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Cool!
After reading about the podcast, I went on youtube to see if I could find them there (didn't! What a disappointment.), and then I watched a few Behind the Scenes and Bloopers and other stuff on the show. I saw a short interview of Liza Weil and I was surprised how she seemed so shy! She's so unlike Paris, so it's really telling of her great acting skills. Wow! I have to say, I like the actor a lot more now that I've seen her be shy. She was endearing 
And James Gunn was once married to Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam in The Office, US version
Edit: Kylie, I know you've been recommending Bunheads to me for ages, but I've not been keen about watching it. I just went on youtube to look at videos about Liza Weil and completely by accident clicked on a trailer or something on the show. She seems to play a rather interesting character
"Don't do the spinny thing. It makes me dizzy." :D And I knew Kelly Bishop is on the show but it was nice seeing her on the trailer, too =) You may have told me earlier, but if you did, I'd forgotten: she's a ballet dancer! 
I mean she used to do ballet! I will definitely watch the show if they ever start showing it here!!
The podcast is audio only, and I think it's only available through iTunes.
I always wanted you to watch the behind the scenes stuff on the GG DVDs so you could see Liza being shy! I also loved her even more after I saw that, and I agree that it shows her wonderful acting ability. I often think of her shy interview when I'm watching Paris in action.
I think Liza would be a lovely person to know in real life.Ah, that's cool about James Gunn! I love this 'six degrees of separation' stuff.
On Bunheads, Liza plays a sort of similar character to Paris (sort of bossy and domineering). She doesn't have a large role, unfortunately, but she's still cool. Mitchum is also on the show and he's barely recognisable because, believe it or not, he's a sort of long-haired hippie dude. LOL! Gypsy also shows up occasionally. Emily has the biggest role by far (of the previous GG actors), and she's just as wonderful in Bunheads as she is in GG. Emily is actually the main role along with the main ballet dancer (who I think recently won a major award for a Broadway show - I saw her on the Tonys recently).
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I have to admit I don't know yet, because I haven't had the energy to watch many more episodes
. I'll definitely let you know though once I've seen some more episodes .No worries.
Oh my I'm so happy I found this thread! I love GG. I always watched it with my mom and sister when it was still airing and now its on Netflix streaming, so I have been re-watching over the past few months. I'm on season 6 and it's as good as I remember
Yay! Another GG fan. Welcome, my friend! I look forward to discussing GG with you (I should warn you that I can discuss it endlessly!)
I forgot to mention some other good (for me) GG news. (Please forgive the ramble that follows.) On all of my GG DVDs, the show is shown in the 'square' format (not sure of the technical term, but I mean that there is black space on either side of the screen; in other words, it's not in widescreen). It has always bothered me that pretty much every other show I watch is in widescreen and really high quality, except for GG.
Some time ago, I noticed that iTunes sells season 4–7 in HD, and I wondered whether that would mean I could watch it in widescreen, so I downloaded one episode as a test. Because of iTunes' DRM, I couldn't watch it on my regular TV until just recently, and then I was so happy to find that it's in widescreen! I watched a few seconds of my DVD version and compared it to the HD iTunes version, and there's definitely a noticeable difference. I can see more on the left and the right of the screen than I could previously. So now I want to watch all of those seasons again so I can see what I've been missing all this time.
Of course, I'll have to pay a fair bit to download all the episodes. I'll have to wait until I have some spare money so I can download them. -
I was determined to actually be organized this year because it bothered me how unorganized I was last year
I know the feeling! I don't think I set up my reading list until the end of the first week in 2014, so I was determined to have it done by the first of January this time!
Just bought three new books today. I guess technically it doesn't count as 2015, but close enough
He. I must admit that I ordered a couple of books online in the past couple of days. Even though I'll be receiving them in 2015, I'm counting them as 2014 books so I can start the new year with a clean slate.
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Good question! I just searched through the forum to find what I'd written, but apparently I didn't write any about it (besides noting that it was one of my most disappointing books of the year). I don't recall having a problem with the gruesomeness, and the story itself was interesting, so I guess it must have been the writing I disliked. Sorry I can't remember more! But again, I think I'm in the minority.
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Glad to see you enjoyed TOatE
, that one is on my 'hopefully to be read soon' list Had a browse at this book at Amazon, and it's very intriguing... sadly my local library doesn't have a copy of that one, but Weisman's Countdown (sort of similar content) is, so that's one to read soon.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane is on my 'hopefully to be read soon' list as well.
I have Countdown on my wishlist and definitely plan to read it one day.
I haven't done much reading in the past few days. I was having way too much fun being on the forum yesterday
It's so good to have you back!
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I'm glad you managed to convince her to wtch the movie!
Maybe she'll be more keen on trying new movies in the future. I forget: has she ever watched Gilmore Girls? Maybe you could convert her 
I was visiting a few friends in Joensuu last Saturday and we watched three movies: Hot Tube Time Machine (very funny!), Black Christmas (it was okay, and certainly not the worst horror movie I've ever seen), and Cannonball Run (which was whack
). I remember when I used to live with Mum and Dad - if they walked into the room when I was watching GG, they would only comment that the characters spoke too fast.
I think Mum finds it off-putting. But you never know, maybe I could try to convert her!I've lately been thinking of watching Hot Tub Time Machine (since I saw it mentioned on an episode of Big Bang Theory
).I finally got around to watching Guardians of the Galaxy. Despite the rave reviews, I didn't think I'd like it, but I was wrong.
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I just met Paris in episode 2 of season 1! I'm also sure I recognised one of Rory's teachers, but I can't seem to find the actor's name and I'm not sure what his character's name is in the show. It's always nice to see actors of beloved TV series in other things.
I quite like episode 2 as well btw
. Some new characters were introduced and it was Rory's first day which was quite interesting. I hope she does allright, I really like both Rory and Lorelai (the mother), they are two great characters. There is plenty of humour in the series too, so far I can't really think of anything I didn't like .Does the teacher have a recurring role, Athena? The only teachers I can remember seeing are Max Medina (that's the character's name, not the actor's name), who becomes an important character in the show, and headmaster Charleston. Does that help at all? Oh, and I think there's a teacher who appears briefly during Rory's first day at Chilton, and he encourages Rory to borrow a student's school notes so she can catch up. Is that the one you mean? If so, I don't know his name either, but I could quite easily find it for you.
Kylie, I watched Scandal about a week ago, it's a great show. And Paris was in it
I was quite thrown when I saw her Lisa Weil plays a rather significant role in the series. I would recommend it if there's any chance you can watch it I'll definitely have to check out the show, especially if she has a major role.
I'm currently watching the Guardians of the Galaxy movie for the first time, and Sean Gunn (Kirk) is in it! I probably wouldn't have recognised him if I hadn't seen his name in the opening credits and been looking out for him. I was then looking up the movie on IMDB and I kept seeing references to James Gunn, who was the director of the movie. I wondered if maybe they were related, and it turns out they are! So Kirk's brother is a movie director.
In other GG news, I read this article today about two guys who do a GG podcast. I read it because I thought I could show it to my partner to convince him it isn't just a 'chick' show, but I think the guys are gay, so it might not help my cause.
The podcast sounds really interesting. They're basically watching the show one episode at a time and doing a podcast on each episode. When they're finished, they might start doing podcasts of shows and movies the actors have appeared in since finishing GG. I've downloaded all the episodes. I'm not sure when I'll have time to listen, but I'll try to make time. I've also downloaded a few other similar GG podcasts to try as well. -
Ooh, I'll be following your reading challenges with interest! Happy reading in 2015!
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You could try Vlad: The Last Confession by CC Humphreys. It's a sort of fictionalised account of the real Dracula (Vlad the Impaler). I had a bit of trouble with the book, but many others have loved it. And while I may not have loved it as much as some, it has certainly stuck with me (it's rather gruesome).
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Are you watching every HP movie in one day?
That sounds awesome. I wouldn't mind doing that myself one day.I've been binge-watching The Good Wife. I'm up to episode 4 in season 2. I love Eli more and more.
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I've just found out about a new book called Dead Wake by Erik Larson, due out in March. Having read his Devil in the White City earlier this year, I'm absolutely going to read everything he has ever written, so it'll probably be a while before I get to this new one. The advance reviews on Goodreads are already very promising. It appears that Larson is able to take any real-life event and make it both very informative and entertaining.
Here's the synopsis from the Book Depository.
On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, its submarines had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith in the gentlemanly terms of warfare that had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack. He also knew that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. But Germany was intent on changing the rules, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit were tracking Schwieger's U-boat ...but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way towards Liverpool, forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely-guarded secret and more - converged to produce one of the great disasters of 20th century history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted. Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, including the US President Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war.
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I've finished setting up my reading lists for the new year.
I have high hopes for the reading year ahead! Can't wait to get started. -
My Favourite Books
NEW books are those I've added in 2014 and 2015.
Fiction
Jane Austen Emma
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
John Banville The Book of Evidence
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
John Connolly The Book of Lost Things
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two CitiesDaphne du Maurier Rebecca NEW
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Christo
Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Michel Faber The Crimson Petal and White
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
George Grossmith Diary of a Nobody
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Susan Hill The Woman in Black
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Jack Kerouac The Town and the City
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Erich Maria Marquez All Quiet on the Western Front
Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
George Orwell Animal Farm
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Bram Stoker Dracula
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Tim Winton Cloudstreet
Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Young Adult
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suzanne Collins Hunger Games (trilogy)
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
John Marsden Tomorrow, When the War Began (series)
A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Walter Moers The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Lucy M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter (series)
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Non-Fiction
Bill Bryson Down Under
Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods
Byll Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
Truman Capote In Cold Blood
AB Facey A Fortunate Life
Tim Flannery The Explorers
Tim Flannery The Birth of Sydney
Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank
Helene Hanff 84 Charing Cross RoadErik Larson The Devil in the White City NEW
Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics
Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon
Martin Toseland A Steroid Hit the Earth -
Frankie and Poppyshake's Must Read Books
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 97
TBR as at 17 November 2015: 94 (3 read, x acquired)
TBR Pile (read, currently reading, *read in 2015):
Read in 2015:Patrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers (Poppyshake)
Daphne du Maurier Rebecca (Poppyshake)
Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter (from Dexter series) (Frankie)
Voltaire Candide (Frankie)
***Frankie*** (Updated 2013 List)
Fiction (38)Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale
Jane Austen Northanger Abby
Iain Banks Wasp Factory
Robert Bloch PsychoJohn Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
John Boyne Crippen TBRAnthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay TBRStephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Agatha Christie And Then There Were None
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World TBRAntoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Emma Donoghue Room
Daphne du Maurier My Cousin RachelJeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Michel Faber Under the Skin TBRJasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary TBR
Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe TBR
John Grogan Marley and MeMark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Matt Haig The Last Family in England TBR
Daniil Harms Incidences
Joanne Harris Gentlemen & Players
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
Siri Hustvedt The Summer Without Men
Kazuo Ishiguro A Pale View of Hills
Lloyd Jones Mister Pip TBR
Stephen King Green MileAndrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Jeff Lindsay Dexter series TBR
Väinö Linna The Unknown Soldier
Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura PalmerMargaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
LM Montgomery The Blue Castle
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Watchmen TBR
Toni Morrison The Bluest EyeHaruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart
Sofi Oksanen Purge TBR
Ann Patchett Bel CantoDan Rhodes Gold
Anne Rice Interview with a Vampire TBR
Sapphire Push!Diane Setterfield Thirteenth Tale
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
Anita Shreve The Weight of Water
Linda Lay Shuler She Who RemembersGarth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
John Steinbeck The Wayward BusRobert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Bram Stoker Dracula
Patrick Süskind Perfume TBR
Vikas Swarup Q&ADonna Tartt The Secret History
*Voltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
Sarah Waters Fingersmith TBR
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting TBRElie Wiesel Night
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being EarnestCarlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Young Adult (6)Lois Lowry Anastasia Krupnik series
Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Little Vampire
LM Montgomery Emily of New Moon series TBR
Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart TBRSue Townsend The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾
Diana Wynne Jones Fire and HemlockLois Lowry The Giver
Georgia Byng Molly Moon's Incredible Book of HypnotismChris Priestley Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
JK Rowling Harry Potter series
Astrid Lindgren The Bill Bergson series
Non-fiction (10)
Deborah Spungen And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's MurderAnne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company TBR
Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life TBR
Ronald Hayman The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath TBR
Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me TBRMötley Crüe The Dirt
Mary Roach Stiff: The Life of the Human Cadavers
Flora Rheta Scheiber Sybil TBR
Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye TBR
Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers TBRAugusten Burroughs Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table TBR
***Poppyshake*** (Updated 2013 List)
Fiction (25)Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle TBRMarkus Zusak The Book Thief
Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse TBRSusanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
Neil Gaiman Neverwhere
Donna Tartt The Secret History
Dan Rhodes Gold
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
*Daphne du MaurierRebeccaMargaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
Paul Murray Skippy Dies TBRJeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea TBR
Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B FlatCharles Dickens A Christmas Carol
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go TBR
Clare Allen Poppy Shakespeare TBR
Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam TBR
Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall TBRJane Austen Northanger Abbey
Emma Henderson Grace Williams Says it Loud TBR
Joe Abercrombie The First Law Trilogy
John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany TBR
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger TBR
Julian Barnes Arthur & George
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible TBRJohn Connolly The Book of Lost Things
George & Weedon Grossmith Diary of a Nobody
Toni Morrison Beloved TBRJoseph Heller Catch 22
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude TBR
Willy Russell The Wrong Boy
David Benioff City of Thieves
Karen Maitland Company of LiarsShirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Annie Proulx The Shipping News
Herman Melville Moby Dick TBRCormac McCarthy The Road
Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR*Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English TBR
Young Adult (5)JK Rowling The Harry Potter series
Jonathan Stroud The Bartimaeus trilogy TBR
Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series TBRStephen Chbosky The Perks of being a Wallflower
Chris Priestley Tales of Terror series
Cornelia Funke Inkheart
Mary Norton The Borrowers TBRAA Milne Winnie the Pooh
Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
JRR Tolkien The Hobbit
Terry Pratchett Wintersmith TBRJRR Tolkien Lord of the Rings
Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾
CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book
Sally Gardner I CorianderMark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Non-Fiction (12)
Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal TBRAugusten Burroughs Running with Scissors
Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on FireAnne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country TBR
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie TBR
Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards TBR
William Blacker Along the Enchanted Way
Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling
John Bayley The Iris TrilogyNick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Susan Hill Howards End is on the Landing TBRSylvia Plath The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Mary S Lovell The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters TBR
Mary S Lovell The Mitford Girls TBR
Lorna Sage Bad Blood -
1001 Books To Read Before You Die
The books listed below are only the books from the challenge that I have on my TBR pile.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 232
TBR as at 1 September 2015: 229 (3 read, x acquired)
TBR Pile (read, currently reading):
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul
Douglas Adams Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Kingsley Amis The Old Devils
Martin Amis Money: A Suicide Note
Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Isaac Asimov Foundation
Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye
Margaret Atwood Surfacing
Paul Auster The New York Trilogy
James Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
JG Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition
JG Ballard Empire of the Sun
JG Ballard Cocaine Nights
JG Ballard Crash
JG Ballard The Drowned World
JG Ballard High-Rise
John Banville The Newton Letter
John Banville The Sea
John Banville The Untouchable
Muriel Barbery Elegance of the Hedgehog
Pat Barker Regeneration
Pat Barker The Ghost Road
Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot
Aphra Behn Oroonoko
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges Labyrinths
Tadeusz Borowski This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anthony Burgess Inside Mr Enderby
William Burroughs Naked Lunch
William Burroughs Junkie
AS Byatt The Children's Book
AS Byatt Possession
Italo Calvino The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino Our Ancestors
Albert Camus The Plague
Karel Capek War with the Newts
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve
Angela Carter Wise Children
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands
Jean Cocteau Les Enfants Terribles
JM Coetzee Disgrace
Wilkie Collins The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins The Woman in White
Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham The HoursMark Z Danielewski House of Leaves
Honore de Balzax Eugenie Grandet
Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Don DeLillo White Noise
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Charles Dickens The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
EL Doctorow Ragtime
Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers KaramazovDaphne du Maurier Rebecca
Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose
Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
Laura Esquivel Like Water for Hot Chocolate
Michel Faber Under the Skin
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
Sebastian Faulks Birdsong
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Gustave Flaubert Sentimental Education
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
John Fowles The Collector
Esther Freud Hideous Kinky
Paul Gallico Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South
William Gibson Neuromancer
George Gissing New Grub Street
Nikolay Gogol Dead Souls
Nikolay Gogol The Nose
Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha
Gunter Grass The Tin Drum
Graham Greene The Quiet American
H Rider Haggard She
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett The Thin Man
Knut Hamsun Hunger
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy The Woodlanders
Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Herman Hesse Steppenwolf
Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave
Michel Houellebecq Atomised
Aldous Huxley Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley Crome Yellow
John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving The World According to Garp
Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World
Henry James The Ambassadors
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
Henry James What Maisie Knew
Tove Jansson The Summer Book
Franz Kafka Amerika
Franz Kafka The Castle
James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late
Thomas Keneally Schindler’s Ark
Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard
Sheridan Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly
Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed
Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie
Stanislaw Lem Solaris
Primo Levi If Not Now, When?
Primo Levi If This is a Man
Andrea Levy Small Island
Marina Lewycka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Jack London The Iron Heel
Jack London The Call of the Wild
HP Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness
David Malouf Remembering Babylon
Katherine Mansfield The Garden Party
Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer
W Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
Ian McEwan Black Dogs
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate
William Morris News from Nowhere
Toni Morrison Beloved
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea
Iris Murdoch Under the Net
Vladimir Nabokov Ada
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
Flann O’Brien At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
Jamie O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys
Chuck Palahniuk Choke
Jack Pasternak Doctor Zhivago
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Mervyn Peake Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake Titus Groan
Georges Perec A Void
Georges Perec Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec Things: A Story of the Sixties
Georges Perec W: Or the Memory of Childhood
Arturo Perez-Reverte The Dumas Club
DBC Pierre Vernon God Little
Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
Anne Rice Interview With the Vampire
Philip Roth The Plot Against America
Philip Roth The Human Stain
Philip Roth Portnoy’s Complaint
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie Fury
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie The Moor's Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie Shame
WG Sebald Austerlitz
Nevil Shute A Town Like Alice
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Patrick Süskind Perfume
Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
John Updike Rabbit, Run
Vassilis Vassilikos Z
Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty DaysVoltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Lew Wallace Ben-Hur
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet
Winifred Watson Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies
HG Wells The Island of Dr Moreau
HG Wells Tono-Bungay
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
John White The Once and Future King
Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf Orlando
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf The Years
John Wyndham Chocky
Émile Zola Nana -
Rory Gilmore Challenge
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 96
TBR as at 27 May 2015: 94 (2 read, x acquired)
TBR Pile (read, currently reading):
Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri Inferno
Isabel Allende Eva Luna
Judy Blume Deenie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portugese
Pearl S Buck The Good Earth
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter
Charles Bukowski Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Michael Chabon Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir Second Sex
Don Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Joan Didion The Year of Magical ThinkingDaphne du Maurier Rebecca
Bret Easton Ellis Less than Zero
Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner Light in August
William Faulkner Sanctuary
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
James Frey A Million Little Pieces
Ernest Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast
Homer The Iliad
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Nick Hornby Songbook (31 Songs)
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
Shirley Jackson The Lottery and Other Stories
Henry James Daisy Miller and Other Stories
Jan Lars Jensen Nervous System
Dr Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese?
Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
John Knowles A Separate Peace
Ira Levin Rosemary's Baby
Andrea Levy Small Island
Mojo Magazine Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Valerie Martin Property
Mary McCarthy The Group
Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Emma McLaughlin The Nanny Diaries
Herman Melville Moby Dick
HL Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy
HL Mencken My Life as Author and Editor
Grace Metalious Peyton Place
Toni Morrison Beloved
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory
Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys
Dorothy Parker The Portable Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Edgar Allan Poe Complete Tales and Poems
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
Elisabeth Robinson True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
JD Salinger Franney and Zooey
Flora Schreiber Sybil
Erich Segal Love Story
William Shakespeare The Sonnets
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
John Steinbeck East of Eden
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
William Styron Sophie's Choice
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate
Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Sun-tzu The Art of WarVoltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Elizabeth Wurtzel Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women -
Priority Reads
This is a list of the books I'd most like to read this year. Some are just books in various series that I want to finish or make progress in. The list is subject to change.
Note to self: Here's a list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction authors I most want to read. Take this into account when creating the priority reading list for 2016.
Fiction (17 of 56)
JG Ballard Crash
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake and Other NovelsAgatha Christie Death on the NileAgatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary
Wilkie Collins The Woman in WhitePatrick DeWitt The Sisters Brothers
Philip K Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock HolmesDaphne du Maurier Rebecca
Michel Faber Under the Skin
Jasper Fforde Thursday Next #6: One of Our Thursdays is MissingCornelia Funke Inkheart #2: InkspellCornelia Funke Inkheart #3: InkdeathNeil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #2: Flying Too High
Kerry Greenwood Phryne Fisher #3: Murder on the Ballarat Train
Matt Haig The Radleys
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #9: Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #10: Dead in the Family
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse #11: Dead ReckoningPatricia Highsmith Ripley #2: Ripley Underground
Homer The Odyssey
Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
Stephen King The Stand
Reif Larsen The Selected Works of TS SpivetJeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Lois Lowry Anastasia #6: Anastasia Has the AnswersLois Lowry Anastasia #7: Anastasia’s Chosen Career
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mary McCarthy The Group
Walter Moers Zamonia #3: The City of Dreaming Books
LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables #6: Anne of Ingleside
Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and LondonTerry Pratchett Discworld #6: Wyrd Sisters
Terry Pratchett Discworld #7: PyramidsChris Priestley Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
Dan Rhodes This is LifeVeronica Roth Divergent #2: InsurgentVeronica Roth Divergent #3: Allegiant
Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressLeanne Shapton Important Artifacts and...
John Steinbeck East of Eden
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls
John Kennedy Toole The Neon BibleVoltaire Candide
HG Wells The Island of Dr MoreauJacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum
PG Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing
PG Wodehouse Mr Mulliner Speaking
Non-Fiction (3 of 25)
Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking
Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Stephen Fry The Fry Chronicles
Stephen Hawking My Brief History
Patty Hearst Her Own Story
Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs
David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation
Lester Bangs Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Peter FitzSimons Batavia
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch
David Gillespie The Sweet Poison Quit Plan
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell ThemJon Ronson The Psychopath Test
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and SteelAnn Rule The Stranger Beside Me
Bill Bryson At Home
Erik Larson In the Garden of BeastsHaruki Murakami Underground
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
Books on Both the 1001 and Rory Gilmore Lists
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Don Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Charles Dickens Oliver TwistDaphne du Maurier Rebecca
Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury
F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible
Herman Melville Moby-Dick
Toni Morrison Beloved
Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
Mario Puzo The Godfather
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and PeaceVoltaire Candide
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway -
Non-Fiction: The Rest
I've marked books that have beenreadand books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 220
TBR as at 17 November 2015: 218 (3 read, 1 acquired)
Art (3)
Rosalind Ormiston The Life of Works of Michelangelo
Rosalind Ormiston Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters & Art
Brian J Robb Steampunk: An Illustrated History
Australian History (19)
Geoffrey Blainey Black Kettle and Full Moon
Matthew Flinders Terra Australis
Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore
HV Evatt Rum Rebellion
Peter FitzSimons Batavia
Peter FitzSimons Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution
David Hill 1788: The Brutal Truth of the First Fleet
David Hill Gold!
Grace Karsens Colony
Thomas Keneally Australians: Origins to Eureka
Thomas Keneally Australians: Eureka to the Diggers
Thomas Keneally Australians: Flappers to Vietnam
Thomas Keneally The Commonwealth of Thieves
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Susan Hood Pack of Thieves
Barry McGowan Australian Ghost Towns
John Morgan The Life and Adventures of William Buckley
Sarah Murgatroyd The Dig Tree
Peter Stewart Demons at Dusk
Watkin Tench 1788
Business (4)
John Casimir Gruen Transfer
Robert Gerrish Flying Solo
Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point
Dr Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese?
Economics/Maths (12)
Zac Goldsmith The Constant Economy: How to Create a Stable Society
Niall Kishtainy Economics in Minutes
Steven E Landsburg More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Tim Harford The Undercover Economist
Hannah Nordhaus The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
Alex Perry Falling off the Edge: Globalization, World Peace & Other Lies
Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist
Joseph Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents
Conor Woodman The Adventure Capitalist
Warwick Cairns About the Size of It: The Common Sense Approach to Measuring Things
Paul Glendinning Maths in Minutes
Ian Stewart Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
Feminism (7)
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
Eve Ensler The Vagina Monologues
Susan Faludi Backlash
Susan Faludi Stiffed: The Betrayal of the Modern Man
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch
Germaine Greer The Whole Woman
Elizabeth Wurtzel B*itch!: In Praise of Difficult Women
Humour (18)
Jane Austen The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen
Andrea Barham The Pedant's Revolt
Andrea Barham The Pedant's Return
Craig Brown One on One
Robert Drennan (ed) The Algonquin Wits
Mardy Grothe Oxymoronica
Gideon Haigh Peter the Lord's Cat and Other Unexpected Obituaries
Roger Lewis Seasonal Suicide Notes
Spike Milligan The Essential Spike Milligan
Charlie Pickering Impractical Jokes
Karl Pilkington Happyslapped by a Jellyfish
Joshua Piven et al. The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History
Ben Pobjie SuperChef
David Rakoff Don't Get Too Comfortable
Lynne Truss Get Her off the Pitch!
Lynne Truss Talk to the Hand
Lynne Truss The Lynne Truss Treasury
Mark Twain The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Mental Health/Self-Help (12)
Sally Brampton Shoot the Damn Dog
Helen Christensen & Kathleen Griffiths The Mood Gym: Overcoming Depression with CBT and Other Effective Therapies
Albert Ellis & Irving Becker A Guide to Personal Happiness
David Gillespie The Sweet Poison Quit Plan
Gary Greenberg Manufacturing Depression
Russ Harris The Happiness Trap
Spike Milligan Depression and How to Survive It
Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
William Styron Darkness Visible
William Glasser Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
John Gray Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Penguin Great Ideas (15)
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (with Nathan)
Edmund Burke The Evils of Revolution
Joseph de Maistre The Executioner
Sigmund Freud Civilization and its Discontents
William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating
David Hume On Suicide
Niccolo Machiavelli The Conspiracies
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto
Arthur Schopenhauer The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
Seneca On the Shortness of Life
Sun-tzu The Art of War
Rabindranath Tagore Nationalism
John Ruskin On Art and Life
Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Politics (7)
Bernard Shaw The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism & Facism
Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward All the President’s Men
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf
John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Psychology (7)
Dan Ariely Predictably Irrational
Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow
VS Ramachandran The Tell-Tale Brain: Unlocking the Mystery of Human NatureJon Ronson The Psychopath Test
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Religion/Philosophy (29)
Saint Augustine Confessions
Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
Peter Cave How to Think Like a Bat and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Philosophy
Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa (eds) The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Paul Davies The Eerie Silence
Paul Davies The Mind of God
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
Alain de Botton The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton The Consolation of Philosophy & Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton Religion for Atheists
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
AC Grayling The God Argument
AC Grayling Ideas That Matter
AC Grayling The Mystery of Things
AC Grayling Thinking of Answers
Sam Harris Letters to a Christian Nation
Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens The Portable Atheist
CS Lewis Mere Christianity
CS Lewis The Screwtape Letters
Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Andrew J Petto & Laurie R Godfrey (eds) Scientists Confront Creationism
Stephen Pinker The Stuff of Thought
Roger Pol-Droit Astonish Yourself! 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
Bertrand Russell An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
Bertrand Russell Essays in Skepticism
Bertrand Russell In Praise of Idleness
Malise Ruthven The Divine Supermarket: Travels in Search of the Soul of America
Science (19)
Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species
Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins Unweaving the Rainbow
Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
Mark Steer Defining Moments in Science
Norman Doidge The Brain that Changes Itself
Lawrence Krauss Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson The QI Book of Animals
Hazel Muir Science in Seconds
Stephanie Pain Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers and Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery
Mary Roach Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach Packing for Mars
Mary Roach Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
William Stolzenburg Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
Sociology/Global Warming (11)
Jared Diamond Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail of Succeed
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond Why is Sex Fun?
Jared Diamond The World Until Yesterday
Tim Flannery Here on Earth
Tim Flannery The Weather Makers
Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore Our Choice*Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction
Amanda Little Power Trip: Our Ride to the Renewable Future
Sport (2)
Paul Donnelley Firsts, Lasts and Onlys of Cricket
Simon Rae It's Not Cricket: Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game
Travel (13)
Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country
Mark Carwardine & Stephen Fry Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
Agatha Christie The Grand Tour
Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon
Aldous Huxley Jesting Pilate
Howard Jacobson In the Land of Oz
PJ O'Rourke Driving Like Crazy
PJ O'Rourke Holidays in Hell
Nicholas Ranking Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson
Marco Polo Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan
Ernest Shackleton South
Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad
True Crime (7)
Jan Stradling Bad Girls & Wicked Women
Nerida Campbell Femme Fatale: The Female Criminal
Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter
Helen Garner The First Stone
Helen Garner Joe Cinque's ConsolationAnn Rule The Stranger Beside Me
John Silvester and Andrew Rule Leadbelly
World History (36)
Benedict Allen (ed) The Faber Book of Exploration
Peter Barber et al. Mapping Our World: Terror Incognita to Australia
Geoffrey Blainey A Short History of the 20th Century
Geoffrey Blainey A Short History of the World
Geoffrey Blainey Sea of Dangers
Jerry Brotton A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Bill Bryson At Home
Bill Bryson One Summer
Deborah Cadbury Chocolate Wars
Ann Charters The Portable Sixties Reader
Nicholas Crane Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
Richard J Evans The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J Evans The Third Reich at War
Richard J Evans The Third Reich in Power
Niall Ferguson Empire
Tim Flannery Eternal Frontier
Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (abridged)
Charles Gritzner Earth Condensed
Walter Hadwen Premature Burial: How It May Be Prevented
Miles Harvey The Island of Lost Maps
Bianca Jackson Defining Moments in History
Philip Kerr (ed) The Penguin Book of LiesErik Larson In the Garden of Beasts
Patricia Chapman Meder The True Story of Catch-22
Haruki Murakami Underground
Virginia Nicholson Among the Bohemians
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier
Michael Swift Mapping the World
Evelyn Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia
Geoffrey Wawro Historial Atlas
Simon Winchester Atlantic
Simon Winchester A Crack in the Edge of the World
Simon Winchester Bomb, Book & Compass
Simon Winchester Krakatoa
Simon Winchester The Men Who United the States -
Non-Fiction: Language Books
I've marked books that have beenreadand books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 50
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 50 (x read, x acquired)
Kingsley Amis The King's English
Chris Baker & Jacob Hansen The Elements of Fudging Style: A Helpful Parody
Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary
Melvyn Bragg The Adventure of English
Bill Brohaugh Everything You Know About English is Wrong
Bill Bryson Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Bill Bryson Made in America
Bill Bryson Mother Tongue
Bill Bryson Troublesome Words
Anthony Burgess Language Made Plain
Julian Burnside Wordwatching
Alexander Buzo Tautology Too
Roy Peter Clark The Glamour of Grammar
David Crystal By Hook or By Crook
David Crystal The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
David Crystal The Fight for English
David Crystal How Language Works
David Crystal A Little Book of Language
David Crystal The Stories of English
David Crystal Words Words Words
David Crystal & Hilary Crystal Words on Words
Susan Drake and Monica Davidson Freelancing for Australians for Dummies
Mark Dunn Zounds!
Linda & Roger Flavell Dictionary of English Down the Ages
HW & FG Fowler The King's English
HW & FG Fowler Modern English Usage
Stephen Fry The Ode Less Travelled
Mark Garvey Stylized: A Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's The Elements of Style
Philip Gooden The Story of English
Leland Gregory Am-Bushed!
Peter Haining Wrotten English
Bruce Kaplan Editing Made Easy
Stephen King On Writing
Richard Lederer Anguished English
Richard Lederer More Anguished English
Jack Lynch (ed) Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
John Man The Gutenberg Revolution
Robert McCrum Globish
Robert McCrum et al The Story of English
Judy Parkinson I Before E Except After C: Old-School Ways to Remember Stuff
Eric Partridge Usage and Abusage
Eric Partridge You Have a Point There
Maggie Pinkney The Devil's Collection: A Cynic's Dictionary
Michael Quinion Port Out, Starboard Home and Other Language Myths
Lorna Robinson Ad Nauseum: A Miscellany of Latin Words & Phrases
Chris Stevens Thirty Days Has September: Cool Ways to Remember Stuff
Lottie Stride Write Every Time (Or is that 'Right'?): Cool Ways to Improve Your English
Caroline Taggart My Grammar and I (Or Should that be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English
Joe Thornton and Peter G Hannan Spelling Wen Yoo don't No How
Don Watson Death Sentence -
Non-Fiction: Books About Books
I've marked books that have beenreadand books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 68
TBR as at 17 September 2015: 69 (x read, 1 acquired)
Anthony Arthur Literary Feuds
Russell Ash & Brian Lake Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities
Margaret Atwood Negotiating with the Dead
Allison Hoover Bartlett The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Nicholas A Basbanes Every Book Its Reader
Robert Belknap The List
Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies
Erin Blakemore The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harold Bloom How to Read and Why
Jorge Luis Borges On Writing
Peter Boxall (ed) 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die (2006)
Peter Boxall (ed) 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die (2008?)
Carmen Callil & Colm Toibin The Modern Library
Italo Calvino The Literature Machine
Italo Calvino Why Read the Classics?
James Campbell and Will Pryce The Library: A World History
Michael Chabon Maps & Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
Des Crowley & Clare Williamson The World of the Book
Lucy Daniel The Little Black Book of Books
Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life
Gary Dexter Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola
Gary Dexter Why Not Catch-21?
Umberto Eco Misreadings
Umberto Eco This is Not the End of the Book
George Eliot Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
Anne Fadiman Ex Libris
Anne Fadiman Rereadings
John Gross The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Daniel Hahn et al The Ultimate Teen Book Guide
Michael Heyward The Ern Malley Affair
Susan Hill Howards End is on the Landing
Martin Hopkinson Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates
*Nick Hornby Shakespeare Wrote for MoneyEmma Jones The Literary Companion
Neal Jones A Book of Days for the Literary Year
Rob Kaplan A Passion for Books
Nicholas Karolides et al 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature
Melissa Katsoulis Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes
Finlay Lloyd When Books Die
Alberto Manguel A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel A Reading Diary
Alberto Manguel The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
Alberto Manguel Homer's The Iliad & The Odyssey
Alberto Manguel Into the Looking-Glass Wood
Polly Manguel 501 Must-Read Books
Anthony Marshall Fossicking for Old Books
Harry Mathews & Alastair Brotchie Oulipo Compendium
Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets
Jeremy Mercer Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs
Sandra Newman Read This Next
George Orwell Books v. Cigarettes
Alice Ozma The Reading Promise
Alex Palmer A Literary Miscellany
Nancy Pearl Book Lust
Nancy Pearl More Book Lust
Penguin The Penguin Story
Bill Peschel Writers Gone Wild
Henry Petroski The Book on the Bookshelf
Marcel Proust Days of Reading
Charles Rembar The End of Obscenity
CH Rolph (ed) The Trial of Lady Chatterley
Julie Rugg & Lynda Murphy A Book Addict's Treasury
Ammon Shea Reading the OED
John Sutherland Curiosities of Literature
Brenda Walker Reading by Moonlight
Rick Wartzman Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Simon Winchester The Meaning of Everything
Simon Winchester The Surgeon of Crowthorne
Maryanne Wolf Proust and the Squid -
Non-Fiction: Letters, Diaries and Essays
I've marked books that have beenreadand books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 112
TBR as at 3 April 2015: 115 (1 read, 4 acquired)
(Ordered by subject rather than author)
Amis | Martin Amis The Moronic Inferno
Amis | Martin Amis Visiting Mrs Nabokov
Amis | Martin Amis The War against Cliche
Austen | Deirdre Le Faye Jane Austen's Letters
Auster | Paul Auster Winter Journal
Ballard | JG Ballard A User's Guide to the Millennium
Bangs | Lester Bangs Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Beach | Sylvia Beach The Letters of Sylvia Beach
Bell | Regina Marler (ed) Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Borges | Jorge Luis Borges | The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
Bulgakov | Mikhail Bulgakov Diaries and Selected Letters
Burroughs | Oliver Harris The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-59
Capote | Truman Capote A Capote Reader
Capote | Gerald Clarke (ed) Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote
Carter | Angela Carter A Card from Angela Carter
Christie | John Curran Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
Christie | John Curran Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making—More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks
Conan Doyle | John Lellenberg et al Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
de Beauvoir | Quintin Hoare Simone de Beauvoir: Letters to Sartre
Dickens | Jenny Hartley The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
Doyle | Ursula Doyle Love Letters of Great Men and Women
Eco | Umberto Eco Serendipities
Fitzgerald | Jackson Bryer & Cathy Barks Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald | Andrew Turnbull (ed) Dreams of Youth: The Letters of F Scott Fitzgerald
Franklin | Miles Franklin My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters
Franzen | Jonathan Franzen How to be Alone
Ginsberg | Allen Ginsberg The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952
Guevera | Che Guevera The Motorcycle Diaries
Hardy | Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire Yours Truly: Cathartic Confessions, Passionate Declarations and Vivid Recollections from Women of Letters
Heller | Matthew J Bruccolo & Park Bucker (eds) Catch as Catch Can (also on fiction TBR)
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens Arguably
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens The Quotable Hitchens
Hornby | Nick Hornby 31 Songs
Hughes | Ted Hughes Letters of Ted Hughes
Huxley | Aldous Huxley Music at Night
Inklings | Humphrey Carpenter The Inklings
James | Morris Shapira Henry James: Selected Literary Criticism
Kafka | Max Brod (ed) Franz Kafka: Diaries, 1910-1923
Kafka | Richard & Clara Winston (eds) Letters to Friends, Family and Editors: Franz Kafka
Kerouac | Bill Morgan & David Stanford (eds) Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Lewis | Lesley Walmsley CS Lewis Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories
Lewis | Walter Hooper CS Lewis: The Companion & Guide
Lindsay | Norman Lindsay Bohemians at the Bulletin
Mansfield | Katherine Mansfield Letters and Journals
Marx | Groucho Marx The Groucho Letters: Letters to and from Groucho Marx
Mencken | HL Mencken A Mencken Chrestomathy
Mencken | HL Mencken The Diary of HL Mencken
Mencken | HL Mencken In Defence of Women
Mencken | HL Mencken Selected Prejudices
Mencken | Alastair Cooke Vintage Mencken
Mitchell | Richard Harwell Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters 1936-1949
Mitford | Peter Y Sussman (ed) Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Mitford | Jessica Mitford The Making of a Muckraker
Mitford | Nancy Mitford (ed) Noblesse Oblige
Mitford | Charlotte Mosley The Letters of Nancy Mitford
Mitford | Charlotte Mosley The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
Mitford | John Saumarez Smith The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-1973
Mitford | Charlotte Mosley The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters
Montgomery | LM Montgomery The Complete Journals of LM Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1889–1900
*Montgomery | LM Montgomery The Complete Journals of LM Montgomery: The PEI Years, 1901–1911
Murdoch | Peter J Conradi Iris Murdoch: Letters & Diaries 1939-1945
Nabokov | Dmitri Nabokov & Matthew J Bruccoli Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-77
Nin | Anais Nin The Journals of Anais Nin, Volume 3
Orwell | George Orwell George Orwell: A Life in Letters
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 1
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 2
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 3
Orwell | George Orwell Collected Essays, Journals and Letters 4
Orwell | George Orwell Diaries
Orwell | George Orwell Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
Orwell | George Orwell Why I Write
Oxford | Anita Kermode (ed) The Oxford Book of Letters
Perec | Georges Perec Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Plath | Sylvia Plath Letters Home
Rand | Scott McConnell 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand
Rand | Michael S Berliner Letters of Ayn Rand
Rilke | Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
Ronson | Jon Ronson Lost at SeaRonson | Jon Ronson The Men Who Stare at Goats
Ronson | Jon Ronson Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness
Ronson | Jon Ronson What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness
Ronson | Jon Ronson Them: Adventures with Extremists
Russell | Bertrand Russell Selected Letters, Volume 1: The Private Years (1884–1914)
Sexton | Linda Gray Sexton & Lois Ames (eds) Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
Steinbeck | John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
Steinbeck | John Steinbeck & Elaine Steinbeck Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
Steinbeck | Robert Demott Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath 1938-1941
Stoker | Bram Stoker The Lost Journals of Bram Stoker
Thompson | Anita Thompson (ed) Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S Thompson
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Generation of Swine
*Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Gonzo Papers Vol. 4: Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing Letters Vol. 1: The Proud Highway
Twain | Charles Neider (ed) Punch, Brothers, Punch: The Comic Mark Twain Reader
van Gogh | Ronald de Leeuw The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Warhol | Pat Hackett (ed) The Andy Warhol Diaries
Waugh | Evelyn Waugh The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
Waugh | Evelyn Waugh The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
Wilde | Oscar Wilde De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Wodehouse | PG Wodehouse A Life in Letters
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe & EW Johnson (eds) The New Journalism
Wolfe | Tom Wolfe The Purple Decades
Woolf | Frederic Spotts Letters of Leonard Woolf
Woolf | Virginia Woolf A Writer's Diary
Woolf | Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 1 1915-19
Woolf | Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 3 1925-30
Woolf | Virginia Woolf The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4 1931-35
Woolf | Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Selected Diaries
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Selected Letters
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Women & Writing
Woolf | Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell with Thoby Stephen Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper -
Non-Fiction: Autobiographies and Biographies
I've marked books that have beenreadand books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 168
TBR as at 17 September 2015: 172 (x read, 4 acquired)
(Ordered by subject rather than author)
Amis | Martin Amis Experiece
Austen | Paula Byrne The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small ThingsAusten | Claire Tomalin Jane Austen: A Life
Ballard | JG Ballard Miracles of Life
Bates | HE Bates A Country Life
Beach | Sylvia Beach Shakespeare & Company
Beat Writers | Barry Miles The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
Beat Writers | Bill Morgan The Typewriter is Holy*Beatles, The | Mark Lewisohn Tune In
Bloomsbury Set | Leon Edel Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
Bloomsbury Set | Quentin Bell Bloomsbury
Bennett | Alan Bennett A Life Like Other People's
Borges | Alberto Manguel With Borges
Boyd | Pattie Boyd Wonderful Tonight
Branson | Richard Branson Losing My Virginity
Brautigan | Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America
Bronte | Rebecca Fraser Charlotte Bronte
Bryson | Bill Bryson The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Buddha | Jack Kerouac Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Burgess | Anthony Burgess You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs Dry
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs Magical Thinking
Burroughs | Augusten Burroughs You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Calvino | Italo Calvino Hermit in Paris
Cassady | Carolyn Cassady Off the Road
Chabon | Michael Chabon Manhood for Amateurs
Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin My Autobiography
Chapman | Jack Jones Let Me Take You Down: The Man Who Killed John Lennon
Christie | Agatha Christie An Autobiography
Dahl | Ronald Storrock Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
Dawkins | Richard Dawkins An Appetite for Wonder
de Beauvoir | Claudine Monteil The Beauvoir Sisters
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir A Very Easy Death
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Vol. 1)
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir The Prime of Life (Vol. 2)
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir Force of Circumstance (Vol. 3)
de Beauvoir | Simone de Beauvoir All Said and Done (Vol. 4)
de Pompadour | Nancy Mitford Madame de Pompadour
de Quincey | Thomas de Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Delafield | EM Delafield The Diary of a Provincial Lady
des Barres | Pamela des Barres I'm with the Band
Descartes | AC Grayling Descartes
Dickens | Simon Callow Charles DickensDickens | John Forster The Life of Charles Dickens
Didion | Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Donovan | Donovan Leitch The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Durrell | Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals
Durrell | Gerald Durrell The Overloaded Ark
Dylan | Bob Dylan Chronicles Volume One
Eggers | Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Fielding | Leaf Fielding To Live Outside the Law
Fitzgerald | Nancy Milford Zelda Fitzgerald
Fowler | Jenny McMorris The Warden of English: The Life of HW Fowler
Fox | Michael J Fox Lucky Man
Frederick II | Nancy Mitford Frederick the Great
Frey | James Frey A Million Little Pieces
Fry | Stephen Fry The Fry Chronicles*Fry | Stephen Fry More Fool Me
Garland | Gerald Clarke Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland
Garnett | Angelica Garnett Deceived with Kindness
Greer | Germaine Greer Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
Griffin | John Howard Griffin Black Like Me
Guevara | Che Guevara Guerrilla Warfare
Hammerton | Sir John Hammerton Books and Myself: Memoirs of an Editor
Hanff | Helene Hanff Q's Legacy
Hanff | Helene Hanff Underfoot in Show Business
Hardy | Marieke Hardy You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead
Harrison | Dava Sobel Longitude
Hawking | Stephen Hawking My Brief History
Hearst | Patty Hearst Her Own Story
Heller | Joseph Heller No Laughing Matter
Heller | Joseph Heller Now and Then
Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast
Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway Green Hills of Africa
Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn Me: Stories of My Life
Highsmith | Joan Schenkar The Talented Miss Highsmith
Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock A Brief Darkness
Hitchens | Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22
Hughes | Gerald Hughes Ted and I
Jensen | Jan Lars Jensen Nervous System
Jerome | Jerome K Jerome The Life and Times
Jobs | Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs
Jones | Chris Masters Jonestown
Kennedy | Richard Kennedy A Boy at the Hogarth Press
Kennedy | Graeme Blundell King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy
Lennon | Yoko Ono (ed) Memories of John Lennon
Levi | Primo Levi If This is a Man & The Truce
Lewis | CS Lewis Surprised by Joy
Liddell | Simon Winchester The Alice Behind Wonderland
Louis XIV | Nancy Mitford The Sun King
Mantel | Hilary Mantel Giving Up the Ghost
Marx | Charlotte Chandler Hello, I Must be Going: Groucho and His Friends
Marx | Groucho Marx Groucho and Me
Marx | Groucho Marx Memoirs of a Mangy Lover
Marx | Harpo Marx Harpo Speaks!
Maynard | Joyce Maynard At Home in the World
McCrum | Robert McCrum My Year Off
Mencken | HL Mencken My Life as Author and Editor
Mencken | HL Mencken Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work
Mencken | Terry Teachout The Skeptic: A Life of HL Mencken
Milne | Christopher Milne The Enchanted Places
Mitford | Diana Mitford A Life of Contrasts
Mitford | Jessica Mitford A Fine Old Conflict
Mitford | Harold Acton Nancy Mitford: A Biography
Mitford | Jonathan Guinness The House of Mitford
Mitford | Mary S Lovell The Mitford Girls
Mitford | Mary S Lovell The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
Murakami | Haruki Murakami What I Think About When I Think About Running
Nabokov | Stacy Schiff Vera (Mrs Vladimir Nabokov)
O'Dell | Chris O'Dell Miss O'Dell
Orwell | George Woodcock The Cystal Spirit
Orwell | Hilary Spurling The Girl from the Fiction Department
Parker | John Keats You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
Parker | Marion Meade Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This?
Pirsig | Robert M Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plath | Ronald Hayman The Death & Life of Sylvia Plath
Powell | Julie Powell Julie & Julia
Richards | Keith Richards Life
Rushdie | Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton
Salinger | David Shields & Shane Salerno Salinger
Sartre | Simone de Beauvoir Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre
Sartre | Jean-Paul Sartre Words
Schulz | David Michaelis Schulz and Peanuts
Sedaris | David Sedaris Barrel Fever
Sedaris | David Sedaris Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedaris | David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Sexton | Diane Wood Anne Sexton
Sexton | Linda Gray Sexton Searching for Mercy Street
Shakespeare | Ben Crystal Shakespeare on Toast
Shorter | Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards
Smith | Nigel Smith I Think There's Something Wrong With Me
Smith | Simon Winchester The Map that Changed the World
Stein | Gertrude Stein The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas
Stein | Gertrude Stein Paris France
Sybil | Flora Rheta Schreiber Sybil
Tammet | Daniel Tammet Born on a Blue Day
Tammet | Daniel Tammet Embracing the Wide Sky
Tan | Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate
Tarbox | Katherine Tarbox Katie.com
Thompson | Hunter S Thompson Kingdom of Fear
Thompson | William McKeen Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson
Thompson | Ralph Steadman The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S Thompson
Thompson | Jann Wenner Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S Thompson
Twain | Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1
Twain | Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 2
Van Gogh | Irving Stone Lust for Life
Van Gogh | Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Van Gogh
Vincent | Norah Vincent Self-Made Man
Voltaire | Nancy Mitford Voltaire in Love
Walls | Jeanette Walls The Glass Castle
Warhol | Andy Warhol The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Waugh | Paula Byrne Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
Welles | Simon Callow The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles biography, Vol 1)
Welles | Simon Callow Hello Americans (Orson Welles biography, Vol 2)
Welles | Chris Welles Feder In My Father's Shadow
West | Rebecca West The Essential Rebecca West
Wevill | Yehuda Koren & Eilat Negev A Lover of Unreason
Wharton | Hermione Lee Edith Wharton
Winterson | Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?
Wodehouse | Frances Donaldson PG Wodehouse
Wodehouse | Robert McCrum Wodehouse
Woolf | Quentin Bell Virginia Woolf 1882-1912
Woolf | Quentin Bell Virginia Woolf 1912-1941
Woolf | Julia Briggs Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
Woolf | Hermione Lee Virginia Woolf
Woolf | Virginia Woolf Moments of Being
Wurtzel | Elizabeth Wurtzel More, Now, Again
Wurtzel | Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation
X | Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Zeitoun | Dave Eggers Zeitoun -
TBR Pile W-Z
I've marked books that have beenreadand books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 153
TBR as at 29 November 2015: 152 (1 read, x acquired)
Lucy Wadham Heads and Straights
SA Wakefield Gumbles on Guard
SA Wakefield Gumbles in Summer
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Karen Thompson Walker The Age of Miracles
Dorothy Wall Blinky Bill
Andy Warhol A: A Novel
Robert Penn Warren All the King's Men
Sarah Waters Affinity
Sarah Waters Fingersmith
Sarah Waters The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters The Night Watch
Sarah Waters Tipping the Velvet
Winifred Watson Mrs Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Evelyn Waugh A Little Order
Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh Officers and Gentlemen
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia
Charles Webb Home School
Orson Welles Mr Arkadin
HG Wells Ann Veronica
HG Wells The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories
HG Wells The First Men in the Moon
HG Wells The History of Mr Polly
HG Wells The Island of Dr Moreau
HG Wells Love and Mr Lewisham
HG Wells A Modern Utopia
HG Wells Mr Britling Sees it Through
HG Wells Selected Short Stories
HG Wells The Shape of Things to Come
HG Wells The Sleeper Awakes
HG Wells Tono-Bungay
Irvine Welsh Filth
Irvine Welsh Porno
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
Eudora Welty Moon Lake
Scott Westerfeld Leviathan #1: Leviathan
Scott Westerfeld Leviathan #2: Behemoth
Scott Westerfeld #1: Peeps
Scott Westerfeld #2: The Last Days
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
TH White The Once and Future King
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Elie Wiesel Dawn
Elie Wiesel Day
Elie Wiesel Twilight
Gene Wilder What Is This Thing Called Love?
John Williams Stoner
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays
Connie Willis To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jacqueline Wilson Best FriendsJacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum
Sarah Winman When God Was a Rabbit
Jeanette Winterson Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson Sexing the Cherry
Tim Winton Dirt Music
Tim Winton That Eye, the Sky
PG Wodehouse A Damsel in Distress
PG Wodehouse A Pelican at Blandings
PG Wodehouse The Adventures of Sally
PG Wodehouse Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
PG Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous
PG Wodehouse Barmy in Wonderland
PG Wodehouse Big Money
PG Wodehouse Blandings Castle
PG Wodehouse The Clicking of Cuthbert
PG Wodehouse Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
PG Wodehouse Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
PG Wodehouse Full Moon
PG Wodehouse The Girl in Blue
PG Wodehouse The Heart of a Goof
PG Wodehouse Hot Water
PG Wodehouse Ice in the Bedroom
PG Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
PG Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing
PG Wodehouse Leave it to Psmith
PG Wodehouse Laughing Gas
PG Wodehouse The Luck of the Bodkins
PG Wodehouse The Mating Season
PG Wodehouse Money for Nothing
PG Wodehouse Mr Mulliner Speaking
PG Wodehouse Mulliner Nights
PG Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim
PG Wodehouse Pigs Have Wings
PG Wodehouse Ring for Jeeves
PG Wodehouse Service with a Smile
PG Wodehouse The Small Bachelor
PG Wodehouse Something Fishy
PG Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
PG Wodehouse Summer Lightning
PG Wodehouse Summer Moonshine
PG Wodehouse Sunset at Blandings
PG Wodehouse Ukridge
PG Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite
PG Wodehouse Uncle Fred in the Springtime
PG Wodehouse Uneasy Money
PG Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves!
PG Wodehouse Wodehouse at the Wicket
PG Wodehouse Young Men in Spats
Bernard Wolfe Limbo '90
Gene Wolfe The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Tom Wolfe The Pump House Gang
Jack Womack Ambient
Jack Womack Elvissey
Jack Womack Going Going Gone
Jack Womack Heathern
Jack Womack Let's Put the Future Behind Us
Jack Womack Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Jack Womack Terraplane
Maryrose Wood The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1: The Mysterious Howling
Virginia Woolf A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf Flush
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway's Party
Virginia Woolf Orlando
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf The Years
David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Jonathan Wylie Across the Flame
Jonathan Wylie Island and Empires 1: The Last Augury
Jonathan Wylie Island and Empires 2: Dark Fire
Jonathan Wylie Island and Empires 3: Echoes of Flame
Jonathan Wylie Other Lands
Jonathan Wylie Shadow Maze
John Wyndham Chocky
John Wyndham The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndham Plan for Chaos
John Wyndham Trouble with Lichen
John Wyndham Web
Johann Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson
Richard Yates A Special Providence
Richard Yates Cold Spring Harbor
Richard Yates Collected Stories
Richard Yates The Easter Parade
Richard Yates Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Richard Yates Liars in Love
Richard Yates Revolutionary Road
Charles Yu How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafon Niebla #1: The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafon Niebla #2: The Midnight Palace
Roger Zelazny The Lord of Light
Emile Zola Nana
Emile Zola Therese Raquin
Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe -
TBR Pile S-V
I've marked books that have beenreadand books that I'm currently reading. Books acquired during 2015 are marked with an *.
TBR as at 1 January 2015: 118
TBR as at 28 November 2015: 116 (2 read, x acquired)
Rafael Sabatini Captain Blood
JD Salinger For Esme - with Love and Squalor
JD Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason
Kim Scott That Deadman Dance
WG Sebald Austerlitz
Erich Segal Love Story
Erich Segal Oliver's Story
Hubert Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn
George Selden The Cricket in Times Square
Will Self The Book of Dave
Brian Selznick Wonder Struck
Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette
William Shakespeare As You Like It
William Shakespeare The SonnetsLeanne Shapton Important Artifacts and...
Percy Bysshe Shelley Selected Poems
Lynn Shepherd Tom-All-Alone's
Gary Shteyngart Absurdistan
Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story
Nevil Shute A Town Called Alice
Nevil Shute Pied Piper
Dai Sijie Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Robert Silverberg The Book of Skulls
Shel Silverstein Every Thing On It
Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends
Craig Silvey Jasper Jones
Georges Simenon Maigret at the Crossroads
Dan Simmons Hyperion
Michael Sims (ed) The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle
Zadie Smith White Teeth
Natasha Solomons A Novel in the Viola
Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Muriel Spark The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories
Art Spiegelman The Complete Maus
Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon Star Maker
Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
ML Stedman The Light between Oceans
Wallace Stegner Crossing to Safety
John Steinbeck East of Eden
John Steinbeck The Long Valley
John Steinbeck The Moon is Down
John Steinbeck Once There Was a War
John Steinbeck The Pearl
John Steinbeck The Red Pony
John Steinbeck The Short Reign of Pippin IV
Laurence Sterne The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Curse of the Gloamglozer (Book 1, Quint Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Winter Knights (Book 2, Quint Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell The Last of the Sky Pirates (Book 1, Rook Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Vox (Book 2, Rook Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Freeglader (Book 3, Rook Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Beyond the Deepwoods (Book 1, Twig Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Stormchaser (Book 2, Twig Saga)
Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell Midnight Over Sanctaphrax (Book 3, Twig Saga)
Kathryn Stockett The Help
Bram Stoker The Lair of the White Worm and Other Stories
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Charles Stross Halting State
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #1: The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #2: The Golem's Eye
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #3: Ptolemy's Gate
Jonathan Stroud Bartimaeus #4: The Ring of Solomon
William Styron Sophie's Choice
William Styron The Suicide Run
Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Jacqueline Susann Valley of the Dolls
Patrick Suskind Perfume
Jonathan Swift A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
Rabindranath Tagore Selected Poems
Kousun Takami Battle Royale
Amy Tan The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan Saving Fish from Drowning
Mildred D Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Peter Temple The Broken Shore
Walter Tevis Mockingbird
William Makepeace Thackeray The Rose and the Ring
Scarlett Thomas The End of Mr Y
Scarlett Thomas Pop Co
Miriam Toews The Flying Troutmans
JRR Tolkien Mr Bliss
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
John Kennedy Toole The Neon Bible
Sue Townsend The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend True Confessions of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years
Sue Townsend Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years
Lynne Truss A Certain Age
Lynne Truss Going Loco
Lynne Truss Tennyson's Gift
Nancy Turner Sarah's Quilt
Nancy Turner The Star Garden
John Updike Rabbit, Run
John Updike The Witches of Eastwick
Carl-Johan Vallgren The Horrific Sufferings of Hercules Barefoot
Jack Vance Emphyrio
Vassilis Vassilikos Z
Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days
Barbara Vine The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
Vladimir Voinovich Moscow 2042Voltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Palm Sunday and Welcome to the Monkey House
The last film you saw - 2014
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I enjoyed Elysium.
I re-watched Bringing Up Baby, with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn. Very good indeed.