I think I paid attention to the Six in Six post on She Reads Novels for the first time and decided to give it a try. It’s a sort of review of reading for the last six months, in which you pick six categories with six books. I see I have read 80 books, so it’s not going to cover mine very well. You can make up your own categories if you want. I have plagiarized from Helen for most of mine and from Annelies of In Another Era. Oh, I see I have the logo, so I must have done this at least once before.
If the title isn’t linked, I haven’t posted my review yet.
Six Set in a Different Century
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (20th)
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (14th)
- Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Katie Whitaker (16th and 17th)
- Clear by Carys Davies (19th)
- Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (19th)
- One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (12th)
Six Originally Written in Another Language
- The Shape of Water by Andrea Camillieri (Italian)
- Malice by Keigo Higashino (Japanese)
- Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante (Italian)
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Russian)
- The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (German)
- The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden (Dutch)
Six about Real People
- The Temptations of Big Bear by Rudy Wiebe (Big Bear)
- Mad Madge: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Katie Whitaker (Margaret Cavendish)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs (Harriet herself)
- Luckier Than Most by David Tomlinson (David himself)
- The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry (Thomas Hardy)
- Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman (Mini herself)
Six with a Mystery
- One by One They Disappeared by Moray Dalton
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana Rosnay
- The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
- Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd
- Death Comes As the End by Agatha Christie
Six with Elements of Fantasy or Supernatural
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Catherine the Ghost by Kathe Koja
- Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
- Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante
- The Stone Door by Leonora Carrington
Six Favorites
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
- The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett
- Clear by Carys Davies
- The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
- Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
What about you? Have you read any of these books? Which books stand out from your first six months of reading this year?
What? Me Read? 
I’m glad you’ve given this a try! I don’t think I’ve read enough translated books this year to do the Written in Another Language category. I loved Clear and How Green Was My Valley too and would like to read The Hours Before Dawn.
I got a Celia Fremlin package of three books fairly inexpensively. Otherwise, just getting Uncle Paul was expensive.
I’ve only read two of them – Bluebird, Bluebird and Death Comes As the End. It’s ages since I last tried this meme – not sure my reading has been diverse enough to find six categories this year!
I had a problem with that. I copied from other people.
Nice reading so far and nicely put together! Quite a diverse reading list!
Thanks!