolyn Kuebler, Charles Duhigg, Colm Toibin, David Nicholls, Douglas Preston, Emma Darragh, Emmeline Clein, Gail Jones, Genevieve Kingston, Gyan Yankovich, Hari Kunzru, Helen Oyeyemi, James Bradley, Jen Silverman, Jenny Ackland, Kiley Reid, Leslie Jamison, Lottie Hazell, Margaret Atwood, Miranda Darling, Miranda July, Porochista Khakpour, Rowan Beaird, Ruth Reichl, Salman Rushdie, Sloane Crosley, Susan Lieu, Xochitl Gonzalez January 1, 2024

Proving that I don’t actually care about my never-really-shrinking-TBR-list is this list of new releases that are on my radar for 2024. Continue reading →

Six Degrees of Separation – from Rodham to Blonde

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Ann Patchett, Chanel Miller, Curtis Sittenfeld, Helen Oyeyemi, Hillary Clinton, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Stridsberg, Six Degrees of Separation September 5, 2020

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading →

The Top 50 from the Best Books of 2019 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2019, Adrienne Brodeur, Ali Smith, Ann Patchett, Ben Lerner, Bernardine Evaristo, book list, Bryan Washington, Candice Carty-Williams, Carmen Machado, Casey Cep, Casey Mcquiston, Chanel Miller, Colson Whitehead, David Wallace-Wells, Deborah Levy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth Strout, Esme Wang, Helen Oyeyemi, Helen Phillips, Jacqueline Woodson, Jami Attenberg, Jason Greene, Jennifer Weiner, Jenny Odell, Jia Tolentino, Jodi Kantor, Julia Phillips, Karen Russell, Kevin Barry, Kevin Wilson, Kristen Arnett, Laila Lalami, Lauren Wilkinson, Leigh Bardugo, Lisa Taddeo, Lori Gottlieb, Lucy Ellmann, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Max Porter, Mira Jacob, Miriam Toews, Namwali Serpell, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Ocean Vuong, Olga Tokarczuk, Patrick Keefe, Rion Scott, Robert Macfarlane, Ronan Farrow, Saeed Jones, Sally Rooney, Sarah Broom, Sarah Moss, Stephen King, Susan Choi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Tamsyn Muir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Tea Obreht, Tony Chiang, Tressie Cottom, Valeria Luiselli, Yangsze Choo, Yoko Ogawa, Zadie Smith December 16, 2019

This is my annual community service to book-bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on the 56 lists that I listed on Best Books of 2019 – A List of Lists. Continue reading →

Running out of time for reviews…

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Non-fiction and tagged with 2019, audiobook, Australian, AWW, AWW2019, book review, Doris Brett, fiction, Fleur Jaeggy, Gillian Straker, Helen Oyeyemi, Kerry Cue, nonfiction, novella, reading challenge, review December 9, 2019

The Talking Cure by Gillian Straker and Jacqui Winship* Continue reading →

I’m waiting for… 2019 edition

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2019, Angela Savage, Carrie Tiffany, Catherine Knepper, Christos Tsiolkas, Dani Shapiro, David Nicholls, Deborah Levy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth Strout, Elliot Perlman, Emily Nussbaum, Erin Somers, Halle Butler, Heather Rose, Heidi Diehl, Helen Oyeyemi, Ian McEwan, Jen Beagin, Jennifer Down, Leanne Shapton, Leslie Jamison, Lindsay Stern, Mary Laura Philpott, Maylis de Kerangal, Naja Marie Aidt, Nora McInerny, Polly Rosenwaike, Siri Hustvedt, Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Tessa Hadley, TJ Stimson, Yara Zgheib January 14, 2019

Seems there’s lots of good reading to be done this year (have I ever started a year not thinking the same…? No). Continue reading →

Sample Saturday – doubles, an affair, and a camp

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 1920s, Carolyn Parkhurst, Helen Oyeyemi, Sample Saturday, W. Somerset Maugham January 12, 2019

Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye. Continue reading →

The Top 36 from the Best Books of 2016 List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with 2016, Adam Haslett, Affinity Konar, Alexander Chee, Amor Towles, Ann Patchett, Annie Proulx, book list, Brit Bennett, C. E. Morgan, Claire Louise Bennett, Colson Whitehead, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, David Szalay, Deborah Levy, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Strout, Emma Cline, Garth Greenwell, Han Kang, Helen Oyeyemi, Jacqueline Woodson, Jade Chang, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julian Barnes, Karan Mahajan, Louise Erdrich, Madeleine Thien, Maria Semple, Matthew Desmond, Michael Chabon, Nathan Hill, Paul Kalanithi, Paulette Jiles, Stephanie Danler, Zadie Smith December 7, 2016

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This is my community service to book bloggers – a list of the books that appear most frequently on all of the lists I listed on Best Books of 2016 – A List of Lists. So before I have to write the word ‘list’ again, here it is, the 2016 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2016-Book-Lists-Before-December-31 top 36 books. Continue reading →

Six Degrees of Separation – from The Narrow Road to the Deep North to Laurinda

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Alice Pung, Alice Sebold, Eowyn Ivey, Helen Oyeyemi, Julie Powell, Nigel Slater, Richard Flanagan, Six Degrees of Separation December 10, 2014

It’s time again for my favourite meme. Based on the concept of six degrees of separation, Emma Chapman and Annabel Smith have created #6DEGREES, where bloggers share links between books in six moves. Check out the rules if you want to play along.

This month the chain starts with the 2014 Booker winner, Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North. I haven’t read it (yet) but it sits alongside a bunch of other books on a list that I compiled of the books that appear most frequently on all of the Best Books of 2014 lists. Another book on that list that I plan to read is Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi. Continue reading →

The Top 22 from the Best Books of 2014 – A List of Lists

Posted by Kate W in Fiction, Stuff and Nonsense and tagged with Akhil Sharma, Anthony Doerr, book list, Celeste Ng, Colm Toibin, David Mitchell, David Nicholls, Emily St. John Mandel, Emma Healey, Haruki Murakami, Helen Oyeyemi, Hilary Mantel, Joshua Ferris, Karen Joy Fowler, Leslie Jamison, Lily King, Lorrie Moore, Marilynne Robinson, Marlon James, Matthew Thomas, Richard Flanagan, short story, Siri Hustvedt December 6, 2014

So before someone yells at me “Enough with the lists!”, I took that list of Best Books of 2014 – A List of Lists and I made another list – the books that appear most frequently on all of those lists.

Trawl through all the lists or save time by simply adding the 2014 Commonly-Agreed-by-the-People-Who-Publish-Best-of-2014-Book-Lists-in-November top 22 books to your To-Be-Read stack. Continue reading →