Hemlokgang's 100 Books in 2021

Well, due to the distractions of COVID19 and a presidential election, as well as a move from California to New Mexico, I did not quite make my 100 books in 2020. I forgive me! On to 2021, and the goal of 100 titles. I love the challenge!!

Good luck!

Good luck with your reading for 2021!

Thanks for setting up the new challenge group.

Happy reading in 2021, and thank you for setting up the thread.

Thanks for setting up the 2021 group hemlock, you are forgiven (!), good luck with your reading and everything else !

Thanks for setting up the group Hemlock! Best wishes for lots of reading and less real-world drama for us all in 2021.

>1 hemlokgang: Thank you for setting up this group! Let’s all hope for less stress and more reading in 2021.

>1 hemlokgang: thanks for setting up the group, and best wishes for everyone's goals in 2021!

thanks for setting up the group.

#1 - Plainsong by Kent Haruf - *****

Happy New Year! I will be retiring to New Mexico late in 2021!

>11 swimmergirl1: swimmergirl1 I already love it here!

#2 - Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann - *

Happy New Year hemlock and thanks for the group.

#3 - Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh - ****

#4 - Flowers Of Mold by Ha Seong-Nan - ***

#5 - Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China by Jung Chang - ****

#6 - Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall - ***

#7 - The Arsonist: A Mind On Fire by Chloe Hooper - ***

#8 - My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent - ****

#9 - The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams - ****

#10 - Eventide by Kent Haruf - *****

#11 - The Color of Money: Black Banks and The Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran - ****

#12 - Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith - ***

#13 - A Woman Of No Importance by Sonia Purnell - *****

#14 - Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño - **

#15 - CoDex 1962 by Sjón - *****

#16 - A Prayer For The Living by Ben Okri - *****

#17 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes - ****

#18 - The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline - ***

#19 - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel - ****

#20 - Stalking The Angel by Robert Crais - ****

#21 - The Need by Helen Phillips -***

#22 - Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne - *****

#23 - The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurdardottir - ****

#24 - Belgrade Noir by Milorad Ivanović - ****

#25 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - ****

#26 - Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell - *****

#27 - The Clerk by Guillermo Saccomanno - *****

#28 - The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine - ***

#29 - Boy, Bird, Snow by Helen Oyeyemi - ****

#30 - The Art Of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin - ****

#31 - This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear - ****

#32 - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeannette Winterson - ****

#33 - Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz - *****

#34 - The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - *****

#35 - Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - *****

#36 - My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell - ***

#37 - Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgard - ****

#38 - A Swim In A Pond In The Rain by George Saunders - *****

#39 - The Consequences Of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear - ****

#40 - Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of The Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli.

#41 - Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovitch - ****

#42 - Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin - ****

#43 - A Burning by Megha Majumdar - ****

#44 - A Measure of Darkness by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman - **

#45 - Vampires In The Lemon Grove by Karen Russell - ****

#46 - Midnight In Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham - ****

#47 - A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet - ****

#48 - Moonglow by Michael Chabon -****

#49 - Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King - ****

#50 - A Matter Of Death And Life by Irvin Yalom - ****

#51- Garden By The Sea by Mercè Rodoreda - ****

#52 - The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford - *****

#53 - Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper - **

#54 - Lullaby Town by Robert Crais - ****

#55 - A Dance To The Music Of Time, 3rd Movement by Anthony Powell - *****

#56 - A Word Child by Iris Murdoch - ****

#57 - Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker - ***

#58 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - ****

#59 - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - ****

#60 - On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed - ****

#61 - Notes On Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - *****

#62 - Iron Lake by William Kent Kreuger - ****

#63 - The Neighbors by Hannah Mary McKinnon - **

#64 - Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - *****

#65 - Eleven Sooty Dreams by Manuela Draeger - *****

#66 - The Collector by John Fowles - *****

#67 - Four Winds by Kristin Hannah - ****

#68 - The Invention Of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares - *****

>80 hemlokgang: This has been on my wish list for ages, so it's good to read your positive review. I must get to it.

#69 - Some New Ambush by Carys Davies - *****

#70 - What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad - ****

#71 - Curl by T.O. Bobe - *****

#72 - The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen - *****

#73 - True Evil by Greg Iles - ***

#74 - The Survivors by Jane Harper - ****

#75 - Intimacies by Katie Kitamura - ****

#75 - The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers - ***

#76 - The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki - *****

#77 - The Maidens by Alex Michaelides - ****

#78 - Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam - **

#79 - Hello Darkness My Old Friend by Sanford D. Greenberg - ***

#80 - The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny - ****

#81 - There's Something I Want You To Do by Charles Baxter - **

#82 - The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning - *****

#83 - Pastoralia by George Saunders - ****

#84 - Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovitch - ***

#85 - Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker - ****

#86 - Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri - ****

#87 - American War by Omar El Akkad - ****
#88 - A Promised Land by Barack Obama - ****

#89 - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kreuger - *****

#90 - In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders - ****

#91 - At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop - *****

#92 - Mortal Fear by Greg Iles - ****

#93 - My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson - *****

#94 - Finders Keepers by Stephen King - ****

#95 - The Deep Deep Snow by Brian Freeman - ****

#96 - The Pull of The Stars by Emma Donaghue - ****

#97 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - *****

#98 - Burden of Truth by Robin James - ***

#99 - Things We Lost To the Water by Eric Nguyen - ****

#100 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - ****

#101 - Happiness by Aminatta Forna - ***

#102 - Scrublands by Chris Hammer - ***

#103 - Canada by Richard Ford - ****

>113 hemlokgang: Belated congratulations on reaching 100!

#104 - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead - *****

#105 - The Promise by Damon Galgut - *****

#106 - Remembrance Of Things Past, Vol 2 by Marcel Proust - *****

#107 - A Short Tale of Shame by Angel Igov - ****

$108 - The Bone Tree by Greg Iles - ****

#109 - The Phone Box At The Edge of The World by Laura Imai Messina - *****