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The Big Read 2018

A solid effort for 2017, I believe. Here’s to a book-filled 2018, with at least 35 English and 35 French reads. I’m upping the French count since I’m becoming a fan of the BDs and going through them has quite a different – faster – pace than non-BD reads! (I guess a realistic ratio would be 10 non-BD to 25 BDs for the year…)

En français
Non-BD
01 | Un homme obscur – Marguerite Yourcenar
02 | Ne lache pas ma main – Michel Bussi
03 | Dans le jardin de l’ogre – Leïla Slimani
04 | Chanson douce – Leïla Slimani
05 | La vengeance du pardon – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
06 | Gravé dans le sable – Michel Bussi
07 | Le poison d’amount – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
08 | Le sumo qui ne pouvais pas grossir – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
09 | Le Temps est assassin – Michel Bussi
10 | Comment peut-on être français ? – Chahdortt Djavann
11 | Comment chier dans le bois – Kathleen Meyer

BD
01 | Les mésaventures de la science – Jim Jourdane et 25 scientifiques
02 | Ce n’est pas toi que j’attendais – Fabien Toulmé
03-05 | Joséphine, Tome 1-3 – Pénélope Bagieu
06 | L’homme de la maison – Dave Chua, Koh Hong Teng
07-08 | L’Extravagante comédie du quotidien: Tome 2-3 – Gregory Mardon
09 | Page blanche – Boulet, Pénélope Bagieu
10 | L’effet durian – Saulne
11 | Mitterand, un jeune homme de droite – Richelle & Rébéna
12 | Le goût de kimchi – Yeou-sik Hong
13 | Rural! – Étienne Davodeau
14-15 | Émilie voit quelqu’un…: Tome 1-2 – Rojzman & Rouquette
16-18 | Les cahiers d’Esther: Tome 1-3 – Riad Sattouf
19 | Comment je ne suis pas devenu moine – Jean-Sébastien Bérubé
20 | Shenzhen – Guy Delisle
21 | Pyongyang – Guy Delisle
22 | S’Enfuir – Guy Delisle
23 | Paroles d’honneur – Leïla Slimani, Laetitia Coryn
24 | Jacques Damour – Vincent Henry, Gaël Henry
25 | Aventures de poussin: Tome 1-2 – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Janry
26 | Chico & Rita – Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba
27 | Rosalie Blum – Camille Jourdy
28 | California dreamin’ – Pénélope Bagieu
29 | L’Étrange vie de Nobody Owens: Tome 1-2 – Philip Craig Russell, Collectif, Neil Gaiman
30 | Les Petites victoires – Yvon Roy
31 | Le Jardin de minuit – Edith
32-34 | Le Guide du mauvais père: Tome 1-3 – Guy Delisle
35 | Tim Ginger – Julian Hanshaw
36 | L’Arabe du futur: Tome 4 – Riad Sattouf
37 | Riche: Pourquoi pas toi ? – Marion Montaigne
38 | La jeune fille et le nègre – Judith Vanistendael
39 | Enola Holmes: La double disparition – Serena Blasco
40-41 | La cantine de minuit: Tome 2-3 – Yaro Abe
42-45 | Le mari de mon frère: Tome 1-4 – Gengoro Tagame
46-50 | Le sommet des dieux: Tome 1-5 – Jiro Taniguchi, Baku Yumemakura
51 | Qui ne dit mot – Stéphane de Groodt, Grégory Panaccione
52 | Rien ne se passe jamais comme prévu – Lucile Gorce, Emma Tissier
53 | Un tout petit bout d’elles – Raphaël Beuchot & Zidrou
54 | Les filles de Salem – Thomas Gilbert
55 | Nos yeux fermés – Akira Sasô
56 | Mercredi – Juan Berri
57 | Mike’s Place – Jack Baxter, Joshua Faudem, Korem Shadmi
58 | Allô, Dr Laura ? – Nicole J Georges
59 | Léa ne se souvient pas comment fonctionne l’aspirateur – Gwangjo, Corbeyran
60 | Simone de Beauvoir: une jeune fille qui dérange – Sophia Carquain, Olivier Grojnowski
61 | La Route de Tibilissi – Chauvel, Kosakowski, Lou

In English
01 | Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
02 | I Contain Multitudes – Ed Yong
03 | Fast Times in Palestine – Pamela Olson
04 | Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
05 | Origin – Dan Brown
06 | My Not So Perfect Life – Sophie Kinsella
07 | Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
08 | Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
09 | Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon
10 | Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
11 | Sh*t My Dad Says – Justin Halpern
12 | Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
13 | Call Me By Your Name – André Aciman
14 | Every Last Lie – Mary Kubica
15 | He Said/She Said – Erin Kelly
16 | Little Monsters – Kara Thomas
17 | Dark Demon Rising – Tunku Halim
18 | The Inexplicable Logic of My Life – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
19 | Sex in the Sea – Marah J Hardt
20 | The Keeper of Lost Things – Ruth Hogan
21 | Every Day – David Levithan
22 | The Confusion of Language – Siobhan Fallon
23 | Violet – Lauren Royal
24 | The Alice Network: A Novel – Kate Quinn
25 | All-Butter ShortDead – H.Y. Hanna
26 | The Art of Racingin the Rain – Garth Stein
27 | Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thein
28 | Invisible Love – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
29 | The Most Beautiful Book in the World – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
30 | Everything Here is Beautiful – Mira T Lee
31 | The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin
32 | Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
33 | The Curious Charm of Arthur Pepper – Phaedra Patrick
34 | Pretty Girls Dancing – Kylie Brant
35 | Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
36 | A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
37 | Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
38 | Memories of My Melancholy Whore – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
39 | They Both Die at the End – Adam Silvera
40 | Swimming Lessons – Claire Fuller
41 | You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone – Rachel Lynn Solomon
42 | The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
43 | The One Memory of Flora Banks – Emily Barr
44 | The Leavers – Lisa Ko
45 | I am Watching You – Teresa Driscoll
46 | The Hundred-Year House – Rebecca Makkai
47 | The Obituary Society – Jessica Randall
48 | The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories – Agatha Christie
49 | Red Clocks – Leni Zumas
50 | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
51 | A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
52 | The Wife – Meg Wolitzer
53 | The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock – Imogen Hermes Gowar
54 | The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
55 | Salamander – Thomas Wharton
56 | This is My Life – Meg Wolitzer
57 | Vintage Sacks – Oliver Sacks
58 | The Hotel on Place Vendome – Tilar J Mazzeo
59 | Shanghai Girl – Vivian Yang
60 | Nice Work – David Lodge

 

15 November 2018: overall reading objective for the year reached – yay!

31 December 2018: it has been a bumper reading year. I’ve been cutting down on computer screen time in general and turned my attention to good ol’ books to keep company. I made good use of my library membership, albeit still turning to more English reads than French, although I did devour a good number of graphic books. What will 2019 bring?

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