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Oh yes, The Wasp Factory is very dark indeed. I hope you enjoy it!
Have a great reading year in 2019!
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Have a great reading year in 2019, Angury.
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Books Purchased Pre - 2012
The Fire Gospel (Myths) - Michel Faber
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
CK - 12 Biology 1 - Honors
CK - 12 Earth Science Honors for Middle School
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
Grimm's Fairy Stories - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero - Aileen Orr
Killing the Messenger - Christopher Wallace
A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road - Christopher Aslan Alexander
Guiness World Records: 2012
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance - Nessa Carey
Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming - Neil Shah
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? - New Scientist
Sapper Martin - Richard van Emden
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Last Man - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
50 Facts That Should Change The World - Jessica Williams
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles MackayThe Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Reluctant Traveler - Bill Lumley
Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith -
Books Purchased in 2012
Supersense - Bruce Hood
What's Wrong With Eating People - Peter Cave
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
Written In Stone - Brian Switek
QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition - John Lloyd and John MitchinsonQuantum - Manjit Kumar
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
Fire and Ice (Liam Campbell #1) - Dana Stabenow
Compromised - Derek Keyte
QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Mirage Men - Mark PilkingtonThe Book of Human Skin - Michelle Lovric
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen Covey
The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Elephant Whisperer - Graham Spence and Anthony Lawrence
The Girl On The Wall - Jean Baggott
How to Raise the Perfect Dog: Through puppyhood and beyond - Cesar Millan
The Key To Rebecca - Ken Follett
Are We Nearly There Yet?: A Family's 8000 Miles Around Britain in a Vauxhall Astra - Ben HatchFarmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers : And other odd events on the way to scientific discovery - Stephanie Pain
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? - William Poundstone
The Making of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr
As The Crow Flies - Jeffrey Archer
The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset - Nick Powdthavee
Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition - Jules VerneAn Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha Roy
Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean WebsterInflight Science: A Guide to the World from your Airplane Window - Brian Clegg
The World's Greatest Idea - John Farndon
The Etymologicon: A Circular Scroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language - Mark Forsyth
One Million Tiny Plays About Britain - Craig Taylor
The Eleventh Commandment - Jeffrey ArcherOnly Time Will Tell - Jeffrey Archer
Ash - James Herbert
Sarah Thornhill - Kate Grenville
VIII - H M Castor
Winter of the World - Ken FolletYesterday's Gone: Season Two - Sean Platt and David Wright
Times Echo - Pamela Hartshorne
Trojan Horse - Mark Russinovich
How Not To Worry: The Remarkable Truth of How a Small Change Can Help You Stress Less and Enjoy Life More - Paul McGeeThe Dead Women of Juarez - Sam Hawken
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through The Lost Words of the English Language - Mark Forsyth
The History of the World In Bite-Sized Chunks - Emma MarriottThe Millenium Trilogy - Stieg Larsson
A History of 20th Century Britain - Andrew Marr
The Mess We're In: Why Politicians Can't Fix Financial Crises - Guy Fraser-Sampson
Yesterday's Country Customs: A History of English Folk Traditions - Hentry Buckton -
Books Purchased in 2013
The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living - Russ Harris
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F. HamiltonIncoming! Or Why We Should Stop Worrying and learn to Love the Meteorite - Ted Nield
Sworn Secret - Amanda Jennings
1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World - Charles C. MannWhite Fang - Jack London
Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right Is Wrong - David Bradley
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher StoweGreat Apes - Will Self
Boneshaker - Cherie Priest
The Phoenix Conspiracy - Richard Sanders
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters - Richard Rumelt
You Are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends On Facebook, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself - David McRaney
The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
On Books and the Housing of Them - W E Gladstone
Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit - Ian Leslie
The Korean War - Max Hastings
The Beach - Alex Garland
Kiss River - Diane Chamberlain
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Au Revoir, Europe: What If Britain Left The EU? - David Charter
Bang! The Complete History of the Universe - Patrick Moore, Brian May, Chris Lintott
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
And Still I Rise - Doreen Lawrence
The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business - Richard Brooks
QI The Book of the Dead - John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
How Do We Fix This Mess? - Robert Peston
The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy - Robin Hobb
The Glass Guardian - Linda Gillard
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Stuffed and Starved: From Farm to Fork - Raj Patel
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War: 1939 - 1945 - Max Hastings
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson
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Books Purchased in 2014
One Summer: America 1927 - Bill Bryson
The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer
Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Good Father - Diane Chamberlain
The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick
Summer's Child - Diane Chamberlain
The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on Edge - Faisal Islam
Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills you need for the great outdoors - Joe O'Leary
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
False Impression - Jeffrey Archer
Exodus (Extinction Point, Book 2) - Paul Antony Jones
Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional - And What that Means for Life in the Universe - David Waltham
Stealing Phoenix - Joss Stirling
Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s - Alwyn Turner
Lifers - Jane Harvey-Berrick
Mary Poppins: The Complete Collection - P.L. Travers
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Reapers Are the Angels - Alden Bell
The Dinner - Herman Koch
Gideon's Spies: The Inside Story of Israeli's Secret Service - Gordon Thomas
The Dreaming Void - Peter F Hamilton
The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection - L Frank Baum
Not A Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis
Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays - Christopher Hitchens
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Every Living Thing - James Herriot
The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 - Max Hastings
The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jnr
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide - JP McEvoy, Oscar Zarate
Robopocalypse - Daniel H Wilson
A Prisoner of Birth - Jeffrey Archer
Judas Unchained - Peter F Hamilton
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
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Books Purchased in 2015
Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities - Gary Sheffield
Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper - Phoebe Smith
Secret Lives - Diane Chamberlain
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
I Used To Know That: Stuff You Forgot From School - Caroline Taggart
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Universe versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence
The Chronicles of St Mary's Boxset Vol 1 - Jodi Taylor
Canoeing the Congo: The First Source-to-Sea Descent of the Congo River - Phil Harwood
The Lies We Told - Diane Chamberlain
Papillon - Henri Charriere
Warship - Joshua Dalzelle
The Proof of Love - Catherine Hall
The Atlantis Plague - AG Riddle
Stone Mattress: Nine Tales - Margaret Atwood
Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries - Jon Ronson
The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice - Christopher Hitchens
The Shadow Wife - Diane Chamberlain
The Journal of a Disappointed Man - Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
The Bay at Midnight - Diane Chamberlain
Shogun - James Clavell
The Confession - John Grisham
The Things We Have In Common - Tasha Kavanagh
Enigma - Robert Harris
Keeper of the Light - Diane Chamberlain
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Number9dream - David Mitchell
The Courage Tree - Diane Chamberlain
The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
The Good Father - Noah Hawley
Alone In Berlin - Hans Fallada
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
Wayfaring Stranger - James Lee Burke
Death of a River Guide - Richard Flanagan
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Watership Down - Richard Adams
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That - Ben Goldacre
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - Henry Marsh
The Wild Places - Robert McFarlane
The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
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Books Purchased in 2016
The Other Son - Nick Alexander
Wilbur Smith Trilogy: Hungry as the Sea, Elephant Song and Wild Justice - Wilbur Smith
Her Mother's Shadow - Diane Chamberlain
Home - Matt Dunn
A Short History of England - Simon Jenkins
Sister - Rosamund Lupton
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Night Film - Marisha Pessl
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the summit of Mount Everest - Bear Grylls
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
How To Be Alone - Jonathan Franzen
This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
The Rotten Heart of Europe: Dirty War for Europe's Money - Bernard Connolly
Harry Potter: The Complete Collection - JK Rowling
The Revenant - Michael Punke
What You See Is What You Get - Alan Sugar
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
New York - Edward Rutherfurd
Outlander - Diane Gabaldon
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy : The Trilogy of Five - Douglas Adams
Anathem - Neal Stephenson
Parkland - Vincent Bugliosi
My Year of Meats - Ruth Ozeki
Kamikaze Kangaroos! - Tony James Slater
The Godforsaken Daughter - Christine McKenna
Us - David Nicholls
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man - Luke Harding
The Last Runaway - Tracy Chevalier
The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, The Universe and Everything - Ian Crofton, Jeremy BlackThe Old Ways: A Journey on Foot - Robert McFarlane
Introducing Psychology - Nigel Benson
The Girl You Left Behind - JoJo Moyes
The Painted Bridge - Wendy Wallace
When God Was A Rabbit - Sarah Winman
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Secrethood - Rebecca Wells
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Books Purchased in 2017
The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
Let The Light Shine - Nick Alexander
The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
Horses, Heifers and Hairy Pigs - Julian Norton
The Litigators - John Grisham
Sniper One - Dan Mills
Say Goodbye for Now - Catherine Ryan Hyde
Myopia - Jeff Gardiner
A Shepherd's Watch - David Kennard
Methods of Persuasion - Nick Kolenda
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
Cut - Hibo Wardere
We Were The Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
Superforecasting: The Art of Science and Prediction - Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardener
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Joel Dicker
Here I Am - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It - Owen Jones
Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal - Terence Kealey
A History of the World - Andrew Marr
House of Cards - Michael Dobbs
Who Rules The World: Reframings - Noam Chomsky
The Aquariums of Pyongyang - Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot
In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story - Luke Smitherd
Sane New World: Taming the Mind - Ruby Wax
All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet (James Herriot 1) - James Herriot
How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy - Michael Barber
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Stephen King Goes to the Movies: Featuring Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
The Passage - Justin Cronin
The Second Coming - John Niven
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE - Phil Knight
Allie and Bea: A Novel - Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
The Twelve: The Passage Trilogy Book 2 - Justin Cronin
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes - Adam Rutherford
All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet - James Herriot
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe - Mike Massimino
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - Ranulph Fiennes
The Fear of 13: Countdown to Execution: My Fight for Survival on Death Row - Nick Yarris
How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely - Andrew Craig
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
The Power of Time Perception: Control the Speed of Time to Slow Down Aging, Live a Long Life, and Make Every Second Count - Jean Paul Zogby
The Neutronium Alchemist (Nights Dawn Book 2) - Peter F. Hamilton
The Naked God (Nights Dawn Book 3) - Peter F. Hamilton
The Evolutionary Void (The Void Trilogy Book 3) - Peter F. Hamilton
The Temporal Void (The Void Trilogy Book 2) - Peter F. Hamilton
Naïve Super - Erlend Loe
Big Brother - Lionel Shriver
Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi, Shaun Whiteside
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action - Simon Sinek
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions - John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
The Finance Book: Understand the numbers even if you're not a finance professional - Stuart Warner, Si Hussain
Northern Lights: His Dark Materials 1 - Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials 2 - Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials 3 - Philip Pullman
Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life - Spencer Johnson
Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
Under A Pole Star - Stef Penney
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Foxes Unearthed - Lucy Jones
The Case Against Sugar - Gary Taubes
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics - Richard H Thaler
TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking - Chris Anderson
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Sundial - Shirley Jackson
Contact - Carl Sagan
The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarity
The Year of the Runaways - Sunjeev Sahota
American Assassin - Vince Flynn
A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled - Ruby Wax
The Threat Level Remains Severe - Rowena Macdonald
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class - Tim Shipman
Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World - Elspeth Beard
The Sky Below: A True Story of Summits, Space, and Speed - Scott Parazynski, Susy Flory
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future - Ashlee Vance
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond - Christophe Galfard
The Element in the Room: Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face (Festival of the Spoken Nerd) - Helen Arney, Steve Mould
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival - Dave Canterbury
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness - Richard H Thaler, Cass R Sunstein
The Outsider - Albert Camus
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness - Alanna Collen
The Lord God Made Them All: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet (James Herriot 4) - James Herriot
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder
A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers 2 - Becky Chambers
The Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini PhD
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Charlotte's Web - EB White
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
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Books Purchased in 2018
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine - Derren Brown
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
The English and Their History - Robert Tombs
The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics - Naomi Klein
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
The Plague - Albert Camus
The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers
Fierce Kingdom - Gin Phillips
Unwind - Neal Shusterman
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life - Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Flann O'Brien
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World - Michael Harris
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far - Lawrence Krauss
Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flats - John Steinbeck
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
The Five Giants - Nicholas Timmins
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
The Science of Everyday Life - Marty Jopson
The Light Between Oceans - M L Stedman
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes - Stephen Hawking
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery - Scott Kelly
Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds - Daniel C. Dennett
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Pimp: The Story of my Life - Iceberg Slim
This Is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel
The Fact of A Body - Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
David Bowie: A Life - Dylan Jones
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
An Appetite for Wonder - Richard Dawkins
Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland - John Lewis-Stempel
Out of Africa - Karen Blixen
Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
Lisey's Story - Stephen King
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life - Helen Czerski
The Chimp Paradox - Steve Peters
And Then You're Dead: A Scientific Exploration of the World's Most Interesting Ways to Die - Paul Doherty
House Rules - Jodi Picoult
Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult
Leaving Time - Jodi Picoult
My Lovely Wife: A Memoir of Madness and Hope - Mark Lukach
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel - Iain M. Banks
The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs - Tristan Gooley
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
At the Edge of the Orchard - Tracy Chevalier
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World - Laura Spinney
His Bloody Project - Graeme Burnet
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
Behave - Robert Sapolsky
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
The Constant Gardener - John LeCarre
All The Little Lights - Jamie McGuire
Let Me Lie - Claire MacKintosh
Humans - Christopher Seddon
Finding My Virginity - Richard Branson
What Comes Next and How To Like It - Abigail Thomas
The Salt Path - Raynor WinnCrazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
2001: A Space Oddessy - Arthur C Clarke
Fragrant Harbour - John Lanchester
My James - Ralph Bulger
Pandemic - AG Riddle
The Thorn Birds - Collen McCullough
Adventures of a Young Naturalist - David Attenborough
The City of Mirrors - Justin Cronin
Holding - Graham Norton
Janesville - Amy Goldstein
The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low Wage Britain - James Bloodworth
Admissions - Henry Marsh
The Great Zoo of China - Matthew Reilly
A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda Owen
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The 100-Year Life - Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott
Wicked Beyond Belief - Michael Bilton
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas HarrisFreedom - Jonathan Franzen
Science(ish) - Rick Edwards, Michael Brooks
The Stranger in the Woods - Michael Finkel
The Time of my Life - Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi
Elmet - Fiona Mozley
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Books Purchased This Year
Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
The Lottery and other stories - Shirley Jackson
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (abandoned)Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End of the World - Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
With The End In Mind - Kathryn MannixA Captain's Duty - Richard PhillipsThe Talisman - Stephen King and Peter Straub
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding - George MonbiotAll That Remains: A Life In Death - Sue BlackBrave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Collector - John Fowles
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John BoyneBlood Meridian - Cormac McCarthyThe Yorkshire Vet - Peter Wright
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman
84K - Claire North
The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks
Unnatural Causes - Richard ShepherdCrippen - John BoyneIncognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
The Trouble With Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon
Almost Love - Louise O'Neill
Alone On The Wall - Alex Honnold and David Roberts
Big Debt Crises - Ray Dalio
A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne
Humans: A Brief History of How We hmmmed It All Up - Tom Philips
The Last Wolf - Jim Crumley
Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfect - Fearne Cotton
Bean Counters: The Triumph of Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism - Richard Brooks
Monsters - Emerald Fennell
Chasing The Scream: The Truth About Addiction - Johann Hari
The Rise and Fall Of The Dinosaurs - Steve Brusatte
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence - Christopher Andrew
Losing My Virginity - Richard Branson
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything - David Christian
Chasing The Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction - Johann Hari
Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
Flight Risk - Stephanie GreenA Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
When The Dogs Don't Bark - Angela Gallop
The Human Planet - Simon Lewis
Under The Knife - Arnold van de Laar
Think Dog - John Fisher
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Choked - Beth Gardiner
Skin - Liam Brown
The Dark Side of the Mind - Kerry Daynes
Audiobooks Purchased This Year
The Language Of Kindness: A Nurse's Story - Christie Watson
The Dark Tower I - Stephen KingEmma - Jane Austen
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
The Monster Collection - Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson etc
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Notes on a Nervous Planet - Matt Haig
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
The Dark Tower II - Stephen KingThe Dark Tower III - Stephen KingThe Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
The Dark Tower IV - Stephen KingMy Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Fog - James HerbertAnna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman
Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky
Mindstar Rising - Peter F Hamilton
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Dark Tower V - Stephen King
The Dark Tower VI - Stephen King
Codename Villanelle - Luke Jennings
Shelter In Place - Nora Roberts
IT - Stephen King
The Stand - Stephen King
Lisey's Story - Stephen King
Needful Things - Stephen King
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Books Read This Year
January - June
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F Hamilton
With The End in Mind - Kathryn Mannix
His Bloody Project - Graeme Burnet
Them - John Ronson
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
A Captain's Duty - Richard Phillips
Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World - Haruki Murakami
All That Remains - Sue Black
Let Me Lie - Claire MacKintosh
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (abandoned)
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Feral - George Monbiot
American Assassin - Vincent Flynn (abandoned)
Alone of the Wall - Alex Honnold
Why We Sleep - Matt Walker
Crippen - John Boyne
Hired - James Bloodworth
July - December
The Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
The Trouble With Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon
The Yorkshire Vet - Peter Wright
Pandemic - A G Riddle
Flight Risk - Stephanie Green
The Light Between Oceans - M L Stedman
The Time of My Life - Patrick Swayze
Lone Wolf - Jodi Picoult
My Lovely Wife - Mark Lukach
A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda Owen
Almost Love - Louise O'Neill
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Confession - John Grisham
Snap - Belinda Bauer
Elevation - Stephen King
Milkman - Anna Burns (abandoned)
Audiobooks Listened to This Year
January - June
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
Roots - Alex Haley
Jaws - Peter Benchley
The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
I Can't Make This Up - Kevin Hart
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Doestoyevsky
The Humans - Matt Haig
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
The Dark Tower II - Stephen King
The Dark Tower III - Stephen King
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin
July - December
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
The Fog - James Herbert
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
The Dark Tower IV - Stephen King
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
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Welcome to my 2019 book list!!
Hopefully it will be kept more up to date than my 2018 list (which I started halfway through the year, and only ran to 2 pages
).
My format is going to stay the same as previous years. For some reason, I've always categorised books by the year they were purchased....which means I am really cringing when I see how many books I purchased 5+ years ago but have yet to read.
My aim is to reduce my TBR pile, but unfortunately it just seems to be growing year on year. Oh well, there are worse problems to have so I'm not too bothered by it.
I haven't listed my treebooks (I didn't list them in 2018 either), mostly because I had a massive cull in early 2018 and I just don't have the energy to go through my bookcase and list them all. I will hopefully read some of them this year, but I expect most of my reading with be done on my Kindle.
Anyway, enough rambling from me. I hope everyone has a great reading year in 2019 and I look forward to reading everyone's posts in the coming year.
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On 12/26/2018 at 11:57 AM, Athena said:
I hope you enjoy this one
! I love this trilogy. I'm planning to re-read the third book next year (2019).
I started it yesterday, and it's good so far. There is a fair amount of techie-speak and new concepts but I'm managing to keep up with it.
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I've just had a homemade cheeseburger for lunch. Not the healthiest of meals but so delicious.
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On 11/26/2018 at 8:35 PM, karen.d said:
I agree, New Year's Eve is an anti climax. I prefer to stay at home, pig out on chocolates and have a couple of glasses of bubbly in front of the tv.
This sums up how we prefer to spend New Years. We are lucky if we manage to stay up till midnight though. -
Ready Player One. Undecided about it...it's as though it was too fast for my brain to keep up.
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On 11/30/2018 at 7:28 PM, Raven said:
I think the paperback is closer to 200 pages, but by today's standards it is more of a draft excluder than a doorstop.
It's definitely longer than the 100 pages I mentioned above, even though that's what Amazon says it is. I can remember wondering why it was taking me so long to finish if it was only a hundred pages.
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I have a few favourites that I re-read. Unfortunately 2 of them (The Stand and IT - both by Stephen King) I have read so often that I'm slightly sick of them.
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61 so far which is very good going for me. Oh, plus about 9 audiobooks.
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The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarity
The setting is a small island in Sydney called Scribbly Gum Island. Seventy years ago, two of it's inhabitants - Alice and Jack Munro - vanished into thin air leaving their very young baby alone in the house. The kettle was still boiling and there was a marble cake waiting to be eaten when young Connie and Rose Doughty came across the scene. For seventy years they have held tours of Alice and Jack's house, while the baby (now a grandmother called Enigma) was raised as part of their own family.
Now, Connie has recently died and left her house to Sophie, a virtual stranger to the family but someone she felt had a strong connection to her house. Sophie (unlucky in love) moves to the island and befriends the remaining members of the family.
This book was a mixed bag of genres. There was the sappy romantic side, the humourous thread throughout, and bit of a mystery and also a very dark storyline around post-natal depression. I don't know if it hung together in right way for me, and each of those individual stories could have been left out entirely without impacting the rest of the book. Thinking about it now, I can't even see the point of Sophie's story, unless it was to prove that she could 'create her own fairy tale'. Definitely not a patch on Big Little Lies, and if I'd read this one first I wouldn't be in a rush to read Moriarity's other books. Not to say it was bad, it just wasn't all that original - except for a particular reveal at the end).
However the constant references to marble cake has made me print out a recipe which I may attempt during my holiday break.
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The Miracle Inspector - Helen Smith
This is a fairly short dystopian novel (250 pages or so). Lucas works for the Ministry as a miracle inspector (any sort of miracle, from Jesus' face on a piece of toast to the healing of the sick). His wife Angela is stuck at home (generally women aren't allowed out of the house, except to see relatives) with nothing to do but dream of a better life. They both have plans to escape London and move to Cornwall in the hopes that things are better there.
I felt this was a fairly weak novel...there just didn't seem to be much meat to it and the concepts weren't very original. There was no backstory as to how society became this way (aside from the allusion that all men are rapists and paedophiles - hence women and children need to be locked away), and very little about current society (except through the eyes of Lucas and Angela). There just wasn't any depth, and it has been done before by much better authors. Many parallels with 1984 and the ending felt like it was lifted straight out of Brazil.
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I'm still reading I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong. I keep putting it aside for fiction.
I've finished The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarity (good but not great), The Miracle Inspector by Helen Smith, and I'm now reading Dog On It by Spencer Quinn (told through the eyes of a dog which is always fun ).
I'm also listening to The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins. I have about 6 hours to go, but I'm struggling to find the time to listen to it other than during my long drives to work (I have a week off). Twice over the last couple of days, I settled on the sofa to listen, and both times I was asleep within 10 minutes.
I also fancy reading some Peter F Hamilton, so once I finish up with my current reads I may get under way with The Reality Dysfunction. I might also buy it on audible so I can switch between the two.
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Have a great reading year in 2019, Raven!