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I have about 7 hours left to listen to on The Silk Roads. That's going to be a long 7 hours.
I'm also about 75% through Children of Time. Very interesting and original concept.
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On 11/11/2018 at 1:51 PM, willoyd said:
Over the years, I've listened to a fair number of audiobooks, although only intermittently now. I can't imagine listening to a non-fiction book, unless it was a 'proper' story, like a lot of travel writing - which might perhaps be why fiction is so much easier to listen to? As you say, I want to flick backwards and forwards too often, especially when reading something as dense as The Silk Roads (which I've dipped into and intend to read properly soon).
The Silk Roads is very dense! So much detail, and I think without a lot of prior knowledge on the subject it's very difficult to listen to and absorb it all. I have one more non-fiction on Audible; after I read that one, I will stick with fiction!
On 11/11/2018 at 7:45 PM, Brian. said:I've been listening to Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor and I have to admit its a bit hard going. I have listened to one other non-fiction audio book, Into the Black by Rowland White. I really enjoyed it but the narrator did put on a few different voices during the reading which help a lot.
The narrator of The Silk Roads has put on a few accents, which are fairly amusing. Reading the reviews on Audible though, a lot of people seem to take offense at the accents. Some of them do sound comically stereotypical, especially the Indian ones.
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I've started watching Making a Murderer on Netflix, and I'm also trying to get into The Haunting of Hill House, but not massively keen on horrors (i get scared too easily
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I'm currently reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchiakovsky, which is very good so far. I'm also listening to The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, which is a bit of a struggle to listen to.
It's good to be back on here.
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First of all, thank you Hayley for getting the forum back up and running!!
I'm so far behind in reviews (about a year behind) that I have no way of catching up, but I will try to make some comments on the books that I finish from now on. Next year I will not let myself get so far behind!
I have updated my lists at the top of this post, so you can see I have still been buying books and reading them, just not reviewing them!! I'm starting to slightly panic about ever getting through all the books I have been buying!!! 
I've read 56 books so far, which I think is a lot! I recall when I'd try to hit 50 in a year, but that's when I was studying on top of working full-time. However, I have purchased 97 books so far this year, hence my panic.
Currently I'm reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchiakovsky. It's a sci-fi novel and brilliant and original so far.
I'm also listening to The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, but I am really struggling with it. I find it hard to stay focused and I'm wondering if it would have been better to read, rather than listen to. I think there is a lot of assumed knowledge, and he refers to so many names and places that I've not heard of before; and because he's mentioning these one after another, I can't stop and flip back to 'refresh my memory' (especially given that I do most of my listening while I'm driving). Anyway, I'm just listening to it to finish it now, though some parts are easier to follow (like when he was talking about the Plague); I've said before that I find fiction audiobooks much easier to listen to than non-fiction.
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You can post on it now.
I've organised all my lists. It was slightly shocking having to type out all the books I have bought this year. I haven't counted them, but there are a lot. -
On 7/16/2018 at 1:56 PM, More reading time required said:
F*** You Very Much by Danny Wallace
This was a very interesting read based on how everyone is getting ruder (or apparently seemingly so). It's broken down into different section about things like road rage, teenagers, social media etc including this fab comment about road rage, which very much resonates with me:
It also talked about how when someone is rude to you, it stays with you all day and can affect your performance. So don't be rude to your doctor or else they might get something wrong!
I read this recently, but under it's original title I Can't Believe You Just Said That! I thought it was a very good read, funny at times as well. I like how the 'hot-dog incident' followed him throughout the book, and he just couldn't let it go.
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I bought this the other day - only £0.99 on Kindle. Glad you are enjoying it...it's fairly short from what I recall (< 100 pages?).
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Audiobooks Purchased
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Power - Naomi Alderman
11.22.63 - Stephen King
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
Three Things About Elsie - Joanna Cannon
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Woman In White - Wilkie Collins
Great North Road - Peter F Hamilton
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Roots - Alex Haley
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoevsky
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons - Kevin Hart
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
The Humans - Matt Haig
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin
Norweigen Wood - Haruki Murakami
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Jaws - Peter Benchley
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Audiobooks Listened To
The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
The Power - Naomi Alderman
11.22.63 - Stephen King
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
Three Things About Elsie - Joanna Cannon
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Great North Road - Peter F Hamilton
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
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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
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
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
Dyatlov Pass - Alan K Baker
Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional - And What that Means for Life in the Universe - David Waltham
Stealing Phoenix - Joss Stirling
The Knot - Mark Watson
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
Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
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
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
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 Miracle Inspector: A Dystopian Novel - Helen Smith
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
All I Ever Wanted - Kristan Higgins
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
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
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
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
The Wild Places - Robert McFarlane
The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
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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
The Pursuaders: The Hidden Industry That Wants to Change Your Mind - James Garvey
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
Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick
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
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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 (never watched the series but it's on my Netflix list)
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
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
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
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
Dog On It - Spencer Quinn
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
Wreckage - Emily Bleeker
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
I Contain Multitudes - Ed Yong
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
The Secret Life of Cows - Rosamund Young
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
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Books Purchased This Year
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine - Derren Brown
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
The Great Cholesterol Con - Malcolm KendrickHow To Be Champion - Sarah MillicanThe 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
The Good Immigrant - Nikesh ShuklaIkigai: 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
The Pearl - John SteinbeckCannery 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
The Yorkshire Shepherdess - Amanda OwenA 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
I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'FarrellRubbernecker - Belinda BauerNoughts 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
Death Row: The Final Minutes: My life as an execution witness in America's most infamous prison - Michelle LyonsThe 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
Abducted (Lizzy Gardner Series, Book 1) - T.R. Ragan
At the Edge of the Orchard - Tracy Chevalier
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World - Laura Spinney
The Chrysalids - John WyndhamHis 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
Picking Up The Pieces - Paul Britton
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 Winn
Crazy 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 Harris
Freedom - 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 Read This Year
The Night Manager - John Le Carre
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes (abandoned)
Dark Chapter - Winnie Li
A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult
Darktown - Thomas Mullen
Strong Women - Karren Brady
The Great Cholesterol Con - Malcolm Kendrick
The State We're In - Adele Parks
Ablutions - Patrick deWitt
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla
Golden Lies - Barbara Freethy
Cursed - Stephen Leather
The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
Dark Eden - Chris Beckett
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Knot - Mark Watson
A Day at the Office - Matt Dunn
The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe
Into The Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The Spinster Wife - Christina McKenna
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Not Thomas - Sara Gethin
As You Wish - Cary Elwes
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes - Anna McPartlin
I Can't Believe You Just Said That - Danny Wallace
The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
The Other Me - Saskia Sarginson
Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
The Outsider - Stephen King
Mary Poppins - P L Travers
Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer
How To Stop Time - Matt Haig
Leviathan Wakes - James S A Corey
I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'Farrell
Death Row - Michelle Lyons
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer
Wreckage - Emily Bleeker
Scrappy Little Nobody - Anna Kendrick
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
Dyaltov Pass - Alan Baker
Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier
Do No Harm - Henry Marsh
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
Children of Time - Andrei Tchaikovsky
Picking Up The Pieces - Paul Britton
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
The Miracle Inspector - Helen Smith
The Last Anniversary - Liane Moriarity
I Contain Multitudes - Ed Yong
Dog Gone It - Spencer Quinn
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Welcome to my belated book list!!
I don't know what has happened this year. I've just had no motivation to write reviews, even though I have been reading and buying books like crazy!! I just seem to have lost my mojo in terms of putting my thoughts down in writing.
I'm not going to bother with conventional reviews for the rest of the year (no way I can catch up!), though I hope to at least be able to put some kind of thoughts down (no matter how brief) about the books I have read.
I hope everyone is having a great reading year so far, and may it continue throughout the second half of the year.
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Thanks Janet. The Lord of the Rings is going well, and I'm finding it very easy to listen to while I drive.
I might give the reading/listening thing a try, as there are a couple of books that I already own on Kindle that I wouldn't mind listening to (11.22.63 by Stephen King and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson).
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Thanks, Gaia! I'm sure I will enjoy them!
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Thanks Willoyd and Janet. Yes, that makes sense to use the credit to pay for the non-reduced books.....get your money's worth.
Anyway, I have now signed up for the trial and have chosen The Fellowship of the Ring as my first book. I love the Lord of the Rings movies but have never been able to read the book, so I'm curious as to how I will get on with the audio version. The reviews for it are very favourable, and apparently the narrator does a very good job so fingers crossed!!
Willoyd, I've thought about the 'reading and listening' and I think I am going to stick with one or the other, rather than trying to sync and combine the two. That would probably muddle me about and I've also found that my Kindle sync doesn't always work perfectly!
Hopefully I can get it to work via Bluetooth; if that's the case I will be able to listen on the way home this evening.
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Thanks Janet! I've noticed on many Kindle books that I buy, it says I can add Audible Narration for £2.99 (or whatever). I've also gone back to look at some Kindle books that I have already purchased and it gives me the option to add Audible narration as well, which is very handy. Do you know how this works with the £7.99/month? I take it that the £7.99/month means I can get credit for one Audible book, rather than a credit to add Audible narration to a Kindle purchase? ie. I'd have to pay for that separately?
Whispersync sounds handy because I probably would prefer to read and listen to the same book rather than chop-and-change. Or maybe some books are easier to listen to than read. I think I'll wait till I've finished the few books I've got lined up to read, then give the free trial a go. What have I got to lose?
Thanks for the reply, Janet.
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My car had to get MOT'd so I found myself in WHSmith for the first time in a very long time! I'd forgotten how much fun it is to browse physical books.
I ended up buying:
The Outsider - Stephen King
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
How To Stop Time - Matt Haig
I also popped into our local bookshop to buy a couple of books on the history and walks of our new area.
I'm still reading Altered Carbon (might start watching the series after I finish) and then I will start The Outsider.
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