The Reading Life Review October 2024 -

 

The Reading Life Review October 2024 

Nonfiction Featured in October 

1. Sybille Bedford An Appetite for Life by Selina Hastings  - 2020 - 432 Pages 

2. The Snakehead : An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe —2009 - 252 Pages

3.Empire of Pain : The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe - 2021- 633 Pages 

4.The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio- 2020 - 

5. Wine and War: the French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure by Don and Petie Kladstrup.- 2002 - 334 Pages 

6. Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley - 2024 - 233 Pages

7. Everyone Who is Gone is Here : the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer.-2024 -544 Pages

October Novels

1.The Book Lovers Library by Madeline Martin - 2024 - 396 Pages

2. When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary - by Alice Hoffman- 2024 - 192 Pages

3.The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain- 2015 - 244 Pages

4. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver- 2022- 720 Pages

October Short Stories - all by Carol Shields - included in the Stories of Carol Shields - 2004

1. "Good Manners"

2. "Collision" 

Birth County of October Authors 

1, USA- 7

2. Canada - 1

3, China - 1

4. England - 1

Four October authors are men, 7 were featured for the first time and only one is no longer living.

Blog Stats

As of today our posts have been viewed 8,164,356 times. In October there was 79,212 page views.

Per Google Stats the origin countries in October were 

1. Singapore

2. USA

3. India

4. Philippines 

5. Canada

6. United kingdom 

7. Hong Kong 

8. Brazil 

9. France

10. Russia

Of the ten post viewed posts 9 were on stories by South East Asian and Indian authors, one on an Irish story.