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Total books read in 2009 ... 49 - incomplete list (39 fiction, 9 non-fiction & 1 audio } male authors: 24 .. female authors: 25)
Total books read in 2010 ... 141 (94 fiction, 9 non-fiction, 4 short stories, 2 plays & 32 audio } male authors: 75 .. female authors: 66)
Total books read in 2011 ... 109 (71 fiction, 26 non-fiction, 1 short story & 11 audio } male authors: 54 .. female authors: 55)

Total books read in 2012 ... 89 (50 fiction, 27 non-fiction, 3 short stories, 1 poem & 8 audio } male authors: 48 .. female authors: 41)


Well, here we are .. start of another year and all that and I am *trumpet fanfare* going to change my marking system which was, quite frankly, rubbish :D Will be marking books out of 5 now instead of 10. The colour coding will be more or less the same though, this dog has a trick learning limit.
xx Happy Reading in 2013 xx Look forward to reading your blogs :smile: Your recommendations have made me a little poorer each year, but the money would have only gone on pies otherwise so well done you, keep it up.

5 - Books I loved
4 - Books I liked a lot
3 - Books I liked
2 - Books I struggled through
1 - Books I abandoned (I am not hoping for tedious books of course but I am hoping to learn when to give up on them.) The 1 point seems generous but will be given for effort .. they could've just sat down and eaten cake after all. It's possible I will only give 0 though if the cover is bad, no excuse for that.

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Conquering Mount Virginia

Book Club Forum Member's Favourite Fiction
Book Club Forum Member's Favourite Non-Fiction

Poached Quotes on Toast

Poppyshake's 133 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The English Counties Challenge

Most Famous Books Set in Every American State
 

January 2013 (13 read and 1 listened to)
Deceived with Kindness - Angelica Garnett 4/5 (I did love it really .. I'm just greedy and wanted more) Review
Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather - Pierre Szalowski 3/5 Review

American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld (loaned from Claire) 4/5 Review

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee 5/5 Review

The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern 5/5 Review

I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron 4/5 Review
Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov 4/5 Review
Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers 4/5 Review
The Cat Who Came in From the Cold - Deric Longden 4/5 Review

A Boy at The Hogarth Press - Richard Kennedy 5/5 Review

Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son - Roger and Charlie Mortimer 3/5 Review

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book 1: The Mysterious Howling - Maryrose Wood - Audible D/L 4/5 Review
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (short story) 4/5 Review

Q : A Love Story - Evan Mandery 4/5 Review

 

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April 2013 (3 listened to) 

My Animals and other Family - Clare Balding - Audible D/L 4/5 Review

Is it Just Me? - Miranda Hart - Audible D/L 2/5 Review

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read/listen) - Unabridged CD 4/5 Review

 

May 2013 (19 read and 1 listened to)

James & the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl 4/5 Review

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 4/5 Review

The Twits - Roald Dahl 3/5 Review

Esio Trot - Roald Dahl 4/5 Review

The Boy in the Dress - David Walliams 4/5 Review

Moranthology - Caitlin Moran - Audible D/L 4/5 Review

Matilda - Roald Dahl 5/5 Review

Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl 3/5 Review

Right Royal B*stard - Sarah Miles 5/5 Review

The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey 4/5 Review

Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl - Donald Sturrock 4/5 Review

Van Gogh : The Life - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith 4/5

Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger 2/5 Review

George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl 4/5 Review

Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl 4/5 Review

The Misremembered Man - Christina McKenna 4/5 Review

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - Catherynne M.Valente 5/5 Review

The Nose - Nikolai Gogol (short story) 4/5 Review

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me - Roald Dahl 3/5 Review

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald 4/5 Review

 

June 2013 (18 read and 1 listened to)

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico 4/5 Review

The Little White Car - Danuta de Rhodes 4/5 Review

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While - Catherynne M. Valente (short story) 3/5 Review

Down and Out in Paris & London - George Orwell 5/5 Review

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken 4/5 Review

Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James 2/5 Review

Brick Lane - Monica Ali 3/5 Review

The Boy With No Shoes - William Horwood 5/5 Review

Charles Dickens - Simon Callow 4/5 Review

Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood 3/5 Review

Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams - Jenny Colgan - Audible D/L 4/5 Review

The Magic Finger - Roald Dahl 2/5 Review

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie 5/5 Review

My Father As I Recall Him - Mamie Dickens 4/5 Review

A Street Cat Named Bob - James Bowen 4/5 Review

Serves Me Right - Sarah Miles 4/5 Review

What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge 3/5 Review

A Far Cry From Kensington - Muriel Sparks 3/5

Albert of Adelaide - Howard L. Anderson 4/5 Review

  

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July 2013 (13 read and 1 listened to)

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe 3/5 Review

Small Change for Stuart - Lissa Evans 4/5 Review

Saraswati Park - Anjali Joseph 3/5 Review

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 4/5 Review

The Journal of Dora Damage - Belinda Starling 4/5 Review

Going Solo - Roald Dahl 4/5 Review

The Queen of Whale Cay - Kate Summerscale 3/5 Review

Wonder - R.J. Palacio 3/5 Review

Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple 5/5 Review

One Dollar Horse - Lauren St John 3/5 Review

Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky 5/5 Review

Moonlight in Odessa - Janet Skeslien Charles 4/5 Review

Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain - Jason Webster 4/5 Review

Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan - Audible D/L 4/5 Review

 

August 2013 (7 read and 2 listened to)

The Knot - Mark Watson 4/5 Review

Dot - Araminta Hall - Audible D/L 4/5 Review

Greenery Street - Denis Mackail 4/5 Review

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion - Audible D/L 3/5 Review

The Tiny Wife - Andrew Kaufman (short story) 3/5 Review

Bolt From the Blue - Sarah Miles 4/5 Review

The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith 4/5 Review

Penelope - Rebecca Harrington 3/5 Review

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremount - Elizabeth Taylor 4/5 Review

 

September 2013 (4 read and 1 listened to  :party:  :D)

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan 4/5 Review

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress - Beryl Bainbridge 3/5 Review

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh 3/5 Review

Silver Bay - Jojo Moyes 4/5 Review

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Audible D/L 5/5 Review

 

October 2013 (8 read and 1 listened to)

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 2/5 :banghead:  :D Review

The World According to Bob - James Bowen 3/5 Review

The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper 4/5 Review

The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham 4/5 Review

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Audible D/L 4/5 Review

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake 5/5 Review

Animal Farm - George Orwell 4/5 Review

The Years - Virginia Woolf 2/5 Review

The Newlyweds - Nell Freudenberger 3/5 Review

 

November 2013 (9 read and 1 listened to)

Newes from the Dead - Mary Hooper 4/5 Review

The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum 3/5 Review

Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown - Virginia Woolf (essay) 3/5

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (re-listen) 5/5 Review

Christmas Eve - Robert Browning (poem) 2/5 Review

Winter Ground - Catriona McPherson 3/5 Review

The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells 5/5 Review

The Turn of the Screw - Henry James 3/5 Review

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton 4/5 Review

All My Friends Are Superheroes - Andrew Kaufman 4/5

 

December 2013 (5 read and 1 listened to)

Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan 4/5 - Audible D/L Review

A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz 5/5 review

Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories - Vintage Classics 4/5 Review

Lighthousekeeping - Jeanette Winterson 4/5 Review

Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble - M.C. Beaton (short story)  3/5

Going to Sea in a Sieve - Danny Baker 4/5 Review

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TBR's waiting patiently on my bookshelf.
Goodness gracious me! over 130 books before I begin :blush2: Is there any point in saying I'll try and make a dent in it? Well, I'll try and make a dent in it, I'm not promising anything mind you :giggle2:
See also: Books I've Bought/Acquired in 2013
Progress: 29/138 :roll2:

Fiction:
Aiken, Joan - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Ali, Monica - Brick Lane
Alison, Rosie - The Very Thought of You

Almond, David - The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
Amis, Kingsley - The Old Devils
Anderson, James - The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy
Atkinson, Kate - Started Early Took My Dog
Atwood, Margaret - The Blind Assassin
Barker, Pat - The Ghost Road
Benson, EF - Mrs Ames (Bloomsbury)
Bloom, Amy - Away
Bullington, Jesse - The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
Byatt, AS - Possession
Carey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda

Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus
Carter, Angela - The Passion of New Eve

Christie, Agatha - And Then There Were None
Christie, Agatha - Appointment with Death
Christie, Agatha - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Christie, Agatha - Dumb Witness
Christie, Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Christie, Agatha - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Christie, Agatha - Peril at End House
Christie, Agatha - Third Girl
Coe, Jonathan - The Rotters Club
Connolly, John - Nocturnes
Craig, Amanda - Hearts and Minds
Cunningham, Michael - The Hours

Dahl, Roald - The BFG
Dahl, Roald - Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald - Charlie & the Glass Elevator
Dahl, Roald - Danny the Champion of the World
Dahl, Roald - Esio Trot
Dahl, Roald - Fantastic Mr Fox
Dahl, Roald - George's Marvellous Medicine
Dahl, Roald - The Giraffe & the Pelly & Me
Dahl, Roald - James and the Giant Peach

Dahl, Roald - The Magic Finger
Dahl, Roald - Matilda

Dahl, Roald - The Twits
Dahl, Roald - The Witches
de Bernieres, Louis - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Dennys, Joyce - Henrietta Sees it Through (Bloomsbury)
de Waal, Edmund - The Hare with Amber Eyes
Drabble, Margaret - The Red Queen
Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose
Englander, Nathan - The Ministry of Special Cases
Eugenides, Jeffrey - My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead
Fallada, Hans - Alone in Berlin
Fforde, Jasper - One of Our Thursdays is Missing
Fforde, Jasper - The Fourth Bear

Fitzgerald, F.Scott - The Beautiful and the Damned
Fitzgerald, F.Scott - The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night

Fox, Essie - The Somnambulist
French, Dawn - A Tiny Bit Marvellous
French, Vivien - The Robe of Skulls
Freud, Esther - The Sea House
Funke, Cornelia - Reckless
Gallico, Paul - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Bloomsbury)
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Leaf Storm
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - The Autumn of the Patriarch
Gibbons, Stella - Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

Gold, Glen David - Carter Beats the Devil
Grassic Gibbon, Lewis - Sunset Song
Greene, Graham - Brighton Rock
Haig, Matt - The Last Family in England

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Hay, Sheridan - The Secret of Lost Things
Hoare, Philip - Leviathan
Hoeg, Peter - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Hornby, Nick - About a Boy
Hornby, Nick - A Long Way Down
Hornby, Nick - How to be Good
Hornby, Nick - Juliet Naked

Hornby, Nick - Slam
Irving, John - The Cider House Rules
Isherwood, Christopher - Goodbye to Berlin
Jacobson, Howard - The Finkler Question

James, P.D. - Death Comes to Pemberley
Jones, Sadie - The Outcast

Kaufman, Andrew - The Tiny Wife
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Lacuna
Lawrence, DH - Women in Love
Le Carre, John - The Spy who Came in from the Cold
McGregor, Jon - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
McPherson, Catriona - Dandy Gilver & the Proper Treatment of Blood Stains

McPherson, Catriona - Winter Ground
Mistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance
Moers, Walter - The 1312 Lives of Captain Bluebear

Morgenstern, Erin - The Night Circus
Morton, Kate - The House at Riverton
Murdoch, Iris - The Black Prince
Murdoch, Iris - The Flight from the Enchanter
Murdoch, Iris - The Unofficial Rose

Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise
O'Neill, Joseph - Netherland
Orwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Ransome, Arthur - Winter Holiday
Rhodes, Danuta - The Little White Car
Schlink, Bernard - The Reader

Sittenfield, Curtis - American Wife (on loan)
Skeslien Charles, Janet - Moonlight in Odessa
Smith, Ali - The Accidental
Spark, Muriel - Far Cry from Kensington
Spark, Muriel - Robinson
Spark, Muriel - The Comforters
Starling, Belinda - The Journal of Dora Damage
Stevenson, DE - Mrs Tim of the Regiment (Bloomsbury)
Tartt, Donna - The Little Friend
Taylor, G.P. - Mariah Mundi & the Ghost Diamonds
Townsend, Sue - Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Townsend, Sue - Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Udall, Brady - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch
Winterson, Jeanette - Sexing the Cherry

Non Fiction:

Child, Julia - My Life in France

Dahl, Roald - Going Solo
Faulks, Sebastian - Faulks on Fiction
Fitzgerald, Penelope - So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - Living to Tell the Tale
Holroyd, Michael - A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Helen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families
Keats, John - Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters

McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
McCourt, Frank - Tis
Mosley, Diana - The Pursuit of Laughter
Murdoch, Iris - A Writer at War: the Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-1945
Nicholson, Virginia - Among the Bohemians

Ozma, Alice - The Reading Promise
Pasternak, Boris - Letters to Georgian Friends
Powell, Julie - Julie & Julia

Proulx, Annie - Bird Cloud
Rugg, Julie & Murphy, Lynda - A Book Addicts Treasury
Summerscale, Kate - The Queen of Whale Cay
Webster, Jason - Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain

Wood, Ronnie - Ronnie

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Books read from the 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die by Peter Boxall - 2006
Progress so far: 133/1001

Pre-1700
1001. Aesop's Fables - Aesopus

1000. Metamorphoses – Ovid
999. Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
998. Aithiopika – Heliodorus
997. The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
995. Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais
994. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
993. The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
990. The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
989. Oroonoko – Aphra Behn

1700s
988. A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift

987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
986. Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
984. Roxana – Daniel Defoe
983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
982. A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
981. Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
979. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
978. Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
977. Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland
974. Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
973. Amelia – Henry Fielding
972. The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox

971. Candide - Voltaire
970. Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
969. Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
968. Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
967. Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
966. The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
965. The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
964. Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
963. A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
962. The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
961. Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
960. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

959. Evelina – Fanny Burney
958. Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
957. Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
956. Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
955. Cecilia – Fanny Burney
954. The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
953. Vathek – William Beckford
952. Justine – Marquis de Sade
951. The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
950. The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
949. The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
948. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
947. The Monk – M.G. Lewis (TBR)
946. Camilla – Fanny Burney
945. Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
944. The Nun – Denis Diderot
943. Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin

1800s
942. Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
941. Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

940. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
939. The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
937. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
936. Emma - Jane Austen

935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
934. Ormond – Maria Edgeworth

933. Persuasion - Jane Austen

932. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
930. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

929. The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
928. Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
927. The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
926. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
924. The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
923. The Red and the Black – Stendhal
922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
921. Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
920. Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
918. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
915. The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
914. Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol

913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

912. Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe

910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe

908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
907. La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
906. The Count of Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

905. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë

902. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

901. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
900. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell

899. Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
896. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

895. The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
894. The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
893. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe

892. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell

891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë
890. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

889. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
888. Hard Times – Charles Dickens

887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

885. Adam Bede – George Eliot
884. Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov

883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
882. Max Havelaar – Multatuli
881. The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
880. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

879. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
878. Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
877. On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev

876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

875. Silas Marner - George Eliot
874. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
872. The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
870. Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
868. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne

865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
864. Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
863. Little Woman - Louisa May Alcott

862. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
860. Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont

859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
858. Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
857. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

856. He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
855. King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev

854. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll

853. Middlemarch - George Eliot
852. Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
851. Erewhon – Samuel Butler
850. The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
849. In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
848. Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

847. The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
845. The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
844. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
843. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
842. Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
841. Drunkard – Émile Zola

840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
839. Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

838. The Red Room – August Strindberg
837. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
836. Nana – Émile Zola
835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
834. Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
833. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

832. The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
831. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

830. A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
829. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
828. Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
827. Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
826. Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant

825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
824. Germinal – Émile Zola
823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
822. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

819. She – H. Rider Haggard
818. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
817. The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
816. Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
815. Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
814. The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
813. Hunger – Knut Hamsun
812. By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
811. La Bête Humaine . Émile Zola

810. The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
807. Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
806. New Grub Street – George Gissing

805. News from Nowhere – William Morris
804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

803. Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
802. Born in Exile – George Gissing
801. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
800. The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
799. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
798. Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
795. Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz

794. Dracula - Bram Stoker

793. Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
792. What Maisie Knew – Henry James
791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells

790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
788. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
787. The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
786. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross


1900s
785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
784. Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
783. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
782. Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
781. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
779. The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
778. The Immoralist – André Gide
777. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers

776. The Ambassadors – Henry James
775. The Golden Bowl – Henry James
774. Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
772. Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
771. Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
770. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
769. The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
768. Young Törless – Robert Musil
767. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
765. Mother – Maxim Gorky
764. The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
763. The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
762. The Iron Heel – Jack London
761. A Room with A View - E.M. Forster

760. The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
759. Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
758. Strait is the Gate – André Gide
757. Martin Eden – Jack London
756. Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
755. Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
754. Howards End – E.M. Forster
753. Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
752. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
751. The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
750. Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
749. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
748. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
746. Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
745. Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
744. Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
743. The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan

742. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
741. Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham

740. The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
739. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
738. Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
737. Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
736. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
735. Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
734. Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
733. Summer – Edith Wharton
732. The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
731. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
730. Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
729. Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
728. Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
727. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
726. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
725. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
724. The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
723. Ulysses – James Joyce
722. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
721. Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
720. The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
719. Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
718. The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
717. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
716. Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf

715. The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
714. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
713. Amok – Stefan Zweig
712. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
711. Cane – Jean Toomer
710. Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
709. The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
708. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
707. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
706. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
705. The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
704. Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
703. The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
702. The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
701. The Trial – Franz Kafka
700. The Counterfeiters – André Gide

699. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

698. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
697. Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
696. The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein

695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie

694. One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
693. The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
692. The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
691. The Castle – Franz Kafka
690. Blindness – Henry Green
689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
688. Amerika – Franz Kafka
687. Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson

686. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

685. Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
684. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
683. Nadja – André Breton
682. Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
681. Quicksand – Nella Larsen

680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
679. Quartet – Jean Rhys
678. The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
677. The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
676. Lady Chatterley's lover - D.H. Lawrence

675. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
674. Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
673. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
672. Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
671. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
670. Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
669. The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
668. Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
667. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

666. The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
665. Living – Henry Green
664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
662. Passing – Nella Larsen
661. Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
660. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett

659. Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
658. Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
657. The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis

656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
655. The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
654. The Waves – Virginia Woolf
653. The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
651. To the North – Elizabeth Bowen

650. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
648. Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
647. A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
646. The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
645. A Day Off – Storm Jameson
644. Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain

643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
642. Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
641. Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
640. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
638. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
637. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
636. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
635. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
634. Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
633. Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
632. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers

631. Burmese Days – George Orwell
630. England Made Me – Graham Greene
629. The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
628. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
627. The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
626. Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
625. Independent People – Halldór Laxness
624. Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
622. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
621. Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
620. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell

619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
618. The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
617. Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
616. Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
615. To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
614. Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
613. The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
612. In Parenthesis – David Jones

611. The Years - Virginia Woolf

610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
609. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
607. Murphy – Samuel Beckett
606. U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
605. Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
604. Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler

603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
602. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson

600. After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
599. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

598. Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
597. Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller

596. Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
595. Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
594. At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
593. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
592. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
591. Party Going – Henry Green
590. The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
589. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
588. Native Son – Richard Wright
587. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
586. Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler

585. The Hamlet – William Faulkner
584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
583. Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
582. The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
581. The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
580. Conversations in Sicily – Elio Vittorini
579. The Outsider - Albert Camus

578. Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
577. Embers – Sandor Marai
576. The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
575. Caught – Henry Green
574. The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
573. Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
572. Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
571. Transit – Anna Seghers
570. The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
569. Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
568. Arcanum 17 – André Breton
567. Loving – Henry Green

566. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford

565. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
564. Animal Farm - George Orwell

563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
562. The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andric
561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
560. Back – Henry Green
559. The Plague - Albert Camus

558. The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
557. Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
556. If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
555. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
554. The Victim – Saul Bellow
553. Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
552. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
551. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
550. Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
549. Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
548. All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani

547. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

546. The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
545. Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
544. The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
543. The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge

542. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford

541. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
540. The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
539. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

538. The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
537. Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
536. The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
535. The Third Man – Graham Greene
534. The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
533. The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
532. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
531. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
530. The Rebel – Albert Camus

529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
528. The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
527. Foundation - Isaac Asimov

526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
525. Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
524. Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
523. The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
522. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor

521. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

520. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
519. The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
517. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
516. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
515. Junkie – William Burroughs
514. Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
513. Watt – Samuel Beckett
512. The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
510. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley

509. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
508. Lord of the Flies - William Golding

507. A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
506. The Story of O - Pauline Reage

505. Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
504. I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
503. Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
502. The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
501. The Recognitions – William Gaddis
500. The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
499. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
498. The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
497. A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
494. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tokien

493. The Floating Opera – John Barth
492. Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
491. The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
490. The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
489. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
488. Justine - Lawrence Durrell

487. The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
486. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
485. Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov

484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
483. Homo Faber – Max Frisch
482. Blue Noon – Georges Bataille

481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
480. Voss – Patrick White
479. Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet

478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch
477. The Once and Future King – T.H. White
476. The End of the Road – John Barth
475. Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan

474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
473. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
472. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
471. The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
469. Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
468. The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
466. Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
464. Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
463. Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
462. The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
461. Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
460. Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse

459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
458. Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
456. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

455. The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
454. Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
453. How It Is – Samuel Beckett
452. The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor

451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark

449. Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
448. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
447. Faces in the Water – Janet Frame

446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
444. Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
443. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
442. Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
441. Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
440. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
439. The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
438. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
436. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
435. The Collector – John Fowles
434. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
432. Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre

429. Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
428. The Graduate - Charles Webb

427. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
426. V. – Thomas Pynchon
425. Herzog – Saul Bellow
424. The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
423. Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
422. Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
421. Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
420. Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
419. The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
418. Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
417. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
416. August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
415. The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
414. Things – Georges Perec
413. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
412. Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
411. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
410. The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
409. The Magus – John Fowles
408. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
407. Trawl – B.S. Johnson
406. The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
405. A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
404. The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
403. No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
402. The Joke – Milan Kundera
401. Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
400. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
398. The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
397. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
396. Chocky – John Wyndham
395. The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
394. A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
393. In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
392. The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
391. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
389. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke

388. The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
387. Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
386. Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
385. The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch

384. Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
383. Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
382. A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
381. Them – Joyce Carol Oates
380. Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
379. The Godfather - Mario Puzo

378. Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
377. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
376. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
375. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

374. Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
373. Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
372. Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
371. The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
370. Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
369. Troubles – J.G. Farrell
368. Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett

367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
366. Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
364. The Ogre – Michael Tournier
363. The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
362. The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
361. Rabbit Redux – John Updike
360. The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
359. Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
357. The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
356. In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
355. House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson

354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
353. G – John Berger
352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
351. The Breast – Philip Roth
350. Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
349. Sula – Toni Morrison
348. The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
347. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
346. The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
345. Crash – J.G. Ballard
344. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
343. The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
342. A Question of Power – Bessie Head
341. Fear of Flying – Erica Jong

340. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre

338. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
337. Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
336. The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
335. Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
334. Correction – Thomas Bernhard
333. Dead Babies – Martin Amis
332. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
331. High Rise – J.G. Ballard
330. Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
329. Fateless – Imre Kertész
328. The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
327. Grimus – Salman Rushdie
326. A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
325. W, or the Memory of childhood – Georges Perec
324. Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez

323. Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
322. Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
321. Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
320. Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
319. The Public Burning – Robert Coover
318. Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
317. The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
316. The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
315. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
314. Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
313. Dispatches – Michael Herr
312. The Shining – Stephen King
311. Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
310. The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
309. In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
308. The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
307. Yes – Thomas Bernhard
306. The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell

305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
304. Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
303. The World According to Garp – John Irving
302. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
301. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

300. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
299. The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
298. Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
297. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
296. Shikasta – Doris Lessing
295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
294. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
293. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

292. City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
291. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
290. Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
289. Rites of Passage – William Golding
288. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

287. Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
286. Broken April – Ismail Kadare
285. Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
284. July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
283. The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
282. Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
281. Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
280. The Names – Don DeLillo
279. Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
277. The Newton Letter – John Banville
276. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro

273. Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
271. A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
270. If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
269. The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
268. The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
267. The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
266. The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
265. Waterland - Graham Swift

264. La Brava – Elmore Leonard
263. Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
262. Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
261. Shame – Salman Rushdie

260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
259. Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
258. Neuromancer – William Gibson
257. Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
255. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
254. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
253. Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
252. The Lover – Marguerite Duras
251. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
250. The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
248. Legend – David Gemmell
247. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd

246. Queer – William Burroughs
245. White Noise – Don DeLillo
244. Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
243. Perfume – Patrick Süskind
242. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
241. Contact – Carl Sagan
240. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
239. A Maggot – John Fowles
238. The Cider House Rules – John Irving

237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez

235. The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
234. Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
233. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
232. Foe – J.M. Coetzee
231. Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
230. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
229. Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
228. The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
226. Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
225. Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
224. Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
223. The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae

222. Beloved – Toni Morrison
221. Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
220. World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
217. Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
216. The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
215. The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
214. The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

213. The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
212. The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
211. The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
210. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
208. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
207. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
206. Libra – Don DeLillo
205. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
204. The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
202. Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
201. The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
199. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
198. The Book of Evidence – John Banville
197. London Fields – Martin Amis

196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
195. Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
194. The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
193. The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
192. The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
191. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
190. Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
189. Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
188. Moon Palace – Paul Auster
187. Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
186. A Disaffection – James Kelman
185. The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
184. The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
183. Possession – A.S. Byatt
182. Like Life – Lorrie Moore
181. A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
180. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
179. The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
178. Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
177. Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
176. Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
175. Amongst Women – John McGahern
174. Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
173. Wise Children – Angela Carter

172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
171. Downriver – Iain Sinclair
170. Regeneration – Pat Barker
169. Typical – Padgett Powell
168. Mao II – Don DeLillo
167. Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
166. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
165. Wild Swans – Jung Chang
164. Arcadia – Jim Crace
163. Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
162. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
161. Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
160. The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
159. Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
158. The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
157. Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg

156. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
155. Jazz – Toni Morrison
154. Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
153. The Crow Road - Iain Banks

152. Indigo – Marina Warner
151. Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
150. A Heart So White – Javier Marias
149. The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
148. Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar

147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
146. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
145. The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
144. The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd

143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
142. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
141. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

140. What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
139. On Love – Alain de Botton
138. Complicity – Iain Banks
137. Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
136. Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
135. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
134. Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
132. The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
131. Disappearance – David Dabydeen
130. Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
128. How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
127. City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
126. Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
125. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
124. The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
123. Land – Park Kyong-ni
122. Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
121. The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst

120. Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
119. The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
118. Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
117. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
116. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink

115. The Rings of Saturn - W.G. Sebald
114. Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
113. The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie

112. The Information – Martin Amis
111. Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
110. The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
109. Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
108. The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
107. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
106. Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
105. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
104. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
103. Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
102. Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
101. Silk – Alessandro Baricco
100. The Untouchable – John Banville
99. American Pastoral – Philip Roth
98. The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
97. Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
96. Underworld – Don DeLillo
95. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

94. Great Apes – Will Self
93. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
91. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
89. The Hours - Michael Cunningham

88. Another World – Pat Barker
87. Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis

86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
85. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
84. The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
83. All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
82. Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
81. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

80. Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
79. Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
78. Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
77. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
76. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
75. Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
74. Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
73. As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakulic
72. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

71. The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
70. Timbuktu – Paul Auster

2000s

69. Pastoralia – George Saunders
68. Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
67. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
66. Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
65. Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
64. After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
63. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
62. The Human Stain – Philip Roth
61. How the Dead Live – Will Self
60. City of God – E.L. Doctorow
59. Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
58. Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
57. Ignorance – Milan Kundera
56. Under the Skin – Michel Faber
55. The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda

54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
53. Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
51. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
50. The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa

49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

48. Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
47. At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
46. Fury – Salman Rushdie
45. The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
44. Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
43. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
42. Atonement – Ian McEwan
41. Schooling – Heather McGowan
40. Platform – Michael Houellebecq
39. Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald

38. Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
37. The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
36. Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
35. Dead Air – Iain Banks
34. Youth – J.M. Coetzee

33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

32. Shroud – John Banville
31. In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
30. That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
29. The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor

28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
27. Unless – Carol Shields
26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
25. The Double – José Saramago
24. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
23. Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
22. London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
21. Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
20. Islands – Dan Sleigh

19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

18. What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
17. The Light of Day – Graham Swift
16. Thursbitch – Alan Garner

15. The Colour – Rose Tremain
14. Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
12. Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
11. The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
10. Vanishing Point – David Markson

9. The Master – Colm Tóibín
8. The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
7. The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble

6. The Sea – John Banville
5. Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
4. Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee

3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

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Books I've Bought/Acquired in 2013

As always the previous years Christmas books are included as it takes me until January to finish unwrapping, sniffing and licking them :D
Progress 25/46

Fiction:
Aaronovitch, Ben - Whispers Underground

Albee, Edward - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Beauman, Ned - The Teleportation Accident

Christie, Agatha - At Bertrams Hotel

Christie, Agatha - The Body in the Library

Christie, Agatha - Five Little Pigs

Christie, Agatha - Lord Edgware Dies

Christie, Agatha - The Murder at the Vicarage

Christie, Agatha - Unfinished Portrait

Cooper, Susan - The Dark Is Rising

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Freudenberger, Nell - The Newlyweds

Gogol, Nikolai - Collected Tales
Harkaway, Nick - Angelmaker

Harrington, Rebecca - Penelope

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Irving, John - The World According to Garp
Juster, Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth
Kurkov, Andrey - Death & the Penguin
Lakhous, Amara - Clash of Civilizations Over An Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
Mandery, Evan - Q: A Love Story
Palacio, R.J - Wonder

Rhodes, Dan - This is Life
Rodriguez, Deborah - The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

Ronson, Jon - The Psychopath Test

Semple, Maria - Where'd You Go Bernadette
Szalowski, Pierre - Fish Change Direction in Cold Weather

Tey, Josephine - The Daughter of Time
Toltz, Steve - A Fraction of the Whole
Valente, Catherynne M - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making

Walter, Jess - Beautiful Ruins

Watson, Mark - The Knot

Wiles, Will - Care of Wooden Floors
Winterson, Jeanette - The Daylight Gate
Winterson, Jeanette - Lighthousekeeping

Non-Fiction:
Bowen, James - A Street Cat Named Bob
Callow, Simon - Charles Dickens

Ephron, Nora - I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Garnett, Angelica - Deceived with Kindness
Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press
Longden, Deric - The Cat Who Came in From the Cold

Miles, Sarah - A Right Royal B*stard
Miles, Sarah - Bolt From the Blue
Miles, Sarah - Serves Me Right
Mortimer, Roger & Charlie - Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son
Orwell, George - Down and out in Paris and London

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The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English since 1950
Progress 22/200

1. A Murder is Announced
2. Nothing - Henry Green
3. Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy
4. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
5. December Bride - Sam Hanna Bell

6. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier
7. The West Pier - Patrick Hamilton
8. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers
9. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell

10. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
11. Invisible Man: A Novel - Ralph Ellison
12. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
13. The Natural - Bernard Malamud
14. The Financial Expert - R.K. Narayan
15. Wise Blood: A Novel - Flannery O'Connor
16. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
17. The Sword of Honour Trilogy - Evelyn Waugh
18. Private Life of an Indian Prince - Mulk Raj Anand
19. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
20. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
21. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
22. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
23. The Echoing Grove - Rosamond Lehman
24. The Palm-Wine Drunkard - Amos Tutola
25. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
26. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
27.
The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins
28. The Flint Anchor - Sylvia Townsend Warner
29. Molloy: Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
30. Recognitions - William Gaddis

31. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
32. Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov
33. A Legacy - Sybille Bedford
34. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
35. Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame
36.
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
37. Angel - Elizabeth Taylor
38. The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West
39. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
40. Anecdotes of Destiny - Isak Dineson
41. From the Terrace - John O'Hara
42. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
43. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
44. A Heritage and its History - Ivy Compton-Burnett
45. The Little Disturbances of Man - Grace Paley
46.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
47. Balkan Trilogy - Olivia Manning
48. Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetrology: (
Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest) - John Updike
49. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse
50.
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
51. A House for Mr Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
52. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
53. Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White
54. That's How it Was - Maureen Duffy
55. The Reivers - William Faulkner
56. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
57. The Lonely Girl - Edna O'Brien
58. Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter
59. The Little Girls - Elizabeth Bowen
60. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
61. The Group - Mary McCarthy
62.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
63. Herzog - Saul Bellow
64. Heartland - Wilson Harris
65. Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby
66. Memoirs of a Peon - Frank Sargeson
67. Interpreters - Wole Soyinka
68. A Jest of God - Margaret Laurence
69. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
70. The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott
71. Cotters England - Christina Stead
72. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
73. A Grain of Wheat - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
74. In the Heart of the Country - William H. Gass
75. The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
76. The Unfortunates - B.S. Johnson
77. Happiness and other Stories - Mary Lavin
78. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
79. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
80. Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
81. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
82. St. Urbain's Horseman - Mordecai Richler
83. Black List, section H - Francis Stuart
84. The Optomist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
85. The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
86. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
87. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
88. Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
89. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses - David Lodge
90. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood - Alistair Macleod
91. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
92. Saville - David Storey
93. Injury Time - Beryl Bainbridge
94. Falconer - John Cheever
95. A Book of Common Prayer - Joan Didion
96. Ice Age - Margaret Drabble
97. Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Andersen
98. Plumb - Maurice Gee
99. The Human Factor - Graham Greene
100. Murderer - Roy Heath
101. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan
102. The Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan
103. From the Fifteenth District - Mavis Gallant
104. Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
105. Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
106. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
107. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
108. Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
109. The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard
110. Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
111. Lamb - Bernard MacLaverty
112. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
113. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
114. Puffball - Fay Weldon
115. Lanark - Alasdair Gray
116. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
117. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
118. A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone
119. On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
120
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
121. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
122. A Boys Own Story -
123.
Money - Martin Amis
124. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
125. Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
126. In Custody - Anita Desai
127. Nation of Fools - Balraj Khanna
128. Machine Dreams - Jayne Anne Phillips
129. Family and Friends - Anita Brookner
130. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
131. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
132. Black Robe - Brian Moore
133.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
134. The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
135. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
136. A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor
137. Dark Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine
138. Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
139. Double Whammy - Carl Hiaasen
140. Misery - Stephen King
141.
Beloved - Toni Morrison
142. In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
143. Other Garden - Francis Wyndham
144. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
145. Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver
146. Paris Trout - Pete Dexter
147. Sugar Mother - Elizabeth Jolley
148. Forty-seventeen - Frank Moorhouse
149. Ice Candy Man - Bapsi Sidhwa
150. Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
151. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
152. The Book of Evidence - John Banville
153. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos

154. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
155. Possession - A.S. Byatt
156. Age of Iron - J.M. Coetzee
157. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
158. The Snapper - Roddy Doyle
159. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
160. Amongst Women - John McGahern
161. The Great World - David Malouf
162. Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro
163. Regeneration Trilogy - Pat Barker
164. Wise Children - Angela Carter
165. A Strange and Sublime Address - Amit Chaudhuri
166. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
167. Redundancy of Courage - Timothy Mo
168. Mating - Norman Rush
169. Downriver - Iain Sinclair
170. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
171. Reading Turgenev - William Trevor
172. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
173. Death and Nightingales - Eugene McCabe
174. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
175.
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
176. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
177. River Sutra - Gita Mehta
178. My Idea of Fun - Will Self
179.
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
180. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
181.
What a Carve Up - Jonathan Coe
182. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
183. The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
184. Original Sin - P.D. James
185. How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman
186. The Tortilla Curtain - T. Coraghessan Boyle
187.
The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald
188. A Fine Balance - Mistry Rohinton
189. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
190. Asylum - Patrick McGrath
191. Last Orders - Graham Swift
192. Night in Question - Tobias Wolff
193. Quarantine - Jim Crace
194. Underworld - Don Delillo
195. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
196. Lady from Guatemala - V.S. Pritchett
197. The Magus - John Fowles
198. So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell
199. Children's Bach - Helen Garner
200. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

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Book Club Forum Member's Favourite Fiction Reads

Kylie's Favourite Fiction (progress 22/40)
Jane Austen - Emma
Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice
John Banville - The Body of Evidence
Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Italo Calvino - If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Christo
Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Jack Kerouac - The Town and the City
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon
Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
Erich Maria Marquez - All Quiet on the Western Front
Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Hunter.S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

Frankie's Favourite Fiction (progress 32/103)
Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen

Ingvar Ambjørnsen - Elling series
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen - Persuasion
Iain Banks - Wasp Factory

Muriel Barbery - The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Linwood Barclay - Too Close to Home
Robert Bloch - Psycho
John Boyne - Crippen
John Boyne - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Poppy Z. Brite - Exquisite Corpse

Karin Brunk Holmqvist - Pieni potenssipuoti

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Chelsea Cain - Heartsick
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Agatha Christie - Ten little Niggers
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Jeffery Deaver - Lincoln Rhyme series
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Lucy Dillon - The Secret of Happy Ever After

Emma Donoghue - Room
Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Michel Faber - Under the Skin
Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Peter Franzén - Tumman veden päällä

Stephen Fry - The Hippopotamus

Alex Garland - The Beach

Guy Gavriel Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan

Linda Gillard - Emotional Geology

William Goldman - The Marathon Man

John Grogan - Marley and Me
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Matt Haig - The Last Family in England
Anna-Leena Härkönen - Häräntappoase

Daniil Harms - Incidences

Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse series
Joanne Harris - Gentleman & Players
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

Nick Hornby - Juliet, Naked
Siri Hustvedt - The Summer Without Men
Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills

Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip

Katja Kallio - Kuutamolla

John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon

Stephen King - Cujo

Stephen King - Green Mile

Stephen King - The Stand

Sophie Kinsella - Twenties Girl
Andrey Kurkov - Death & the Penguin
Tuomas Kyrö - Mielensäpahoittaja

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island

Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby

Jeff Lindsay - Dexter
Vaino Linna - The Unknown Soldier

Jennifer Lynch - The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (and you need to watch the TV show!!)

Vladimar Nabokov - Lolita

Irene Nemirovsky - The Ball

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret of Bees

L.M. Montgomery - The Blue Castle
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen

Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
Sofi Oksanen - Purge
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Inna Patrakova - Naapurit

Dan Rhodes - Gold
Anne Rice - Interview with a Vampire

Kauko Röyhkä - Kaksi aurinkoa

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince

Pirkko Saisio - Punainen erokirja

Sapphire - Push!

Erich Segal - Love Story
Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
Anita Shreve - The Weight of Water

Linda Lay Shuler - She Who Remembers

Nevil Shute - Pied Piper

Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Karin Slaughter - Grant County + Will Trent series
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Garth Stein - The Art of Racing in the Rain

John Steinbeck - The Wayward Bus

Kathryn Stockett - The Help

Bram Stoker - Dracula
Patrick Suskind - Perfume
Vikas Swarup - Q&A

Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Jari Tervo - Pyhiesi yhteyteen

Voltaire - Candide
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind

Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

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Book Club Forum Member's Favourite Non-Fiction Reads ... WORK IN PROGRESS

Kylie's Favourite Non-Fiction (progress 3/13)
Bill Bryson - Down Under
Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
AB Facey - A Fortunate Life
Tim Flannery - The Explorers
Tim Flannery - The Birth of Sydney
Anne Frank - The Diary of Anne Frank
Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road

Steven D. Levitt - Freaconomics
Sylvia Plath - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Andrew Solomon - The Noonday Demon
Martin Toseland - A Steroid Hit the Earth


Frankie's Favourite Non-Fiction (progress 3/28)
Sylvia Beach - Shakespeare and Company
Constance Briscoe - Ugly

Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter
Augusten Burroughs - A Wolf at the Table

Augusten Burroughs - Dry

Augusten Burroughs - Magical Thinking

Augusten Burroughs - Possible Side Effects
Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors
Alain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your Life

Peggy Claude-Pierre - The Secret Language of Eating Disorders

Pamela Druckerson - French Children Don't Throw Food

Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl
Philip Gonzalez - The Dog Who Rescues Cats

John Grogan - Marley and Me

Ronald Hayman - The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath

Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Lesley McDowell - Between the Sheets - The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers
Motley Crue - The Dirt

Vicki Myron - Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Christopher V.V. Parnell - Hell's Prisoner

Dave Peltzer - A Child Called It

Flora Rheta Scheiber - Sybil
Mary Roach - Stiff - The Life of the Human Cadavers
Ann Rule - The Stranger Beside Me

Deborah Spungen - And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of her Daughter's Murder

Danny Wallace - Yes Man

Tobias Wolff - This Boys Life

Tuula-Liina Varis - Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka

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Poached Quotes on Toast
Previous Toast Quotes

Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers: He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously. (I am loving the idea of a nanny that smelt, faintly or otherwise, of toast. Not that I had a nanny or lived in a world where one was anything other than the woman who married your granddad but had I been lucky enough then this is the sort of nanny I would be demanding.)
 
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins: My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. (I insist on this as much as possible .. stuff does get in the way though :hissyfit:  :D)
 
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood: Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in verbal form the sins and crimes of their past lives. Toast was a ritual item devoured by fetishists in the belief that it would enhance their kinetic and sexual powers. Toast cannot be explained by any rational means.
Toast is me.
I am toast.
:o (I have never heard toast thus described before .. 'an implement of torture'?? I question that .. as far as I know Henry VIII never resorted to it :D It certainly isn't pointless .. even if it has no other purpose .. it keeps me reasonably on the straight and narrow :yes:)

 

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake: 'I want hot milk and eggs and lots of toast done only on one side.' Fuchsia frowned as she paused, 'and I want a bag of apples to take along with me for the whole of the day, for I get hungry when I think.' (I can't agree about doing toast only on one side .. it makes it too bendy. I would prefer to take a whole bagful of toast with me for thinking purposes but I do understand that apples are more portable :giggle:

 

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton: 'On the morning of the 20th March Walter Moody rose before the dawn, rang for hot water, and washed standing at the window, looking over the rooftops as the navy pre-dawn sky faded to grey, then pale blue, then the splendid yellow of a fresh yolk - by which time he was dressed, and descending the stairs, and calling for his toast to be buttered, and his eggs boiled hard.' (I would love to call out for toast as I descended the stairs every day but fear it would be greeted with silence .. I wouldn't be calling for eggs though and if I did they wouldn't be hard boiled .. if there must be an accompaniment then let it be marmalade.)

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My Highly Delicious and Infinitely Lickable Wishlist :character0104:

Fiction:
Aaronovitch, Ben - Broken Homes

Attenberg, Jami - The Middlesteins
Baker, Tiffany - The Gilly Salt Sisters

Black, Holly - Doll Bones
Bradley, Alan - A Red Herring Without Mustard
Bradley, Alan - I Am Half Sick of Shadows
Bradley, Alan - The Weed That Strings the Hangmans Bag

Bukowski, Charles - Ham on Rye
Butcher, Jim - Storm Front
Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Comyns, Barbara - What was Changed and Who was Dead

Connell, Evan.S. - Mrs Bridge
Connolly, John - The Gates
Doshi, Tishani - The Pleasure Seekers

Earle, Steve - I'll Never Get Out of This World
Egan, Jennifer - The Invisible Circus

Elphinstone, Margaret - Light
Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriage Plot

Ewing, Barbara - The Circus of Ghosts
Fagan, Jenni - The Panopticon

Gaiman, Neil & Pratchett, Terry - Good Omens
Gaiman, Neil - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Gavalda, Anna - French Leave
Grimwood, Ken - Replay

Hadley, Tessa - Clever Girl

Haig, Matt - The Humans
Haig, Matt - The Radleys

Hartley, L.P. - The Go-Between
Healy, Dermot - Long Time, No See

Hill, Susan - Dolly

Hudson, Kerry - Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

Joyce, Rachel - Perfect
Kaye, I.J. - Mountains of the Moon

Keyes, Marion - The Mystery of Mercy Close
Kennedy Toole, John - A Confederacy of Dunces

Laurain, Antoine - The President's Hat 
Meloy, Colin - Wildwood

Mitchell, Gladys - Watson's Choice

Moggach, Deborah - Heartbreak Hotel

Moore, Liz - Heft
Morrall, Clare - The Roundabout Man

Murray, Paul - An Evening of Long Goodbyes

Nesbo, Jo - The Redbreast

Niffenegger, Audrey - Raven Girl

Ness, Patrick - The Crane Wife

Parkin, Gaile - Baking Cakes in Kigali
Patchett, Ann - Bel Canto
Pears, Tim - Disputed Land
Pierre, DBC - Vernon God Little

Pratchett, Terry - Dodger

Richardson, CS - the Emperor of Paris
Rogan, Charlotte - The Lifeboat

Segal, Erich - The Class
Silverstone, Shel - Falling Up

Sloan, Robin - Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore

Steinbeck, John - East of Eden

Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John - The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

Tey, Josephine - The Franchise Affair
Watson, S.J. - Before I Go to Sleep

Waugh, Evelyn - A Handful of Dust
Waugh, Evelyn - Vile Bodies
Wetta, Stephen - If Jack's In Love
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth

Williams, Tennessee - A Streetcar Named Desire
Woolf, Virginia - The Waves


Non Fiction:
Bair, Deirdre - Simone de Beauvoir : A Biography
Beach, Sylvia - The Letters of Sylvia Beach
Bowker, Gordon - George Orwell
Brody, Leslie - Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Carter, Angela - Expletives Deleted
Fowler, Christopher - Paperboy

Hughes, Gerald - Ted & I
Kafka, Franz - Letters to Friends, Family and Editors
Knight, Lynn - Lemon Sherbert and Dolly Blue
Lurie, Leslie Gilbert & Rita - Bending Toward the Sun : A Mother and Daughter Memoir

Malala, Yousafzai - I am Malala 
Marx, Groucho - The Groucho Letters

Mitford, Nancy - A Talent to Annoy
Moore, Lucy - Anything Goes : A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

Nabakov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory

O'Brien, Edna - Country Girl
Plath, Sylvia - The Unabridged Journals
Reid, Christopher - The Letters of Ted Hughes
Sewell, Brian - Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite

Shilling, Jane - The Stranger in the Mirror
Walker, Alice - The Chicken Chronicles
Walls, Jeanette - The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Welty, Eudora & Maxwell, William - What There Is to Say We Have Said
Werber, Millie & Keller, Eve - Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Wheeler, Thom - One Steppe Beyond
Weiss, Luisa - My Berlin Kitchen

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BBC's Big Read (2003 - as voted for by the public)

Progress 52/100

 

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl

57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce

79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

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Hello all you good people and welcome :) I've tidied up and hoovered away crumbs so am ready for visits :) Any money found down back of armchairs though is mine .. unless it's chocolate coins .. in which case help yourself :)

I won't bore you with my reading resolutions, I'm not going to make any actually as failed miserably last year to stick to any of them. Will endeavour to write my reviews more quickly (that is write them soon after reading book and try to waffle on less) will also carry on with my quest to read more sci-fi and try and introduce some crime into my diet (and by that I don't mean Katie Price :D)

I am not going to stress about amounts read this year though, time ought to be left for doing other stuff like ... hang gliding and mountaineering. I want to try to stop faffing about on social networks though because I think my brain is melting in line with the Polar ice caps. I'm definitely finding it harder to find Wally than I used to :D

 

I'm all excited about my 2013 reading year .. fingers crossed xx

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The only two books on your TBR pile that I have read are The House at Riverton and The Night Circus, both very good.. I also have The Last Family in England which I must read soon as frankie has so highly recommended it!! :)

 

Have a fantastic 2013 Poppy, in both your reading and your dramatic exploits, I've always fancied wing walking, maybe we could take a wing each? :) :)

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You do know how to bring your thread to life poppyshake - with the font, the colours, the smilies, and the sparkle in your words! :friends3:

I hope to be more regular in keeping up with your reviews this year :blush2:

Good luck with your reading then!

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Happy reading for 2013 Poppy. The one book that jumped out at me from your TBR is Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, I read it this year and it's now one of my all time favourites.

 

Ditto to this, it's a brilliant book. Happy reading in 2013, Shaky :D

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I always enjoy reading your posts poppyshake!

 

Happy reading in 2013! I'll be sure to check in on your progress throughout the year. :D

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Happy reading in 2013, Kay. Looking forward to following your thread closely this year and reading your excellent reviews. :smile2:

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Happy reading for 2013 Poppy. The one book that jumped out at me from your TBR is Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, I read it this year and it's now one of my all time favourites.

Thanks Brian :) My hubby read Alone in Berlin last year and really enjoyed it (but that's not always a recommendation :giggle2:) glad you've confirmed it, I love books on WW2 so I'm expecting to love it.

The only two books on your TBR pile that I have read are The House at Riverton and The Night Circus, both very good.. I also have The Last Family in England which I must read soon as frankie has so highly recommended it!!

Have a fantastic 2013 Poppy, in both your reading and your dramatic exploits, I've always fancied wing walking, maybe we could take a wing each?

Thank you :) I'd go wing walking with you anytime chalie, we'll take cake for cheering up purposes (or calming down purposes .. cake is surprisingly versatile :D)

The Night Circus is actually on my bedside table, I tried to pick it up when full of cold but couldn't concentrate on it .. though I could see it was going to be great when clear headed :D I expect it will be my next read. Yes frankie's name comes straight to mind whenever I see Last Family in England .. I know it will be good :)

You do know how to bring your thread to life poppyshake - with the font, the colours, the smilies, and the sparkle in your words! :friends3:

I hope to be more regular in keeping up with your reviews this year :blush2:

Good luck with your reading then!

Thanks bree, I hope to be more regular in keeping up with my reviews too :giggle2:Look forward to your visits, you're most welcome :)

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