A look ahead to what I hope to be reading in 2023 for Kayla’s Buzzword reading challenge!
JANUARY – “life” and “death”
Top choices:
A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend by Bill Russell, Alan Steinberg, Alan J. Steinberg
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
FEBRUARY – verbs
Top choice:
The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola
MARCH – “secret”
Top choice:
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring (Contributor)
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
APRIL – emotions
Top choice:
Happy Place by Emily Henry
How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale
How We Love: Notes on a Life by Clementine Ford
The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love by Haley McGee
Lease of Love by Falon Ballard
The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas, Frank Wynne (Translator)
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
MAY – flavours
Top choice:
My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
JUNE – “other”
Top choice:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
A Hundred Other Girls by Iman Hariri-Kia
Any Other Family by Eleanor Brown
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Other People’s Clothes by Calla Henkel
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The Other People by C. J. Tudor
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators edited by Yu Chen
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba
JULY – weather words
Top choice:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves (Translator)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
AUGUST – body parts
Top choice:
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
SEPTEMBER – game words
Top choice:
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
The Marriage Game by Sara Desai
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
OCTOBER – magic words
Top choice:
A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic by Lisa Congdon
The Water Rituals by Eva García Sáenz
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Jessica Spotswood
NOVEMBER – “good”
Top choice:
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
The Good House by Tananarive Due
DECEMBER – sound related words
Top choice:
Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks
Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman
2022 BUZZWORD READING CHALLENGE ANNOUNCEMENT
2021 INTRODUCTION linked here
2021 FIRST QUARTER UPDATE linked here
2021 SECOND QUARTER UPDATE linked here
2021 THIRD QUARTER UPDATE linked here
2021 FOURTH QUARTER UPDATE + CONCLUSION linked here
BUZZWORD READATHON + READING CHALLENGE 2022 – INTRODUCTION linked here
BUZZWORD READATHON + READING CHALLENGE 2022 – FIRST QUARTER UPDATE linked here
BUZZWORD READATHON + READING CHALLENGE 2022 – SECOND QUARTER UPDATE linked here
BUZZWORD READATHON + READING CHALLENGE 2022 – THIRD QUARTER UPDATE linked here
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Until tomorrow, Meryn
MERYN MADE 