Hemlokgang's BFB Challenge 2021

Dang, but I did poorly on this challenge. I hope to post 10 titles this year. I'm going to try really hard not to get sidetracked!!!!!

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Good to see you back again!

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

562 pages

#2 - CoDex 1962 by Sjón, 528 pages

#3 - Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith - 944 pages

#4 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes - 624 pages

#5 - The Last Boat Out Of Shanghai: The Epic Story Of The Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia, 522 pages

Hi! since you have read 5 BFB's in the first 2.6 months of the year. I'm certain you can do 10 this year.

>9 connie53: Feeling Optimistic

#6 - Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell - 574 pages

>11 hemlokgang: What did you think of this book, HLG? I see there is a translation in Dutch. So I want to know if it's worth reading.

>12 connie53: Thoroughly enjoyable! Captures the 60s musically, socially & politically via the trajectory of a band named Utopia Avenue. Mitchell is an outstanding writer!!

>13 hemlokgang: I know I have most of his translated books on my shelves and have read them. On the wish list it goes!

#7 - The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - 528 pages

#8 -Midnight In Chernobyl: The Untold Story of The World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham -538 pages

#9 - Desperation by Stephen King - 547 pages

#10 - A Dance To The Music Of Time, 3rd Movement by Anthony Powell - 748 pages

#11 - A Word Child by Iris Murdoch - 553 pages

#12 - The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki - 527 pages

#13 - The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning - 579 pages

#14 - Remembrance Of Things Past: Volume II by Marcel Proust - 1261 pages

#15 - Mortal Fear by Greg Iles - 552 pages

#16 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - 592 pages

#16 - The Bone Tree by Greg Iles - 804 pages

#17 - The Book Of Form And Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki -560 pages