poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Books Read 2009 Books Read 2010 Books Read 2011 Books Read 2012 Books Read 2013 Total books read in 2009 ... 49 - incomplete list: 40 fiction & 9 non-fiction (1 audio) } male authors: 24 .. female authors: 25Total 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) Total books read in 2013 ... 109 (67 fiction, 21 non-fiction, 5 short stories, 1 poem, 1 essay, 1 collection & 13 audio } male authors: 57 .. female authors: 51 plus all those in the short story collection) Good luck everyone with your reading challenges in 2014 Hope it's a good reading year for you all. Make yourself at home .. there's always tea/coffee/cake and toast available though something stronger will be provided for anyone daft enough to read the reviews Please feel free to tell me I'm talking rubbish (to limit the potential for RSI just use copy & paste) and to point out all the times I went against my own resolution of not buying a book based on its cover. I won't be buying any books in 2014 though .. pretty or otherwise It would most certainly bankrupt me and possibly see me out on my ear. If this does happen though a hotline will be set up so that you can kindly donate beans and underpants and stuff .. please give generously .. after all .. it would be partially your fault Quicklinks Mount TBR (look away now ) 1001 Challenge Modern Library Wishlist 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 Your Toes Curl Up The English Counties Challenge Most Famous Books Set in Every American State 5 - Books I loved 4 - Books I liked a lot (almost as good as above .. though possibly devoid of toast quotes )3 - Books I liked (was possibly let down by a bad cover, no toast or no humour .. might even have been read on a Tuesday .. it's hard to love anything then ) 2 - Books I struggled through (well abandon them then .. you idiot!!)1 - Books I abandoned (let's hope someone bought me some fortitude for Christmas ) January 2014 (7 read and 1 listened to) Dear Lumpy: Letters to a Disobedient Daughter - Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer 4/5 review Sisters By a River - Barbara Comyns 5/5 review Beyond the Great Indoors - Ingvar Ambjørnsen 5/5 review Bonkers : My Life in Laughs - Jennifer Saunders - Audible d/l 4/5 review On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin 4/5 review Kilvert's Diary - Francis Kilvert 4/5 review Mrs Bridge - Evan S. Connell 4/5 review Love, Nina - Nina Stibbe 5/5 review February 2014 (6 read and 1 listened to) High Rising - Angela Thirkell 4/5 review The Library of Unrequited Love - Sophie Divry 5/5 review The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt 4/5 review Mr Pye - Mervyn Peake 4/5 review Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body - M.C. Beaton - Audible d/l 3/5 Christmas at High Rising - Angela Thirkell 3/5 (short stories) review Hollow City - Ransom Riggs 4/5 review March 2014 (6 read) The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd 4/5 review Bedsit Disco Queen - Tracey Thorn 4/5 review The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx 4/5 review Paperboy - Christopher Fowler 4/5 review The Darling Buds of May - H.E. Bates 3/5 review The Crane Wife - Patrick Ness 3/5 review April 2014 (5 read and 1 listened to) The Golem and the Djinni - Helene Wecker - Audible d/l 5/5 review The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend 5/5 (re-read) The Shock of the Fall - Nathan Filer 5/5 Ronnie - Ronnie Wood 3/5 review The Middlesteins - Jami Attenberg 4/5 The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden 4/5 May 2014 (5 read and 1 listened to) Idiopathy - Sam Byers 4/5 review Look Who's Back - Timur Vermes - Audible d/l 4/5 review Perfect - Rachel Joyce 4/5 Heft - Liz Moore 3/5 review The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman 5/5 review We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo 5/5 review June 2014 (7 read) Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren 4/5 review The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 5/5 review How to be Good - Nick Hornby 4/5 Care of Wooden Floors - Will Wiles 5/5 review Sketcher - Roland Watson-Grant 3/5 Trawler - Redmond O'Hanlon 3/5 review Teacher, Teacher - Jack Sheffield 4/5 Edited January 8, 2016 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) July 2014 (6 read) One of Our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde 4/5 review Replay - Ken Grimwood 4/5 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres 4/5 review Mrs Ames - E.F Benson 3/5 review Duende - Jason Webster 4/5 The World Without Us - Alan Weisman 3/5 review August 2014 (5 read) Clever Girl - Tessa Hadley 4/5 review Heading Out To Wonderful - Robert Goolrick 4/5 review The Taste of Apple Seeds - Katharina Hagena 4/5 The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp - Eva Rice 2/5 review Frog Music - Emma Donoghue 4/5 September 2014 (3 read and 1 listened to) Uncle Silas - H.E. Bates The Misunderstanding - Irene Nemirovsky 4/5 How To Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran - Audible d/l 4/5 review Kate Bush's Before the Dawn Tour Programme 100/5 October 2014 (9 read) Frost Hollow Hall - Emma Carroll 5/5 The Rabbit Back Literature Society - Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen 4/5 review Walking Home - Clare Balding 3/5 review The Dynamite Room - Jason Hewitt 5/5 review The Bookstore - Deborah Meyler 3/5 The Body In the Library - Agatha Christie 3/5 The Birds - Daphne du Maurier 4/5 (short story) The Old Man - Daphne du Maurier 4/5 (short story) The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury 4/5 November 2014 (7 read) The Wimbledon Poisoner - Nigel Williams 5/5 The Apple Tree - Daphne du Maurier 4/5 (short story) Kiss me Again Stranger - Daphne du Maurier 3/5 (short story) More Fool Me - Stephen Fry - Audible d/l 4/5 The Panopticon - Jenni Fagan 4/5 The Little Photographer - Daphne du Maurier 4/5 (short story) Monte Verita - Daphne du Maurier 3/5 (short story) December 2014 (1 read and 1 listened to) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 5/5 (re-read) The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell 4/5 review Edited January 29, 2015 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) The Shameful Reckoning of My Books TBR Last year's TBR was based solely on books on bookshelves ... and not on books in boxes .. lofts .. cupboards and inaccessible places. This year's list is based on fact .. and very shameful it is too. You will be wondering how I have the audacity to buy any more books when I should be reading these .. I'm wondering it myself actually and can only blame fresh air and all the bookstores for their devilishly enticing shop window displays (and you .. of course ) It's patently clear that I will have to insist that The Book People remove me from their mailing list .. I might even sue them for damages I won't be buying any more books this year but here's a books acquired in 2014 link just in case Progress 18/242 Fiction:Aaronovitch, Ben - Whispers Underground Abercrombie, Joe - The Heroes Abercrombie, Joe - Red Country Alison, Rosie - The Very Thought of YouAlmond, David - The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean Amis, Kingsley - The Old DevilsAnderson, James - The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg CosyAtkinson, Kate - Started Early Took My DogAtwood, Margaret - The Blind AssassinBarker, Pat - The Ghost Road Barker, Pat - Regeneration Barker, Pat - Toby's RoomBenson, EF - Mrs Ames (Bloomsbury) Beauman, Ned - The Teleportation Accident Benson, E.F. - Lucia Rising (on loan) Binchy, Maeve - Whitethorn WoodsBloom, Amy - Away Boyd, William - Any Human Heart Bradley, James - The Resurrectionist Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and MargaritaBullington, Jesse - The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart Burnett, Frances Hodgson - A Little Princess Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret GardenByatt, AS - PossessionCarey, Peter - Oscar and Lucinda Carter, Angela - Nights at the CircusCarter, Angela - The Passion of New Eve Chang, Jung - Wild SwansChristie, Agatha - Appointment with Death Christie, Agatha - At Bertram's HotelChristie, Agatha - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case Christie, Agatha - Death on the NileChristie, Agatha - Dumb Witness Christie, Agatha - Five Little Pigs Christie, Agatha - Hercule Poirot's Christmas Christie, Agatha - Lord Edgware Dies Christie, Agatha - The Murder at the Vicarage Christie, Agatha - Murder on the Orient ExpressChristie, Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at StylesChristie, Agatha - One, Two, Buckle My ShoeChristie, Agatha - Peril at End HouseChristie, Agatha - Third Girl Clements, Abby - Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream ShopCoe, Jonathan - The Rotters Club Comyns, Barbara - Sisters By a River Connolly, John - NocturnesCraig, Amanda - Hearts and MindsCunningham, Michael - The HoursDahl, Roald - The BFGDahl, Roald - Charlie & the Glass ElevatorDahl, Roald - The WitchesDe Bernieres, Louis - Captain Corelli's MandolinDennys, Joyce - Henrietta Sees it Through (Bloomsbury)De Waal, Edmund - The Hare with Amber Eyes Dickens, Charles - Dickens at Christmas Divry, Sophie - The Diary of Unrequited LoveDrabble, Margaret - The Red Queen Dumas, Alexandre - Robin Hood Du Maurier, Daphne - The Birds and other stories Du Maurier, Daphne - The House on the StrandDu Maurier, Daphne - Jamaica Inn Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose Eggers, Dave - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering GeniusEnglander, Nathan - The Ministry of Special CasesEugenides, Jeffrey - My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead Fairbairn, Charlotte - With the Sound of the SeaFallada, Hans - Alone in Berlin Faulks, Sebastian - BirdsongFforde, Jasper - The Big Over EasyFforde, Jasper - The Fourth Bear Fforde, Jasper - One of our Thursday's is Missing Fforde, Jasper - The Woman Who Died a LotFitzgerald, F.Scott - The Beautiful and the DamnedFitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the NightFox, Essie - The Somnambulist Flynn, Gillian - Gone GirlFrench, Dawn - A Tiny Bit MarvellousFrench, Vivien - The Robe of SkullsFreud, Esther - The Sea HouseFunke, Cornelia - Reckless Galloway, Steven - The Cellist of Sarajevo Gardner, Sally - The Red NecklaceGibbons, Stella - Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm Gogol, Nikolai - The Collected TalesGold, Glen David - Carter Beats the Devil Goss, Theodora - The Thorn and The BlossomGrassic Gibbon, Lewis - Sunset Song Green, Roger Lancelyn - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableGreene, Graham - Brighton Rock Haddon, Mark - The Red HouseHaig, Matt - The Last Family in England Harkaway, Nick - AngelmakerHawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet LetterHay, Sheridan - The Secret of Lost Things Hill, Susan - The Man in the PictureHoare, Philip - LeviathanHoeg, Peter - Miss Smilla's Feeling for SnowHornby, Nick - About a BoyHornby, Nick - A Long Way DownHornby, Nick - How to be GoodHornby, Nick - Juliet NakedHornby, Nick - Slam Hustvedt, Siri - What I LovedIrving, John - The Cider House Rules Irving, John - The World According to GarpJacobson, Howard - The Finkler QuestionJones, Sadie - The OutcastKingsolver, Barbara - The Lacuna Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Book Lakhous, Amara - Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza VittorioLawrence, DH - Women in Love Le Carre, John - The Spy who Came in from the Cold Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook Lindgren, Astrid - Emil and the Great Escape Lindgren, Astrid - Emil and the Sneaky Rat Lindgren, Astrid - Emil's Clever Pig Lindgren, Astrid - Karlson Flies Again Lindgren, Astrid - Karlson on the Roof Lindgren, Astrid - Lotta Makes a Mess Lindgren, Astrid - Lotta Says No Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Goes Abroad Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi in the South Seas Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Longstocking Mantel, Hilary - Fludd Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - The Autumn of the Patriarch Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Chronicle of a Death Foretold Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Leaf StormMarquez, Gabriel Garcia - No One Writes to the Colonel Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Of Love and Other Demons Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Maugham, Somerset - Ashenden Maugham, Somerset - Christmas Holiday Maugham, Somerset - Don Fernando Maugham, Somerset - Liza of Lambeth Maugham, Somerset - The Magician Maugham, Somerset - The Narrow Corner Maugham, Somerset - The Painted Veil Maugham, Somerset - Up at the VillaMcGregor, Jon - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable ThingsMcPherson, Catriona - Dandy Gilver & the Proper Treatment of Blood StainsMistry, Rohinton - A Fine Balance Mitford, Nancy - Don't Tell AlfredMoers, Walter - The 131⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear Montgomery, LM - Anne of Green Gables Morrall, Clare - Natural Flights of the Human MindMorton, Kate - The House at RivertonMurdoch, Iris - The Black PrinceMurdoch, Iris - The Flight from the EnchanterMurdoch, Iris - The Unofficial Rose Nesbit, E - The Railway Children Norton, Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth Oksanen, Sofi - PurgeO'Neill, Joseph - NetherlandOrwell, George - Keep the Aspidistra Flying Peake, Mervyn - Mr Pye Pratchett, Terry and Baxter, Stephen - The Long Earth Preston, Caroline - Gatsby's Girl Radcliffe, Ann - The Mysteries of UdolphoRansome, Arthur - Winter Holiday Rhodes, Dan - This is Life Rodriguez, Deborah - The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul Rymer, James Malcolm - Sweeney ToddSchlink, Bernard - The ReaderSmith, Ali - The AccidentalSpark, Muriel - RobinsonSpark, Muriel - The Comforters Steinbeck, John - Cannery Row Steinbeck, John - East of Eden Steinbeck, John - The Pearl Steinbeck, John - The Red PonyStevenson, DE - Mrs Tim of the Regiment (Bloomsbury) Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure IslandTartt, Donna - The Little FriendTaylor, G.P. - Mariah Mundi & the Ghost Diamonds Thirkell, Angela - Christmas at High Rising Thirkell, Angela - High Rising Toksvig, Sandi - Valentine GreyTownsend, Sue - Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino YearsTownsend, Sue - Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass DestructionUdall, Brady - The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint Vickers, Sally - Miss Garnet's Angel Walter, Jess - Beautiful RuinsWaters, Sarah - FingersmithWaters, Sarah - The Night Watch Welsh, Irvine - Trainspotting Whipple, Dorothy - Someone at a Distance (Persephone) Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of being Earnest Wiles, Will - Care of Wooden Floors Williams, Nigel - East of Wimbledon Williams, Nigel - They Came From SW19 Williams, Nigel - The Wimbledon PoisonerWinterson, Jeanette - Sexing the Cherry Winton, Tim - Cloudstreet Wodehouse, PG - Right Ho, JeevesNon Fiction:Baker, Danny - Going to Sea in a Sieve Betjeman, John - Trains and Buttered Toast Bryson, Bill - Down Under Child, Julia - My Life in France Claridge L - Tamara De Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence Defoe, Daniel - A Journal of the Plague YearDe Waal, Edmund - The Hare with Amber Eyes Faulks, Sebastian - Faulks on FictionFitzgerald, Penelope - So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald Grove, Valerie - Laurie Lee: The Well Loved Stranger Hodgson, Vere - Few Eggs and No Oranges (Persephone)Holroyd, Michael - A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Helen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable FamiliesKeats, John - Bright Star: The Complete Poems and Selected Letters Last, Nella - Nella Last's Peace Manguel, Alberto - A Reading Diary Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - Living to Tell the TaleMcCourt, Frank - Angela's AshesMcCourt, Frank - Tis McGrath, Alistair E - CS Lewis: A Life Milligan, Spike - Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall Milligan, Spike - It Ends with Magic Milligan, Spike - 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' Mortimer, Roger - Dear LumpyMosley, Diana - The Pursuit of LaughterMurdoch, Iris - A Writer at War: the Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch 1939-1945Nicholson, Virginia - Among the BohemiansOzma, Alice - The Reading PromisePasternak, Boris - Letters to Georgian Friends Phillips, John - Vita to Violet: The LettersPowell, Julie - Julie & JuliaProulx, Annie - Bird Cloud Ronson, Jon - The Psychopath TestRugg, Julie & Murphy, Lynda - A Book Addicts Treasury Sheffield, Jack - Teacher, Teacher (on loan) Sitwell, Edith - Selected Letters Stibbe, Nina - Love Nina Strachey, Lytton - Eminent Victorians Van Gogh, Vincent - The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Webster, Jason - Andalus (on loan) Webster, Jason - Duende (on loan) White, Florence - Good Things in England (Persephone) Wood, Ronnie - Ronnie Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 1 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 2 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 3 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 4 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 5 Woolf, Virginia - The Letters of Virginia Woolf Vol 6 Edited October 30, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Books I'd like to lick own Fiction: Baker, Tiffany - The Gilly Salt Sisters Black, Holly - Doll Bones Bonfiglioli, Kyril - Don't Point that Thing at MeBradley, Alan - I Am Half Sick of ShadowsBukowski, Charles - Ham on Rye Butcher, Jim - Storm FrontChabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayComyns, Barbara - Who was Changed and Who was DeadConnolly, John - The GatesDoshi, Tishani - The Pleasure SeekersEarle, Steve - I'll Never Get Out of This WorldEgan, Jennifer - The Invisible Circus Elphinstone, Margaret - LightEugenides, Jeffrey - The Marriage PlotEwing, Barbara - The Circus of Ghosts Fenollera, Natalia Sanmartin - The Awakening of Miss Prim Foster, Alyson - God is an AstronautGaiman, Neil & Pratchett, Terry - Good Omens Gavalda, Anna - French Leave Haig, Matt - The HumansHaig, Matt - The Radleys Hartley, L.P. - The Go-BetweenHealy, Dermot - Long Time, No SeeHill, Susan - Dolly Kaye, I.J. - Mountains of the MoonKennedy Toole, John - A Confederacy of Dunces Laurain, Antoine - The President's Hat Meloy, Colin - Wildwood Mitchell, David - The Bone Clocks Mitchell, Gladys - Watson's Choice Moggach, Deborah - Heartbreak Hotel Morrall, Clare - The Roundabout ManMurray, Paul - An Evening of Long GoodbyesNesbo, Jo - The Redbreast Niffenegger, Audrey - Raven Girl Parkin, Gaile - Baking Cakes in KigaliPatchett, Ann - Bel CantoPears, Tim - Disputed LandPierre, DBC - Vernon God LittlePratchett, Terry - Dodger Richardson, CS - The Emperor of ParisRogan, Charlotte - The Lifeboat Segal, Erich - The ClassSilverstone, Shel - Falling Up Sloan, Robin - Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of WrathSteinbeck, John - The Short Novels of John SteinbeckWatson, S.J. - Before I Go to SleepWaugh, Evelyn - A Handful of DustWaugh, Evelyn - Vile BodiesWetta, Stephen - If Jack's In LoveWharton, Edith - The House of Mirth Williams, Tennessee - A Streetcar Named DesireWoolf, Virginia - The Waves Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. FikryNon Fiction:Bair, Deirdre - Simone de Beauvoir : A BiographyBeach, Sylvia - The Letters of Sylvia BeachBowker, Gordon - George OrwellBrody, Leslie - Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica MitfordCarter, Angela - Expletives Deleted Henshaw, Sarah - The Bookshop that FloatedHughes, Gerald - Ted & IKafka, Franz - Letters to Friends, Family and EditorsKnight, Lynn - Lemon Sherbert and Dolly BlueLurie, Leslie Gilbert & Rita - Bending Toward the Sun : A Mother and Daughter Memoir Mitford, Nancy - A Talent to AnnoyMoore, Lucy - Anything Goes : A Biography of the Roaring TwentiesNabakov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory O'Brien, Edna - Country GirlPlath, Sylvia - The Unabridged JournalsReid, Christopher - The Letters of Ted Hughes Ross, Abbie - Hippy DinnersSewell, Brian - Outsider: Always Almost: Never QuiteShilling, Jane - The Stranger in the MirrorWalker, Alice - The Chicken ChroniclesWalls, Jeanette - The Glass Castle: A MemoirWelty, Eudora & Maxwell, William - What There Is to Say We Have Said Werber, Millie & Keller, Eve - Two Rings: A Story of Love and WarWheeler, Thom - One Steppe Beyond Weiss, Luisa - My Berlin Kitchen Edited September 15, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Books read from the 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die by Peter Boxall - 2006 Progress so far: 139/1001987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe985. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe971. Candide - Voltaire959. Evelina – Fanny Burney940. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen938. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen937. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen936. Emma - Jane Austen933. Persuasion - Jane Austen932. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley919. The Nose – Nikolay Gogol916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe913. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens910. Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens909. The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe905. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray904. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë903. Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë902. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë900. Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell898. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens897. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne896. Moby Dick - Herman Melville892. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell891. Villette – Charlotte Brontë890. Bleak House - Charles Dickens887. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell886. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert883. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens876. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo871. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky869. Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens868. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky865. The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope863. Little Woman - Louisa May Alcott859. Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope854. Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Caroll853. Middlemarch - George Eliot846. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy840. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 821. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson808. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy805. News from Nowhere – William Morris804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle803. Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith794. Dracula - Bram Stoker790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells789. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James776. The Ambassadors – Henry James 740. The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf699. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald698. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie686. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf680. Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh675. Orlando - Virginia Woolf671. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 656. Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham650. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons643. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein619. Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell611. The Years - Virginia Woolf610. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien608. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck603. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier601. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson596. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood 584. Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf566. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford564. Animal Farm - George Orwell563. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh561. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake 547. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 542. Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham521. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith494. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tokien484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham478. The Bell – Iris Murdoch474. Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico467. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote465. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark459. Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee457. Rabbit, Run – John Updike456. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller450. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark446. A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch445. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger433. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath431. The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark399. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez367. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou365. The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison354. Surfacing – Margaret Atwood352. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson305. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch278. On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin review275. Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally274. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro272. The Color Purple – Alice Walker260. Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis237. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson236. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez222. Beloved - Toni Morrison 196. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving172. Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres147. The Secret History – Donna Tartt143. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides133. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx129. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres120. Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster 112. The Information – Martin Amis92. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy90. Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho86. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver69. Pastoralia – George Saunders54. White Teeth – Zadie Smith52. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel38. Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi 33. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides28. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami26. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon15. The Colour – Rose Tremain13. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell9. The Master – Colm Tóibín6. The Sea – John Banville3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Edited January 11, 2015 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 Progress 23/2001. A Murder is Announced2. Nothing - Henry Green3. Power Without Glory - Frank Hardy4. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer5. December Bride - Sam Hanna Bell6. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne Du Maurier7. The West Pier - Patrick Hamilton8. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers9. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell10. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger11. Invisible Man: A Novel - Ralph Ellison12. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway13. The Natural - Bernard Malamud14. The Financial Expert - R.K. Narayan15. Wise Blood: A Novel - Flannery O'Connor16. East of Eden - John Steinbeck17. The Sword of Honour Trilogy - Evelyn Waugh18. Private Life of an Indian Prince - Mulk Raj Anand19. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin20. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow21. The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler22. The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley23. The Echoing Grove - Rosamond Lehman24. The Palm-Wine Drunkard - Amos Tutola25. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis26. Lord of the Flies - William Golding27. The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins28. The Flint Anchor - Sylvia Townsend Warner29. Molloy: Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett30. Recognitions - William Gaddis 31. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith32. Lolita - Vladimir Nabakov33. A Legacy - Sybille Bedford34. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh35. Owls Do Cry - Janet Frame36. On the Road - Jack Kerouac37. Angel - Elizabeth Taylor38. The Fountain Overflows - Rebecca West39. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe40. Anecdotes of Destiny - Isak Dineson41. From the Terrace - John O'Hara42. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe43. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs44. A Heritage and its History - Ivy Compton-Burnett45. The Little Disturbances of Man - Grace Paley46. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee47. Balkan Trilogy - Olivia Manning48. Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetrology: (Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest) - John Updike49. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse50. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller51. A House for Mr Biswas - V.S. Naipaul 52. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark53. Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White54. That's How it Was - Maureen Duffy55. The Reivers - William Faulkner56. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing57. The Lonely Girl - Edna O'Brien58. Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter59. The Little Girls - Elizabeth Bowen60. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre61. The Group - Mary McCarthy62. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath63. Herzog - Saul Bellow64. Heartland - Wilson Harris65. Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby66. Memoirs of a Peon - Frank Sargeson67. Interpreters - Wole Soyinka68. A Jest of God - Margaret Laurence69. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys70. The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott71. Cotters England - Christina Stead72. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron73. A Grain of Wheat - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o74. In the Heart of the Country - William H. Gass75. The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch76. The Unfortunates - B.S. Johnson77. Happiness and other Stories - Mary Lavin78. The Godfather - Mario Puzo79. Fifth Business - Robertson Davies80. Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian81. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth82. St. Urbain's Horseman - Mordecai Richler83. Black List, section H - Francis Stuart84. The Optomist's Daughter - Eudora Welty85. The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell86. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon87. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow88. Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala89. Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses - David Lodge90. The Lost Salt Gift of Blood - Alistair Macleod91. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice92. Saville - David Storey93. Injury Time - Beryl Bainbridge94. Falconer - John Cheever95. A Book of Common Prayer - Joan Didion96. Ice Age - Margaret Drabble97. Tirra Lirra by the River - Jessica Andersen98. Plumb - Maurice Gee99. The Human Factor - Graham Greene100. Murderer - Roy Heath101. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan102. The Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan103. From the Fifteenth District - Mavis Gallant104. Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer105. Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick106. The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer107. A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul108. Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess109. The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard110. Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban111. Lamb - Bernard MacLaverty112. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson113. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole114. Puffball - Fay Weldon115. Lanark - Alasdair Gray116. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris117. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie118. A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone119. On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin120. Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally 121. The Color Purple - Alice Walker122. A Boys Own Story -123. Money - Martin Amis124. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard125. Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes126. In Custody - Anita Desai127. Nation of Fools - Balraj Khanna128. Machine Dreams - Jayne Anne Phillips129. Family and Friends - Anita Brookner130. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy131. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty132. Black Robe - Brian Moore133. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson134. The Sportswriter - Richard Ford135. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro136. A Summons to Memphis - Peter Taylor137. Dark Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine138. Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons139. Double Whammy - Carl Hiaasen140. Misery - Stephen King141. Beloved - Toni Morrison142. In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje143. Other Garden - Francis Wyndham144. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey145. Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver146. Paris Trout - Pete Dexter147. Sugar Mother - Elizabeth Jolley148. Forty-seventeen - Frank Moorhouse149. Ice Candy Man - Bapsi Sidhwa150. Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler151. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe152. The Book of Evidence - John Banville153. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos 154. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan155. Possession - A.S. Byatt156. Age of Iron - J.M. Coetzee157. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham158. The Snapper - Roddy Doyle159. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard160. Amongst Women - John McGahern161. The Great World - David Malouf162. Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro163. Regeneration Trilogy - Pat Barker164. Wise Children - Angela Carter165. A Strange and Sublime Address - Amit Chaudhuri166. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis167. Redundancy of Courage - Timothy Mo168. Mating - Norman Rush169. Downriver - Iain Sinclair170. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley171. Reading Turgenev - William Trevor172. Cloudstreet - Tim Winton173. Death and Nightingales - Eugene McCabe174. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe175. The Secret History - Donna Tartt176. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides177. River Sutra - Gita Mehta178. My Idea of Fun - Will Self179. The Shipping News - Annie Proulx180. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh181. What a Carve Up - Jonathan Coe182. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres183. The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst184. Original Sin - P.D. James185. How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman186. The Tortilla Curtain - T. Coraghessan Boyle187. The Blue Flower - Penelope Fitzgerald188. A Fine Balance - Mistry Rohinton189. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood190. Asylum - Patrick McGrath191. Last Orders - Graham Swift192. Night in Question - Tobias Wolff193. Quarantine - Jim Crace194. Underworld - Don Delillo195. American Pastoral - Philip Roth196. Lady from Guatemala - V.S. Pritchett197. The Magus - John Fowles198. So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell199. Children's Bach - Helen Garner200. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks Edited July 13, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Book Club Forum Member's Favourite Fiction Reads Kylie's Favourite Fiction (progress 23/40)Jane Austen - EmmaJane Austen - Pride & PrejudiceJohn Banville - The Body of EvidenceRay Bradbury - Farenheit 451Charlotte Bronte - Jane EyreAnthony Burgess - A Clockwork OrangeItalo Calvino - If On a Winter's Night a TravellerJohn Connolly - The Book of Lost ThingsCharles Dickens - A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens - A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens - Great ExpectationsAlexandre Dumas - Count of Monte ChristoMark Dunn - Ella Minnow PeaJeffrey Eugenides - MiddlesexMichel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the WhiteF. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great GatsbyJonathan Safran Foer - Everything is IlluminatedGeorge & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a NobodyJoseph Heller - Catch 22Susan Hill - The Woman in BlackJack Kerouac - On the RoadJack Kerouac - The Town and the CityKen Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestDaniel Keyes - Flowers for AlgernonSteig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon TattooHarper Lee - To Kill A MockingbirdErich Maria Marquez - All Quiet on the Western FrontMargaret Mitchell - Gone With the WindVladimir Nabakov - LolitaGeorge Orwell - Animal FarmAyn Rand - Atlas ShruggedMary Shelley - FrankensteinJohn Steinbeck - Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck - Of Mice and MenBram Stoker - DraculaHunter.S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las VegasJohn Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of DuncesOscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian GrayTim Winton - CloudstreetMarkus Zusak - The Book ThiefFrankie's Favourite Fiction (progress 32/103)Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen Ingvar Ambjørnsen - Elling seriesJane Austen - Northanger Abbey Jane Austen - PersuasionIain Banks - Wasp Factory Muriel Barbery - The Elegance of the Hedgehog Linwood Barclay - Too Close to HomeRobert Bloch - PsychoJohn Boyne - CrippenJohn Boyne - The Boy in the Striped PyjamasPoppy Z. Brite - Exquisite Corpse Karin Brunk Holmqvist - Pieni potenssipuoti Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Chelsea Cain - HeartsickTruman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany'sMichael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayStephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a WallflowerAgatha Christie - Ten little NiggersSusanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Jeffery Deaver - Lincoln Rhyme seriesCharles Dickens - A Tale of Two CitiesLucy Dillon - The Secret of Happy Ever After Emma Donoghue - RoomDaphne du Maurier - My Cousin RachelJeffrey Eugenides - MiddlesexMichel Faber - Under the SkinJasper Fforde - The Eyre AffairHelen Fielding - Bridget Jones's DiaryFannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafePeter 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 MeMark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeMatt Haig - The Last Family in EnglandAnna-Leena Härkönen - Häräntappoase Daniil Harms - Incidences Charlaine Harris - Sookie Stackhouse seriesJoanne Harris - Gentleman & PlayersErnest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises Nick Hornby - Juliet, NakedSiri Hustvedt - The Summer Without MenKazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of HillsLloyd 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 GirlAndrey Kurkov - Death & the PenguinTuomas Kyrö - Mielensäpahoittaja Harper Lee - To Kill a MockingbirdDennis Lehane - Shutter Island Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby Jeff Lindsay - DexterVaino Linna - The Unknown SoldierJennifer 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 GreenMargaret Mitchell - Gone with the WindSue Monk Kidd - The Secret of Bees L.M. Montgomery - The Blue CastleAlan Moore & Dave Gibbons - WatchmenHaruki Murakami - Sputnik SweetheartSofi Oksanen - PurgeAnn Patchett - Bel CantoInna Patrakova - Naapurit Dan Rhodes - GoldAnne 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 StoryMary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyGeorge Bernard Shaw - PygmalionAnita Shreve - The Weight of WaterLinda Lay Shuler - She Who Remembers Nevil Shute - Pied Piper Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Karin Slaughter - Grant County + Will Trent seriesRobert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll & Mr HydeGarth Stein - The Art of Racing in the RainJohn Steinbeck - The Wayward Bus Kathryn Stockett - The Help Bram Stoker - DraculaPatrick Suskind - PerfumeVikas Swarup - Q&ADonna Tartt - The Secret HistoryJari Tervo - Pyhiesi yhteyteen Voltaire - CandideKurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse FiveSarah Waters - FingersmithIrvine Welsh - TrainspottingOscar Wilde - The Importance of Being EarnestCarlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the WindMarkus Zusak - The Book Thief Edited January 11, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Book Club Forum Member's Favourite Non-Fiction Kylie's Favourite Non-Fiction (progress 3/13)Bill Bryson - Down UnderBill Bryson - A Walk in the WoodsBill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly EverythingTruman Capote - In Cold BloodAB Facey - A Fortunate LifeTim Flannery - The ExplorersTim Flannery - The Birth of SydneyAnne Frank - The Diary of Anne FrankHelene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross RoadSteven D. Levitt - FreaconomicsSylvia Plath - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia PlathAndrew Solomon - The Noonday DemonMartin Toseland - A Steroid Hit the EarthFrankie's Favourite Non-Fiction (progress 3/28)Sylvia Beach - Shakespeare and CompanyConstance Briscoe - UglyVincent Bugliosi - Helter SkelterAugusten Burroughs - A Wolf at the TableAugusten Burroughs - DryAugusten Burroughs - Magical ThinkingAugusten Burroughs - Possible Side EffectsAugusten Burroughs - Running with ScissorsAlain de Botton - How Proust Can Change Your LifePeggy Claude-Pierre - The Secret Language of Eating DisordersPamela Druckerson - French Children Don't Throw FoodAnne Frank - The Diary of a Young GirlPhilip Gonzalez - The Dog Who Rescues CatsJohn Grogan - Marley and MeRonald Hayman - The Death and Life of Sylvia PlathNick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic SpreeLesley McDowell - Between the Sheets - The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women WritersMotley Crue - The DirtVicki Myron - Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the WorldChristopher V.V. Parnell - Hell's PrisonerDave Peltzer - A Child Called ItFlora Rheta Scheiber - SybilMary Roach - Stiff - The Life of the Human CadaversAnn Rule - The Stranger Beside MeDeborah Spungen - And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of her Daughter's MurderDanny Wallace - Yes ManTobias Wolff - This Boys LifeTuula-Liina Varis - Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka Edited January 11, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Books bought/acquired 2014 Progress 26/37 Fiction: Aaronovitch, Ben - Broken Homes (Borrowed from lovely Claire) Ambjørnsen, Ingvar - Beyond the Great Indoors (from lovely frankie ) Attenburg, Jami - The Middlesteins (from lovely Claire ) Bates, H.E. - The Darling Buds of May Bates, H.E. - My Uncle Silas Bradley, Alan - A Red Herring Without Mustard Bradley, Alan - The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag Bulawayo, NoViolet - We Need New Names Byers, Sam - Idiopathy Carroll, Emma - Frost Hollow Hall (Borrowed from lovely Claire) Chatwin, Bruce - On the Black Hill Collis, John Stewart - The Worm Forgives the Plough (from lovely Kylie ) Connell, Evan S. - Mrs Bridge Fagan, Jenni - The Panopticon (from lovely Claire ) Filer, Nathan - The Shock of the Fall Gaiman, Neil - The Ocean at the End of the Lane Grimwood, Ken - Replay (from lovely chaliepud ) Hagena, Katharina - The Taste of Apple Seeds (borrowed from lovely Claire) Hewitt, Jason - The Dynamite Room Hines, Barry - A Kestrel for a Knave Jääskeläinen, Pasi Ilmari - The Rabbit Back Literature Society Jonasson, Jonas - The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden Joyce, Rachel - Perfect Meyler, Deborah - The Bookstore (Borrowed from lovely Claire) Nemirovsky, Irene - The Misunderstanding Ness, Patrick - The Crane Wife North, Claire - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Riggs, Ransom - Hollow City Solomons, Natasha - The Gallery of Vanished Husbands Tey, Josephine - The Franchise Affair (from lovely Claire ) Townsend, Sue - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Non-Fiction: Crystal, Ben - Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard Fowler, Christopher - Paperboy Gaskell, Elizabeth - The Life of Charlotte Bronte Kilvert, Francis - Kilvert's Diary (edited by William Plomer) Marx, Groucho - The Groucho Letters (from lovely Kylie ) Thorn, Tracey - Bedsit Disco Queen Edited November 8, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Poached Quotes on Toasts Toast Quotes 2012Toast Quotes 2013 Most of these have been taken from books as I've read them ... though I did add my faves to begin with but .. all in all .. I've accumulated about 84. Not sure what I'm going to do with them but it keeps me out of mischief and stops me playing on train tracks etc. If you happen upon a toast quote I'd be very grateful if you could point me in its general direction I'll add a few down here .. just to get us warmed up (or nice and toasty .. as I call it ) The weirdest: A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess: So up I went to the tenth floor, and there I saw 10-8 as it had been before, and my rooker trembled and shook as I took out of my carman the little klootch I had for opening up. But I very firmly fitted the klootch in the lock and turned, then opened up then went in, and there I met three pairs of surprised and almost frightened glazzies looking at me, and it was pee and em having their breakfast, but it was also another veck that I had never viddied in my jeezny before, a bolshy thick veck in his shirt and braces, quite at home, brothers, slurping away at the milky chai and munchmunching at his eggiweg and toast One of the funniest: The Wrong Boy - Willy Russell: Then she whispered in my ear again and she said, 'Have you ever made love ... with Chris de Burgh ... in the background?' And I thought that was the most spectacularly disgusting thing of all! I said, 'I wouldn't even make toast with Chris de Burgh in the background!' The most philosophical: Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith: Steam rises off teacups. We've got the taste of buttered toast in our mouths. At least, I assume we all have it, since we've all been eating the same toast. Then I start to worry. Because what if we all taste things differently? What if each bit of toast tastes completely different? After all, the two bits I've eaten tasted a bit different even from each other. The most disgusting: Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell: A customer orders, for example, a piece of toast. Somebody, pressed with work in a cellar deep underground, has to prepare it. How can he stop and say to himself. 'This toast is to be eaten - I must make it eatable'? All he knows is that it must look right and must be ready in three minutes. Some large drops of sweat fall from his forehead onto the toast. Why should he worry? Presently the toast falls among the filthy sawdust on the floor. Why trouble to make a new piece? It is much quicker to wipe the sawdust off. On the way upstairs the toast falls again, butter side down. Another wipe is all it needs The most comforting: Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh: There was a silver tea-pot, and a silver kettle with a little spirit-lamp underneath, and a silver cream jug and a covered silver dish full of muffins. There was also hot buttered toast and honey and gentleman's relish and a chocolate cake, a cherry cake, a seed cake and a fruit cake and some tomato sandwiches and pepper and salt and currant bread and butter. Sisters By a River - Barbara Comyns: When he was at last ready, with his silver flask filled with brandy in case he was overcome by the journey, we all had to flock to the door to see him off, and until the carrage had disapeared from sight we had to say Good Luck, Good Luck and then go on saying more Good Lucks. Once I wouldn't say good Luck at all, just went on eating my toast and marmalaid, the grown-ups Granny in particular were horrorfied and I was smacked and locked in the bootroom, usually when I was locked up there I used to eat the galoches, but this time it was too soon after breakfast so I cried until I was sick, they had to let me out after that. (I know how easy it is to be distracted by toast ... though have never been locked in a bootroom for it .. I've never lived anywhere that had a bootroom and I'm rather glad of it. Can't see the appeal in snacking on 'galoches' .. things would have to be desperate for me to consider it as an option ) On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin: Dr Bulmer came and diagnosed pneumonia. For two weeks Mary hardly left the bedside. She ladled liquorice and elderberry down his throat and, at the least sign of a rally, she fed him spoonfuls of egg-custard and slips of buttered toast. He would cry out, 'When am I going to die, Mama?' 'I'll tell you when,' she'd say. 'And it'll be a long while yet.' (Exactly what I'd do to keep someone in the land of the living .. though very much on a 'one for me .. one for you' basis =D) Mr Pye - Mervyn Peake: 'Pull for the shore sailor! Pull for the shore! Heed not the roll ... ing waves but bend to the oar! Safe in the lifeboat, sailor ... Tumpty-tumpty taw, Tiddly-widdly-pidly, sailor! Pull .. for .. the .. shore! Pull on your clothes! Let's have some breakfast, sailor! Porridge and loaves, safe in the kitchen, sailor! There'll be toast galore!' (This was a bit of an impromptu song made up by Mr Pye and his landlady Miss Dredger .. I can't say I thought much of it until the last line .. it ended rather triumphantly =D) The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt: 'The plate of food, when he set it before me, was nothing to look at - puffy, yellow stuff on toast. But it smelled good. Cautiously, I tasted it. It was melted cheese, with chopped-up tomato and cayenne pepper and some other things I couldn't figure out, and it was delicious.' (Proof positive that toast can make anything taste good .. even puffy, yellow stuff.) The Darling Buds of May - H.E. Bates: Mariette was eating toast and golden marmalade. As she opened her mouth to eat he saw, for the first time, how beautifully white her teeth were and how pink, in a pure rose-petal shade, her tongue now appeared as it darted out and caught at golden shreds of marmalade. (It's obviously early days in their relationship!) Edited March 18, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) Poppyshake's English Counties Challenge (the most famous books associated with each English county) For more info visit the English Counties Challenge forum Progress 27/48 (but some of those read will be re-read) Bedfordshire: My Uncle Silas by H. E. BatesBerkshire: The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameBristol: The Misses Mallett by E. H. YoungBuckinghamshire: The Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperCambridgeshire: The Nine Tailors by Dorothy SayersCheshire: Cranford by Elizabeth GaskellCity of London: A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensCornwall: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier (on shelf)Cumbria: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur RansomeDerbyshire: Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDevon: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleDorset: Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyCounty Durham: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles DickensEast Riding of Yorkshire: South Riding by Winifred HoltbyEast Sussex: Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. MilneEssex: The Turn Of The Screw by Henry JamesGloucestershire: Cider With Rosie by Laurie LeeGreater London: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleGreater Manchester: North and South by Elizabeth GaskellHampshire: Watership Down by Richard Adams Herefordshire: On The Black Hill by Bruce ChatwinHertfordshire: Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenIsle of Wight: The Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamKent: The Darling Buds of May by H. E. BatesLancashire: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonLeicestershire: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue TownsendLincolnshire: The Mill on the Floss by George EliotMerseyside: An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl BainbridgeNorfolk: The Go-Between by L. P. HartleyNorth Yorkshire: Dracula by Bram StokerNorthamptonshire: Mansfield Park by Jane AustenNorthumberland: The Stars Look Down by A. J. CroninNottinghamshire: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. LawrenceOxfordshire: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy MitfordRutland: Set In Stone by Robert GoddardShropshire: Summer Lightning by P. G. WodehouseSomerset: Lorna Doone by R. D. BlackmoreSouth Yorkshire: A Kestral For A Knave by Barry HinesStaffordshire: The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold BennettSuffolk: The Bookshop by Penelope FitzgeraldSurrey: The War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsTyne and Wear: Another World by Pat BarkerWarwickshire: Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas HughesWest Midlands: Middlemarch by George EliotWest Sussex: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsWest Yorkshire: Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëWiltshire: Barchester Towers by Anthony TrollopeWorcestershire: The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Edited March 18, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) The Most Famous Book Set in Every (American) State Challenge Progress 10/51 (map)AL: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper LeeAK: Into the Wild - Jon KrakauerAZ: The Bean Trees - Barbara KingsolverAR: A Painted House - John GrishamCA: East of Eden - John SteinbeckCO: The Shining - Stephen KingCT: Revolutionary Road - Richard YatesDE: The Saint of Lost Things - Christopher CastellaniFL: To Have and Have Not - Ernest HemingwayGA: Gone With the Wind - Margaret MitchellHI: Hawaii - James MichenerID: Housekeeping - Marilynne RobinsonIL: The Jungle - Upton SinclairIN: The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth TarkingtonIA: A Thousand Acres - Jane SmileyKS: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum (of course )KY: Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher StoweLA: Interview with a Vampire - Anne RiceME: Carrie - Stephen KingMD: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne TylerMA: Walden - Henry David ThoreauMI: The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey EugenidesMN: Main Street - Sinclair LewisMS: The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (aaarrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! )MO: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark TwainMT: A River Runs Through It - Norman MacleanNE: My Antonia - Willa CatherNV: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. ThompsonNH: The Hotel New Hampshire - John IrvingNJ: Drown - Junot DiazNM: Red Sky at Morning - Richard BradfordNY: The Great Gatsby - F.Scott FitzgeraldNC: A Walk to Remember - Nicholas SparksND: The Round House - Louise EldrichOH: The Broom of the System - David Foster WallaceOK: Paradise - Toni MorrisonOR: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken KeseyPA: The Lovely Bones - Alice SeboldRI: My Sisters Keeper - Jodi PicoultSC: The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk KiddSD: A Long Way From Home - Tom BrokawTN: The Firm and The Client - John GrishamTX: No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthyUT: The 19th Wife - David EbershoffVT: Pollyanna - Eleanor H. PorterVA: Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine PatersonWA: Twilight - Stephenie MeyerDC: The Lost Symbol - Dan BrownWV: Shiloh - Phillis Reynolds NaylorWI: Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls WilderWY: The Laramie Project - Moises Kaufman Edited January 11, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 (edited) My Favourite Books (list can also be used as a 'best avoided' ) Progress 133/133 (Go me! ) FictionBen Aaronovitch - Rivers of London seriesJoe Abercrombie - The First Law TrilogyEdward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia WoolfClare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare (yes ... that's how it all began )Jane Austen - Northanger AbbeyJane Austen - PersuasionJane Austen - Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen - Sense and SensibilityJulian Barnes - Arthur & GeorgeDavid Benioff - City of ThievesEmily Brontë - Wuthering HeightsAgatha Christie - And Then There Were NoneSusanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellJohn Connolly - The Book of Lost ThingsPatrick deWitt - The Sisters BrothersCharles Dickens - A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens - A Tale of Two CitiesFyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & PunishmentMark Dunn - Ella Minnow PeaJeffrey Eugenides - MiddlesexJasper Fforde - The Thursday Next seriesJonathan Safran Foer - Everything is IlluminatedNeil Gaiman - NeverwherePaul Gallico - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a NobodyJoseph Heller - Catch 22Emma Henderson - Grace Williams Says it LoudJohn Irving - A Prayer for Owen MeanyKazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me GoEowyn Ivey - The Snow Child Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the CastleMette Jakobsen - The Vanishing Act Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark Stephen Kelman - Pigeon EnglishBarbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood BibleAndrey Kurkov - Death and the PenguinHarper Lee - To Kill a MockingbirdLauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & JamKaren Maitland - Company of LiarsHilary Mantel - Bring Up the BodiesHilary Mantel - Wolf HallGabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of SolitudeDaphne du Maurier - My Cousin RachelDaphne du Maurier - RebeccaCormac McCarthy - The RoadHerman Melville - Moby DickMargaret Mitchell - Gone with the WindNancy Mitford - The Pursuit of LoveErin Morgenstern - The Night CircusToni Morrison - BelovedIris Murdoch - The Sea, The SeaPaul Murray - Skippy DiesIrene Nemirovsky - Suite FrancaiseSylvia Plath - The Bell JarAnnie Proulx - The Shipping NewsDan Rhodes - GoldRansom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenWilly Russell - The Wrong BoyF. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great GatsbyMaria Semple - Where'd You Go BernadetteMary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie SocietyLynn Shepherd - Tom All-AlonesDodie Smith - I Capture the CastleKathryn Stockett - The HelpBram Stoker - DraculaMari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B FlatDonna Tartt - The Secret HistoryVoltaire - Candide Sarah Waters - The Little StrangerVirginia Woolf - To the LighthouseMarkus Zusak - The Book ThiefYoung AdultRichard Adams - Watership DownJoan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby ChaseLewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in WonderlandStephen Chbosky - The Perks of being a WallflowerEoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl seriesRoald Dahl - MatildaCornelia Funke - InkheartNeil Gaiman - The Graveyard BookSally Gardner - I CorianderKenneth Grahame - Wind in the WillowsMark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeC.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch & the WardrobeA.A. Milne - Winnie the PoohPatrick Ness - A Monster CallsMary Norton - The BorrowersTerry Pratchett - WintersmithChris Priestley - Tales of Terror seriesJ.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter seriesJonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus TrilogyJ.R.R. Tolkien - The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the RingsSue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾P.L. Travers - Mary PoppinsCatherynne M.Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own MakingNon-fictionAndrea Ashworth - Once in a House on FireClare Balding - My Animals and Other FamilyJohn Bayley - The Iris TrilogyWilliam Blacker - Along the Enchanted WayJames Bowen - A Streetcat Named Bob Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big CountryBill Bryson - Notes from a Small IslandBill Bryson - The Lost ContinentAugusten Burroughs - Running with ScissorsAnne Frank - The Diary of a Young GirlStephen Fry - Moab is My WashpotStephen Fry - The Fry ChroniclesAngelica Garnett - Deceived with KindnessSusan Hill - Howards End is on the LandingNick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic SpreeWilliam Horwood - The Boy With No ShoesBrian Keenan - An Evil CradlingRichard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth PressHermione Lee - Virginia WoolfLaurie Lee - Cider with RosieMary S. Lovell - The Mitford GirlsAlexander Masters - Stuart: A Life BackwardsSarah Miles - Right Royal B*stardDavid Mitchell - Back StoryCaitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman Charlotte Mosley - Letters Between Six Sisters (Mitford's)Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Van Gogh: The LifeGeorge Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and LondonSylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia PlathLorna Sage - Bad BloodOscar Wilde - De ProfundisJeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal?Elie Wiesel - NightVirginia Woolf - A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf - Selected DiariesVirginia Woolf - Selected Letters Edited January 11, 2014 by poppyshake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 Poppyshake's 2014 thread is now open for business .. welcome one and all Please feel free to come in and make yourself comfy .. there are drinks and nibbles on the side. I am raising a glass to you all as I type (which is a skill in itself ) to wish you all the best in 2014 and Happy Reading of course. May all your reads be tolerable at the very least I'm already getting excited about the absolutely brilliant books I'm bound to read in 2014 I didn't set any goals this year (2013) but did rather better than last year so will carry on in the same style with hopefully the same results. My house is probably at groaning point now with regard to books so I need to think of other ways of acquiring them. I'm still not at home with my Kindle (well I am obviously .. but .. you know .. we're not best friends ) but that might change .. however .. I need to re-acquaint myself with the library and use their reservation services etc as much as possible .. especially if I'm to crack on with the county challenge. Will probably have to pluck my eyes out to stop myself from being attracted to all the nice covers .. it's just not possible to own every one ... it's very hard on the rest of you but I will be wishing to see only ugly books this year When writing up my books TBR in 2013 I came to the figure of 130 .. since doing an 'infantry' (a howler of epic proportions but it was a mammoth task so not wholly inaccurate ) I realised that the figure is much nearer to 250 It would be entirely reasonable for my husband to confiscate my purse and lock me in the attic (where most of the TBR's are) until I have at least got the figure down below 100 .. thank God he relies on me to make his sandwiches for work. Anyway .. this wasn't supposed to be generalised waffling ... I've left a space for that. I'll just add (without emoticons .. I've emoted enough apparently) Happy New Year! xx Don't be strangers ... please make a nuisance of yourself here as I will certainly be doing the same in your thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Happy new reading year to you, Kay May all the covers you see be ugly to prevent overspending and increasing of TBR (although you still need to find that elusive pink spine from somewhere ) May all your library reservations come quickly (how long can it take to deliver a book to an eager reader, after all? ) May all your reading be interesting ('coz you gotta have some rubbish in there to show how good the good stuff is ) And may all your reviews be waffling and funny (this one's for us, as we need something to keep our spirits up at the end of the day ) Happy 2014! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I love your thread already! I hope 2014 will be a good reading year for you . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobblybear Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Happy reading for 2014. I suspect your "BCF Member's Favourites" post will be quite a long one by the time the year is up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Happy 2014, in every which way Kay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Your blog is one of the best there is. I only wish my own was half as interesting! Happy reading 2014, lovely Kay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Happy reading in 2014, Kay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie H Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Happy reading/toast munching in 2014 poppychake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Miss Poppy The best of luck in 2014 . I'm sure you'll do fine with your reading ,as you always do . The No-Buying -Books Rule might be a bit harder to handle. I know the feeling myself . Maybe Alan could spray paint a pair of sunglasses for you ,and get you a seeing-eye -dog so that you won't be distracted by the flashy book covers in the windows of the stores . * Note- you'd have to train the dog well so he could lead you to the correct section of the grocery for your TOAST ingredients . We wouldn't want you to miss out on that . And if Alan does take your purse and lock you in the attic, if that's where your books are, it really wouldn't be a bad place to be . You might wanna stash some candy bars or something up there too so you have some treats to keep on hand . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 .. and a laptop because we'll miss you otherwise! In all seriousness, I hope you have the best of reading years in 2014 - filled with lovely, bright covers (even though it'll test your resolve, you don't really want to just view ugly books, surely?) and wonderful reads galore. I'm going to attempt to be more active in book blogs this year, so make sure you save me a seat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I've just spotted you have Birdsong on your TBR list, I hope you get to read it soon, it has to be in my top ten books of all time, not quite as fantastic as Human Traces but very close. I have a copy of Replay that you are welcome to have, much as I liked it I rarely read books twice and I'm not a book collector/hoarder, you may even lick it then but I must warn you it does come from a doggy household and whilst all attempts would be made to post it hair free this isn't always possible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karsa Orlong Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I have a copy of Replay that you are welcome to have, much as I liked it I rarely read books twice and I'm not a book collector/hoarder But . . . But . . . But it's Replay! Mind you, I suppose, being Replay, if you wanted to read it again you should really buy it again And then give it to Kay again And then buy it again Etc, ad infinitum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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