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Have a great reading year in 2019, Raven!

Oh yes, The Wasp Factory is very dark indeed. I hope you enjoy it! Have a great reading year in 2019!

Have a great reading year in 2019, Angury.

Books Purchased Pre - 2012 The Fire Gospel (Myths) - Michel Faber Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson CK - 12 Biology 1 - Honors CK - 12 Earth Science Honors for Middle School The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving Grimm's Fairy Stories - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero - Aileen Orr Killing the Messenger - Christopher Wallace A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road - Christopher Aslan Alexander Guiness World Records: 2012 The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance - Nessa Carey Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming - Neil Shah Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? - New Scientist Sapper Martin - Richard van Emden Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Last Man - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly 50 Facts That Should Change The World - Jessica Williams The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas The Reluctant Traveler - Bill Lumley Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith

Books Purchased in 2012 Supersense - Bruce Hood What's Wrong With Eating People - Peter Cave The Little Friend - Donna Tartt Written In Stone - Brian Switek QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson Quantum - Manjit Kumar The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins Fire and Ice (Liam Campbell #1) - Dana Stabenow Compromised - Derek Keyte QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson Mirage Men - Mark Pilkington The Book of Human Skin - Michelle Lovric The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen Covey The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams The Elephant Whisperer - Graham Spence and Anthony Lawrence The Girl On The Wall - Jean Baggott How to Raise the Perfect Dog: Through puppyhood and beyond - Cesar Millan The Key To Rebecca - Ken Follett Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000 Miles Around Britain in a Vauxhall Astra - Ben Hatch Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers : And other odd events on the way to scientific discovery - Stephanie Pain Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? - William Poundstone The Making of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr As The Crow Flies - Jeffrey Archer The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset - Nick Powdthavee Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition - Jules Verne An Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha Roy Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean Webster Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from your Airplane Window - Brian Clegg The World's Greatest Idea - John Farndon The Etymologicon: A Circular Scroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language - Mark Forsyth One Million Tiny Plays About Britain - Craig Taylor The Eleventh Commandment - Jeffrey Archer Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer Ash - James Herbert Sarah Thornhill - Kate Grenville VIII - H M Castor Winter of the World - Ken Follet Yesterday's Gone: Season Two - Sean Platt and David Wright Times Echo - Pamela Hartshorne Trojan Horse - Mark Russinovich How Not To Worry: The Remarkable Truth of How a Small Change Can Help You Stress Less and Enjoy Life More - Paul McGee The Dead Women of Juarez - Sam Hawken Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through The Lost Words of the English Language - Mark Forsyth The History of the World In Bite-Sized Chunks - Emma Marriott The Millenium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson A History of 20th Century Britain - Andrew Marr The Mess We're In: Why Politicians Can't Fix Financial Crises - Guy Fraser-Sampson Yesterday's Country Customs: A History of English Folk Traditions - Hentry Buckton

Books Purchased in 2013 The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living - Russ Harris The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton Incoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and learn to Love the Meteorite - Ted Nield Sworn Secret - Amanda Jennings 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World - Charles C. Mann White Fang - Jack London Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right Is Wrong - David Bradley Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe Great Apes - Will Self Boneshaker - Cherie Priest The Phoenix Conspiracy - Richard Sanders The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters - Richard Rumelt You Are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends On Facebook, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself - David McRaney The Distant Hours - Kate Morton On Books and the Housing of Them - W E Gladstone Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit - Ian Leslie The Korean War - Max Hastings The Beach - Alex Garland Kiss River - Diane Chamberlain Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Au Revoir, Europe: What If Britain Left The EU? - David Charter Bang! The Complete History of the Universe - Patrick Moore, Brian May, Chris Lintott The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford And Still I Rise - Doreen Lawrence The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business - Richard Brooks QI The Book of the Dead - John Mitchinson, John Lloyd How Do We Fix This Mess? - Robert Peston The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy - Robin Hobb The Glass Guardian - Linda Gillard Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Stuffed and Starved: From Farm to Fork - Raj Patel All Hell Let Loose: The World at War: 1939 - 1945 - Max Hastings Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson

Books Purchased in 2014 One Summer: America 1927 - Bill Bryson The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou The Good Father - Diane Chamberlain The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick Summer's Child - Diane Chamberlain The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on Edge - Faisal Islam Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills you need for the great outdoors - Joe O'Leary The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough False Impression - Jeffrey Archer Exodus (Extinction Point, Book 2) - Paul Antony Jones Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional - And What that Means for Life in the Universe - David Waltham Stealing Phoenix - Joss Stirling Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s - Alwyn Turner Lifers - Jane Harvey-Berrick Mary Poppins: The Complete Collection - P.L. Travers The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot The Reapers Are the Angels - Alden Bell The Dinner - Herman Koch Gideon's Spies: The Inside Story of Israeli's Secret Service - Gordon Thomas The Dreaming Void - Peter F Hamilton The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection - L Frank Baum Not A Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays - Christopher Hitchens Pattern Recognition - William Gibson Every Living Thing - James Herriot The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 - Max Hastings The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jnr Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide - JP McEvoy, Oscar Zarate Robopocalypse - Daniel H Wilson A Prisoner of Birth - Jeffrey Archer Judas Unchained - Peter F Hamilton The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson

Books Purchased in 2015 Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities - Gary Sheffield Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper - Phoebe Smith Secret Lives - Diane Chamberlain Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut I Used To Know That: Stuff You Forgot From School - Caroline Taggart We - Yevgeny Zamyatin The Universe versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence The Chronicles of St Mary's Boxset Vol 1 - Jodi Taylor Canoeing the Congo: The First Source-to-Sea Descent of the Congo River - Phil Harwood The Lies We Told - Diane Chamberlain Papillon - Henri Charriere Warship - Joshua Dalzelle The Proof of Love - Catherine Hall The Atlantis Plague - AG Riddle Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - Margaret Atwood Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries - Jon Ronson The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice - Christopher Hitchens The Shadow Wife - Diane Chamberlain The Journal of a Disappointed Man - Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion The Bay at Midnight - Diane Chamberlain Shogun - James Clavell The Confession - John Grisham The Things We Have In Common - Tasha Kavanagh Enigma - Robert Harris Keeper of the Light - Diane Chamberlain The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell Black Swan Green - David Mitchell Number9dream - David Mitchell The Courage Tree - Diane Chamberlain The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury The Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela The Good Father - Noah Hawley Alone In Berlin - Hans Fallada The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters Wayfaring Stranger - James Lee Burke Death of a River Guide - Richard Flanagan The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi Watership Down - Richard Adams I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That - Ben Goldacre Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - Henry Marsh The Wild Places - Robert McFarlane The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Books Purchased in 2016 The Other Son - Nick Alexander Wilbur Smith Trilogy: Hungry as the Sea, Elephant Song and Wild Justice - Wilbur Smith Her Mother's Shadow - Diane Chamberlain Home - Matt Dunn A Short History of England - Simon Jenkins Sister - Rosamund Lupton The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu, Ken Liu The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen Night Film - Marisha Pessl The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the summit of Mount Everest - Bear Grylls Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande How To Be Alone - Jonathan Franzen This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson The Rotten Heart of Europe: Dirty War for Europe's Money - Bernard Connolly Harry Potter: The Complete Collection - JK Rowling The Revenant - Michael Punke What You See Is What You Get - Alan Sugar A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth New York - Edward Rutherfurd Outlander - Diane Gabaldon The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy : The Trilogy of Five - Douglas Adams Anathem - Neal Stephenson Parkland - Vincent Bugliosi My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki Kamikaze Kangaroos! - Tony James Slater The Godforsaken Daughter - Christine McKenna Us - David Nicholls The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man - Luke Harding The Last Runaway - Tracy Chevalier The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, The Universe and Everything - Ian Crofton, Jeremy Black The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot - Robert McFarlane Introducing Psychology - Nigel Benson The Girl You Left Behind - JoJo Moyes The Painted Bridge - Wendy Wallace When God Was A Rabbit - Sarah Winman Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Secrethood - Rebecca Wells

Books Purchased in 2017 The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley Let The Light Shine - Nick Alexander The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes Wild Swans - Jung Chang The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg Horses, Heifers and Hairy Pigs - Julian Norton The Litigators - John Grisham Sniper One - Dan Mills Say Goodbye for Now - Catherine Ryan Hyde Myopia - Jeff Gardiner A Shepherd's Watch - David Kennard Methods of Persuasion - Nick Kolenda Spin - Robert Charles Wilson Cut - Hibo Wardere We Were The Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker Superforecasting: The Art of Science and Prediction - Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardener The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It - Owen Jones Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal - Terence Kealey A History of the World - Andrew Marr House of Cards - Michael Dobbs Who Rules The World: Reframings - Noam Chomsky The Aquariums of Pyongyang - Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story - Luke Smitherd Sane New World: Taming the Mind - Ruby Wax All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet (James Herriot 1) - James Herriot How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy - Michael Barber East of Eden - John Steinbeck On the Road - Jack Kerouac The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Stephen King Goes to the Movies: Featuring Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King The Passage - Justin Cronin The Second Coming - John Niven Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE - Phil Knight Allie and Bea: A Novel - Catherine Ryan Hyde The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes The Twelve: The Passage Trilogy Book 2 - Justin Cronin A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes - Adam Rutherford All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet - James Herriot Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe - Mike Massimino Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - Ranulph Fiennes The Fear of 13: Countdown to Execution: My Fight for Survival on Death Row - Nick Yarris How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely - Andrew Craig The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk The Power of Time Perception: Control the Speed of Time to Slow Down Aging, Live a Long Life, and Make Every Second Count - Jean Paul Zogby The Neutronium Alchemist (Nights Dawn Book 2) - Peter F. Hamilton The Naked God (Nights Dawn Book 3) - Peter F. Hamilton The Evolutionary Void (The Void Trilogy Book 3) - Peter F. Hamilton The Temporal Void (The Void Trilogy Book 2) - Peter F. Hamilton Naïve Super - Erlend Loe Big Brother - Lionel Shriver Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi, Shaun Whiteside Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action - Simon Sinek Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions - John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber The Finance Book: Understand the numbers even if you're not a finance professional - Stuart Warner, Si Hussain Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1 - Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials 2 - Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials 3 - Philip Pullman Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life - Spencer Johnson Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson Under A Pole Star - Stef Penney The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison Foxes Unearthed - Lucy Jones The Case Against Sugar - Gary Taubes Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics - Richard H Thaler TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking - Chris Anderson Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick Seveneves - Neal Stephenson The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy The Sundial - Shirley Jackson Contact - Carl Sagan The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarity The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota American Assassin - Vince Flynn A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled - Ruby Wax The Threat Level Remains Severe - Rowena Macdonald All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class - Tim Shipman Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World - Elspeth Beard The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed - Scott Parazynski, Susy Flory Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future - Ashlee Vance The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond - Christophe Galfard The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face (Festival of the Spoken Nerd) - Helen Arney, Steve Mould Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival - Dave Canterbury Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness - Richard H Thaler, Cass R Sunstein The Outsider - Albert Camus 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness - Alanna Collen The Lord God Made Them All: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet (James Herriot 4) - James Herriot Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers 2 - Becky Chambers The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini PhD Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene Charlotte's Web - EB White Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell

Books Purchased in 2018 Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine - Derren Brown The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right - Atul Gawande The English and Their History - Robert Tombs The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics - Naomi Klein The Quiet American - Graham Greene The Plague - Albert Camus The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers Fierce Kingdom - Gin Phillips Unwind - Neal Shusterman The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life - Héctor García, Francesc Miralles The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Flann O'Brien Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World - Michael Harris The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far - Lawrence Krauss Cannery Row - John Steinbeck Tortilla Flats - John Steinbeck The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick The Five Giants - Nicholas Timmins Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy The Science of Everyday Life - Marty Jopson The Light Between Oceans - M L Stedman The History of Love - Nicole Krauss A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes - Stephen Hawking The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery - Scott Kelly Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds - Daniel C. Dennett The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner Pimp: The Story of my Life - Iceberg Slim This Is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel The Fact of A Body - Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann David Bowie: A Life - Dylan Jones A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Mortality - Christopher Hitchens An Appetite for Wonder - Richard Dawkins Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland - John Lewis-Stempel Out of Africa - Karen Blixen Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King Lisey's Story - Stephen King Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life - Helen Czerski The Chimp Paradox - Steve Peters And Then You're Dead: A Scientific Exploration of the World's Most Interesting Ways to Die - Paul Doherty House Rules - Jodi Picoult Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult My Lovely Wife: A Memoir of Madness and Hope - Mark Lukach Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel - Iain M. Banks The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs - Tristan Gooley Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald At the Edge of the Orchard - Tracy Chevalier Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World - Laura Spinney His Bloody Project - Graeme Burnet The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith Behave - Robert Sapolsky Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark The Constant Gardener - John LeCarre All The Little Lights - Jamie McGuire Let Me Lie - Claire MacKintosh Humans - Christopher Seddon Finding My Virginity - Richard Branson What Comes Next and How To Like It - Abigail Thomas The Salt Path - Raynor Winn Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 2001: A Space Oddessy - Arthur C Clarke Fragrant Harbour - John Lanchester My James - Ralph Bulger Pandemic - AG Riddle The Thorn Birds - Collen McCullough Adventures of a Young Naturalist - David Attenborough The City of Mirrors - Justin Cronin Holding - Graham Norton Janesville - Amy Goldstein The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low Wage Britain - James Bloodworth Admissions - Henry Marsh The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda Owen The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster The 100-Year Life - Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott Wicked Beyond Belief - Michael Bilton The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris Freedom - Jonathan Franzen Science(ish) - Rick Edwards, Michael Brooks The Stranger in the Woods - Michael Finkel The Time of my Life - Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi Elmet - Fiona Mozley

Books Purchased This Year Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough, John Helyar The Lottery and other stories - Shirley Jackson The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (abandoned) Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End of the World - Haruki Murakami A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami With The End In Mind - Kathryn Mannix A Captain's Duty - Richard Phillips The Talisman - Stephen King and Peter Straub Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding - George Monbiot All That Remains: A Life In Death - Sue Black Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Collector - John Fowles The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy The Yorkshire Vet - Peter Wright A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving The Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman 84K - Claire North The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks Unnatural Causes - Richard Shepherd Crippen - John Boyne Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman The Trouble With Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon Almost Love - Louise O'Neill Alone On The Wall - Alex Honnold and David Roberts Big Debt Crises - Ray Dalio A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne Humans: A Brief History of How We hmmmed It All Up - Tom Philips The Last Wolf - Jim Crumley Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfect - Fearne Cotton Bean Counters: The Triumph of Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism - Richard Brooks Monsters - Emerald Fennell Chasing The Scream: The Truth About Addiction - Johann Hari The Rise and Fall Of The Dinosaurs - Steve Brusatte The Secret World: A History of Intelligence - Christopher Andrew Losing My Virginity - Richard Branson Origin Story: A Big History of Everything - David Christian Chasing The Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction - Johann Hari Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough Flight Risk - Stephanie Green A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry When The Dogs Don't Bark - Angela Gallop The Human Planet - Simon Lewis Under The Knife - Arnold van de Laar Think Dog - John Fisher No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy Choked - Beth Gardiner Skin - Liam Brown The Dark Side of the Mind - Kerry Daynes Audiobooks Purchased This Year The Language Of Kindness: A Nurse's Story - Christie Watson The Dark Tower I - Stephen King Emma - Jane Austen The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Vanity Fair - William Thackeray The Monster Collection - Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson etc Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky Notes on a Nervous Planet - Matt Haig Normal People - Sally Rooney Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King The Dark Tower II - Stephen King The Dark Tower III - Stephen King The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli The Dark Tower IV - Stephen King My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite The Fog - James Herbert Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky Mindstar Rising - Peter F Hamilton A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki The Dark Tower V - Stephen King The Dark Tower VI - Stephen King Codename Villanelle - Luke Jennings Shelter In Place - Nora Roberts IT - Stephen King The Stand - Stephen King Lisey's Story - Stephen King Needful Things - Stephen King

Books Read This Year January - June The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris The Salt Path - Raynor Winn The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F Hamilton With The End in Mind - Kathryn Mannix His Bloody Project - Graeme Burnet Them - John Ronson Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters A Captain's Duty - Richard Phillips Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World - Haruki Murakami All That Remains - Sue Black Let Me Lie - Claire MacKintosh The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (abandoned) Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy Feral - George Monbiot American Assassin - Vincent Flynn (abandoned) Alone of the Wall - Alex Honnold Why We Sleep - Matt Walker Crippen - John Boyne Hired - James Bloodworth July - December The Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson The Trouble With Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon The Yorkshire Vet - Peter Wright Pandemic - A G Riddle Flight Risk - Stephanie Green The Light Between Oceans - M L Stedman The Time of My Life - Patrick Swayze Lone Wolf - Jodi Picoult My Lovely Wife - Mark Lukach A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda Owen Almost Love - Louise O'Neill The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster The Confession - John Grisham Snap - Belinda Bauer Elevation - Stephen King Milkman - Anna Burns (abandoned) Audiobooks Listened to This Year January - June Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman Roots - Alex Haley Jaws - Peter Benchley The War of the Worlds - HG Wells Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan I Can't Make This Up - Kevin Hart Crime and Punishment - Fydor Doestoyevsky The Humans - Matt Haig The Dark Tower - Stephen King The Dark Tower II - Stephen King The Dark Tower III - Stephen King Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin July - December Moby Dick - Herman Melville Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel The Fog - James Herbert 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang The Dark Tower IV - Stephen King Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

Welcome to my 2019 book list!! Hopefully it will be kept more up to date than my 2018 list (which I started halfway through the year, and only ran to 2 pages ). My format is going to stay the same as previous years. For some reason, I've always categorised books by the year they were purchased....which means I am really cringing when I see how many books I purchased 5+ years ago but have yet to read. My aim is to reduce my TBR pile, but unfortunately it just seems to be growing year on year. Oh well, there are worse problems to have so I'm not too bothered by it. I haven't listed my treebooks (I didn't list them in 2018 either), mostly because I had a massive cull in early 2018 and I just don't have the energy to go through my bookcase and list them all. I will hopefully read some of them this year, but I expect most of my reading with be done on my Kindle. Anyway, enough rambling from me. I hope everyone has a great reading year in 2019 and I look forward to reading everyone's posts in the coming year.

I started it yesterday, and it's good so far. There is a fair amount of techie-speak and new concepts but I'm managing to keep up with it.

I've just had a homemade cheeseburger for lunch. Not the healthiest of meals but so delicious.

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This sums up how we prefer to spend New Years. We are lucky if we manage to stay up till midnight though.

Ready Player One. Undecided about it...it's as though it was too fast for my brain to keep up.

It's definitely longer than the 100 pages I mentioned above, even though that's what Amazon says it is. I can remember wondering why it was taking me so long to finish if it was only a hundred pages.

I have a few favourites that I re-read. Unfortunately 2 of them (The Stand and IT - both by Stephen King) I have read so often that I'm slightly sick of them.

61 so far which is very good going for me. Oh, plus about 9 audiobooks.

The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarity The setting is a small island in Sydney called Scribbly Gum Island. Seventy years ago, two of it's inhabitants - Alice and Jack Munro - vanished into thin air leaving their very young baby alone in the house. The kettle was still boiling and there was a marble cake waiting to be eaten when young Connie and Rose Doughty came across the scene. For seventy years they have held tours of Alice and Jack's house, while the baby (now a grandmother called Enigma) was raised as part of their own family. Now, Connie has recently died and left her house to Sophie, a virtual stranger to the family but someone she felt had a strong connection to her house. Sophie (unlucky in love) moves to the island and befriends the remaining members of the family. This book was a mixed bag of genres. There was the sappy romantic side, the humourous thread throughout, and bit of a mystery and also a very dark storyline around post-natal depression. I don't know if it hung together in right way for me, and each of those individual stories could have been left out entirely without impacting the rest of the book. Thinking about it now, I can't even see the point of Sophie's story, unless it was to prove that she could 'create her own fairy tale'. Definitely not a patch on Big Little Lies, and if I'd read this one first I wouldn't be in a rush to read Moriarity's other books. Not to say it was bad, it just wasn't all that original - except for a particular reveal at the end). However the constant references to marble cake has made me print out a recipe which I may attempt during my holiday break.

The Miracle Inspector - Helen Smith This is a fairly short dystopian novel (250 pages or so). Lucas works for the Ministry as a miracle inspector (any sort of miracle, from Jesus' face on a piece of toast to the healing of the sick). His wife Angela is stuck at home (generally women aren't allowed out of the house, except to see relatives) with nothing to do but dream of a better life. They both have plans to escape London and move to Cornwall in the hopes that things are better there. I felt this was a fairly weak novel...there just didn't seem to be much meat to it and the concepts weren't very original. There was no backstory as to how society became this way (aside from the allusion that all men are rapists and paedophiles - hence women and children need to be locked away), and very little about current society (except through the eyes of Lucas and Angela). There just wasn't any depth, and it has been done before by much better authors. Many parallels with 1984 and the ending felt like it was lifted straight out of Brazil.

I'm still reading I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong. I keep putting it aside for fiction. I've finished The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarity (good but not great), The Miracle Inspector by Helen Smith, and I'm now reading Dog On It by Spencer Quinn (told through the eyes of a dog which is always fun ). I'm also listening to The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins. I have about 6 hours to go, but I'm struggling to find the time to listen to it other than during my long drives to work (I have a week off). Twice over the last couple of days, I settled on the sofa to listen, and both times I was asleep within 10 minutes. I also fancy reading some Peter F Hamilton, so once I finish up with my current reads I may get under way with The Reality Dysfunction. I might also buy it on audible so I can switch between the two.