Ten Pages In

As per the title, I take a look back at Season 5: the good, the bad and the mediocre.

Happy New Year's Eve! I don't actually know what Literary Fiction is, let's give it a try. This month we've got Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.

For the first time since high school, I'll be diving into historical fiction. This month we have The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Matrix by Lauren Groff, The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Beloved by Toni Morrison and My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante.

As a result of my growing pile of unread non-fiction, I decided to read some of them: Columbine by Dave Cullen, Breakfast at Sotheby's by Philip Hook, The Moth: This Is a True Story by Catherine Burns, Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber and The Weather Detective by Peter Wohlleben.

*Authors who have written my favourite books of all time: A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro and Burning God by R. F. Kuang.

It may not be a fan-favorite, but science fiction is the first genre I selected for Season 5: Shikasta by Doris Lessing, The Time Machine and When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells, Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov and Fire in the Earth by David Whyte.

With the popularity of memoirs on the rise, this episode was inevitable: time to check out some wild cards and fan-favourites with Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, Know My Name by Chanel Miller, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrow Ai Weiwei and Civilianized by Micheal Anthony. 

In my long (long) awaited return to Ten Pages In, I'll start the ground running with some classical literature: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Mansfield Park + The Watsons + Sanditon by Jane Austen, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez and Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov.

In my grand return, we'll discuss all things elves, wizards, towers and missing limbs. The books for this month are The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun by J. R. R. Tolkien, Piranesi by Susanna Clark, Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson and Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft.

Returning to Classics for the second time this year, let's discuss The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Lady Susan by Jane Austen and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.