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    Jessi's Reading List - 2010

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Jessi

    Wish List:

    Anderson, Laurie Halse: Chains

    Anthony, Evelyn: Imperial Highness

    Anthony, Evelyn: Victoria and Albert

    Brodie, Fawn: Thomas Jeffeson: An Intimate History

    Beer, Edith Hadn: The Nazi’s Officers Wife

    Croft, Christina: Most Beautiful Princess

    Dreifuss, Jerome: The Romance of Catherine and Potemkin

    Eastland, Sam: The Eye Of The Red Tsar

    Feldman, E: Lucy

    Gregory, Kristiana: Catherine: The Great Journey

    Gulland, Sandra: Mistress of the Sun

    Harris, Charlaine: Grave Sight (McRecommends)

    Hill, Lawrence: The Book of Negros

    Hough, Richard: Victoria and Albert

    Jenoff, Pam: Almost Home

    Kirwen, Anna: Victoria (My Royal Story)

    Lasky, Kathryn: Marie Antoinette

    Lasky, Kathryn: Elizabeth

    Larsson, Stig: The Millennium Trilogy

    Montefiore, Santa: The Affair

    Morrow, James: The Last Witchfinder

    Nagel, Paul C: The Adams Women

    Plaidy, Jean: Louis the Well Beloved

    Plaidy, Jean: The Thistle and The Rose

    Rohan, Zina: The Officers Daughter

    Sebba, Anna: American Jennie

    Tufft, Ron: Red Cloth, Yellow Cloth

    Williams, Charles: The Last Great Frenchmen

    Whittle, Tyler: Albert's Victoria

     

    Wish List of book yet to be released:

    Morris, Edmund: Colonel Roosevelt (Released: 23 Nov)

    Jessi's Reading List - 2010

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Jessi

    To Be Read List:

     

    History:

    1. De Courcy, Anne: Debs at War

    2. Battiscombe, Georgina: Queen Alexandra (Finished: 2 Apr)

    3. Campbell, Christy: Band of Brigands

    4. Foreman, Amanda: The Duchess

    5. Fraser, Antonia: Marie Antoinette

    6. Fulbrook, Mary: Europe since 1945 (UNIVERSITY)

    7. Garfield, Simon: Our Hidden Lives

    8. Gristwood, Sarah: Elizabeth and Leicester

    9. Guy, John: My Heart Is My Own

    10. King, Edmund: Medieval England

    11. Hibbert, Christopher: Edward VII (Finished: 16 Feb)

    12. Hobsbawn, Eric: The Age Of Extremes (UNIVERSITY)

    13. Massie, Robert: Nicholas and Alexandra

    14. Mazower, Mark: Dark Continent (Finished: 21 May)

    15. McCullough, David: 1776

    16. O’Farrell, John: An Utterly Exasperated History Of Modern Britain (Finished: 31 Jan)

    17. Rees, Laurence: Behind Closed Doors

    18. Smith, Douglas: The Pearl (Finished: 5 Jun)

    19. Soames, Mary: Clementine Churchill

    20. Soames, Mary: Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchill’s (Finshed: 7 Mar)

    21. Williams, Stephanie: Olga’s Story

    22. Weir, Alison: Henry VIII

    23. Weir, Alison: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

     

     

    Fiction:

    24. Anderson, Hans Christian: Anderson’s Fairy Tales

    25. Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women

    26. Alexander, Goldie: My Story, Transported (Finished: 13 Aug)

    27. Austen, Jane: Emma

    28. Austen, Jane: Mansfield Park

    29. Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey

    30. Austen, Jane: Persuasion

    31. Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice (Finished: 5 Aug)

    32. Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility

    33. Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

    34. Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

    35. Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden

    36. Cross, Vince: My Story, Blitz (Finished: 25 Jan)

    37. Dunant, Sarah: In the Company of the Courtesan

    38. Emerson White, Ellen: My Story, Voyage on the Great Titanic (Finished: 1 Mar)

    39. Fforde, Jasper: The Eyre Affair

    40. Furnivall, Kate: The Russian Concubine

    41. Funke, Cornelia: Inkheart (Finished: 19 June)

    42. Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South

    43. George, Margaret: Helen of Troy

    44. Gee, Sophie: The Scandal of the Season

    45. Gregory, Philippa: The Other Queen

    46. Gregory, Philippa: The Queens Fool

    47. Gregory, Philippa: The Favoured Child

    48. Godbersen, Anna: Splendour (Finished: 15 Jan)

    49. Gilbert, Henry: Robin Hood

    50. Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

    51. Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the D’Urbervilles

    52. Kaye, Marilyn: Gifted

    53. Kohn, Rebecca: The Gilded Chamber (Finished: 15 Dec)

    54. Lasky, Kathryn: Mayflower (Finished: 22 Jan)

    55. Lawrence, D. H: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

    56. Lee, Harper: To Kill A Mocking Bird

    57. Lewis, Hilda: I, Jacqueline

    58. Martin, Lee: Gangsters Wives

    59. Mayo, Stephfordy: New Moan

    60. McIntosh, Fiona: Royal Exile

    61. Montefiore, Santa: Last Voyage of The Valentina (Finished: 5 Mar)

    62. Montefiore, Santa: The Swallow and the Hummingbird

    63. Montefiore, Santa: The Butterfly Box

    64. Montgomery, L.M : Anne of Green Gables

    65. Nesbit, E: The Railway Children

    66. Niffenegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler’s Wife (Finished: 6 Feb)

    67. Noel, Alyson: Evermore (Finished: 13 Feb)

    68. Plaidy, Jean: The Kings Secret Matter (Finished: 23 May)

    69. Plaidy, Jean: Saint Thomas Eve (Finished: 30 May)

    70. Reid, Sue: My Story, Mill Girl (Finished: 20 Sept)

    71. Ryan, Robert: Early One Morning

    72. Sewell, Anna: Black Beauty

    73. Sheers, Owen: Resistance

    74. Sittenfeld, Curtis: American Wife

    75. Sparks, Nicholas: Dear John (Finished: 13 July)

    76. Steel, Danielle: Silent Honour

    77. Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped

    78. Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair

    79. Thomes, Rosie: Isis and Ruby

    80. Tolkien, J.R.R: The Silmarillion

    81. Tolkien, J.R.R: Unfinished Tales

    82. Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief

     

    To Be Read: 82 (8 January 2010)

    Jessi's Reading List - 2010

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    So I didn't do one of these last year, but think it is high time I did. My aim for the year is above 48 books which was my total in 2009. However, I would really love to read above 60.

     

    Thats the utimate goal... so here we go...

     

    Read in 2010...

     

    1. Poison Study - Maria V Snyder

    2. The Tales of Beedle The Bard - J K Rowling

    3. Magic Study - Maria V Synder

    4. Becoming Queen - Kate Williams

    5.

    Jessi's Reading List - 2010

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted

    So I didn't do one of these last year, but think it is high time I did. My aim for the year is above 48 books which was my total in 2009. However, I would really love to read above 60.

     

    Thats the utimate goal... so here we go...

     

    Read in 2010...

     

    1. Poison Study - Maria V Snyder

    2. The Tales of Beedle The Bard - J K Rowling

    3. Magic Study - Maria V Synder

    4. Becoming Queen - Kate Williams

    5.

    Jessi's Reading List - 2010

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Jessi

    So I didn't do one of these last year, but think it is high time I did. My aim for the year is above 48 books which was my total in 2009. However, I would really love to read above 60.

     

    Edited (16 July 2010): New Target on account of already having finished 54 books (Woop Woop!) - 100 books is now my aim :)

     

    Thats the utimate goal... so here we go...

     

    Read in 2010...

     

    1. Poison Study - Maria V Snyder

    2. The Tales of Beedle The Bard - J K Rowling

    3. Magic Study - Maria V Snyder

    4. Becoming Queen - Kate Williams

    5. Double Cross - Malorie Blackman

    6. Living Dead In Dallas - Charlaine Harris

    7. Splendour - Anna Godbersen

    8. Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris

    9. Mayflower - Kathryn Lasky

    10. Blitz - Vince Cross

    11. Uneasy Lies The Head - Jean Plaidy

    12. An Utterly Exasperated History Of Mordern Britain - John O'Farrell

    13. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

    14. Frank - Annette Dunlap

    15. Evermore - Alyson Noel

    16. Edward VII - Christopher Hibbert

    17. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris

    18. The Last Grand Duchess - Ian Vorres

    19. The Last Station - Jay Parini

    20. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

    21. Voyage on the Great Titanic - Ellen Emerson White

    22. Last Voyage of the Valentina - Santa Montefiore

    23. Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills - Mary Soames

    24. Fire Study - Maria V Snyder

    25. Quidditch Through The Ages - J K Rowling

    26. Sally Hemings - Barbara Chase Riboud

    27. Missiles in Cuba - Mark White

    28. Traitors of the Tower - Alison Weir

    29. Dead To The World - Charlaine Harris

    30. Queen Alexandra - Georgina Battiscombe

    31. Anastasia's Secret - Susanne Dunlap

    32. Thirteen Days - Robert F Kennedy

    33. Europe Since 1870 - James Joll

    34. Kissed by an Angel - Elizabeth Chandler

    35. The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko

    36. Cuban Missile Crisis Documents from University (3x) = 291 pages

    37. The Roosevelts - Peter Collier

    38. Burned - PC and Kristin Cast

    39. The Crusades - Christopher Tyerman

    40. Dark Continent - Mark Mazower

    41. The Kings Secret Matter - Jean Plaidy

    42. American Adulterer - Jed Mercruio

    43. St Thomas's Eve - Jean Plaidy

    44. Jackie, Ethel, Joan - J Randy Taraborrelli

    45. The Pearl - Douglas Smith

    46. Katherine - Anya Seton

    47. The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner - Stephanie Meyer

    48. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

    49. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J K Rowling

    50. The Carrie Diaries - Candace Bushnell

    51. Marley and Me - John Grogan

    52. Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris

    53. Dear John - Nicholas Sparks

    54. No Place Like Home - Pen Farthing

    55. The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks

    56. Tinkling The English - Dara O'Briain

    57. No Place Like Home - Pen Farthing

    58. Franklin and Winston - Jon Meacham

    59. One Dog at a Time - Pen Farthing.

    60. Alice - Stacy A Cordery

    61. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

    62. Englands Mistress - Kate Williams

    63. Transported - Goldie Alexander

    64. The Romanovs 1818 - 1959 - John Van Der Kiste

    65. The House of Special Purpose - John Boyne

    66. Lord Robert - Jean Plaidy

    67. Divine By Mistake - PC Cast

    68. Patriot Hearts - Barbara Hambly

    69. A Rhyming History of Britian - James Muirden

    70. Mill Girl - Sue Reid

    71. A Dog Year - John Katz

    72. Unbroken - Beverley Callard

    73. The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

    74. Jack Duckworth and Me - Bill Tarmey

    75. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien

    76. The Shadow of the Pomgranate - Jean Plaidy

    77. Coronation Street Saga - Katherine Hardy

    78. The Gilded Chamber - Rebecca Kohn

    79. The Italian Matchmaker - Santa Montefiore

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