Kylie

Acquired in 2016 Books acquired: 2016: 165 2015: 42 2014: 143 2013: 281 2012: 427 2011: 543 2010: 400 2009: 290 2008: 199 I've marked books that I've read and books that I'm currently reading. The numbers after the dates do not include any books marked as (n.a.). January (5) Erik Larson Dead Wake Jon Ronson So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Carlo DeVito (ed) Mark Twain's Notebooks Barbara Sleigh Carbonel Marcus Weeks Psychology in Minutes February (87) Pre Canberra Book Fair (10) Agatha Christie N or M? Agatha Christie Ordeal by Innocence Agatha Christie They Do It with Mirrors Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy Anna Funder All That I Am Lauren Graham Someday, Someday, Maybe Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #20: Murder and Mendelssohn Emma Healey Elizabeth is Missing Jeff Lindsay Dexter's Final Cut John Elder Robison Look Me in the Eye Canberra Book Fair - Fiction (49) Boris Akunin Pelagia #1 - Pelagia and the White Bulldog Kate Atkinson Case Histories (n.a.) Kate Atkinson Life After Life Paul Auster The Book of Illusions JG Ballard Rushing to Paradise JG Ballard The Unlimited Dream Company Julian Barnes Arthur & George MR Carey The Girl with All the Gifts Angela Carter Burning Your Boats Agatha Christie Death Comes at the End Agatha Christie Five Little Pigs Agatha Christie Hallowe’en Party Agatha Christie The Hollow Agatha Christie The Pale Horse Agatha Christie Poirot’s Early Cases Agatha Christie Sad Cypress Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop Patrick DeWitt Undermajordomo Minor Daphne du Maurier Don’t Look Now and Other Stories Daphne du Maurier Hungry Hill Daphne du Maurier Rebecca (n.a.) Umberto Eco Foucault’s Pendulum Dave Eggers The Circle Sebastian Faulks Jeeves and the Wedding Bells Jasper Fforde Last Dragonslayer #3: The Eye of Zoltar Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #6: Blood and Circuses Nick Harkaway The Gone-Away World Victor Hugo Les Miserables Jonas Jonasson The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Jack Kerouac Big Sur Stephen King Misery John Lanchester Capital HP Lovecraft The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories (n.a.) Isaac Marion Warm Bodies John Marsden South of Darkness Ann M Martin BSC #91: Claudia and the First Thanksgiving (n.a.) Ann M Martin BSC #109: Mary Anne to the Rescue (n.a.) Ann M Martin BSC #122: Kristy in Charge (n.a.) Eimear McBride A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz (n.a.) Nancy Mitford Christmas Pudding Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood (n.a.) Frederik Pohl Gateway Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (n.a.) Philip Roth The Plot Against America Geoff Ryman The Child Garden Ian Sansom The Norfolk Mystery Dorothy L Sayers Hangman’s Holiday Dorothy L Sayers Have His Carcase Dorothy L Sayers The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Diane Setterfield Bellman & Black John Steinbeck The Short Novels of John Steinbeck William Styron The Confessions of Nat Turner Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books and Other Satires Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation Timur Vermes Look Who’s Back Connie Willis Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Prisoner of Heaven Canberra Book Fair - Non-Fiction (25) Peter Ackroyd Chaucer Peter Ackroyd Dickens Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography Matthew Battles Library Anthony Burgess Little Wilson and Big God Les Carlyon The Great War David Crystal Dr Johnson’s Dictionary David Crystal The Story of English in 100 Words Richard Dawkins The Ancestor’s Tale Richard Dawkins Climbing Mount Improbable Norman Doidge The Brain’s Way of Healing Noel Riley Fitch Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation Simon Garfield Just My Type Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22 (n.a.) Christopher Hitchens Mortality Howard Jacobson Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1940–1956 Alberto Manguel The City of Words Jessica Mitford Hons and Rebels Jessica Mitford Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (n.a.) Drummond Moir Just My Typo Philip Nitschke Damned If I Do Michael Rosen Alphabetical Ann Rule Green River, Running Red Carl Sagan Cosmos Hunter S Thompson Kingdom of Fear (n.a.) Shaun Usher (ed) Letters of Note Andrew Wilson Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith Tom Wolfe The Pump House Gang (n.a.) Post Book Fair (3) Ian Crofton Big Ideas in Brief Chris Hadfield An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth John Hersey Hiroshima Millie Marotta Wild Savannah (n.a.) March (10) Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Emily St John Mandel Station Eleven James De Mille A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder Cassell Illustrated Infographic Guide to Literature David Mitchell The Bone Clocks Tat Wood World History in Minutes Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #1: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (n.a.) Erik Larson Isaac's Storm Erik Larson Thunderstruck Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #7: As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust Dalton Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun April (7) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Uncle Silas Charlotte Perkins Gilman Herland and Other Stories Bill Bryson The Road to Little Dribbling Peter Ackroyd Alfred Hitchcock Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #6: The State Counsellor Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #7: The Coronation Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #9: He Lover of Death May (8) Graeme Simsion The Rosie Effect Robert Galbraith Cormoran Strike #3: Career of Evil Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth #2: The Long War Dmitry Glukhovsky Metro 2034 Dorothy L Sayers The Nine Tailors Alain de Botton The News David Crystal Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation MRC Kasasian Death Descends on Saturn Villa June (19) JK Rowling & Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Illustrated) Shaun Usher (ed) More Letters of Note Fiction Earl Derr Biggers A Charlie Chan Omnibus Agatha Christie Curtain: Poirot's Last Case Agatha Christie Mrs McGinty's Dead Arthur C Clarke The Songs of Distant Earth Edmund Crispin Buried for Pleasure Edmund Crispin The Case of the Gilded Fly Patricia Highsmith The Blunderer Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse Dorothy L Sayers Whose Body? Non-Fiction Nick Brownlee Vive Le Tour! Wiggo and the Amazing Tales of The Tour de France Paul Hansford The Tour de France: The Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Weird John Locke Of the Abuse of Words Andrew Ramsey The Wrong Line Simon Winchester The River at the Centre of the World End June Reed Albergotti & Vanessa O'Connell Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever Laline Paull The Bees Ronald Rosbottom When Paris Went Dark July (10) Agatha Christie Parker Pyne Investigates Agatha Christie Passenger to Frankfurt Justin Cronin The Twelve Susan Hill The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter The Long Earth #3: The Long Mars Bodleian Library The Book Lovers' Anthology Patricia Highsmith Deep Water Patricia Highsmith Found in the Street Patricia Highsmith Little Tales of Misogyny JK Rowling et al. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child August (0) September (4) Peter FitzSimons Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men Peter FitzSimons Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen Simon Winchester Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire Christopher Hitchens And Yet... October (6) Jack Challoner 1001 Inventions That Changed the World Alexandre Dumas The Story of a Nutcracker Andrey Kurkov Penguin Lost Various Round the Christmas Fire Charles Dickens Dickens at Christmas Steven Hall The Raw Shark Texts November (4) H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines Johanna Basford Johanna's Christmas (n.a.) Otto Penzler (ed) The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries Simon Winchester Pacific Shaun Usher (ed) Lists of Note December (5) Agatha Christie Endless Night Edgar Allan Poe The Annotated Poe Guy Haley Sci-Fi Chronicles JK Rowling Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay JK Rowling & Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Illustrated)

Read in 2016 Below is the list of books that I've read and that I'm currently reading. Books that have been read have a rating out of 10. TBR as at 1 January 2016: 1981 TBR as at 30 December 2016: 2092 (33 from TBR, 2 re-reads, 5 ebooks | 146 acquired) January (7) Matt Haig The Boy Called Christmas 9/10 Barbara Sleigh Carbonel 7/10 Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them 8/10 Jon Ronson So You've Been Publicly Shamed 9/10 David Mitchell Slade House 9/10 Michel Faber Under the Skin 8/10 Robert Kirkman The Walking Dead Compendium #1 (ebook) 8/10 February (3) Sarah Murgatroyd The Dig Tree 9/10 Erik Larson Dead Wake 10/10 Agatha Christie The ABC Murders 8/10 March (5) Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a Train 9/10 John Hersey Hiroshima 9/10 Joanna Eliot Infographic Guide to Literature 7/10 Chris Hadfield An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth 8/10 Emily St John Mandel Station Eleven 9/10 April (4) PG Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing 9/10 Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (ebook) 7/10 James De Mille A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder 8/10 Bill Bryson The Road to Little Dribbling 9/10 May (3) Ben Aaronovitch Rivers of London #2: Moon Over Soho 8/10 Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #9: Dead and Gone 7/10 Charlaine Harris Sookie Steakhouse #10: Dead in the Family 7/10 June (3) Charlaine Harris Sookie Steakhouse #11: Dead Reckoning 7/10 Diane Huberty Into My Life (re-read) (ebook) 9/10 Agatha Christie The Body in the Library 7/10 July (4) MRC Kasasian Death Descends on Saturn Villa 7/10 John Elder Robison Look Me in the Eye 8/10 Jennifer McCartney The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place (ebook) 7/10 Reed Albergotti & Vanessa O'Connell Wheelmen 8/10 August (5) JK Rowling et al. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 8/10 Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #3: A Red Herring Without Mustard 8/10 PG Wodehouse Meet Mr Mulliner (re-read) 8/10 Phil Liggett Tour de France for Dummies (ebook) 5/10 Emily Carroll Through the Woods (ebook) 8/10 September (0) October (6) PG Wodehouse Mr Mulliner Speaking 8/10 Morris Gleitzman Once 8/10 Morris Gleitzman Then 8/10 Morris Gleitzman Now 8/10 Morris Gleitzman After 8/10 Max Brooks World War Z 8/10 November (0) December (2) Alexandre Dumas The Story of a Nutcracker 10/10 Tove Jansson Finn Family Moomintroll 8/10 Started Jasper Fforde Shades of Grey George RR Martin Game of Thrones #1: A Game of Thrones Christopher Hitchens The Portable Atheist Stephen King It Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Carlo DeVito (ed) Mark Twain's Notebooks Boris Akunin Erast Fandorin #2: The Turkish Gambit Alan Bradley Flavia de Luce #4: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Kylie's Literary Adventures in 2016 Previous reading blogs: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quick Links to 2016 Posts 2016 Reading: Books Read | Books Acquired | Selected Wishlist TBR Fiction: A-B | C-D | E-G | H-J | K-L | M-O | P-R | S-V | W-Z TBR Non-Fiction: Biographies | Letters, Diaries, Essays | Books about Books | Language | The Rest Reading Challenges: Priority Reads | Gilmore Girls | 1001 | 1001 Children | 501 | Frankie and Poppyshake Other Links: TBR Books on Multiple Lists | My Favourite Books | Pics of My Library ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Goals for 2016 Read 20 Priority Reads (link) Read 10 authors that I’ve never read before (link) Possible Challenges Complete 30 days of questions (link) Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge (link) Pop Sugar’s Reading Challenge (link) The Literary Art of Conversation (link)

Will do! I look forward to hearing what you think of Pyongyang. I have a bit of a fascination with North Korea!

Ooh, what's this Dickensian thing you speak of?

I think I have around 260 books on my wishlist, but of course there are many more that I want that just haven't found their way onto the list yet. I've also been thinking of doing a cull. Many of the books have been there for quite a few years. If I haven't wanted them desperately enough to buy them by now, perhaps I don't really want them?

I love the font changes. One of the things I'd always, always hated about Goodreads was the way they use so many different fonts and font sizes. I was taught at school that you should minimise such things because otherwise it looks confusing and messy, and I totally agree. I'm very happy that they've finally made things a little more consistent and easy to read.

My partner and I celebrated an early Christmas yesterday, and he gave me this!

Jonathan Safran Foer has a new fiction book coming out in September. It's called Here I Am. I loved Everything is Illuminated but still have to read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

I enjoyed Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half. Thanks for letting me know about the (hopefully) new book!

The next book in Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series will also be published in June. It's called The Hanging Tree.

It's time for one of my favourite threads of the year...finding out about all the new releases to look forward to in the next year! I just found out that the fourth book in MRC Kasasian's Gower Street Detective series is coming out in June. It's called The Secrets of Gaslight Lane. Various newspapers will soon be publishing lists of upcoming books. If you find them before me, please post the link! I can't wait to find out what our favourite authors have in store for us.

Margaret Atwood is delving into the world of graphic novels.

I last watched Bridge of Spies. Not my preferred type of film, but quite good. For Gilmore Girls fans, Headmaster Charleston was in it.

Here's a little news about the upcoming show. Personally, I don't at all believe that they will end Lorelei and Luke's relationship. I'm pretty sure one of the major reasons for the show's return is to resolve what happened to them (i.e., resolve it in the way we all want!) Surely the new love interest would have to be for Rory. Apparently 'each episode will represent a different season over the course of one calendar year and it will be set in present day, roughly eight years after the series ended'.

Outcast and Revival look lovely!

It's my mission in life to warn people off this book.

Not me! You must be confusing me with someone else. I think I read at a fairly average speed, and I rarely have time to read big chunks in one reading session.

My boy's name is Jasper. He's currently staying with friends for a week because I'm in and out of the house doing small trips away. I'm only home for one night (tonight) and it's so lonely and quiet in the house without him! I'm used to being with him 24/7 (I work from home).

Thank you my love! I wish I could give you mine! I have one, or maybe two, around the place that I'm not using. They're little ones that are ideal for sitting on a table or window sill. Do you have shops where you can buy these types of things really cheaply? Like $2 stores (as we call them)? I think I bought one of mine from a craft-type store.

Can't wait!!

Great review of The Goldfinch, Bobbly. I've heard few good things about The Little Friend, so I think I'll skip that (at least for now) and read The Goldfinch as my next Donna Tartt novel. I really loved The Secret History.

I've read 40 books this year, which I think is a little less than last year, but more than the couple of years before that. So about average, I guess!

I haven't really asked for any books, although I sent a small wishlist to N because he wanted some ideas.

Thank you for going to the trouble to work out all of the dates for us, Athena. I look forward to joining in on a couple of read-a-thons in 2016.