The End of the Year Book Tag

In which I do the End of the Year Book Tag . . .

---Questions---

1. Are there any books you’ve started this year that you have yet to finish?
2. Do you have an autumnal book to transition into the end of the year?
3. Is there a new release that you’re still waiting for?
4. What are the three books you need to read by the end of the year?
5. Is there a book you think could still shock you and become your favourite book of the year?
6. Have you started making reading plans for 2022?

---Books Mentioned---

---My Debut Novel---

My debut novel, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, is coming out in early 2023.

---General Links---

[peggymccright]

Books I’ve had on my list for a while…Zorro by Isabel Allende, and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov are the 2 books I want to read this year and if I can… the autobiography of Malcolm X. Oh, and A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland.

[janicemacdougall]

Great books as always and I just wanted to say your haircut is really cute!! :)

[launchedathousand]

I have a couple books that I hope to finish by the end of the year as I started them and just put down as I wasn't feeling it for whatever reason. Part of my reading plan for 2022 is to read Our Mutual Friend :)

[ReadingNymph]

Glad I'm not the only one who's planned out next year 😅

[hyelimsong]

A big yes for Night Watch by Sarah Waters! Absolutely loved it! I enjoyed most of her books tho I'm, quite surprisingly for me, struggling with The Paying Guest atm.

[kompas]

I hope you enjoy The Night Watch, the best of Sarah Waters in my opinion. And one of the best historical fiction about the WWII.

[jacquelinemcmenamin]

Can you bring back the #backlist readathon next year? I’ve been trying to get my TBR down from 68 to 52 before 2022. #nonficnov should have helped but my nonfiction books tend to be very long. So as of today (23rd Nov) I’ve only read 4 nonfiction out of 11. I’ve only read one fiction, The Fell by Sarah Moss. It was disappointing. My nonfiction was great however
Empire of Pain
Hidden Valley Road
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
The Noonday Demon
🍀👋☘️☕️📖🫖📕👓📚

[jamesduggan]

Grahame Greene is an author I used to read all the time; and altho I don't read much Dickens I used to very much enjoy a good study of Shakespeare's art and/or language. Nice to hear from you, Kate, have happy holidays and a merry new year.

[johnsaxongitnolife]

All I can say is that I wish you good luck with your reading 📖 for the rest of the year 2021 please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖

[SirJohntheworm]

The Artful Dickens is wonderful. I’ve been enjoying it immensely.

[FaeryLaume]

I made a somewhat random list at the beginning of the year of books that I planned to read for a reason, or books I wanted to read and kept putting off year after year. There were 31 books. I've read 17 of them, one I DNF'd and one I decided not to read.That leaves twelve - seven of those can wait until 2022 and five I hope to squeeze in before the end of the year - Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Once Upon a River by Setterfield, and The Near Witch by Schwab. I also want to participate in the Cloak and Dagger Christmas Readathon and I want to read some Victorian ghostly short stories. I am very excited to hear what your contenders for favorite book of the year are - but I can wait if you have it planned to reveal them in an end of the year post.

[lilsvintageworld]

Wonderful, looking forward to hearing of your favourite books of 2021

[novellenovels]

I’m finally reading sylvias lovers next month and a single thread 🎉🎉

[GaggingLit]

I have the Sarah Waters and Mark Twain too. Probs won't read them till next year though :O

[ScullyPop]

This is a great topic. I've enjoyed listening to you. Scully.

[GenWivern]

I liked The Night Watch, and imagine most readers would enjoy it. Sarah Waters is very good at setting a memorable scene, and there some bits which I still recall vividly even though it's been a long time.

[KierTheScrivener]

The Sister Who Ate Her Brother sounds great. I have made so many plans for 2022. I do too love making challenges and all that

[ABearandaBeeBooks]

I really need to try Sarah Waters. I’ve been meaning to for years now.

[antigony]

I've not read The Night Watch, so am grateful to you and Marissa for reviewing it next month - hope it's good :-) I'm planning to read The Luminaries by the end of year but as it's a chunker, that might be a bit optimistic!

[MartinDSmith]

If you read Huckleberry Finn you should find his father's rants against the government funny, however I don't know if you are aware that the character Huck was actually introduced in Twain's prior novel Tom Sawyer.