• A book made into a movie you've already seen : Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District , Nikolai Leskov
• A true crime : In Cold Blood , Truman Capote
• The next book in a series you started : Homo Deus , Noah Yuval Harari
• A book involving a heist : The Great Train Robbery , M. Crichton
• A Nordic noir : IJsprinses , Camilla Läckberg
• A novel based on a real person : Jehanne , Simone van der Vlugt
• A book set in a country that fascinates you : God in Amerika , Yvonne Kroonenberg
• A book with a time of day in the title : Twelfth Night , William Shakespeare
• A book about a villain or antihero : A Christmas Carol , Charles Dickens
• A book about death or grief : As I Lay Dying , William Faulkner
• A book by a female author who uses a male pseudonym : Middlemarch , George Elliot
• A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist : Orlando , Virginia Woolf
• A book that's also a stage play or musical : Into the Woods , S. Sondheim & J. Lapine
• A book by an author with a different ethnicity than you : Lakota Woman , Mary Crow Dog
• A book about feminism : We Should All Be Feminists , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• A book about mental health : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kevin Kesey

• A book becoming a movie in 2019 : Where;d You Go, Bernadette , Maria Semple
• A book that makes you nostalgic : The Tale of the Nutcracker , Alexandre Dumas
• A book written by a musician : And the Ass Saw the Angel , Nick Cave
• A book you think should be turned into a movie : Boy , Roald Dahl
• A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads : Charlotte's Web , E.B. White
• A book with a plant in the title/on the cover : The Buried Giant , Kazuo Ishiguro
• A reread of a favourite book : Polleke , Guus Kuijer
• A book about a hobby : A Modern Herbal ,
• A book you meant to read in 2018 : SPQR , Mary Beard
• A book with pop/sugar/challenge in the title : Hoe duur was de suiker? , Cynthia McLeod
• A book with an item of clothing/accessory on the cover : __,
• A book inspired by mythology : Till We Have Faces , C.S. Lewis
• A book published posthumously : Het Achterhuis , Anne Frank
• A book you see someone reading on TV/in a movie : A Brief History of Time , Stephen Hawkins
• A retelling of a classic : The Gap of Time , Jeanette Winterson

• 100 I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron (2006)

Perhaps better known for her screenwriting (Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Heartburn), Ephron’s brand of smart theatrical humour is on best display in her essays. Confiding and self-deprecating, she has a way of always managing to sound like your best friend – even when writing about her apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. This wildly enjoyable collection includes her droll observations about ageing, vanity – and a scorching appraisal of Bill Clinton.

• 99 Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou (2005), translated by Helen Stevenson (2009)

The Congolese writer says he was “trying to break the French language” with Broken Glass – a black comedy told by a disgraced teacher without much in the way of full stops or paragraph breaks. As Mab...