A month or so ago, shared titles completed as first instalment of Read in the Head, (the RITH is gonna get you?). New name for #95books I guess.
From where I left off, with the third in bold being my favourites, which isn’t to say the others weren’t interesting. They held my interest long enough to not be abandoned.
I seem to be in a cluster of books from Nordic countries and Romanian writing. Also underway beyond those below is The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catherina Ingelman-Sundberg,
More than half the reads this year so far have been from libraries, free downloads, review copies or gifts. Overall half is Canadian, a fifth published this year or last and 10% from before 1900.
| Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, trans by Christopher Fry and Johan Fillinger (Oxford, 1867, 1970) |
| Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (William Morrow/Harper Collins, 2025) |
| In Search of Dracula: a True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu (New York Graphic Society, 1972) |
| Peter F Yacht Club #34: Holiday Special (above/ground, 2024) |
| Robert Duncan at Disney World by Andy Weaver (above/ground, 2025) |
| Birds of Happiness Aren’t Blue and 85 other very Funny and Somewhat Educational Nature Essays by Paul Hetzler (Paul Hetzler, 2023) |
| The Thinker by Derek Webster (Turret House, 2024) |
| the heron still there: 500 tan renga by Grant D. Savage and Claudia Coutu Radmore (Éditions des petits nuages) |
| Hawking Comes Close to Finding God by Simon Peter Eggertsen (Turret House Press, 2024) |
| Touch the Donkey, issue 44, Jan 2025 (above/ground, 2025) |
| For My Neighbours in Hell by Irving Layton (Mosaic Press, 1980) |
| Nothing Without Us Too, ed. by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson (Renaissance Press, 2022) |
| Elegy for Opportunity by Natalie Lim (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025) |
| Toward an Origin Story by Laurie D Graham (Model Press, 2025) |
| Provenance by Annie Leckie (Orbit, 2017) |
| Notes from Gethsemani by Phil Hall (Nomados Press, 2014) |
| Divergent Paths: Family Histories of Irish Immigrants in Britain, 1820-1920 by John Herson (Manchester University Press, 2015) |
| Unmet: poems by Stephanie Roberts (Biblioasis, 2025) |
| Consanguinity by S.E. Chaves (Grow and Grow, 2013) |
| The Beginning of the End (Again) by Addled Mongoose (AO3, 2023) |
| Race Against Time by Ellen MacArthur (Penguin, 2005) |
| Dog and Moon by Kelly Shepherd (Osaka, University of Regina, 2025) |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Grove Weldenfld, 1967) |
| I Am So Calm by Alice Burdick (above/ground, 2025) |
| Old Vines by Sevdrag (AO3, 2021) |
| ligament/ ligature by Andy Weaver (Model Press, 2022) |
| Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin (Brick, 2024) |
| Rushes from the River Disappointment by stephanie roberts (McGill-Queens, 2020) |
| More Perfect by Most_Dismal_Feldsparkle (AO3, 2020) |
| Everyone in this room will someday be dead by Emily Austin (Simon & Shuster, 2021) |
| Last to the Party by Chuqiao Yang (Gooselane, 2024) |
| Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot (Faber, 1944) |
| Find the Light by klikandtuna (AO3, 2024) |
| Love after Babel and other Poems by Chandramohan S. (Daraja Press, 2020) |
| Poetic Veneration by A.F. Moritz and John Reibetanz (A Fieldnotes Chapbook, 2023) |
| The Crofter and the Laird by John McPhee (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969) |
| Find Every Sky by klikandtuna/Steph (AO3, 2024) |
| You’re the Bad Guys/Ineffable Spies by Nebz_AlphaCenturi (AO3, 2025) |
| The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot (Faber & Faber, 1940, 1999) |
| The Shattered Plinth by Irving Layton (M&S, 1968) |
| The Edge of Europe: A Kinetic Image by Pentii Saarikoski, trans by Anselm Hollo (Action Books, 1982/2007) |
| The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084-1151) trans by Wendy Chen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025) |
| Mayfly, issue 78, Winter 2025, edited by Randy & Shirley Brooks (Brooks Books, 2025) |
| Myth by Terese Mason Pierre (Anansi, 2025) |
| New Poems: by Christina Georgina Rossetti (Project Gutenburg, Little Brown and Company, 1876, 1906) |