Australian Radio Top 100 Book Meme
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shadowkatRadio Australia Top 100 Book Meme aka The Book Club/Books Adapted into Television Series and/or Films Meme
Rules:
1.Did you read it (bold or state for the HTML Adverse), (audio books count)
2. DNF (Did not Finish) or Italicize
3. Saw the film or television adaptation series - state that (or underline)
4. loved it put a *
( if you want to write anything about it - do.)
1.Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton (it's a boy's coming of age story in Australia, about a boy who lives with a criminal family, and struggles to get by, as far as I could tell - it's airing on Netflix, and I saw one or two episodes before giving up on it.)
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. >A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles (was on Showtime, one season. I enjoyed the audio book. The author writes poetic prose. I did have problems following the plot though. It's about an aristocrat who is held prisoner by the Soviets in a Hotel in Moscow during and post Russian Revolution, and his friendship with a little girl over the years, who is staying at the Hotel with her family.)
4. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - tried to watch on Netflix but only made it through two episodes. (WWII yarn about a blind French girl/spy and a German boy, notable for the cast).
5 Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (watched on Apple + - good miniseries about a female chemist who starts a cooking show after her husband's death).
6 Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
7 The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
8 Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
9 A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
10 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel* (Television Mini-Series on PBS) - I've tried to listen to this as an audio book (among the first I ever did, it doesn't work well as an audio book), tried to read it, and tried to watch it - and I either don't have the mental energy for it? Or I don't like historical fiction enough? It's about the Tudor period, Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. So it's possible it's a period of history that I overstudied and grown tired of? (Note to self - get PBS Passport.)
11. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan ** - excellent. It's also really short. About 100 pages if that. And the film is equally excellent and haunting. It stays with me, when a lot of stories don't. It's a character study. A man who runs a milk delivery service discovers something horrific happening at the local convent, and has to decide what, if anything to do about it. Cillian Murphy stars in the movie which is on Hulu.
12 Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens - there's a film adaptation on Hulu, but I didn't like the book that much? It's beautifully written about naturalism, but the plot is aggravating and doesn't quite work. The writer was a non-fiction naturalist writer, who wrote a fictional novel about something out of Harper Lee's playbook.
13 The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
14 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
15 Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
16 Still Life - Sarah Winman
17 Wifedom - Anna Funder
18 Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe
19 The Road - Cormac McCarthy * - I tried, didn't make it far. Cormac McCarthy and I are unmixy things (my brother isn't fond of him either - and calls him a macho idiot). The book is a post-apocalyptic novel about a man and a boy, traveling through a distopian society, and is very violent and very dark like most of McCarthy's stories. McCarthy is bit like a mix of a very dark Larry McMurty and Ernest Hemingway. I only made it through All The Pretty Horses - and I don't remember any of it.
20 The Secret River - Kate Grenville
21. Atonement - Ian McEwan - sigh. I did not like this book. I skimmed most of it. I disliked the movie. It was one of those books that I wanted to throw against the wall. It takes place during WWII, in Britain, and is about a little girl who is a liar and possibly a sociopath, who rewrites her sister's history to suit herself, after destroying her sister's life with a lie. (There's a twist ending.) The author kind of plays with unreliable narrator, point of view, and perception - which I felt was self-indulgent, and annoyingly gimmicky. I'm not a fan of this writer and didn't read anything else by them. It's rare that I really hate a book. (Read it for a book club, everyone in the book club loved it - but me.)
22 - The Kite Runner (2003) - Khaled Hosseini - there's a movie, I think? Can't remember if I saw it? The book is excellent. But I only vaguely remember most of it. It takes place in Iran, I think. Just that I enjoyed it? I read it for a book club.
23 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin [ I think a film is being made of this one? I keep meaning to read it - it's been rec'd by multiple strangers. One was a young woman in the checkout line of the grocery store before me. Have you read it? Is it any good?)
24 Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
25 Honeybee - Craig Silvey [ Hmmm, somebody likes Craig Silvey?)
26 - The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins - Loved. I read these books over a Christmas holiday when I was sick, around the time they were first published, on Kindle. Also saw the films. Haven't read or seen the prequels. They are about a young woman who takes her sister's place as a tribute - in the annual Hunger Games that are televised planet wide in a dystopian society. The Hunger Games are a battle between children selected each year from districts around the US to compete in a battle to the death.
It's a great commentary on what war, violence, and celebrity does to people and the toxicity of a society that thrives on it.
27 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante * - I couldn't get into either the television series or the book. The series is on HBO, and in Italian - with subtitles, which may be why? It's a story about a complicated friendship between two women from childhood through adulthood. One is successful in her career, the other in her romantic life/family life, and the rivalry/jealousy between them. Takes place in Naples.
28 The Dry - Jane Harper [Australian mystery - there's a film version on either Hulu or Netflix that I've been meaning to try.]
29 Lola in the Mirror Trent Dalton
30 Stasiland Anna Funder
31 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
32 Normal People Sally Rooney* - tried the television series, first episode, couldn't get into it.
33 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - series on my to watch list
34 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - movie on my to watch list
35 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - Television Series as well, on my to watch list.
36 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman* - saw the film on Netflix, it was fun. It's about a bunch of old folks in a retirement home in England who solve a murder.
37 The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
38 - Breath - Tim Winton
39 -Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell (didn't know it was a book, it is a film by Chloe Zhao)
40 Dirt Music - Tim Winton
41 Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
42 - A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman - made into two films, I think? I think I saw one of them, but I vaguely remember it.
43 All That I Am by Anna Funder
44 Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
45 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - tried both the series and the book and gave up.
46 Horse -Geraldine Brooks
47 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling* - enjoyed it
48 Life of Pi -Yann Martel (loved the movie - which I saw in 3D, do not see it in 3D, couldn't get into the book).
49 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - I know I read it, just have no memory of it.
50 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - read and saw the movie - didn't like either. It's allegedly a ghost story and mystery about a who killed a little girl, and creepy - but in reality it's a story about grief and meanders a lot.
51 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
52 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - read and saw the movie, I enjoyed it. Saw both the Swedish film and the American film, and tried the two sequels, didn't finish them.
53 Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
54 The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion (tried, couldn't get into it. And can't remember what it is about.)
55 Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo
56 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith Read and saw the television series, which is about two South African Black Women who solve murders in their village. I loved it.
57 -Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
58 - James by Percival Everett [own, but haven't read it yet - it's a retelling of Huck Finn from Jim's point of view, and I loved that boy, so got this for my birthday last year.]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
60 The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
61 Joe Cinque's Consolation - Helen Garner
62 The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
63 We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver (I keep flirting with the film version starring Tilda Swinton)
64 Bel Canto Ann Patchett ** (I loved this book, read it over ten years ago, or more - but still remember it. It's about an Opera Singer being held hostage at her Opera opening gig in Argentina (I think it is Argentina) with others - by terrorists. Suspenseful, learned a lot about opera, and fascinating.)
65 Question 7 - Richard Flanagan (somebody is a fan of Richard Flanagan?)
66 The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
67 Circe - Madeline Miller (someone also likes Madeline Miller)
68 Educated - Tara Westover
69 The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
70 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - I tried to read this, couldn't get into it, but I did enjoy the television series on HBO quite a bit, took a while to get into though. It's weird. It's about various people who interconnect in post-pandemic dystopian future - through a traveling Shakespeare troup and oddly enough a comic book. It's also kind of violent and centers on a cult.
71 The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
72. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -Mary Ann Schaffer, Annie Barrows - saw the movie only. (It takes place during WWII - a writer exchanges letters with the residents of an island in Guernsey under German occupation.)
73 The Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku
74 The Overstory - Richard Powers
75 The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
76 - Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox, Judy Horacek
77 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - didn't enjoy this, it's about time travel but in a weird ass way, and happens out of synch or around an event, a kind of ground hog day? I found it frustrating to read and it gave me a headache.
78 The Women - Kristin Hannah
79 Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín - seen the film adaptation some time ago, it was nominated for an Oscar. About Brooklyn immigrants I think? Irish immigrants and a love story. I only have vague memories of it - it didn't really resonate with me.
80 A Short History of Nearly Everything -Bill Bryson (I was on a Bill Bryson kick for a bit in the early 00s. I don't remember this one at all though - just that I read it.)
81 Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko
82 Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
83 The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Holly Ringland
84 Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
85 Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens Shankari Chandran
86 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell - I found the book a slog, the movie slightly better. It is good in places. It's a time travel story, about people who live multiple lives and we visit each of their lives interspersed betwixt and between. It is a bit head-ache inducing to follow, and the author has fun with point of view shifts and time shifts in narrative. I felt it was more into style than substance?
87 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros - audio book - couldn't finish, which is rare. It annoyed me. It's about a bookish teenage girl whose mother for reasons that escape her - thrusts her into a fighting dragon squad, where 90% of the recruits get killed. Very whiny narrative voice, not helped by being in first person.
88 This House of Grief Helen Garner
89 People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
90 This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay (I think this was made into a British Series of high acclaim? Yes, it was, starring Ben Whinslaw and was a limited series. I've had an actor crush on Ben Whinslaw since I saw him in Torchwood and The Hours.)
91 The Bookbinder of Jericho - Pip Williams
92 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - eh, tried and failed to read the book, saw the movie and didn't like it. I don't like Gillian Flynn's writing style. You'd think I would since I like noir, but she annoyed me when she was a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly. The movie is a noir thriller about a man who allegedly killed his wife..except, whoops, she isn't dead or is she?
93 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir - loved and highly recommend the audio book - the narrator is brilliant. I refuse to see the movie, since well...the book is about a scientist who has to go into space to save the Earth and runs into an alien sent to do the same thing from their planet, except the alien is...a space spider. I could listen or read that? I can't watch it.)
94 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
95 Piranesi Susanna Clarke - I own the audio book, but haven't been able to get into it yet. Susanna Clarke and I are kind of unmixy things? I don't tend to like her writing style, so am attempting to do the audio book.
96 Tom Lake Ann Patchett
97 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey - I couldn't get into it, and liked Oscar and Lucinda better, of course the film version of Oscar and Lucinda helped. I don't remember it well enough to describe it. Carey is hard to get into.
98 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne
99 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
100 Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty - saw the television series. Which was okay. It's about a bunch of women who hide the killing of a man who rapes one of them. I've read Liane Moriarity and she's a fun read, kind of the Australian version of Jodi Piccoulte except a lot better. Piccoulte annoys me. Of course it helps that Moriarity's characters are all in Australia. Two of her books were made into mini-series, neither of which I read. I wished she'd made the two I read into them, although both did have plot problems. Her books are kind of melodramatic, with fishy plotting. In that her plots don't quite work.
Whew, I read or saw more of those than I thought.
Rules:
1.Did you read it (bold or state for the HTML Adverse), (audio books count)
2. DNF (Did not Finish) or Italicize
3. Saw the film or television adaptation series - state that (or underline)
4. loved it put a *
( if you want to write anything about it - do.)
1.Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton (it's a boy's coming of age story in Australia, about a boy who lives with a criminal family, and struggles to get by, as far as I could tell - it's airing on Netflix, and I saw one or two episodes before giving up on it.)
2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
3. >A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles (was on Showtime, one season. I enjoyed the audio book. The author writes poetic prose. I did have problems following the plot though. It's about an aristocrat who is held prisoner by the Soviets in a Hotel in Moscow during and post Russian Revolution, and his friendship with a little girl over the years, who is staying at the Hotel with her family.)
4. All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - tried to watch on Netflix but only made it through two episodes. (WWII yarn about a blind French girl/spy and a German boy, notable for the cast).
5 Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (watched on Apple + - good miniseries about a female chemist who starts a cooking show after her husband's death).
6 Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
7 The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
8 Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
9 A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
10 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel* (Television Mini-Series on PBS) - I've tried to listen to this as an audio book (among the first I ever did, it doesn't work well as an audio book), tried to read it, and tried to watch it - and I either don't have the mental energy for it? Or I don't like historical fiction enough? It's about the Tudor period, Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. So it's possible it's a period of history that I overstudied and grown tired of? (Note to self - get PBS Passport.)
11. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan ** - excellent. It's also really short. About 100 pages if that. And the film is equally excellent and haunting. It stays with me, when a lot of stories don't. It's a character study. A man who runs a milk delivery service discovers something horrific happening at the local convent, and has to decide what, if anything to do about it. Cillian Murphy stars in the movie which is on Hulu.
12 Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens - there's a film adaptation on Hulu, but I didn't like the book that much? It's beautifully written about naturalism, but the plot is aggravating and doesn't quite work. The writer was a non-fiction naturalist writer, who wrote a fictional novel about something out of Harper Lee's playbook.
13 The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
14 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
15 Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
16 Still Life - Sarah Winman
17 Wifedom - Anna Funder
18 Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe
19 The Road - Cormac McCarthy * - I tried, didn't make it far. Cormac McCarthy and I are unmixy things (my brother isn't fond of him either - and calls him a macho idiot). The book is a post-apocalyptic novel about a man and a boy, traveling through a distopian society, and is very violent and very dark like most of McCarthy's stories. McCarthy is bit like a mix of a very dark Larry McMurty and Ernest Hemingway. I only made it through All The Pretty Horses - and I don't remember any of it.
20 The Secret River - Kate Grenville
21. Atonement - Ian McEwan - sigh. I did not like this book. I skimmed most of it. I disliked the movie. It was one of those books that I wanted to throw against the wall. It takes place during WWII, in Britain, and is about a little girl who is a liar and possibly a sociopath, who rewrites her sister's history to suit herself, after destroying her sister's life with a lie. (There's a twist ending.) The author kind of plays with unreliable narrator, point of view, and perception - which I felt was self-indulgent, and annoyingly gimmicky. I'm not a fan of this writer and didn't read anything else by them. It's rare that I really hate a book. (Read it for a book club, everyone in the book club loved it - but me.)
22 - The Kite Runner (2003) - Khaled Hosseini - there's a movie, I think? Can't remember if I saw it? The book is excellent. But I only vaguely remember most of it. It takes place in Iran, I think. Just that I enjoyed it? I read it for a book club.
23 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin [ I think a film is being made of this one? I keep meaning to read it - it's been rec'd by multiple strangers. One was a young woman in the checkout line of the grocery store before me. Have you read it? Is it any good?)
24 Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
25 Honeybee - Craig Silvey [ Hmmm, somebody likes Craig Silvey?)
26 - The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins - Loved. I read these books over a Christmas holiday when I was sick, around the time they were first published, on Kindle. Also saw the films. Haven't read or seen the prequels. They are about a young woman who takes her sister's place as a tribute - in the annual Hunger Games that are televised planet wide in a dystopian society. The Hunger Games are a battle between children selected each year from districts around the US to compete in a battle to the death.
It's a great commentary on what war, violence, and celebrity does to people and the toxicity of a society that thrives on it.
27 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante * - I couldn't get into either the television series or the book. The series is on HBO, and in Italian - with subtitles, which may be why? It's a story about a complicated friendship between two women from childhood through adulthood. One is successful in her career, the other in her romantic life/family life, and the rivalry/jealousy between them. Takes place in Naples.
28 The Dry - Jane Harper [Australian mystery - there's a film version on either Hulu or Netflix that I've been meaning to try.]
29 Lola in the Mirror Trent Dalton
30 Stasiland Anna Funder
31 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
32 Normal People Sally Rooney* - tried the television series, first episode, couldn't get into it.
33 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - series on my to watch list
34 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - movie on my to watch list
35 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - Television Series as well, on my to watch list.
36 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman* - saw the film on Netflix, it was fun. It's about a bunch of old folks in a retirement home in England who solve a murder.
37 The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
38 - Breath - Tim Winton
39 -Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell (didn't know it was a book, it is a film by Chloe Zhao)
40 Dirt Music - Tim Winton
41 Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
42 - A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman - made into two films, I think? I think I saw one of them, but I vaguely remember it.
43 All That I Am by Anna Funder
44 Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
45 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - tried both the series and the book and gave up.
46 Horse -Geraldine Brooks
47 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling* - enjoyed it
48 Life of Pi -Yann Martel (loved the movie - which I saw in 3D, do not see it in 3D, couldn't get into the book).
49 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - I know I read it, just have no memory of it.
50 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - read and saw the movie - didn't like either. It's allegedly a ghost story and mystery about a who killed a little girl, and creepy - but in reality it's a story about grief and meanders a lot.
51 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
52 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - read and saw the movie, I enjoyed it. Saw both the Swedish film and the American film, and tried the two sequels, didn't finish them.
53 Prophet Song - Paul Lynch
54 The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion (tried, couldn't get into it. And can't remember what it is about.)
55 Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo
56 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith Read and saw the television series, which is about two South African Black Women who solve murders in their village. I loved it.
57 -Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
58 - James by Percival Everett [own, but haven't read it yet - it's a retelling of Huck Finn from Jim's point of view, and I loved that boy, so got this for my birthday last year.]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
60 The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
61 Joe Cinque's Consolation - Helen Garner
62 The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
63 We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver (I keep flirting with the film version starring Tilda Swinton)
64 Bel Canto Ann Patchett ** (I loved this book, read it over ten years ago, or more - but still remember it. It's about an Opera Singer being held hostage at her Opera opening gig in Argentina (I think it is Argentina) with others - by terrorists. Suspenseful, learned a lot about opera, and fascinating.)
65 Question 7 - Richard Flanagan (somebody is a fan of Richard Flanagan?)
66 The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
67 Circe - Madeline Miller (someone also likes Madeline Miller)
68 Educated - Tara Westover
69 The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
70 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel - I tried to read this, couldn't get into it, but I did enjoy the television series on HBO quite a bit, took a while to get into though. It's weird. It's about various people who interconnect in post-pandemic dystopian future - through a traveling Shakespeare troup and oddly enough a comic book. It's also kind of violent and centers on a cult.
71 The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
72. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -Mary Ann Schaffer, Annie Barrows - saw the movie only. (It takes place during WWII - a writer exchanges letters with the residents of an island in Guernsey under German occupation.)
73 The Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku
74 The Overstory - Richard Powers
75 The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
76 - Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox, Judy Horacek
77 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - didn't enjoy this, it's about time travel but in a weird ass way, and happens out of synch or around an event, a kind of ground hog day? I found it frustrating to read and it gave me a headache.
78 The Women - Kristin Hannah
79 Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín - seen the film adaptation some time ago, it was nominated for an Oscar. About Brooklyn immigrants I think? Irish immigrants and a love story. I only have vague memories of it - it didn't really resonate with me.
80 A Short History of Nearly Everything -Bill Bryson (I was on a Bill Bryson kick for a bit in the early 00s. I don't remember this one at all though - just that I read it.)
81 Too Much Lip - Melissa Lucashenko
82 Carpentaria - Alexis Wright
83 The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Holly Ringland
84 Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
85 Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens Shankari Chandran
86 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell - I found the book a slog, the movie slightly better. It is good in places. It's a time travel story, about people who live multiple lives and we visit each of their lives interspersed betwixt and between. It is a bit head-ache inducing to follow, and the author has fun with point of view shifts and time shifts in narrative. I felt it was more into style than substance?
87 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros - audio book - couldn't finish, which is rare. It annoyed me. It's about a bookish teenage girl whose mother for reasons that escape her - thrusts her into a fighting dragon squad, where 90% of the recruits get killed. Very whiny narrative voice, not helped by being in first person.
88 This House of Grief Helen Garner
89 People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
90 This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay (I think this was made into a British Series of high acclaim? Yes, it was, starring Ben Whinslaw and was a limited series. I've had an actor crush on Ben Whinslaw since I saw him in Torchwood and The Hours.)
91 The Bookbinder of Jericho - Pip Williams
92 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - eh, tried and failed to read the book, saw the movie and didn't like it. I don't like Gillian Flynn's writing style. You'd think I would since I like noir, but she annoyed me when she was a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly. The movie is a noir thriller about a man who allegedly killed his wife..except, whoops, she isn't dead or is she?
93 Project Hail Mary Andy Weir - loved and highly recommend the audio book - the narrator is brilliant. I refuse to see the movie, since well...the book is about a scientist who has to go into space to save the Earth and runs into an alien sent to do the same thing from their planet, except the alien is...a space spider. I could listen or read that? I can't watch it.)
94 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
95 Piranesi Susanna Clarke - I own the audio book, but haven't been able to get into it yet. Susanna Clarke and I are kind of unmixy things? I don't tend to like her writing style, so am attempting to do the audio book.
96 Tom Lake Ann Patchett
97 True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey - I couldn't get into it, and liked Oscar and Lucinda better, of course the film version of Oscar and Lucinda helped. I don't remember it well enough to describe it. Carey is hard to get into.
98 The Heart's Invisible Furies John Boyne
99 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
100 Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty - saw the television series. Which was okay. It's about a bunch of women who hide the killing of a man who rapes one of them. I've read Liane Moriarity and she's a fun read, kind of the Australian version of Jodi Piccoulte except a lot better. Piccoulte annoys me. Of course it helps that Moriarity's characters are all in Australia. Two of her books were made into mini-series, neither of which I read. I wished she'd made the two I read into them, although both did have plot problems. Her books are kind of melodramatic, with fishy plotting. In that her plots don't quite work.
Whew, I read or saw more of those than I thought.