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!)

My Profile tends to be a bit hit and miss, with some parts regularly updated and others just staying the same!

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There's not a lot to say about me. My books are more interesting than I am! My husband and I are both retired - and I love having lots of lovely time to indulge my love of reading. He's not a reader and spends most of his extra free time diy-ing in the house and garden! We have two daughters, Kharli and Tree-hugger, one son-in-law, one partner and one grown-up grandson - all bookworms, one an active BookCrossers!

I love books and must have read 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 and then not very often. I no longer 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: At times it can get rather long - but it's not greed, it's mainly 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:

Meg Waite Clayton - Beautiful Exiles
Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home: a biography
Tasha Alexander - Dangerous to Know
Domenica De Rosa - One Summer in Tuscany

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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 2018

259 Veronica Henry - Christmas at the Beach Hut 258 Elly Griffiths - The Outcast Dead257 Philip Gwynne Jones - The Venetian Game 256 M C Beaton - Homecoming255 M C Beaton - Romance 254 Janie Bolitho - Betrayed in Cornwall253 M C Beaton - Folly 252 Elly Griffiths - The House at Sea's End251 Holly Hepburn - Christmas Kisses at the Star and Sixpence 250 Milly Johnson - The Barn on Half Moon Hill249 Milly Johnson - The Mother of All Christmases 248 M C Beaton - Deception247 Louise Penny - The Kingdom of the Blind 246 Max Adams - The King in the North: the Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria 245 Robert Galbraith - Lethal White244 Elly Griffiths - Dying Fall 243 M C Beaton - Intrigue242 M C Beaton - Banishment 241 M J Trow - Maxwell's Flame240 Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho 239 Victoria Connelley - The Christmas Rose238 Elly Griffiths - Ruth's First Christmas Tree 237 Elly Griffiths - A Room Full of Bones236 Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London 235 T A Williams - Dreaming of Christmas234 Graham Norton - Holding 233 Darcie Boleyn - Love at the Northern Lights 232 Steve Robinson - Dying Games231 T A Williams - Dreaming of Florence 230 P L Travers - Mary Poppins229 Roisin Meaney - The Reunion 228 J R Ellis - The Murder at Redmire Hall227T E Kinsey - A Picture of Murder 226 J R Ellis - The Quartet Murders225 Holly Hepburn - New Beginnings at the Star and Sixpence 224 J R Ellis - The Body in the Dales223 Debbie Johnson - The A to Z of Everything 222 C J Sansom - Tombland221 Susanna Kearsley - Sophia's Secret 220 Veronica Henry - The Forever House219 Emma Davies - Christmas at the Little Cottage on the Hill 218 Kate Griffin - Kitty Peck and the Daughter of Sorrow 217 Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places216 Julia Llewellyn - Love Nest 215 Bernard Cornwell - War of the Wolf214 Debbie Johnson - A Gift from the Comfort Food Cafe 213 Lena Manta - The House by the River212 Audrey Niffenegger - Raven Girl 211 Barbara Erskine - Sleeper's Castle210 Rowan Coleman - The Summer of Impossible Things 209 Janette Benaddi et al - Four Mums in a Boat 208 Matt Haig - The Radleys207 Sarra Manning - The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp 206 Janie Bolitho - Plotted in Cornwall205 Barbara Erskine - River of Destiny 204 Philip Serrell - Sold to the Man with the Tin Leg 203 Tilly Tennant - Mishaps in Millrise202 Tracy Rees - The Hourglass 201 Elly Griffiths - The Janus Stone200 The Medieval Murderers - The Sacred Stone 199 Lucy Robinson - The Day We Disappeared198 Julia Quinn - Because of Miss Bridgerton 197 Sherryl Woods - Flowers on Main196 Joanne M Harris - A Pocketful of Crows 195 Joanna Trollope - An Unsuitable Match194 Robert Galbraith - Lethal White 193 Anne de Courcy - The Fishing Fleet192 Loretta Nyhan - Digging In 191 L C Tyler - The Herring Seller's Apprentice 190 Roisin Meaney - Putting Out the Stars189 Dawn Brookes - A Cruise to Murder 188 Nadia Marks - Among the Lemon Trees187 Sarah Painter - Beneath the Water 186 Georgette Heyer - Cousin Kate185 Veronica Henry - How to Find Love in a Bookshop 184 Laura Madeleine - The Confectioner's Tale183 Gladys Mitchell - The Saltmarsh Murders 182 Jennifer Ryan - The Chilbury Ladies' Choir181 Sarra Manning - After the Last Dance 180 L C Tyler - Ten Little Herrings179 Kate Atkinson - Transcription 178 Stella Tillyard - Aristocrats177 Alison Weir - The Unhappiest Lady in Christendom 176 Susie Maguire (ed) - Scottish Love Stories175 Willie Nelson - My Life: It's a Long Story 174 Deryn Lake - The Moonlit Door173 Emma Davies - Return to the Little Cottage on the Hill 172 Elizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs Clifton171 P G Woodehouse - Carry on, Jeeves 170 Peggy Townsend - See Her Run169 Kristin Harmel - The Sweetness of Forgetting 168 Rowan Coleman - The Other Sister167 Patrick Gale - Take Nothing with You 166 Patrick Gale - Take Nothing with You165 Ann Widdecombe - The Clematis Tree 164 Amanda Prowse - Poppy Day163 Eve Houston - Secrets in Prior's Ford 162 Roisin Meaney - After the Wedding161 Jessie Burton - The Muse 160 Trisha Ashley - A Good Heart is Hard to Find 159 Peter Lacey - Tales of the Celebrity Hermit158 Anne Stevenson - Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath 157 Roisin Meaney - Half Seven on a Thursday156 Beatrice Colin - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite 155 Debbie Rix – The Photograph154 Anne Tyler - Clock Dance 153 Jojo Moyes – The Horse Dancer152 Roisin Meaney – One Summer 151 Jojo Moyes – The Girl You Left Behind150 Hunter Davies - The Biscuit Girls 149 Fern Britton – Hidden Treasures148 Phillipa Ashley - Summer on the Little Cornish Isles: The Starfish Studio 147 Veronica Henry - A Family Recipe146 Daisy James - There's Something about Cornwall 145 Louise Walters - Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase144 Daphne du Maurier - The Rendezvous and Other Stories 143 Robert Seethaler - The Tobacconist142 Lesley Lokko - Bitter Chocolate 141 Harriet Evans - The Wildflowers140 Veronica Henry - Love on the Rocks 139 Frances Maynard - The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr 138 Michael Mosley - The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet137 Barbara Erskine - House of Echoes 136 Jojo Moyes - Night Music135 The Countess of Carnarvon - Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey 134 Mark Gatiss - The Vesuvius Club133 Jill McGown - Murder at the Old Vicarage 132 Barbara J Zitwer - The J M Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society 131 Lucy Coleman - The French Adventure130 Edward Marston - A Christmas Railway Mystery 129 Sharon Guskin - The Forgetting Time128 Colette Rossant - Return to Paris: A Memoir with Recipes 127 Roisin Meaney - The Daisy Picker126 Bill Bryson - Down Under 125 Heron Carvic - Picture Miss Seeton124 Shamini Flint - Inspector Singh Investigates: A Bali Conspiracy Most Foul 123 Isabel Allende - In the Midst of Winter122 Heidi Swain - Coming Home to Cuckoo Cottage 121 Ella Carey - The Things We Don't Say120 Emma Davies - Summer at the Little Cottage on the Hill 119 Patricia Sands - The Bridge Club118 Louise Penny - Glass Houses 117 Sarah Winman - Tin Man116 Heidi Swain - Mince Pies and Mistletoe at the Christmas Market 115 Louise Penny - A Great Reckoning114 Sally Beauman - The Visitors 113 Patricia Sands - Drawing Lessons112 Marc Levy - All Those Things We Never Said 111 Edward Marston - The Circus Train Conspiracy 110 Louise Penny - The Nature of the Beast109 Amanda Prowse - A Little Love 108 Helen Dunmore - The Tide Knot107 Darcie Boleyn - Forever at Conwenna Cove 106 William Goldman - The Princess Bride105 Edward Marston - Signal for Vengeance 104 Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle103 Louise Penny - The Long Way Home 102 Alison Weir - Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen 101 Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden100 Sophie Green - The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club 99 Salley Vickers - The Librarian98 Veronica Henry - High Tide 97 Cecil Woodham Smith - Florence Nightingale96 Louise Penny - How the Light Gets In 95 Hunter Davies - A Life in the Day94 Georgette Heyer - The Nonesuch 93 Edward Marston - Dance of Death92 Michael Bristow - China in Drag 91 Louise Penny - The Beautiful Mystery90 Ruth Hogan - The Keeper of Lost Things 89 Monica McInerney - The Trip of a Lifetime88 Louise Penny - A Trick of the Light 87 Debbie Johnson - Sunshine at the Comfort Food Cafe 86 Belinda McKeon - Solace85 Robert Harris - Conclave 84 Louise Penny - The Hangman83 Monica McInerney - Lola's Secret 82 Ann Cleeves - The Seagull81 Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead 80 Norah Ephron - I Feel Bad About My Neck79 Carrie Fisher - The Princess Diarist 78 Ann Cleeves - The Moth Catcher77 Darcie Boleyn - Love at the Italian Lake 76 Louise Penny - The Brutal Telling75 Ann Cleeves - Harbour Street 74 Milly Johnson - A Spring Affair73 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa 72 Louise Penny - The Murder Stone71 Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins 70 Pamela Hartshorne - The Cursed Wife69 Sarah Maine - The House Between Tides 68 Gavin McCrea - Mrs Engels67 Ann Cleeves - The Glass Room 66 Jacqueline Winspear - To Die but Once65 Elizabeth Chadwick - Templar Silks 64 Darcie Boleyn - Christmas at Conwenna Cove63 T E Kinsey - Death around the Bend 62 David Dickinson - Mycroft Holmes and the Case of the Romanov Pearls 61 T E Kinsey - In the Market for Murder60 David Dickinson - Mycroft Holmes and Murder at the Diogenes Club 59 Darcie Boleyn - Summer at Conwenna Cove58 Rosie Thomas - Bad Girls, Good Women 57 Anna Hope - The Ballroom56 Tania Unsworth - The Seahorse 55 Ann Cleeves - Silent Voices54 ed Sarah Waters - Dancing with Mr Darcy 53 Maggie O'Farrell - This Must be the Place52 Sandi Toksvig - Valentine Grey 51 Alexander McCall Smith - Chance Developments 50 Sinead Moriarty - Me and My Sisters49 Robert and Linnet Latham - The World of Samuel Pepys 48 David Dickinson - Death of a Wine Merchant47 Alison Weir - The Grandmother's Tale 46 Louise Penny - The Cruellest Month45 Ann Cleeves - Hidden Depths 44 Kirsty Gunn - Featherstone43 David Dickinson - Mycroft Holmes and the Case of the Bankers' Conclave 42 Sarah Gristwood - The Queen's Mary41 Emma Davies - Lucy's Little Village Book Club 40 Phillipa Ashley - Spring on the Little Cornish Isles: The Flower Farm 39 Hunter Davies - The Co-op's Got Bananas38 Victoria Connelly - The Heart of the Garden 37 Elaine Bamford - Vortex Manor36 Angela Thirkell - August Folly 35 Fern Britton - The Postcard34 Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales 33 Emma Davies - The Little Cottage on the Hill 32 Jenny Colgan - The Summer Seaside Kitchen31 Marc Levy - PS From Paris 30 Louise Penny - Dead Cold29 Ann Cleeves - The Crow Trap 28 Ben Macintyre - The Last Word27 Robin Pilcher - A Matter of Trust 26 Sebastian Barry - On Canaan's Side25 Louise Penny - Still Life 24 Paula McLain - Circling the Sun23 Mobile Library (sic) - Louise Penny Believes 22 David Dickinson - Death of an Elgin Marble21 Tracy Rees - Amy Snow 20 Sariah Wilson - Once Upon a Time Travel19 Ayse Kulin - Last Train to Istanbul 18 Felicity Hayes-McCoy - The Library at the Edge of the World 17 David Dickinson - Death Comes to Lynchester Close16 Jules Hardy - Altered Land 15 T E Kinsey - A Quiet Life in the Country14 Felicity Kendal - White Cargo 13 Rebecca Boxall - Christmas on the Coast12 T E Kinsey - Christmas at the Grange 11 Jennifer McVeigh - The Fever Tree10 Jane Lapotaire - Everybody's Daughter, Nobody's Child 9 Rachel Joyce - The Music Shop8 Roisin Meaney - The People Next Door 7 Alison Weir - The Chateau of Briis: A Lesson in Love 6 Eowyn Ivey - Last Days in Hunting Camp5 Jules Wake - From Rome with Love 4 Rosalind Brackenbury - Paris Still Life3 Jules Wake - From Italy with Love 2 Anthony Trollope - Christmas at Thompson Hall and other Trollopian Holiday Tales 1 Lucy Diamond - The House of New Beginnings Abandoned Unfinished 22 Edward Marston - The Enemy Within 21 Gene Stratton-Porter - The Keeper of the Bees20 Melissa Hill - The Hotel on Mulberry Bay 19 Emma Donoghue - Frog Music18 Jamie Ford - Songs of Willow Frost 17 Joanna Cannon - The Trouble with Sheep and Goats 16 Matt Dunn - At the Wedding15 Elizabeth Strout - Anything is Possible 14 Lucy Dillon - A Hundred Pieces of Me13 Jacquelyn Mitchard - A Theory of Relativity 12 Alexandra Shulman - Can We Still Be Friends11 Francis Spufford - Golden Hill 10 Bernard Cornwell - Scoundrel9 Juliet Landon - Libertine in the Tudor Court 8 Nicola Upson - An Expert in Murder7 Emily Purdy - The Boleyn Bride 6 Robert Neill - Mist Over Pendle5 Victoria Cornwall - The Thief's Daughter 4 Christina McKenna - The Spinster Wife3 Karen Harper - The Queene's Cure 2 Fern Britton - New Beginnings1 Giles Kristian - Winter's Fire


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The box below lists all 264 books I read in 2017 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the 24 I abandoned unfinished at the end:

Books Read in 2017

264 Georgette Heyer - Snowdrift and other stories 263 Rosie Thomas - A Woman of Our Times262 Heidi Swain - Summer at Skylark Farm 261 Ines Thorn - The Whaler260 Amanda Prowse - Perfect Daughter 259 Various authors - Murder on Christmas Eve258 Carol Ann Duffy - Pablo Picasso's Noel 257 Carol Ann Duffy - The King of Christmas256 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales 255 PD James - The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories 254 Jules Wake - From Paris with Love this Christmas253 Beatrice Masini - The Watercolourist 252 Tilly Tennant - Rome is Where the Heart is251 Debbie Johnson - Coming Home to the Comfort Food Cafe 250 Georgie Capron - Just the Two of Us249 Wray Delaney - An Almond for a Parrot 248 Elizabeth Dyer - Defenseless247 Nathan Filer - The Shock of the Fall 246 Francesca Hornak - Seven Days of Us245 Various Authors - Murder Under the Christmas Tree 244 Darcie Boleyn - A Very Merry Manhattan Christmas 243 Julia Drosten - The Lioness of Morocco242 Scarlett Thomas - PopCo 241 MRC Kasasian - The Secrets of Gaslight Lane 240 Goldie Hawn - A Lotus Grows in the Mud239 Jules Wake - Covent Garden in the Snow 238 Charlotte Bingham - Friday's Child237 Paul Doherty - The Templar 236 Marion Husband - All the Beauty of the Sun235 Nigel Nicolson - Mary Curzon 234 Josephine Tey - The Man in the Queue233 Paul Doherty - The Midnight Man 232 Ayse Kulin - Love in Exile231 Milly Johnson - The Queen of Wishful Thinking 230 Daphne du Maurier - Hungry Hill229 MRC Kasasian - Death Descends on Saturn Villa 228John Green - An Abundance of Katherines227 Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway 226 Katharine McMahon - The Woman in the Picture 225 Deborah Moggach - Driving in the Dark224 Stef Penney - Under a Pole Star 223 Jane Hawking - Travelling to Infinity, My Life with Stephen 222 Victoria Connelly - Christmas with the Book Lovers221 Alison Weir - The Tower is Full of Ghosts Today 220 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology219 MRC Kasasian - The Curse of the House of Foskett 218 Dan Brown - Origin217 Gavin Maxwell - Raven Seek Thy Brother 216 Jenny Oliver - The Summer House by the Sea215 Phillipa Ashley - Christmas on the Little Cornish Isles: The Driftwood Inn 214 MRC Kasasian - The Mangle Street Murders213 Rosie Thomas - If My Father Loved Me 212 Alison Weir - Queens of the Conquest211 Jane Johnson - The Sultan's Wife 210 Laurie Graham - The Early Birds209 Ken Follett - A Column of Fire 208 Jacqueline Winspear - In This Grave Hour207 Sister Agatha with Richard Newman - A Nun's Story 206 Fern Britton - The Cornish Short Story Collection 205 Philippa Gregory - The Last Tudor204 Victoria Connelly - Natural Born Readers 203 Salley Vickers - The Message from Lindisfarne 202 Louise Penny - Glass Houses201 Helen Simonson - The Summer Before the War 200 Laurie Graham - The Importance of Being Kennedy 199 Emma Burstall - Tremarnock Summer198 Julia Chapman - Date with Death 197 Lindsay Jayne Ashford - Whisper of the Moon Moth 196 Barbara Ewing - The Fraud195 Alexandra Potter - Love from Paris 194 Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine - You Know You're a Child of the 60's When . . . 193 Pamela Hartshorne - House of Shadows192 Veronica Henry - A Night on the Orient Express 191 Derek J Taylor - A Horse in the Bathroom190 Bruce Holsinger - A Burnable Book 189 Daphne du Maurier - The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte 188 Veronica Henry - The Long Weekend187 Connie Willis - All Clear 186 Victoria Hislop - Cartes Postales from Greece 185 Jane Dunn - Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters184 Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess - The Painted Queen 183 Deborah Moggach - Twin Beds: Christmas at the Heartbreak Hotel 182 Ann Patchett - Commonwealth181 Carol Mason - After You Left 180 Connie Willis - Blackout179 Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont 178 Steve Martin - Shopgirl177 Deborah Moggach - Heartbreak Hotel 176 Julie Lawson Timmer - Mrs Saint and the Defectives 175 Cecelia Ahern - Lyrebird174 C D Reiss - Bombshell 173 David M Barnett - Calling Major Tom172 Deborah Moggach - The Ex-Wives 171 Stephanie Butland - Lost for Words170 Julia Rochester - The House at the Edge of the World 169 Melanie Hudson - The Wedding Cake Tree168 Che Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries 167 James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night 166 John Hadfield - Love on a Branch Line165 Rachel Joyce - A Snow Garden and Other Stories 164 Joanna Courtney - The Conqueror's Queen163 Ella Griffin - The Flower Arrangement 162 Tony Perrottet - Route 66 AD161 Various - Thoughts on Wisdom 160 Kerry Greenwood - Murder and Mendelssohn159 Julian Barnes - The Noise of Time 158 James Runcie - Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation 157 Alison Weir - The Lady in the Tower: the Fall of Anne Boleyn 156 Kerry Greenwood - Dead Man's Chest155 Kerry Greenwood - Murder in the Dark 154 Kerry Greenwood - Murder on a Midsummer Night 153 Alexander McCall Smith - A Distant View of Everything152 Elizabeth Noble - Alphabet Weekends 151 Julia Gregson - The Water Horse150 Chloe Banks - The Art of Letting Go 149 Sallie Day - The Palace of Strange Girls148 Kerry Greenwood - Death Before Wicket 147 Marion Husband - The Boy I Love146 Kerry Greenwood - Ruddy Gore 145 Ian Mortimer - The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation 144 David Dickinson - Death Comes to the Ballets Russes 143 Kerry Greenwood - The Castlemaine Murders142 ed Victoria Hislop - The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women 141 Kerry Greenwood - Murder in Montparnasse140 Frank Delaney - Ireland 139 Jane Stevenson - Astraea138 Kerry Anne King - I Wish You Happy 137 JS Drangsholt - The Marvellous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter 136 Jane Costello - Summer Nights at the Moonlight Hotel 135 Saskia Sarginson - The Twins134 Lewis Grassic Gibbon - A Scots Quair: Grey Granite 133 Joanna Courtney - The Chosen Queen132 Bernard Cornwell - Sea Lord 131 Victoria Connelly - Postcard from Venice and Other Stories 130 Phillipa Ashley - Decent Exposure129 Sarah Lark - Call of the Kiwi 128 Zoe Heller - The Believers127 Veronica Henry - Christmas at the Crescent 126 Phillipa Ashley - Confetti at the Cornish Cafe 125 Alison Weir - Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession124 Alison Weir - The Blackened Heart 123 Phillipa Ashley - Wish You Were Here122 Flora Fraser - Princesses, the Six Daughters of George III 121 Veronica Henry - The Beach Hut Next Door120 Kerry Greenwood - Death by Water 119 Veronica Henry - A Sea Change118 Miranda Emmerson - Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars 117 Tracy Chevalier - New Boy116 Anne O'Brien - The Shadow Queen 115 Michael Clarkson - The Age of Daredevils114 Bella Osborne - Willow Cottage 4: Summer Delights 113 Anita Shreve - The Stars are Fire112 Veronica Henry - The Beach Hut 111 Victoria Connelly - The Retreat and Other Stories 110 Jo Thomas - The Olive Branch109 Phillipa Ashley - The Little Deli by the Lake 108 Trisha Ashley - The Little Teashop of Lost and Found 107 Deryn Lake - As Shadows Haunting106 Edmund Crispin - The Moving Toyshop 105 Monica McInerney - The Alphabet Sisters104 Judy Finnigan - Eloise 103 Georgette Heyer - Behold, Here's Poison102 Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge 101 Andrew Pepper - The Last Days of Newgate100 Jacqueline Simpson - Green Men and White Swans, the Folklore of British Pub Names 99 Joanna Trollope - City of Friends98 Peter Ackroyd - The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein 97 Anne O'Brien - The Enigmatic Rake96 Cecelia Ahern - The Marble Collector 95 Anne O'Brien - The Outrageous Debutante94 Anne O'Brien - The Disgraced Marchioness 93 Deborah Moggach - Final Demand92 Emma Davies - Blackberry Way 91 Claire Tomalin - The Invisible Woman: the Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens 90 Fern Britton - A Good Catch89 Jennifer Johnston - Shadowstory 88 Deborah Lawrenson - The Lantern87 Kerry Greenwood - Unnatural Habits 86 Deborah Moggach - Changing Babies85 Emma Davies - Turn Towards the Sun 84 Jojo Moyes - Paris for One83 Victoria Connelly - Love in an English Garden 82 Holly Hepburn - Singing in the Rain at the Picturehouse by the Sea 81 Kerry Greenwood - Death at Victoria Dock80 Clare Morrall - Natural Flights of the Human Mind 79 Milly Johnson - It's Raining Men78 Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent 77 Jeanette Winterson - The Gap of Time76 Kerry Greenwood - Away with the Fairies 75 Tom Michell - The Penguin Lessons74 ed Andrew Ashling - Stories on the Go: 101 Very Short Stories by 101 Authors 73 Claudia Carroll - All She Ever Wished For72 Victoria Connelly - One Perfect Week and Other Stories 71 Hilary Boyd - The Lavender House70 Tilly Tennant - One Starry Night 69 Kate Morton - The Lake House68 Selina Siak Chin Yoke - The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds 67 Bella Osborne - Willow Cottage 3: A Spring Affair 66 Helen Dunmore - Birdcage Walk65 Kerry Greenwood - Urn Burial 64 Barry Unsworth - Morality Play63 Edward Marston - Date with the Executioner 62 Lucy Diamond - The Secrets of Happiness61 Edward Marston - Steps to the Gallows 60 Tilly Tennant - Ways to Say Goodbye59 Lewis Grassic Gibbon - A Scots Quair: Cloud Howe 58 Milly Johnson - The Wedding Dress57 Emma Davies - Gooseberry Fool 56 Candace Robb - A Cruel Courtship55 Margaret Atwood - Hag-Seed 54 Nancy Star - Sisters One, Two, Three53 Melissa Pimentel - The One That Got Away 52 Tim Adler - The House of Redgrave51 Alison Weir - The Blackened Heart 50 Anne Tyler - Vinegar Girl49 Lynne Truss - A Certain Age 48 Tilly Tennant - I'm Not in Love47 Sandi Toksvig - Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners 46 Susanna Kearsley - A Desperate Fortune45 Emma Davies - Letting in Light 44 Rebecca Boxall - Home for Winter43 Anthony Quinn - Curtain Call 42 Tilly Tennant - The Accidental Guest41 Milly Johnson - White Wedding 40 Mhairi McFarlane - After Hello39 Susanna Kearsley - Mariana 38 Mhairi McFarlane - Who's That Girl?37 Alexandra Potter - Don't You Forget About Me 36 Kim Edwards - The Secrets of a Fire King35 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Blood of an Englishman 34 Leanda de Lisle - The Sisters Who Would Be Queen 33 Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet32 Joanna Courtney - The Christmas Court 31 Victoria Connelly - Flights of Angels30 Holly Hepburn - Brief Encounter at the Picturehouse by the Sea 29 Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story28 Alexandra Potter - The Love Detective 27 R J Stevens - Becoming Bobbie26 Lindsey Davis - A Cruel Fate 25 Milly Johnson - The Birds and the Bees24 Joanna Courtney - The Constant Queen 23 Martin Lake - Very Like a Queen22 Thomas Hardy - A Group of Noble Dames 21 Jackie Kay - Red Dust Road20 Maxine Morrey - No Place Like Home 19 Desmond Seward - The Wars of the Roses and the Lives of Five Men and Women in the Fifteenth Century 18 Jenny Colgan - The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After 17 Salley Vickers - Cousins16 Beth Good - The Cornish Colouring Book Club 15 Alexander McCall Smith - The Novel Habits of Happiness 14 Emma Davies - Spring Fever13 Salley Vickers - Cousins 12 James Shapiro - 1599, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 11 Polly Samson - The Kindness10 Maxine Morrey - Winter's Fairytale 9 Abby Clements - The Christmas Bake Off8 Michelle Moran - The Heretic Queen 7 Susanna Kearsley - The Firebird6 David Machado - The Shelf Life of Happiness 5 Dani Atkins - Perfect Strangers4 Victoria Connelly - Three Graces 3 Laurie Graham - Life According to Lubka2 Jill Steeples - Winter at the Dog and Duck 1 Katharine McMahon - After Mary Abandoned Unfinished24 Victor Lodato - Mathilda Savitch 23 Katherine Clements - The Crimson Ribbon22 Imogen Parker - My Secret Lover 21 Christopher Brookmyre - Quite Ugly One Morning 20 Bernard Cornwell - Fools and Mortals19 Helen Cadbury - To Catch a Rabbit 18 Nerys Jones - Godiva17 Jenn Ashworth - The Friday Gospels 16 Jo Thomas - Late Summer in the Vineyard15 Julia Stagg - L'Auberge 14 Jeffrey Steingarten - The Man Who Ate Everything 13 Sue Watson - Love, Lies and Lemon Cake12 Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways 11 Antonia Fraser - The Warrior Queens, Boadicea's Chariot 10 Elizabeth Buchan - Daughters9 Michael Palin - The Truth 8 James Lever - Me Cheetah, The Autobiography7 Luz Gabas - Palm Trees in the Snow 6 Howard Jacobson - Shylock Is My Name5 Imogen Parker - The Things We Do for Love 4 David Liss - The Coffee Trader3 Dinah Jefferies - The Tea Planter's Wife 2 Laura Joh Rowland - The Way of the Traitor1 Matthew Pearl - The Technologists

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The box below lists all 293 books I read in 2016 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the 21 I abandoned unfinished at the end:

Books Read in 2016

293 Liz Fenwick - A Cornish Christmas Carol 292 J R R Tolkien - Tree and Leaf291 Nick Hornby - Everyone's Reading Bastard 290 Laura Briggs - A Christmas in Cornwall289 Wendy Lewis - Let It Snow 288 Maxine Morrey - The Christmas Project287 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales 286 Milly Johnson - The Barn on Half Moon Hill285 Sarah Morgan - Once Upon a Christmas 284 Laurie Graham - The Liar's Daughter283 Molly Keane - Loving and Giving 282 Victoria Connelly - At Home with Mr Darcy281 Emma Hannigan - The Heart of Winter 280 Victoria Connelly - Happy Birthday, Mr Darcy 279 Laura Briggs - A Wedding in Cornwall278 Derek Wilson - In the Lion's Court 277 Jane Stubbs - Thornfield Hall276 Milly Johnson - The Teashop on the Corner 275 Amanda Prowse - Christmas for One274 Milly Johnson - Sunshine Over Wildflower Cottage 273 Amanda Prowse - The Second Chance Cafe272 Emma Hannigan - Driving Home for Christmas 271 Victoria Connelly - Christmas with Mr Darcy 270 Daisy Goodwin - Victoria269 Victoria Connelly - Mr Darcy Forever 268 Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera - The Awakening of Miss Prim 267 Lucy Oliver - Winter Storms266 A A Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh 265 Laurie Graham - Perfect Meringues264 Frederik Backman - A Man Called Ove 263 Lee Jackson - The Last Pleasure Garden262 Barbara Ewing - The Petticoat Men 261 Victoria Connelly - Christmas at the Cottage 260 Marilyn Simon Rothstein - Lift and Separate259 Lucinda Riley - The Angel Tree 258 Tilly Tenant - Mishaps and Mistletoe257 Matt Dunn - A Christmas Day at the Office 256 Sue Watson - The Christmas Cake Cafe255 Lily Graham - A Cornish Christmas 254 Milly Johnson - The Yorkshire Pudding Club253 Jojo Moyes - After You 252 Bella Osborne - Willow Cottage 2: Christmas Cheer 251 Jojo Moyes - Me Before You250 John Green - The Fault in Our Stars 249 Leah Fleming - The Captain's Daughter248 Bill Bryson - The Road to Little Dribbling 247 Bella Osborne - Willow Cottage 1: Sunshine and Secrets 246 Various Authors - Truly, Madly, Deeply245 Allan Ahlberg - Please Mrs Butler 244 Nick Davies - Hack Attack243 Shamini Flint - Inspector Singh Investigates: A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree 242 Michelle Moran - Nefertiti241 Kate Griffin - Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill Fortune 240 Alison Weir - Arthur: Prince of the Roses239 Jennie Phillips - A Bolt for Freedom 238 Holly Hepburn - Christmas at the Star and Sixpence 237 Laura Bradbury - My Grape Year236 Linda Gillard - The Trysting Tree 235 Shena Mackay - The World's Smallest Unicorn and Other Stories 234 Joanne Harris - Gentlemen and Players233 Christina Courtenay - The Velvet Cloak of Moonlight 232 Alexander McCall Smith - The Revolving Door of Life 231 Phillipa Ashley - Christmas at the Cornish Cafe230 Debbie Johnson - Christmas at the Comfort Food Cafe 229 Holly Martin - Christmas at Lilac Cottage228 Nicola Marsh - Rescuing Rose 227 Jacqueline Winspear - Journey to Munich226 Eddie Askew - Many Voices, One Voice 225 Laurie Graham - The Night in Question224 Emma Davies - Merry Mistletoe 223 Bernard Cornwell - The Flame Bearer222 Sue Perkins - Spectacles 221 Dom Joly - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps220 Kathleen Long - Changing Lanes 219 Joanne Harris - Different Class218 P C Doherty - Crown in Darkness 217 Barbara Ewing - The Circus of Ghosts216 Milly Johnson - Ladies Who Launch 215 Milly Johnson - Here Come the Boys214 Brigid Keenan - Diplomatic Baggage 213 Laurie Graham - The Grand Duchess of Nowhere 212 Milly Johnson - An Autumn Crush211 Peter Carey - Jack Maggs 210 Tracy Chevalier - At the Edge of the Orchard209 Ellen Berry - The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane 208 Laurie Graham - Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights 207 Carola Dunn - Miss Jacobson's Journey206 Alex Brown - The Secret of Orchard Cottage 205 Christina Courtenay - Marry for Love204 Kathryn Hughes - The Secret 203 Barbara Ewing - The Mesmerist202 Nick Spalding - Bricking It 201 Nicey and Wifey - A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down 200 Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song199 Matt Dunn - Home 198 Matthew Baylis - Man Belong Mrs Queen197 Nicola Marsh - Saving Sara 196 Andrew Marshall - The Trouser People195 Victoria Connelly - The Full Bronte 194 Holly Hepburn - Autumn at the Star and Sixpence 193 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Autumn Throne192 Vanessa Greene - The Vintage Teacup Club 191 Louise Penny - A Great Reckoning (x2)190 Louise Penny - A Great Reckoning 189 Katherine Webb - The Legacy188 Helen Pollard - Holding Back 187 Helen Pollard - Return to the Little French Guesthouse 186 Julie Walters - That's Another Story185 Trisha Ashley - A Leap of Faith 184 Victoria Hislop - The Thread183Philippa Gregory - Three Sisters, Three Queens 182 Polly Evans - Kiwis Might Fly181 Hilary Spiers - Hester and Harriet 180 Mairi Wilson - Ursula's Secret179 Anne O'Brien - Compromised Miss 178 Sheila O'Flanagan - What Dreams Are Made Of 177 Laura Graham - Down a Tuscan Alley176 Milly Johnson - Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe 175 Lesley Cookman - Murder in the Blood174 Lesley Cookman - Murder Out of Tune 173 Jonathan Coe - The Closed Circle172 Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously 171 Iain Pears - Arcadia170 Lesley Cookman - Murder at Mallowan Manor 169 Emma Burstall - The Cornish Guest House168 Victoria Hislop - One Cretan Evening 167 Matt Dunn - What Might Have Been166 Phillipa Ashley - Return to Castle Bay 165 Kerry Greenwood - Queen of the Flowers164 Lesley Cookman - Murder in a Different Place 163 Alexandra Potter - Be Careful What You Wish For 162 Alexander McCall Smith - Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine161 Fern Britton - A Seaside Affair 160 Rosie Thomas - All My Sins Remembered159 Rick Gekoski - Lost, Stolen or Shredded 158 Elizabeth Fremantle - Queen's Gambit157 Colin Falconer - Isabella, Braveheart of France 156 Lesley Cookman - Murder in the Dark155 Anne Charnock - Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind 154 Kate Furnivall - The Far Side of the Sun153 Frances Welch - The Russian Court at Sea 152 Phillipa Ashley - Summer at the Cornish Cafe 151 Lesley Cookman - Murder in the Monastery150 Sarah Rose - For All the Tea in China 149 Deryn Lake - The King's Women148 Jean-Paul Didierlaurent - The Reader on the 6.27 147 Sarah Winman - A Year of Marvellous Ways146 John O'Farrell - The Man Who Forgot His Wife 145 Anne Karpf - The Human Voice, The Story of a Remarkable Talent 144 Rosie Thomas - Every Woman Knows a Secret143 Bernard Knight - The Thread of Evidence 142 Jeanette Winterson - Lighthousekeeping141 John Green - Paper Towns 140 Vanessa Greene - The Seafront Tea Rooms139 Piers Paul Read - The Misogynist 138 Celia Imrie - Nice Work (If You Can Get It) 137 Lesley Cookman - Murder by Magic136 David Baldwin - Elizabeth Woodville, Mother of the Princes in the Tower 135 J Paul Henderson - Last Bus to Coffeeville134 David Hopson - All the Lasting Things 133 Paul Doherty - Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II 132 James Lovegrove - Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine131 Allison Winn Scotch - In Twenty Years 130 Corinna Bomann - The Moonlit Garden129 Lesley Cookman - Murder at the Manor 128 Anna Elliott - Kitty Bennet's Diary127 Lesley Cookman - Bad Behaviour 126 Matthew Norman - We're All Damaged125 Lesley Cookman - Death Plays a Part 124 Helen Pollard - Warm Hearts in Winter123 Anne O'Brien - The Runaway Heiress 122 Emma Burstall - Tremarnock121 Raffaella Barker - From a Distance 120 Edward Marston - Shadow of the Hangman119 Helen Pollard - The Little French Guesthouse 118 Georgette Heyer - Envious Casca117 Aurelie Valognes - Out of Sorts 116 Laurie Graham - Mr Starlight115 Edward Marston - The Princess of Denmark 114 Sarah Painter - In the Light of What We See 113 Celia Imrie - Not Quite Nice112 Bernard Knight - Lion Rampant 111 Nina George - The Little Paris Bookshop110 Simon Gray - Coda 109 Lesley Cookman - Murder to Music108 Helen Macdonald - H is for Hawk 107 Chris Nickson - The Saltergate Psalter106 Debbie Johnson - Pippa's Cornish Dream 105 Christina Smee - The Rose of Middleham104 Debbie Johnson - Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe 103 Dani Atkins - Our Song102 Holly Hepburn - Summer at the Star and Sixpence 101 Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible100 Edward Marston - The Malevolent Comedy 99 Lesley Cookman - Murder Imperfect98 Lady Fortescue - Perfume from Provence 97 Bernard Knight - Madoc96 Anna Elliott - Pemberley to Waterloo 95 Catherine Alliott - The Wedding Day94 Edward Marston - The Devil's Apprentice 93 ed Tracy Chevalier - Reader, I Married Him92 Nicholas Ostler - Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin and the World It Created 91 Laurie Graham - A Humble Companion90 Mark Watson - The Knot 89 Chris Nickson - The Crooked Spire88 Victoria Connelly - Rules for a Successful Book Club 87 Catherine Alliott - A Rural Affair86 Lesley Cookman - Murder in the Green 85 Anne O'Brien - The Queen's Choice84 Clarissa Dickson Wright - A History of English Food 83 Steve Robinson - Kindred82 Edward Marston - The Counterfeit Crank 81 Martin Davies - Havana Sleeping80 Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 79 Leah Fleming - The Postcard78 Nick Alexander - The Other Son (Bonus sequel) 77 Sarah Morgan - Sleigh Bells in the Snow76 Suzannah Dunn - The May Bride 75 Nick Alexander - The Other Son74 Deryn Lake - Banishment 73 Debbie Johnson - The Birthday That Changed Everything 72 Anna Elliott - London Calling71 Lesley Cookman - Murder in Bloom 70 Anne O'Brien - Conquering Knight, Captive Lady 69 Sophie Gee - The Scandal of the Season68 Linda Lafferty - The Shepherdess of Siena 67 Debbie Johnson - The Mysterious Case of Cupid and the Drag Queen 66 Helen Dunmore - Exposure65 Victoria Hislop - The Last Dance and Other Stories 64 Molly Keane - Good Behaviour63 Kate Mosse - The Taxidermist's Daughter 62 Lesley Cookman - Murder by the Sea61 Michael Jecks - Fields of Glory 60 Maria Semple - Where'd You Go, Bernadette59 Karen Joy Fowler - The Case of the Imaginary Detective 58 Dan Kieran and Ian Vince - Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph 57 Gyles Brandreth - Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders 56 Rebecca Tope - The Windermere Witness55 Anne Michaels - The Winter Vault 54 Lesley Cookman - Murder in Midwinter53 Bernard Knight - The Lately Deceased 52 Fiona Gibson - The Woman Who Upped and Left51 Gyles Brandreth - Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man's Smile 50 Tasha Alexander - A Fatal Waltz49 Desmond Seward - Renishaw Hall: The Story of the Sitwells 48 Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures with Extremists 47 D R MacDonald - Cape Breton Road46 Karsten Flohr - The Last Voyage of Sigismund Skrik 45 Lesley Cookman - Murder at the Laurels44 Steve Robinson - The Lost Empress 43 Anna Elliott - Susanna and the Spy42 Steve Robinson - To The Grave 41 Meg Cabot - Size 12 and Ready to Rock40 Amalia Carosella - Helen of Sparta 39 S K Tremayne - The Ice Twins38 Shannon Hale - Midnight in Austenland 37 Douglas Smith - Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy 36 Martin Davies - Mrs Hudson and the Lazarus Testament 35 J G Ballard - The Crystal World34 Ray Celestin - The Axeman's Jazz 33 MaryAnn Johanson - The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride 32 Georgette Heyer - The Talisman Ring31 Edward Marston - The Vagabond Clown 30 Holly Hepburn - Cupidity29 Matt Dunn - A Day at the Office 28 Holly Hepburn - Valentine's Day at the Star and Sixpence 27 Rebecca Boxall - Christmas at the Vicarage26 Georgette Heyer - The Grand Sophy 25 Arthur Phillips - The Tragedy of Arthur24 Lesley Cookman - Murder in Steeple Martin 23 Martin Davies - Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose 22 Helen Dunmore - The Raw Garden21 Lucy Diamond - A Baby at the Beach Cafe 20 A N Wilson - The Book of the People19 Mamen Sanchez - The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman 18 Cary Elwes - As You Wish17 Cecelia Ahern - Girl in the Mirror 16 Deryn Lake - Pour the Dark Wine15 Jane Urquhart - A Map of Glass 14 Cecelia Ahern - PS I Love You13 Giles Milton - Big Chief Elizabeth 12 Charles Todd - A Pale Horse11 Georgette Heyer - Death in the Stocks 10 Martin Davies - Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse 9 Matthew Pearl - The Bookaneer8 Eric Kaplan - Does Santa Exist? 7 Cathy Kelly - Christmas Magic6 Lucie Brownlee - Life After You 5 Suzannah Dunn - The Lady of Misrule4 Salley Vickers - The Boy Who Could See Death 3 Cecelia Ahern - The Year I Met You2 David Ebershoff - The Danish Girl 1 Geraldine Brooks - The Secret Chord Abandoned UnfinishedBoris Johnson - Have I Got Views for You Gabrielle Kimm - His Last DuchessCassandra Clark - The Law of Angels Anna McPartlin - The Last Days of Rabbit HayesSteph Swainston - Above the Snowline Emily Bleeker - WreckageNancy Naigle - Sweet Tea and Secrets Christine Dwyer Hickey - Cold Eye of HeavenGeorgette Heyer - April Lady Ed Bel Mooney - Like Mother, Like Daughter?Sarah Lark - Toward the Sea of Freedom Tim Pears - A Revolution of the SunJeanette Winterson - Gut Symmetries Matthew Pearl - The Poe ShadowGrace McCleen - The Land of Decoration Ellin Carsta - The Secret HealerClaudia Winter - Apricot Kisses Sarah Moss - Signs for Lost ChildrenAlexandra Brown - Cupcakes at Carringtons Sarita Leone - The Christmas BargainSue Moorcroft - The Christmas Promise

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The box below lists all 282 books I read in 2015 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the 2 I dipped into/skimmed and the 7 I abandoned unfinished at the end:

Books Read in 2015

282 Robert Galbraith - Career of Evil 281 Bernard Cornwell - Warriors of the Storm280 Debbie Johnson - Cold Feet at Christmas 279 Jenny Colgan - The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris 278 O Henry - The Gift of the Magi277 Carol Ann Duffy - Another Night Before Christmas 276 Carol Ann Duffy - The Christmas Truce275 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales 274 Carol Ann Duffy - The Wren Boys273 Debbie Johnson - Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Jumper 272 Dan Rhodes - When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow 271 Holly Hepburn - Snowdrops at the Star and Sixpence270 J B Morrison - Frank Derrick's Holiday of a Lifetime 269 Sue Watson - Snow Angels, Secrets and Christmas Cake 268 Ann O'Loughlin - The Ballroom Cafe267 Dava Sobel - Galileo's Daughter 266 Jenny Oliver - The Little Christmas Kitchen 265 Stella Gibbons - Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm264 Adele Parks - The State We're In 263 Jenny Oliver - Four Weddings and a White Christmas 262 Jennifer Donnelly - The Tea Rose261 Trisha Ashley - A Christmas Cracker 260 Jane Gardam - The Stories259 Robin Pilcher - Starburst 258 A Scott Berg - Kate Remembered257 Polly Williams - Husband, Missing 256 C W Gortner - The Confessions of Catherine de Medici 255 Paul Furness - York: A Walk on the Wild Side254 Jenny Oliver - The Parisian Christmas Bake Off 253 Lisa Genova - Inside the O'Briens252 Colleen McCullough - An Indecent Obsession 251 Alison Weir - Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen 250 Victoria Glendenning - Raffles and the Golden Opportunity, 1781 - 1826 249 Lucy Diamond - One Night in Italy248 Sheila Weller - Girls Like Us 247 Rosie Thomas - Daughter of the House246 Camille Pagan - Life and Other Near-Death Experiences 245 Victoria Connelly - Christmas at the Castle 244 Rosie Thomas - The Illusionists243 Emma Bamford - Casting Off 242 David Dickinson - Mycroft Holmes and the Case of the Missing Popes 241 Fay Weldon - The New Countess240 David Dickinson - Mycroft Holmes and the Adventure of the Naval Engineer 239 Alexander McCall Smith - At the Reunion Buffet 238 Fay Weldon - Long Live the King237 Daphne du Maurier - The Scapegoat 236 David Dickinson - Mycroft Holmes and the Adventure of the Silver Birches 235 Bernard Cornwell - The Empty Throne234 Victoria Connelly - The Book Lovers 233 David Nicholls - Us232 Abby Clements - The Heavenly Italian Ice Cream Shop 231 Elizabeth Gilbert - The Signature of All Things 230 Tim Pears - In the Place of Fallen Leaves229 Abby Clements - Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop 228 Alistair Maclean - South by Java Head227 David Dickinson - Death Called to the Bar 226 Laline Paull - The Bees225 Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm 224 Adam Jacot de Boinod - I Never Knew There Was a Word For It 223 Pamela Hartshorne - The Edge of Dark222 Will Schwalbe - The End of Your Life Book Club 221 Trisha Ashley - Creature Comforts220 Simon Gray - The Smoking Diaries 219 Shamini Flint - Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder 218 Edward Marston - Inspector Colbeck's Casebook 217 Rosie Thomas - Celebration216 Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis and Other Stories 215 Rodney Bolt - The Impossible Life of Mary Benson 214 Paul Doherty - Ghostly Murders213 Christina Courtenay - The Soft Whisper of Dreams 212 Nick Hornby - Funny Girl211 Louise Penny - The Nature of the Beast 210 Christina McKenna - The Godforsaken Daughter 209 Christina Courtenay - The Secret Kiss of Darkness208 Kirsty Wark - The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle 207 Lucy Diamond - Summer at Shell Cottage206 Philippa Gregory - The Taming of the Queen 205 Charles Dickens - The Mystery of Edwin Drood 204 Christina Courtenay - The Jade Lioness203 Daphne du Maurier - Castle Dor 202 Lucy Diamond - Over You201 Matthew Pearl - The Last Dickens 200 Trisha Ashley - A Vintage Christmas199 Dan Jones - Magna Carta 198 Christina Courtenay - The Gilded Fan197 Freda Lightfoot - The Amber Keeper 196 Brian Dolan - Ladies of the Grand Tour195 Clare Balding - Walking Home 194 Edward Marston - Timetable of Death193 Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman - The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World 192 Emylia Hall - The Book of Summers191 Christina Courtenay - The Scarlet Kimono 190 John Lanchester - Capital189 Jill McGivering - Far From My Father's House 188 Nicola Barker - Clear187 Franz Kafka - A Hunger Artist 186 Edward Marston - The Bawdy Basket185 Alexander McCall Smith - Varg in Love 184 Jess Smith - Bruar's Rest183 Georgette Heyer - Charity Girl 182 Claire Harman - Jane's Fame181 Deryn Lake - Death in the West Wind 180 Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 179 Rachel Joyce - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy178 Cecelia Ahern - How to Fall in Love 177 ed Joseph Galliano - Dear Me, A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self 176 Martine Bailey - An Appetite for Violets175 Edward Marston - The Wanton Angel 174 Kate Mosse - The Mistletoe Bride and other Haunting Tales 173 Jane Gardam - Bilgewater172 Susie Steiner - Homecoming 171 Neil Hanson - Pigs Might Fly170 Robin McKinley - Spindle's End 169 Jane Robins - Rebel Queen168 Neil Hanson - The Inn at the Top 167 Madalyn Morgan - Foxden Acres166 Melanie Jones - L'Amour Actually 165 Lucy Diamond - Hens Reunited164 Rosie Thomas - A Simple Life 163 Will Whitaker - The King's Diamond162 Julia Llewellyn - Ten Minutes to Fall in Love 161 Jacqueline Winspear - A Dangerous Place160 Georgette Heyer - The Unknown Ajax 159J B Morrison - The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81 158 Victoria Williamson - You Are The Music157 Robin Pilcher - A Risk Worth Taking 156 Julia Quinn - Ten Things I Love About You155 Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles 154 M C Beaton - Kitty153 Ivan Turgenev - First Love 152 Jacqueline Winspear - Leaving Everything Most Loved 151 Catherine Bailey - The Secret Rooms150 Kaye Gibbon - Charms for the Easy Life 149 Samantha Tonge - Game of Scones148 Joanne Harris - Runelight 147 Jacqueline Winspear - The Care and Management of Lies 146 Jennifer Kloester - Georgette Heyer145 Rebecca Mead - The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot 144 Tasha Alexander - A Poisoned Season143 Jojo Moyes - The One Plus One 142 Joanne M Harris - The Gospel of Loki141 Tania Crosse - Morwellham's Child 140 Kathryn Harrison - A Thousand Orange Trees139 Elizabeth Edmondson - A Man of Some Repute 138 Patrick Gale - Tree Surgery for Beginners137 Celia Lyttelton - The Scent Trail 136 Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins135 Dani Atkins - The Story of Us 134 Christina Courtenay - Moonsoon Mists133 Steve Robinson - In the Blood 132 Christina Courtenay - Highland Storms131 Victoria Connelly - Irresistible You 130 Christina Courtenay - Trade Winds129 Charlie Lovett - First Impressions 128 Richard C Morais - The Hundred-Foot Journey 127 Victoria Connelly - The Rose Girls126 Josephine Moon - The Chocolate Apothecary 125 Meg Cabot - The Bride Wore Size 12124 Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life 123 Sarah Rayner - One Moment, One Morning122 Tasha Alexander - And Only to Deceive 121 Mike Yaconelli - A Gift for my Daughter120 Diane Setterfield - Bellman and Black 119 Catherine Czerkawska - The Physic Garden118 Veronica Henry - A Night on the Orient Express 117 Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist116 Julia Quinn - A Night Like This 115 Maeve Binchy - Chestnut Street114 Paul Doherty - Spy in Chancery 113 Christina Courtenay - The Silent Touch of Shadows 112 M C Beaton - Her Grace's Passion111 Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter 110 Kerry Greenwood - Raisins and Almonds109 John Sutherland - Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? 108 M J McGrath - White Heat107 Kerry Greenwood - The Green Mill Murder 106 Paul Doherty - The Assassin's Riddle105 Jane Torday and Roger Mortimer - Dearest Jane ... My Father's Life and Letters 104 Charlotte and Aaron Elkins - The Art Whisperer 103 Rosie Thomas - The Potter's House102 M C Beaton - Silken Bonds 101 Jason Vail - The Wayward Apprentice100 Charlie Connelly - Bring Me Sunshine 99 Kate Griffin - Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders 98 M C Beaton - His Lordship's Pleasure97 Roger Mortimer and Louise Mortimer - Dear Lumpy: Letters to a Disobedient Daughter 96 Deryn Lake - Death at the Wedding Feast95 Victoria Connelly - The Secret of You 94 Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Effect93 Joanne Graham -Lacey's House 92 M C Beaton - The First Rebellion91 Edward Marston - Deeds of Darkness 90 Stewart Binns - Conquest89 Georgette Heyer - Penhallow 88 Susanna Kearsley - The Rose Garden87 Lindsay Ashford - The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen 86 Julia Quinn - The Lost Duke of Wyndham85 Sharon Griffiths - The Accidental Time Traveller 84 Paul Doherty - The White Rose Murders83 Christina Courtenay - Never Too Late 82 Rosie Thomas - Strangers81 Emma Healey - Elizabeth is Missing 80 Mark Abley - Spoken Here, Travels Among Threatened Languages 79 Laurie Graham - Gone with the Windsors78 Charlotte and Aaron Elkins - A Cruise to Die For 77 Juliet Greenwood - Eden's Garden76 Andy Frazier - A Parrot in My Soup and Other Complaints 75 Maggie Gee - My Cleaner74 Daphne du Maurier - The Birds and Other Stories 73 Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project72 Elizabeth Boyce - Once an Innocent 71 Willa Cather - The Professor's House70 Lucy Diamond - The Year of Taking Chances 69 Helen Dunmore - The Seal Cove68 Kate Ellis - The Bone Garden 67 Jane Gardam - God on the Rocks66 Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac 65 Joanna Trollope - Balancing Act64 Daisy Goodwin - The Fortune Hunter 63 Ben Thompson - Ban This Filth62 Anne Tyler - A Spool of Blue Thread 61 Christina McKenna - The Disenchanted Widow60 Paul Doherty - The Darkening Glass 59 Alastair Puddick - The Unexpected Vacation of George Thring 58 The Medieval Murderers - The False Virgin57 Laurie R King - The Beekeeper's Apprentice 56 Antonia Hodgson - The Devil in the Marshalsea 55 Sushila Anand - Daisy, The Life and Loves of the Countess of Warwick 54 Victoria Connelly - Wish You Were Here53 Anthony Goodman - Katherine Swynford 52 Nick Alexander - The Photographer's Wife51 Linda Stratmann - A Case of Doubtful Death 50 Pamela Hartshorne - The Memory of Midnight49 Carolyn Brown - The Ladies' Room 48 M C Beaton - My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen47 Martin Davies - The Unicorn Road 46 Helen Bryan - The Sisterhood45 Paul Doherty - Nightshade 44 Linda Porter - Mary Tudor, The First Queen43 Steve Robinson - The Last Queen of England 42 Daphne du Maurier - The King's General41 Elizabeth Boyce - Once an Heiress 40 Mhairi McFarlane - Here's Looking at You39 George Eliot - Brother Jacob 38 Mary Lawson - Road Ends37 Linda Stratmann - The Daughters of Gentlemen 36 Bernard Knight - Dead in the Dog35 Duncan Whitehead - The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club 34 C W Gortner - The Last Queen33 Miri Rubin - Mother of God, A History of the Virgin Mary 32 Edward Marston - Ticket to Oblivion31 Kari Lee Townsend - Kicking the Habit 30 Edward Marston - The Fair Maid of Bohemia29 Linda Stratmann - The Poisonous Seed 28 Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo27 Jan Merry - Place of Many Birds 26 Jane Gardam - The Flight of the Maidens25 Diane Chamberlain - The Bay at Midnight 24 Rosie Thomas - White23 David Park - The Light of Amsterdam 22 Alexander McCall Smith - Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers 21 Cecelia Ahern - One Hundred Names20 Alastair Sim - The Unbelievers 19 Julia Neuberger - Is That All There Is? Thoughts on the Meaning of Life and Leaving a Legacy 18 Melanie Hudson - The Wedding Cake Tree17 Bernard Cornwell - 1356 16 Jane Gardam - Going into a Dark House15 M C Beaton - The Sins of Lady Dacey 14 Alexander McCall Smith - The Forever Girl13 William Newton - The Two Pound Tram 12 Bernard Knight - Brennan11 Nigel Nicolson - Portrait of a Marriage 10 Martin Davies - The Year After9 Diane Chamberlain - Summer's Child 8 Rosie Thomas - Follies7 Anita Shreve - The Lives of Stella Bain 6 Deanna Raybourn - Midsummer Night5 Alexander McCall Smith - Emma 4 E F Benson - The Male Impersonator3 Lulu Taylor - The Winter Folly 2 E F Benson - Trouble for Lucia1 Diana Norman - Shores of Darkness Dipped in and out of Annie Leonard - The Story of StuffJan Brett - The Twelve Days of Christmas Abandoned Unfinished Elizabeth Buchan - That Certain AgeJack Sheffield - Dear Teacher David Peace - 1974Rachel Joyce - Perfect Petra Durst-Benning - The GlassblowerAnnis Bell - The Girl at Rosewood Hall S D Sykes - Plague Land

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The box below lists all 272 books I read in 2014 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the 4 I dipped into/skimmed and the 29 I abandoned unfinished at the end:

Books Read in 2014

272 H G Wells - The War of the Worlds271 Rosalind Winter - Ready, Steady, Dig! 270 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales 269 O Henry - The Gift of the Magi268 Catherine O'Flynn - The News Where You Are 267 Deanna Raybourn - Twelfth Night266 Joanne Harris - A is for Acid Rain, B is for Bee 265 Rosie Thomas - The White Dove264 Edward Marston - The Laughing Hangman 263 Dan Brown - Inferno262 Lynn Marie Hulsman - Christmas at Thornton Hall 261 E F Benson - Lucia's Progress260 John Sergeant - Give Me Ten Seconds 259 Victoria Connelly - The Runaway Actress258 Daisy Waugh - Last Dance with Valentino 257 Paul Feeney - From Ration Book to eBook: The Life and Times of the Post-War Baby Boomers 256 Nancy Turner - These Is My Words255 Edward Marston - The Roaring Boy 254 Deanna Raybourn - Bonfire Night253 John Harding - What we did on our Holiday 252 Karen Maitland - Liars and Thieves251 Tasha Alexander - Star of the East 250 Diane Chamberlain - Reflection249 M L Stedman - The Light Between Oceans 248 Catherine Bailey - Black Diamonds247 Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests 246 Trisha Ashley - Footsteps in the Snow and Other Teatime Treats 245 Val McDermid - Northanger Abbey244 Michael Jecks - The Prophecy of Death 243 Victoria Connelly - Christmas at the Cove242 Elizabeth Boyce - Once a Duchess 241 Karen McQuestion - The Long Way Home240 Kate Lord Brown - The Perfume Garden 239 Gillian Linden - Remember How I Told You I Loved You? 238 Margaret James - The Wedding Diary237 Various authors - Ox-Tales: Fire 236 Anna Elliott - Georgiana Darcy's Diary235 Anne O'Brien - The Scandalous Duchess 234 Diane Chamberlain - The Courage Tree233 Lucy Diamond - Christmas Gifts at the Beach Cafe 232 Oliver Potzsch - The Dark Monk231 Rudyard Kipling - The Second Jungle Book 230 Dan Jones - The Plantagenets229 Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot 228 Anne O'Brien - The King's Sister227 Paul Doherty - The House of the Red Slayer 226 Diane Chamberlain - Necessary Lies225 C J Sansom - Lamentation 224 Alexander McCall Smith - Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party 223 S J Parris - The Secret Dead222 Bernadette Strachan - The Reluctant Landlady 221 Alan Haynes - The Gunpowder Plot220 Victoria Connelly - A Summer to Remember 219 Paul Doherty - The Angel of Death218 Julian Rathbone - The Last English King 217 Linda Gillard - Cauldstane216 Joanna Trollope - Sense and Sensibility 215 Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman - Winter Siege 214 Robin Sloan - Annabel Scheme213 C W Gortner - The Queen's Vow 212 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book211 Richard Brooks - The Knight Who Saved England: William Marshal and the French Invasion, 1217 210 Louise Penny - The Long Way Home209 Philippa Gregory - The King's Curse 208 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Winter Crown207 Sarah Maine - Bhalla Strand 206 Diane Chamberlain - Kiss River205 Carol Drinkwater - An Abundance of Rain 204 Gabrielle Kimm - The Girl with the Painted Face 203 Robert Galbraith - The Silkworm202 Robin Sloan - Ajax Penumbra 1969 201 Robin Sloan - Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore 200 Giles Waterfield - The Long Afternoon199 Sian Rees - The Shadows of Elisa Lynch 198 Victoria Connelly - Escape to Mulberry Cottage 197 Paul Doherty - Satan in St Mary's196 Elizabeth von Arnim - Christopher and Columbus 195 Maeve Binchy - Maeve's Times194 Trisha Ashley - A Piece of Cake 193 Jane Gardam - Last Friends192 Sue Gee - Keeping Secrets 191 Paul Torday - The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall 190 Christina Courtney - Desperate Remedies189 Victoria Connelly - Molly's Millions 188 Christina Courtney - Once Bitten, Twice Shy 187 Diane Chamberlain - Keeper of the Light186 Christina Courtney - Marry in Haste 185 Alison Weir - The Marriage Game184 Alison Kent - The Second Chance Cafe 183 Patricia Lennon - The Tale of the Mouse182 Helen Dunmore - The Lie 181 Rosanna Ley - The Villa180 Piers Paul Read - Alice in Exile 179 Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase178 Donna Jo Napoli - Daughter of Venice 177 David Dickinson - Death at the Jesus Hospital 176 Anne O'Brien - Marriage Under Siege175 Edith Wharton - The Reef 174 Rosie Thomas - Border Crossing173 David Suchet - Poirot and Me 172 Valerie Martin - The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories 171 Meg Cabot - Nicola and the Viscount170 Sarah Lark - Song of the Spirits 169 Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 168 Anne Tyler - The Beginner's Goodbye167 M C Beaton - The Chocolate Debutante 166 Paul Doherty - The Nightingale Gallery165 E G Benson - Mapp and Lucia 164 David Dickionson - Death in a Scarlet Coat163 Hazel Statham - The Portrait 162 Rosie Thomas - Constance161 Tom Harper - The Orpheus Descent 160 Mary Robinette Kowal - Glamour in Glass159 Denis O'Connor - Paw Tracks at Owl Cottage 158 Stef Penney - The Invisible Ones157 Annie Proulx - Bird Cloud 156 Pearl A Gardner - The Scent of Bluebells155 David Dickinson - Death of a Pilgrim 154 Victoria Connelly - The Perfect Hero153 Theresa Tomlinson - A Swarming of Bees 152 Anne Tyler - The Beginner's Goodbye151 Molly Keane - Loving Without Tears 150 Rosie Thomas - Sunrise149 Linda Cracknell - Call of the Undertow 148 Alexander McCall Smith - Sunshine on Scotland Street 147 Rosie Thomas - Lovers and Newcomers146 Rupert Brooke - If I Should Die 145 M C Beaton - Homecoming144 Dani Atkins - Fractured 143 E F Benson - Lucia in London142 Karen McQuestion - Easily Amused 141 Y S Lee - The Agency: A Spy in the House140 Hilary Boyd - Tangled Lives 139 Carola Dunn - Manna From Hades138 Virgina Ironside - No! I Don't Need Reading Glasses! 137 Trisha Ashley - Every Woman for Herself136 Anne O'Brien - Devil's Consort 135 Amy Sackville - Orkney134 Diane Chamberlain - The First Lie 133 Richard Elwes - Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes 132 Catherine Deveney - Ties that Bind131 Edward Marston - Peril on the Royal Train 130 Rosie Thomas - Sun at Midnight129 Michael Frayn - Skios 128 Gervase Phinn - Little Angels127 Trisha Ashley - Wish Upon a Star 126 Val McDermid - A Place of Execution125 Vilborg Davidsdottir - On the Cold Coasts 124 Peter Ackroyd - Wilkie Collins123 M C Beaton - Romance 122 Anna Dean - A Place of Confinement121 Wilkie Collins - Jezebel's Daughter 120 Kathleen Long - Chasing Rainbows119 M C Beaton - Intrigue 118 Edward Marston - Five Dead Canaries117 Jane Gardam - The Man in the Wooden Hat 116 Karin Altenberg - Island of Wings115 Margaret Lane - The Bronte Story 114 Julia Quinn - The Duke and I113 Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch 112 Lauren Oliver - Delirium111 Anna Dean - A Woman of Consequence 110 Anna Dean - A Moment of Silence109 Simon Winchester - The Meaning of Everything 108 Robert Goddard - Closed Circle107 Jan-Philipp Sendker - The Art of Hearing Heartbeats 106 Wilkie Collins - The Kindle Wilkie Collins Megapack 105 Diana Norman - The Morning Gift104 M C Beaton - Back in Society 103 M C Beaton - Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue 102 M C Beaton - Sir Philip's Folly101 Pamela Hartshorne - Time's Echo 100 Kate Harrison - Brief Encounters99 Rosemary Sutcliffe - The Lantern Bearers 98 M C Beaton - The Westerby Inheritance97 Margaret James - The Penny Bangle 96 Carol Drinkwater - Hotel Paradise95 Guy Bellamy - The Man Who Won 94 Margaret James - The Golden Chain93 M C Beaton - Deception 92 Rosemary Sutcliffe - The Silver Branch91 M C Beaton - The Scandalous Lady Wright 90 Tom Winter - Lost and Found89 Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel 88 Margaret James - The Silver Locket87 M C Beaton - Banishment 86 Robert Goddard - Past Caring85 Edward Marston - The Elephants of Norwich 84 Bernard Cornwell - Stormchild83 Trisha Ashley Finding Mr Rochester 82 Martin Davies - The Conjuror's Bird81 Margaret Forster - The Unknown Bridesmaid 80 Helen Dunmore - Rose, 194479 Bernard Cornwell - The Pagan Lord 78 Rosie Thomas - Moon Island77 Christopher Gortner - The Tudor Secret 76 Michael Jecks - Templar's Acre75 M C Beaton - Mrs Budley Falls From Grace 74 Robert Goddard - Sea Change73 Jon Spence - Becoming Jane Austen 72 Jane Gardam - A Long Way from Verona71 Elizabeth Eyre - Dirge for a Doge 70 Jane Urquhart - Changing Heaven69 Bill Price - Celtic Myths 68 Laurie Graham - At Sea67 Suzanne Joinson - A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar 66 Daphne du Maurier - Julius65 Wilkie Collins - The Dead Alive 64 Trisha Ashley - Sowing Secrets63 Victoria Connelly - A Weekend with Mr Darcy 62 Monica McInernay - Those Faraday Girls6 1 D L Smith - The Miracles of Santo Fico 60 Sophie Divry - The Library of Unrequited Love 59 Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behaviour58 Trisha Ashley - Good Husband Material 57 Patrick Gale - The Cat Sanctuary56 Cecelia Ahern - The Time of My Life 55 Mhairi McFarlane - You Had Me At Hello54 M C Beaton - Folly 53 Penelope Fitzgerald - The Gate of Angels52 Charlotte and Aaron Elkins - A Dangerous Talent 51 Trisha Ashley - Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues 50 Meg Cabot - Size Doesn't Matter49 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence 48 Brian Moore - The Doctor's Wife47 Alan Garner - The Owl Service 46 Jeanne Kalogridis - Painting Mona Lisa45 Miranda J Green - Exploring the World of The Druids 44 Kate Williams - England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton 43 Cecelia Ahern - Thanks for the Memories42 Edith Wharton - Roman Fever 41 Stan Barstow - The Likes of Us40 Ariana Franklin - City of Shadows 39 Myla Goldberg - Bee Season38 Olivia Goldsmith - Wish Upon a Star 37 Alice Munro - Dear Life36 Jonathan Coe - The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim 35 Nicola Barker - Five Miles From Outer Hope34 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov 33 Elizabeth Edmondson - The Frozen Lake32 Fiona Robyn - Small Kindnesses 31 Alan Garner - The Owl Service30 Bernard Knight - Crowner's Crusade 29 Susanna Johnston - Lettice and Victoria28 Anuradha Roy - An Atlas of Impossible Longing 27 Jo Baker - Longbourn26 Roger Hutchinson - Calum's Road 25 Louise Douglas - Missing You24 Bernard Knight - Grounds for Appeal 23 Lesley Garner - Everything I've Ever Learned About Love 22 David Dickinson - Death on the Holy Mountain21 Barbara Pym - An Academic Question 20 Jonathan Harvey - The Confusion of Karen Carpenter 19 Jed Rubenfeld - The Death Instinct18 Sebastian Faulks - A Possible Life 17 M C Beaton - Miss Tonks Turns to Crime16 Candace Robb - A Vigil of Spies 15 Barbara Pym - Civil to Strangers and Other Writings 14 David Dickinson - Death on the Nevskii Prospekt13 Kate Mosse - La Tombe de Pyrene 12 Kate Mosse - The Winter Ghosts11 Anna Dean - A Gentleman of Fortune or The Suspicions of Miss Dido Kent 10 Raymond Chandler - The Long Good-bye9 Helen Smith - Invitation to Die 8 Paul Bajoria - The Printer's Devil7 Jojo Moyes - The Last Letter From Your Lover 6 David Dickinson - Death of an Old Master5 Jane Austen - Persuasion 4 Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice3 Katherine Swift - The Morville Hours 2 Various authors - The Library Book1 Raymond Chandler - Farewell, My Lovely Dipped in and out of Jacqueline Winspear - Leaving Everything Most Loved (file corrupted) James Birdsall - Yorkshire VillagesEd Geldard - The Lake District Jan Brett - The Twelve Days of Christmas Abandoned UnfinishedFanny Fern - Ruth Hall Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg - The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules Willy Russell - The Wrong BoyMichael Pearson - A Ribbon of Road in the Moonlight Michael Russell - The City of ShadowsRobyn Young - Crusade Lynn Coady - Saints of Big HarbourMrs Henry Wood - East Lynne Cecelia Ahern - Where Rainbows EndCatrin Collier - Homecoming Nicholas Sparks - The Last SongAlice Hoffman - The River King Ira Levin - The Stepford WivesSusan Kiernan-Lewis - Murder on the Cote d'Azur Hannah Kent - Burial RitesSarah Dunant - Blood and Beauty C C Humphreys - Blood TiesJudy Astley - Muddy Waters Amanda Coe - What They Do in the DarkAlice Hoffman - The Story Sisters Thomas Keneally - The Daughters of MarsE M Powell - The Fifth Knight Jo Baker - Longbourn (reread)Aimee Bender - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Oliver Potzsch - The Beggar KingAlan Titchmarsh - Animal Instincts Maggie O'Farrell - My Lover's LoverJane Fallon - The Ugly Sister S J Parris - Sacrilege


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The box below lists all 266 books I read in 2013 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the 3 I dipped into/skimmed and the 19 I abandoned unfinished at the end:


Books Read in 2013

266 Sandra Gulland - The Last Great Dance on Earth 265 Kim Edwards - The Lake of Dreams264 Carol Ann Duffy - Another Night Before Christmas 263 Carol Ann Duffy - The Christmas Truce262 J R R Tolkien - Letters from Father Christmas 261 Alison Weir - A Dangerous Inheritance260 Cecelia Ahern - The Gift 259 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales 258 Dora Heldt - Tidal Shift257 Mary Robinette Kowal - Shades of Milk and Honey 256 C C Humphreys - The French Executioner255 Kathryn Hughes - The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton 254 Mark Watson - Eleven253 M C Beaton - Something Borrowed, Someone Dead 252 Alexander McCall Smith - The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds 251 Rachel Joyce - A Faraway Smell of Lemon250 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent 249 Lisa Genova - Love Anthony248 Katharine McMahon - Confinement 247 Patrick Gale - Kansas in August246 Lisa Genova - Left Neglected 245 Kate Atkinson - Life After Life244 Lisa Genova - Still Alice 243 Robyn Young - Brethren242 David Baldacci - The Christmas Train 241 Meg Cabot - Victoria and the Rogue240 Kate Morton - The Secret Keeper 239 Lucy Diamond - Christmas at the Beach Cafe238 Kerry Greenwood - Murder on the Ballarat Train 237 M C Beaton - Our Lady of Pain236 Pablo de Santis - Voltaire's Calligrapher 235 Susan Ralph - A Sprig of Lavender234 H M Castor - VIII 233 Julian Barnes - Letters from London 1990 - 1995 232 Mary Hooper - At the Sign of the Sugared Plum231 Charlotte Bronte - Villette 230 Rosie Thomas - The Kashmir Shawl229 Maggie O'Farrell - Instructions for a Heatwave 228 Edie Claire - Long Time Coming227 Sandra Gulland - Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe 226 Sharon Kay Penman - Lionheart225 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 224 W O Mitchell - The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon 223 Peter Turnbull - Aftermath222 William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault 221 M C Beaton - Rainbird's Revenge220 Katharine McMahon - Season of Light 219 M C Beaton - The Adventuress218 Helen Dunmore - The Land Lubbers Lying Down Below 217 Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo's Calling216 Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness 215 Kerry Greenwood - Flying Too High214 Helen Castor - Blood and Roses 213 Elizabeth Chadwick - The Summer Queen212 Diana Norman - Blood Royal 211 Michael Cunningham - By Nightfall210 M C Beaton - Rake's Progress 209 Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns208 Louise Penny - How the Light Gets In 207 Philippa Gregory - The White Princess206 Chris Nickson - Fair and Tender Ladies 205 Joanne Harris - Peaches for Monsieur le Cure 204 Kate Summerscale - Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady 203 Salley Vickers - The Cleaner of Chartres202 M C Beaton - Hasty Death 201 Francesca Simon - Horrid Henry's Haunted House 200 Paulo Coelho - The Winner Stands Alone199 Ellis Peters - A Rare Benedictine 198 Katharine McMahon - A Way through the Woods 197 M C Beaton - Lady Fortescue Steps Out196 Anne O'Brien - The Forbidden Queen 195 Kate Williams - The Pleasures of Men194 Julia Quinn - To Catch an Heiress 193 Jane Austen - Lady Susan192 Janet Todd - Lady Susan Plays the Game 191 Mark Haddon - The Red House190 Susanna Gregory - A Summer of Discontent 189 Gervase Phinn - Over Hill and Dale188 Michel Faber - The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps 187 Chris Nickson - Convalescence186 Stacey O'Brien - Wesley: the Story of a Remarkable Owl 185 Joanna Trollope - The Soldier's Wife184 Susan Hill - Howards End is on the Landing 183 Flora Thompson - Candleford Green182 Sarah Harrison - Heaven's on Hold 181 Patrick Gale - Notes from an Exhibition180 Alice Hoffman - Practical Magic 179 M C Beaton - Marrying Harriet178 Patrick Gale - A Perfectly Good Man 177 M C Beaton - Animating Maria176 Diana Norman - Taking Liberties 175 M C Beaton - The Wicked Godmother174 Judith Cutler - The Food Detective 173 M C Beaton - Plain Jane172 Judith Cutler - Shadow of the Past 171 Tony Curtis with Mark A Vieira - Some Like It Hot: Me, Marilyn and the Movie 170 M C Beaton - Finessing Clarissa169 M C Beaton - Enlightening Delilah 168 Judith Cutler - The Chinese Takeout167 Edward Marston - Instrument of Slaughter 166 Jacqueline Winspear - A Lesson in Secrets165 M C Beaton - Perfecting Fiona 164 Nicole Kelby - White Truffles in Winter163 Helen Smith - Alison Wonderland 162 Rosemary Sutcliff - Dawn Wind161 Sarah Lark - In the Land of the Long White Cloud 160 M C Beaton - Hiss and Hers159 Patrick Gale - The Facts of Life 158 Rebecca Tope - A Death to Record157 Charlie and Roger Mortimer - Dear Lupin … Letters to a Wayward Son 156 Flora Thompson - Over to Candleford155 Oliver Potzsch - The Hangman's Daughter 154 P G Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Impending Doom 153 Deryn Lake - Death at St James's Palace152 Deryn Lake - Death in Hellfire 151 Patricia Gaffney - Lily150 Jennifer Johnston - Two Moons 149 Julia Quinn - Brighter than the Sun148 A S Byatt - The Virgin in the Garden 147 Sophie Kinsella - Six Geese A-Laying146 Mick Jackson - The Underground Man 145 Anne O'Brien - Puritan Bride144 Helen Castor - She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth 143 Joanne Harris - A Cat, a Hat and a Piece of String 142 Anne O'Brien - The Uncrowned Queen141 Ali McNamara - From Notting Hill to New York … Actually 140 Sue Gee - The Hours of the Night139 Flora Thompson - Lark Rise 138 Bella Pollen - The Summer of the Bear137 Kerry Greenwood - Miss Phryne Fisher Investigates 136 Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus135 M C Beaton - The Miser of Mayfair 134 Maria Edgeworth - Belinda133 Jack Sheffield - Teacher, Teacher! 132 Alan Titchmarsh - Tales from Titchmarsh, A Year in the Garden 131 Chris Nickson - At the Dying of the Year130 Chris Nickson - Cold Cruel Winter 129 David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet 128 Malcolm Pryce - Aberystwyth Mon Amour127 Chris Nickson - The Broken Token 126 Chris Nickson - Come the Fear125 Chris Nickson - The Constant Lovers 124 Edward Marston - The Silent Woman123 Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared 122 C C Humphrey - The Blooding of Jack Absolute 121 Audrey Harrison - Years Apart120 Christopher Potter - You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe 119 Maeve Binchy - A Week in Winter118 Meg Rosoff - How I Live Now 117 Alexander McCall Smith - Bertie Plays the Blues 116 Jacqueline Winspear - Elegy for Eddie115 Bernard Knight - According to the Evidence 114 Paul Torday - Theo113 Wilkie Collins - Basil 112 Kate Morton - The Distant Hours111 Lauren Henderson - Jane Austen's Guide to Romance: The Regency Rules 110 Ian Fleming - Casino Royale109 Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 108 Paul Torday - Breakfast at the Hotel Deja Vu 107 Helen Dunmore - The Greatcoat106 Edward Marston - The Mad Courtesan 105 Denise Domning - Winter's Heat104 David W Robinson - The Filey Connection 103 David Dickinson - Death and the Jubilee102 Anne O'Brien - The King's Concubine 101 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin: As the Pig Turns 100 Kay Springsteen - The Toymaker99 C J Sansom - Dominion 98 Jostein Gaarder - Maya97 E F Benson - Miss Mapp 96 Eva Ibbotson - Madensky Square95 Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin and Michael Jones - The Women of the Cousins' War 94 M C Beaton - Annabelle93 Bernard Knight - Where Death Delights 92 Michael Jecks - The Leper's Return91 Nick Hornby et al - Speaking with the Angel 90 Kate Atkinson - Not the End of the World89 David Crystal - Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling 88 Wilkie Collins - Miss or Mrs?87 Jane Gardam - Old Filth 86 Ronald Wright - Henderson's Spear85 Alice Hoffman - The Probable Future 84 Sean Longley - The Hartlepool Monkey83 Andrew Motion - The Invention of Dr Cake 82 Leonie Frieda - Catherine de Medici81 Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway 80 M C Beaton - Refining Felicity79 Linda Holeman - The Moonlit Cage 78 Cassandra Clark - The Red Velvet Turnshoe77 David Dickinson - Goodnight, Sweet Prince 76 Patrick Gale - A Sweet Obscurity75 Marilynne Robinson - Home 74 Wilkie Collins - The Dead Secret73 Kate Atkinson - Life After Life 72 Janet Whitehead - Winterhaven71 Chris Lavers - The Natural History of Unicorns 70 Kate Atkinson - Life After Life69 Pat Mcintosh - The Harper's Quine 68 M C Beaton - Snobbery with Violence67 Philip Pullman - The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 66 S J Parris - Prophecy65 Minette Walters - A Dreadful Murder 64 Jacqueline Winspear - The Mapping of Love and Death 63 James Patterson and Andrew Gross - The Jester62 Fiona Shaw - A Stone's Throw 61 Edward Marston - The Nine Giants60 Sophie Nicholls - The Dress 59 Jane Gardam - The Queen of the Tambourine58 Melvyn Bragg - The Adventure of English 57 Ken Follett - Night Over Water56 Audrey Harrison - The Unwilling Earl 55 Audrey Harrison - The Complicated Earl54 E F Benson - Queen Lucia 53 A M Homes - The Safety of Objects52 Tess Stimson - The Wife Who Ran Away 51 Michael Jecks - For the Love of Old Bones50 Louise Douglas - The Love of My Life 49 E Dixon - Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights 48 M C Beaton - Molly47 Marieke Van Der Pol - Bride Flight 46 Hilary Boyd - Thursdays in the Park45 Nancy Warren - The Christmas Grandma Ran Away from Home 44 M C Beaton - Polly43 Diana Norman - A Catch of Consequence 42 Cassandra Clark - Hangman Blind41 M C Beaton - Hell's Bells 40 Susie Hodge - The Secret History of the Knights Templar 39 Monica Kulling - Fairy Tale38 Alan Lightman - Einstein's Dreams 37 Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey36 Paul Doherty - The Knight's Confession 35 Alastair Vannan - The Death of Queen Jane34 Sarah Moss - Night Waking 33 Victoria Hislop - The Kafenion32 Andrew Lane - Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud 31 Arthur Ransome - Old Peter's Russian Tales30 Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child 29 Paul Torday - Light Shining in the Forest28 Dodie Smith - It Ends with Revelations 27 Amanda Foreman - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 26 The Medieval Murderers - The First Murder25 Elizabeth Chadwick - First Knight 24 Sandra Gulland - The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. 23 Jennifer Egan - The Invisible Circus22 Fiona Shaw - Tell it to the Bees 21 Martha Weinman Lear - Where Did I Leave My Glasses? 20 Rebecca Tope - Grave Concerns19 Ami McKay - The Birth House 18 Emma Darwin - The Mathematics of Love17 Susan Hill - Crystal 16 Veronica Black - Vow of Silence15 Alice Munro - Selected Stories 14 Paula McLain - The Paris Wife13 Edward Marston - The Stationmaster's Farewell 12 Maeve Binchy - Minding Frankie11 Paul Torday - Theo 10 Peter Ackroyd - The Life of Thomas More9 Deryn Lake - Death in the Setting Sun 8 Robin Ince - Bad Book Club7 Maeve Binchy - Full House 6 Laurie Viera Rigler - Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict 5 Laurie Viera Rigler - Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict4 Helen Dunmore - Protection 3 Louise Penny - The Beautiful Mystery2 Fay Weldon - Habits of the House 1 Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Dipped in and out of J K Rowling - The Casual VacancyT G H James - An Introduction to Ancient Egypt Gyles Brandreth - The Christmas Book Abandoned UnfinishedDaniel Glattauer - Love Virtually Emma Donoghue - RoomRachel Trezise - Sixteen Shades of Crazy Donna Morrissey - Kit's LawKevin Rabalais - The Landscape of Desire Maisie Mosco - Almonds and RaisinsSue Townsend - The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year Edith Pargeter - The Hounds of SunsetPhilippa Gregory - Changeling Ali McNamara - Breakfast at Darcy'sPaulo Coelho - The Pilgrimage D B C Pierre - Vernon God LittleAnne Enright - The Gathering Ian McEwan - SolarLauren Weisberger - Chasing Harry Winston Kathleen Morgan - Daughter of JoyKate Grenville - Sarah Thornhill Rebecca Tope - Dark UndertakingsVigilangelo - A Gatecrasher's Guide to Eternity


In June 2013, when I still hadn't finished the audio book I started in 2011, I admitted defeat! Unfortunately audio books just don't do it for me!


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The box below lists all 209 books I read in 2012 in the order I finished them, latest on top, with the 2 I dipped into/skimmed and the 12 I abandoned unfinished at the end:


Books Read in 2012

209 Rebecca Tope - Deception in the Cotswolds 208 Helen Dunmore - The Greatcoat207 Salley Vickers - Vacation 206 Elizabeth McGregor - The Ice Child205 Alexander McCall Smith - Trains and Lovers: The Heart's Journey 204 Rebecca Tope - A Grave in the Cotswolds203 Muriel Barbery - The Elegance of the Hedgehog 202 Harriet Scott Chessman - Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper 201 Deborah Moggach - The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 200 Barbara Pym - Crampton Hodnet199 Ross King - Domino 198 Else Roesdahl - The Vikings197 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior 196 Deborah Moggach - Smile195 Cynan Jones - The Long Dry 194 Dylan Thomas - A Child's Christmas in Wales 193 M C Beaton - Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble192 Linda Gillard - The Glass Guardian 191 Elizabeth Jackson - The Language of Thieves 190 Michael Jecks - The King of Thieves189 Charles Dickens - The Chimes 188 Jane Harris - Gillespie and I187 Diana Gabaldon - The Scottish Prisoner 186 Alison Weir - Isabella185 Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times 184 Geraldine Brooks - Caleb's Crossing183 Alan Titchmarsh - The Haunting 182 J K Rowling - The Casual Vacancy181 Rebecca Tope - Fear in the Cotswolds 180 Ann Patchett - State of Wonder179 Alain de Botton - A Week at the Airport 178 Sara Gruen - Ape House177 Anthony Trollope - The Way We Live Now 176 Rebecca Tope - Slaughter in the Cotswolds175 Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen 174 Karen Maitland - The Gallows Curse173 Philippa Gregory - The Kingmaker's Daughter 172 Helen Humphreys - The Reinvention of Love171 Sian Rees - The Floating Brothel 170 Steve Smallman - Santa is Coming to Colchester 169 Anthony Trollope - Rachel Ray168 Paul Torday - The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall 167 Karen Blomain - A Trick of Light166 Philippa Gregory - The Lady of the Rivers 165 Sophie Duffy - This Holey Life164 Paul Torday - The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall 163 Peter Tonkin - One Head Too Many162 Anne Perry - Traitors Gate 161 Lucy Diamond - The Beach Cafe160 Muriel St Clare Byrne (ed) - The Lisle Letters 159 Paul Torday - The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers 158 Jennie Rooney - Inside the Whale157 Miranda Hearn - Nelson's Daughter 156 Bernard Cornwell - Death of Kings155 Robertson Davies - The Lyre of Orpheus 154 Joanna Trollope - Daughters-in-Law153 Sylvian Hamilton - The Bone-Pedlar 152 Alice Hoffman - Blue Diary151 Paulo Coelho - The Devil and Miss Prym 150 Edward Marston - A Bespoke Murder149 Elizabeth Buchan - Secrets of the Heart 148 The Medieval Murderers - Hill of Bones147 Isabel Allende - Of Love and Shadows 146 Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie145 Mark Billingham - The Burning Girl 144 Peter Ackroyd - Dickens143 Edward St Aubyn - Mother's Milk 142 Edward Marston - Blood on the Line141 Patrick Gale - A Perfectly Good Man 140 Mari Strachan - The Earth Hums in B Flat139 Robertson Davies - What's Bred in the Bone 138 John Banville - The Sea137 Jill McGivering - The Last Kestrel 136 Mark Billingham - Buried135 Mark Forsyth - The Etymologicon 134 Susanna Gregory - Mystery in the Minster133 Susan Hill - A Kind Man 132 Paul Coelho - The Fifth Mountain131 Donna Morrissey - Downhill Chance 130 M C Beaton - Frederica in Fashion129 M C Beaton - Diana the Huntress 128 Guy Vanderhaeghe - The Last Crossing127 Elizabeth Haynes - Revenge of the Tide 126 Victoria Glendinning - Trollope125 Claude Izner - Murder on the Eiffel Tower 124 S J Parris - Heresy123 Anthony Trollope - Lady Anna 122 Amy Sackville - The Still Point121 Robertson Davies - The Rebel Angels 120 Helen Bryan - War Brides119 Sarah Winman - When God was a Rabbit 118 M C Beaton - The Taming of Annabelle117 Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach 116 M C Beaton - Minerva115 Lori Lansens - The Girls 114 Dianne Warren - Cool Water113 P D James - Death Comes to Pemberley 112 Trisha Ashley - The Magic of Christmas111 M C Beaton - Daphne 110 W J Burley - Wycliffe and The Four Jacks109 Edward Marston - The Trip to Jerusalem 108 Katie Ward - Girl Reading107 Malcolm Day - Voices from the World of Jane Austen 106 Katie Hickman - Courtesans105 Jennie Rooney - The Opposite of Falling 104 Christina McKenna - The Misremembered Man103 M C Beaton - Deirdre and Desire 102 Anne O'Brien - Virgin Widow101 Trisha Ashley - Wedding Tiers 100 Malcolm Pryce - From Aberystwyth with Love99 Gideon Defoe - The Pirates! in an Adventure with Moby Dick 98 Anthony Trollope - The Claverings97 Alexander McCall Smith - The Charming Quirks of Others 96 Laurie Graham - The Dress Circle95 Sarah Challis - Killing Helen 94 Jane Urquhart - The Stone Carvers93 Carola Dunn - The Winter Garden Mystery 92 Carola Dunn - Death at Wentwater Court91 Thelwall - Up the Garden Path 90 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 Dipped in and out of Mike Harding - When the Martians Land in Huddersfield Tania Carver - Cage of BonesAbandoned Unfinished Brock Clarke - An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England Carola Dunn - Rattle His BonesElizabeth Haynes - Into the Darkest Corner Joyce Carol Oates - The Gravedigger's DaughterMartyn Waites - The White Room Martyn Waites - The Mercy SeatMartyn Waites - Bone Machine Diane Harpwood - Tea and TranquillisersTom Keneally - An Angel in Australia Patricia Finney - Unicorn's BloodCharles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby Michael Crummey - River Thieves


I still haven't finished the audio book I started in 2011!


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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