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I've always been big on NY's resolutions--a habit cultivated by my parents.
Anyway I'm not counting my TBR as I can use the time instead to read dozens of books.

Good luck, Guy!

Thanks

Note to self (channeling Alan Alda in Crimes and Misdemeanors):

TBR Pick: Tentative and subject to change depending on what I feel like reading

1) Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky (started)
2) Getting it Right: Elizabeth Jane Howard
3)The House by the Lake: Thomas Harding

5) The Wicked Boy: Kate Summerscale
6) Entry Island: Peter May
7) Murder at the Manor: ed. Martin Edwards
8) The Insect Farm: Stuart Prebble
9) The Fourth Secret: Andrea Camilleri
10) Fatherhood: Thomas Cook
11) The Moth: James Cain
12) Trouble Follows Me: Ross Macdonald
13) The Thicket: Joe R. Lansdale
14) The Man Who Loved Children: Christina Stead
15) Edge of Dark Water: Joe R. Lansdale
16) After Midnight: Irmgard Keun

18) Iza's Ballad: Magda Szabo

20) A Few Days in the Country: Elizabeth Harrower
21) Martutene: Ramón Saizarbitoria
22) Yvegeny Onegin: Pushkin
23) Private Life: Josep Maria De Sagarra
24) Stalin's Daughter: Rosemary Sullivan
25) Quite Ugly One Morning: Chris Brookmyre
26) Black Run: Antonio Manzini
27) A Start in Life: Anita Brookner
28) All These Condemned: John D. MacDonald

30) Young Adolf: Beryl Bainbridge
31) Zerozerozero: Roberto Saviano
32) The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans: Balzac
33) Aunts Up the Cross: Robin Dalton
34) Forty Rooms: Olga Grushin
35) Ask For Me Tomorrow: Margaret Millar
36) H.M. Pulham Esq: Marquand
37) Dusty Answer: Rosamond Lehmann
38) Happy All the Time: Laurie Colwin

40) The Pigeon Tunnel: John Le Carre



44) The Bright Forever: Lee Martin
45) The Good House: Ann Leary
46) The Family of Pascal Duarte: Camilo Jose Cela
47) Pedro Paramo: Juan Rulfo
48) The Ice Harvest: Scott Phillips
49) Just Relations: Rodney Hall
50) Hunts in Dreams; Tom Drury
51) My Last Confession: Helen Fitzgerald
52) The Devotion of Suspect x: Higashino
53) Winter Sleep: Kenzo Kitakata
53) An Unattended Death: Victoria Jennings
54) The Assault on Tony's John O'Brien
55) Leaving Las Vegas: John O' Brien
56) Snake: Kate Jennings
57) Journey Under the Midnight Sun: Higashino



61) Life Drawing: Robin Black
62) We Are Not Ourselves: Matthew Thomas
63) A Friend From England: Brookner

65) In Times of Fading Light: Eugen Ruge
66) Altered States: Anita Brookner
67) The Cage: Kenzo Kitakata
68) A Start in Life: Brookner
69) Honeymoon to Nowhere: Akimitsu Takagi
70) Adam's Rib: Antonio Manzini
72) After the Death of the Prince: Philip Hensher
73) Miss Owen-Owen: Margaret Forster
74) The Third Tower: Antal Szerb
75) The Misalliance: Anita Brookner
76) Brief Lives: Anita Brookner
77) Providence: Anita Brookner
78) My Late Wives: John Dickson Carr
79) The Blind Barber: John Dickson Carr
80) Bel Canto: Ann Patchett
81) Love Without Hope: Rodney Hall
82) Salvation of a Saint: Higashino
83) When I was Old: Simenon
84) The Ghostly Lover: Elizabeth Hardwick
85) My Name is Lucy Barton: Elizabeth Strout

86) The Discreet Hero: Mario Llosa Vargas
87) Lovers and Murderers: Vladimir Parel
88) Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Mario llosa vargas
89) The Matter of Desire: Edmundo Paz Soldan
90) Death in the Andes Mario llosa vargas
91) Mission London: Alek Popov
92) The Days of the King: Florian Filip
93) Judge on Trial: Ivan Klima
94) The Widow Killer: Pavel kahout
95) The Trail of the Serpent" Mary Elizabeth Braddon
96) I am Snowing: Pavel Kahout
97) Wonderful Women By the Sea: Monica Fagerholm
98) Stranded: Ester Tusquets
99) Death Puppet: Jim Nisbet
100) So you don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood: Modiano
101) A Crime in the Neighbourhood: Suzanne Berne
102) Perlmann's Silence: Pascal Mercier
103) The First Bad Man: Miranda July
104) In the Sky: Mirbeau
105) Disagreeable Tales: leon Bloy
106) The Upstairs People: jennifer Dawson
107) The Man in the High Castle: Philip Dick
108) Heed the thunder: Jim Thompson
109) Recoil: Jim Thompson
110) An Innocent Gentleman: Elizabeth Jolley
111) All I could Get: Scott Lasser
112) What remains of Me: Alison Gaylin

114) Country of the Blind: Brookmyre

116) The Tale: Joseph Conrad
117) Voyage Around My Room: Xavier de Maistre
118) A Small Town Marriage: Marchesa Colombi
119) The Princesse de Cleves: Madame de Lafayette

121) Colours and Years: Margitt Kafka
122) A Working Mother: Agnes Owen
123) The Driftless Area: Tom Drury
124) The Black Brook: Tom Drury
125)Hunts in Dreams: Tom Drury
126) The Matter of Desire: Edmundo Paz Soldan
127) The Darkness that Divides Us: Renate Dorrestein

129) The Assassination Bureau: London
130) Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: kate Summerscale
131) Nobody's Fool: Richard Russo
132) Weatherly Parade: Richmal Crompton
133) Master of the Day of Judgement: perutz
134) Shroud of Darkness: Lorac
135) The Sea, The Sea: iris Murdoch
136) You've Got it Coming: james Hadley Chase
137) Tiger by the Tail: james hadley Chase
138) Try This one for Size: James hadley Chase
139) Bilgewater: Jane Gardam

I couldn't make my mind up on the number, but decided to go for something do-able. You can, according to the rules, move your goal UP later if you exceed expectations.

We can give each other moral support. And it's probably a good thing that the chunkster MofP is almost finished.

I know. It's really going to skew the data--you know how goodreads calculates how many pages you've read, the shortest and the longest book etc.

One Down: 47 To Go
The Death of the Author: Gilbert Adair

Well done Guy. I've read one as well. I'm picking a few short ones at first and then I'll probably go for some chunkier volumes.

Well at least that's in the right direction.

Dagny wrote: "True. At least I've made a start."

Have you committed to a number of books yet Dagny?

A lot of interesting titles (uh-oh might add a few to my shopping list! :-)) I love Szerb, and am also planning to get to The Devotion of Suspect x this year

I read Malice last year and was very impressed

2 down: 46 to go
2) Dolly: Anita Brookner

Thanks Dagny. What number are you on?

1) The Death of the Author: Gilbert Adair DONE (11/16)
2) Dolly: Anite Brookner Done (11/16)
3) The Wrong Box: Stevenson (10/14)
4) Undue Influence: Anita Brookner (11/16)
5) Love's Executioner: Irvin Yalom (1991)
6) But A Short time To Live: James Hadley Chase 6/15
7) Caught: Henry Green 11/16
8) Hotel du Lac 12/16
9) Marie: Madeleine Bourdouxhe 11/16
10) Visitors: Anita Brookner 12/16
11) The 50 minute Hour: Robert Lindner 1988!!!
12) Armand: Emmanuel Bove 9/16
13) Family and Friends: Anita Brookner 12/16
14) Black Dance: Nancy Huston 9/14
15) Rules of Engagement; Anita Brookner 12/16
16) The Dead Stay Dumb: James Hadley Chase 10/12
17) A Private View: Anita Brookner (12/16)
18) Strangers: Anita Brookner 12/16
19) German Stories and Tales: editor Robert Pick (sometime in 1987)
20) Repent in Haste: Marquand 2015
21) A Cage in Search of a Bird: Florence Noiville (2106)
22. A Dubious legacy: Mary Wesley (2016)
23) The Skating Rink: Roberto Bolano (2011)
24) Caribou Island: David Vann (2012)
25) Panic in a Suitcase: Yelena Akhtiorskaya (2014)
26) Life After Life: Jill McCorkle (2013)
27) Second Marriage: Frederick Barthelme (2014)
28) Revolt: Berberova (2011)
29) Shadow Sister: Simone van der Vlugt (2011)
30) The Woman who Walked into Doors : Roddy Doyle (2002)
31) Paula Spencer: Roddy Doyle (2008)
32) Hotel Iris: Yoko Ogawa (2/16)
33) How I Became a Nun: Cesar Aira (10/15)
34) Monsieur: Jean-Philippe Toussaint (3/12)
35) Nothing Personal: Jason Starr (10/13)
36) Secret Dead Men: Duane Swierczynski (2011)
37) A Lovely Way to Burn: Louise Welsh (2016)
38) Bodily Secrets: William Trevor (2/11)
39) The House of Paper: Carlos María Domínguez (2015)
40) Antichrista: Amelie Nothomb (2016)
41) The Lady in Mink: Vera Caspary (2014?)
42) My Last Confession: Helen Fitzgerald (2/16)
43) The Newspaper of Claremont St: Elizabeth Jolley (10/10)
44) The Corsican Brothers: Dumas (3/7)
45) The Dying Animal: Philip Roth (11/11)
46) The Shadow of What We Were: Luis Sepulveda (2/13)
47) Hard Feelings: Jason Starr (8/11)
48) Happy Birthday Turke: Jakob Arjouni (11/15)
49) Letters to Alice: fay Weldon (12/13)
50) Snow Country: Yasunari Kawabata (2016)

We're running the same then

Guy wrote: "We're running the same then"
Off to a speedy start Guy and Dagny - I've read two too!

Always good to start the New Year with a blast

How well are you doing with your climb up Mt. Ararat, Guy?

Just started number 27

Guy wrote: "Just started number 27"

Well on track then. That's good.

I'm really enjoying this as I'm turning to books I've neglected for years

Guy wrote: "I'm really enjoying this as I'm turning to books I've neglected for years"

Yes, it helps focus the mind doesn't it? I'd intended to read The Spire for years but only this year read it. Ditto Brideshead Revisited.

That's funny as I dug out my copy of Brideshead revisited this morning.