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Welcome to my book thread for 2014!! :boogie: Feel free to post, as I've set all my initial lists up. :smile:

 

I'm quite happy with the scoring system I used last year (credit to Willoyd) so I will be continuing with it this year:

 

1/6: I didn't like it
2/6: It was okay
3/6: I liked it
4/6: I really liked it
5/6: It was amazing
6/6: Simply outstanding - on my 'best of all time' list

 

I'm going to set myself a loose goal of 60 books to read in 2014, but I'm not too bothered whether I achieve it or not. Quality over quantity, right? :yes:

 

I'm not going to bother trying to restrict the number of books I buy either, because let's face it....it just doesn't work, does it? :lol:  Last year I gave myself a yearly limit of 24 books, and ended up buying over 70 books, so that worked well, didn't it? :roll:

 

Last year, I also included only Kindle books on my TBR pile, completely neglecting the tree books on my shelf, most of which have sat there for 10+ years. This year I'll list them in a separate post, as it's a bit silly to ignore them. :dunno:

 

Hope you have fun reading this thread!

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Books Read This Year

 

January

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Observations - Jane Harris

Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre - Rod Glenn

The Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain

The English Monster - Lloyd Shepherd

The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Wendy Jones

 

February

 

Dark Lord: The Teenage Years - Jamie Thomson (unfinished)

The Shining - Stephen King

Dune - Frank Herbert

A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness

The Final Winter: An Apocalyptic Horror Novel - Iain Rob Wright

The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan

First and Only - Peter Flannery

 

March

 

The First Time: The True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found - Kate Monro

The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

Pet Semetary - Stephen King

Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

Extinction Point - Paul Anthony Jones

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

Missing Gretyl: Only Fools and Trollops - Si Page, Mark Stibbe, Tony Trimmer (unfinished)

Flowertown - S G Redling

 

April

 

Revenge of the Tide - Elizabeth Haynes

The Dummy Line - Bobby Cole

1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off - John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

Pets In A Pickle - Malcolm Westerman

 

May

 

The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King

Pandora's Star - Peter F Hamilton

 

June

 

The Invisible Ones - Stef Penney

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (unfinished)

The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

Mr Mercedes - Stephen King

 

July

 

The Uninvited - Liz Jensen

Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas

I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb

Sycamore Row - John Grisham

 

August

 

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (unfinished)

Mr. China - Tim Clissold

Company of Liars - Karen Maitland

The Secret River - Kate Grenville

 

September

 

After Tomorrow - Gillian Cross

Timebomb - Scott K Andrews

The Emergence of Judy Taylor - Angela Jackson

The Humans - Matt Haig

Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume

Deenie - Judy Blume

Forever - Judy Blume

Mr Penumbra's 24 Book Store - Robin Sloan

 

October

 

Horns - Joe Hill

Blubber - Judy Blume

I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - Jen Campbell

The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

 

November

 

Capital - John Lanchester

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Revival - Stephen King

The Maze Runner - James Dashner

Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - Mark Stevens

The Martian - Andy Weir

 

December

 

Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult

Night Waking - Sarah Moss (unfinished)

The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Airtravel - Patrick Smith

The Misremembered Man - Christina McKenna

Requiem - Ken McClure

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

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Books Purchased This Year

 

 

Total = 85

 

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

The Ocean At The End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

One Summer: America 1927 - Bill Bryson

The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer

Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

A Dog's Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron

Ablutions - Patrick DeWitt

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

The Good Father - Diane Chamberlain

The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick

The House at Riverton - Kate Morton

Missing Gretyl: Only Fools and Trollops - Si Page, Mark Stibbe, Tony Trimmer

The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith

The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

On The Beach - Nevil Shute

Necessary Lies - Diane Chamberlain

Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton

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

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - Jen Campbell

The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough

False Impression - Jeffrey Archer

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

Exodus (Extinction Point, Book 2) - Paul Antony Jones

Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates

I Am Pilgrim - Terry Jones

Mr Mercedes - Stephen King

Sycamore Row - John Grisham

The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

Columbine - Dave Cullen

Dyatlov Pass - Alan K Baker

Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional - And What that Means for Life in the Universe - David Waltham

Stealing Phoenix - Joss Stirling

The Knot - Mark Watson

A Day At The Office - Matt Dunn

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

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan

The Humans - Matt Haig

The Reapers Are the Angels - Alden Bell

The Dinner - Herman Koch

Horns - Joe Hill

Blubber - Judy Blume

Tiger Eyes - Judy Blume

Deenie - Judy Blume

Forever - Judy Blume

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

Ellie Quinn: Episode 1 - Alex Scarrow

Not A Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis

Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays - Christopher Hitchens

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets - Joanna Blythman

Revival - Stephen King

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Airtravel - Patrick Smith

The Maze Runner - James Dashner

Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

The Mangle Street Murders - M.R.C Kasasian

Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier

Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard

Every Living Thing - James Herriot

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate - Naomi Klein

The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Flier

Burial Rites - Hannah Kent

The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton

Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 - Max Hastings

Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss (wanted this one for ages)

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler

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

The State We're In - Adele Parks

We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

Beowulf's Children (Heorot series book 2) - Larry Niven

Judas Unchained - Peter F Hamilton

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TBR Pile - Kindle Books (by year of purchase.....2013 and earlier)

 

 

Total = 138 unread ( :roll2: )

 

 

2013

 

The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living - Russ Harris
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton
First and Only - Peter Flannery
Incoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and learn to Love the Meteorite - Ted Nield
Sworn Secret - Amanda Jennings
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
The Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain
1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World - Charles C. Mann
Capital - John Lanchester
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

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding

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

Extinction Point - Paul Antony Jones

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

Z 2134 - Sean Platt and David W. Wright

The Distant Hours - Kate Morton

On Books and the Housing of Them - W E Gladstone

The Martian - Andy Weir

Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit - Ian Leslie

The Korean War - Max Hastings

The Beach - Alex Garland

Flowertown - S G Redling

Kiss River - Diane Chamberlain

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

The Dog Stars - Peter Heller

The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe

Au Revoir, Europe: What If Britain Left The EU? - David Charter

The Shining - Stephen King

The Uninvited - Liz Jensen

After Tomorrow - Gillian Cross

Bang! The Complete History of the Universe - Patrick Moore, Brian May, Chris Lintott

The Emergence of Judy Taylor - Angela Jackson

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

Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

Wild: A Journey From Lost To Found - Cheryl Strayed

QI The Book of the Dead - John Mitchinson, John Lloyd

Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons

We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tells Us About The Universe - Marcus Chown

Misery - Stephen King

Pet Semetary - Stephen King

How Do We Fix This Mess? - Robert Peston

The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy - Robin Hobb

The Glass Guardian - Linda Gillard

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Homeland: Carrie's Run - Andrew Kaplan

A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness

Dark Eden - Chris Beckett

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

 

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
Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - Mark Stevens
Quantum - Manjit Kumar
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Cursed: A Jack Nightingale Short Story - Stephen Leather
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 Secret River - Kate Grenville
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 Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition - Richard Dawkins
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
The Misremembered Man - Christina McKenna
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
Golden Lies - Barbara Freethy
Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition - Jules Verne
Mr. China - Tim Clissold
An Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha Roy
Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean Webster
The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from your Airplane Window - Brian Clegg
Requiem - Ken McClure
Night Waking - Sarah Moss (unfinished)
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
Almost French: A New Life In Paris - Sarah Turnbull
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (unfinished)
The Eleventh Commandment - Jeffrey Archer
Revenge of the Tide - Elizabeth Haynes
Only Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer
The First Time: The True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found - Kate Monro
Ash - James Herbert
Sarah Thornhill - Kate Grenville
VIII - H M Castor
The Joy of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadly Sins - Simon Laham
The Heat of the Sun - David Rain
The Dummy Line - Bobby Cole
The Hills is Lonely - Lillian Beckwith
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals - Wendy Jones
The Lewis Man - Peter May
Winter of the World - Ken Follet
Yesterday's Gone: Season Two - Sean Platt and David Wright
Death and the Devil - Frank Schatzing
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
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Dead Women of Juarez - Sam Hawken
1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off - John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Final Winter: An Apocalyptic Horror Novel - Iain Rob Wright
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult
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
Company of Liars - Karen Maitland
The English Monster - Lloyd Shepherd
Dark Lord: The Teenage Years - Jamie Thomson
Reamde - Neal Stephenson
The Millenium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson
The Invisible Ones - Stef Penney
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
Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas
A 1960's Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania - Paul Feeney
Viva La Revolution!: The Story of People Power in 30 Revolutions - Derry Nairn

 

Pre-2012

 

The Observations - Jane Harris
The Fire Gospel (Myths) - Michel Faber
Dracula: A Mystery Story - Bram Stoker
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
Ancestor Stones - Aminatta Forna
Sapper Martin - Richard van Emden
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Pets in a Pickle - Malcolm Westerman
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
Sinema: The Northumberland Massacre - Rod Glenn
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Reluctant Traveler - Bill Lumley
Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
Origin - Randolph Lalonde

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TBR Pile - Tree Books

 

Total = 86 unread ( :blink: )

 

 

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott

Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Eye of the Storm - Patrick White

Cantana-140 - Philip K. Dick

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick

Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

Shardik - Richard Adams

Surfacing - Margaret Atwood

Murder In The Dark - Margaret Atwood

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr.

Song Of The Silent Snow - Hubert Selby Jr.

The Room - Hubert Selby Jr.

The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving

The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard

The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Black House - Stephen King and Peter Straub

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

London - Edward Rutherfurd

Sarum - Edward Rutherfurd

I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb

Generation X - Douglas Coupland

The Outsider - Albert Camus

Junky - WIlliam S. Burroughs

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

Woman On The Edge of Time - Marge Piercy

Let The Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist

Dune - Frank Herbert

Life Before Man - Margaret Atwood

The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick

Scarface - Paul Monette

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Lila - Robert M. Pirsig

Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder

The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Evolution - Stephen Baxter

The Memory of Eva Ryker - Donald A. Starwood

 

The Surgeon Of Crowthorne - Simon Winchester

The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Do Worms Have Willies? And 100 other very silly questions and answers - Sarah Herman and Lucy York

The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Antonia Fraser

A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar

The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker

The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker

The Dinosaur Hunters - Deborah Cadbury

Physics of the Earth - T.F. Gaskell

The Man In The Ice - Konrad Spindler

The Beautiful Basics of Science - Natalie Ancier

The Universe - John Gribbin

The Earth - Richard Fortey

Life: An Unauthorised Biography - Richard Fortey

The Penguin History of the World - J. M. Roberts

A Very Short History of the World - Geoffrey Blainey

Supernature - Lyall Watson

The Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan

Life in the Undergrowth - David Attenborough

Life on Earth - David Attenborough

Trials of Life - David Attenborough

The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking

The Illustrated History of England - John Burke

King James - Antonia Fraser

The Case of the Missing Neutrinos - John Gribbin

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche

Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell

The Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins

The Lying Stones of Marrakech - Stephen J. Gould

Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond

Collapse - Jared Diamond

Cosmic Dispatches - John Nobel Wilford

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Comet - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection - Carl Sagan

Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan

Science: A History 1543 - 2001 - John Gribbon

Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins

Steal This Book - Abbie Hofman

What Just Happened? - James Gleick

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Lots of very tempting books on your TBR mountain Bobbly, i have the Count Of Monte Cristo to read as well, i'm pretty sure i bought it after Ben gave it such a good review but it's such a big book i have to be in the right frame of mind to start it. Also i read Still LIfe With Woodpecker Tom Robbins years ago, it's definitely an odd one but i enjoyed it so will be interested to hear what you make of it. A thumbs up as well for The Little Friend  Donna Tartt, people generally seem to prefer Secret History but i loved TLF as well.

 

I too think Wiloyd's scoring system is a good one so am planning to use it myself next year for the books with that WOW!!!! ...factor which i hope there'll be plenty of next year for both of us  :D

 

Happy reading in 2014 Bobbly  :e010:

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Thanks, Kidsmum. I'm a bit stunned by how many books I have unread in total. I really don't want that list to get any bigger! :doh:

 

I have a feeling that my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo is abridged as it's not a big volume at all. I think I will probably swap it for the unabridged version when I get around to reading it.

 

I have a bit of an odd mix of books on my shelf and quite a few of them are books that I probably wouldn't buy today, as my tastes have changed. Anyway, as long as I can slowly whittle away at them, I'll be happy.

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Hi BB

Thought I'd come pay a visit to your new thread this morning ...

 

We have a few books in common : The Little Friend and Wild ,, I have on my kindle too , yet to read .

 

Books I've read from your lists :

 

White Fang - long ago as a kid .

 

The Secret Life of Bees - better than The Help in my opinion, and much the same type of theme .

 

Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - interesting !

The Moonstone - Can't say anything bad about Wilkie !


The Key To Rebecca - another long ago . Very good .t

The Hills is Lonely - another long ago. Very charming .

Dracula: A Mystery Story - read as a teen ... too many years have passed .

Kidnapped - I love ship ,pirate and buried treasure type books, so this was great .

Grimm's Fairy Stories - an old book, given to me by my grandmother. I read it over and over as a kid .I like the way THEY told fairy tales . :)

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens  ---Waddya say about Dickens, other than GREAT .

The Count of Monte Cristo - All time favorites list. SO good !!!

 

Surfacing - read it long ago, have no clue what it was about :(

 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A PLUS --

 

I Know This Much Is True - Another all time favorite !

 

 

Best of luck in the coming year. You certainly have a nice selection to choose from .

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Here are some comments on some books on your TBR:

 

The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. Hamilton

This series is one of my favourite science-fiction series, so far. I love it so much. I hope you like it too!

 

The Lost Daughter - Diane Chamberlain

Kiss River - Diane Chamberlain

These are on my TBR too. So far I've loved all Diane Chamberlain books, I look forward to hear what you think of this one.

 

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding

I loved this one.

 

The Beach - Alex Garland

I think I had a copy that I've read at secondary school but I haven't been able to find it yet.

 

The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

I love this series!

 

Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut

It might be on my TBR. I bought some Kurt Vonnegut books for on the Kindle but on top off my head I'm not sure if I bought this one or not, I might have.

 

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

This is on my wishlist.

 

QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

I have one QI book on my TBR, I think it's the top one.

 

Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition - Jules Verne

The 'normal' edition is on my TBR.

 

Dune - Frank Herbert

I quite liked this book! It's quite unique.

 

Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder

I loved this book! It's such a great story and educational too.

 

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

This is on my wishlist.

 

Evolution - Stephen Baxter

It's either on my TBR or on my wishlist.

 

On my TBR too:

White Fang - Jack London

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

On Books and the Housing of Them - W E Gladstone

The Shining - Stephen King

Misery - Stephen King

Pet Semetary - Stephen King

The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy - Robin Hobb

The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing

Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult

Reamde - Neal Stephenson

The Millenium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson

Dracula: A Mystery Story - Bram Stoker

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

The Last Man - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

London - Edward Rutherfurd

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

Human, All Too Human - Nietzsche

 

Happy Reading in 2014, BB :)!

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Thanks, Janet and Athena. :smile:

 

So many books on my TBR list have been there for years (like Dune, and A Prayer for Owen Meany), and even though I really want to read them, I never seem to be in the mood for them. It's quite frustrating, as I'm sure I will enjoy them....it's just making that first step of picking them up. :blush2: I really want to concentrate on reading those books that have been on my list the longest, but I just can't seem to do that! :doh:

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So many books on my TBR list have been there for years (like Dune, and A Prayer for Owen Meany), and even though I really want to read them, I never seem to be in the mood for them. It's quite frustrating, as I'm sure I will enjoy them....it's just making that first step of picking them up. :blush2: I really want to concentrate on reading those books that have been on my list the longest, but I just can't seem to do that! :doh:

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I have this too sometimes! I can't really help you with it though.. I hope that you'll be in the mood for them in 2014 :).

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I loved Sophie`s World, The Little Friend and A Discovery of Witches. :D

 

I read Dune and all the various sequels as a teenager - though devoured is probably a better word than read - those books really stay with you. :smile:

 

Oops, I realised looking at your TBR that I completely forgot to list my Kindle TBR`s. Oopsies. :blush2: Though my ebooks don`t really count as part of my TBR ; that`s just the way it is. :giggle2:

 

Good luck with your 2014 reads !  :D

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Wow, lots of lists with great books!!

 

London and Sarum are both fascinating books, I read them ages ago, and could easily reread them.  Also I, Claudius...but you must follow it up with Claudius, the God.  Fantastic.  A regular soap opera!  heh

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If The Secret Life of Bees is better than The Help then I may make it one of my next reads.

 

I personally preferred it to The Help, I was absorbed much more into TSLoB than I was with The Help and it had many more stand out moments in it too. (And a nicer cover!  :D )

 

A Monster Calls was a fab read, nice and quick but highly emotive. 

A Discovery of Witches was brilliant, it's a big book but I read it in just a few days it was so good. Sadly the second in the series, Shadow of Night didn't grab me as much, I'm hoping the third book will recapture me! :)

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Phew, you have some great books on your TBR list! Hope you enjoy a reading year  :smile: .

 

Thank you, Marie. :smile:

 

I loved Sophie`s World, The Little Friend and A Discovery of Witches. :D

 

I read Dune and all the various sequels as a teenager - though devoured is probably a better word than read - those books really stay with you. :smile:

 

Sophie's World is one I have tried to read numerous times, but always given up on. Mind you, I haven't tried reading it in about 10 years, so maybe I will enjoy it more now. I've tried The Little Friend as well, and had to give up on it, but as I loved The Secret History so much, I'm willing to give it a second try.

 

I don't know why I haven't read A Discovery of Witches yet because I've heard many positive things about it, and I'm sure I meant to read it as soon as I bought it. It's one that's pretty high on my TBR pile so I should get to it in 2014. :D

 

 

London and Sarum are both fascinating books, I read them ages ago, and could easily reread them.

 

I think the size of London and Sarum have made me postpone reading them....I kind of feel like I need to work up to it. :doh: I've never read any of Edward Rutherfurd's books, though I've always been interested in them. I guess I'll find out sooner or later whether I like them or not. :giggle:

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I personally preferred it to The Help, I was absorbed much more into TSLoB than I was with The Help and it had many more stand out moments in it too. (And a nicer cover!  :D )

 

A Monster Calls was a fab read, nice and quick but highly emotive. 

A Discovery of Witches was brilliant, it's a big book but I read it in just a few days it was so good. Sadly the second in the series, Shadow of Night didn't grab me as much, I'm hoping the third book will recapture me! :)

 

These three are all pretty high up on my TBR list as I've heard many good things about them. :boogie: I'll probably get started on one (or more) of them over the Christmas break. :D

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Hi bobblybear!

 

I've got quite a few of your TBR books on my pile (I fear once I've bitten the bullet and counted them it may have to be renamed as a mountain) and lots of tempting sounding ones among the rest!

 

I too adored the Secret Life of Bees but I have The Help on my pile so I can't compare I'm afraid :lol:

 

Enjoy reading your way through 2014!

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