Introduction: Trying to solve some kind of problem Book 1 Angels in anguish: The Battle to the Weak by Hilda Vaughan (1925) Book 2 A question of marketing: In Parenthesis by David Jones (1937) Book 3 O, there is lovely to feel a book: How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (1939) Book 4 As alien as Tibet: I Bought A Mountain by Thomas Firbank (1940) Book 5 A Richard Burton favourite: Raiders'' Dawn by Alun Lewis (1942) Book 6 A village of lace and stone: Poems by Lynette Roberts (1944) Book 7 To begin at the beginning: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (1954) Book 8 Clint Eastwood of the spirit: Song at the Year''s Turning by R. S. Thomas (1955) Book 9 Not lost in translation: Kate Roberts: Y Byw Sy''n Cysgu (The Awakening, previously The Living Sleep) 1956 Book 10 In short: A Toy Epic by Emyr Humphreys (1958) Book 11 Coming home: Border Country by Raymond Williams (1960) Book 12 Up on the Orme last night: Jampot Smith by Jeremy Brooks (1960) Book 13 A world of high adventure!: The Shop in the Mountain by Showell Styles (1968) Book 14 Perhaps the greatest Welsh novel: One Moonlit Night / Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard (1961) Book 15 How we mourn: The Small Mine by Menna Gallie (1962) Book 16 Creators and creations: The Twelve Dancers by William Mayne (1962) Book 17 The thoughts of an islander: Tide-race by Brenda Chamberlain (1962) Book 19 Flowers not birds: The Owl Service by Alan Garner (1967) Book 20 A woman''s novel, a man''s novel: Travels with a Duchess by Menna Gallie (1968) Book 21 Muck and Glory: So Long, Hector Bebb by Ron Berry (1970) Book 22 A clandestinely-borrowed sausage van: Place of Stones by Ruth Janette Ruck (1961) Book 23 A children''s book for adults: Carrie''s War by Nina Bawden (1973) Book 24 The top left-hand corner: Ivor The Engine - Snowdrifts by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin (1977) Book 25 Immanent structural contradictions: The Volunteers by Raymond Williams (1978) Book 26 The wrong baby: The Sundial by Gillian Clarke (1978) Book 27 Should I stay or should I go: On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin (1982) Book 28 Only Connect: Brothers by Bernice Rubens (1983) Intermission: Time for an ice cream Book 29 Grumpy old men: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (1986) Book 30 A kind of loving: Work, Sex and Rugby by Lewis Davies (1993) Book 31 Off to a great start: Eucalyptus - Detholiad o Gerddi / Selected Poems 1978-1994 by Menna Elfyn (1995) Book 32 Books in the running brooks: Tree of Crows by Lewis Davies (1996) Book 33 Wheat is the head of the train? - Travels in an Old Tongue: Touring the World Speaking Welsh by Pamela Petro (1998) Book 34 Cardiff Calling: Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub by John Williams (1999) Book 35 Things Fall Apart: Grits by Niall Griffiths (2000) Book 36 A small fire: The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi (2000) Book 37 When druids go bad: Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce (2001) Book 39 Another murder of crows: Martha, Jack and Shanco / Martha Jac a Sianco by Caryl Lewis (2007) Book 40 Small is good: Fresh Apples by Rachel Trezise (2005) Book 41 A search for a story: Running for the Hills by Horatio Clare (2006) Book 42 Pushy parents: Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (2007) Book 43 What if?: Resistance by Owen Shears (2007) Book 44 Let''s hear it for Aunty Lol: The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan (2009) Book 45 Nano-synaptic dream tablets: The Meat Tree by Gwyneth Lewis (2010) Book 46 A blow to the head: The Dig by Cynan Jones (2014) Book 47 English is sludgy: Pigeon by Alys Conran (2016) Book 48 Brave New Wales: Twenty Thousand Saints by Fflur Dafydd (2008) Book 49 Carnal lust: Water Shall Refuse Them by Laurie McKnight Hardy (2019) Book 50 O! What a Lovely War: The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen by Gillian Clarke (2021) Book 51 It''s the end of the world as we know it: The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros (2022) Book 52 Under the moon of love: My Family and Other Rock Stars by Tiffany Murray (2024) Your Reading Welshly Challenge Conclusion: They think it''s all over Book club discussion questions Welshly bibliography Acknowledgements.