My friend Emma, at Words and Peace, is hosting Six in Six. For this meme, we take the opportunity to look back at the books we’ve read in the first six months of the year, choosing six books in six categories. (A list of examples for the categories is listed in her post.) And so here we go…
Six of my favorite books listed for the International Booker Prize this year:
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje
The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
The Deserters by Matthias Enard
The Witch by Marie NDaiye
The Duke by Matteo Melchiori
Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur
Six books by Robert B. Parker, whose Spenser books I never tire of, and often reread when I need something on the lighter side:
Crimson Joy
The Widening Gyre
Valediction
A Catskill Eagle
Pale Kings and Princes
Playmates
Six fulfilling books newly published by beloved authors:
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
On The Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle
The Keeper by Tana French
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
Guilt by Keigo Higashino
Sisters In Yellow by Meiko Kawakami
Six Japanese books:
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Qudan
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Sisters in Yellow by Meiko Kawakami
Bookstore Girls by Kei Aono
Six books from the Wade Center authors at Wheaton College:
The Fellowship of The Ring by J. R. R.Tolkien
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Preparing for Easter by C. S. Lewis
Six books that disappointed me (although all are either bestsellers or nominated for the International Booker Prize):
Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
Sorry For Your Loss by Georgia McVeigh
She Who Remains by Rene Karabash
On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia
Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shang-zi
We Are Green and Trembling by Gabrielle Camara Cabezon
Well, who wants to end on a disappointing note? Certainly not I! So, let me say that I really enjoyed looking over what I’ve read and organizing the titles into categories. It was a worthy endeavor, Emma, and I thank you for continuing to host this tradition.
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