Hemlokgang's 100 in 2015

Well, I fell well short of the mark in 2014. However, nothing ventured, nothing gained. I think I can, I think I can...........

thanks for setting up the new group! Happy New Year!

>1 hemlokgang: Best of luck, hemlokgang! :)

>2 jfetting: What jfetting said. :)

Thanks for organising the group - greatly appreciated.

Best wishes for the New Year!

Thanks for setting up the group for the new year! And good luck with your reading.

#1 - The Mad and The Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette - ****

And more thanks from me!

#2 - All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - ***

#3 - This Is Paradise: Stories by Kristiana Kahakauwila - ****

#4 - Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - *****

#5 - Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link - ***

#6 - The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen - ***

#7 - Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery - *****

#8 - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown - *****

#9 - Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe - ****

#10 - Indiana by Georges Sand - ****

#11 - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards- ***

#12 - Evelina by Frances Burney - *****
#13 - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes - *****
#14 - Natural Histories by Guadalupe Nettel - *****

#15 - Dans la nuit Mozambique by Laurent Gaude - *****

#16 - The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa - *****

#17 - Mateo Falcone et autres nouvelles by Prosper Merimee - ***

#18 - The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead - *****

#19 - Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart by Carol Wall - ***

#20 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - *****

#21 - Get In Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link - ****

I loved Mister Owitas......what a tale about making the best of life.

#22 - Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Constantine Croke - *****

>26 hemlokgang: Oooh, I want to read that one! I hope my library has a copy.

#23 - A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe - ***

#24 - The Quiet Game by Greg Iles - ****

#25 - Two or Three Years Later: Forty-nine Digressions by Ror Wolf - ****

#26 - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust to Alan Bradley - ****

#27- Telex From Cuba - Rachel Kushner - ****

#28 - Agostino by Alberto Moravia - *****

#29 - When We Leave Each Other by Henrik Nordbrandt - ****

#30 - The Death Factory by Greg Iles - ***
#31 - English Creek by Ivan Doig - *****

#32 - My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir - ***

#33 - Turning Angel by Greg Iles - ****

#34 - At The Water's Edge by Sara Gruen - ***

#35 - Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in The end by Atul Gawande - ***

#36 - A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear - *****

#37 - The Old Maid by Edith Wharton - *****

#38 - Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima - *****

#39 - The Martian by Andy Weir - ****

#40 - Zeitoun by Dave Eggers - ****
#41 - Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomons - ****

#42 - Seven-Up by Janet Evanovich - ***

#43 - The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan - *****

#44 - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard - **

#45 - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li - *****

#46 - The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles - ****

#47 - The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg - ***

#48 - Natchez Burning by Greg Iles - ****
#49 - Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline - ****

#50 - Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov - *****

Not a fan of the Annie Dillard? What didn't work for you? Mostly I see rave reviews of it, so I'm interested in dissenting opinions.

Invitation to a Beheading was great, I completely agree.

Generally I am a major Annie Dillard fan. It may have been my frame of mind at the time, but it was too dry for me.

#51 - The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins - ***

#52 - The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai - *****

#53 - The Spy Who Came in From The Cold by John Le Carre - ****

#54 - Society's Child: My Autobiography by Janis Ian - ****

#55 - The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima - ****

#56 - The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli - ***

#57 - The First Honeymoon: New and Selected Stories by Lyn Coffin - *****

#58 - Parrot and Olivier in America by PeterCarey - *****

#59 - Neverhome by Laird Hunt - ***

#60 - Under The Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan - ****

#61 - Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut - *****

#62 - The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton - ***

Wasn't it good? I just read it too and it reminded me how much I like Vonnegut. I have Cat's Cradle up next.

#63 - Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult - ***

#64 - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado - *****

#65 - A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman - *****

#66 - The Nature Of The Beast by Louise Penny - ****

#67 - The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in The Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola - ***

#68 - The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol - ****

#69 - Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese - *****

#70 - Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths - ****

#71 - The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz - ***

#72 - Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde - **

#73 - The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov - *****

#74 - Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters by Hubert Haddad - **

#75 - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King - ****

#76 - Skipping Christmas by John Grisham - ***

#77 - The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat - *****

#78 - Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich - ****

#79 - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith - ****

#80 - Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara - ****

#81 - This House of Sky: Landscape of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig - *****

I've only read one book by Ivan Doig (The Whistling Season) and I really liked it. This House of Sky looks great too.

#82 - 24 Hours by Greg Iles - **

#83 - H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald - *****
#84 - The Starling Project byJeffrey Deaver - ***

#85 - The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson *****

#86 - Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin - *****

#86 - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene - ****