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I quite fancy a re-read to start off the year ( it`s so dismal, I need some comfort reads ). I`ve previously done Discworld, Jasper Fforde and Donna Andrews re-reads ; this year I think I`m going for a Joanne Fluke re-read. I want to read 100 books in 2015 ( though secretly, I want to read 150 , and even more secretly, I`d like to get to 200 again... But I`ll be very happy to get to 100 ). I`d like to read some of the books which have been languishing in my TBR for ages, though I`ll probably end up reading the books which make me the happiest ( no bad thing ). I`d also like to read more `translated into English ` books, and actually read the books which other people recommend ( rather than just buying them and having them vanish into the depths of my TBR ) .

Wish List Books I really want to get as soon as they come out : Hmm, blank for the moment... Books I want to get when they`ve dropped in price a bit / are available as a cheapy used hardback / come out in paperback : Clarrael - Garth Nix The Book Of Life ( All Souls Trilogy ) - Deborah Harkness Dreaming Spies ( Mary Russell Mystery 13 ) - Laurie R King Dreams of Gods and Monsters - Laini Taylor Books I quite fancy getting at some point : Murder at Shots Hall - Maureen Sarsfield Death at the Dog - Joanna Cannan The Somnambulist - Jonathan Barnes When Organizing Isn't Enough: Shed Your Stuff, Change Your Life - Julie Morgenstern Inspector Thanet Omnibus: "Night She Died", "Six Feet Under", "Puppet for a Corpse" - Dorothy Simpson Arcadia Falls, Blythewood - Carol Goodman Relish - Lucy Knisley Death at Bishop's Keep - Robin Paige The Man with a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury Series #1)- Martha Grimes Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss Murder Mystery) - Elizabeth Peters Tragedy at Law - Cyril Hare The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight) - Victoria Thompson An Unexpected Guest - Anne Korkeakivi A Man Without Breath: (Bernie Gunther Mystery 9) - Philip Kerr A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Prime Crime Mysteries) - Alice Kimberly Mrs. Jeffries Takes a Second Look (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries) - Emily Brightwell Death in Lacquer Red: A Hilda Johansson Mystery - Jeanne M. Dams Dying In The Wool: Number 1 in series (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) - Frances Brody The Panther - Nelson DeMille The Cleaner of Chartres - Salley Vickers Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder: Number 1 in series - Shamini Flint Death in August (Inspector Bordelli 1) - Marco Vichi Reel Murder - Marian Babson She Shall Have Murder -Delano Ames The Host - Stephenie Meyer Replay (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) - Ken Grimwood Just Desserts: A Bed-and-breakfast Mystery - Mary Daheim Alpine Advocate (Emma Lord Mysteries) - Mary Daheim The George Felse Omnibus: "Fallen into the Pit", "Death and the Joyful Woman", "Nice Derangement of Epitaphs" v. 1 - Ellis Peters Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure - Hoshino Yukinobu The Omen Machine - Terry Goodkind Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco Fundraising the Dead (Museum Mysteries) - Sheila Connolly Deadly Advice (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries) - Roberta Isleib The Turquoise Shop - Frances Crane The Last Detective: 1 (Peter Diamond Mystery) - Peter Lovesey Coffin, Scarcely Used - Colin Watson Bellwether, All Clear - Connie Willis Soulless: Book 1 of The Parasol Protectorate - Gail Carriger An Instance Of The Fingerpost -Iain Pears High Marks for Murder (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries) - Rebecca Kent

TBR Part Three ( just in case... )

TBR Part Two : The Night Manager - John Le Carre Lullaby - Ed McBain Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre The Monkey King - Timothy Mo 350 Watching the Tree - Adeline Yen Mah The Last Empress - Anchee Min Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah On Secret Service East of Constantinople - Peter Hopkins Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy - Len Deighton The Great Game - Peter Hopkins Declarations of War - Len Deighton XPD - Len Deighton Goodbye Mickey Mouse - Len Deighton The Harmony Silk factory - Tash Aw 360 Yesterday`s Spy - Len Deighton The Analog Bullet - Martin Cruz Smith Billion Dollar Brain - Len Deighton The Headline Book of Spy Fiction - Alan Williams Close-up - Len Deighton An Agent in Paris - Robert Littell City of Gold - Len Deighton Bhowani Junction - John Masters A Berlin Family - Len Deighton Quiller`s Run - Adam Hall Mamista - Len Deighton The Scorpion Signal - Adam Hall Funeral in Berlin - Len Deighton The Mandarin Cyphers - Adam Hall Violent Ward - Len Deighton The Kobra manifesto - Adam Hall The Ipcress File - Len Deighton The Striker Portfolio - Adam Hall Edge of Danger - Jack Higgins Fortunes of War - Stephen Coonts A Darker Place - Jack Higgins Cuba - Stephen Coonts Solo - Jack Higgins The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum The Last Place God Made - Jack Higgins The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum Year of the Tiger - Jack Higgins The Bourne Ultimatum - Robert Ludlum Storm Warning - Jack Higgins The Rhinemann Exchange - Robert Ludlum 390 Bloody Passage - Jack Higgins The Icarus Agenda - Robert Ludlum Drink with the Devil - Jack Higgins Road to Gandolfo - Robert Ludlum The Violent Enemy - Jack Higgins Single and Single - John Le Carre The House on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier A Most Wanted Man - John Le Carre I`ll Never be Young Again - Daphne Du Maurier Absolute Friends - John Le Carre That Hideous Strength - CS Lewis The Mission Song - John Le Carre Out of the Silent Planet - CS Lewis Perelandra - CS Lewis 404 The Iron Tiger - Jack Higgins The Matarese Countdown - Robert Ludlum Pay the Devil - Jack Higgins The Ambler Warning - Robert Ludlum A Fine Night for Dying - Jack Higgins The Matlock Paper - Robert Ludlum Toll for the Brave - Jack Higgins The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum Hell is Always Today - Jack Higgins The Bourne sanction - Eric Van Lustbader The Valhalla Exchange - Jack Higgins The Bourne Legacy - Eric Van Lustbader Eye of the Storm - Jack Higgins Zoo Station - David Downing Without Mercy - Jack Higgins Silesian Station - David Downing Sheba - Jack Higgins Stettin Station - David Downing Dark Justice - Jack Higgins The Lords of the North - Bernard Cornwell Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child Sword Song- Bernard Cornwell Bad Luck and Trouble - Lee Child The Fort - Bernard Cornwell The Enemy - Lee Child The Cobra - Frederick Forsyth 61 Hours - Lee Child The Veteran - Frederick Forsyth Hong Kong - Stephen Coonts The Devil`s Alternative - Frederick Forsyth Assignment in Brittany - Helen MacInnes Berlin - Pierre Fret If the Dead Rise Not - Philip Kerr Night falls on the City - Sarah Gainham Field Grey - Philip Kerr Reliable essays - Clive James 440 Prague Fatale - Philip Kerr J is for Judgement - Sue Grafton A Quiet Flame - Philip Kerr I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton The One from the Other - Philip Kerr The Trinity Six - Charles Cumming Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantell Hong Kong - Jan Morris Win Lose or Die - John Gardner Nobody Lives Forever - John Gardner The Laughing Policeman - Sjowall/Wahloo 452 The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin Restless - William Boyd The Search for Shangri-La - Charles Allen The Killing Man - Mickey Spillane The Sanctuary - Raymond Khoury The Righteous man - Sam Bourne Death`s Jest Book - Reginald Hill The man from St Petersburg - Ken Follett The secret Speech - Tom Rob Smith Red Mandarin Dress - Qiu Xaiolong A market for Murder - Rebecca Tope Rampage and the Saracens - Dudley Pope The Time Traveller`s Wife - Audrey Niffeneggar Doors Open - Ian Rankin Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffeneggar The Book Thief - Markus Zusak Out of Africa - Karen Blixen Life Class - Pat Barker Pelagia and the White Bulldog - Boris Akunin Tara Road - Maeve Binchy The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner The Fox in the Attic - Richard Hughes 475 Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald How to be Good - Nick Hornby Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad The year of Dangerous Loving - John Gordon Davis Earthly Paradise - Colette Monstrum - Donald James Dark of the Moon - John Dickson Carr The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Daytime - Mark Haddon The Beast must Die - Nicholas Blake Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf My Career goes Bung - Miles Franklin The Orchard on Fire - Shena Mackay The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton The Help - Kathryn Stockett The Vienna Assignment - Oleg Steinhauer Shakes hands for Ever - Ruth Rendell Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake The Savage Altar - AsA Larsson Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake The Transit of Venus - Shirley Hazzard The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Shaffer/Barrows The Glass Palace - Amitar Ghosh The Sportswriter - Richard Ford 500 Night Train to Lisbon - Pascal Mercier A Suitable Vengeance - Elizabeth George Waiting for Sunrise - William Boyd Playing for Ashes - Elizabeth George The Private Patient - PD James A Traitor to Memory - Elizabeth George The Lost Art of Gratitude - Alexander McCall Smith Well Schooled in Murder - Elizabeth George The Sheriff of Bombay - HRF Keating Dark Matter -Michelle Paver Typhoon - Charles Cumming The Biology of Belief - Bruce H Lipton Decipher - Stel Pavlou 513 Maigret Right and Wrong - Georges Simenon An Angel at my Table - Janet Frame Maigret in Montmartre - Georges Simenon Bury it Deep - Sam Reaves Maigret`s Mistake - Georges Simenon Fear will do it - Sam Reaves Maigret has Scruples - Georges Simenon Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses - Georges Simenon Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham Maigret goes to School - Georges Simenon Scaredy cat - Mark Billingham Selected Letters - Katharine Mansfield Waiting - Ha Jin The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton Bones of the Buried - David Roberts The Oxford Book of Detective Stories - Crais Sweet Poison - David Roberts Gweilo - Martin Booth Green for danger - Christianna Brand The Princess Cassamassima - Henry James Dead Souls - Ian Rankin The Beast in the Jungle - Henry James Magician - Raymond E Feist Washington Square - Henry James The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall Smith 540 The Painted Veil - W Somerset Maugham The 13th Apostle - Richard + Rachael Heller Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott Coming up for Air - George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell The case of the Grinning Gorilla - Erle Stanley Gardner Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson The DA calls a Turn - Erle Stanley Gardner 548 Tim - Colleen McCullough The Hours - Michael Cunningham Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White Quiet as a Nun - Antonia Fraser Tradewind - MM Kaye Silence in October - Jens Christian Grondahl Peony in Love - Lisa See The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott The Final Bet - Abdelilah Hamdouchi The Day of the Scorpion - Paul Scott The Girl in the Cellar - Patricia Wentworth 560 The Towers of Silence - Paul Scott A Division of the Spoils - Paul Scott Red Threads - Rex Stout Political death - Antonia Fraser To the North - Elizabrth Bowen Lark Rise - Flora Thompson The World according to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith Over to Candleford - Flora Thompson Grave Secret - Charlaine Harris Candleford Green - Flora Thompson An Ice Cold Grave - Charlaine Harris The Marble Orchard - William F Nolan Slowly the Poison - June Drummond Citadel - Kate Mosse Fire from Heaven - Mary Renault The Etruscan Net - Michael Gilbert South Riding - Wimifred Holtby The Tango Briefing - Adam Hall Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene The Bondmaid - Pearl S Buck Colonel Sun - Robert Markham This Proud Heart - Pearl S Buck Magnet of Doom - Georges Simenon Founder Member - John Gardner 585 Papa La-Bas - John Dickson Carr Because of the Cats - Nicholas Freeling The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth Gun before Butter - Nicholas Freeling Keeping the Dead - Tess Gerritsen Breakneck - Erica Spindler Kiling the Shadows - Val McDermid Some Tame Gazelle - Barbara Pym 593 A Devil is Waiting - Jack Higgins A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym The Patience of a Spider - Andrea Camilleri The Terracota Dog - Andrea Camilleri Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri Chapter and Hearse - Catherine Aird Boudicca : Dreaming the Bull - Manda Scott 600 The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller Enemy of God - Bernard Cornwell Kill Alex Cross - James Patterson A question of belief - Donna leon Suffer the little children - Donna Leon The girl of his dreams - donna leon About face - donna leon Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky Coastliners - Joanne Harris Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert When we were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro Area Code 212 - Tam Janowitz Slaves of New York - Tama Janowitz The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen 614 Black Money - Ross MacDonald In the Presence of the Enemy - Elizabeth George The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller East into Upper East - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Death for Old Time`s Sake - AJ Orde The Coroner`s Lunch - Colin Cotterill Calling a dead Man - Gillian Cross 621 The Fourth Treasure - Todd Shimoda A Dubious Legacy - Mary Wesley The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing Flying Dutch - Tom Holt The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton Deception on his Mind - Elizabeth George We were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates Murder at the Laurels - Lesley Cookman White Corridor - Christopher Fowler The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly A Place of Confinement - Anna Dean A Shadow Year by Hannah Richell 634 The Fear Index by Robert Harris Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon Donna Andrews -Duck the Halls A Six-letter Word for Death - Patricia Moyes Who is Simon Warwick? - Patricia Moyes My Kind of Magic - A Scrapbook - Joyce Grenfell The Future Falls - Tanya Huff Writing a Woman's Life - Carolyn G.Heilbrun Twilight - Nancy Pickard Confession: A Jenny Cain Mystery- Nancy Pickard 646 The Fallen Angel - Daniel Silva Disco for the Departed - Colin Cotterill Any Human Heart - William Boyd If Morning ever Comes - Anne Tyler The Various Flavours of Coffee - Anthony Capella A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes Full Stop - Joan Smith A new Dominion - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala From the Land of Shadows - Clive James The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths 658 The darling Buds of May - He Bates A breath of French Air - HE Bates When the Green Woods laugh - HE Bates Oh! To be in England - HE Bates A little of What you fancy - HE Bates The Memory Keeper`s daughter - Kim Edwards A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka Quentins - Maeve Binchy The Vet's Daughter - Barbara Comyns Sisters By A River - Barbara Comyns Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell Our Spoons Came From Woolworths - Barbara Comyns Pomfret Towers - Angela Thirkell Fer De Lance - Rex Stout The league of Frightened men - Rex Stout Beastly Things - Donna Leon . The Yiddish Policeman`s Union - Michael Chabon The Desperate Remedy - Martin Stephens The Conscience of the King - Martin Stephens A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton B is for Burglar Sue Grafton C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton A Dark-Adapted eye - Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ) 681 The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck Grave Peril - Jim Butcher Summer Knight - Jim Butcher Rose Cottage - Mary Stewart My Brother Michael - Mary Stewart Blackberry Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke Lasting Damage - Sophie Hannah The Point of Rescue - Sophie Hannah What came before he shot her - Elizabeth George This body of death - Elizabeth George The Morville Hours - Katherine Swift Raven Black - Ann Cleaves The Prince of Mist - Carlos Ruiz Zafon The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd Trick of the Dark - Val McDermid Into the Blue - Robert Goddard The Flight - MR Hall The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir Daughters in Law - Joanna Trollope 700 Second Honeymoon - Joannna Trollope 2666 - Roberto Bolano A Tree grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith The Light-Hearted Quest - Ann Bridge The Towers of Trebizond - Rose Macauley Maigret and Monsieur Charles, Maigret and the Dosser, Maigret and the Millionaires, Maigret and the Gangsters - Georges Simenon A Confusion of Princes - Garth Nix The Snare of the Hunter - Helen MacInnes Agent in Place - Helen MacInnes Short Stories - EM Forster The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce One Shot - Lee Child Blood and Beauty - Sarah Dunant High Road to China - Jon Cleary The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton The Limpopo Academy of Private Investigation - Alexander McCall Smith One Night in Winter - Simon Sebag Montefiore Little Indiscretions - Caremn Posadas The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse Jolie Blon`s Bounce - James Lee Burke The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man - HG Wells 726 Terry Pratchett - Dodger Send for Paul Temple, News of Paul Temple, Send for Paul Temple again, Paul Temple and the Harkdale Robbery - Francis Durbridge Whispers in the Sand - Barbara Erskine The Dark Heart of Florence - Michele Giuttari Golden Earrings - Belinda Alexandra The Maltese Goddess - Lyn Hamilton Love, Nina - Nina Stibbe The River of No Return - Bee Ridgeway The Valley of Amazement - Amy Tan The Doorbell Rang, The Second Confession , More Deaths than One - Rex Stout The Sonnet Lover - Carol Goodman The English Girl - Daniel Silva Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett The Spellmans Strike Again - Lisa Lutz The Good, the Bad and the Emus - Donna Andrews Nine Lives to Die - Rita Mae Brown A Delicate Truith - John Le Carre , Cockroaches, Police - Jo Nesbo 750 Silent Night - Robert B Parker The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - Alexander McCall Smith Belshazzar`s daughter - Barbara Nadel Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kamakami A tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party - Alexander McCall Smith How the Light gets in - Louise Penny Sweet Death Kind Death, Players Come Again, Trap for Fools, No Word from Winifred - Amanda Cross Thus was Adonis Murdered - Sarah Caudwell Blood Trail, Blood Price - Tanya Huff 762 If Walls could Talk - Lucy Worsley Death on the Cherwell - Mavis Doris Hay Home Sweet Homicde - Craig Rice The Firebrand - Marion Zimmer Bradley Kajira of Gor - John Norman The Kingdom of Light - Giulio Leoni 764 Hildegarde Withers makes the Scene - Stuart Palmer Not a creature was stirring - Jane Haddam The Chateau - William Maxwell Something the Cat Dragged In / The Corpse in Oozak's Pond - Charlotte Macleod The Wonder Spot - Melissa Bank The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells - Andrew Sean Greer Dusty Answer - Roasamond Lehmann Black Roses (Clara Vine 1) - Jane Thynne The Kizuna Coast: A Rei Shimura Mystery: 11 (The Rei Shimura Mysteries) - Sujata Massey The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever - Marie Kondo How to Talk to Your Cat - Patricia Moyes Death Takes a Bow - Frances and Richard Lockridge Death in the Stocks , Behold, Here's Poison , Why Shoot a Butler? - Georgette Heyer Austenland - Shannon Hale The Nightingale Before Christmas (Meg Langslow Mysteries) - Donna Andrews Double Fudge Brownie Murder (Hannah Swensen) - Joanne Fluke Blott on the Landscape - Tom Sharpe Coming Home - Melanie Rose Cinnamon Gardens - Shyam Selvadurai Leaving the Saints - Martha Beck The Blind assassin - Margaret Atwood Hasty Death - MC Beaton Gut Symmetries - Jeanette Winterson The ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke 783 The Judge is Reversed, Voyage into Violence, Murder in a Hurry, The Long Skeleton, Murder is Suggested, Murder has its Points, Murder by the Book - The Lockridges 797 Curtain for a Jester ,Dishonest Murder , Dead as a Dinosaur ,Norths meet Murder ,Hanged for a Sheep, Murder is Served, Death of an Angel, Murder comes first, Murder within Murder , Key to Death , A Pinch of Poison , Death has a small Voice - The Lockridges Dekok and the Sorrowing Tomcat - Baantjer The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett No Deals, Mr Bond - John Gardner The Last Camel died at Noon , Seeing a Large Cat , The Snake, the crocodile and the Dog , Lord of the Silent , Thunder in the Sky , The Hippopotamus Pool, The Golden One, The Ape who guards the Balance , Falcon at the Portals -.Elizabeth Peters Call after Midnight - Tess Gerritsen The Long War - Terry Pratchett/ Stephen Baxter Wise Children - Angela Carter Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey Daughter of the River - Hong Ying Zoo Time - Howard Jacobsen Thrush Green, Winter in Thrush Green, News from Thrush Green - Miss Read The Puzzled Heart, The Edge of Doom, An Imperfect Spy , The Collected Stories, Honest Doubt - Amanda Cross The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers 1899 - 1936 Dorothy L Sayers, Her Life and Soul - Barbara Reynolds Deeds of the Disturber, The Mummy case, Lion in the Valley, Curse of the Pharoahs - Elizabeth Peters Death of a Tall man - Frances and Richard Lockridge Alpine for You - Maddy Hunter Mystery in White - J. Jefferson Farjeon The Track of Sand - Andre Camilleri Double Booked for Death - Ali Brandon Big City Eyes - Delia Ephron I feel bad about my Neck - Nora Ephron Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Rita Mae Brown The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness Popular - Maya Van Wagenen Bones Never Lie - Kathy Reichs A Novel Way to Die - Ali Brandon Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well - Nancy Atherton Fax me a Bagel - Sharon Kahn Miss Zukas and the Library Murder - Jo Dereske More Amelia Peabody books - The Serpent on the Crown , Children of the Storm , A River in the Sky, Tomb of the Golden Bird Carol Goodman Books - The Drowning Tree , The Seduction of Water , Arcadia Falls , The Ghost Orchid

TBR Part One : The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly Never eat your heart out - Judith Moore The Narrows - Michael Connelly Women`s Voices - Olga Kenyon A Darkness More Than Night - Michael Connelly The Eye of the Storm - Patrick White Angels Flight - Michael Connelly Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain The Black Ice - Michael Connelly Painted Ladies - Robert B Parker Stranger in paradise - Robert B Parker First Light - Michael Connelly Sixkill - Robert B Parker City of Bones - Michael Connelly The Drop - Michael Connelly Stormy Petrel - Mary Stewart The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood Thornyhold - Mary Stewart Raisin and the Perfect Paragon - MC Beaton Thunder on the right - Mary Stewart The Ghost - Robert Harris The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart Remembrance day - Henry Porter The Ivy Tree - Mary Stewart For whom the Bell tolls - Ernest hemingway Gold Coast - Nelson De Mille True at First Light - Ernest Hemingway Plum Island - Nelson De Mille Across the river and into the trees - Ernest Hemingway Nightfall - Nelson De Mille The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway Heaven has no favourites - Erich Maria Remarque Scoundrel - Bernard Cornwell The piano teacher - Janice YK Lee Buffy : The book of four - Nanty Holder The fifth woman - Henning Mankell The power of one - Bryce Courtenay 40 The songlines - Bruce Chatwin Women`s letters in wartime - Eva Figes Burger`s daughter - Nadine Gordimer Penhallow - Georgette Heyer The traveller - John Twelve Hawks Lila - Robert M Pirsig A spy`s life - Henry Porter The winter queen - Boris Akunin Empire state - Henry Porter Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald Tom Brown`s body - Gladys Mitchell Lake Woebegon Summer, 1956 - Garrison Keillor The prodigal spy - Joseph Kanon A bloody field by Shrewsbury - Edith Pargeter Spies - Michael Frayn Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman The complete works of Oscar Wilde The new Knighthood - Malcolm Barber Seven Pillars of Wisdom - TE Lawrence The Comfort of Saturdays - Alexander McCall Smith 60 Prince of Fire - Daniel Silva The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields The Messenger - Daniel Silva Nobody`s Perfect - Anthony Lane Great Expectations - Charles Dickens A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell- Book 1. A Question of Upbringing David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Book 2. A Buyer`s market A tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Book 3. The Acceptance World A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Book 4. At Lady Molly`s Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens Book 5. Casanova`s Chinese Restaurant Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens Book 6. The Kindly Ones Bleak House- Charles Dickens Book 7. The Valley of Bones Sketches by Boz - Charles Dickens Book 8. The Soldier`s Art Hard Times - Charles Dickens Book 9. The Military Philosophers The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens Book 10. Books do Furnish a Room 84 Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens Book 11. Temporary kings The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens Book 12. Hearing Secret Harmonies A Child`s History of England - Charles Dickens The Burglar in the Closet - Lawrence Block The Burglar who Studied Spinoza - Lawrence Block The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker The Burglar who Painted like Mondrian - Lawrence Block The Burglar who like to quote Kipling - Lawrence Block The Schirmer Inheritance - Eric Ambler Wash this Blood clean from my Hand - Fred Vargas Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides The Thurber Carnival - James Thurber The Vacillations of Poppy carew - Mary Wesley A Few little Lies - Sue Welfare 100 The Day after Tomorrow - Allan Folsom Love over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith Dominion - CJ Sansom Empire falls - Richard Russo Untold Stories - Alan Bennett The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis Devices and Desires - PD James Across the Wall - Garth Nix The Wild Road - Gabriel King May Week was in June - Clive James Ten second Staircase - Christopher Fowler The mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction - Maxim Jakubowski Women on the case - Sara Paretsky The Crystal Frontier - Carlos Fuentes Eyeless in gaza - Aldous Huxley The Good Companions - JB Priestley The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen Zuleikha Dobson - Max Beerbohm The House of Eliot - Jean Marsh The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez 121 Flight Behaviour - Barbara Kingsolver The Oxford Book of Letters - Frank Kermode The cats of Moon Cottage - Marilyn Edwards Shimura Trouble - Sujata Massey Devoted ladies - Molly Keane Adam Bede - George Eliot Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac The Penguin Book of Women`s Humour - Regina Barrecca Master and Commander - Patrick O`Brian The Past Times Book of Diaries Edwardians in Love - Anita Leslie Out of this century - Peggy Guggenheim A heroine in her Time - Molly Izzard The Faber Book of Letters - Felix Pryor DH Lawrence Bio - Brenda Maddox Hidden Lives - Margaret Forster Morgan ( EM Forster Bio ) - Nicola Bequrman The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford The Blessing - Nancy Mitford Lady Chatterley`s Lover - DH Lawrence The Grifters - Jim Thompson Les Miserables Part 1 - Victor Hugo Don`t Tell Alfred - Nancy Mitford Les Miserables Part 2 - Victor Hugo Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford Trade Imperial - Alan Lloyd The Getaway - Jim Thompson Gene - Stel Pavlou The Killer Inside me - Jim Thompson The Swarm - Frank Schatzing Angela`s Ashes - Frank McCourt 153 The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot Pop. 1280 - Jim Thompson The End of the Affair - Graham Greene The Third Man - Graham Greene The fallen Idol - Graham Greene The Dark Wind - Tony Hillerman 160 George Passant - CP Snow Sacred Clowns - Tony Hillerman The Conscience of the Rich - CP Snow Finding Moon - Tony Hillerman The Light and the Dark - CP Snow The Fallen Man - Tony Hillerman The Ghostway - Tony Hillerman Time of Hope - CP Snow 168 Malice Aforethought - Francis Iles Our Lady of the Forest - David Guterson The Double Eagle - James Twining People of Darkness - Tony Hillerman No Laughing Matter - Peter Guttridge A Capote Reader - Truman Capote Gideon`s day - John Creasey Fuzz - Ed McBain Shadow of the King - Helen Hollick The Sword of the Templars - Paul Christopher Still Life - AS Byatt The Complete Saki - Saki Memories of a Catholic Girlhood - Mary McCarthy Dirty Tricks - Michael Dibdin Prisoner`s Plea - Hilary Waugh Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks The Names - Don De Lillo The Longest Journey - EM Forster The Arrow of Time - Coveney/ Highfield 187 On Broadway - Damon Runyon Claudine and Annie - Colette An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad The Killing of the Saints - Alex Abella Across the Lakes - Amal Chatterjee The Pilot`s Wife - Anita Shreve Angels and Insects - AS Byatt Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop cafe - Fannie Flagg LA Requiem - Robert Crais The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy The Geneva Deception - James Twining Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield 199 The Company - Robert Littell Nanking Road - Vicki Baum The Barbarossa - John Gardner Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum The Heart of the Country - Fay Weldon Icon - Frederick Forsyth A New Lease of Death - Ruth Rendell Snowblind - PJ Tracey The Best Man to Die - Ruth Rendell Scruples - Judith Krantz Wolf to the Slaughter - Ruth Rendell 12 English detective Stories - Cox Put on by Cunning - Ruth Rendell 12 American crime stories - Herbert The Big Nowhere - James Ellroy Spy stories - Michael Cox Death Under Sail - CP Snow Detective Duos - Muller/ Pronzini Women in Love - DH Lawrence The case of the dangerous Dowager - Erle Stanley Gardner Selected essays - D H Lawrence The Case of the Stuttering Bishop - Erle Stanley Gardner Selected Letters - DH Lawrence The case of the Restless Redhead - Erle Stanley Gardner The White Peacock - DH Lawrence 224 The case of the Drowsy Mosquito - Erle Stanley Gardner O Pioneers ! - Willa Cather The case of the Baited Hook - Erle Stanley Gardner The Song of the Lark - Willa Cather The case of the Fiery Fingers - Erle Stanley Gardner Alexander`s Bridge - Willa Cather Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott The face on the Cutting Room Floor - Cameron McCabe Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh Europe in the 18th century - MS Anderson Black Mischief - Evelyn Waugh Death in the garden - Elizabeth Ironside A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh Edward Hopper Bio - Gail Levin Scoop - Evelyn Waugh Flowers and fruit - Colette Put out more Flags - Evelyn Waugh A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh Holy Fools - Joanne Harris Unconditional Surrender - Evelyn Waugh Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris The Ordeal of Gilbert Penfold - Evelyn Waugh Five-quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris Officers and Gentlemen - Evelyn Waugh 250 The Man who Smiled - Henning Mankell The Last September - Elizabeth Bowen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larrson Phantom - Jo Nesbo 253 The Girl who Played with Fire - Steig Larsson The Leopard - Jo Nesbo The Girl who Kicked the Hornet`s Nest - Steig Larsson The Devil`s Star - Jo Nesbo The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo Murder on Safari - Elspeth Huxley Nemesis - Jo Nesbo Death`s darkest face - Julian Symons The Snowman - Jo Nesbo Oxford Blood - Antonia Fraser The Redeemer - Jo Nesbo The River - Rumer Godden The Bat - Jo Nesbo Merton of the Movies - Harry Leon Wilson The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark The Colossus of Maroussi - Henry Miller A Far Cry from kensington - Muriel Spark The Odyssey - Homer The Histories - Herodotus The Iliad - Homer Away from it all - Cedric Belfrage Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer Fatherland - Robert Harris The Republic of Night - Dominic Martell Imperium - Robert Harris Gitano - Dominic Martell Lustrum - Robert Harris The Woman in Black - Susan Hill 281 Varjak Paw - SF Said December 6th - Martin Cruz Smith A Small Death in Lisbon - Robert Wilson Rose - Martin Cruz Smith The Adventure of English - Melvyn Bragg Three Stations - Martin Cruz Smith Kingdom of Shadows - Alan Furst Best Secret Service Stories - John Welcome Coromandel Sea Change - Rumer Godden The Green hat - Michael Arlen The Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden Adventures in the Screen Trade - William Goldman The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux A Gun for sale - Graham Greene Jungle Lover - Paul Theroux The Ministry of fear - Graham Greene The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux The Confidential Agent - Graham Greene 299 Riding the Iron Rooster - Paul Theroux It`s a Battlefield - Graham Greene Enchanted Evening - MM Kaye The Human Factor - Graham Greene The Last Templar - Raymon Khoury The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell The Unknown Soldier - Gerald Seymour Heretic - Bernard Cornwell Timebomb - Gerald Seymour Vagabond - Bernard Cornwell Azincourt - Bernard Cornwell Life of Pi - Yann Martell Farewell to Russia - Richard Hugo The Romanov Prophecy - Steve Berry 312 Concise Cambridge History of English Literature - George Sampson The Third Secret - Steve Berry The Deceiver - Frederick Forsyth The White Lioness - Henning Mankell Brandenburg - Henry Porter The Dying Light - Henry Porter Angel - Barbara Taylor Bradford 319 Yellowthread Street - William Marshall The Aphrodite Cargo - Alexander Fullerton The Enchantress - Han Suyin Strange Meeting - Susan Hill The Four Faces - Han Suyin Railway`s Strangest Journey`s - Tom Quinn A Share of Loving - Han Suyin And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhail Sholokov Birdless Summer - Han Suyin The Black Obelisk - Erich Maria Remarque A Mortal Flower - Han Suyin A time to Love and a Time to Die - Erich Maria Remarque Myself a Mandarin - Austin Coates Arch of Triumph - Erich Maria Remarque A perfect Spy - John Le Carre The Road back - Erich Maria Remarque The Tailor of Panama - John Le Carre Flotsam - Erich Maria Remarque The Russia House - John Le Carre All Quiet on the western Front - Erich Maria Remarque The Constant Gardener - John Le Carre Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarque The Secret Pilgrim - John Le Carre Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak Our Game - John Le Carre The Loving Spirit - Daphne Du Maurier 344

Books Read in 2015 January #1 Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder - Joanne Fluke #2 Strawberry Shortcake Murder #3 Blueberry Muffin Murder #4 Lemon Meringue Pie Murder #5 Fudge Cupcake Murder #6 Sugar cookie Murder #7 Peach Cobbler Murder #8 Cherry Cheesecake Murder #9 Sugar and Spice / candy cane Murder ( novellas ) #10 Key lime Pie Murder #11 Carrot cake murder #12 Cream Puff Murder #13 Plum Pudding Murder #14 Apple Turnover Murder #15 Gingerbread Cookie Murder #16 Devil`s Foodcake Murder #17 Cinnamon Roll Murder #18 Red Velvet Cupcake Murder -Joanne Fluke #19 Hildegarde Withers makes the Scene - Stuart Palmer #20 Who is Simon Warwick - Patricia Moyes #21 Shimura Trouble - Sujata Massey #22 The Future falls - Tanya Huff #23 Not a creature was Stirring - Jane Haddam #24 Death takes a Bow - Frances and Richard Lockridge #25 How to talk to your Cat - Patricia Moyes #26 The Maltese Goddess - Lyn hamilton #27 Reel Murder - Marian Babson #28 Home Sweet Homicide - Craig Rice #29 The Girl in the Cellar - Patricia Wentworth #30 Austenland - Shannon Hale #31 Thus was Adonis murdered - Sarah Caudwell February #32 Sweet Death, Kind Death - Amanda Cross #33 Something the Cat Dragged in - Charlotte Macleod #34 The Corpse in Oozak`s Pond - Charlotte Macleod #35 The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory #36 The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir #37 The Spellman`s Strike Again - Lisa Lutz #38 No word from Winifrid - Amanda Cross March #39 Whispers in the Sand - Barbara Erskine #40 Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters #41 The Judge is Reversed - Frances and Richard Lockridge #42 Murder in a Hurry - Frances and Richard Lockridge #43 Voyage into Violence - Frances and Richard Lockridge #44 The Long Skeleton - Frances and Richard Lockridge #45 Murder is Suggested - Frances and Richard Lockridge #46 My Kind of Magic - Joyce Grenfell #47 Murder has its Points - Frances and Richard Lockridge #48 Murder by the Book - Frances and Richard Lockridge #49 Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri #50 Death of an Angel - Frances and Richard Lockridge #51 Hasty Death = MC Beaton #52 The Curse of the Pharoahs - Elizabeth Peters #53 The Mummy Case - Elizabeth Peters #54 Lion in the Valley - Elizabeth Peters #55 The Deed of the Disturbers - Elizabeth Peters #56 A six letter word for Death - Patricia Moyes #57 The Norths meet Murder - Frances and Richard Lockridge #58 The last camel died at noon - Elizabeth Peters April #59 The life-changing magic of tidying - Marie Kondo #60 The snake, the crocodile and the dog - Elizabeth Peters #61 Murder within Murder - Frances and Richard Lockridge #62 A Pinch Of Poison - Frances and Richard Lockridge #63 A Perfect Spy - John le Carre #64 Murder is Served - Frances and Richard Lockridge #65 The Russia House - John Le Carre #66 The Light-hearted Quest - Ann Bridges #67 The secret Pilgrim - John Le Carre #68 Dead as a Dinsoaur - Frances and Richard Lockridge #69 My Korean Deli - Ben Ryder Howe May #70 Thunder on the Right - Mary Stewart #71 The Hippopotamus Pool - Elizabeth Peters #72 The Night manager - John Le Carre #73 Hanged for a Sheep - Frances and Richard Lockridge #74 Death in the Stocks - Georgette Heyer #75 The Patience of the Spider - Andrea camilleri #76 Writers` Block - Judith Flanders #77 Murder out of Turn - Frances and Richard Lockridge #78 mangle Street Murders - MRC Kasasian #79 Wayward Pines - Blake Crouch #80 The Good, the Bad and the Emus - Donna Andrews #81 Death on the Aisle - Frances and Richard Lockridge #82 Seeing a large Cat - Elizabeth Peters #83 The Sonnet Lover - carol Goodman #84 The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter #85 Blood Price - Tanya Huff #86 Double Booked for Death - Ali Brandon #87 Payoff for the Banker - Frances and Richard Lockridge June #88 Nine Lives to Die - Rita Mae Brown #89 I Feel Bad about my Neck - Nora Ephron #90 The River of No Return - Bee Ridgway #91 Alpine for You - Maddy Hunter #92 A Novel way to Die - Ali Brandon #93 Bones of the Lost - Kathy Reichs #94 A Trap for Fools - Amanda Cross #95 Timebound - Rysa Walker #96 Suffer the Little Children - Donna Leon #97 Fax me a Bagel - Sharon Kahn #98 DeKok and the Sorrowing Tomcat - AC Baantjer #99 A Trouble of Fools - Linda Barnes #100 Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Rita Mae Brown #101 Miss Zukas and the Library Murders - Jo Dereske #102 Top O`The Mourning - Maddy hunter #103 Painted Ladies - Robert B parker #104 Pasta Imperfect - Maddy Hunter #105 Prince of Fire - daniel Silva #106 Miss Zukas and the Island Murders - Jo Dereske #107 Death of a Tall man - Frances and Richard Lockridge #108 Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death - Jo Dereske #109 The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party - Alexander McCall Smith #110 Fer-de-Lance - Rex Stout #111 Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami July #112 A Meditation on Murder - Robert Thorogood #113 Hula Done It - Maddy Hunter #114 A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness #115 Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness #116 The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness #117 G`Day to Die - Maddy Hunter #118 The Players Come Again - Amanda CDross #119 Untidy Murder - Frances and Richard Lockridge #120 Miss Zukas and the Raven`s Dance - Jo Dereske #121 Norway to Hide - Maddy Hunter #122 The Wonder Spot - Melisssa Bank #123 Out of Circulation - Jo Dreske #124 Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin #125 Never Nosh a Matzo Ball - Sharon Kahn #126 Mystery in White - J. Jefferson Farjeon #127 Dutch Me Deadly - Maddy Hunter August #128 The Venetian Affair - Helen MacInnes #129 Bonnie of Evidence - Maddy Hunter #130 Grave Peril - Jim Butcher #131 Summer Knight - Jim Butcher #132 Final Notice - Jo Dereske #133 Black Headed Pins - Constance and Gwyneth Little #134 Our Game - John Le Carre #135 A Novena for Murder - Sister Carol Anne O`Marie #136 Miss Zukas in Death`s Shadow #137 The Ape who Guards the Balance - Elizabeth Peters #138 The Falcon at the Portal - Elizabeth Peters #139 A Dying Fall - Hildegarde Dobson #140 The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud #141 Thornyhold - Mary Stewart September #142 Curtain for a Jester - Frances and Richard Lockridge #143 Picture Miss Seeton - Heron Carvic #144 Murder at Mount Fuji - Shizuko Natsuki #145 Death in August - Marco Vicchi #146 The Messenger - Daniel Silva #147 The Ladies Auxiliary - Tova Mirvis #148 Living with a Wild God - Barbara Ehrenreich #149 Citadel - Kate Mosse #150 The Yiddish Policemen`s Union - Michael Chabon #151 A Questin of belief - Donna Leon October #152 The Black Shroudds - Constance and Gwenyth Little #153 Never eat your heart Out - Judith Moore #154 The Dishonest Murder - Frances and Richard Lockridge #155 Popular - Maya Van Wagenen #156 The Age of License - Lucy Knisley #157 The Basket Case - Ralph McInerny #158 The J Alfred Prufrock Murders - Corinne holt Sawyer #159 Death Masks - Jim Butcher #160 Blackout - Connie Willis #161 The Diplomat and the Gold Piano - Margaret Scherf #162 Arcadia falls - Carol Goodman #163 Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence - Jo Dereske #164 The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman #165 All Clear - Connie Willis #166 Murder in Grey and White - Corinne Holt Sawyer #167 Fleur de Lies - Maddy Hunter #168 Thunder in the Sky - Elizabeth Peters November #169 Little Indiscretions - Carmen Posadas #170 The Immortal Collevtion - Eva Garcia Saenz #171 Just One damned Thing after Another - Jody taylor #172 Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre #173 the Widening Stain - Morris Bishop #174 Love`s Shadow - Ada Leverson #175 A Symphony of Echoes - Jody Taylor #176 News of Paul Temple - Francis Durbridge #177 Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert #178 Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert #179 Green for danger - Christianna Brand #180 Big City Eyes - Delia Ephron #181 Bruno, Chief of Police - Martin Walker #182 How to Murder a millionaire - Nancy Martin December #183 The Girl of His Dreams - Donna leon #184 A Room of One`s own - Virginia Woolf #185 Bruno and Le Pere Noel - Martin Walker #186 The happiness project - Gretchen Rubin #187 The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories - Patricia Criag #188 My Brother Michael - Mary Stewart #189 The Long War- Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter #190 Sixkill - Robert B Parker #191 Death has a Small Voice - Frances and Richard Lockridge #192 Writing : a woman`s Life - Carolyn G Heilbrun #193 An Imperfect Spy - Amanda Cross #194 A second Chance - Jody Taylor #195 Sneaky Pie for President - Rita mae Brown #196 Cook up a crime - Charlotte Murray russell #197 Dodger -Terry Pratchett #198 Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well - Nancy Atherton #199 Blackberry Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke #200 The Nightingale before Christmas - Donna Andrews

Well, that`s me done for the year ( time for a nice lie down now ). Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by here ; I`ve really enjoyed reading everyone`s book blogs. My total of 203 books for the year is a personal best, whoo ! Though - oops - buying 213 books has also been a personal best ( double whoo ! Ahem. ) Favourite books of the year - Patrica Moyes` Dead men don`t Ski, ( the first in the Henry Tibbett series - just a delightful mystery. Someone gets bumped off in a ski lodge in the Italian Alps. So evocative and charming, it made me want to sit in bed drinking hot cocoa. I hadn`t finished this book and I was already `forced` to order the other 16 or so books in the series, it was so good ) ) , Isabel Allende`s Eva Luna ( set in Venezuela, it`s an epic story of the daughter of a maid, who is orphaned and has to make her own way in the world. A beautiful read ), Louise Penny`s The Beautiful Mystery and Bury your Dead ( two of the Inspector Gamache novels: I felt I was right there with the protagonists, sitting with them while they worked on the cases ) and Lisa Kogan`s Someone will be with you Shortly ( Just. Plain. Funny ) . I managed to read 2 out of 12 of my Mighty Tomes ( though I did read some other long books, it`s just that I didn`t find myself too enthused by the ones which I`d particularly picked out; I have 3 more of the Mighty Tomes list on the go, but it just wasn`t making me happy to read them... ) Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2015 !

Books read : 203 TBR 751 New Books Bought : 213 Total Cost : £391.92 #201 Concise Cambridge Guide to History of English Literature Phew, took me all year to read this. It was written by different people specialising in the various periods, and I felt that some academics enthusiasm came over more than others ( I especially liked the early Monks history , Elizabethan theatre, early Americian authors and the history of journalism ). I picked up my book in a used book place ( it dated from 1975 ) ; it was a bit odd at times to see what the thoughts of some academics were on English Lit 40 years ago - the Brontes were sneered at, Trollope got one paragraph only, and John Cowper Powys got several pages ( I`ve never heard of him ). African and Caribbean authors got a big chapter though . I`d like to read the Oxford guide at some point, to get a different - and more recent - view. #202 Duck the Halls - Donna Andrews Meg Langslow investigates a mystery in her small town in Virginia. Not as funny as other books in the series, but more poignant and with a theme of the various religious bodies in the town pulling together to help out others. There`s a nice moment when Meg looks though her Xmas cards and you get to catch up with what`s been happening with characters from previous books in the series. A lovely read for Christmas. #203 Death on the Cherwell - Mavis Doriel Hay A British Library Crime Classic, republished form 1935. A group of female undergrads find a body in the river and investigate the mystery. The beginning is a bit silly and too Enid Blyton-ish, but it improves into a fun read.

Thank you, thank you and thank you !

You`re in luck - I just read a Caribbean one recently. Patrica Moyes` Black Widower, The Coconut Killings, Angel Death and the one I read recently Black Girl, White Girl are all set in the Caribbean and are lovely cosy mysteries.

That`s very odd, `cos under ` formats`, it still says free for the Kindle edition. The buying clicky has vanished now ; maybe it`ll appear again ? Or maybe the Amazon site realised that I`m in the UK and has hidden the clicky ?

Hee, ditto.

I`ve been feeling drawn to re-reads too - don`t know if it`s `cos it`s so miserable out that I feel in need of a comfort read.

Kate - I recall ( dimly ) talking about Robert B Parker with you, I think - The first of his Jesse Stone series is free on Kindle ( US and UK ) - click - not as good imo as his Spenser books, but a fun read.

Thank you. Two of them are still in the post to me, but obviously I have enough books to be going on with.

I was just pulling the page down, then down some more, and still those books kept coming. Ooh, ooh, I looked at getting a Lockridge book recently - The Norths meet Murder. Are they any good ? The Dershowitz book looks good too ; I don`t know if you saw the Simon Schama series on Jewish history over there ? Fascinating. I also liked a PBS programme about Jewish people in the Southern US, no clue what it was called.

Latest books read ; 191 Deryn Lake - Death at St James` Palace Set in the Georgian Era, this involves a death witnessed by a blind man. The denouement is very clever, but didn`t quite make up for the research-heavy prose ( while some of it was interesting, sometimes it went off into lists in a manner of ` don`t want to waste all this research I`ve done` ). 192 Claude Izner - The Marais Assassin Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a murder mystery which followed too many people for me to really get into it. 193 Patrica Moyes - Night ferry to Death Henry and Emmy get caught up in a murder on their way back to England via ferry from the Netherlands. The description of the life abaord the ferry makes you feel like you`re right thyere with them, and there`s a very clever solution to the crime. 194 Nora Roberts - Key of Light Three women get invited to a mysterious house and are told they`ve been chosen to free three mythical sisters ; it`s a fast, fun read, but I didn`t quite feel that I knew the characters, 195, 196, 197 Tanya Huff - Summon the Keeper,the Second Summoning, Long Hot Summoning. I felt like a re-read and this was as much fun as I remembered it. Claire ( a type of Witch ) and her talking cat Austin end up as proprietors of a Canadian Guest House...with a hellhole in the basement. Exciting and funny - the cat has the best lines. 198 Connie Willis - To Say nothing of the Dog Another re-read. Ned and his team go back in time to Coventry Cathedral at the time of the WW2 bombing, to save a piece of art. Mayhem ensues. touching and funny, with a complex, clever plot. 199 Connie Willis - Passage Joanna - a hospital researcher - participates in a project investigating Near Death Experiences. You can guess what happens... But you`d be wrong. The plot takes several interesting twists ; just when you think you`ve got it figured out, something else happens, and you go off in another direction. There are a couple of big twists which kept me reading avidly ( and it reallly didn`t feel like 780 pages ) . I want to read more of her work next year. 200 Patricia Moyes - Black Girl, White Girl I`ve got 80 pages left of this, but it`s as good as the rest of her mystery books. Henry and Emmy go to a Carribbean Island to investigate drug dealing. The book involves characters from a couple of her previous books ( interesting note : the author lived on Virgin Gorda for several years, and says that the reason some people in the Carribbean have exotic first names is `cos many are descended from slaves, who all took their slave owner`s surname, so there are plenty of people with the same surname and they choose distinctive first names to identify themselves. )

Books read : 190 TBR 764 New Books Bought : 213 Total Cost : £391.92 3 more books bought : If Walls could Talk - Lucy Worsley £5.64 Death on the Cherwell - Mavis Doris Hay £4.68 Home Sweet Homicide - Craig Rice £3.91

Thank you, thank you and thank you. Hee, thanks for mentioning the cat first - that`s how it should be. The hospital report takes 10 days to get to my GP, so with Xmas and the New Year, I`ll make an appointment to go in about it sometime in January. I`m currrently reading Patricia Moyes - Black Girl, White Girl ; I started reading this author in January, and this is maybe my 15th book of hers. This one`s set in the Caribbean and `white girl` is apparently slang for drugs.

Grr, major catch-up time. The internet is doing a `quick, quick, slow` dance, and sometimes kicking me off altogether, so a bare bones post coming up. The poor cat had a swollen lower lip, but is better now ( see Google pics for how she looked - just like those pouting kitties ), we flooded up to the garden but no house damage ( and the flood repairs had just been finished off, whee ) , I had a hospital ultrasound yesterday and apparently have gallstones, grr, and I`m currently reading Book 200. Phew.

Aww, sweet ! Alos, congrats on giving needy books a new home.

That`s really impressive. I thought that keeping count this year would make me aware of how many books I was treating myself to, but that didn`t happen. Instead, I was able to come up with a large range of excuses for my book buying.