Over the last year I’ve really
been trying to read some more adult books to mix up my reading and I've really
loved what I've read so far.
I've also found myself falling in
love with audiobooks which has allowed me to get around to some adult titles
without feeling so guilty! Below are the first section of the huge number of
titles I've amassed in paperback, e-book and audio.
Stone Mattress, Margaret
Atwood
A short
story collection by this incredibly famous author that I still haven’t read
anything by…
Middlesex, Jeffrey
Eugenides
I read The Virgin Suicides early in January and
I really didn’t enjoy it as much as I had expected to, but this interests me completely:
a family saga centering around an intersex character.
Interview with a
Vampire, Anne Rice
Another book
I'm ashamed not to have read! After listening to Audible’s new recording of Carmilla and loving it, I really felt
the need for some proper, old-fashioned vampy goodness.
After the Last
Dance, Sarra Manning
Ah,
Sarra Manning. She's one of my very favourite YA authors and I’m still a little
new to her adult work, but this sounds gorgeous. Two love stories, one present
day and one during WWII, connected by something mysterious. Gimme.
The Dumb House, John
Burnside
This was
all over booktube last year and I’m so looking forward to it. it’s meant to be
extremely dark and twisted, about a man who locks his children away with no
outside contact as an experiment about language.
The Bees, Laline
Paull
This is
a novel narrated by a bee. And it was shortlisted for the 2015 Baileys. Through
in the gorgeous cover, complete with soft touch finish and I had to buy it. So
very intriguing!
The Accidental, Ali
Smith
Confession
time: I'm a bit intimidated by Ali Smith. Luckily, Jen Campbell uploaded a
video exploring all her titles and recommending a starting point. I was very
relieved to have somewhere to begin!
The Thing Around
Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I’ve
really got into short story collections recently and this will also go towards
my challenge to read more BAME authors. I have to say that I love the cover as
well – beautiful!
Outlander, Diana
Gabaldon
I love
the TV series whole heartedly, but I really am intimidated by the sheer size of
this… I really want to see how it
matches up to the show and you can never have enough Jamie Fraser. One day, one
day.
Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette
Winterson
I have
quite a few of Winterson’s novels on my TBR as I loved Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?. This is a story set in the
seventeenth century, and that’s actually all I know about it!
One of my 2016 reading
resolutions is to read at least 12 adult titles and I've already read 2 so far
(The Virgin Suicides and Carol) so I'm hoping I’ll be able to
smash my target! What should I make sure I read over the next eleven months?
Sophie
Just stumbled upon your blog this morning (through a mistyped Google search - serendipity!) and had to stop to comment and say: you have to read Outlander, you have to read it soon. I love the TV series but honestly, those books. Those books! I read them when I was a teenager (way too young for all the sex scenes) and Jamie Fraser is STILL the man of my dreams 15 years later. You will love it, I promise. There won't be any surprises in the first book, because the TV show is very true to the plot, but there is so much wonderful character development. And the dialogue. Perfect.
ReplyDeleteThe Bees is on my TBR it looks really cute. I keep seeing it at the library but haven't borrowed it yet.
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