Kylie Posted January 8, 2018 Author Posted January 8, 2018 501 Must-Read Books The books listed below are only those that I have on my TBR pile. Total read to 1 January 2018: 79/501 TBR as at 1 January 2018: 109TBR as at 1 January 2018: 109 (0 read, 0 acquired) Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart Peter Ackroyd London: The Biography Henri Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Estate) Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Saint Augustine Confessions Paul Auster The New York Trilogy JG Ballard The Crystal World Pat Barker The Regeneration Trilogy Alfred Bester The Demolished Man Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones Pierre Boulle Planet of the Apes Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret John Brunner The Sheep Look Up William S Burroughs The Naked Lunch AS Byatt Possession Italo Calvino Cosmicomics Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales JM Coetzee Disgrace Wilkie Collins The Moonstone Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Edmund Crispin The Moving Toyshop Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard Philip K Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose Michael Ende The Neverending Story William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury Sebastian Faulks Birdsong Henry Fielding Tom Jones Ford Maddox Ford The Good Soldier Elizabeth Gaskell North and South Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire William Gibson Neuromancer Gunter Grass The Tin Drum John Howard Griffin Black Like Me H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines Knut Hamsun Hunger Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land Frank Herbert Dune Homer The Iliad Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore Victor Hugo Les Misérables John Irving The World According to Garp Christopher Isherwood Berlin Stories Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Henry James The Portrait of a Lady Franz Kafka Diaries 1919-1923Stephen King It Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ursula Le Guin Left Hand of Darkness Stanislaw Lem Solaris Primo Levi The Periodic Table Ira Levin Stepford Wives CS Lewis Out of the Silent Planet David Malouf An Imaginary Life Katherine Mansfield Bliss and Other Stories Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude Mary McCarthy The Group Robert McCrum et al. The Story of English Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Herman Melville Moby Dick Walter M Miller A Canticle for Leibowitz AA Milne The Red House Mystery Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance Thomas More Utopia Sally Morgan My Place Toni Morrison Beloved Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory E Nesbit Five Children and It Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London Mervyn Peake Gormenghast Edgar Allan Poe The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Marco Polo Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Philip Pullman Northern Lights Anne Radcliffe A Sicilian Romance Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire Philip Roth The Human Stain Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse Jean-Paul Sartre Words WG Sebald Austerlitz Hubert Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn Olaf Stapledon Last and First Men Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children William Styron Sophie's Choice Patrick Suskind Perfume Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Leo Tolstoy War and Peace PL Travers Mary Poppins Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited Edith Wharton The House of Mirth TH White The Sword in the Stone Oscar Wilde De Profundis Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Quote
Kylie Posted January 8, 2018 Author Posted January 8, 2018 TBR Books on Multiple Lists Gilmore Girls Challenge GG 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die 1001 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up 1001C 501 Must-Read Books 501 Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart 1001 501 Paul Auster New York Trilogy 1001 501 Pat Barker Regeneration Trilogy 1001 501 Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones 1001 501 William Burroughs The Naked Lunch 1001 501 AS Byatt Possession 1001 501 Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay GG 1001 Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales GG 501 JM Coetzee Disgrace 1001 501 Wilkie Collins The Moonstone 1001 501 Wilkie Collins The Woman in White 1001 501 Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter GG 501 Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin 1001 501 Don Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote GG 1001 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1001 1001C 501 Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa The Leopard 1001 501 Charles Dickens Oliver Twist GG 1001 Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose GG 1001 501 Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero GG 1001 Michael Ende The Never-ending Story 1001C 501 William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury GG 1001 501 Sebastian Faulks Birdsong 1001 501 Henry Fielding Tom Jones 1001 501 F Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night GG 1001 Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier GG 1001 501 Elizabeth Gaskell North and South 1001 501 Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire GG 501 William Gibson Neuromancer 1001 501 Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls GG 1001 Gunter Grass The Tin Drum 1001 501 Knut Hamsun Hunger 1001 501 Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure 1001 501 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter GG 1001 1001C 501 Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land 1001 501 Barry Hines A Kestrel for a Knave 1001 1001C Homer The Iliad GG 501 Victor Hugo Les Miserables 1001 501 John Irving The World According to Garp 1001 501 Christopher Isherwood Berlin Stories 1001 501 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day 1001 501 Henry James The Portrait of a Lady 1001 501 Tove Jansson The Summer Book 1001 1001C Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible GG 1001 Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1001 501 Stanislaw Lem Solaris 1001 501 Andrea Levy Small Island GG 1001 Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 1001 501 Mary McCarthy The Group GG 501 Carson McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter GG 501 Herman Melville Moby Dick GG 1001 501 Toni Morrison Beloved GG 1001 501 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon GG 1001 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea 1001 501 Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory GG 501 E Nesbit Five Children and It 1001C 501 Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman 1001 501 Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country GG 1001 Mervyn Peake Gormenghast 1001 501 Edgar Allan Poe Various Stories GG 1001 501 Philip Pullman Northern Lights 1001C 501 Mario Puzo The Godfather GG 1001 Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons 1001C 501 Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire 1001 501 Philip Roth The Human Stain 1001 501 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things GG 1001 Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses 1001 501 WG Sebald Austerlitz 1001 501 Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children 1001 501 Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped 1001 1001C Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin GG 1001 William Styron Sophie's Choice GG 501 Patrick Süskind Perfume 1001 501 Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels 1001 1001C 501 Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina GG 1001 Leo Tolstoy War and Peace GG 1001 501 Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days 1001 1001C Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited 1001 501 Edith Wharton The House of Mirth 1001 501 TH White The Sword in the Stone 1001 501 Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway GG 1001 Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse 1001 501 John Wyndham Chocky 1001 1001C Quote
Kylie Posted January 8, 2018 Author Posted January 8, 2018 Frankie and Poppyshake's Must Read BooksTBR as at 1 January 2018: 51 (23 Frankie, 28 Poppyshake)TBR as at 1 January 2018: 51 (0 read, 0 acquired)TBR Pile (read, currently reading, TBR):***Frankie*** (Updated 2013 List)Fiction (38) Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale Read Jane Austen Northanger Abby Read Iain Banks Wasp Factory Robert Bloch Psycho John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Read John Boyne Crippen TBR Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange Read Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's Read Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay TBR Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Read Agatha Christie And Then There Were None Read Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read Michael Cunningham A Home at the End of the World TBR Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince Read Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read Emma Donoghue Room Read Daphne du Maurier My Cousin Rachel Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read Michel Faber Under the Skin Read Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary TBR Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe TBR John Grogan Marley and Me Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Read Matt Haig The Last Family in England TBR Daniil Harms Incidences Joanne Harris Gentlemen & Players Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises Siri Hustvedt The Summer Without Men Kazuo Ishiguro A Pale View of Hills Lloyd Jones Mister Pip TBR Stephen King Green Mile Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin Read Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read Jeff Lindsay Dexter series TBR Väinö Linna The Unknown Soldier Jennifer Lynch The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read LM Montgomery The Blue Castle Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons Watchmen TBR Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Haruki Murakami Sputnik Sweetheart Read Sofi Oksanen Purge TBR Ann Patchett Bel Canto Dan Rhodes Gold Read Anne Rice Interview with a Vampire TBR Sapphire Push! Diane Setterfield Thirteenth Tale Read Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Anita Shreve The Weight of Water Linda Lay Shuler She Who Remembers Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain Read John Steinbeck The Wayward Bus Robert Louis Stevenson Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Read Bram Stoker Dracula Read Patrick Süskind Perfume TBR Vikas Swarup Q&A Donna Tartt The Secret History Read Voltaire Candide Read Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five Read Sarah Waters Fingersmith TBR Irvine Welsh Trainspotting TBR Elie Wiesel Night Read Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind Read Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read Young Adult (6) Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Read Georgia Byng Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock Read Astrid Lindgren The Bill Bergson series Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart TBR Lois Lowry Anastasia Krupnik series Read Lois Lowry The Giver Read LM Montgomery Emily of New Moon series TBR Chris Priestley Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror Read JK Rowling Harry Potter series Read Angela Sommer-Bodenburg The Little Vampire Sue Townsend The Secred Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Read Non-fiction (10) Sylvia Beach Shakespeare and Company TBR Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye TBR Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors Read Augusten Burroughs A Wolf at the Table TBR Mötley Crüe The Dirt Read Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life TBR Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Read Ronald Hayman The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath TBR Lesley McDowell Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th Century Women Writers TBR Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Mary Roach Stiff: The Life of the Human Cadavers Read Ann Rule The Stranger Beside Me Read Flora Rheta Scheiber Sybil TBR Deborah Spungen And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder ***Poppyshake*** (Updated 2013 List)Fiction (25) Joe Abercrombie The First Law Trilogy Clare Allen Poppy Shakespeare TBR Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Read Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice Read Julian Barnes Arthur & George TBR David Benioff City of Thieves Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Read Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Read John Connolly The Book of Lost Things Read Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers Read Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Read Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read Charles Dickens Great Expectations Read Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Read Daphne du Maurier Rebecca Read Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Read Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated Read Neil Gaiman Neverwhere Read George & Weedon Grossmith Diary of a Nobody Read Joseph Heller Catch 22 Read Emma Henderson Grace Williams Says it Loud TBR John Irving A Prayer for Owen Meany TBR Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go TBR Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle Read Stephen Kelman Pigeon English TBR Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible TBR Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter & Jam TBR Karen Maitland Company of Liars Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall TBR Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude TBR Cormac McCarthy The Road Read Herman Melville Moby Dick TBR Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love Read Toni Morrison Beloved TBR Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea TBR Paul Murray Skippy Dies TBR Annie Proulx The Shipping News Dan Rhodes Gold Read Willy Russell The Wrong Boy Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle TBR Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR Mari Strachan The Earth Hums in B Flat Donna Tartt The Secret History Read Sarah Waters The Little Stranger TBR Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse TBR Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read Young Adult (5) Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Read Stephen Chbosky The Perks of being a Wallflower Read Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl series Cornelia Funke Inkheart Read Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book Read Sally Gardner I Coriander Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows Read Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Read CS Lewis The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe Read AA Milne Winnie the Pooh Read Mary Norton The Borrowers TBR Terry Pratchett Wintersmith TBR Chris Priestley Tales of Terror series Read JK Rowling The Harry Potter series Read Jonathan Stroud The Bartimaeus trilogy TBR JRR Tolkien The Hobbit Read JRR Tolkien Lord of the Rings Read Sue Townsend The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ ReadNon-Fiction (12) Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire John Bayley The Iris Trilogy William Blacker Along the Enchanted Way Bill Bryson Notes from a Big Country TBR Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island Read Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors Read Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Read Susan Hill Howards End is on the Landing TBR Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Read Brian Keenan An Evil Cradling Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie TBR Mary S Lovell The Mitford Girls TBR Mary S Lovell The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters TBR Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards TBR Sylvia Plath The Journals of Sylvia Plath Read Lorna Sage Bad Blood Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal TBR Frankie and Poppyshake Combined (including updated lists) Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Read Jane Austen Persuasion Read Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ReadRoald Dahl Matilda Read Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Read Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Read Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair ReadCornelia Funke Inkheart Read Nick Hornby The Complete Polysyllabic Spree Read Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Read Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Read Dan Rhodes Gold Read Mary Ann Shaffer The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Read Kathryn Stockett The Help TBR Donna Tartt The Secret History Read Markus Zusak The Book Thief Read Quote
Kylie Posted January 8, 2018 Author Posted January 8, 2018 My Favourite Books NEWISH are books I added in 2014–2016, NEW were added in 2017, NEWEST were added in 2018. Fiction Jane Austen Emma Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice John Banville The Book of Evidence Brian Bilston You Took the Last Bus Home NEW Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange Italo Calvino If on a Winter's Night a Traveller John Connolly The Book of Lost Things Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Great Expectations Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Daphne du Maurier Rebecca NEWISH Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Christo Mark Dunn Ella Minnow Pea Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Michel Faber The Crimson Petal and White F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated George Grossmith Diary of a Nobody Joseph Heller Catch-22 Susan Hill The Woman in Black Jack Kerouac On the Road Jack Kerouac The Town and the City Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Erich Maria Marquez All Quiet on the Western Front Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Vladimir Nabokov Lolita George Orwell Animal Farm Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged Mary Shelley Frankenstein John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Bram Stoker Dracula Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Tim Winton Cloudstreet Markus Zusak The Book ThiefYoung Adult Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Suzanne Collins Hunger Games (trilogy) Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth John Marsden Tomorrow, When the War Began (series) A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh Walter Moers The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear Lucy M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables J. K. Rowling Harry Potter (series) Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnNon-Fiction Bill Bryson Down Under Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods Byll Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter NEWEST Truman Capote In Cold Blood AB Facey A Fortunate Life Tim Flannery The Explorers Tim Flannery The Birth of Sydney Anne Frank The Diary of Anne Frank Helene Hanff 84 Charing Cross Road Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction NEW Erik Larson Dead Wake NEWISH Erik Larson The Devil in the White City NEWISH Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon Martin Toseland A Steroid Hit the Earth Quote
Kylie Posted January 8, 2018 Author Posted January 8, 2018 My Library Most of my library has been dismantled and packed into boxes. Soon all of my books and bookcases will be put into storage while I sell my house and find another place to live. Hopefully by the end of 2018 I'll have a new house and my library set up again, in which case I'll post pics here. Check out what my library looked like in 2011! Quote
Kylie Posted January 8, 2018 Author Posted January 8, 2018 I've finished setting up my blog for 2018. I had an abysmal reading year in 2017. I didn't post in my thread after February, and I didn't catalogue most of my new purchases throughout the year, so I had a lot of work to do to get everything up to scratch! I hope to be around the forum a bit more this year. Happy reading everyone! Quote
Athena Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 Wow, you have so many amazing lists ! I wish you a great year in 2018 (reading & otherwise) . I look forward to see you around the forum more ! Quote
chesilbeach Posted January 8, 2018 Posted January 8, 2018 Happy new reading year, Kylie 2 hours ago, Kylie said: My Library Most of my library has been dismantled and packed into boxes. Soon all of my books and bookcases will be put into storage while I sell my house and find another place to live. Hopefully by the end of 2018 I'll have a new house and my library set up again, in which case I'll post pics here. Check out what my library looked like in 2011! We've just come out of the other side of having all our books in storage while we were renovating our living room. Just before Christmas we starting bringing the books back and putting them out of the new shelves my partner has built. They'll have to come down again when the work starts again now that Christmas is out of the way, so they're not organised as the moment and it's driving me mad! When we do organise them properly, we're going to get an app and software to scan them all so we can catalogue them properly. Quote
Alexi Posted January 9, 2018 Posted January 9, 2018 Happy 2018 Kylie! I remain in awe of your library. Hope to see more of you around here this year. Quote
Kylie Posted January 21, 2018 Author Posted January 21, 2018 On 09/01/2018 at 3:30 AM, Athena said: Wow, you have so many amazing lists ! I wish you a great year in 2018 (reading & otherwise) . I look forward to see you around the forum more ! Thanks Gaia. I haven't managed to catch up with everyone's reading lists yet. I need to read your summary for 2017! On 09/01/2018 at 4:07 AM, chesilbeach said: Happy new reading year, Kylie We've just come out of the other side of having all our books in storage while we were renovating our living room. Just before Christmas we starting bringing the books back and putting them out of the new shelves my partner has built. They'll have to come down again when the work starts again now that Christmas is out of the way, so they're not organised as the moment and it's driving me mad! When we do organise them properly, we're going to get an app and software to scan them all so we can catalogue them properly. Thanks Claire. I miss my books already! It's horrible not being able to display them nicely on our shelves, isn't it? I have to admit that one of the major things on my checklist when looking for a new home will be the amount of wall space for my bookcases. I'll be downsizing, so it's going to be difficult, but I'll make it work one way or another! On 09/01/2018 at 9:12 PM, Alexi said: Happy 2018 Kylie! I remain in awe of your library. Hope to see more of you around here this year. Thanks Alexi. I hope to be around more often too! Quote
Kylie Posted January 21, 2018 Author Posted January 21, 2018 My reading year is off to a great start. I finished Matt Haig's Father Christmas and Me and read Richard P Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! and Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. All excellent books! Now I'm about three-quarters of the way through Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter. It's utterly engrossing, so despite it's length and small print, I'm flying through it. So glad that I finally got around to reading it (with a nudge from @frankie!) Quote
Little Pixie Posted January 24, 2018 Posted January 24, 2018 Happy Reading in 2018, Kylie ! Good Luck to you and the cats on finding a new place. Quote
Kylie Posted February 20, 2018 Author Posted February 20, 2018 I went to the book fair a couple of weekends ago and came home with the following. Books with 'n.a.' next to them aren't added to my TBR pile for different reasons (basically they're all nicer editions to replace the ones I already have, except in a few instances, where I'll also be keeping my original edition). It wasn't the greatest book fair for me in terms of special finds, but it was still pretty great. Fiction (26) Margaret Atwood Hag-Seed Paul Beatty The Sellout Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita (n.a.) (50th anniversary deluxe edition) Mikhail Bulgakov A Young Doctor's Notebook Agatha Christie The Sittaford Mystery Agatha Christie Three Act Tragedy (n.a.) Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince (n.a.) Hugh Edwards Islands of Angry Ghosts Joseph Heller Closing Time (n.a.) Joseph Heller Something Happened (n.a.) ETA Hoffman Tales of Hoffmann Andrey Kurkov The President's Last Love (n.a.) John le Carré The Russia House John le Carré The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Ann M Martin Stacey McGill, Super Sitter JD Salinger The Catcher in the Rye (n.a.) John Scalzi Lock in Natasha Solomons The Song Collector Emily St John Mandel Last Night in Montreal Jeff VanderMeer Acceptance David Walliams Gangsta Granny PG Wodehouse Doctor Sally PG Wodehouse The Little Nugget PG Wodehouse Love Among the Chickens PG Wodehouse The Man Upstairs and Other Stories PG Wodehouse Tales of St Austin's Non-Fiction (24) Richard Bradford Literary Rivals James Bradley The Penguin Book of the Ocean Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything (Illustrated) (n.a.) Rachel Carson Silent Spring Brian Cox Wonders of the Universe Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker (n.a.) Tim Flannery The Birth of Melbourne AC Grayling The Age of Genius J Mellentin Haswell Manual of Mosaic Henry Hitchings Browse David Hunt True Girt Naomi Klein This Changes Everything Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk Simon Sebag Montefiori The Romanovs Diana Mosley The Pursuit of Laughter Robert J Nemiroff The Universe: 365 Days Edward W Said Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient Carl Sagan Billions and Billions Carl Sagan The Varieties of Scientific Experience Dava Sobel The Glass Universe Don Watson Bendable Learnings Don Watson Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters John Wright The CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook Quote
~Andrea~ Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Wow you're as organized as ever Kylie! A lot of my books are packed away too as I'm allegedly decorating my dining room. (I started stripping the paint last year and not much has happened since then.) It'll be nice to get my books back out. I'm sure you feel the same! Good luck with selling your house and finding a new place Quote
frankie Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 On 8.1.2018 at 1:23 PM, Kylie said: Read in 2018 Books read: 2018: 6* Six books already? Well done Kylie! I'm waayyyyy behind!! On 8.1.2018 at 1:23 PM, Kylie said: Vincent Bugliosi Helter Skelter 10/10 10/10 for Helter Skelter? Wowwwww!!! I don't know why, but I didn't dare to imagine you'd like it that much!! But I'm super happy you did!! Holy smokes, missy!!! On 8.1.2018 at 1:25 PM, Kylie said: Acquired in 2018January (0) Making the most of not buying any books in January! On 8.1.2018 at 4:40 PM, Kylie said: Most of my library has been dismantled and packed into boxes. Soon all of my books and bookcases will be put into storage while I sell my house and find another place to live. Hopefully by the end of 2018 I'll have a new house and my library set up again, in which case I'll post pics here. I'm only stating the obvious here, but I hope you can sell your house soon and find a new amazing place to live in! I'm sorry that I don't get to visit your home, the one I've lived in, because I loved it so very much! And we had some pretty fabulous times there But I will come and visit your new place at some point!! On 8.1.2018 at 4:47 PM, Kylie said: I had an abysmal reading year in 2017. I didn't post in my thread after February, and I didn't catalogue most of my new purchases throughout the year, so I had a lot of work to do to get everything up to scratch! I hope to be around the forum a bit more this year. 2017 was crap on an ugly platter. Let's make 2018 amazing!! Happy reading Kylie!! 5 hours ago, Kylie said: I went to the book fair a couple of weekends ago and came home with the following. Books with 'n.a.' next to them aren't added to my TBR pile for different reasons (basically they're all nicer editions to replace the ones I already have, except in a few instances, where I'll also be keeping my original edition). It wasn't the greatest book fair for me in terms of special finds, but it was still pretty great. An amazing haul! I will say, though, that apart from the n.a. books and the Wodehouses, I didn't recognize all too many titles on the list! Did your Mom buy an awful lot? Quote
Little Pixie Posted February 20, 2018 Posted February 20, 2018 Wow, that`s some book haul ! Congrats on the goodies. Quote
Athena Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 I hope you enjoy all your new books, Kylie ! I liked Gangsta Granny by David Walliams, I hope you do too. It's nice you found a BSC-related book too, I hope it's good! I'm glad you had fun at the bookfair ! Quote
frankie Posted February 21, 2018 Posted February 21, 2018 Slap that bass! Slap away your troubles! Quote
bobblybear Posted March 3, 2018 Posted March 3, 2018 Happy reading in 2018, Kylie! You have so many books to keep you busy! Helter Skelter is a brilliant read, isn't it? Quote
Kylie Posted December 6, 2018 Author Posted December 6, 2018 Wow, I haven't updated my log since June! I'm in the middle of a big book purge at the moment because I'm moving soon and have to put my books in storage. I've removed over 100 books that I no longer want to read, have read but don't want to keep, or that are extra editions. I took some to a local secondhand bookstore and received $50 store credit, and I'm taking the rest to Canberra tomorrow to donate to their next book fair. My mum is coming with me, and she has loads of books too. Now comes the task of removing the books from all the places I have them catalogued. I have quite a bit of work to do on my lists before the new year! Quote
Athena Posted December 6, 2018 Posted December 6, 2018 Wow Kylie, that sounds like a difficult task moving so many books! Well done on donating some books you have no interest in (anymore). Good luck with the move, I hope everything goes well . Will your books be able to come out of storage after you've settled into your new home? Quote
bobblybear Posted December 8, 2018 Posted December 8, 2018 Good luck with the purge! It's a pain, but also good to get rid of some books that you no longer feel like reading. Quote
~Andrea~ Posted December 10, 2018 Posted December 10, 2018 That sounds like a big job Kylie! Good luck with it and well done for what you've achieved so far. Quote
Little Pixie Posted December 10, 2018 Posted December 10, 2018 Good Luck with the Book Purge ! I `donated` around 25 books to a neighbour this year ( lots more to look through... ) Quote
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