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Hi all –

 

I am back (again)! I am 5 months late to the reading party of 2017 but I am just glad I have got here at last.

 

After reading Outlander last year, I got a huge book hangover and didn’t manage a to read much more – maybe 4/5 books in as many or more months! Other contributing factors were my starting running and the emergence of a love life!!!

 

But I have finally got my book mojo back so here I am…

 

And here are my lists… (I still have a bit of working out to do but will over the next few days!) :)

 

 

2009: Read 48 books
2010: Read 79 books
2011: Read 74 books
2012: Read 92 books

2013: Read 59 books

2014: Read 45 books

2015: Read 49 books

2016:

2017: 

 

Reading Goals ~

  • To have less than 404 books on my TBR list on 1st January 2018. 
  • Unless I am going to begin reading it that minute, make a list of kindle books I want. Don't just download - the only exceptions to this rule is books I want from the Daily Deal.
  • Read some thrillers! 
  • Review every book!

 

Read 2017:

1. Happy Mum, Happy Baby by Giovanni Fletcher

2. With All My Heart by Margaret Barnes Campbell

3. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

4. Longbourne Library by Trudy Wallis

5. Promise House by Sandra K Moore

6. A Nightingale Christmas Carol by Donna Douglas 

7. The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Penman

8. The Nurses of Steeple Street by Donna Douglas 

9. Never Stand Alone by Janet Macleod Trotter 

10. Catherine of Braganza by Sarah Beth Watkins

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1 - 35: gained in 2009 or before
36 – 79: gained in 2010
80 - 103: gained in 2011
104 – 147: gained in 2012
148
– 175: gained in 2013
176 – 217: gained in 2014
218 – 285: gained in 2015
286 – 405: gained in 2016/17

 

1. Campbell, Christy: Band of Brigands
2. Foreman, Amanda: The Duchess
3. Garfield, Simon: Our Hidden Lives
4. Gristwood, Sarah: Elizabeth and Leicester
5. Guy, John: My Heart Is My Own
6. Massie, Robert: Nicholas and Alexandra
7. Rees, Laurence: Behind Closed Doors
8. Williams, Stephanie: Olga’s Story
9. Weir, Alison: Henry VIII
10. Anderson, Hans Christian: Anderson’s Fairy Tales
11. Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
12. Dunant, Sarah: In the Company of the Courtesan
13. Fforde, Jasper: The Eyre Affair
14. Furnivall, Kate: The Russian Concubine
15. George, Margaret: Helen of Troy
16. Gee, Sophie: The Scandal of the Season
17. Gregory, Philippa: The Queens Fool
18. Gilbert, Henry: Robin Hood
19. Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
20. Lawrence, D. H: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
21. Lee, Harper: To Kill A Mocking Bird
22. Lewis, Hilda: I, Jacqueline
23. McIntosh, Fiona: Royal Exile
24. Montefiore, Santa: The Swallow and the Hummingbird
25. Montefiore, Santa: The Butterfly Box
26. Montgomery, L.M : Anne of Green Gables
27. Nesbit, E: The Railway Children
28. Ryan, Robert: Early One Morning
29. Sheers, Owen: Resistance
30. Sittenfeld, Curtis: American Wife
31. Steel, Danielle: Silent Honour
32. Thomes, Rosie: Isis and Ruby
33. Tolkien, J.R.R: The Silmarillion
34. Tolkien, J.R.R: Unfinished Tales
35. Adams: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
36. Brands: Traitor to his Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
37. Byatt, AS: The Children's Book
38. Burstein, Andrew: Jefferson’s Secrets
39. Campion, Emma: The King's Mistress
40. Cheek, Mavis: Amenable Women
41. Clark, Mary Higgins: The Christmas collection
42. Deighton, Len: SS – GB
43. Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking
44. Duff, David: Alexandra: Princess and Queen
45. Dunant, Sarah: Sacred Hearts
46. Erikson, Carolly: Great Catherine
47. Erickson, Carolly: The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
48. Figes, Orlando: Natasha’s Dance
49. Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth
50. Furnivall, Kate: Under A Blood Red Sky
51. Gill, Gillian: We Two
52. Gordon Reed, Annette: The Hemingses of Montecello
53. Harrods-Eagles, Cynitha: Anna
54. Hibbert, Christopher: Victoria – a Personal History
55. Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner
56. Kerr, Judith: Out of Hitler Time
57. Lieven, Dominic: Russia Against Napoleon
58. Lovell, Mary S: The Mitford Girls
59. Lukyanenko, Sergei: The Day Watch
60. Mantel, Hilary: Wolf Hall
61. McCullough, David: Mornings On Horseback
62. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With The Wind
63. Morrow, James: The Last Witchfinder
64. Motley, Annette: Men on White Horses
65. Norton, Elizabeth: Jane Seymour
66. O’Brien, Stacey: Wesley
67. O’ Grady, Paul: At My Mothers Knee
68. O’Toole, Patricia: When Trumpets Call
69. Pakula, Hannah: An Uncommon Woman
70. Plaidy, Jean: Plantagenet Prelude
71. Quinn, Kate: Mistress of Rome
72: Smith, L.J: The Night World
73. Snyder, Maria V: Storm Glass
74. Van Der Kiste, John: Queen Victoria’s children
75. Weir, Alison: Katherine Sywnford
76. Weir, Alison: The Captive Queen
77. Weir, Alison: The Lady in the Tower
78. Withey, Lynne: Dearest Friend
79. Adornetto, Alexandra: Halo
80. Atkinson, Kate: Case Histories
81. Chamberlin, E. R: Everyday Life In Renaissance Times
82. Fraser, Antonia: Love and Louis XVI
83. Graham, Laurie: The Importance of Being Kennedy
84. Gilbert, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love
85. Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock
86. Harris, Charlaine: The Sookie Stackhouse Guide
87. Lewis, CS: Mere Christianity
88. Lovell, Mary S: The Churchill’s
89. Montefiore, Santa: The French Gardener
90. Newman, Janis Cooke: Mrs Lincoln
91. Nicholas, Katie: William and Harry
92. Obama, Barack: Dreams of My Father
93. Orzel, Chad: How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog
94. Patch, Harry: The Last Fighting Tommy
95. Parsons, Tony: Starting Over
96. Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago
97. Perry, Tasmina: Kiss Heaven Goodbye
98. Richman, Alyson: The Lost Wife
99. Sanderson, Jane: Netherwood
100. Sebba, Anne: That Women
102. Tremlett, Giles: Catherine of Aragon

103. Trotter, Janet MacLeod: Never Stand Alone
104. Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
105. Angelini, Josephine: Starcrossed
106. Bach, Richard: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
107. Brown, Kate Lord: The Beauty Chorus
108. Cast, PC and Kristen: Hidden
109. Carnarvon, Countess of: Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
110. Carter, Aimee: The Goddess Test
111. Clare, Cassandra: City of Bones
112. Clare, Cassandra: Clockwork Angel
113. Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
114. Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations
115. Doyle, Arthur Canon: The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection
116. Edward. Anne: Matriarch
117. Harvey, Greg: The Origins of Tolkien's Middle Earth
118. Follett, Ken: Winter of the Worlds
119. Foster, RF: Randolph Churchill
120. Goldman, Lisa: The No Rules Handbook for Writers
121. Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge
122. Holt, Maggie: A Nurse at War
123. Huth, Angela: Land Girls
124. Jackson, Nancy: The Cook's Tale
125. Jones, Nigel: Tower
126. King, Stephen: 11.22.63
127. Kerr, John: A Dangerous Method
128. Magorian, Michelle: A Little Love Song
129. Magorian, Michelle: A Spoonful of Jam
130. Magorian, Michelle: Cuckoo in the Nest
131. Massie, Robert K: Peter The Great
132. McInerney, Monica: Those Faraday Girls
133. McKay, Sinclair: The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
134. Moyes, Jojo: The Girl You Left Behind
135. Newman, Michael: Socialism
136. Plaidy, Jean: The Merry Monarchs Wife
137. Plummer, Rosemary: The Maids Tale
138. Powell, Margaret: Below Stairs
139. Prentis, Evelyn: A Nurse and Mother
140. Prentis, Evelyn: A Nurse in Time
141. Rice, Anne: Interview with the Vampire
142. Stachniak, Eva: The Winter Palace
143. Stockett, Kathryn: The Help
144.Townsend, Sue: The Secret Diary of Afrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
145. Tsaraidze, Alexandre: Wife Before God
146. Wilcock, Penelope: The Hawk and the Dove
147. Wolff, Jurgen: Your Writing Coach
148. Berkowitz, Eric: Sex and Punishment
149. Bower, Sarah: House of Borgia
150. Carpenter, Teresa: New York Diaries
151. Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
152. Dalton, Kathleen: Theodore Roosevelt
153. George, Margaret: Elizabeth I 
154. Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Creatures
155. Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Darkness
156. Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Chaos
157. Garcia, Kami and Stohl, Margaret: Beautiful Redemption
158. Green, Graham: Writing for Dummies
159. Harman, Patricia: The Midwife of Hope River
160. Ives, Eric: The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
161. Lanchaster, John: Capital
162. Marschall, Rick: Bully
163. Northup, Soloman: Twelve Years a Slave
164. O'Neill, Glenda: Our Street

165. Penman, Sharon: The Sunne in Splendour
166. Phillips, Winifred: Mum’s Army
167. Rogers, Hannah: The Art of Deduction 
168. Salisbury, Harriet: The War on our Doorstep
169. Schwalbe: The End of Your Life Book Club
170. Sibley, Brian: The Hobbit
171. Sparks, Nicholas: Safe Haven
172. Sparks, Nicholas: The Lucky One 
173. Spence, Jon: Becoming Jane
174. Weir, Alison: Elizabeth of York
175. Wilson, Derek: The Uncrowned Kings of England 
176. Adam, Max: The King in the North
177. Ashdown-Hill, John: The Third Plantagenet
178. Canon Doyle, Arthur: His Last Bow
179. Canon Doyle, Arthur: Return of Sherlock Holmes
180. Clare Castor: City of Ashes
181. Conklin, Tara: The House Girl
182. Deary, Terry: Groovy Greeks
183. Deary, Terry: Cut Throat Celts
184. Deary, Terry: Angry Aztecs
185. Deary, Terry: Incredible Incas
186. Deary, Terry: Frightful First World War
187. Eden, Dorothy: Never Calling It Love
188. Follett, Ken: Fall of Giants
189. Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
190. Ingelman-Sundberg, Catharina: The Little Old Lady Who Broke all the Rules
191. Larman, Alexander: Blazing Star
192. Lefebure, Molly: Blitz
193. Mantel, Hilary: Bring Up The Bodies
194. Meyer, E J: The Borgias
195. Montefiore, Simon Sebag: One Night in Winter
196. Puzo, Mario: The Godfather
197. Rowell, Rainbow: Fan Girl
198. Spencer, LaVyrie: Then Came Heaven n
199. Taylor, Jodi: Just One Damn Thing After Another
200. Wainwright, Robert: Shelia
201. Bolitho, Hector: Albert, Prince Consort
202. Burton, Jessie: The Miniaturist
203. Clements, Rory: The Queens Man
204. Fraser, Antonia: Charles II
205. Gelardi, Julia P: From Splendour to Revolution
206. Graham, Margaret: Easterleigh Hall
207. Holmes, Frederick: The Sickly Stuarts
208. Iggulden, Conn: War of the Roses: Stormbird
209. Jones, Dan: The Plantagenet’s
210. Jones, Dan: The Hollow Crown
211. Langford, Elizabeth: The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes
212. Lewis, Damien: War Dog
213. Martin, R R George: The World of Fire and Ice
214. Plaidy, Jean: The Reluctant Queen
215. Plaidy, Jean: Victoria Victorious
216. Strong, Roy: Coronation
217. Tribe, Steve: Sherlock Chronicles
218. Aaronovitch, Ben: Rivers of London
219. Aronson, Theo: A Family of Kings
220. Austin, Lynn: Candle In The Darkness
221. Beer, Anna: Bess
222. Brellend, Kay: The Windmill Girls
223. Bolt, Rodney: As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil
224. Castries, Duc De: The Lives of the Kings and Queens of France 
225. Colfer, Chris: A Grimm Warning
226. Crewdson, Dorethea, Dorethea’s War
227. Dunn, Dot May: Around the Village Green
228. Farthing, Pen: Wylie
229. Farquhar, Michael: Bad Days In History
230. Follett, Ken: Edge of Eternity
231. Genova, Lisa: Inside the O’Breins
232. Graham, Winston: Warleggon
233. Graham, Winston: The Black Moon
234. Graham, Winston: The Four Swans
235. Graham, Winston: The Angry Tide
236. Gregory, Phillipa: The Kings Curse
237. Gristwood, Sarah: Blood Sisters
238. Hadlow, Janice: The Strangest Family
239. Hancock, Sheila: Miss Carters War
240. Hardy, Shelia: The 1950s Mother
241. Hawking, Jane: The Theory of Everything
242. Henderson, Casper: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
243. Hibbert, Christopher: The Virgin Queen
244. Hines, Jerri: Belle of Charleston
245. Hobb, Robin: Assassin’s Apprentice
246. Hobb, Robin: Royal Assassin
247. Hobb, Robin: Assassin’s Quest 
248. Hugghes, Kathryn: The Letter
249. Jensen, Marie-Louise: The Lady In The Tower
250. Jones, Andy: The Two of Us
251. Jones, Dan: Magna Carta
252. Kay, Susan: Legacy
253. King, Sophie: Do You Take This Man?
254. Knight, Lynn: Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue
255. Lake, Deryn: Pour The Dark Wine
256. Licence, Amy: In Bed With The Tudors
257. O’Brien, Anne: The King’s Speech
258. Maitland, Karen: The Vanishing Witch
259. McCallin, Luke: The Pale Horse
260. McCallin, Luke: The Man From Berlin
261. Montefiore, Santa: Songs of Love and War
262. Mottershead, June: Our Zoo
263. Moyes, Jojo: One Plus One
264. Pemberton, Margaret: A Season of Secrets
265. Pevel, Pierre: The Cardinal’s Blades
266. Pulley, Natasha: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
267. Purnell, Sonia:  First Lady
268. Rees, Tracy: Amy Snow
269. Rees, Peter: The Anzac Girls
270. Ribchester, Lucy: The Hourglass Factory
271. Rothschild, Hannah: The Improbability of Love
272. Sibley, Brian: The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies Movie Guide
273. Smith, Michael: The Debs of Bletchley Park
274. Sparks, Nicholas: See Me
275. Stewart, Mary: The Crystal Cave
276. Sunners, Julie: Jambusters
277. Thomson, Oliver: The Impossible Bourbons
278. Tolkien, J R R: The History of the Hobbit
279. Tolkien, J R R: Children of Hurin
280. Tolkien, J R R: Return of the Shadow
281. Tolkien, J R R: Treason of Isengard
282. Tolkien, J R R: Sauron Defeated
283. Tolkien, J R R: War Of The Ring
284. Wards, Geffrey and Ken Burns: Roosevelts: An Intimate History
285. White, T H: The Once and Future King
286. Ackerman, Diane: The Zookeepers Wife
287. Aronson, Theo: The King In Love
288. Beauclark, Charles: Nell Gwyn
289. Bernieres, Louis De: The Dust that Falls From Dreams
290. Blackwell, Elizabeth: In the Shadow of Lakecrest
291. Bradley, Simon: The Railways: Nation, Network and People
292. Brown, Raymond Lamont: John Brown  
293. Borman, Tracy: The Private Lives of the Tudors
294. Bowman, Karen: Corsets and Codpieces
295.
Bryson, Bill: A Walk In The Woods
296. Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything
297. Bryson, Bill: At Home
298. Bryson, Bill: Shakespeare

299. Burge, James: Heloise and Abelard
300.
Carsta, Ellin: The Draper’s Daughter
301. Clare, Bethany: Love Beyond Time
302. Clarke, Susanna: Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell
303. Cleave, Chris: Everyone brave is Forgiven
304. Cohen, David: Bringing Them Up Royal
305. Collins, Larry: Freedom at Midnight
306. Costeloe, Diney: The Sisters of St Croix
307. Cornwall, Bernard: The Pale Horseman
308. Donnelly, Jennifer: Lost in a Book

309. Douglas, Donna: The Nurses of Steeple Street
310. Douglas, Donna: A Nightgale Christmas Carol
311. Duffy, P S: The Cartographer of No Man’s Land
312. Edwards, Rhoda: None but Elizabeth
313. Erskine, Barbara: Lady of Hay
314. Evans, Lissa: Their Finest

315. Fennell, Emerald: Monsters
316. Fletcher, Giovanna: You're The One That I Want
317. Fletcher, Giovanna: Dream a little Dream
318. Frankopan, Peter: The Silk Roads
319. Furnivall, Kate: The Liberation
320. Garwood, Julie: The Wedding
321. Gibson, Mary: Gunner Girls and Bomber Boys
322. Gibson, Mary: Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts
323. Gibson, Mary: Bourben Dreams and Tattered Dreams
324. Graham, Winston: Bella Poldark
325. Grahame-Smith, Seth: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
326. Gregory, Philippa: Three Sisters, Three Queens
327.
Goodman, Ruth: How To Be A Tudor
328. Goodman, Ruth: How To Be A Victorian
329. Goodwin, Daisy: The Fortune Hunter
330. Hargrave, Kiran Milliwood: The Girl of Ink and Stars
331. Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia: I, Victoria

332. Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia: Goodbye Piccadilly
333. Harvey, Jacky Colliss: Red – The Natural History of the Redhed
334. Hepburn: A Year at the Stars and Sixpence
335. Hall, Coryne: Princesses on the Wards
336. Haviland, David: Why was Queen Victoria Such a Prude

337. Hay, Daisy: A Strange Romance  - Mr and Mrs Desrali
338. Henderson, Casper: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
339. Heminsley, Alexandra: Running Like a Girl
340. Horsfield, Debbie: Poldark: The Complete Scripts – Series 2
341. Holmes, Richard: The Age of Wonder
342. Housden, Frances: The Chieftains Curse
343. Howard, Francine Thomas: The Daughter of Union County
344. Hubbard, Kate: Serving Victoria
345. Hughes, Andy: The Pocket Guide to Royal Scandals
346.
Hutchinson, Robert: House of Treason
347. Kaplan, Janice: The Gratitutde Diaries
348.
Kareem, Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem and Anna Waterhouse: Mycroft Holmes
349. Lane, Soraya M: Voyage of the Heart
350. Lowe, Charles: Alexander III of Russia
351. Macmanus, James: Midnight In Berlin
352. Marston, Edward: The Amorous Nightingale
353. Matusiak, John: Wolsey
354. McGrath, Carol: The Handfasted Wife

355. McLain, Paula: The Paris Wife
356. Merrick, Atlin: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
357. Millers, John: The English Civil War
358. Montefiore, Simon Sebag: The Romanov's
359. Mortimer, Ian: The Time Travellers Guide to Restoration Britain

360. Moore, Sandra: Caroline
361. Mount, Ferdinard: The Tears if the Rajas
362. Moss, Sarah: Bodies of Light  
363. Nemirovsky, Irene: Suite Francaise
364. O’Brien, Anne: The Scandalous Duchess
365. O’Morain, Padrig: Mindfulness on the Go
366. O’Morain, Padrig: Mindfulness for Worries
367. Oliver, Abi: A Map of New Love
368. Pearson, John: The Profession of Violence
369. Pollard, Tony: Culloden
370. Prowse, Amanda: My Husband’s Wife
371. Rappaport, Helen: The Victoria Letters
372. Perry, Sarah: The Essex Serpent
373. Read, Sara: Maids, Widows, Wives
374.
Rideal, Rebecca: 1666
375. Ridley, Jane: Bertie
376. Rosenberg, Alex: The Girl From Krakow
377. Rowling, J K: Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them
378. Rowling, J K: Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists
379. Rowling, J K:
Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies
380. Rowling, J K: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
381. Sandy, Claire: What Would Mary Berry Do?
382. Seanz, Benjamin Alire: Aristotle’s and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
383. Seddon, Peter: Law’s Strangest Cases
384. Shetterly, Margot Lee: Hidden Figures
385. Shipton, Elisabeth: Female Tommies
386. Spiers: Hester and Harriet
387. Spufforf, Francis: Golden Hill
388. Stibbe, Nina: Love Nina
389. Stargardt, Bicholas: The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939 - 1945
390. Stratford, Sarah-Jane: Radio Girls
391. Staryed, Sheryl: Ting Beautiful Things
392. Taylor, Andrew, The Ashes of London
393. Theobald, John Owens: These Dark Wings
394.
Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
395. Tonge, Samantha: Breakfast Under A Cornish Sun
396. Queen Victoria: Letters 1837 – 1843
397. Walters, Victoria: The Second Love of My Life

398. Watkins, Sarah-Beth: Catherine of Braganza
399. White, Karen: Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion
400. Whitelocks, Anna: Elizabeth’s Bedfellows
401. Williams, Sarah: Colour Bar
402. Winspear, Jacqueline: Journey to Munich

403. Woodbury, Sarah: The Good Knight
404.
Weir, Alison: Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen

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On 11.5.2017 at 9:40 PM, Jessi said:

11. Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
13. Fforde, Jasper: The Eyre Affair
21. Lee, Harper: To Kill A Mocking Bird
62. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With The Wind
80. Atkinson, Kate: Case Histories

141. Rice, Anne: Interview with the Vampire
143. Stockett, Kathryn: The Help
144.Townsend, Sue: The Secret Diary of Afrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

197. Rowell, Rainbow: Fan Girl
302. Clarke, Susanna: Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell

 

I've loved all of these! :smile2: There's a lot of great stuff  on your TBR! :) 

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