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Thanks Little Pixie, and everyone else once again, for your tips! I ended up doing pastries that I first 'buttered' with vegan cheesy stuff (don't know what it's called and too busy to google) and added bell pepper slices on top, and then I rolled them and cut the rolls into thinner rolls. I put vegan stringed cheese on top... But that doesn't melt, which I did know about but I only recently learned it so I didn't remember. I don't think the rolls turned out quite well... (I have vegan friendly crackers and chips/crisps, too, and I made Rocky Road that should be suitable for vegans. But if I'm wrong and everything I made is in some way unpassable for vegan food, luckily there's a shop next door so I'll give the vegan a tenner and tell him to go buy something he likes

I will only go for the ones that I've given 5/5, and that are not re-reads. I don't think there are that many this year.... The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster This Is Life by Dan Rhodes Far from True by Linwood Barclay Oh wow, that's really sad, only 3 books. My absolute favorite this year has been This Is Life by Dan Rhodes. Wohoo! That's a great one, indeed

Me, too I'm still relieved! The woman said they would get the results the next day, and so I was waiting to get a call yesterday... But I didn't receive one. So I guess there's nothing wrong with me and there's no point in calling me? I can't remember if the doctor told me she'd only call me if there was something wrong....

I'm so early it's rather embarrassing I hope others will hurry up and do theirs, it's lonely out here on my own! Thanks, and you too, bobbly, always enjoy reading your reviews!

Totally! And my color, too! I love all blue and all blue-green shades. (Oddly, though, I don't like light blue.) Of course you went by memory, that's what I would've done, too! But then I got interested in the subject matter I could've checked your Dutch originals myself, too Makes me think of Phoebe saying 'He's her lobster' in Friends They are On another note, I went Christmas shopping for my parents and I may have accidentally bought three books for myself, instead One of the books is a Finnish novel which I thought suits Dad pretty well, but now I want to read it myself And then I found a copy of a book I've read in Finnish and loved, on sale, and had to have it. I also found a copy of Dexter's Final Cut by Jeff Lindsay on sale and as it matches the rest of my Dexter books, I had to have it. 40% off! Actually, all the books I bought were 40% off. I'm so happy with having found the Dexter book! I only now have the one to buy and that'll complete the set. I've not read the last two books in the series, but now I have them and so I can read them. But I've wanted to re-read the fifth book in the series before moving on, because that one is my favorite and I've only read it once, and so I'll now probably have to get a copy from BookDepo or Adlibris I think I'm totally going to re-read the whole series, though, and not just the fifth book... It's such a great series.

:lol: Now you know the Enjoy season 3!! One of my favorites. At least Rory-wise Hm... I hope I'm not giving you too hard a time, but I was expecting more specific things? Like examples of the things you describe above ^ ? You don't have to go into detail though, if you don't want to. I don't think you sound like a whiner at all.

Heheeh, I kept waiting to see how long it would take you to notice I'm so happy that it's now done, I don't have to stress about it. I can sit back and see what others come up with I hope you have an amazing reading year as well!

So happy to see a convert!

Thanks Little Pixie! It certainly can't get worse than this year, wohoo They sound more mysterious than was intended... I only meant them to count as extra posts for any curious book projects I might think of during the reading year of 2017 I prefer Karin Slaughter to Kathy Reichs, but as I started with KR and I have some of her books on my TBR, I might as well read them. The Eyre Affair is one of my all time favorites, so it's rather tragic that I've yet to read the sequels I mean I'm happy that I have so many great novels by Fforde to look forward to, but it's rather embarrassing that I've not read them already. Thanks Athena! I'm looking forward to everyone else's logs Happy reading to you too! Don't be, they vex me from time to time That's why I dropped quite a few of them!

I got my Birthday/Christmas present from boss today, she was early! I had a feeling she would give me something as she's been talking about what possibly to get for me, but she did more than I thought! I got two really gorgeous coffee mugs (they are pretty big, the photo doesn't do their size justice), and a book by a Finnish author. I want to show a photo:

Is the lobster cover the exact same cover you have in your original version? It would be odd if it was a different one.. Why not just use the original Cool beans! I hope you can find a decent priced copy soon

I finally got my test done, phew!! I talked about it with my boss and asked if I could schedule an appointment for a Thursday morning, as that's when they take in lab 'patients' at my closest health center, and I wouldn't have to travel to the center. Also, by having a scheduled appointment, I would know exactly when my last possible time to eat something was, and I wouldn't have to wait in line. Boss was considerate and said it was fine by her, even if it meant I might be late for work. I got an appointment for 9.25 AM, so I was able to have a snack after dinner, and have a banana by 9 PM, and I could then just sleep till I had to get up and dressed, and then just go to the health center. It all went fine, I didn't feel light headed or nauseous. I wasn't my usual self but I was not bad, either. Thank goodness! I'm just so happy that it's now done

Hurrah!!! You are the first person ever who I know has watched both versions and prefers the US version It's good to have company! And yeah, one gets more attached to the characters. And there are more of them whom we get familiar with, than in the UK version. Oh man bobbly, your comment made me so happy

Very true! Maybe Konmari is all wrong....

Well at least if there's a war, you'll be clean and smelling nice in the trenches, while the rest of us stink to high heavens

The Shakespeare Secret seems very interesting, I'll keep an eye out for it! And as much as we'd all like to have friends who read books so we could talk about them, hurrah for friends who don't read and let you have a dig in their book cupboards You lucky gal! Nice haul!

You say it, but I still can't believe it! That's sooooo absurd and random! You have a wonderfully inspiring and extraordinary school system over there I would totally recommend The Office! I personally prefer the US version, but the UK version is the original and other people would swear by it, so don't go by me, the Finnish bird

Okay that's actually it and this thread's ready! I didn't realize I'd be able to do this so quickly, but I left out a lot of challenges and lists and whatnots. I'll be keeping it really simple next year, by choice. Edit: When I started the thread, I was eager to do all the copy+pasting of lists on the first page, and I actually forgot about saying something about what my goals are for the year. Last year I my goal was to read more TBR books than I acquired books for TBR, and failed miserably. I think this is a combination of me having still been under the spell of the great selection at the libraries here in Helsinki. It's also to do with the fact that I now had a steady job and could actually spend money on books... And my mojo was all over the place so book buying was therapeutic. Anyway, this year I really want to try and get back to my precious TBR. The dusting of the books and the bookcase showed me how many amazing books I have to read! I also want to get back to some challenges... Mainly the Rory Gilmore one, now that I'm re-watching the series from the start. So... I'm going to try very hard not to go over the new acquisitions on the library's website and make reservations like there's no tomorrow. I've already put a hold on some of the reservations so they are not coming for me now. I have now maybe 15 library loans to read. I'll try very hard to read all of those, or at least the ones I have the mood for, and then once those are read and taken back to the library, I'll try and get back to my TBR. I'll try and go with the TBR as much as possible and only borrow a library book every now and then. Having said that, I don't want to be completely anal about the whole thing. I do want to go where my mood takes me, as I'm a mood reader. I don't want to force my reading. But I will try to focus more on my TBR

Extra post for curious purposes

Reading Around the World -challenge 1. Afghanistan 2. Albania 3. Algeria 4. American Samoa 5. Andorra 6. Angola 7. Anguilla 8. Antigua and Barbuda 9. Argentina 10. Armenia 11. Aruba 12. Australia 13. Austria 14. Azerbaijan 15. Bahamas 16. Bahrain 17. Bangladesh 18. Barbados 19. Belarus 20. Belgium 21. Belize 22. Benin 23. Bermuda 24. Bhutan 25. Bolivia 26. Bosnia and Herzegovina 27. Botswana 28. Brazil 29. British Virgin Islands 30. Brunei 31. Bulgaria 32. Burkina Faso 33. Burundi 34. Cambodia 35. Cameroon 36. Canada 37. Cape Verde 38. Cayman Islands 39. Central African Republic 40. Chad 41. Channel Islands 42. Chile 43. China 44. Colombia 45. Comoros 46. Congo Brazzaville 47. Congo Kinshasa 48. Costa Rica 49. Croatia 50. Cuba 51. Cyprus 52. Czech republic 53. Denmark 54. Djibouti 55. Dominica 56. Dominican Republic 57. East Timor 58. Ecuador 59. Egypt 60. El Salvador 61. Equatorial Guinea 62. Eritrea 63. Estonia 64. Ethiopia 65. Falkland Islands 66. Faroe Islands 67. Fiji 68. Finland 69. France: Idea: Laurent Binet: HHhH or The 7th Function of Language 70. French Guiana 71. French Polynesia 72. Gabon 73. Gambia 74. Georgia 75. Germany: idea: Goethe, J. W. von: The Sorrows of Young Werther 76. Ghana 77. Gibraltar 78. Greece - idea: Kazantzakis, Niko: Zorba the Greek 79. Greenland 80. Grenada 81. Guadeloupe 82. Guam 83. Guatemala 84. Guinea-Bissau 85. Guinee Conakry 86. Guyana 87. Haiti 88. Honduras 89. Hungary 90. Iceland 91. India: Idea: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 92. Indonesia 93. Iran 94. Iraq 95. Ireland 96. Israel 97. Italy 98. Ivory Coast 99. Jamaica 100. Japan 101. Jordan 102. Kazakhstan 103. Kenya 104. Kiribati 105. Kuwait 106. Kyrgyzstan 107. Laos 108. Latvia 109. Lebanon 110. Lesotho 111. Liberia 112. Libya 113. Liechtenstein 114. Lithuania 115. Luxembourg 116. Macedonia 117. Madagascar 118. Malawi 119. Malaysia 120. Maldives 121. Mali 122. Malta 123. Marshall Islands 124. Martinique 125. Mauritania 126. Mauritius 127. Mexico 128. Micronesia, Federated States of 129. Moldova 130. Monaco 131. Mongolia 132. Monserrat 133. Morocco 134. Mozambique 135. Myanmar 136. Namibia 137. Nauru 138. Nepal 139. Netherlands - The Evenings by Gerard Reve 140. Netherlands Antilles 141. New Caledonia 142. New Zealand 143. Nicaragua 144. Niger 145. Nigeria 146. Niue 147. Norfolk Island 148. North Korea 149. Northern Mariana Islands 150. Norway 151. Oman 152. Pakistan: idea: Hamid, Mohsin: The Reluctant Fundamentalist 153. Palau 154. Palestinian Authority 155. Panama 156. Papua New Guinea 157. Paraguay 158. Peru 159. Philippines 160. Pitcairn Islands 161. Poland 162. Portugal 163. Puerto Rico 164. Qatar 165. Rarotonga & the Cook Islands 166. Reunion 167. Romania 168. Russia 169. Rwanda 170. Saint Kitts and Nevis 171. Saint Lucia 172. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 173. San Marino 174. Sao Tome and Principe 175. Saudi Arabia 176. Senegal 177. Serbia and Montenegro 178. Seychelles 179. Sierra Leone 180. Singapore 181. Slovakia 182. Slovenia 183. Solomon Islands 184. Somalia 185. South Africa 186. South Korea 187. Spain 188. Sri Lanka 189. Sudan 190. Suriname 191. Swaziland 192. Sweden 193. Switzerland 194. Syria 195. Taiwan 196. Tajikistan 197. Tanzania 198. Thailand 199. Togo 200. Tonga 201. Trinidad and Tobago 202. Tunisia 203. Turkey: idea: Orhan Pamuk: something... 204. Turkmenistan 205. Turks and Caicos Islands 206. Tuvalu 207. Uganda 208. Ukraine 209. United Arab Emirates 210. United Kingdom 211. United States 212. Uruguay 213. Uzbekistan 214. Vanuatu 215. Vatican City 216. Venezuela 217. Western Sahara 218. Western Samoa 219. Vietnam 220. Virgin Islands 221. Yemen 222. Zambia 223. Zimbabwe - idea: Petina Gappah: The Book of Memory

Priority Reading List for 2017 (in alphabetical order) The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain Back Story by David Mitchell Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson A Dog's Life by Martin Clunes Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson A Fraction of the Whole Godfather by Mario Puzo Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks I Am Legend by Richard Matheson I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers It's Kind of a Funny Story by Vizzini Ihmisiä telineillä by Kalle Päätalo Juurihoito by Miika Nousiainen A Lifetime Burning by Linda Gillard Lotus Blues by Kristina Ohlsson Nervous System The Opposite of Faith Post alfa by Paperi T Pullopostia by Jussi Adler-Olsen 4/5 Skippy Dies by Paul Murray The Slap Star Gazing by Linda Gillard Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake Tunne Tunteesi by Myllyviita

Library reads Currently on loan: Ajan kanssa by Petteri Kantola Irti sosiaalisesta jännittämisestä by Jan-Henry Stenberg et al Sisäsyntyinen onnellisuus by Rick Hanson To be reserved, borrowed and read: Akvarelleja Engelin kaupungista by Jukka Viikilä Ammeiden alla: kaihonaivistinen melodraama by Kirsti Kuronen Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena Foxlower by Eleanor Wasserberg The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood Kirkkaus by Riitta Jalonen Kuolema ja pingviini by Andrei Kurkov Lempi by Minna Rytisalo The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts by Annie Darling Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley Lumilinna by Niina Hakalahti Neuromaani by Jaakko Yli-Juonikas Niin raskas on rakkaus by Sara Stridsberg The Real Liddy James by Anne-Marie Casey The Sense of an Elephant by Marco Missiroli Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty Tietyissä piireissä by Elizabeth Harrower Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard Vieraat by Helmi Kekkonen Viimeinen kuulutus by Celine Curiol The Course of Love by Alain de Botton Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situation, Flawed Coping Mechanism, Mayhem and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg by Carolyn Cassady TRE-stressinpurkuliikkeet: stressin ja traumojen helpottamiseen by David Berceli Uskonko by Saku Tuominen& Annamari Heikkilä Keskivaikea vuosi by Pauliina Vanhatalo Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Read-a-thon statistics 2017 January (366) Friday:.....120 pages of Risteily by Mats Strandberd Saturday: 100 pages of Risteily by Mats Strandberg Sunday:.....74 pages of Risteily by Mats Strandberg Monday: ...72 pages of Risteily by Mats Strandberg February (330) Thursday:..169 pages of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld Friday:.........33 pages of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld Saturday:.....54 pages of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld Sunday:.......80 pages of Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld March (226) Friday: ....50 pages of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley Saturday: ....59 pages of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley (finishing the novel) ....69 pages of The Evenings by Gerard Reve Sunday: .... 48 pages of The Evenings by Gerard Reve Back to top

Library challenge. Go to them all! 1. Arabianranta 2. Etelä-Haaga 3. Herttoniemi 4. Itäkeskus 5. Jakomäki 6. Jätkänsaari 7. Kallio This is my 'home library' 8. Kannelmäki 9. Kirjasto 10 10. Kontula 11. Käpylä 12. Laajasalo 13. Lauttasaari 14. Malmi 15. Malminkartano 16. Maunula 17. Munkkiniemi 18. Myllypuro (media library) 19. Oulunkylä 20. Paloheinä 21. Pasila 22. Pikku Huopalahti (children's library) 23. Pitäjänmäki 24. Pohjois-Haaga 25. Puistola 26. Pukinmäki 27. Rikhardinkatu 28. Roihuvuori 29. Sakarinmäki (children's library) 30. Suomenlinna 31. Suutarila 32. Tapanila 33. Tapulikaupunki 34. Töölö 35. Vallila 36. Viikki 37. Vuosaari Back to top

These are ~ top read ~ challenge lists by certain members off the forum: Here's the link to the 2012 reading log post where I posted about this initially. 29.1.2012 Kylie: KYLIE'S TOP 40 FICTION Jane Austen: Emma read Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice read John Banville: The Book of Evidence Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 read Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre read Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange read Italo Calvino: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller TBR John Connolly: The Book of Lost Things TBR Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol read Charles Dickens: Great Expectations Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities read Alexandre Dumas: Count of Monte Christo Mark Dunn: Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex read Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and White read F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby read Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated read George Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody read Joseph Heller: Catch-22 TBR Susan Hill: The Woman in Black read Jack Kerouac: On the Road read Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest read Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon read Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo read Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird read Erich Maria Marquez: All Quiet on the Western Front Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind read Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita read George Orwell: Animal Farm read Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged TBR Mary Shelley: Frankenstein read John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath read John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men read Bram Stoker: Dracula read Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas TBR John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces read Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Tim Winton: Cloudstreet TBR Markus Zusak: The Book Thief read KYLIE'S TOP 10 YOUNG ADULT Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden read Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower read Suzanne Collins: Hunger Games (trilogy) Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth read John Marsden: Tomorrow, When the War Began (series) TBR A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh Walter Moers: The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear TBR Lucy M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables read J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter (series) read Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn KYLIE'S TOP 13 NON-FICTION Bill Bryson: Down Under TBR Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods Byll Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything TBR Truman Capote: In Cold Blood read AB Facey: A Fortunate Life Tim Flannery: The Explorers TBR Tim Flannery: The Birth of Sydney Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank read Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road read Steven D. Levitt: Freaconomics TBR Sylvia Plath: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath TBR Andrew Solomon: The Noonday Demon TBR Martin Toseland: A Steroid Hit the Earth Poppyshake Fiction (50) The First Law Trilogy - Joe Abercrombie Poppy Shakespeare - Clare Allen Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen read Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen read Arthur & George - Julian Barnes TBR City of Thieves - David Benioff Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke read The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly TBR The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt read A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens read Great Expectations - Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens read Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides read The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde read Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer read Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman TBR Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith read Catch 22 - Joseph Heller TBR Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro TBR We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee read The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam - Lauren Liebenberg Company of Liars - Karen Maitland Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier TBR The Road - Cormac McCarthy Moby Dick - Herman Melville TBR Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell read The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford read Beloved - Toni Morrison The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch TBR Skippy Dies - Paul Murray TBR The Shipping News - Annie Proulx Gold - Dan Rhodes read The Wrong Boy - Willy Russell The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer read I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith The Help - Kathryn Stockett read The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan The Secret History - Donna Tartt read The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf read The Book Thief - Markus Zusak read Young Adult Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll read The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky read The Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer Inkheart - Cornelia Funke read The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman read I Coriander - Sally Gardner Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon read The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis read Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne The Borrowers - Mary Norton Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett Tales of Terror series - Chris Priestley read/wishlist The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling read The Bartimaeus Trilogy - Jonathan Stroud The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - TBR Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien TBR The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - Sue Townsend read Non-fiction Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth TBR The Iris Trilogy - John Bayley Along the Enchanted Way - William Blacker Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson TBR Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs read The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank read Howards End is on the Landing - Susan Hill read The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby read An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee TBR The Mitford Girls - Mary S. Lovell Stuart: A Life Backwards - Alexander Masters The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters TBR The Journals of Sylvia Plath TBR Bad Blood - Lorna Sage Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal - Jeanette Winterson * Recommended by Kylie, poppyshake and frankie: Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter (series) Markus Zusak: The Book Thief * Steve The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson - my favourite fantasy series. I've banged the drum about it quite enough by now. It's like Marmite. Seven out of the ten books in the series are right at the top of my list: Gardens of the Moon / Deadhouse Gates / Memories of Ice / House of Chains / Midnight Tides / The Bonehunters / Toll the Hounds. The Belgariad - David Eddings - this was the series that introduced me to the fantasy genre. I loved it when I was 14 or 15. Not sure how I'd feel about it if I read it again now, but I have to include it here. On to the rest: Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks Voyage - Stephen Baxter The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester read Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chaikin (okay, this one isn't fiction!) Die Trying - Lee Child The Fifth Horseman - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre The Winter King / Enemy of God / Excalibur (Warlord Trilogy) - Bernard Cornwell TBR Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick TBR Legend - David Gemmell The Forever War - Joe Haldeman The Reality Dysfunction / The Neutronium Alchemist / The Naked God (The Night's Dawn Trilogy) - Peter F. Hamilton Lustrum - Robert Harris Dune - Frank Herbert TBR The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay read Cujo - Stephen King read The Dead Zone - Stephen King Salem's Lot - Stephen King TBR The Shining - Stephen King read The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum The Satan Bug - Alistair MacLean Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin TBR I Am Legend - Richard Matheson TBR Stinger - Robert McCammon Perdido Street Station - China Mieville The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds Sovereign - C J Sansom TBR Arms of Nemesis - Steven Saylor Hyperion - Dan Simmons The Time Machine - H. G. Wells read The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon read * Frankie: Fiction (67 titles): Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Northanger Abby by Jane Austen Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Psycho by Robert Bloch The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Crippen by John Boyne A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Ten Little Niggers by Agatha Christie Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Room by Emma Donoghue Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Under the Skin by Michel Faber The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Marley and Me by John Grogan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon The Last Family in England by Matt Haig Incidences by Daniil Harms Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Green Mile by Stephen King Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Dexter series by Jeff Lindsay The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch (and you need to watch the TV show!!) My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Purge by Sofi Oksanen Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Gold by Dan Rhodes Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Push! by Sapphire Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker Perfume by Patrick Süskind Q&A by Vikas Swarup The Secret History by Donna Tartt Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Night by Elie Wiesel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Candide by Voltaire Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Non-fiction Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath by Ronald Hayman Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell Please Kill Me – The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain The Dirt by Mötley Crüe Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Sybil by Flora Rheta Scheiber And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder by Deborah Spungen Young Adult The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones The Bill Bergson series by Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren Anastasia Krupnik series by Lois Lowry The Giver by Lois Lowry Emily of New Moon (series) by Lucy M. Montgomery Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling The Little Vampire by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 12 ¾ by Sue Townsend * Updated list by Frankie: 8.9.2013 (in the order they come up in my manual reading log) *NEW* = new addition (FIN) = Finnish novel which hasn't unfortunately been translate into English, at least not yet, and therefore they are listed only for my own benefit Fiction Linda Lay Shuler: She Who Remembers Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting Stephen King: Misery *NEW* Kauko Röyhkä: Kaksi aurinkoa *NEW* (FIN) Jennifer Lynch: The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (also: watch the TV show!) Stephen King: Green Mile Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones books Jane Austen: Northanger Abby Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest Jane Austen: Persuasion *NEW* Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five Stephen King: Cujo *NEW* Katja Kallio: Kuutamolla *NEW* (FIN) Ingvar Ambjørnsen: Elling series *NEW* Donna Tartt: The Secret History Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair Patrick Süskind: Perfume Andrey Kurkov: Death and the Penguin Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind Jeff Lindsay: Dexter series Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Stephen King: The Stand *NEW* Joanne Harris: Gentlemen & Players Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Sarah Waters: Fingersmith Markus Zusak: The Book Thief Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces *NEW* Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Bram Stoker: Dracula Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange Anne Rice: Interview with a Vampire Sofi Oksanen: Purge John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Iain Banks: Wasp Factory Vikas Swarup: Q&A Jeffery Deaver: Lincoln Rhyme series *NEW* Chelsea Cain: Heartsick *NEW* Robert Bloch: Psycho Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart Michel Faber: Under the Skin Charlaine Harris: Sookie Stackhouse series *NEW* Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain Karin Slaughter: Grant County + Will Trent series *NEW* Sophie Kinsella: Twenties Girl *NEW* Väinö Linna: The Unknown Soldier Linwood Barclay: Too Close To Home *NEW* Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany's Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon *NEW* Dan Rhodes: Gold Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby *NEW* Sapphire: Push! Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked *NEW* Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower Voltaire: Candide Grace Metalious: Peyton Place *NEW* Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird Poppy Z. Brite: Exquisite Corpse *NEW* Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Matt Haig: The Last Family in England Ann Patchett: Bel Canto John Steinbeck: The Wayward Bus Erich Segal: Love Story *NEW* Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills Emma Donoghue: Room Irene Nemirovsky: The Ball *NEW* Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: Watchmen Peter Franzén: Tumman veden päällä *NEW* (FIN) Daniil Harms: Incidences Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises Linda Gillard: Emotional Geology *NEW* Daphne du Maurier: My Cousin Rachel Pirkko Saisio: Punainen erokirja *NEW* (FIN) Boris Akunin: The Winter Queen *NEW* L. M. Montgomery: The Blue Castle Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita *NEW* Tuomas Kyrö: Mielensäpahoittaja *NEW* (FIN) John Boyne: Crippen Siri Hustvedt: The Summer Without Men Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress *NEW* Anna-Leena Härkönen: Häräntappoase *NEW* (FIN) Nevil Shute: Pied Piper *NEW* William Goldman: The Marathon Man *NEW* Stephen Fry: The Hippopotamus *NEW* Dennis Lehane: Shutter Island *NEW* Muriel Barbery: The Elegance of the Hedgehog *NEW* Inna Patrakova: Naapurit *NEW* Guy Gavriel Kay: The Lions of Al-Rassan *NEW* Karin Brunk Holmqvist: Pieni potenssipuoti *NEW* Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret of Bees *NEW* Alex Garland: The Beach *NEW* David Mitchell: Black Swan Green *NEW* Lucy Dillon: The Secret of Happy Ever After *NEW* Jari Tervo: Pyhiesi yhteyteen *NEW* (FIN) Kathryn Stockett: Help *NEW* Non-fiction Deborah Spungen: And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Sylvia Beach: Shakespeare and Company Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life Tuula-Liina Varis: Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka *NEW* (FIN) Ronald Hayman: The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath Augusten Burroughs: Dry *NEW* Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table John Grogan: Marley and Me Ann Rule: The Stranger Beside Me Vicki Myron: Dewey - The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World *NEW* Dave Peltzer: A Child Called It *NEW* (this is very disturbing, though, so beware!) Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter *NEW* Nick Hornby: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree *NEW* Mötley Crüe: The Dirt Augusten Burroughs: Magical Thinking *NEW* Mary Roach: Stiff – The Life of the Human Cadavers Augusten Burroughs: Possible Side Effects *NEW* Flora Rheta Scheiber: Sybil Peggy Claude-Pierre: The Secret Language of Eating Disorders *NEW* Philip Gonzalez: The Dog Who Rescues Cats *NEW* Lesley McDowell: Between the Sheets – The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers Tobias Wolff: This Boy's Life *NEW* Constance Briscoe: Ugly *NEW* Christopher V. V. Parnell: Hell's Prisoner *NEW* Danny Wallace: Yes Man *NEW* Pamela Druckerson: French Children Don't Throw Food *NEW* Children/Young Adult Angela Sommer-Bodenburg: The Little Vampire Maria Gripe: Salaisuus varjossa *NEW* Lois Lowry: Anastasia series Anu Jaantila: Dear Sanna *NEW* (FIN) Astrid Lindgren: Brothers Lionheart J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series Lucy M. Montgomery: Emily of New Moon series Astrid Lindgren: Bill Bergson series Sue Townsend: Adrian Mole series Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince Diana Wynne Jones: Fire and Hemlock Lois Lowry: The Giver Georgia Byng: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Mary Rodgers: Freaky Friday *NEW* Chris Priestley: Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden Roald Dahl: Matilda *NEW* Cornelia Funke: Inkheart *NEW* Updated list by poppyshake 11.9.2013 Poppyshake's 133 books You Must Read Before You Die List (with further apologies for any you've read that you think suck I'd be very grateful if you didn't point them out ) Fiction Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London series NEW - TBR Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf NEW - READ Clare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey - READ Jane Austen - Persuasion NEW - READ Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - READ Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility NEW - READ Julian Barnes - Arthur & George - TBR David Benioff - City of Thieves Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights - READ Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None NEW - READ Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - READ John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things - TBR Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers - READ Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol - READ Charles Dickens - Bleak House - NEW Charles Dickens - Great Expectations - TBR Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - READ Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment - TBR Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea NEW Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex - READ Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series - READ / TBR Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated - READ Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere TBR Paul Gallico - Mrs Harris Goes to Paris NEW - READ George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody - READ Joseph Heller - Catch 22 - TBR Emma Henderson - Grace Williams Says it Loud John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go - TBR Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child NEW - READ Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle Mette Jakobsen - The Vanishing Act NEW - TBR Thomas Keneally - Schindlers Ark NEW Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin - NEW - READ Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - READ Lauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam Karen Maitland - Company of Liars Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies NEW Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel NEW - READ Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca - TBR Cormac McCarthy - The Road Herman Melville - Moby Dick TBR Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind - READ Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love - READ Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus NEW Toni Morrison - Beloved Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea - TBR Paul Murray - Skippy Dies TBR Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise NEW Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar NEW - READ Annie Proulx - The Shipping News Dan Rhodes - Gold - READ Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children NEW Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby NEW - READ Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette NEW - READ Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - READ Lynn Shepherd - Tom All-Alones NEW - TBR Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Kathryn Stockett - The Help - READ Bram Stoker - Dracula NEW - READ Mari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt - The Secret History - READ Voltaire - Candide NEW - READ Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse - READ Markus Zusak - The Book Thief - READ Young Adult Richard Adams - Watership Down NEW Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase NEW Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - READ Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of being a Wallflower - READ Eoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl series Roald Dahl - Matilda NEW - READ Cornelia Funke - Inkheart - READ Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book - READ Sally Gardner - I Coriander Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - READ C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - READ A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls NEW Mary Norton - The Borrowers Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith Chris Priestley - Tales of Terror series J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series - READ Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit - TBR J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings - TBR Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ - READ P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins NEW - READ Catherynne M.Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making NEW Non-fiction Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire TBR Clare Balding - My Animals and Other Family NEW John Bayley - The Iris Trilogy William Blacker - Along the Enchanted Way James Bowen - A Streetcat Named Bob NEW - READ Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island - TBR Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent NEW Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors - READ Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl - READ Stephen Fry - Moab is My Washpot NEW - TBR Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles NEW - READ Angelica Garnett - Deceived with Kindness NEW Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing - READ Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - READ William Horwood - The Boy With No Shoes NEW Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling Richard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth Press NEW Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf NEW Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards Sarah Miles - Right Royal B*stard NEW David Mitchell - Back Story NEW - TBR Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman NEW Charlotte Mosly - Letters Between Six Sisters (Mitfords) - TBR Steven Naafeh & Gregory White Smith - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Van Gogh: The Life NEW George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London NEW Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath - TBR Lorna Sage - Bad Blood Oscar Wilde - De Profundis NEW Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Elie Wiesel - Night NEW - READ Virginia Woolf - A Room of Ones Own NEW Virginia Woolf - Selected Diaries NEW Virginia Woolf - Selected Letters NEW Broadening horizons Sci-fi + fantasy enthusiast vs. normal book enthusiast 2012: Karsa Orlong's suggestions to frankie: Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers Replay by Ken Grimwood 4/5 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 4/5 Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds The Forever War by Joe Haldeman frankie's suggestions to Karsa Orlong: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 10/10 Crippen by John Boyne Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Under the Skin by Michel Faber Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 7/10 2013: Karsa Orlong's suggestions to frankie: The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell (first in a trilogy) TBR Storm Front by Jim Butcher (first in the Dresden Files series) TBR The Terror by Dan Simmons The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman (first book in the Merrily Watkins series) The Breach by Patrick Lee (Breach trilogy book 1) Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis (Milkweed Tryptich book 1) TBR frankie's suggestions to Karsa Orlong: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Q&A by Vikas Swarup Marathon Man by William Goldman 9/10 Beyond the Great Indoors by Ingvar Ambjørnsen Poppyshake's updated list, January 2016 Fiction Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London series tbr Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy tbr Boris Akunin - The Winter Queen read Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf read Clare Allen - Poppy Shakespeare (my biography ) Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey read Jane Austen - Persuasion read Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice read Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility read Julian Barnes - Arthur & George tbr David Benioff - City of Thieves Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights read Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None read Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell read John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things tbr Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers read Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol read Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities read Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex read Jasper Fforde - The Thursday Next series Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated read Claire Fuller - Our Endless Numbered Days Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere tbr George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody read Joseph Heller - Catch 22 tbr Jason Hewitt - The Dynamite Room John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child read Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle Mette Jakobsen - The Vanishing Act tbr Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin read Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird read Lauren Liebenberg - The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam Karen Maitland - Company of Liars Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel read Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca tbr Cormac McCarthy - The Road Herman Melville - Moby Dick tbr Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind read Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love read Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus Toni Morrison - Beloved Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea tbr Paul Murray - Skippy Dies tbr Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar read Annie Proulx - The Shipping News Dan Rhodes - Gold read Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby read Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette read Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society read Lynn Shepherd - Tom All-Alones tbr Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress read Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle John Steinbeck - East of Eden tbr Bram Stoker - Dracula read Mari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt - The Secret History read Voltaire - Candide read Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse read Markus Zusak - The Book Thief read Young Adult Richard Adams - Watership Down Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland read Eoin Colfer - The Artemis Fowl series Roald Dahl - Matilda read Cornelia Funke - Inkheart read Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book read Sally Gardner - I Coriander Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time read C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe read A.A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls Mary Norton - The Borrowers Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith Chris Priestley - Tales of Terror series read J.K. Rowling - The Harry Potter series read Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike tbr Jonathan Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit tbr J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings tbr Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ read P.L. Travers - Mary Poppins read Catherynne M.Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Non-fiction Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire - tbr Clare Balding - My Animals and Other Family John Bayley - The Iris Trilogy William Blacker - Along the Enchanted Way Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island tbr Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors read Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl read Stephen Fry - Moab is My Washpot tbr Angelica Garnett - Deceived with Kindness Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing read Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree read William Horwood - The Boy With No Shoes Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling Richard Kennedy - A Boy at the Hogarth Press Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie Mary S. Lovell - The Mitford Girls tbr Sarah Miles - Right Royal B*stard Caitlin Moran - How To Be A Woman Charlotte Mosley - Letters Between Six Sisters (Mitford's) Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith - Van Gogh: The Life George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath tbr Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina Oscar Wilde - De Profundis Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? Elie Wiesel - Night read Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf - Selected Diaries Virginia Woolf - Selected Letters Back to top