Six in Six 2025

 
From The Book Jotter

I found this through one of my blogger friends, Emma @ Words and Peace who was made aware of it though Jo @ The Book Jotter. Jo started this in 2012, so congratulations on doing it that long and providing us with a great way to reminisce about our books of the year so far.
She has given us 52 categories from which we can choose six and mention six books that belong into those categories. (But one book can be in several lists, see her rules here).

I have tried to stick to books that I liked but didn't succeed in every category.

Six new authors to me

Bergmann, Michel "Mr. Klee and Mr. Feld" (GE: Herr Klee und Herr Feld) - 2013
Campbell, Jen "Weird Things Customers say in Bookshops" - 2012 
Capote, Truman "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - 1958
Durgun, Tahsim "Mum, please learn German" (GE: Mama, bitte lern Deutsch: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft) - 2025

Takahashi, Yuta "The Chibineko Kitchen" (J: ちびねこ亭の思い出ごはん 黒猫と初恋サンドイッチ/Chibinekoteino omoidegohan kuronekoto hatsukoisandoitchi) - 2020

Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017

Six authors I am looking forward to reading more of

Brooks, Geraldine "Year of Wonders" - 2001

Hansen, Dörte "At Sea" (GE: Zur See) - 2022

Hislop, Victoria "The Figurine" - 2023

Schami, Rafik "The first ride through the eye of the needle" (GE: Der erste Ritt durchs Nadelöhr) - 1988

Stelter, Bernd "Fashion, murder, and the sound of the sea. Camping crime thriller" (GE: Mode, Mord und Meeresrauschen. Camping-Krimi) - 2024

Wilde, Oscar "Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast" - 1946

Six books that took me by the hand and led me into the past

Austen, Jane "Pride & Prejudice" - 1813 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen) 

- "Sense & Sensibility" - 1811 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen) 

Cornwell, Bernard "The Last Kingdom" (The Saxon Stories #1) - 2004

Gappah, Petina "Out of Darkness, Shining Light" - 2019

Pierce, Patricia "Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the primeval monsters" - 2006

Weir, Alison "Six Tudor Queens. Katharine Parr. The Sixth Wife" - 2021

Six From the Non-Fiction Shelf

Campbell, Jen "Weird Things Customers say in Bookshops" - 2012 

Kaminer, Wladimir; Hyun, Martin "Instructions for neighbours" - (GE: Gebrauchsanweisung für Nachbarn) - 2024  

Mak, Geert "The Dream of Europe. Travels in a Troubled Continent" (NL: Grote verwachtingen. In Europa 1999-2019) - 2019

Pierce, Patricia "Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the primeval monsters" - 2006
Schnoy, Sebastian "A Little Peace: A Cheerful History of Europe in Three Revolutions and a Flash of Inspiration" (GE: Das bisschen Frieden: Eine heitere Geschichte Europas in drei Revolutionen und einem Geistesblitz) - 2019

Sonneborn, Martin "Mr. Sonneborn goes to Brussels" (GE: Herr Sonneborn geht nach Brüssel) - 2019

Six classics I have read

Austen, Jane "Mansfield Park" - 1814 (The Motherhood and Jane Austen)

Christie, Agatha "The Mousetrap" - 1952

Flaubert, Gustave "Madame Bovary" (FR: Madame Bovary) - 1857

Sartre, Jean-Paul "Nausea" (F: La nausée) - 1938

Thoreau, Henry David "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" - 1854

Wilde, Oscar "Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast" - 1946

Six pretty book covers

Brooks, Geraldine "Year of Wonders" - 2001

Christie, Agatha "The Mousetrap" - 1952
Hislop, Victoria "The Figurine" - 2023
Nguyễn, Phan Quế Mai "Dust Child" - 2023
Takahashi, Yuta "The Chibineko Kitchen" (J: ちびねこ亭の思い出ごはん 黒猫と初恋サンドイッチ/Chibinekoteino omoidegohan kuronekoto hatsukoisandoitchi) - 2020

Worsley, Lucy "Jane Austen at Home" - 2017

If you like the idea as much as I do, go ahead, choose your own "Six in Six" and let Jo know.

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