Recent Book Activity

*** May 2017 - We've finally moved home! If you need our new address in Chester please PM me. ***

Receiving a registered book from Green Metropolis and wanting to recycle more got me hooked on BC!

I hail from Carlisle, Cumbria originally and support the mighty blues - Carlisle United FC. They play at Brunton Park hence my user name.

I've quickly learned that I need to spend more time reading and less time browsing the forums ;) Through BC I am starting to read more than my usual crime, mystery and thrillers.

For anyone wanting to send me something as a surprise, please contact Plum-Crazy who holds my address at all times. This is courtesy of the RABCK Address Contacts forum thread.

Currently reading/listening
When Will There be Good News - Kate Atkinson (audio)
Hunger - Knut Hamsun

TBR reserved
Scared to Live - Stephen Booth [poodlesister]
Dying to Sin - Stephen Booth [poodlesister]
The Kill Call - Stephen Booth [poodlesister]
Sweet Caress - William Boyd [Edwardstreet]
Sisterland - Curtis Sittenfeld [keeta1]
Three Act Tragedy - Agatha Christie [pinkoeria]
The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent [florence71]
Small Great Things - Jodie Picoult [brezova]
O is for Outlaw/P is for Peril - Sue Grafton [earthcaroleanne]
Various - James Patterson [daffodil-2]

*** Books read or listened to in 2018 ***
1. A Boy Made of Blocks - Keith Stuart
2. The Child - Fiona Barton
3. The Leopard - Jo Nesbo
4. The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan
5. Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes (audio)
6. The Roanoke Girls - Amy Engel
7. 253 - Geoff Ryman
8. E is for Evidence - Sue Grafton
9. How to Stop Time - Matt Haig
10. The Quiet American - Graham Greene (audio)
11. F is for Fugitive - Sue Grafton
12. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
13. G is for Gumshoe - Sue Grafton
14. Someone Else's Skin - Sarah Hilary
15. H is for Homicide - Sue Grafton
16. Funny Girl - Nick Hornby
17. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen (audio)
18. A Year of Marvellous Ways - Sarah Winman
19. Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee (audio)
20. I is for Innocent- Sue Grafton
21. J is for Judgement - Sue Grafton
22. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (audio)
23. Run for your Life - James Patterson
24. K is for Killer - Sue Grafton
25. Dead Men's Bones - James Oswald
26. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (audio)
27. The Witchfinder's Sister - Beth Underdown
28. L is for Lawless - Sue Grafton
29. The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafa
30. Die of Shame - Mark Billingham (audio)
31. Prayer for the Dead - James Oswald
32. No Other Darkness - Sarah Hilary (audio)
33. M is for Malice - Sue Grafton

*** Books read or listened to in 2017 ***
1. The Muse - Jessie Burton
2. Sunstroke - Jesse Kellerman
3. Deliver Us From Evil - David Baldacci (audio)
4. Last Bus to Woodstock - Colin Dexter
5. The Calling of the Grave - Simon Beckett
6. Fifty Shades of Grey - EL James
7. The Minimalist Budget - Simeon Lindstrom (kindle)
8. Missing, Presumed - Susie Steiner
9. Cold Killing - Luke Delaney
10. The Keeper - Luke Delaney
11. I'm Travelling Alone - Samuel Bjork
12. Lie With Me - Sabine Durrant
13. The Book of Souls - James Oswald
14. Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie (kindle)
15. The Hangman's Song - James Oswald
16. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
17. How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
18. Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier (audio)
19. Birthdays for the Dead -Stuart MacBride
20. Mad Girl - Bryony Gordon
21. Dead Man's Footsteps - Peter James
22. Unseen - Mari Jungstedt
23. Dead Tomorrow - Peter James
24. Over Sea Under Stone - Susan Cooper
25. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald
26. The Crow Trap - Ann Cleeves
27. Unspoken - Mari Jungstedt
28. Millennium People - JG Ballard
29. Lullaby Town - Robert Crais (audio)
30. The Flood - Ian Rankin
31. The Innocent - David Baldacci
32. Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham
33. Miss Carter's War - Sheila Hancock
34. Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
35. The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen
36. Tainted Blood - A Indridason
37. The Coffin Trail - Martin Edwards
38. The Cipher Garden - Martin Edwards
39. The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes - Anna McPartlin
40. Freefall - Robert Crais (audio)
41. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
42. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon
43. A Room With A View - EM Forster
44. Voodoo River - Robert Crais (audio)
45. Conclave - Robert Harris
46. The Toy Taker - Luke Delaney
47. The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo
48. Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
49. Moving - Jenny Eclair
50. Sunset Express - Robert Crais (audio)
51. The Devil's Star - Jo Nesbo
52. A Whispered Name - William Broderick
53. Outrage - A Indridason
54. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
55. Left Neglected - Lisa Genova
56. The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena
57. Mrs Hemmingway - Naomi Wood
58. Cutting Edge - John Harvey
59. I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh
60. The Storyteller - Jodie Picoult
61. Midwinter Sacrifice - Mons Kallentoft
62. The Devil in the Marshalsea - Antonia Hodgson
63. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (audio)
64. The Girls - Lisa Jewell
65. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
66. Ash and Bone - John Harvey
67. Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
68. How to be a Productivity Ninja - Graham Allcott (kindle)
69. This Must be the Place - Maggie O'Farrell
70. The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz (audio)
71. Before We Met - Lucie Whitehouse
72. The Redeemer - Jo Nesbo (audio)
73. You're Next - Gregg Hurwitz
74. According to Yes - Dawn French
75. The Book of You - Claire Kendal (audio)
76. Dead of Winter - Lee Weeks
77. The Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie
78. Dead Right - Peter Robinson
79. A Florentine Death - M Giuttari
80. The Snowman - Jo Nesbo
81. Apple Tree Yard - Louise Doughty (audio)
82. Cold is the Grave - Peter Robinson
83. Instructions for a Heatwave - Maggie O’Farrell
84. An Event in Autumn - Henning Mankell
85. The Murdered Banker - Augusto de Angelis
86. The Summer of the Bear - Bella Pollen
87. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey
88. I See You - Clare Mackintosh
89. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson (audio)
90. Dead Like You - Peter James

*** Books read or listened to in 2016 ***
1. The One That Got Away - Chris Ryan
2. Two Women - Martina Cole
3. Absolution - Caro Ramsay
4. The Bourne Ultimatum - Robert Ludlum (audio)
5. Deception on his mind - Elizabeth George
6. Blue Genes - Val Mcdermid
7. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
8. An Open Book - Monica Dickens
9. The Siege - Helen Dunmore
10. Fractured - Karin Slaughter
11. Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
12. Silent Treatment - Michael Palmer
13. In The Woods - Tana French
14. Hard News - Jeffery Deaver
15. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
16. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (kindle)
17. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
18. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
19. A Dark, Dark Wood - Ruth Ware
20. All the Lonely People - Martin Edwards
21. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
22. Mr Clarinet - Nick Stone
23. Suspicious Minds - Martin Edwards
24. How I Changed My Life in a Year - Shelley Wilson (kindle)
25. Beloved - Toni Morrison
26. Say Goodbye - Lisa Gardner
27. Tell Me - Lisa Jackson
28. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
29. The Bat - Jo Nesbo (kindle)
30. The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais
31. Star Struck - Val Mcdermid
32. The Suspect - Michael Robotham
33. Peril at End House - Agatha Christie
34. The Killing Season - Mason Cross
35. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
36. Locked In - Kerry Wilkinson (kindle)
37. Vigilante - Kerry Wilkinson (kindle)
38. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (audio)
39. The Samaritan - Mason Cross
40. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
41. Bridget Jones's Baby - Helen Fielding
42. The Big Bad Wolf - James Patterson
43. Stalking the Angel - Robert Crais
44. Natural Causes - James Oswald
45. Cockroaches - Jo Nesbo
46. The Ballroom - Anna Hope
47. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins (audio)
48. Dry Bones that Dream - Peter Robinson
49. The Front - Patricia Cornwell
50. The Widow - Fiona Barton
51. Rough Treatment - John Harvey
52. Gorky Park - Martin Cruz-Smith
53. Orphan X - Gregg Hurwitz
54. D is for Deadbeat - Sue Grafton
55. Body Double - Tess Gerritsen
56. The Woman in Black - Kerry Wilkinson (kindle)

*** Books read or listened to in 2015 ***
1. In Silence - Erica Spindler
2. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
3. Die Twice - Andrew Grant
4. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
5. Solo - William Boyd
6. Ripley Under Water - Patricia Highsmith
7. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
8. Nocturne - Graham Hurley
9. Flesh and Blood - John Harvey
10. Wednesday's Child - Peter Robinson
11. The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
12. Broken - Martina Cole
13. Kick Back - Val McDermid
14. Beggars Banquet - Ian Rankin
15. Crackdown - Val McDermid
16. The Hollows - Agatha Christie
17. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying - Marie Kondo
18. Dark Winter - Andy McNab
19. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
20. Missing Joseph - Elizabeth George
21. Someone Like You - Roald Dahl
22. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
23. Clean Break - Val Mcdermid
24. A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
25. Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert
26. Playing for the Ashes - Elizabeth George (kindle)
27. B is for Burglar - Sue Grafton
28. C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton
29. Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
30. Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie

*** Books read or listened to in 2014 ***
1. Turmoil - Paul Henke
2. I'm Watching You - Karen Rose
3. Those in Peril - Wilbur Smith
4. The Rising - Brian McGilloway
5. The Yard - Alex Grecian
6. The Runaway Jury - John Grisham
7. Damaged Lives - Maria Barrett
8. A Drink Before the War - Dennis Lehane
9. The Rhythm Section - Mark Burnell
10. The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
11. Mad About the Boy - Helen Fielding
12. The House of Stairs - Barbara Vine
13. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
15. Presumed Guilty - Tess Gerritsen
16. Tales From Nowhere - Lonely Planet - various
17. A Good Day to Die - Simon Kernick
18. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paulo Coelho
19. Stolen - Tess Gerritsen
20. Cause Celeb - Helen Fielding
21. A Time to Kill - John Grisham
22. Last Days of the Bus Club - Chris Stewart
23. Night Fall - Nelson de Mille
24. Sushi For Beginners - Marian Keyes
25. Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon

*** Books read or listened to in 2013 ***
1. Ya-Yas in bloom - Rebecca Wells
2. The Broken Shore - Peter Temple
3. Bone Man's Daughters - Ted Dekker
4. Garnethill - Denise Mina
5. Banish Clutter Forever - Sheila Chandra
6. The Crucifix Killer - Chris Carter
7. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
8. A Dedicated Man - Peter Robinson
9. The Hanging Valley - Peter Robinson
10. Innocent Graves - Peter Robinson
11. Strange Affair - Peter Robinson
12. Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
13. Mouth to Mouth - Michael Kimball
14. The Race - Clive Cussler
15. Never Say Die - Tess Gerritsen
16. Twisted - Jeffery Deaver
17. The Honourable Schoolboy - John le Carre
18. The Valkyries - Paulo Coelho
19. The Acid House - Irvine Welsh
20. The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
21. Last Known Victim - Erica Spindler
22. Hannibal - Thomas Harris
23. Missing - Karin Alvtegen
24. The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith

*** Books read or listened to in 2012 ***
1. 6th Target - James Patterson (audio)
2. Wild Fire - Nelson de Mille
3. For the Sake of Elena - Elizabeth George
4. Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long - David Rock
5. The Vendetta Defence - Lisa Scottoline
6. The Child In Time - Ian McEwan (perryfran ray)
7. Three Ways to Capsize A Boat - Chris Stewart
8. My Uncle Oswald - Roald Dahl
9. Possession - Peter James
10. Mistaken Identity - Lisa Scottoline (audio)
11. Ritual - Mo Hayder
12. Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie
13. A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie
14. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
15. Rough Justice - Lisa Scottoline (audio)
16. Under the Knife - Tess Gerritsen
17. The Sinner - Tess Gerritsen
18. Sister - Rosamund Lupton
19. Where Eagles Dare - Alistair MaClean
20. Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
21. The Broken Window - Jeffery Deaver
22. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
23. Without Fail - Lee Child
24. The Ladykiller - Martina Cole
25. One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
26. The Door to December - Dean Koontz
27. Cop Hater - Ed McBain
28. Stress Proof Your Life - Elisabeth Wilson (kindle)
29. In Their Footsteps - Tess Gerritsen
30. In the Evil Day - Peter Temple

*** Books read or listened to in 2011 ***
1. Predator - Patricia Cornwell
2. The Cold Moon - Jeffery Deaver
3. Bad Moon Rising - Sheila Quigley
4. We Are All Made of Glue - Marina Lewycka
5. A Suitable Vengeance - Elizabeth George
6. Faceless - Martina Cole
7. 59 Seconds - Richard Wiseman
8. The Bear and the Dragon - Tom Clancy
9. The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald (lucy-lemon RABCK)
10. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Simson-Shilitoe ring)
11. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (jax987654321 ray)
12. Coastliners - Joanne Harris
13. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (oppem ray)
14. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (kinedi ray)
15. The Treatment - Mo Hayder *** Posted 03/05/11 ***
16. Prince Caspian - CS Lewis
17. How to Save an Hour a Day - Michael Heppell
18. Pig Island - Mo Hayder
19. Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster (shovelmonkey1 ray)
20. The Castle - Franz Kafka (sfogs ray)
21. Fanny Hill - John Cleland (LiniP ring)
22. Aesop's Fables - Aesop (shovelmonkey1 ray)
23. Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy (audio)
24. Moon Palace - Paul Auster (shovelmonkey1 ray)
25. The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen (shovelmonkey1 ray)
26. Step On A Crack - James Patterson (audio)
27. Heart of Darkness and Other Stories - Joseph Conrad (book-man-8 ray)
28. The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Italo Calvino (danielle23 ring)
29. Stone Cold - David Baldacci (audio)
30. The Whole Truth - David Baldacci (audio)
31. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
32. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille (perryfran ray)
33. The Abortionist's Daughter - Elizabeth Hyde
34. Cheese - Willem Elsschot (ayntastic ring)
35. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (oppem ray)
36. The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society - Chris Stewart
37. The Rainmaker - John Grisham
38. Peacetime - Robert Edric
39. One Hit Wonderland - Tony Hawks
40. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind (katrinat ray)
41. The Poet - Michael Connelly
42. Absalom Absalom - William Faulkner (perryfran ray)
43. Nip the buds, Shoot the kids - Kenzaburo Oe (perryfran ray)
44. Frost at Christmas - RD Wingfield
45. Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
46. The Other Daughter - Lisa Gardner
47. Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
48. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson (perryfran ray)
49. August is a Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien
50. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
51. The Main Chance - Colin Forbes
52. 5th Horseman - James Patterson

*** Books read or listened to in 2010 ***
1. The Alienist - Caleb Carr
2. Payment in Blood - Elizabeth George
3. Doors Open - Ian Rankin
4. Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
5. Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy
6. Blood of Angels - Michael Marshall
7. Right on Time - Pauline McLynn
8. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters (perryfran ray)
9. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carre
10. On Beauty - Zadie Smith (audio)
11. The Twelth Card - Jeffery Deaver
12. Holy Fools - Joanne Harris
13. Four Blind Mice - James Patterson
14. The Thrift Book - India Knight
15. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
16. Run for Home - Sheila Quigley
17. The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr
18. The Master - Colm Toibin (NICNIC2 ring)
19. Miss Marple's Final Cases - Agatha Christie
20. A Season for the Dead - David Hewson (audio)
21. The Unexpected Guest - Agatha Christie (chich audio ray)
22. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
23. Private Eyes - Jonathan Kellerman
24. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson (audio)
25. Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
26. The Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver
27. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
28. No More Clutter - Sue Kay
29. One Last Breath - Stephen Booth
30. A Kiss Gone Bad - Jeff Abbott
31. Lost Souls - Neil White
xx. Mini thriller bookbox (HerbertLooby)
32. Not Dead Enough - Peter James
33. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
34. Private Eyes - Jonathan Kellerman
35. Bad Blood - Linda Fairstein
36. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
37. Ray Mears Goes Walkabout - Ray Mears
38. Die Trying - Lee Child
39. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case - Agatha Christie (smurphie audio ring)
40. The Bourne Supremacy - Robert Ludlum
41. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John le Carre
42. Tripwire - Lee Child
43. Crash - JG Ballard (bookowl1000 ray)
44. The Dead Place - Stephen Booth
45. I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti (fushmush ray)
46. Red Leaves - Thomas H Cook
47. Well Schooled in Murder - Elizabeth George
48. The Visitor - Lee Child
49. Echo Burning - Lee Child (audio)
50. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
51. The Red Room - Nicci French
52. Lazybones - Mark Billingham
53. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (shovelmonkey1 ray)
54. The Ritual Bath - Faye Kellerman (audio)
55. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie (AgnesXnitt audio ring)
56. The Silver Pigs - Lindsey Davis *** Posted 29/12/10 ***

*** Books read or listened to in 2009 ***
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
2. While The Light Lasts - Agatha Christie (AgnesXnitt ring)
3. Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard (pinkydinky ring)
4. Love Over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith (heaven-ali ring)
5. Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice (audio)
6. What You Make It - Michael Marshall Smith (samulli ring)
7. Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguez (bluestocking88 ring))
8. Passing - Nella Larsen (lakelady2228 ring)
9. The Last Breath - Denise Mina (deepswamp ray)
10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (marko167's Nobel Spiral)
11. Slam - Nick Hornby
12. Sweet Heart - Peter James
13. Conviction - Robert North-Patterson
14. Cut & Run - Jeff Abbott
15. Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
16. The 10 Keys to Success - John Bird
17. Herzog - Saul Bellow (christina82 bookring)
18. A Cool Head - Ian Rankin (smurphie ring)
19. As Tears Go By - Pamela McKee
20. The Sea - John Banville (audio)
21. The Ampersand Papers - Michael Innes
22. The Book Boy - Joanne Trollope
23. Murder Is Easy - Agatha Christie
24. Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge
25. Dead Beat - Val McDermid (Sterile RABCK)
26. Blindness - Jose Saramago (marko167's Nobel Spiral)
27. The Cutting Room - Louise Welch
28. The Wire in the Blood - Val McDermid
29. The Chemistry of Death - Simon Beckett
30. Stone Kiss - Faye Kellerman
31. Affinity - Sarah Waters (Lakritzschnecke ray)
32. The Passion - Jean Winterson (katrinat ring)
33. Blind to the Bones - Simon Booth
34. Killing Floor - Lee Child
35. The Girl at the Lion D'Or - Sebastian Faulks
36. Q is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
37. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L Sayers (WigglyWoods ray)
38. Written in Bone - Simon Beckett
39. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (Caroley ray)
40. Perfume - Patrick Suskind (audio)
41. Saturday - Ian McEwan
42. Spellbound - Jane Green
43. How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day - Kath Kelly
44. A Painted House - John Grisham
45. Whispers of the Dead - Simon Beckett (faerie-glen ray)
46. The Adventures of the Christmas Pudding - Agatha Christie (AgnesXNitt audio ring)
47. Dangerous Lady - Martina Cole
48. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
49. Lipstick Jungle - Candace Bushnell
50. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson (freepages ring)
51. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels (katrinat ring)
52. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (audio)
53. Snow - Orhan Pamuk (marko167's Nobel Spiral)
54. R is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton
55. Manhattan is My Beat - Jeffrey Deaver
56. Spend Less Handbook - Rebecca Ash
57. Deadline - Simon Kernick
58. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
59. The Blue Nowhere - Jeffrey Deaver
60. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (UlrikeW ray)
61. Darkest Fear - Harlen Coben
62. The Echo - Minette Walters