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cally-c

From Alfreton, Derbyshire United Kingdom

Age 57

Joined Sunday, June 27, 2004

Home page https://carolineschroniclesblog.wordpress.com

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The Crossing Places

The House of Doctor Dee

The Lantern Men

A Room Full of Bones

The House At Sea's End

The Janus Stone

Nottingham and the Pentrich Rising of 1817

Where the Crawdads Sing

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Blind to the Bones

Small Pleasures

The Devil and the Dark Water

The Old Ways

This Must Be the Place

The Man Who Died Twice

After You'd Gone

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Diary of a Somebody

The Husband's Secret

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I've always been a big reader & will have a go at anything - I've got quite wide tastes including historical fact, classics & contemporary fiction, Terry Pratchett & Harry Potter!
All time favourites include Sons & Lovers - DH Lawrence, Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks & Wild Swans - Jung Chang

I am also using the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die as a guide & have read 399 so far.

Currently Reading: The Cartographer of No Man's Land - P.S. Duffy

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1) The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
2) BORN in Exile - George Gissing
3) Wicca: A BEGINNERS Guide to Earth Magic - Kardia Zoe
4) The Dirt - Motley Crue & Neil Strauss
5) Everything You Need To Know About The Menopause - Kate Muir
6)Bucket to Greece - V.D. Bucket
7)The Devil Comes To Dartmoor - Laura Quigley
8)The Missing Man - Nathan Dylan Goodwin
9)Where The Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
10)Nottingham And The Pentrich Rising of 1817 - Roger Tanner
11) Devil In The Detail - Ed James
12)As Good As God, As Clever As The Devil - Rodney Bolt
13)Sistersong - Lucy Holland
14)Lost Realms - Thomas Williams
15)London, Burning - Anthony Quinn
16)The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
17)The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
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1)Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2)Saturday – Ian McEwan
3)On Beauty – Zadie Smith
6)The Sea - John Banville
7)The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
8)The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
9)The Master - Colm Tóibín
11)The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
13)Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
15) The Colour - Rose Tremain
16)Thursbitch – Alan Garner
18)What I Loved -Siri Hustvedt
19)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
20)Islands - Dan Sleigh
22)London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
23)Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
24)Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
26)Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
27)Unless - Carol Shields
28)Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
29)The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
31)In The Forest - Edna O'Brien
32)Shroud - John Banville
33)Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
34)Youth - J M Coetzee
35)Dead Air – Iain Banks
36)Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
38)Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi
40)Platform - Michel Houellebecq
42)Atonement – Ian McEwan
47)At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
48)Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
49)Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52)The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
54)White Teeth – Zadie Smith
56)Under The Skin - Michel Faber
57)Ignorance - Milan Kundera
62)The Human Stain - Philip Roth
63)The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
64)After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
70)Timbuktu – Paul Auster
77)Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
78)Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
84)The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
85)Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
86)The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
87)Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
89)The Hours – Michael Cunningham
92)The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
93)Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
99)American Pastoral - Philip Roth
105) The Ghost Road - Pat Barker
109)Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
118)Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
125)The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
129)Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
133)The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
134)Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
135)Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
140)What A Carve Up - Jonathan Coe
141)A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
142)The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
143)The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
147)The Secret History – Donna Tartt
151)Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
153)The Crow Road - Iain Banks
156)The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
157)Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
163)Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
165)Wild Swans – Jung Chang
166)American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
167)Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
170)Regeneration - Pat Barker
172)Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
183) Possession - A.S. Byatt
184)The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
187)Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
188)Moon Palace - Paul Auster
189)Billy Bathgate - E L Doctorow
190)Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
195)Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
196)A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
199)Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
204)The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
205)Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
207)The Player of Games - Iain M Banks
209)The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
210)Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
213)Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
214)The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
215)Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
216)The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
218)The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
223)Beloved – Toni Morrison
228) The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis
236)Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
237)Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
240)Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
242)The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
243)Perfume – Patrick Süskind
245)White Noise – Don DeLillo
247)Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
252)The Lover – Marguerite Duras
253)Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
254)The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
255)Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
256)The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
259)Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
265)Waterland - Graham Swift
268)The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
270)If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
272)The Color Purple – Alice Walker
276) The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
278)On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin
281)Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
283)The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan
288)Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
293)The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
295)Smiley's People - John Le Carré
297)A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
300)If on a Winters Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
301)The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
302)The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
303)The World According to Garp – John Irving
310)The Passion of New Eve -Angela Carter
311)Delta of Venus - Anais Nin
315)Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
320)Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
324)Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
326)A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
340)Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
341)Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
343)The Seige of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
345)Crash - J. G. Ballard
347)Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
348)The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
349)Sula - Toni Morrison
352)The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
354)Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
356)In A Free State - V.S. Naipaul
358)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
361)Rabbit Redux - John Updike
367)I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
375)Slaughter-house Five - Kurt Vonnegut
376)The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
379)The Godfather – Mario Puzo
389)2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
390) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
394)A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
396)Chocky – John Wyndham
399)One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
400)The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
408)In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
411)Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
413)The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
416)August is a Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien
417)God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
427)Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
430)The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
433)The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
434)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
435)The Collector – John Fowles
436)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
437)A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
440)The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
442)Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
444)Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
446)A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
448)Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
450)The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
451)Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
456)To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
457)Rabbit, Run – John Updike
459)Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
461)Naked Lunch - William S Burroughs
463) Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
467)Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
468)The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
470)A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
472)Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
473)Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
477)The Once and Future King – T.H. White
478)The Bell – Iris Murdoch
481)The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
484)On the Road – Jack Kerouac
486)Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
489)Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
490)The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
492)Seize The Day - Saul Bellow
494)The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
496)Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
499)The Quiet American – Graham Greene
506)Story of O - Pauline Reage
508)Lord of the Flies – William Golding
510)The Go-Between - L.P. Hartley
515)Junkie – William Burroughs
518)Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
521)The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
524)Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
526)Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
527)Foundation - Isaac Asimov
529)The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
532)The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
536)The 13 Clocks - James Thurber
537)Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
538)The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
542)Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
547)Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
551)The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
561)Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
563)Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
564)Animal Farm – George Orwell
565)Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
566)The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
574)The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
579)The Outsider - Albert Camus
587)For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
588)Native Son - Richard Wright
589)The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
592)The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
594)At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
595)Coming Up For Air - George Orwell
596)Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
599)The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
602)Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
603)Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
608)Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
610)The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
615)To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
616)Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
619)Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
620)Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
623)At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
631)Burmese Days - George Orwell
635)The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
637)A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
638)Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
641)Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
644)Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
649)Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
651) To the North - Elizabeth Bowen
653) The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
656)Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
660)The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
663)A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
664)Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
667)All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
676)Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
677)The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
681)Quicksand – Nella Larsen
684)Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
686)To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
689)The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
695)The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
698)Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
699)The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
708)A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
712)Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
719)Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
721)Aaron's Rod - D.H. Lawrence
726)The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
728)Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
729)Night and Day - Virginia Woolf
731)The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
732)The Shadow Line - Joseph Conrad
736)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
739)The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
740)The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
741)Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
742)The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
743)The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
748)The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
749)Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
752)Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
754)Howards End – E.M. Forster
761)A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
765)Mother - Maxim Gorky
766)The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
770)The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
772)Where Angels Fear To Tread - E.M. Forster
773)Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
776)The Ambassadors – Henry James
777)The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
780)Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
781)The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
784)Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
785)Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
789)The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
791)The Invisible Man - H G Wells
792) What Maisie Knew - Henry James
794)Dracula – Bram Stoker
796)The Island of Dr. Moreaux - H.G. Wells
797)The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
799)Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
802) Born In Exile - George Gissing
803)Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
804)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
805)News From Nowhere - William Morris
806)New Grub Street – George Gissing
808)Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
809)The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
814)The Master Of Ballantrae -Robert Louis Stevenson
818)The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
820)The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
822)Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
823)King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard
825)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
826)Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant
831)Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
833)Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
837)The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
838) The Red Room - August Strindberg
839)Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
842)Virgin Soil - by Ivan Turgenev
843)Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
846)Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
848)Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
849)In A Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
854)Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
857)War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
858)Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
862)The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
863)Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
865)The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
866)Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
868)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
869)Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
871)Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
872)The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
873)Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
875)Silas Marner - George Eliot
876)Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
878)Castle Richmond - Anthony Trollope
879)The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
880)The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
881)The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
883)A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
888) Hard Times - Charles Dickens
889)Walden: Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
890)Bleak House – Charles Dickens
892)Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
893)Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
895) House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
896)Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
897)The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
898)David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
901)The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
902)Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
903)Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
904)Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
905)Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
906)The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
908)The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
909)The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
911)The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
913)A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
914)Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
915)The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
916)The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
918)Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
922)The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
923)The Red and the Black - Stendhal
924)The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
925)Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
929)The Monastery - Sir Walter Scott
930)Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
931)Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
932)Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
936)Emma – Jane Austen
937)Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
938)Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
940)Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
942)Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
946)The Monk - Matthew Lewis
948) Mysteries of Udolpho - Anne Radcliffe
952)Vathek - William Beckford
958)Evelina - Fanny Burney
959)The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
960)The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
961) The Man of Feeling - Henry MacKenzie
962)A Sentimental Journey - Laurence Sterne
963)Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
964)The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
965)The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
969)Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - Samuel Johnson
972) Amelia - Henry Fielding
973)The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle - Tobias Smollett
974)Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - John Cleland
976)The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
981)Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
982)A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
983)Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
985)Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
987)Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
988)A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
989)Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
990) The Princess of Cleves - Madame de La Fayette
991)The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
992)The Adventures of Don Quixote - Cervantes
993)The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
997)The Golden Asse - Lucius Apuleius
1001)Aesop's Fables - Aesop