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Greetings and Welcome! Thank you for visiting My BookShelf and Profile Page!

Yes, my Profile pic really is a photo of my knees - but not close enough to see the scars! (LOL!)

I haven't done much to my Profile since the Big Site Changeover, not wanting to mess it up, but I think I've done enough that it's more or less up to date!

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I had a totally wonderful weekend at the UK Unconvention in Swindon, October 2010 - and then did it all over again in Nottingham, September 2011 ...... It was great to meet so many wonderful BookCrossers :-)

My thanks to all the clever people who've made the logos on this page and allowed me to use them. Personally I wouldn't have a clue where to start!

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The logos below show how disappointed I was that I didn't make it to the Amsterdam Convention, April 2010! I still can't believe an Icelandic volcano caused such havoc and left me sulking at home when everyone else was enjoying themselves! Well, no, to be honest, I did find other things to do instead (grin!)....





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There's not a lot to say about me. My books are more interesting than I am! I'm retired and my husband has now joined me in that state! I enjoy having lots of lovely time to indulge my love of reading. He's not a reader and so far has spent most of his extra free time gardening, decorating and renovating the house! We have two daughters, Kharli and Tree-hugger, one son-in-law and one 17-year grandson - all bookworms!

I love books and have read hundreds (thousands?) over the years. I'll try all sorts but am not too keen on soppy romances and prefer any sex and violence to take place off-page and behind closed doors!

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HOW I BOOKCROSS: I love sharing my books and am quite happy to swap some of them but regret that the postal budget won't stretch beyond the UK. With our changed financial status I'm afraid I'm going to be looking even more economically at what I can spend on postage. I rarely sign up for Rays and Rings as I'm not keen on reading to a deadline. I love Wild Releasing but don't have a very good catch rate so please be prepared that any book you send me may vanish into the Great Unknown for ever :-)

RELEASING BOOKS: From discovering BookCrossing on 27th August '05 to 31st July '08 I only did Release Notes if I was releasing a book into the Wild, whether the Truly Wild or the Semi-Wild of OBCZs and Meet Ups. I made Journal Entries for all books I passed on individually, whether in the post or in person.

As from 1st August '08 I've been Wild Releasing as before but using Controlled Releases where I was previously making Journal Entries.

After some initial confusion over where a Controlled Release takes place, since 1st October '08 I've used the actual location of the post office or meeting place where the book leaves my hands :-)

BOOKCROSSING FRIENDS: My policy was that, with just one or two very special exceptions, I only added BookCrossers to my Friends List when I'd met them in person, not when we shared books and/or PMs.

Since the introduction of Mutuality with the new Site I'm re-thinking my approach. I'm considering deleting it altogether. In the meantime, it's more or less frozen - and pretty much meaningless ....

WISH LIST: I know it's rather long - but it's not greed, it's to remind me which novels by some of my favourite authors I haven't read yet and would very much like to :-)

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Books I'm currently reading are listed here in the order I started them:

Anthony Trollope - The Claverings
Jane Urquhart - The Stone Carvers
Carola Dunn - The Winter Garden Mystery

In theory I'm listening to The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - and have been for over a year .... but don't hold your breath for a result any time soon ....

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The box below lists all the books I've read this year in the order I finished them, latest on top, with any I've abandoned unfinished at the end:

Books Read in 2012

92 Carola Dunn - Death at Wentwater Court 91 Thelwall - Up the Garden Path90 Alexander McCall Smith - A Conspiracy of Friends 89 Jennifer Johnston - The Railway Station Man88 Edward Marston - The Merry Devils 87 Dante Alighieri - Inferno86 Helen Simonson - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 85 Sebastian Barry - A Long Long Way84 Pascal Mercier - Night Train to Lisbon 83 Henry James - The Aspern Papers82 Joe Simpson - Touching the Void 81 Elizabeth Peters - Silhouette in Scarlet80 Reginald Hill - On Beulah Height 79 John O'Farrell - An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge 78 Elizabeth Chadwick - Lady of the English77 Mavis Cheek - Three Men on a Plane 76 Anon - Elizabeth Gaskell: A Connected Life75 Paul Torday - More Than You Can Say 74 Simon Winchester - The Map That Changed the World 73 Various - Irish Blessings72 Helen Dunmore - House of Orphans 71 Peter S Beagle - The Last Unicorn70 Edmund de Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes 69 Alexander McCall Smith - The Dog Who Came in from the Cold 68 Ali McNamara - From Notting Hill with Love ... Actually67 Jimmy Frazier - Nurse! Nurse! 66 Debbie Macomber - Thursdays at Eight65 Trisha Ashley - Chocolate Wishes 64 Alexander McCall Smith - The Forgotten Affairs of Youth 63 Alexander McCall Smith - The Perils of Morning Coffee62 Linda Gillard - Untying the Knot 61 Helen Dunmore - Ice Cream60 Sebastian Barry - The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty 59 Rose Macaulay - The Towers of Trebizond58 Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop 57 Susanna Gregory - The Killer of Pilgrims56 Linda Gillard - House of Silence 55 Helen Dunmore - Talking to the Dead54 Andrew Marr - The Diamond Queen 53 Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter52 Nicola Barker - Burley Cross Postbox Theft 51 Bill Bryson's African Diary50 Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (x2) 49 Lynn Shepherd - Murder at Mansfield Park48 Paul Torday - Breakfast at the Hotel Deja Vu 47 Nicole Krauss - The History of Love46 Roberta Rich - The Midwife of Venice 45 Sue Miller - The Lake Shore Limited44 Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet 43 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera42 M C Beaton - The Agatha Raisin Companion 41 Alan Bennett - A Life Like Other People's40 M C Beaton - Deborah Goes to Dover 39 Paul Today - The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce 38 G K Chesterton - The Man Who Knew Too Much37 Kathleen MacMahon - This Is How It Ends 36 Michael Faber - Apple: Crimson Petal Stories 35 Damon Runyon - The Snatching of Bookie Bob34 Mary Lawson - The Other Side of the Bridge 33 M C Beaton - Penelope Goes to Portsmouth32 Emma Donoghue - The Sealed Letter 31 Rhoda Broughton - Belinda30 David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice 29 Kerry Greenwood - Blood and Circuses28 Frances Itani - Remembering the Bones 27 Phil Rickman - The Bones of Avalon26 Susanna Gregory - A Vein of Deceit 25 Alasdair Gray - Five Letters from an Eastern Empire 24 Diana Gabaldon - Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade23 Nigel Slater - Toast 22 Ann Patchett - State of Wonder21 Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs 20 Louise Penny - The Hangman19 James Morrow - The Last Witchfinder 18 Alexander McCall Smith - Corduroy Mansions17 Michele Roberts - Impossible Saints 16 Trisha Ashley - A Winter's Tale15 P G Wodehouse - Do Butlers Burgle Banks? 14 F M Mayor - The Third Miss Symons13 Arnaud Delalande - The Dante Trap 12 M C Beaton - The Skeleton in the Closet11 G K Chesterton - The Wisdom of Father Brown 10 Alison Weir - Eleanor of Aquitaine9 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Bon Voyage, Mr President 8 M C Beaton - Yvonne Goes to York7 Peter Ackroyd - The House of Doctor Dee 6 Anita Shreve - Rescue5 Michael Scott - The Alchemyst 4 Anthony Trollope - The Bertrams3 Alison Weir - The Captive Queen 2 Bronte Sisters - Poems1 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body Abandoned Unfinished Brock Clarke - An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England Carola Dunn - Rattle His Bones

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The box below lists all 227 books I read in 2011 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the 5 I abandoned unfinished at the end:


Books Read in 2011

227 Diana Norman - The Vizard Mask226 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales 225 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex224 Elizabeth Elgin - The House in Abercromby Square 223 Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist222 Paul Doherty - The Mysterium 221 Elizabeth Elgin - Mistress of Luke's Folly220 Susie Kelly - Two Steps Backward 219 A S Byatt - The Children's Book218 Katie Hickman - The Aviary Gate 217 Robert Goolrick - A Reliable Wife216 Trisha Ashley - Twelve Days of Christmas 215 M C Beaton - Belinda Goes to Bath214 Alice Munro - Runaway 213 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's212 Alexander McCall Smith - The Girl who Married a Lion 211 Hella S Haasse - In a Dark Wood Wandering210 M C Beaton - Emily Goes to Exeter 209 Jane Austen - Persuasion208 Helen Dunmore - Burning Bright 207 Brian Moore - The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 206 Ann Granger - Mud, Muck and Dead Things205 Dava Sobel - The Planets 204 Patrick Gale - Friendly Fire203 Robert Hutchinson - House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty 202 Michelle Paver - Dark Matter201 David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas 200 Louise Penny - A Trick of the Light199 Michael Jecks - The Bishop Must Die 198 Paul Torday - The Girl on the Landing197 Elizabeth Jenkins - The Tortoise and the Hare 196 Deryn Lake - Death at the Devil's Tavern195 Jonathan Coe - The Rain Before It Falls 194 Andrew Martin - The Lost Luggage Porter193 Elizabeth Gaskell - Sylvia's Lovers 192 Rosamunde Pilcher - September191 Annie Proulx - Postcards 190 Paul Doherty - The Poison Maiden189 Paul Doherty - A Haunt of Murder 188 Alice Munro - The Love of a Good Woman187 Virginia Woolf - Killing the Angel in the House 186 Alice Hoffman - Skylight Confessions185 Elizabeth Gaskell - Various short stories and novellas 184 Paul Doherty - The Treason of the Ghosts183 Katharine McMahon - The Crimson Rooms 182 Winifred Holtby - South Riding181 Daisy Goodwin - My Last Duchess 180 Catherine Cooper - Glasruhen Gate179 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever 178 Lynne Truss - Tennyson's Gift177 Julie Myerson - Home 176 Jostein Gaarder - The Solitaire Mystery175 Edward Marston - The Amorous Nightingale 174 Jasper Fforde - The Fourth Bear173 Helen Dunmore - Zennor in Darkness 172 Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love171 Diana Athill - Somewhere Towards the End 170 Alexander McCall Smith - The Lost Art of Gratitude 169 Piers Paul Read - The Templars168 Jacqueline Winspear - An Incomplete Revenge 167 Rebecca Tope - Blood in the Cotswolds166 Alys Clare - Whiter than the Lily 165 Edward Marston - The King's Evil164 Claire Tomalin - Several Strangers 163 L M Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside162 Ross King - Ex Libris 161 Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon160 A S Byatt - The Game 159 Helen Dunmore - Your Blue-Eyed Boy158 Javier Sierra - The Lady in Blue 157 Cecelia Ahern - If You Could See Me Now156 Jane Gardam - The People on Privilege Hill 155 Aline Templeton - Shades of Death154 Marek Halter - Lilah 153 Judith Cutler - The Keeper of Secrets152 David Nicholls - One Day 151 Nick Hornby - Slam150 Anna Pavord - The Tulip 149 Danny Scheinmann - Random Acts of Heroic Love 148 L M Montgomery - Rainbow Valley147 Edward Marston - Drums of War 146 M C Beaton - There Goes the Bride145 Sally Gardner - The Silver Blade 144 Judith Cutler - Ring of Guilt143 Edward Marston - Railway to the Grave 142 Judith Cutler - Guilty Pleasures141 Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog 140 Ann Patchett - Truth and Beauty: a Friendship 139 Valerie Martin - Love138 Wilkie Collins - The Two Destinies 137 Catherine Cooper - The Golden Acorn136 Joanna Harris - blueeyedboy 135 Suzannah Dunn - The Confession of Katherine Howard 134 Ann Patchett - Taft133 L M Montgomery - Anne of Ingleside 132 Catherine O'Flynn - The News Where You Are131 Valerie Martin - Alexandra 130 Hans Christian Asbosen - Robin the Hoodie129 Martin Stephen - The Conscience of the King 128 John Miller - Judi Dench: with a crack in her voice 127 Alexander McCall Smith - The Importance of Being Seven126 Rebecca Tope - A Cotswold Mystery 125 Stephen Booth - One Last Breath124 Catherine O'Flynn - What Was Lost 123 M C Beaton - Sick of Shadows122 Daphne du Maurier - The Flight of the Falcon 121 Iain Pears - The Bernini Bust120 Kate Flint - Eliabeth Gaskell 119 Kathleen Kent - The Heretic's Daughter118 Catherine Cooper - The New Neighbours 117 Stephen Booth - Blind to the Bones116 Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days 115 Geraldine Brooks - Nine Parts of Desire114 Edward Marston - Murder on the Brighton Express 113 Abraham Verghese - Cutting for Stone112 L M Montgomery - Anne's House of Dreams 111 Edward Marston - The Iron Horse110 Eve Makis - The Mother-in-Law 109 Stephen Booth - Blood on the Tongue108 Anthony Trollope - The Three Clerks 107 Sue Monk Kidd - The Mermaid Chair106 Rebecca West - The Return of the Soldier 105 Joanna Trollope - The Other Family104 Rebecca Tope - Death in the Cotswolds 103 Alice Hoffman - Blackbird House102 Rebecca Tope - A Cotswold Ordeal 101 Rosamunde Pilcher - Sleeping Tiger100 Lindsay Allason-Jones - Roman Woman 99 Salley Vickers - Aphrodite's Hat98 Katharine McMahon - Footsteps 97 Dorothy L Sayers - Striding Folly96 Michael Jecks - The Devil's Acolyte 95 Eve Makis - Eat, Drink and Be Married94 Stephen Booth - Dancing with the Virgins 93 Alexander Masters - Stuart: a Life Backwards 92 Victor Lucas - Jane Austen91 Pauline McLynn - Right on Time 90 Bernard Knight - Crowner Royal89 Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead 88 Edward Marston - The Railway Viaduct87 Rose Tremain - Trespass 86 Chantal Boudreau - Fervor85 Edward Marston - The Painted Lady 84 Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley83 Katherine Frank - Emily Bronte 82 Edward Marston - The Parliament House81 Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 80 Helen Humphreys - The Frozen Thames79 M C Beaton - Beatrice Goes to Brighton 78 Deryn Lake - Death at the Beggar's Opera77 Nick Hornby - Juliet, Naked 76 Andrea Barham - The Pedant's Return75 Norah Lofts - A Rose for Virtue 74 Michael Jecks - Belladonna at Belstone73 Kate Williams - Becoming Queen 72 Pauline McLynn - Better than a Rest71 Edward Marston - The Repentant Rake 70 Anya Seton - Dragonwyck69 Helen Dunmore - The Betrayal 68 Susanna Gregory - The Devil's Disciples67 Anne Perry - A Christmas Secret 66 Pauline McLynn - Something for the Weekend65 Elizabeth Chadwick - To Defy a King 64 Cora Harrison - My Lady Judge63 Charles Dickens - Hard Times 62 Stephen Booth - Black Dog61 Louise Penny - The Brutal Telling 60 Edward Marston - The Silver Locomotive Mystery 59 Deryn Lake - Death and the Cornish Fiddler58 Michael Jecks - The Crediton Killings 57 Lori Lansens - The Wife's Tale56 Paul Doherty - The Song of a Dark Angel 55 Helen Dunmore - Counting the Stars54 L M Montgomery - Anne of Windy Poplars 53 Sarah Waters - Fingersmith52 Andrea Barham - The Pedant's Revolt 51 Bill Bryson - Shakespeare50 Paul Doherty - The Templar Magician 49 L M Montgomery - Anne of the Island48 Jacqueline Winspear - Messenger of Truth 47 Edward Marston - The Excursion Train46 Anita Shreve - A Change in Altitude 45 Ann Patchett - Run44 Edward Marston - The Railway Detective 43 Pauline McLynn - Missing You Already42 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor 41 Helen Dunmore - The Siege40 Paul Doherty - Corpse Candle 39 Sean Dixon - The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal 38 Deryn Lake - Death on the Romney Marsh37 Elizabeth Chadwick - A Place Beyond Courage 36 Deryn Lake - Death in the Dark Walk35 Susanna Gregory - An Order for Death 34 Edward Marston - The Frost Fair33 Andrew Smith - Moondust 32 Anthony Trollope - The Duke's Children31 Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle 30 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Leopard Unleashed29 E Annie Proulx - Accordion Crimes 28 Bernard Knight - A Plague of Heretics27 Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake 26 Frances Itani - Leaning, Leaning Over Water25 Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood 24 Robertson Davies - Temptest-Tost23 Susanna Gregory - The Butcher of Smithfield 22 Pauline McLynn - Bright Lights and Promises21 Sharon Penman - The Queen's Man 20 Paul Doherty - The Cup of Ghosts19 Paul O'Grady - At My Other's Knee ... and other low joints 18 Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio17 Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey 16 Bernice Rubens - A Five Year Sentence15 Jonathan Zemsky - Beyond the Shadows of Summer 14 Bernard Knight - The Manor of Death13 Bernard Knight - The Noble Outlaw 12 Valerie Martin - The Confessions of Edward Day 11 Norah Lofts - The Concubine10 Louise Penny - The Murder Stone 9 Margaret Craven - I Heard the Owl Call My Name 8 Mary Lawson - Crow Lake7 Anne Perry - Bethlehem Road 6 Laurie Graham - The Ten O'clock Horses5 Elizabeth Gaskell - A Dark Night's Work and Other Stories 4 C J Sansom - Heartstone3 Natalie Tyler - The Friendly Jane Austen 2 Pauline McLynn - The Woman on the Bus1 Deanna Raybourn - Silent on the Moor Abandoned Unfinished: Phyllis Ann Karr - Lady SusanPamela Frankau - The Bridge Alan Bradley - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the PieIsabel Losada - The Battersea Park Road to Paradise Ann Pearlman - The Christmas Cookie Club

I acquired a Kindle in 2011 but haven't separated e-books from print in the reading list.
I started listening to one audio book, didn't finish it and have carried it over to 2012!


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The box below lists all 194 books I read in 2010 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the nine I abandoned unfinished at the end:

Books Read in 2010

194 Jacqueline Winspear - Among the Mad 193 Emma Campion - The King's Mistress192 Jostein Gaarder - The Christmas Mystery 191 Rosamunde Pilcher - Winter Solstice190 Anne Perry - A Christmas Visitor 189 Michael Jecks - The Malice of Unnatural Death 188 Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train187 Susanna Gregory - The Tarnished Chalice 186 G K Chesterton - Father Brown185 Barbara Pym - No Fond Return of Love 184 Candace Robb - The Guilt of Innocents183 Libby Purves - Holy Smoke 182 Kate Grenville - The Lieutenant181 Deanna Raybourn - Silent in the Sanctuary 180 Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards179 Michael Jecks - Squire Throwleigh's Heir 178 Rose Tremain - Music and Silence177 Rosamunde Pilcher - Coming Home 176 Charles Dickens - Bleak House175 Barbara Pym - Excellent Women 174 Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 173 Michael Jecks - The Oath172 Rebecca Tope - A Cotswold Killing 171 Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England 170 Rosamunde Pilcher - The Day of the Storm169 Louise Penny - Dead Cold 168 Ellis Peters - Death Mask167 Joseph D'Lacey - The Kill Crew 166 C C Humphreys - Absolute Honour165 Iain Pears - The Immaculate Deception 164 Bernard Knight - Figure of Hate163 Nancy Moser - Just Jane 162 Alison Weir - Traitors of the Tower161 Michael Jecks - The Mad Monk of Gidleigh 160 Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry159 Anthony Trollope - Is He Popenjoy? 158 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Running Vixen157 C J Sansom - Heartstone 156 Dario Castagno - A Day in Tuscany155 Kate Grenville - Lilian's Story 154 Lori Lansens - Rush Home Road153 Antonia Fraser - Tartan Tragedy 152 Helen Dunmore - The Crossing of Ingo151 Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy 150 Iain Pears - The Last Judgement149 Debbie Robson - Tomaree 148 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Champion147 Elisabeth Hyde - In the Heart of the Canyon 146 Antonia Fraser - Quiet as a Nun145 Deanna Raybourn - Silent in the Grave 144 Alex Garland - The Beach143 Patrick Gale - Gentleman's Relish 142 Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum 141 Jostein Gaarder - The Ringmaster's Daughter140 Bernard Knight - Crowner's Quest 139 Nuala O'Faolain - Are You Somebody?138 Philippa Gregory - The Red Queen 137 Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies136 Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took my Dog 135 Paul Doherty - The Rose Demon134 Iain Pears - The Raphael Affair 133 Maggie O'Farrell - The Hand That First Held Mine 132 Reay Tannahill - The Seventh Son131 A S Byatt - Angels and Insects 130 Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Angel's Game129 Rosie Alison - The Very Thought of You 128 Michael Jecks - The Death Ship of Dartmouth 127 Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth126 Margaret George - Mary Called Magdelene 125 Adrienne Dines - The Jigsaw Maker124 Robin Jenkins - Lady Magdalen 123 Iain Pears - The Portrait122 Helen Flint - Not Just Babysitting 121 Sarah Waters - Affinity120 Robert Tiley - The Mermaid Tree 119 Rosamunde Pilcher - Wild Mountain Thyme118 Bernard Cornwell - The Burning Land 117 Bernard Knight - The Witch Hunter116 The Medieval Murderers - House of Shadows 115 Marina Endicott - Good to a Fault114 Attica Locke - Black Water Rising 113 Elizabeth Peters - A River in the Sky112 Virginia Rounding - Catherine the Great 111 Paul Harding (Doherty) - Murder Most Holy110 Anthony Trollope - The Prime Minister 109 Kathryn Harrison - The Seal Wife108 Ariana Franklin - The Assassin's Prayer 107 Ann Patchett - Patron Saint of Liars106 The Medieval Murderers - The Lost Prophecies 105 Various - Characters from Dickens104 A S Byatt - The Matisse Stories 103 Bernard Knight - Fear in the Forest102 Iain Pears - The Titian Committee 101 Karen Maitland - The Owl Killers100 Peter Ackroyd - First Light 99 Michael Jecks - No Law in the Land98 Dodie Smith - The Midnight Kittens 97 Iain Pears - Stone's Fall96 Patrick Gale - The Whole Day Through 95 Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe94 David Nicholls - One Day 93 Iain Pears - Death and Restoration92 Patrick Gale - Rough Music 91 Raymond Khoury - The Sign90 Andrea Wulf - The Brother Gardeners 89 Sally Gardner - I, Coriander88 Alexander McCall Smith - The Comfort of Saturdays 87 Alan Gordon - Jester Leaps In86 Donna Tartt - The Secret History 85 Barbara Pym - The Sweet Dove Died84 Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express 83 Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn82 Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman 81 Lindsey Davis - Rebels and Traitors80 Bernard Knight - The Tinner's Corpse 79 Anthony Trollope - Phineas Redux78 Bernard Knight - The Awful Secret 77 Ann Patchett - The Magician's Assistant76 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 75 Kathryn Harrison - Seeking Rapture74 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon 73 Jennifer Vandever - The Bronte Project72 Michael Jecks - The Merchant's Partner 71 David Nicholls - The Understudy70 Susanna Gregory - A Plague on Both Your Houses 69 Penelope Lively - Family Album68 Michael Jecks - A Friar's Bloodfeud 67 Edinburgh City of Literature - Carry A Poem66 Jostein Gaarder - Through a Glass, Darkly 65 Rosamunde Pilcher - The Empty House64 Bernard Knight - The Grim Reaper 63 Juliet Barker - The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears 62 Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants61 Iain Pears - Giotto's Hand 60 Alice Munro - The View from Castle Rock59 Sebastian Barry - Annie Dunne 58 Guy de Maupassant - A Woman's Life57 Joanne Harris - Runemarks 56 Tahir Shah - The Caliph's House55 Rhys Bowen - Evans Above 54 Andrea Barrett - Ship Fever53 Emma Darwin - A Secret Alchemy 52 Jostein Gaarder - The Christmas Mystery51 Michael Jecks - The Templar, the Queen and her Lover 50 Andrew Martin - The Necropolis Railway49 Anne Tyler - Noah's Compass 48 Maeve Binchy - Heart and Soul47 Rosamunde Pilcher - The Blue Bedroom 46 Bernard Knight - The Poisoned Chalice45 Julia Fox - Jane Boleyn 44 L M Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea43 Wilbur Smith - Monsoon 42 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Gone Tomorrow41 Elizabeth Gaskell - My Lady Ludlow 40 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mr Harrison's Confessions 39 Bernard Knight - The Sanctuary Seeker38 Maeve Binchy - The Return Journey 37 Laura Esquivel - Swift as Desire36 John Dunning - The Bookman's Promise 35 Gabrielle Roy - Street of Riches34 Katharine McMahon - The Rose of Sebastopol 33 Jennifer Chiaverini - Circle of Quilters32 H G Wells - The Time Machine 31 Suzannah Dunn - The Queen of Subtleties30 Jackie Kay - Trumpet 29 L M Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables28 Tracy Chevalier - Remarkable Creatures 27 Giles Milton - Nathaniel's Nutmeg26 Julia Gregson - East of the Sun 25 Maria McCann - As Meat Loves Salt24 Anthony Trollope - The Eustace Diamonds 23 The Medieval Murderers - King Arthur's Bones 22 Rosamunde Pilcher - Another View21 Ann Patchett - Bel Canto 20 Michael Morpugo - My Friend Walter19 Margaret George - Helen of Troy 18 Michael Jecks - The Outlaws of Ennor17 Alexander McCall Smith - La's Orchestra Saves the World 16 Bernard Knight - The Elixir of Death15 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Time of Singing 14 Stuart Maconie - Adventures on the High Teas 13 The Medieval Murderers - Sword of Shame12 Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 11 Barbara Pym - An Unsuitable Attachment10 Lemony Snicket - Horseradish 9 Lyn Hamilton - The African Quest8 Susan Hill - Mrs de Winter 7 Sara George - The Journal of Mrs Pepys6 ed Tim Heald - A Classic Christmas Crime 5 Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 4 Philippa Gregory - The White Queen3 Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger 2 Stephen Fry - Moab is My Washpot1 Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer Abandoned unfinished Laurence Shorter - The OptimistLilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Smelled a Rat Adriana Trigiani - Very ValentineMargaret Atwood - Dancing Girls and Other Stories Rosamunde Pilcher - Flowers in the RainPaul Lawrence - The Sweet Smell of Decay Mary McCarthy - The GroupCurtis Sittenfeld - American Wife Lorna Barrett - Murder is Binding

I listened to 3 audio books in 2010:
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (abridged)
Tracy Chevalier - Remarkable Creatures
Edith Wharton - Short Story Collection
I've discovered that I don't get on too well with them and generally fall asleep .....

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The box below lists all 217 books I read in 2009 in the order I finished them, latest on top, together with the nine I started but abandoned - and the two I just read extracts from!


Books Read in 2009

217 Michael Jecks - The Sticklepath Strangler 216 Susanna Gregory - Blood on the Strand215 Maureen Lipman - The Gibbon's in Decline but the Horse is Stable 214 Ariana Franklin - Grave Goods (Relics of the Dead) 213 Boris Akunin - Turkish Gambit212 Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths 211 Margaret Doody - Poison in Athens210 Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence 209 Meg Cabot - Size 14 is Not Fat Either208 Wayne Johnston - The Divine Ryans 207 Paul Doherty - Satan's Fire206 Javier Sierra - The Secret Supper 205 Nicholas and Micah Sparks - Three Weeks with my Brother 204 Anya Seton - Devil Water203 W Somerset Maugham - Liza of Lambeth 202 Jennifer Chiaverini - The Runaway Quilt201 Susanna Gregory - A Conspiracy of Violence 200 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played with Fire 199 Meg Cabot - Size 12 is Not Fat198 Gil Adamson - The Outlander 197 Bruce Alexander - Murder in Grub Street196 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 195 Helen Dunmore - With Your Crooked Heart194 Michael Jecks - The Tournament of Blood 193 Helen Humphreys - Coventry192 Sarah Dunant - Sacred Hearts 191 Abby Bardi - The Book of Fred190 Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn 189 Stuart Maconie - Cider with Roadies188 Titania Hardie - The Rose Labyrinth 187 Isabel Allende - The Sum of Our Days186 Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 185 Susanna Gregory - To Kill or Cure184 Robert Dalby - Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly 183 Paul Doherty - A Tournament of Murders182 Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries Third Time Lucky 181 Aline Templeton - The Darkness and the Deep 180 Miss Read - Storm in the Village179 Ariana Franklin - The Death Maze 178 Albert Jack - Red Herrings and White Elephants 177 Ariana Franklin - Mistress of the Art of Death176 R Brydon - The Last Dragon 175 Michael Jecks - Dispensation of Death174 Kent Haruf - Plainsong 173 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda172 Jojo Moyes - Silver Bay 171 Miss Read - Winter in Thrush Green170 Susanna Gregory - A Deadly Brew 169 Alexander McCall Smith - The Unbearable Lightness of Scones 168 Marion Meade - Eleanor of Aquitaine167 Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards 166 Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel165 Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol 164 Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth163 Michael Jecks - The Templar's Penance 162 Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 161 Anita Shreve - Testimony160 Kate Morton - The House at Riverton 159 Rosamunde Pilcher - The End of Summer158 Joanna Trollope - Faith 157 Julie Myerson - Something Might Happen156 Miss Read - Thrush Green 155 Laurie Graham - The Future Homemakers of America 154 ed M Jerry and Helen S Weiss - Dreams and Visions153 Rosamunde Pilcher - Voices in Summer 152 Sarah Matthias - Tom Fletcher and the Angel of Death 151 Rosamunde Pilcher - The Carousel150 Julie Walters - Maggie's Tree 149 Maeve Binchy - This Year It Will Be Different 148 Bella Pollen - Midnight Cactus147 Joanna Trollope - Friday Nights 146 Helen Dunmore - Mourning Ruby145 Poppy Adams - The Behaviour of Moths 144 Rosie Thomas - Iris and Ruby143 Alexander McCall Smith - Dream Angus 142 P C Doherty - The Devil's Hunt141 Lynne Truss - Talk to the Hand 140 Cecelia Ahern - A Place Called Here139 Orhan Pamuk - Istanbul, Memories of a City 138 Isabel Allende - Ines of My Soul137 Mary Janice Davidson - Really Unusual Bad Boys 136 Anne Tyler - Noah's Compass135 Heron Carvic - Miss Seeton Draws the Line 134 Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World133 Tony Hawks - A Piano in the Pyrenees 132 Karen Maitland - Company of Liars131 Kate Morton - The Forgotten Garden 130 Mary Janice Davidson - Dead and Loving It129 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Wild Hunt 128 P C Doherty - An Ancient Evil127 Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture 126 Diana Gabaldon - Lord John and the Hand of Devils 125 Kathy Watson - The Devil Kissed Her, the story of Mary Lamb124 Daniel Pennac - The Rights of the Reader 123 Bernard Cornwell - Azincourt122 Adriana Trigiani - Home to Big Stone Gap 121 Val McDermid - The Distant Echo120 James Vance Marshall - Walkabout 119 Paul Doherty - The Waxman Murders118 Anne Donovan - Buddha Da 117 Timothy Findley - Not Wanted on the Voyage116 Lawrence Durrell - Clea 115 Suzannah Dunn - The Queen's Sorrow114 Rose Tremain - The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories 113 Robert Barnard - A Cry from the Dark112 Joanne Harris - The Evil Seed 111 Candace Robb - The Cross-Legged Knight110 Melissa Benn - One of Us 109 Lawrence Durrell - Mountolive108 Geraldine Brooks - Foreign Correspondence 107 Michael Jecks - The Last Templar106 Orson Scott Card - Seventh Son 105 Patrick Gale - Notes from an Exhibition104 Helen Stevenson - Instructions for Visitors 103 M C Beaton- Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison 102 Barbara Pym - Quartet in Autumn101 Michael Jecks - The Traitor of St Giles 100 Susanna Gregory - A Killer in Winter99 Lawrence Durrell - Balthazar 98 Margaret Elphinstone - Voyageurs97 Various Essayists - Whose Loan is it Anyway? 96 Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 95 Lawrence Durrell - Justine94 Alison Weir - The Lady Elizabeth 93 Christine Coleman - The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society 92 John Barrowman - Anything Goes91 Barbara Kingsolver - Pigs in Heaven 90 Meg Cabot - Boy Meets Girl89 Simon Winchester - The Surgeon of Crowthorne 88 Dee Brown - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee87 Paul Doherty - The Devil's Domain 86 David Ebershoff - The 19th Wife85 Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her? 84 James Cowan - A Mapmaker's Dream83 John Connolly - The Book of Lost Things 82 Peter Ackroyd - Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 81 Aileen Armitage - Hawksmoor80 Paul Doherty - Murder Imperial 79 Jane Langton - The Face on the Wall78 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham 77 Sarah Dunant - The Birth of Venus76 Various - A Summer Collection (of short stories) 75 Miss Read - Village Christmas74 Sheila Munro - Lives of Mothers and Daughters 73 Alice Munro - Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage 72 Marek Halter - Zipporah71 Edith Pargeter - A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury 70 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell 69 Simon Montefiore - Sashenka68 Lydia Flem - Casanova or the Art of Happiness 67 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary66 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam 65 Philippa Gregory - The Other Queen64 Kate Atkinson - When Will There Be Good News? 63 Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales62 Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall 61 Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book60 Sam Foster - Things We Used to Believe 59 Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters58 Chris Cleave - The Other Hand 57 L Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz56 Stuart Maconie - Pies and Prejudice 55 The Medieval Murderers - The Tainted Relic54 Joanna Trollope - The Book Boy 53 Judi Hendricks - Bread Alone52 Louise Penny - The Cruellest Month 51 Peter Ackroyd - Chatterton50 Tom Holland - The Poison in the Blood 49 Gail Anderson-Dargatz - A Recipe for Bees48 Michael Jecks - The Butcher of St Peter's 47 Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 46 Peter Ackroyd - The Fall of Troy45 Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle 44 Valerie Wilding - Bloody Tower43 John Wray - Lowboy 42 Susan Wittig Albert - Hangman's Root41 Sarah Dunant - Mapping the Edge 40 Audrey Niffenegger - The Adventuress39 C J Sansom - Dissolution 38 Robert Louis Stevenson - The Black Arrow37 Dinah Lampitt - Fortune's Soldier 36 Maeve Binchy - Star Sullivan35 Dinah Lampitt - The Silver Swan 34 Stendhal - The Red and the Black33 Dinah Lampitt - Sutton Place 32 Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad31 Ian McEwan - Atonement 30 Lindsey Davis - Alexandria29 John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 28 Val McDermid - The Grave Tattoo27 Davey Spens - Frothy Tales 26 Vicki Lewis Thompson - Nerd in Shining Armor 25 Diana Athill - Yesterday Morning24 Marek Halter - Sarah 23 Miss Read - Village School22 Sylvie Germain - Days of Anger 21 Athol Fugard - Tsotsi20 J Meade Falkner - Moonfleet 19 Carolyn Meyer - Mary, Bloody Mary18 Jill Swallow - Days before Dibley 17 Gervase Phinn - A Wayne in a Manger16 Dawn French - Dear Fatty 15 Alison Weir - The Princes in the Tower14 Wm Paul Young - The Shack 13 Louise Penny - Still Life12 Linda Gillard - A Lifetime Burning 11 Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barset 10 Andrew Taylor - The American Boy9 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and Love, Lies and Liquor 8 Paul Doherty - The Magician's Death7 Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon 6 Jennifer Clement - The Poison That Fascinates 5 Sarah Bower - The Needle in the Blood4 Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie 3 A R R R Roberts - Doctor Whom2 Kyle Macdonald - One Red Paperclip 1 Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard Incomplete/Extracts only:Andrew Hagan - A Night Out with Robert Burns Mark Z Danielewski - House of Leaves Abandoned unfinished:Helen Walsh - Once Upon a Time in England Peter Ackroyd - HawksmoorNicholas Drayson - A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Sarah Dunant - TransgressionsFelicity Fixsen - Strange Legacy Rose Tremain - RestorationRhyll McMaster - Feather Man Jo Baker - The TellingGail Anderson-Dargatz - The Cure for Death by Lightning

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The box below lists all 193 books I read in 2008 in the order I finished them, together with the six I started but abandoned - and one mistake!


Books Read in 2008

1 Ken Follett - World Without End2 Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 3 Jane Austen - Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon 4 Martin Stephen - The Desperate Remedy5 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House 6 Irene Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise7 Suzannah Dunn - The Sixth Wife 8 Malcolm Pryce - Last Tango in Aberystwyth9 Laurie Graham - The Unfortunates 10 Gemma O'Connor - Time to Remember11 Anne Rice - Christ the Lord Out of Egypt 12 Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain13 Anthony Trollope - Miss Mackenzie 14 Michael Morpurgo - Arthur High King of Britain 15 Alexander McCall Smith - Love Over Scotland16 Monica Quill - Nun Plussed 17 Richard B Wright - Clara Callan18 Laura Zigman - Her 19 Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible20 Paul Doherty - The Godless Man 21 Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen22 Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful 23 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein24 Isabel Allende - Zorro 25 Ross Leckie - Hannibal26 Vendela Vida - Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name 27 Michael Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White 28 Anthony Bourdain - Typhoid Mary29 Minette Walters - The Chameleon's Shadow 30 O Henry - The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories 31 Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book32 Joanne Harris - The Lollipop Shoes 33 Robin Jenkins - The Changeling34 John Lescroart - Rasputin's Revenge 35 Tracy Chevalier - Burning Bright36 Barbara Kingsolver - The Bean Trees 37 Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye38 Jill Gascoigne - Just Like a Woman 39 Elizabeth Eyre - Poison for the Prince40 Fannie Flagg - Can't Wait to Get to Heaven 41 Michael Jecks - The Tolls of Death42 Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit 43 Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book44 Marjory Stoneman Douglas - The Everglades: River of Grass 45 Kate North - Eva Shell46 Anita Shreve - Body Surfing 47 Dave Hill - The Adoption48 Sharon Shinn - Jenna Starborn 49 Caitlin Walsh - The Angels of 9/1150 Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy 51 Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate52 Carrie Tiffany - Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living 53 Susanna Gregory - The Hand of Justice54 Jennifer Chiaverini - The Quilter's Homecoming 55 Victoria Hislop - The Island56 C J Sansom - Revelation 57 Bram Stoker - Dracula58 A Manette Ansay - Vinegar Hill 59 Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves60 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Scarlet Lion 61 H Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines62 Jonathan Coe - The Rotters' Club 63 A L Kennedy - Now That You're Back64 A S Byatt - Possession 65 Marianne Faithfull - Year One66 Frances Itani - Leaning, Leaning Over Water 67 Anne Haverty - One Day as a Tiger68 Shena Mackay - The Orchard on Fire 69 Rory MacLean - Under the Dragon70 Linn Ullmann - Stella Descending 71 Len Deighton - XPD72 Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 73 Lucy Hawking - Jaded74 Richard Benson - The Farm 75 Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina76 Jason Goodwin - The Snake Stone 77 Elizabeth Gaskell - The Life of Charlotte Bronte 78 Peter Behrens - The Law of Dreams79 Bernard Cornwell - Sword Song 80 Salley Vickers - Where Three Roads Meet81 Olivia Lichtenstein - Mrs Zhivago of Queen's Park 82 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables83 Anne Fadiman - Ex Libris 84 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye 85 Alison Weir - Katherine Swynford86 Alexander McCall Smith - The World according to Bertie 87 Michael Jecks - A Moorland Hanging88 Anthony Trollope - Framley Parsonage 89 Miriam Toews - A Complicated Kindness90 Rebecca Stott - Ghostwalk 91 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (abridged)92 Jenna Bailey - Can Any Mother Help Me? 93 Libby Purves - Radio: A True Love Story94 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came 95 Ali Smith - Girl Meets Boy96 Diane Whitley - My Nana is an Alien 97 Valerio Massimo Manfredi - The Last Legion98 Jennifer Chiaverini - The Quilter's Apprentice 99 E Nesbit - The Railway Children100 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton 101 R D Blackmore - Lorna Doone102 Jed Rubenfeld - The Interpretation of Murder 103 P C Doherty - Murder Wears A Cowl104 Tama Janowitz - A Certain Age 105 Sean Astin - There and Back Again106 R L Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories 107 Maureen Lipman - When's It Coming Out?108 Valerie Martin - Mary Reilly 109 Lionel Shriver - Double Fault110 Sophie Hannah - The Point of Rescue 111 C C Humphreys - Jack Absolute112 Jennifer Chiaverini - The Quilter's Legacy 113 Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip114 Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 115 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Falcons of Montabard 116 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter117 Jennifer Johnston - The Gingerbread Woman 118 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate 119 Mark Cocker - Birders: Tales of a Tribe120 Leslie Meier - The Birthday Party Murder 121 Peter Ackroyd - The Lambs of London122 Elizabeth Chadwick - Shields of Pride 123 Maeve Binchy - Whitethorn Woods124 Anthony Trollope - An Eye for an Eye 125 Libby Purves - Love Songs and Lies126 Alan Titchmarsh - Love and Doctor Devon 127 Kim Edwards - The Memory Keeper's Daughter128 Edward Marston - The Queen's Head 129 Dee Henderson - The Negotiator130 Mavis Cheek - Yesterday's Houses 131 Brenda Stacey - The Ups and Downs of Umbrellas 132 G K Chesterton - The Club of Queer Trades133 Susanna Gregory - The Mark of a Murderer 134 Michael Faber - The Fahrenheit Twins135 Jennifer Chiaverini - The Sugar Camp Quilt 136 Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle137 Alexander McCall Smith - The Careful Use of Compliments 138 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley 139 Giles Milton - The Riddle and the Knight140 Rose Tremain - Sacred Country 141 Paul Doherty - The Soul Slayer142 Barbara Pym - Less Than Angels 143 Margaret Cezair-Thompson - The Pirate's Daughter 144 Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders145 Wayne Johnston - The Story of Bobby O'Malley 146 Susan Wittig Albert - Thyme of Death147 Frank Parker Day - Rockbound 148 Dava Sobel - Longitude149 Emma Campbell Webster - Being Elizabeth Bennet 150 Chuck Iglesias - Get Stuffed, The Home Taxidermist's Handbook 151 Dan Waddell - The Blood Detective152 Danielle Steel - Granny Dan 153 Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome154 Fay Sampson - Visions and Voyages 155 Sarah Harrison - The Grass Memorial156 Andrea Barrett - The Middle Kingdom 157 Bill Bryson - Shakespeare158 Valerio Massimo Manfredi - The Talisman of Troy 159 Miss Read - News from Thrush Green160 Mary Wortley Montagu - Life on the Golden Horn 161 Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 162 Virginia Ironside - No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub163 Deborah Lawrenson - Songs of Blue and Gold 164 Anthony Trollope - The Small House at Allington 165 Malise Ruthven - Islam, A Very Short Introduction166 Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle 167 Elizabeth Gaskell - Cousin Phillis168 Gillian Philip - Bad Faith 169 Philippa Gregory - Bread and Chocolate170 Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries 171 Carl Hiaasen - Sick Puppy172 Ann B Ross - Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind 173 Meg Cabot - The Princess Diaries Take Two174 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Marsh King's Daughter 175 A S Byatt - Possession176 Linda Gillard - Star Gazing 177 Susan Wittig Albert - Witches' Bane178 Katie Hickman - Daughters of Britannia 179 Helen Garner - The Spare Room180 Kate Atkinson - Case Histories 181 Elizabeth Hay - Late Nights on Air182 Barbara Pym - A Glass of Blessing 183 Paul Doherty - By Murder's Bright Light184 Alexandre Dumas - The Man in the Iron Mask 185 Mike Pannett - "Now then Lad ..." Tales of a Country Bobby 186 Oscar Wilde - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime187 Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow 188 Miss Read - Christmas at Fairacre189 Turgenev - Fathers and Sons 190 J K Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard191 C J Sansom - Winter in Madrid 192 Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog193 Rebecca Miller - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Abandoned unfinished: Miranda Innes - Getting to MananaJulian Barnes - England, England Joan Hess - murder @ maggody.comMarge Piercy - Vida Luther Blisset - QRobert Swindells - No Angels Started by mistake - had forgotten I'd already read it: Libby Purves - Passing Go

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The box below lists all 173 books I read in 2007 in the order I finished them, together with the three I started but abandoned:


Books Read in 2007

1 Rosamunde Pilcher – Under Gemini2 Philippa Gregory – Fallen Skies 3 Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford4 Michael Jecks – The Chapel of Bones 5 Isabel Allende – My Invented Country6 Arturo Perez-Reverte – The Club Dumas 7 Jacqueline Winspear - Birds of a Feather8 Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice 9 Susanna Gregory - An Unholy Alliance10 Salley Vickers - Mr Golightly's Holiday 11 Ian Sansom - Ring Road12 Jeanne Ray - Julie and Romeo 13 Alistair MacLeod - No Great Mischief14 John Humphrys - Lost for Words 15 Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers16 Anya Seton - Avalon 17 Eva Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets18 Michael Crichton - Timeline 19 Hugh MacLennan - Barometer Rising20 Alistair MacLeod - Island 21 Helen Fielding - Cause Celeb22 L M Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables 23 Christopher Matthew - Summoned by Balls24 Wayne Johnston - The Colony of Unrequited Dreams 25 L M Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea26 Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife 27 Bernard Cornwell- The Lords of the North28 Donna Morrissey - Sylvanus Now 29 Kate Atkinson - Case Histories30 Susanna Gregory - A Bone of Contention 31 Paul Collingwood - Away with the Tigers32 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Winter Mantle 33 Julian Barnes - Arthur and George34 Constance Beresford-Howe - The Marriage Bed 35 Barbara Haworth-Attard - Irish Chain36 Anita Diamant - The Last Days of Dogtown 37 Candace Robb - The Nun's Tale38 Ann-Marie MacDonald - The Way the Crow Flies 39 Beth Powning - The Hatbox Letters40 Manda Scott - Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear 41 Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm42 Anne Tyler - If Morning Ever Comes 43 Rosamunde Pilcher - The Shell Seekers44 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - The Founding 45 Anita Diamant - Pitching My Tent46 Iain Pears - An Instance of the Fingerpost 47 David Almond - Skellig48 Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale 49 Kate Atkinson et al - A Day in the Life50 Elizabeth Peters - The Camelot Caper 51 Kitty Sewell - Ice Trap52 Annie Proulx - Close Range 53 Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance54 Michael Jecks - The Abbots Gibbet 55 Isabel Allende - City of the Beasts56 Isabel Allende - Kingdom of the Golden Dragon 57 Barry Hines - The Price of Coal58 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Love Knot 59 Isabel Allende - Forest of the Pygmies60 Margaret Attwood - Oryx and Crake 61 W M Thackeray - Vanity Fair62 Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey 63 Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace64 Jean M Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear 65 Elisabeth Hyde - The Abortionist's Daughter66 Salley Vickers - The Other Side of You 67 Linda Newbery - Set in Stone68 Garth Nix - Sabriel 69 Yann Martel - Life of Pi70 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Conquest 71 Alexander McCall Smith - Friends, Lovers, Chocolate 72 Joanna Trollope - Second Honeymoon73 Garth Nix - Mister Monday 74 Maile Meloy - Liars and Saints75 Judy Astley - Blowing It 76 Philippa Gregory - The Boleyn Inheritance77 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling 78 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment79 Janet Fitch - White Oleander 80 Mark Twain - The Prince and the Pauper81 Elizabeth Peters - Tomb of the Golden Bird 82 Elizabeth Chadwick - Daughers of the Grail83 Jodi Picoult - Plain Truth 84 Lois McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion85 Elisabeth Hyde - Crazy as Chocolate 86 Nicholas Sparks - A Walk to Remember87 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet 88 Michael Dobbs - First Lady89 Peter Prince - Adam Runaway 90 David Pownall - The White Cutter91 Tami Hoag - Lucky's Lady 92 Christopher Wilson - The Ballad of Lee Cotton 93 Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince94 Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves 95 Kate Long - The Bad Mother's Handbook96 Lindsey Davis - Saturnalia 97 Stuart Pawson - Shooting Elvis98 Joseph E Roesch - Boudica, Queen of the Iceni 99 J K Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 100 Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South101 Sarah Waters - The Night Watch 102 Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast 103 Michelle de Krester - The Rose Grower104 Ken Follett - A Place Called Freedom 105 Stuart Pawson - Some by Fire106 Lynne Reid Banks - Casualties 107 Elizabeth Peters - Borrower of the Night108 Paul Christopher - Michelangelo’s Notebook 109 Susan Vreeland - The Passion of Artemisia110 Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers 111 Connie Willis - Doomsday Book112 Alexander McCall Smith - Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations 113 Michael Morpurgo - I Believe in Unicorns114 Ami McKay - The Birth House 115 Maggie O’Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 116 Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey117 Oscar Wilde - The Happy Prince and Other Stories 118 Jasper Fforde - Lost in a Good Book119 Wilbur Smith - A Sparrow Falls 120 Margaret Laurence - A Bird in the House121 Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The Clockmaker (series 1) 122 Matthew Pearl - The Dante Club123 Rachel Cusk - Arlington Park 124 Carl Hiaasen - Basket Case125 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage 126 Constance Beresford-Howe - The Book of Eve127 M C Beaton - Death of a Gossip 128 Alexander McCall Smith - The Right Attitude to Rain 129 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death130 John Richardson - Wacousta 131 Jasper Fforde - The Well of Lost Plots132 Alexandra Potter - Me and Mr Darcy 133 Henry James - The Golden Bowl134 Virginia Henley - The Dragon and the Jewel 135 Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother136 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden 137 Barbara Pym - A Few Green Leaves138 Arthur Japin - In Lucia's Eyes 139 Charlotte Bronte - Shirley140 Helen Dunmore - Love of Fat Men 141 Alison Weir - Innocent Traitor142 Lisa Appignanesi - The Things We Do For Love 143 Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book 144 Jay Parini - The Last Station145 Bernice Morgan - Random Passage 146 Anthony Trollope - Doctor Thorne147 Colleen McCullough - The Ladies of Missalonghi 148 Bill Bryson - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid 149 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener150 Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven 151 Tony Hillerman - Listening Woman152 Jason Goodwin - The Janissary Tree 153 Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth154 Constance Beresford-Howe - A Population of One 155 Jasper Fforde - Something Rotten156 Julie Myerson - Laura Blundy 157 Jacqueline Winspear - Pardonable Lies158 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist 159 Candace Robb - The Riddle of St Leonards160 Louise Dean - Becoming Strangers 161 Rosamunde Pilcher - Flowers in the Rain162 Charles Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth 163 Simon Scarrow - Under the Eagle164 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance 165 Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol166 Sarah Dunant - In the Company of the Courtesan 167 Andrew Davidson - Sei, The Glassblower's Apprentice 168 O Henry - The Gift of the Magi169 Edward Monkton - The Pig of Happiness 170 Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader171 Jennifer Clement - The Poison that Fascinates 172 Virginia Ironside - No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub 173 Wilkie Collins - ArmadaleAbandoned unfinished: Melvyn Bragg - Crystal RoomsJames Morrow - The Last Witchfinder Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain

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The box below lists all 198 books I read in 2006 in the order I finished them, together with the two I started but abandoned!


Books Read in 2006

1 D K Broster - The Dark Mile2 Anita Shreve – Resistance 3 Elizabeth Peters - Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium 4 Sebastian Faulks - A Fool’s Alphabet5 Christian Jacq - The Place of Truth 6 Robert James Waller - Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend 7 Nick Hornby - How to be Good8 Candace Robb - A Spy for the Redeemer 9 James McBride - Miracle at Sant’Anna10 Elizabeth Peters - The Deeds of the Disturber 11 Libby Purves - A Long Walk in Wintertime12 Craig Thompson - Blankets 13 Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet14 Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol 15 Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune16 Paul Doherty - The Demon Archer 17 Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook18 Elizabeth Peters - The Hippopotamus Pool 19 Frederick Forsyth - The Phantom of Manhattan 20 Carol Shields - The Republic of Love21 Nuala O’Faolain - My Dream of You 22 Caroline Harvey - The Steps of the Sun23 Bernard Cornwell - Fallen Angels 24 Diana Gabaldon - Dragonfly in Amber25 Elizabeth Peters - Seeing a Large Cat 26 Marjorie Leet Ford - The Diary of an American Au-Pair 27 Philippa Gregory - The Favoured Child28 Nada Awar Jarrar - Somewhere, Home 29 Elizabeth Peters - Lord of the Silent30 Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees - The Boy Next Door 31 Diana Gabaldon - Voyager32 Maeve Binchy - London Transports 33 John Maddox Roberts - Nobody Loves a Centurion 34 Bernard Cornwell - The Last Kingdom35 Geraldine Brooks - March 36 Joyce Tyldsley - Egypt: How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered 37 Nicholas Mosley - Inventing God38 Charles Dickens - The Chimes 39 Alan Titchmarsh - Animal Instincts40 Kate Mosse - Labyrinth 41 Philippa Gregory - Meridon42 Christian Jacq - The Black Pharaoh 43 Anita Brookner - Falling Slowly44 Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch 45 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries46 Paul Doherty - Domina 47 Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind48 Susan Wiggs - The Firebrand 49 Candace Robb - The Fire in the Flint50 Alice Borchardt - The Raven Warrior 51 Janet Evanovich - Metro Girl52 Diana Gabaldon - Drums of Autumn 53 Eva Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets54 Peter Tremayne - Hemlock at Vespers 55 Justine Haythe - The Honeymoon56 Nick Hornby - High Fidelity 57 Barbara Ewing - The Trespass58 Nicci Gerrard - Things We Knew Were True 59 Peter Tremayne - Our Lady of Darkness60 Libby Purves - Home Leave 61 Elizabeth Berg - Until the Real Thing Comes Along 62 Andrea Barrett - The Voyage of the Narwhal63 Lindsey Davis - The Body in the Bath House 64 Michael Jecks - The Boy-Bishop’s Glovemaker65 Edith Pargeter - The Heaven Tree 66 A A Milne - Now We Are Six67 Julian Fellowes - Snobs 68 Alexander McCall Smith - 44 Scotland Street69 Nikos Kazantzakis - Christ Recrucified 70 Libby Purves - More Lives Than One71 Georgette Heyer - The Black Moth 72 Diana Gabaldon - The Fiery Cross73 Libby Purves - Continental Drift 74 Lindsey Davis - Time to Depart75 Nick Hornby - 31 Songs 76 Philippa Gregory - The Wise Woman77 Lindsey Davis - Two for the Lions 78 Lisa Jewell - Ralph’s Party79 Elizabeth Peters - The Serpent on the Crown 80 Adriana Trigiani - Rococo81 Elizabeth Noble - The Tenko Club 82 Nick Hornby - A Long Way Down83 Henrietta Leyser - Medieval Women 84 Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess85 Bernard Cornwell - The Pale Horseman 86 Elizabeth Peters - The Tomb of the Golden Bird 87 Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian88 Manda Scott - Boudica: Dreaming the Hound 89 Raymond Khoury - The Last Templar90 Lindsey Davis - Shadows in Bronze 91 Joanna Trollope - The Rector’s Wife92 Lindsey Davis - The Iron Hand of Mars 93 Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees - Love Lives94 Nick Hornby - The Polysyllabic Spree 95 Lindsey Davis - Three Hands in the Fountain96 Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha 97 Elizabeth Chadwick - Shadows and Strongholds 98 Caroline Harvey - Leaves from the Valley99 Philippa Gregory - A Respectable Trade 100 Alexander McCall Smith - The 2 ½ Pillars of Wisdom 101 Lindsey Davis - Ode to a Banker102 Elizabeth Chadwick - Lords of the White Castle 103 Kate Atkinson - Human Croquet104 John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany 105 Orson Scott Card - Sarah106 Orson Scott Card - Rebekah 107 Elizabeth Peters - The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits 108 Tim Severin - Odinn’s Child109 Wilkie Collins - No Name 110 Lindsey Davis - The Accusers111 Alexander McCall Smith - Espresso Tales 112 Anna Quindlen - Object Lessons113 Salley Vickers - Miss Garnet’s Angel 114 Lindsey Davis - Scandal Takes a Holiday115 Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December 116 Whitney Otto - How to Make an American Quilt 117 Carol Shields - Dressing Up for the Carnival118 C J Sansom - Sovereign 119 Lois McMaster Bujold - Memory120 Joanne Harris - Sleep, Pale Sister 121 Christian Jacq - For the Love of Philae122 Anita Brookner - Family and Friends 123 Isabel Allende - Portrait in Sepia124 Xinran - Sky Burial 125 Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus126 Margaret Yorke - Evidence to Destroy 127 Elizabeth Peters - The Murders of Richard III 128 Margaret Drabble - The Radiant Way129 Jane Urquhart - The Underpainter 130 Umberto Eco - Baudolino131 Helen Fielding - Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination 132 Diana Gabaldon - Lord John and the Private Matter 133 Joanne Harris - Gentlemen and Players134 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day 135 Paul Judges - Nobble Hospital of the Aegean 136 Libby Purves - Regatta137 Ian Sansom - The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books 138 Lindsey Davis - See Delphi and Die139 Hari Kunzru - The Impressionist 140 Anna Quindlen - Blessings141 Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse 142 Michelle Lovric - The Floating Book143 Jojo Moyes - The Ship of Brides 144 Diana Gabaldon - A Breath of Snow and Ashes 145 Elizabeth Buchan - Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman146 N Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn 147 David Nicholls - Starter for Ten148 Ronald Wright - Henderson’s Spear 149 Christopher Matthew - Now We Are Sixty (And a Bit) 150 Ben Okri - Stars of the New Curfew151 Amy Tan - The Bonesetter’s Daughter 152 Annie Proulx - That Old Ace in the Hole153 Orson Scott Card - Rachel & Leah 154 Salley Vickers - Mr Golightly’s Holiday155 Joe Queenan - Queenan Country 156 Sam Bourne - The Righteous Man157 Don Maclean et al - A Long Hot Soak 158 Libby Purves - Acting Up159 Candace Robb - A Trust Betrayed 160 Lemony Snicket - The End161 Joseph O’Connor - Star of the Sea 162 David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars163 Anthony Trollope - The Warden 164 Valerio Massimo Manfredi - Tyrant165 Sally Beauman - The Landscape of Love 166 Barry Unsworth - Sugar and Rum167 Brian Viner - Tales of the Country 168 Salley Vickers - Instances of the Number 3169 Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Flanders Panel 170 Jodi Picoult - My Sister’s Keeper171 Janet Aylmer - Darcy’s Story from Pride and Prejudice 172 Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs173 Janny Wurts - That Way Lies Camelot 174 Xinran - The Good Women of China175 Susanna Gregory - A Wicked Deed 176 Nicholas Sparks - The Wedding177 Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz 178 Salley Vickers - The Other Side of You179 Dorothy Koomson - My Best Friend’s Girl 180 Margaret Yorke - The Smooth Face of Evil181 Stephanie Zia - Baby on Board 182 Sharon Shinn - Archangel183 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Greatest Knight 184 Anne Tyler - The Amateur Marriage185 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death 186 Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair187 Anne Tyler - Digging to America 188 Judith Holder - Grumpy Old Women189 Pete McCarthy - The Road to McCarthy 190 Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Seville Communion 191 Roberta Taylor - Too Many Mothers192 Andrea Barrett - The Forms of Water 193 Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol194 John Irving - A Widow for One Year 195 Barbara Pym - Some Tame Gazelle196 Marilynne Robinson - Gilead 197 A A Milne - The Sunny Side198 Anya Seton - The Winthrop Woman .....There were 2 books I started but didn't finish: Jack Vance - Araminta StationDavid Crackenthorpe - The Ravenglass Line