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Books Read 2010 - 56

 

Books Read 2011 - 76

 

Books Read 2012 - 76

 

I'm going to have the same reading goal as last year, 75 books.

 

Total TBR at 1/1/12 - 253

Total TBR 2012 - 410

 

Tree Books at 1/1/12 - 233

Tree Books 2012 - 228

 

Kindle Books at 1/1/12 - 20

Kindle Books - 182

 

Wishlist at 1/1/12 - 263

Wishlist 2012 - 443

 

Rory Books Read - 5

BBC 200 Books Read - 3

1001 Books You Must Read Read - 4

1001 Childrens Books - Read - 6

Ultimate Teen Book Guide Challenge Read - 5

501 Must Read Books Read - 3

New Classics Challenge -

2012 World Book Night Challenge Read - 4

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Books Read January to June 2012

 

Books Read January 2012 7

1)Tracy Englebert - The Girl Who Couldnt say No (kindle)

2)Belle De Jour - The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl

3)Carole Mathews - Its a Kind of Magic

4)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

5)Rosemary Say - Rosie's War

6)Caught in the Act - Gemma Fox

7)Things I Want My Daughters To Know - Elizabeth Noble

 

Books Read February 2012 7

8)The Golden Acorn - Catherine Cooper

9)Frozen in Time - Ali Sparkes

10)The Love Trainer - Julia Llewellyn

11)The Secret Holocaust Diaries - Nonna Bannister

12)Mistress Mashams Repose - T. H. White

13)Out of Time - Deborah Truscott

14)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azcaban - J. K. Rowling

 

Books Read March 2012 10

15)I Want it Now - Julie Dawn Cole

16)Pied Piper - Neville Shute

17)Sold in Savannah - Tarrin P. Lupo

18)Battle Rats - Tarrin P. Lupo

19)Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard

20)Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide - William Hussey

21)The Rise of April - Tarrin P. Lupo

22)Nothing But the Truth (A Policemans Tale) - John Bates

23)Grimms' Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm

24)Confessions of a Stay at Home Mom - Tamara Hancock

25)One Child - Torey Hayden

 

Books Read April 2012 7

26)The Firestone Crystal - Linda M. David

27)Hell of a Salesman - Timothy Brooks

28)Sin and Sacrifice - Danielle Bourdon

29)Strike Back - Chris Ryan

30)The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing

31)Joanna's Day (Joanna in Time) - Toni and Stephen Downs

32)The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult

 

Books Read May 2012 6

33)A Flicker of Light - Roberta Kagan

34)I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

35)Apocalypse Cow - Michael Logan

36)Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

37)Ellie Foster's English Coursework - Tina Orr Munro

38)Shades of Grey - Michael Cargill

 

Books Read June 2012 7

39)The Difference A Day Makes - Carole Matthews

40)Around The World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

41)The Virgin Student - Virgin Student

42)Marine at War - M. Michael

43)The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan

44)I Know You Got Soul - Clarkson

45)Just a Kid, A Guard at the Nuremburg Trials - Emilio DiPalma

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Books Read July to December

 

Books Read July 2012 9

46)Before and Gone (The Chosen) - J. M. Pierce

47)Confessions of a Demented Housewife - Niamh Greene

48)The Chocolate Lovers Club - Carole Matthews

49)Magical Quotes and Words of Wisdom From Harry Potter - Samuel Penny

50)My House Looks Like A Fairyland Crime Scene - Ed Ergenzinger

51)Customers Say The Stupidest Things - Adam

52)Across A Bridge of Dreams - Lesley Downer

53)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

54)The Dresskeeper - Mary Nalus

 

Books Read August 2012 4

55)Dracula - Bram Stoker

56)Don't Shoot! I'm Just The Avon Lady - Birdie Jaworski

57)Shrinkage - Luke Young

58)The Queen's Secret - Victoria Lamb

 

Books Read September 2012 6

59)Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

60)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling

61)Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

62)Alana Weatherbee #1 - Jack Sorenson

63)The King's Spy - Andrew Swanston

64)Friends With Partial Benefits - Luke Young

 

Books Read October 2012 5

65)Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult

66)Mom You Just Broke Facebook - Jay Rivera

67)The Labyrinth of Osiris - Paul Sussman

68)The Mind Readers - Lori Brighton

69)The Casual Vacancy - J. K. Rowling

 

Books Read November 2012 3

70)The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

71)Trixie Trader - Helen Dunne

72)The Marlowe Conspiracy - M. G. Scarsbrook

 

Books Read December 2012 4

73)The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger

74)The Vanishing Act - Mette Jakobsen

75)Cold April - Phyllis A Humphrey

76)Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James

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TBR Pile

 

at 1/1/2012 - 253

 

2012 - 411

 

Frank W. Abagnale - Catch Me if You Can

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Monica Ali - Brick Lane

Derek Allsop - Formula One Uncovered

Jefferey Archer - Kane and Abel

Ros Asquith - I was a Teenage Worrier

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensiblity

Colin Bateman - Murphy's Law

David Beckham - My Side

Meave Binchy - Tara Road

Maeve Binchy - This Year it Will Be Different

Judy Blundell - What I Saw and How I Lied

Enid Blyton - FI've Have Plenty of Fun

Enid Blyton - FI've on Kirren Island Again

Enid Blyton - FI've on a Secret Trail

Sam Bourne - The Rightious Men

James Bradley - The Ressurrectionist

Simon Brett - Murder in the Museum

Dougie Brimson - The Crew

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Candice Bushell - Sex and the City

Meg Cabot - Size 12 is not Fat

Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries

Carmen Caine - The Glass Wall

John Le Carre - The Tailor From Panama

J.L. Carrell - The Shakespeare Curse

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Lucy Canendish - Samantha Symthes Modern Family Journal

Marsha Canham - Across a Moonlit Sea

Tom Clancy - Breaking Point

Tom Clancy - ExecutI've Orders

Tom Clancy - Point of Impact

Jeremey Clarkson - Don't Stop me Now

James Clavell - King Rat

Harlan Coben - Just One Look

Eoin Colfer - Plugged

Jenny Colgan - The Good, The Bad and The Dumped

Timothy Collins - The Piranha Club

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay

Joseph Conrad - Heart of darkness

Sam Christie - The Stonehenge Legacy

Andrew Davison - The Gargoyle

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

Grace Dent - LBD: It's a girl Thing

Colin Dexter - The Dead of Jehrico

Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - OlI'ver Twist

Emma Donoghue - Room

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles

Imogen Edwards Jones - Beach Babylon

Imogen Edwards Jones - Hotel Babylon

Kim Edwards - The Memory Keepers Daughter

Bret Easton Ellis - American Physco

Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

Ellen Feldman - The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

Glee: Summer Break

Joanne Harris - Chocolat

Geri Halliwell - If Only

Christine Dwyer Hickey - Tatty

Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing

Wendy Holden - Marrying Up

Homer - The Illad

Ken Follett - A Dangerous Fortune

Colin Forbes - Double Jepardy

Colin Forbes - the Heights of Zevos

Fredrick Forsythe - Day of the Jackel

Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austin Book Club

Dick Francis - Dead Cert

Jane Gardam - Old Faith

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Alex Garland - The Beach

Paul Garrison - The Ripple Effect

David Gibbins - The Mask of Troy

Andre Gide - The Vatican Cellers

Julia Glass - Three Julias

Robert Goddard - Never Go Back

Robert Goddard - Sight Unseen

William Goldman - The Princess Bride

Linda Grant - The Clothes Off Their Backs

Jane Green - Second Chance

Phillipa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl

John Gribben - In Search of the Edge of Time

John Grisham - The Chamber

John Grogan - Marley and Me

Izzy Hammond - Someone to Watch Over Me

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles

Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark

Robert Harris - Enigma

Kate Harrison - Old School Ties

John Harwood - The Ghost Writer

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal

James Herbert - 48

Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

Mary Higgins Clark - Second Time Around

Peter Hoeg - Miss Smillas Sense of Snow

Anthony Horowitz - Skeleton Key

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

C C Humphries - Absolute Honour

Charmain Hussey - Valley of the Secrets

Conn Igulddon - The Wolf of the Plains

Greg Iles - 24 Hours

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

Benjamin Jacob - wind Orchid

Christian Jacq - The Battle of Kadesh

Lisa Jewell - The Truth of Melody Brown

Natascha Kampusch - 3096 Days

Marian Keyes - This Charming Man

Marian Keyes - Under the Duvet

Raymond Khory - The Sign

Stephen King - Christine

Stephen King - Firestarter

Stephen King - IT

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - The Dark Tower

Stephen King - The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King - The Gunslinger

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic takes Manhatten

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic and Baby

Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book

Dorothy Koomson - The Ice Cream Girls

Simon Kuper - Football Against the Enemy

Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Steig Larsson - The Girl Who Played With Fire

Richard Laymon - The Travelling Vampire Show

Andrea Levy - Small Island

Jack London - The Call of the Wind/Wild Fang

Pittacus Lore - I am Number Four

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Harry Ludlum - True Ghost Stories

Robert Ludlum - The Ambler Warning

Catherine Macphail - Roxy's Baby

Norman Mailer - The Castle in the Forest

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

Valerio Massimo Manfredi - The Oracle

Madonna: An Intimate Biography

Scott Mariani - The Shadow Project

Howard Marks - Mr Nice

Ian Marshall - On The Road With Blue

Sharon Marshall - Tabloid Girl

George R R Martin - A Game of Thrones

George R R Martin - Fevre Dream

Mark Mason - What Men Think About Sex

Stephanie Mayer - The Host

Stephanie Mayer - Eclipse

Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes

Ian McEwen - Atonement

John McGahern - Then They Might Face The Rising Sea

Carol McGiffin - Oh Carol!

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman - Long Way Round

Andy McNab - Seven Troop

Malie Maloy - Liars and Saints

SGT Dan Mills - Sniper One

Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees

John Morton - Diana: Her True Story

Kate Mosse - Labyrinth

Jo Nesbo - The Snowman

Lindsay Nicolson - Living on the Seabed

Coleen Nolan - Mum to Mum

Coleen Nolan - Upfront and Personal

Mary Norton - The Borrowers

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Afeild

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Aloft

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Afloat

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Avenged

Sharon Osbourne - Survivor

Adele Parks - Men I've Loved Before

James Patterson - Beach Road

Ellis Peters - City of Gold and Shadows

Elizabeth Peters - The Curse of the Pharoahs

Jodi Picoult - Picture Perfect

Jodi Picoult - Keeping Faith

Rosamunde Pilcher - WInter Solstice

Bella Pollen - Hunting Unicorns

Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke

Gordon Ramsey - Humble Pie

Shane Richie - Rags to Richie

Michael Ridpath - The Market Maker

Elvi Rhodes - Cara's Land

Rosie Rushton - Poppy

Jean-Paul Satre - Nausea

William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Bob Shepherd - The Infidel

Anita Shreve - Fortune Rocks

Ali Smith - The Accidental

Carol Smith - Without Warning

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Tom Rob Smith - Child 44

Wilbur Smith - The Seventh Scroll

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Reptile Room (Book 2)

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Austere Academy (book 5)

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Vile Village (book 7)

Penny Sparke - As Long as It's Pink, The Sexual Politics of Taste

Nicolas Sparks - Dear John

Nicolas Sparks - The Choice

Nicolas Sparks - The Last Song

Nicolas Sparks - The Notebook

R.L. Stein - Goosebumps

Johnatan Swift - GuillI'vers Travels

Scarlett Thomas - Popco

Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole - The Capuccino Years

Antony Trew - Bannisters Chart

Jackie Trevane - Invisable Women

Thomas Trofimuk - Waiting for Columbus

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

Various - Great Ghost Stories

Various - The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance

Louis Walsh - Fast Track To Fame

Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger

E. B. White - Charlotte's Web

Laura Weiss - Leftovers

Madeline Wickham - A Desirable Residence

Elie Wiesel - Night

Jacquline Wilson - Lola Rose

 

TBR Added in 2012

 

Richard Allberry - A Lady of Letters

Anon - Phone Monkey: The Secret Diary of a Call Centre Worker

Suzanne Anderson - Mrs. Tuesdays Departure

D. M. Andrews - The Serpent in the Grass

A. J. Armitt - Entwined

Carl Ashmore - The Time Hunters

K. Austin-Jones - The Rocking Horse

Jim Bainbridge - Human Sister

Anita Bartholomew - The Midgets House

Mary Ann Bernal - The Briton and the Dane: Birthright

Steve Bichard - Vantastic France

Ami Blackwelder - The Day the Flowers Died

Lawana Blackwell - Widow of Larkspur Inn

Bob Blick - Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Geoff Bluske - Year 50

Kola Boof - Diary of a Lost Girl

Danielle Bourdon - Templars Creed (The Daughters of Eve #2)

Danielle Bourdon - The Seven Seals (The Daughters of Eve #3)

Gavin James Bower - Made in Britain

Lori Brighton - The Mind Thieves

Nicole Brown - The Lunchbox Thief

Louise Candish - Before We Say Goodbye

Cynthia Lee Cartier - Wings

Tim Casey - Dangers, Toils and Snares: Confessions of a Firefighter

John Childress - Almost Perfect

J.E. Christer - Pollys Small Town War

Diane Rene Christian - An-Ya and Her Diary

Lucy Christopher - Flyaway

Gail Cleare - Destined

Simon Cleary - Chard Times

C. B. Cole - Winter

J. S. Colley - The Halo Revolutions

Catherine Cooper - Glasruhen Gate

Peter Creighton - The Chosen Blades

Beauty - Lisa Daley

Sara Daniell - Visions

James Dawson - Hollow Pike

Pearl Davey - Monday

Kathleen Demarco - Cranberry Queen

Judith Dickerman-Nelson - Believe in me: A Teen Mom's Story

Roseanne Dowell - Shadow in the Attic

Cale Dietrich - Instituiton (Third War Chronicles)

Terri Douglas - 39 Weeks

Matthew Drury - EDEN2

Leslie DuBuois - The queen bee of bridgeton

Phillip Duke - Sherlock Holmes and the Mulitilated Cattle

Erik Elkins - Best of the Dating Dad 2004-2010

Heather Enderby - If You Go Down to the Woods Today

Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White

Tony Faville - avery nolan private dick of the dead

Ian Feldman - The Sky Club

Karla Forbes - Fallout (Nick Sullivan #1)

MB Forde - Eerie Britain: Ten of Britain's Most Terrifying and Percular real life Tales

Sally Patrica Gardner - Lillians Story

Hazel Gaynor - The Girl Who Came Home - A TItantic Story

Zack Gonzalez - Saving Deets

Robert Godfrey - The Girl Who Lived in Colours

Judi Loren Grace - The Third Floor

Jo Graham - Lacey's House

R. J. Grant - Secrets of Black Water Creek

Chanda Hahn - UnEnchanted

Shannon Hale - Austenland

Kate Hanney - Safe

Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Castlebridge

Chautona Haviq - Ready or Not

Maurice Haywood - Seeding

James Henry - drI'ver do you stop at the station?

Richard Herley - The Penal Colony

Gillian Hiscott - Lady in Chains

Peter Ho Davis - The Welsh Girl

Steena Holmes - Finding Emma

Nick Hornby - About A Boy

Nick Hornby - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

Sherley Ann Howard - Tales of School

In The Company of Ghosts - Stephen A. Hunt

S. A. Hunter - Scary Mary

Infinite Ideas - Whole New You: 365 Brilliant Vibes for You

Teddy Jacobs - Wicked Hungry

Aiden James - Plague of Coins (Judas Cronicles #1)

Dr Harry Jay - what is it about yorkies?

Leigh Jenkins - Catherine the Inquisitor (The Six Lives of Henry VIII)

Allen Jesson - Twenty One Thirteen

Charles W. Johnson - Elders of Zion

Charles W. Johnson - The Son of Man

H. E. Joyce - Miranda's Fortune

Jessica Francis Kane - The Report

Rita Karnopp - Kidnapped

Jessica Keener - Night Swim

Danny King - School For Scumbags

Danny King - The Henchman's Book Club

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic Ties the Knot

Karly Kirkpatrick - The Green

Glen Krish - Loss

Glen Krish - Brothers Keeper

Samie Larcine - The worlds most shocking ghost stories

E. N. Larsen - Lets Never do That Again: Stories

Randy Largi - G-sale

Angel Lawson - Wraith

Keira Lei - Replay

Trisha Leigh - Whispers in Autumn

C. S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Tom Litchenburg - Dragon Town

Tom Lichenburg - Freak City

Tom Lichtenburg - Humanoid Central

Tom Litchenburg - Snapdragon Alley

John Lloyd - 1227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

Doug Lucas - Conversations with a Dead Man

Matt Lynn - Black Ops: Olympics

Paul A. Maier - The Constantine Codex

Gemma Malley - The Declaration

H.M. Mann - Paint

Francesca Marks - The Mayan Prophecies

Carole Matthews - The Chocolate Lovers Diet

Ryan Matthews - Future Queens of England

Stephenie Meyer - New Moon

Lisa McClendon - One A Clock Jump

Lisa McClendon - Sweet and Lowdown

James McCracken - Charlie MacCready the Ghost in the Attic

John Mcdonnel - The Adventures of Larry the Alien

Craig McLay - Village Books

Stan Morris - Surviving the Fog

Dora Levy Mossanen - Last Romanov

Paul Moxham - The Mystery of Smugglers Cove

Ruth Nestvold - The Future Imperfect

Jill Newman - Willow Ridge

Sally Nicol - The Power Behind the Throne

Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Travellers Wife

Donna Nitz Muller - a girl child

Jack Norman - Broken Crystal: The Betrayal of Britain

Ronan O'Brien - Confessions of a Fallen Angel

Timothy R O'Donnell - Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes

Lisa Olsen - Nine Steps to Sara

Nicola Palmer - Alice Parkers Metamorphosis

John Pearson - learn me Good

John Pearson - Learn me Gooder

Jess Petosa - Exeptional

Joanne Phillips - A Life Unpredicted

David Pickering - Classic Ghost Stories

Jackie Pryce - Tea Break Tales

Daniel Quinn - Knock Knock . . . Who's Joking

Terry Ravenscroft - Stairlift to Heaven

A. M. Redclif - Unspecified Correspondence

Blaine Reimer - Love is a Wounded Soldier

Christopher Remy - Fifth Column

Shahzad Rizvi - Behind the Veil

Micheal Roberts - The Evacuee Experience

Matt Rudd - William Walkers First Year of Marriage

Kira Saito - Bound

Debra Samuel - Invisable Chains

Ruby Alice Side-Thompson - World War 2 London Blitz Diary

Barbara Silkstone - The Adventures of a Love Investigator, 527 Men and One Woman

Enzo Silvestra - The Mysterious Case

Mark Sinclair - I'd Sooner Starve

Ron Smoak - Alpha Threat

Robin Somina-Dudley - More Confessions of a Bookseller

Jim Stark - The LieDeck Revolution

John Steinbeck - Of Mice And Men

Amy Stewart - The last Bookstore in America

Glenn M. Stewart - A Gentleman and a Player

Jo Styles - Jo Styles short Story Collection Vol 1

Celesta Thiessen - Two of a Kind

Rhayne Thomas - Born Again Bag Lady

Rich Thomas - 100 Greatest Woman in History

Nicola Thorne - The Pride of the School and Other Tales of Convent Life

Nicola Thorne - The Little Flowers

Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Pat Tucker - starstruck

Tabitha Vale - Venus City (Legacy of the Sares)

Clark G. Vanderpool - The Falcon Dirk

David C. Waldron - Dark Grid

Robert Walker - Bismark 2013 Hitlers Curse

T. I. Wade - Invasion USA (book 1) The End of Civilisation

Ben Wakeling - Goodbye, Pert Breasts: The Diary of a Newborn Dad

Chris Watt - Peer Pressure

Alan Watts - Touched by Angels

Mike Wells - Secrets of the Elusive Lover

Tara West - Sophies Secret

Angela White - The Survivors (Life after War)

D. H. White - Declutter Simplified

Katherine Williams - The Secret Diary of a Single Mum

Jenni Wiltz - The Romanov Legacy

Willie Wit - A Brave New Hope

Willie Wit - Twenty Tiny Tales

Cody Young - Johnny Doesnt Drink Champagne

Luke Young - Friends With Full Benefits

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Wishlist 2010

 

1/1/2012 - 56

 

2012 - 37

 

the one I love - anna mcpartlin

 

the thirteenth tale diane setterfield

life on the refridgerator door - alice kuipers

lovely green eyes - arnost lustig

the separation - christopher priest

how I live now - meg rosoff

1984 - george orwell

the first casualty - ben elton

anne of green gables - L. Montgomery

couples - john updike

vanity fair - william makepeice thackeray

 

What Was Lost’ by Catherine O’Flynn

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

One Day by David Nicholls

do you remember the first time - jenny colgan

The Secret Five and the Stunt Nun Legacy by John Lawrence

the death and life of charlie st cloud ben sherwood

SE Hinton's The Outsiders

how I paid for college - marc acito

 

six reasons to stay a virgin - louise harwood

Jane Moore - perfect match

The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

meg cabot - vanished

war on the margins - libby cone

the thirteenth tale - diane setterfield

the shining - Stephen King

Forever by Judy Blume

Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton.

Between Shades of Gray By Ruta Sepetys

 

the little book of loose women

jodi picoult - house rules

lord of the flies - william golding

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

Quiddich Through the Ages

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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Wishlist 2011

 

1/1/12 - 207

 

2012 -

 

Matched – Ally Condie

The news Where you are - Catherine O Flynn

Fallen - Lauren Kate

My Blood Approves - Amanda Hocking

The Bell Jar ~ Sylvia Plath

Safe Haven - Nicolas Sparks

Jarhead - Anthony Swofford

What you see is what you get - Alan Sugar

Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead

Snobbery With Violence by M. C. Beaton

 

Watchmen - Alan Moore and David Gibbons

Moab Is My Washpot. – Stephen Fry.

Prom and prejudice - elizabeth eulberg

The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry

Small Town Sinners by Melissa Walker

Anna & the French Kiss - stephanie Perkins

Slam - Nick Hornby

The Night Watch - Sarah Waters

the year of magical thinking - joan didion

if I stay - gayle forman

 

some girls are - courtney summers

the book of lost things - john connolly

unwind - neal shusterman

the girl in the lighthouse - roxanne tepher sanford

the holy blood and the holy grail - Michael Belgent

Pompeii - Robert Harris

Surviving Hitler - Andrea Warren

The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier

Dating Hamlet - Lisa Fiedler

Jennings Series - Anthony Bukeridge

 

Geisha - Liza Dalby

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

friends like these - danny wallace

Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater

Denise Welsh Autobiography

Hollyoaks - girl talk

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain's Elite Bomb Disposal Unit - Sean Rayment

Hitler's Canary - Sandi Toksvig

bad blood - lorna sage

 

bridge to terabithia - Katherine Paterson

shades of grey - jasper fforde

The Summoning - Darkest Powers Bk. 1 Kelley Armstrong

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination - Helen Fielding

Restless - William Boyd

elidor - Alan Garner

Anna Karenina - Leon Tolstoy

Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky

The Great Blue Yonder - Alex Shearer

 

Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin

Listen - rene gutteridge

Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian

I am Number Four (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore (second book?)

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

*On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan*

anita blake

A Home at the End of the world by Michael Cunningham :

A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

 

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

Private Peaceful - Micheal Murpurgo

house of night series

My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin

seven spiders spinning

rebecca - daphne du murier

The Last Family in England by Matt Haig

It Started With a Dare by Lindsay Faith Rech

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot

denial - coleen nolan

 

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs

rangers apprentice series

moby dick - herman mervill

summer and the city - candice bushell

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Picture of Dorian Gray as Oscar Wilde

Someone Else's Son by Sam Hayes

the nolans survivors

The Checkout Girl - Tazeen Ahmad

 

five run away together enid blyton

The Pact - Jodi Picoult

The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

The Declaration (The Declaration Trilogy~Book 1) by Gemma Malley

The Returners by Gemma Malley

game of thrones - rr martin

Eragon

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

thursday next series

Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech

 

The Morland Dynasty

Love In The Time Of Cholera. - Gabriel Garciá Márquez.

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

kym marsh book

Abandon by Meg Cabot

Blackout / All Clear - Connie Willis

Farseer trilogy

his dark materials

kelley armstrong

 

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

the colour of magic - terry pratchett

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

Divergent ~ Veronica Roth

war of the worlds

hatchet - gary paulson

Jurrasic Park

Jan Lars Jensen: Nervous System

Secret Lives” by Gabriella Poole

‘The Girls’ by Lori Lansens

 

Across The Universe by Beth Revis

confessions of a gp - benjamin daniels

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

Jack Vance's Llyonesse trilogy

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafron

Tomorrow Girls #1: Behind the Gates

Afterwards - Rosamund Lupton

The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai

Little Gypsy - Roxy Freeman

Between by Jessica Warman

This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman

 

frankie boyle autobiography

the help - katheryn Stockett

Literary Trivia - Over 300 Curious Lists for Bookworms

Falling For Hamlet ~ Michelle Ray

The Ausländer by Paul Dowswell

The Watchtower - Lee Carroll

Stardust

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

carrie - stephen king

 

After - amy efaw

The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood

The To-Do List by Mike Gayle

carmen reid ya series

emma - jane austen

Dark Souls - Paula Morris

the legacy - katherine webb

bess crawford series

Domestic Violets, by Matthew Norman,

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

 

douglas jackson book

in search of the rose notes

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch

Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist

dear teacher - jack sheffield

the unseen - katherine webb

a year without autumn - liz kessler

2030 - albert brooks

Oink by Matt Whyman

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

 

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

without remorce - tom clancy

shogan - james clavell

crocodile on the sandbank - elizabeth peters

the drawing of three - stephen king

stormbreaker - alex rider

the body on the beach - simon brett

fallen into a pit - ellis peters

net force - tom clancy

jack absolute - cc humphries

 

last bus to woodstock - colin dexter

into the blue - robert goddard

the son of light - christian jacq

mortal fear - greg iles

Fatherland by Robert Harris

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson with Neil Strauss

A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern

 

one perfect day - lauraine snelling

the night strangers - chris bohjahlian

The Grief of Others ~ Leah Hager Cohen

darkest hour - James holland

mary poppins - P L Travers

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The world according to garp - john irving

This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff

Drinking Closer to Home Jessica Anya Blau

Love Times Three by Joe, Alina, Valerie, and Vicki Darger.

 

A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard

a place called here - cecelia ahern

A Family of Readers: The Book Lover’s Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Literature by Roger Sutton and Martha V. Parravano

The Green Mile by Stephen King

The Twits by Roald Dahl

‘Before I Go To Sleep’ by S. J. Watson

larger family life

the duggars

Tuesdays at the Castle - Jessica Day George

11/22/63 by Stephen King

 

Melissa Anelli – Harry, a History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

you are my only - beth kephart

Far To Go - Alison Pick

life as we knew it - susan beth pfeffer

Found, Free, and Flea: Creating Collections from Vintage Treasures by Tereasa Surratt[;

Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages by Michael Popek

shopaholic ties the knot - sophie kinsella

Jemima J - Jane Green

Does my Bum Look Big in This? - Arabella Weir

Debs at war – Anne De Courcy

 

Children of the Fog by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Windvale Sprites - Mackenzie Crook

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

The Remarkable adventures of Tom Scatterhorn

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

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Wishlist 2012 Jan-June

 

Total - 106

 

belle de jours guide to men - belle de jour

How to Be Woman- Caitlin Moran

Ruth Galloway mystery series

UR by Stephen King

Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography, Sir Richard Branson.

Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Promise Me This by Cathy Gohlke

Never Eighteen by Megan Bostic

the mistake wendy james

 

the ages of miricles

the land of decoration

the lifeboat

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolfe

this beautiful life - helen schulman

ive got your number - sophie kinsella

the woman in black - susan hill

Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

Mockingbird- Kathryn Erskine

5. Call The Midwife - Jennifer Worth

 

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Shakespeare's landlord, Charlaine Harris

Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Sean Parnell

Remarkable, by Lizzie K. Foley,

A Town Like Alice - Neville Shute

The Machine Gunners - Robert Westall

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Twins’ by Marcy Dermansky

 

We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver

SIMON KERNICK Siege

EVA STACHNIAK The Winter Palace

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

'Gone To Soldiers' by Marge Piercy

'Hollow Earth' by John Barrowman & Carole Barrowman

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The Nazi Officer's Wife

Twins’ by Marcy Dermansky

‘Shakespeare on Toast’ by Ben Shakespeare

 

ones a poner time by Ilsa Evans

The Mothers’ Group - Fiona Higgins

gallows at twilight - william hussey

Noughts and Crosses YA series by Malorie Blackman

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden

Mrs Milburn’s Diaries: An Englishwoman’s Day-to-Day Reflections, 1939-1945 by Clara Milburn

Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine by Tracy Crow

Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire by Julie Berebitsky

Push by Sapphire

 

stand by stand by chris ryan

the reunion - joanne fedler

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues

Dear Daughter: The Best of the Dear Leta Letters by Heather Armstrong

Birth Marked by Caragh M D Brien

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

The Language of Flowers

harvesting the heart jodi picoult

Coventry HELEN HUMPHRISES

The Reunion Joanne Fedler

 

The Report - Jessica Francis Kane

The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain

The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman

geektastic

Pure by Julianna Baggott

172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford

The Light Years - Elizabeth Jane Howard

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

 

the sky is everywhere - jandy nelson

On Haunted Ground: The Green Ghost and Other Spirits of Cemetery Road - lisa rogers

'The Library at Night' by Alberto Manguel

Sister by Rosamund Lupton

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Matildaby Roald Dahl

'Dancing in a Distant Place' by Isla Dewar

Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange

Autumn Term by Antonia Forest

 

The Pledge by Kimberley Derting

Prom Dates to Die For ed. by Mari Farthing

Sing You Home Jodi Picoult

The End Specialist - Drew Magary

Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son by Buzz Bissinger

100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson

between the lines - picoult

wife 22 - melanie gideon

The List by Siobhan Vivian

The Unseen by Katherine Webb

 

Starters by Lissa Price

Natalie MacNeil

The Mysterious Benedict Society Trilogy by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Shadows Series: The Books of Elsewhere #1

'No, I don't want to joing a bookclub' by Virginia Ironside.

Thirkell’s Barsetshire novel

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

agatha christie books

Task Force Black by Mark Urban

Prince by Rory Clements

 

Confessions of a Male Nurse by Michael Alexander

The Mine by John A. Heldt

“She Takes On the World”

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Remarkable by Lizzy K. Foley

Theodosia Throckmorton series by R. L. LaFevers

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Wishlist 2012 - July- December

 

Total - 87

 

Miracle by Elizabeth Scott

The Gold Bat and other school stories

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

The Prophesy Sisters by Michelle Zinks

secrets - aris whitter

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

some kind of fairytale - graham joyce

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby

 

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

The Testament of Jessie Lamb- Jane Rogers

POD by Stephen Wallenfels

The Proof of Love – Catherine Hall

The To-Do List by Mike Gayle

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Night World - L. J. Smith

The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy

 

The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan

The Tudor Secret by Christopher Gortner

The Miracle Inspector, by Helen Smith

Keepsake - kristina riggle

The Child That Book's Built

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Jessica Khoury origin

Review: The Unfinished Journals of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier

witchstuck - victoria lamb

his dark lady - victoria lamb

 

magiterium - jeff hirsct

Remarkable by Lizzy K. Foley

How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

Mr. Benedict’s Book of Perplexing Puzzles, Elusive Engimas, and Curious Conundrums

Edgar and Ellen series by Charles Ogden

The Infinity Ring by James Dashner

Round Ireland With A Fridge - Tony Hawks

Genus- Jonathan Trigell

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

by Claire Legrand

Doomsday Book – Connie Willis

 

Except The Dying, by Maureen Jennings

Katherine - Anya Seton

Circle of Fire (Maya Brown Missions #1)

by S.M. Hall

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

Shift by Kim Curran

Awkward, by Marni Bates,

casual vacancy

Wilma Tenderfoot: The Case of the Frozen Hearts

URL Love: From texting to Twitter, the hottest online love stories

Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport

The House of Memories Monica McInerney

 

Truth Or Dare Celia Rees

The Miracle Inspector by Helen Smith

the giver - lois lowry

The Secret Keeper- Kate Morton

mercy - jodi picoult

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap by Wendy Welch

The 131/2 lives of Captain Bluebear - Walter Moers

Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

Among The Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix

cheryl my story

stardust - neil gaiman

Surviving the Angel of Death- Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri

Block 11 by Piero Degli Antoni

 

Because of Mr. Terupt

No Safety in Numbers

Blackberry Winter, by Sarah Jio

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

This House is Haunted by Guy Playfair

mcfly - unsaid things

a soldiers best friend - stephen stewart

the long walk - brian caster

the sea garden - marcia willett

two brothers - ben elton

 

love for a soldier - mary jane staples

the soldiers wife - joanna trollop

today everything changes - andy mcnabb

life after life - kate atkinson

The Other Life by Susanne Winnacker

Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis

The Haunted Book by Jeremy Dyson

Schindler's Ark - Thomas KeneallySafe House by Chris Ewan

The Friday Society by Adrienne Kress

Hannah and Emil by Belinda Castles

 

honest - tulisa

the book of lost things

Every Day by David Levithan

the picture of dorian grey

The Long Way Home by John McCallum

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality

by Jacob Tomsky

One Second After by Willian Forstchen

The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

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Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

 

Target read for the year - 10 books

 

1 - Life of Pi - Yann Martel

2 - Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

3 - Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

4 - Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

5 - Christine - Stephen King

6 - Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

7 - Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

8 - One Hundred years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

10 - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

11 - Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

12 - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

13 - Brick Lane - Monica Ali

14 - The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

15 - Tara Road - Maeve Binchy

16 - Small Island - Andrea Levy

17 - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

18 - The Illad - Homer

19- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

20 - Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

21 - Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

22 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

23 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

24 - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

25 - The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffengger

26 - The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber

27 - The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby

 

Read in 2012

 

1 - Rapunzel - Brothers Grimm

2 - Snow White and the Red Rose - Brothers Grimm

3 - The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan

4 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

5 - Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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BBC Top 200 Books

 

Target for the year - 10

 

On TBR Pile

 

1- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

2- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

3- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

4- Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

5- Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White

6- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

7- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

8- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

10- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

11- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

12- The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

13- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14- Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson

15- Atonement - Ian McEwan

16- American Physco – Bret Easton Ellis

17- Skeleton Key – Anthony Howowitz

18- Tess of the d’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy

19- House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

20- The day of the jackal – Frederick forsythe

21- The beach – alex garland

22- It – Stephen king

23- Kane and Abel – Jeffery Archer

24- A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

25- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

26- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

27- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

28- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

29- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend

30 - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

31 - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

 

Read in 2012

 

1 - I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

2 - Dracula - Bram Stoker

3 - Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

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1001 Books You Must Read

 

Target for 2012 - 10

 

On TBR Pile

 

1- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

2- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

3- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

4- Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

5- Guilliver's Travels - Johnatan Swift

6- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

7- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

8- The Hound of the baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

9- One Hundred Years of Solitude

10- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

11- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

12- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

13- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

14- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

15- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

16- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

17 - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

 

Read in 2012

 

1- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2- Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

3- Dracula - Bram Stoker

4- Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

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1001 Childrens Books You Must Read

 

Target for 2012 - 10

 

On TBR pile

 

1- The Borrowers - Mary Nalus

2- Guilliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift

3- Charlottes Web - E.B. White

4- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

5- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

6- The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

7- The Ruby in the Smoke - Phillip Pullman

8- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend

9- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

 

Read in 2012

 

1- Mistress Mashams Repose - T. H. White

2- Grimms Fairy Stories - Brothers Grimm

3- I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

4- Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

5- Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

6- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum

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Ultimate Teen Book Guide Reading Challenge

 

Target for 2012 - 12 Books

 

1)Chocolat ~ Joanne Harris

2)Life Of Pi – Yann Martel

3)The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

4)White Teeth – Zadie Smith

5)Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller

6)A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Austere Academy (book 5) Lemony Snicket

7)A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Vile Village (book 7) Lemony Snicket

8)Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

9)Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

10)Christine - Stephen King

11)A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Reptile Room (book 2) Lemony Snicket

12)The Other Boleyn Girl - Phillippa Gregory

13)LBD: Its a Girl Thing - Grace Dent

14)Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

15)Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

16)Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

17)One Hundred Years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

18)The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

19)The Ruby In the Smoke - Phillip Pullman

20)Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

21)The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend

22)Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

23)About a Boy - Nick Hornby

24)Nothanger Abbey - Jane Austen

 

Read in 2012

 

1)Pied Piper - Neville Shute

2)I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

3)Dracula - Bram Stoker

4)Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

5)Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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501 Must Read Books

 

Target for 2012 - 7

 

1)Life of Pi – Yann Martel

2)The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

3)Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

4)Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

5)Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift

6)The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

7)Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

8)Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

9)One Hundred Years of Solitude

10)Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

11)Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

12)The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis

 

Books Read in 2012

 

1)Grimms Fairy Stories - Brothers Grimm

2)The Wonderful World of Oz – L. Frank Baum

3)Dracula - Bram Stoker

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World Book Night 2012 Longlist Challenge

 

Target for the year - 10

 

On TBR pile

 

 

1 - Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

2 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

3 - Birdsong Sebastian Faulks

4 - The Notebook Nicholas Sparks

5 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson

6 - Atonement Ian McEwan

7 - Room Emma Donoghue

8 - Catch-22 Joseph Heller

9 - One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

10 - Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

11 - Life of Pi Yann Martel

12 - The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffengger

 

Read in 2012

1 - I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

2 - Dracula - Bram Stoker

3 - Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson

4 - Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

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Kindle Books

 

This year I got a Kindle for Christmas from my lovely boyfriend. I want to keep a record of all the books that I have downloaded.

 

Free

  • Broadmoor Revealed – Mark Stevens
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker
  • The Girl Who Couldnt Say No – Tracy Engelbrecht
  • The Glass Wall ( #1 The Glass Wall) – Carmen Caine
  • Frozen in Time – Ali Sparkes
  • Hollowland (The Hollows #1) – Amanda Hocking
  • The Golden Acorn – Catherine Cooper
  • The Illad – Homer
  • The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
  • A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  • Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  • Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
  • Grimms Fairy Stories – Brothers Grimm
  • Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Dougie Brimston - The Crew
  • A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin
  • Rosies War - Rosemary Say
  • The Secret Holocaust Diaries - Nonna Bannister
  • Across a Moonlit Sea - Marsha Canham
  • Wind Orchid - Benjamin Jacob
  • John Bates - A Policemans Tale
  • Julie Dawn Cole - I Want it Now
  • Lisa McClendon - One A Clock Jump
  • Lisa McClendon - Sweet and Lowdown
  • Tamara Hancock - Confessions of a Stay at home mom
  • Tarrin P. Lupo - Pirates of the Savannah book 1
  • Tarrin P Lupo - Pirates of the Savannah book 2
  • Tarrin P Lupo - Pirates of the Savannah book 3
  • Deborah Truscott - Out of Time
  • Clark G. Vanderpool - The Falcon Dirk
  • The Firestone Crystal - Linda David
  • The Briton and the Dane: Birthright - Mary Ann Bernal
  • Joanna's Day (Joanna in Time) - Toni and Stephen Downs
  • Sin and Sacrifice (The Daughters of Eve #1) - Danielle Bourdon
  • Templars Creed (The Daughters of Eve #2) - Danielle Bourdon
  • The Seven Seals (The Daughters of Eve #3) - Danielle Bourdon
  • A Flicker of Light - Roberta Kagan
  • Hell of a Salesman - Timothy Brooks
  • The Adventures of a Love Investigator - Barbara Silkstone
  • Ellie Foster's English Coursework - Tina Oor Monroe
  • The Virgin Student - Virgin Student
  • Just A Kid: A Guard at the Nuremberg Trials - Emilio Dipalma
  • Marine At War - M. Michael
  • Before and Gone - J M Pierce
  • Magical Quotes and Words of Wisdom from Harry Potter - Samuel Penny
  • My House Looks Like a Fairytale Crime Scene - Ed Ergenzinger
  • Customers Say the Stupidest of Things - Adam
  • Shrinkage - Luke Young
  • Don't Shoot! I'm Just the Avon Lady - Birdie Jaworski
  • Alana Weatherbee (book #1) - Jack Sorenson
  • Mom, You Just Broke Facebook! - Jay RI'veria
  • The Mind Readers - Lori Brighton
  • The Marlowe Consipiracy - M. G. Scarsbrook
  • Replay - Keira Lea
  • Phyllis A. Humphrey - Cold April
  • In The Company of Ghosts - Stephen A. Hunt
  • The worlds most shocking ghost stories - Samie larcine
  • drI'ver do you stop at the station? james henry
  • starstruck - pat tucker
  • The queen bee of bridgeton - leslie dubois
  • g-sale randy largi
  • avery nolan private dick of the dead - tony faville
  • a girl child - donner nitz muller
  • what is it about yorkies? dr harry jay
  • Bound (Arelia LaRue #1) - Kira Saito YA Paranormal
  • More Confessions of a Bookseller - Robin Somia-Dudley
  • Tales out of School - Shirley Ann Howard
  • Harry Putter and the Chamber of Cheesecakes - Timothy R O'Donnell.
  • Eerie Britain: Ten of Britain's Most Terrifying and Percular real life Tales - MB Forde
  • Bismark 2013 - Hitlers Curse - Robert Walker
  • Chard Times - Simon Cleary
  • The Penal Colony - Richard Herley
  • The Evacuee Experience - Michael Roberts
  • Glasruhen Gate - Catherine Cooper
  • Unspecified Correspondence R. M Redclif
  • Unspecified Correspondence - A. M. Redclif
  • Behind the Veil - Shahzad Rizvi
  • Plague of Coins (Judas Cronicles #1) - Aiden James
  • Venus City (Legacy of the Sares) - Tabitha Vale
  • Conversations with a Dead Man - Doug Lucas
  • Loss - Glen Krish
  • Destined - Gail Cleare
  • Willow Ridge - Jill Newman
  • The Pride of the School and Other Tales of Convent Life - Nicola Thorne
  • Brothers Keeper - Glen Krish
  • The Midgets House - Anita Bartholomew
  • The Little Flowers - Nicola Thorne
  • Future Queens of England - Ryan Matthews
  • The Girl Who Lived in Colours - Robert Godfrey
  • Dark Grid - David C. Waldron
  • The last Bookstore in America - Amy Stewart
  • learn me Good - John Pearson
  • The Day the Flowers Died - Ami Blackwelder
  • The Lunchbox Thief - Nicole Brown
  • Best of the Dating Dad 2004-2010 - Erik Elkins
  • Johnny Doesnt Drink Champagne - Cody Young
  • Mrs. Tuesdays Departure - Suzanne Anderson
  • Wraith - Angel Lawson
  • The Power Behind the Throne - Sally Nicol
  • The Third Floor - Judi Loren Grace
  • Pied Piper - Nevile Shute
  • If you go Down to the Woods Today - Heather Enderby
  • John Mcdonnel - The Adventures of Larry the Alien
  • Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof - Kola Boof
  • Vantastic France - Steve Bichard
  • Wings - Cynthia Lee Cartier
  • Paint - H. M. Mann
  • Execeptinal - Jess Petosa
  • Entwined - Tales From the City A. J. Armitt
  • 100 Important Women in History - Rich Thomas
  • The Chosen Blades - Peter Creighton
  • The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffengger
  • The Serpent in the Glass - D. M. Andrews
  • DeClutter Simplified - Alice White
  • Saving Deets! - Zack Gonzalez
  • Austenland - Shannon Hale
  • The Mayor of Castorbridge - Thomas Hardy
  • Jo Styles Short Stories - Vol 1
  • EDEN2 - Matthew J. Drury
  • Seeding - Maurice Haywood
  • Dangers, Toils and Snares: Confessions of a Firefighter - Tim Casey
  • The LieDeck Revolution - Jim Stark
  • Learn Me Gooder - John Pearson
  • Fallout - Karla Forbes
  • Invasion USA (book 1) The End of Civilisation - T. I. Wade
  • I'd Sooner Starve - Mark Sinclair
  • Catherine the Inquisitor (The Six Lives of Henry VIII) - Leigh Jenkins
  • Instituiton (Third War Chronicles) - Cale Dietrich
  • Knock Knock . . . Who's Joking - Daniel Quinn
  • The Halo Revolutions - J. S. Colley
  • The Girl Who Came Home - A TItantic Story - Hazel Gaynor
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Mulitilated Cattle - Phillip Duke
  • Sophies Secret - Tara Wade
  • Finding Emma - Steena Holmes
  • Born Again Back Lady - Rhayne Thomas
  • Believe in me: A Teen Mom's Story - Judith Dickerman-Nelson
  • Human Sister - Jim Bainbridge
  • The Mayan Prophecies - Francesca Marks
  • Pollys Small Town War - J.E. Christer
  • Village Books - Craig McLay
  • Night Swim - Jessica Keener
  • Lady in Chains - Gillian Hiscott
  • Alice Parkers Metamorphosis - Nicola Palmer
  • Safe - Kate Hanney
  • Twenty Tiny Tales - Willie Wit
  • Phone Monkey: The Secret Diary of a Call Centre Worker - Anon
  • Whole New You: 365 Brilliant Vibes for You - Infinite Ideas
  • Touched by Angels - Alan Watts
  • The Time Hunters - Carl Ashmore
  • The Secret Diary of a Single Mum - Katherine Williams
  • Broken Crystal: The Betrayal of Britain - Jack Norman
  • Do You Believe in Ghosts? - Bob Blick
  • Visions - Sara Daniell
  • Shades of Grey - Micheal Cargill
  • Humanoid Central - Tom Lichtenburg
  • Goodbye, Pert Breasts: The Diary of a Newborn Dad - Ben Wakeling
  • Lillians Story - Sally Patricia Gardner
  • Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
  • Year 50 - Geoff Bluske
  • Stairlift to Heaven - Terry Ravenscroft
  • Black Ops: Olympics - Matt Lynn
  • A Lady of Letters - Richard Allberry
  • Love is a Wounded Soldier - Blaine Reimer
  • The Sky Club - Ian Feldman
  • Dragon Town - Tom Lichtenburg
  • Snapdragon Alley - Tom Lichtenburg
  • Freak City - Tom Lichtenburg
  • Tea Break Tales - Jackie Pryce
  • Lets Never Do That Again - E. N. Larsen
  • Monday - Pearl Davey
  • The Mystery of Smugglers Cove - Paul Moxham
  • The Rocking Horse - K. Austin-Jones
  • Surviving the Fog - Stan Morris
  • Classic Ghost Stories - David Pickering
  • Charlie MacCready - The Ghost in the Attic
  • About A Boy - Nick Hornby
  • The Mysterious Case (Time Card Series) - Enzo Silvestra
  • Lacey's House - Jo Graham
  • Peer Pressure - Chris Watt
  • Shadow in the Attic - Roseanne Dowell
  • The Future Imperfect: Six Dystopian Short Stories - Ruth Nestvold
  • The Constantine Codex - Paul A. Maier
  • An-Ya and Her Diary - Diane Rene Christian
  • School for Scumbags - Danny King
  • The Last Romanov - Dora Levy Mossanen
  • The Romanov Legacy - Jenni Wiltz
  • Miranda's Fortune - H E Joyce
  • UnEnchanted Chanda Hahn
  • Wicked Hungry - Teddy Jacobs
  • The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
  • Almost Perfect - John Childress
  • Winter - C. B. Cole
  • Widow of Larkspur Inn - Lawana Blackwell (Gresham Cronicles #1)
  • The Son of Man - Charles W. Johnson (Son of Man #1)
  • Elders of Zion - Charles W. Johnson (Son of Man #2)
  • Fifth Column - Christopher Remy
  • Friends With Partial Benefits - Luke Young
  • The Henchman's Book Club - Danny King
  • The Declaration - Gemma Malley
  • 39 Weeks - Terri Douglas
  • Kidnapped - Rita Karnopp
  • Secrets of the Elusive Lover - Mike Wells
  • Twenty One Thirteen - Allen Jesson
  • A Brave New Hope - Willie Wit
  • Invisable Chains - Debra Samuel
  • Secrets of Black Water Creek - R. J. Grant
  • Ready or Not - Chautona - Hariq
  • Two of a Kind - Celesta Thiessen
  • Scary Mary - S. A. Hunter
  • Friends With Full Benefits - Luke Young
  • Nine Steps to Sara - Lisa Olsen
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
  • World War 2 London Blitz Diary - Ruby Alice Side-Thompson
  • The Mind Thieves - Lori Brighton
  • A Life Unpredicted - Joanne Phillips
  • Made in Britain - Gavin James Bower
  • The Green - Karly Kirkpatrick
  • Whispers in Autumn - Trisha Leigh
  • Alpha Threat - Ron Smoak
  • 1227 QI Facts - John Lloyd
  • The Survivors - Angela White
  • A Gentleman and a Player - Glenn M Stewart

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TBR by year.

 

I have a lot of unread books from previous years and I want to get the older books read.

 

TBR from 2010

 

Enid Blyton - Five Have Plenty of Fun

Enid Blyton - Five on Kirrin Island Again

Enid Blyton - Five on a Secret Trail

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Joanne Harris - Chocolat

Sophie Kinsella - Shoppaholic and Baby

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

Mary Norton - The Borrowers

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Afield

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Afloat

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Aloft

Mary Norton - The Borrowers Avenged

Jodi Picoult - Keeping Faith

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

 

TBR from 2011

 

Frank W. Abagnale - Catch Me if You Can

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Monica Ali - Brick Lane

Derek Allsop - Formula One Uncovered

Jefferey Archer - Kane and Abel

Ros Asquith - I was a Teenage Worrier

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensiblity

Colin Bateman - Murphy's Law

David Beckham - My Side

Meave Binchy - Tara Road

Maeve Binchy - This Year it Will Be Different

Judy Blundell - What I Saw and How I Lied

Sam Bourne - The Rightious Men

James Bradley - The Ressurrectionist

Simon Brett - Murder in the Museum

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Candice Bushell - Sex and the City

Meg Cabot - Size 12 is not Fat

Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries

John Le Carre - The Tailor From Panama

J.L. Carrell - The Shakespeare Curse

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Lucy Canendish - Samantha Symthes Modern Family Journal

Tom Clancy - Breaking Point

Tom Clancy - Executive Orders

Tom Clancy - Point of Impact

Jeremey Clarkson - Don't Stop me Now

James Clavell - King Rat

Harlan Coben - Just One Look

Eoin Colfer - Plugged

Jenny Colgan - The Good, The Bad and The Dumped

Timothy Collins - The Piranha Club

Joseph Conrad - Heart of darkness

Sam Christie - The Stonehenge Legacy

Andrew Davison - The Gargoyle

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

Grace Dent - LBD: It's a girl Thing

Colin Dexter - The Dead of Jehrico

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Emma Donoghue - Room

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles

Imogen Edwards Jones - Beach Babylon

Imogen Edwards Jones - Hotel Babylon

Kim Edwards - The Memory Keepers Daughter

Bret Easton Ellis - American Physco

Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

Ellen Feldman - The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank

Glee: Summer Break

Geri Halliwell - If Only

Christine Dwyer Hickey - Tatty

Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing

Wendy Holden - Marrying Up

Ken Follett - A Dangerous Fortune

Colin Forbes - Double Jepardy

Colin Forbes - the Heights of Zevos

Fredrick Forsythe - Day of the Jackel

Karen Joy Fowler - The Jane Austin Book Club

Dick Francis - Dead Cert

Dorothy Koomson - The Ice Cream Girls

Simon Kuper - Football Against the Enemy

Jane Gardam - Old Faith

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Alex Garland - The Beach

Paul Garrison - The Ripple Effect

David Gibbins - The Mask of Troy

Andre Gide - The Vatican Cellers

Julia Glass - Three Julias

Robert Goddard - Never Go Back

Robert Goddard - Sight Unseen

William Goldman - The Princess Bride

Linda Grant - The Clothes Off Their Backs

Jane Green - Second Chance

Phillipa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl

John Gribben - In Search of the Edge of Time

John Grisham - The Chamber

John Grogan - Marley and Me

Izzy Hammond - Someone to Watch Over Me

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles

Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark

Robert Harris - Enigma

Kate Harrison - Old School Ties

John Harwood - The Ghost Writer

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal

James Herbert - 48

Hermann Hesse - Steppenwolf

Mary Higgins Clark - Second Time Around

Peter Hoeg - Miss Smillas Sense of Snow

Anthony Horowitz - Skeleton Key

C C Humphries - Absolute Honour

Charmain Hussey - Valley of the Secrets

Conn Igulddon - The Wolf of the Plains

Greg Iles - 24 Hours

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

Christian Jacq - The Battle of Kadesh

Lisa Jewell - The Truth of Melody Brown

Natascha Kampusch - 3096 Days

Marian Keyes - This Charming Man

Marian Keyes - Under the Duvet

Raymond Khory - The Sign

Stephen King - Christine

Stephen King - Firestarter

Stephen King - IT

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - The Dark Tower

Stephen King - The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King - The Gunslinger

Sophie Kinsella - Shoppaholic Takes Manhatten

Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Steig Larsson - The Girl Who Played With Fire

Richard Laymon - The Travelling Vampire Show

Andrea Levy - Small Island

Jack London - The Call of the Wind/Wild Fang

Pittacus Lore - I am Number Four

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Harry Ludlum - True Ghost Stories

Robert Ludlum - The Ambler Warning

Catherine Macphail - Roxy's Baby

Norman Mailer - The Castle in the Forest

Valerio Massimo Manfredi - The Oracle

Madonna: An Intimate Biography

Scott Mariani - The Shadow Project

Howard Marks - Mr Nice

Ian Marshall - On The Road With Blue

Sharon Marshall - Tabloid Girl

George R R Martin - Fevre Dream

Mark Mason - What Men Think About Sex

Stephanie Mayer - The Host

Stephanie Mayer - Eclipse

Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes

Ian McEwen - Atonement

John McGahern - Then They Might Face The Rising Sea

Carol McGiffin - Oh Carol!

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman - Long Way Round

Andy McNab - Seven Troop

Malie Maloy - Liars and Saints

SGT Dan Mills - Sniper One

Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees

John Morton - Diana: Her True Story

Kate Mosse - Labyrinth

Jo Nesbo - The Snowman

Lindsay Nicolson - Living on the Seabed

Coleen Nolan - Mum to Mum

Coleen Nolan - Upfront and Personal

Sharon Osbourne - Survivor

Adele Parks - Men I've Loved Before

James Patterson - Beach Road

Ellis Peters - City of Gold and Shadows

Elizabeth Peters - The Curse of the Pharoahs

Jodi Picoult - Picture Perfect

Rosamunde Pilcher - WInter Solstice

Bella Pollen - Hunting Unicorns

Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke

Gordon Ramsey - Humble Pie

Shane Richie - Rags to Richie

Michael Ridpath - The Market Maker

Elvi Rhodes - Cara's Land

Rosie Rushton - Poppy

Jean-Paul Satre - Nausea

William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Bob Shepherd - The Infidel

Anita Shreve - Fortune Rocks

Ali Smith - The Accidental

Carol Smith - Without Warning

Tom Rob Smith - Child 44

Wilbur Smith - The Seventh Scroll

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Reptile Room (Book 2)

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Austere Academy (book 5)

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events - The Vile Village (book 7)

Penny Sparke - As Long as It's Pink, The Sexual Politics of Taste

Nicolas Sparks - Dear John

Nicolas Sparks - The Choice

Nicolas Sparks - The Last Song

Nicolas Sparks - The Notebook

R.L. Stein - Goosebumps

Johnatan Swift - Guillivers Travels

Scarlett Thomas - Popco

Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole - The Capuccino Years

Antony Trew - Bannisters Chart

Jackie Trevane - Invisable Women

Thomas Trofimuk - Waiting for Columbus

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

Various - Great Ghost Stories

Various - The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance

Louis Walsh - Fast Track To Fame

Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger

E. B. White - Charlotte's Web

Laura Weiss - Leftovers

Madeline Wickham - A Desirable Residence

Elie Wiesel - Night

Jacquline Wilson - Lola Rose

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Priority Buying for Reading Challenges

 

Instead of me trying to buy every book on my reading challenges, I'm going to concentrate on just a few books from each list this year. Thats not to say I wont get any of the others, but these are the ones that I would like to read the most.

 

 

Rory Gilmore Challenge

1)Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

2)Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

3)The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

4)Babe by Dick King-Smith

5)A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

6)The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

7)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon

8)The Shining - Stephen King

9)Lord of the Flies - William Golding

10)Songbook - Nick Hornby

 

BBC Top 200 Books

1)The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett

2)The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

3)Matilda, Roald Dahl

4)Watership Down, Richard Adams

5)The Twits, Roald Dahl

6)His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman

7)1984 - George Orwell

8)The Witches - Roald Dahl

9)Secrets - Jaquline Wilson

10) The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

 

1001 Books you Must Read

1)Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons

2)The Color Purple – Alice Walker

3)City Primeval – Elmore Leonard

4)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

5)Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

6)The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

7)The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

8)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

9)Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burrows

10)Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

 

1001 Childrens Books To Read

1)Velveteen Rabbit–Margery Williams

2)Pippi Longstocking—Astrid Lindgren

3)Captain Pugwash—John Ryan

4)The Worst Witch===Jill Murphy

5)The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch=—Ronda Armitage

6)Jumanji—Chris Van Allsburg

7)Horrid Henry—Francesca Simon

8)Aesop’s Fables ===Aesop

9)The Swiss Family Robinson====Johann Wyss

10)Neverending Story - Micheal Ende

 

The Ultimate Teen Book Guide

1)Holes by Louis Sachar

2)The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – Ann Brashares

3)Troy – Adele Geras

4)Bridge to Terebithia ~ Katherine Paterson

5)Black Hawk Down ~ Jack Bowden

6)Watership Down – Richard Adams

7)Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson

8)Rat Catcher - Chris Ryan

9)Warrior Girl - Pauline Chandler

10)The Woman in Black - Susan Hill

 

501 Must Read Books

1)Five Children and It – E. Nesbit

2)The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

3)Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives – Alan Bullock

4)Boy: Tales of Childhood – Roald Dahl

5)Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – Jorge Amado

6)I, Robot – Isaac Asimov

7)Hamlet, Revenge! – Michael Innes

8)Travels – Ibn Battuta

9)The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

10)Histories – Herodotus

 

The New Classics Challenge

1)The Wind Up Bird Cronicle - Haruki Murakami

2)Watchmen - Alan Moore

3)Case Histories - Kate Harrison

4)The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

5)The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

6)The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

7)The Kite Runner - Khaleed Hosseinni

8)Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

9)High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

10)Fast Food Nation - Eric scholser

 

 

World Book Night 2012 Long List

 

1)The Book Thief - Mark Zukas

2)American Gods - Neil Gaiman

3)The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood

4)We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

5)The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks

6)Persuasion - Jane Austen

7)The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

8)The Princess Bride - William Goldman

9)Wolf Hill - Hillary Mantel

10)The Wind Up Bird Cronicles - Haruki Murikarmi

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Read 4, Buy One.

 

I have a huge TBR pile over 200, and at the minute it is growing far too quickly. So, this year instead of me buying books when I feel like it I will buy a book once I have read four off my shelf.

 

I am making execptions for books that have really good offers on, for example books in the sale, but I wont go mad on it. Also this does not include the Kindle free books.

 

Progress

 

1 - Broadmoor Revealed, The Girl Who Couldnt Say No, The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl,Its A Kind of Magic = The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

 

2 - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Rosie's War, Caught in the Act, Things I Want my Daughters to Know = Of Mice and Men

 

3 - The Golden Acorn, Frozen in Time, The Love Trainer, The Secret Holocaust Diaries = Jack Brenin Series #2

 

4 - Mistress Mashams Repose, Out of Time, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azcaban, I Want it Now = The TIme Travellers Wife

 

5 - Pied Piper, Sold in Savannah, Battle Rats, Emotional Geology = Austinland

 

6 - Dawn of the Demontide, The Rise of April, Nothing But The Truth, Grimms Fairy Stories = Before We Say Goodbye

 

7 - One Child, The Firestone Crystal, Hell of a Salesman, Sin and Sacrifice = William Walkers First Year of Marriage

 

8 - Strike Back, The Fifth Child, Joanna's Day, The Tenth Circle = The Crimson Petal and the White

 

9 - A Flicker of Light, I Capture the Castle, Apocalypse Cow, Twilight = New Moon

 

10 - Ellie Foster's English Coursework, Shades of Grey, The Difference A Day Makes, Around the World in Eighty Days = The Complete Polysllabic Spree

 

11 - The Virgin Student, Marine at War, The Opposite of Fate, I Know You Got Soul = About A Boy

 

12 - Just a Kid, Before and Gone, Confessions of a Demented Housewife, The Chocolate Lovers Club = The Chocolate Lovers Diet

 

13 - Magical Harry Potter Quotes, Fairyland Crime Scene, Customers Say, Across A Bridge of Dreams = Cranberry Queen

 

14 - Wizard of Oz, The Dresskeeper, Dracula, Dont Shoot I'm just the Avon Lady = The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

 

15 - Shrinkage, The Queen's Secret, Notes From A Small Island, Goblet of Fire = Shopaholic Ties the Knot

 

14 - Gone With The Wind, Alana Weatherbee, The Kings Spy, Friends With Partial Benefits = Friends With Full Benefits

 

15 - Change of Heart, Mom You Just Broke Facebook, The Labyrinth of Osiris, The Mind Readers = The Mind Thieves

 

16 - The Casual Vacancy, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Trixie Trader, the Marlowe conspiracy = Confessions of a Fallen Angel

 

17 - The Devil Wears Prada, The Vanishing Act, Cold April, fifty shades of grey

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Books Brought in 2012

 

Flyaway - Lucy Christopher

The secret diary of adrian mole - sue townsend

Mistress Marshams Repose - TH White READ

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Glasruhen Gate - Catherine Cooper

Pied Piper - Neville Shute READ

The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing READ

Before We Say Goodbye - Louise Candish

William Walkers First Year of Marriage - Matt Rudd

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith READ

The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber

The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan READ

Hollow Pike - James Dawson

New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies

The Report - Jessica Francis Kane

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby

About A Boy - Nick Hornby

Across a Bridge of Dreams - Lesley Downer READ

Cranberry Queen - Kathleen Demarco

The Queen's Secret - Victoria Lamb READ

Beauty - Lisa Daley

The Chocolate Lovers Diet - Carole Matthews

Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson READ

The King's Spy - Andrew Swanston READ

Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella

The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling READ

The Labrinth of Osiris - Paul Sussman READ

Friends With Full Benefits - Luke Young

The Mind Thieves - Lori Brighton

1227 QI Facts - John Lloyd

The Vanishing Act - Mette Jakobsen

Confessions of a Fallen Angel - Ronan O' Brien

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Famous Five Books

 

I absolutly adore the Famous Five Books and used to own most of them. Unfortunately, I lost a lot of them in a house move, so I'm trying to read/collect them again.

  • 1. Five on a Treasure Island (1942) (Read)
    2. Five Go Adventuring Again (1943) (Read)
    3. Five Run Away Together (1944)
    4. Five Go to Smuggler's Top (1945)
    5. Five Go Off in a Caravan (1946) (Read)
    6. Five on Kirrin Island Again (1947) (TBR)
    7. Five Go Off to Camp (1948)
    8. Five Get Into Trouble (1949) (Read)
    9. Five Fall Into Adventure (1950)
    10. Five on a Hike Together (1951)
    11. Five Have a Wonderful Time (1952)
    12. Five Go Down to the Sea (1953)
    13. Five Go to Mystery Moor (1954)
    14. Five Have Plenty of Fun (1955) (TBR)
    15. Five on a Secret Trail (1956) (Read)
    16. Five Go to Billycock Hill (1957)
    17. Five Get Into a Fix (1958)
    18. Five on Finniston Farm (1959) (Read)
    19. Five Go to Demon's Rocks (1960)
    20. Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1962)
    21. Five Are Together Again (1962) (Read)

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Eclectic reader challenge 2012

 

 

I'm taking part in the electic reader challenge 2012. its easy, all you have to do is read one book in the following genre by the time 2012 ends.

  1. Literary Fiction
  2. Crime/Mystery Fiction
  3. Romantic Fiction
  4. Historical Fiction
  5. Young Adult
  6. Fantasy
  7. Science Fiction
  8. Non Fiction
  9. Horror
  10. Thriller /Suspense
  11. Classic
  12. Your favourite genre.

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Genre challenge 2012

 

I'm taking part in Kell's 2012 Genre Challenge. I'm doing the maxi challenge!

  1. Historical Fiction (Pre-WWII)
  2. Romance / Erotica
  3. Horror / Thriller
  4. Crime Fiction / Mystery
  5. Fantasy / Urban Fantasy
  6. Science Fiction / Steampunk
  7. Classic (pre-WWI)
  8. Modern Classic (post WWI to 1980s)
  9. War
  10. Supernatural / Paranormal
  11. Autobiography /Biography / Memoir
  12. Newly Published in 2012
  13. Children’s / Young Adult
  14. Comedy / Satire
  15. Action / Adventure
  16. Graphic / Illustrated Novel
  17. Saga
  18. Speculative Fiction
  19. Mash-Up
  20. Western

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Genre Challenge 2012 Progress

 

January - Memoirs

The Girl Who Couldnt Say No - Tracy Englebrecht

The Further Adventires of a London Call Girl - Belle De Jour

Rosies War - Rosemary Say

 

February - Fantasy

The Golden Acorn - Catherine Cooper

Frozen in Time - Ali Sparkes

Mistress Mashams Repose - T. H. White

out of time - deborah truscott

Harry potter and the prisoner of azcaban

 

March - Action/Adventure

Sold in Savannah - Tarrin P. Lupo

Battle Rats - Tarrin P. Lupo

Dawn of the Demontide - William Hussey

The Rise of April - Tarrin P. Lupo

 

April - War

Strike Back - Chris Ryan

 

May - Newly Published in 2012

Apocalypse Cow - Micheal Logan

Shades of Grey - Michael Cargill

 

June - Classic (Pre WW1)

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

 

July - Science Fiction

Before and Gone - J. M. Pierce

 

August - Historical Fiction

The Queens Secret - Victoria Lamb

 

September - Childrens/ Young Adult

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Alana Weatherbee - Jack Sorenson

 

October - Thrillers

The Labyrinth of Osiris - Paul Sussman

 

November - Mash Up

The Marlowe Conspiracy

 

December

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