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Tweedledum's 2014 challenge
Good luck with these ! And. Happy New Year to you. :)
Interesting looking books there, hope you enjoy them
This is an interesting list Tweedledum, and I look forward to your comments.I haven't read any of the biographiesin your list, but "know someone who has" as they say! The ones about Paul Dirac and Benjamin Britten are both highly recommended by members of my family. And the two by Claire Tomalin would attract me too. I have two others, and think she is one of our best literary biographers.
I found myself saying "ooh, that's a good book" and "yes, I want to read that too!" many times while perusing your list. I especially liked your choices for classics and mysteries/crime/thrillers. :)
I'm trying to put in 14 in each category but want to finish tonight! Quite ambitious, will probably change stuff as the year progresses but hey it's fun! If I manage to read 10 of the 14 in each this year I shall be well pleased.
I hadn't realised it was a work in progress - now there are loads of goodies!!
Good luck Tweedledum. I got Northanger abbey on my tablet too but haven't read it yet.
I read Northanger Abbey to death in school for O- level and only now feel like reading it again. Really finding it entertaining and clever now, then just thought it was a bit pathetic and Catherine M just plain stupid.
Tweedledum wrote: "I read Northanger Abbey to death in school for O- level and only now feel like reading it again. Really finding it entertaining and clever now, then just thought it was a bit pathetic and Catherine..."LOL! Yes, it is easy to read the surface and feel this way - it took me a few rereads to see beneath the surface!
Tweedledum wrote: "New Years resolution....to get some books finished that have been hanging around for TOO MANY YEARS! Maybe I will star these to make them my priority....Decided to go with the 14 categories idea a..."
Phew finished my master list.....
Now to decide which to go for in January.....
Just finished 600 Hours of Edward which I thoroughly recommend. I see I started in last July but put it on the back boiler for a long time. Returning to it I found it was a real page turner the author has done such a great job of helping us see Edward as a whole person, who despite his eccentricities and unusual way of thinking deserves our respect. Got to get my teeth into the sequel now! Ruth reading.
In sharp contrast The Dinner and Cuckoo are both seriously disturbing novels but definitely worth reading.
listened to Notes from Underground had quite a strong reaction to it and had to really find out more. Not on this lst though but hey...it's Dostoyevsky
Oh now you made me curious! It is on my TBR as well, and I thought to tackle it in summer.BTW: should we move your thread into the challenge section maybe?
Jenny wrote: "Oh now you made me curious! It is on my TBR as well, and I thought to tackle it in summer.BTW: should we move your thread into the challenge section maybe?"
Yes please.
Finished London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets a few days ago. If you are interested in the history of London this is a must. A surprisingly easy read.
Tweedledum wrote: "listened to Notes from Underground had quite a strong reaction to it and had to really find out more. Not on this lst though but hey...it's Dostoyevsky"Altered my list so I can tick it off here and count it.... Oh dear getting far too obsessed. Not to self..... There is a life outside reading and work.....oh and family.....
Oops, missed the notification. Moving it to the Challenge Thread now! :)
Jenny wrote: "Oops, missed the notification. Moving it to the Challenge Thread now! :)"Thanks Jenny!
Just finished Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World: Whatever the Game — Dave Takes on All Comers! what a terrific book. Here's a man who thinks outside the box and dares to do crazy things. I love it!
Inspired by Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World: Whatever the Game — Dave Takes on All Comers! I just whizzed through Are You Dave Gorman?. What a crazy but great idea. Also have been listening to Faulks on Fiction. This did, I confess, make me feel like I had managed to miss an awful lot of what's going on underneath in literature but Faulks is really writing for the general reader and provides much food for thought.
Wow this is quite a list. I want to tackle a few of these classics in 2014 too, as well as Game of Thrones, On the Map and The thirteenth tale, which I already own.
Lynne wrote: "Tweedledum wrote: "Finished London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets a few days ago. If you are interested in the history of London this is a must. A surprisingly easy r..."Thank you Lynne for your comments. It's always good to hear from someone who likes the same books as you! I read Richard Fortey's book about the natural history museum a couple of years ago Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum and absolutely loved it. Have you read it? I started Trilobite in the autumn and put it down so need to get into it again. Thanks for your encouragement.
I haven't heard of Liza Picard. I shall have to look her up.
Pink wrote: "Wow this is quite a list. I want to tackle a few of these classics in 2014 too, as well as Game of Thrones, On the Map and The thirteenth tale, which I already own."We will have to compare notes!
Lynne wrote: "Reply to message 24: I'm halfway through Dry Store Room No 1 right now. It makes you wonder why these people's brains didn't melt with all the information they had to process."Have you got to the section about the blue whale? The things people do for science!
And I'll bet that's one of the sentences you never thought you'd say, Lynne...
Well my list is proving over ambitious as usual! Feb and March ...too busy to read much and got sidetracked into other biblious forays but good to check back today with my January intentions.
Tweedledum wrote: "Well my list is proving over ambitious as usual! Feb and March ...too busy to read much and got sidetracked into other biblious forays but good to check back today with my January intentions."You were a little ambitious perhaps but no harm in having a goal as long as you don't feel it turn into a millstone. Plus I generally find making up such lists is a fun activity, so if nothing else you got to enjoy that part!
Yes I agree! I do love compiling lists of books. In fact I quite like making lists of all sorts of things ......
Except work.......
And housework.......
Those are potentially scary lists!
I love Goodreads because here I have discovered there are actually hundreds of folks out there who love compiling lists of books!
Which reminds me.......now where did I put The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information. (Uses search engine to see if book is listed.......... Discovers 10+ pages listing books that are books of lists! which do not include almanacs, field guides, etc etc....)
THINKING
Hmmm
I could make a list of the books of lists I do not own and do not wish to......
No
I won't go there....
But there again maybe there's some fun to be had in compiling a list of books of lists on listopia and seeing how many people join me in my craziness....
We have continuing mild disagreements about lists in this house. I have always have had detailed and correct lists for my books since I was a tiny child, with my invented "Polar Bear library" system. As I grew older I had lists I would keep up to date of my cassettes, videos, and the updated versions of such. Also essential stuff such as shopping would have temporary lists.
But Chris (my husband) is a great list-maker of "jobs". So if any little thing needs doing in the house, it turns into a 3-hour long discussion session, where all the maintenance/clearing out sort of jobs get listed and prioritised, which results in a mammoth "list" several sheets long and in different categories. Chris feels that this is progress, whereas I feel depressed by it, and wish we'd spent the time doing one of the things on the list!
We're both pretty nerdy in that we organise and alphabeticise etc. So who is right in this case? Or would the magazines say we are incompatible? We have been married for 40 years, so presumably do manage to compromise! LOL
Al these attempts to categorise, systemise and label human relationships will always fail! Like or unlike the complexity of a successful long term relationship will always defy analysis. It all goes to show we are not robots. About 20 years ago my husband and I did a well respected personality analysis that determined that we were opposites on every category except the introvert extrovert scale and by rights should never have got along. The insight certainly helped explain why certain things we each did drove each other mad but love and forgiveness play a major part don't they in overcoming such frustrations.
Oh dear, I really must stop asking these rhetorical questions!! Of course you are absolutely right Tweedledum :)
Goodreads the perfect place to air random thoughts and be taken seriously. Personally i find the whole thing very liberating.
And I was interested to read about your "well respected personality analysis" experience...
[[book:The Natural History of Selborne|1704242]*An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and book:Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution dec 2014 still reading
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions
The Natural History Of The Garden
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
14 books
1/14
11.Poetry
What the Light Was Like finished January 2014
The Faber Book of Ballads
Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai
In The Gold Of Flesh: Poems Of Birth And Motherhood
The Parish: A Satire
The Mind-Reader
The Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems
Dance With A Shadow
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse
The Bloodaxe Book Of Contemporary Women Poets: Eleven British Writers
Why Is the Sky?
Collected Poems
Not to Speak of the Dog
The Shepherd's Calendar
14 books
1/14
12.Spirituality/faith/religion
Looking Through the Cross: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2014
Hidden Ground Of Love: The Letters Of Thomas Merton On Religious Experience
And Social Concerns
Why I am Still an Anglican: Essays and Conversations
The Fulcrum and the Fire
Becoming Human
The Broken Body: Journey to Wholeness
Healing Dreams: Their Power And Purpose In Your Spiritual Life
Prayer in the shadows
Miracles
The Lion's World: A journey into the heart of Narnia
Wild Beast And Angels
A Heart To Listen
Patterns Not Padlocks
Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai: A Critique of Idols
14 books
0/14
13.Short Stories/Short Story collections/mythology/fairy stories
The Christmas Dog finished January 2014
Toast
Daughters of Africa
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Crimson Fairy Book
Constitutional
The Complete Stories
The Second Penguin Book Of Modern Women's Short Stories: An Anthology
Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales
The Puffin Book Of Twentieth Century Children's Stories
The Virago Book of Women Gardeners
The Cleverness of Ladies
Dear George And Other Stories
12books
1/12
14.Travel
No Full Stops in India
100 Places You Will Never Visit
And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
You've gone too far this time, Sir!
Sightlines
Cycling Through Africa
The Faber Book Of Exploration: An Anthology Of Worlds Revealed By Explorers Through The Ages
Voyage of the Beagle
The Journals
The Sindbad Voyage
Pole to Pole
Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
14 books
0/14
Updating in sections....Here's the first up:
1.ASD/disability/mental health/health
600 Hours of Edward finished Jan 2014
Deafening
The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
The Real Rain Man, Kim Peek
Writers on the Spectrum: How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing
Edward Adrift
Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding
The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art
Appreciating Asperger Syndrome: Looking at the Upside - With 300 Positive Points read December 2014
Music, Language and Autism: Exceptional Strategies for Exceptional Minds
Raising Martians - From Crash-Landing to Leaving Home: How to Help a Child with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism
Socially Curious, Curiously Social: A Social Thinking Guidebook for Bright Teens & Young Adults
Communication Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Do We Speak the Same Language?
Hmmm Dec 20th 2014 only 2 on this list completed but have read instead.:..
The Rosie Project
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Blue Bottle Mystery: An Asperger's Adventure
The Girl with the Curly Hair - Asperger's and Me
Asperger's Social Energy: by the girl with the curly hair
The Panicosaurus: Managing Anxiety in Children Including Those with Asperger Syndrome
The Disappointment Dragon: Learning to Cope with Disappointment
The New Social Story Book: Over 150 Social Stories that Teach Everyday Social Skills to Children with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome, and Their Peers
Silently Seizing: Common, Unrecognized and Frequently Missed Seizures and Their Potentially Damaging Impact on Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Living Bipolar: Learning to Live with Bipolar Disorder
I make that 13 books in this category
2.Biography/autobiography/ memoirs/diariesPlanned but not finished/ read
Benjamin Britten: A Biography*
Jane Austen: A Life
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
The New Shostakovich
The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography*
An Autobiography (Agatha Christie)
Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self*
Jonathan Swift
Now All Roads Lead To France
Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought with Good Manners
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
A Monk and Two Peas yes! I read this!
Nureyev: His Life*
Oh dear only finished 1 on original list! Have read quite a few other biogs or auto biogs or similar this year though.... And also hoping to finish Dirac, Margaret Rutherford and Ranulph Fiennes before jan 1st.
Here's the biogs I have in fact read this year but which are not on my original list....
Dear Martha: the letters of Arthur Bell Nicholls to Martha Brown
The King's Psychic: The Mysterious Dr Cannon - And the Plot to Oust Edward VIII. Sean Stowell
Beyond Evil: Inside the Mind of Ian Huntley, the Wickedest Man on Earth
Are You Dave Gorman?
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story part auto-biography part history
I Think I'm OK
A Thorn In Their Side
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival
A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoirs of World War Two
I make that 13 altogether
3.ClassicsNotes from Undergroundfinished Jan 2014
Dombey and Son
The Brothers Karamazov
Vanity Fair
Gulliver's Travels
Northanger Abbey
The Nebuly Coat
War and Peace*
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Middlemarch*
Ivanhoe*
The Divine Comedy
The Warden
Worse and worse...only 1 from this ambitious list!
Instead I have read....
Agnes Grey
Hard Times
Le Malade imaginaire well not in French...in English....
She Stoops to Conquer
Oh I'm going to add Macbeth having watched a marvellous production from the Globe over Christmas
So 6/19
4.Crime/thriller fictionCrime fiction read this year:
The Cat Who Went Bananas finished Jan 2014
Death By A HoneyBee finished January 2014
The Lewis Man
The Chessmen
The Ice Princess
Gone Girl
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
Into the Blue
Six Years
without a trace
In The Dark
A Morbid Taste for Bones
The Death of Lucy Kyte
If Snow Hadn't Fallen
Planned but not finished/ started
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
C is for Corpse
Murder in the Philosophy Department
Like This, For Ever
The Case of the Deadly Butter Chickenff
Gallows View
Thus Was Adonis Murdered
The Seven-Percent Solution
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
The Final Countdown
Bones In Her Pocket
Yea! 14 crime thrillers read!
No surprises there!
5.Fantasy/sci-fi//dystopiasRead 17 this year
The Hobbit read Jan 2014
A Swiftly Tilting Planet finished February 2014
The Atlantis Complex finished March 2014
The Time Paradox Nov 2014
The 5th Wave finished April 2014
Alice Parker's Metamorphosis
The Year of the Flood spring 2014
Guards! Guards! July 2014
Moving Pictures June 2014
Many Waters read summer 2014
Vox dec 2014
Clovenhoof Sept 2014
The Midwich Cuckoos revisited this masterpiece
Pippi Longstocking yes read this this year .....I missed Pippi Longstocking as a child.
The Power of Six summer 2014
Roverandom a little tolkien masterpiece I have just got around to reading.
The Little Grey Men read this autumn. A children's classic rediscovered....
Planned to read but either not started or still ongoing
Out of the Silent Planet (an old favourite)
The Afternet Part 2: Redemption
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making not started
Moon Over Soho ongoing
Faerie Tale: A Novel of Terror and Fantasy ongoing
MaddAddam not started
Cloud Atlas not started
Tollesbury Time Forever ongoing
I do enjoy a bit of escapism.
Have revisited some favourite authors this year.
C.S. Lewis
Eoin Colfer
Madeleine L'Engle
Terry Pratchett
Diana Wynne Jones
John Wyndham
6. General fictionRead this year
15 ... Yes exceeded the target number!
The Husband's Secret]
Cuckoo finished Jan 2014
The Dinner finished January 2014
Capital
The Wedding
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
The Harpole Report
The Help
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Perkins of Piccadilly
Saddest Summer Of Samuel S
Miss Garnet's Angel
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
Mendel's Dwarf
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession
Planned but not read
The White Witch
The Cuckoos of Batch Magna
The Thirteenth Tale
Mrs Harris MP
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York
Clea
Harpole & Foxberrow, General Publishers
44 Scotland Street
The Book Thief
Austenland
7.Historical fiction6 historical fiction books read this year
Heresy
Prophecy
Sacrilege
Company of Liars
An Officer and a Spy
Summer in February
Planned but not finished/ started
Love's Will
The Uprights
Uneasy Lies the Crown, A Novel of Owain Glyndwr
Mozart's Wife
The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I
A Humble Companion
Peaceweaver
The Silk Weaver's Daughter: A Novel of Love, Loyalty and Faith
The Sky's Dark Labyrinth
The Eagle Of The Ninth
Mozart's Last Aria
The Red Queen
The White Queen
Shakespeare's Witch
8.HistoryRead this year
8 books
Life of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere finished Jan 2014
The Battle Of Britain: Myth and Reality
Battle Story: Ypres
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
Salt: A World History
The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III's Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds
Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King
I've already added the following book on the biography shelf but it should also be shelved here...
Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
Planned but not started/ finished
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
The Dambusters
Disneywar
Aristocrats Go to War: Uncovering the Zillebeke Cemetery
The Winter King
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire*
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
A Ballad History of England
The First World War: The War to End All Wars
Well done Tweedledum! Phenomenal amount of reading, and nicely varied too :)
9.Miscellaneous/humour12 books
Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World: Whatever the Game — Dave Takes on All Comers! finished January 2014
Faulks on Fiction finished January 2014
The 'Three Colours' Trilogy finished January 2014
A Pig's Ear: Nonsense from the Pigsty
The Wobbit A Parody (Of Tolkien's The Hobbit): or, There Goes My Back Again (The Wobbit: A Parody Series)
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Welsh
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Aussies
Born To Be Liked: Living on Facebook
A Very British Murder
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Grandpa, Tell Us About Phi, the Golden Number: Explore the amazing connection between nature and math!
Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books finished March 2014
Planned but not finished
Faber Book of Utopias
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
In Defence of Dogs
The Faber Book Of The Sea: An Anthology
10.Natural history/science/medicine Read 10 books in this topic this year .
Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean
Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
The Secret World of Slugs and Snails: Life in the Very Slow Lane
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown
The Mad Hatter: The Role of Mercury in the Life of Lewis Carroll
Anyone who tells you vaccines are safe and effective is lying. Here's the proof.
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling
Here's some that are still on the go.
Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough Dec 2014 still reading
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History*Dec 2014 haven't started
The Epigenetics Revolution dec 2014 haven't started.
Trilobite
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Circulation
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future
11. PoetryPride and Prejudice, Retold in Limericks ....Cleverly done
What the Light Was Like
Once, I was the Rain, Poetry & Artwork
I better make this a Poetry and Art category. Then I can add
Bridget Riley: Flashback
And
Laura Knight: Portraits
That makes 5!
12. Spirituality/theology/relgionNothing...zilch....nada nada nada
Don't think I can really count
Clovenhoof !
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Decided to go with the 14 categories idea as well.
1.ASD/disability/mental health/health
600 Hours of Edward finished Jan 2014
Deafening
The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
The Real Rain Man, Kim Peek
Writers on the Spectrum: How Autism and Asperger Syndrome Have Influenced Literary Writing
Edward Adrift
Appreciating Asperger Syndrome: Looking at the Upside - With 300 Positive Points
Music, Language and Autism: Exceptional Strategies for Exceptional Minds
Raising Martians - From Crash-Landing to Leaving Home: How to Help a Child with Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism
Like Colour to the Blind: Soul Searching and Soul Finding
Socially Curious and Curiously Social
Communication Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Do We Speak the Same Language?
The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art
14 books
1/14
2.Biography/autobiography/ memoirs/diaries
Benjamin Britten: A Biography*
The New Shostakovich
The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography*
An Autobiography
Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom*
Jane Austen: A Life
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self*
Jonathan Swift
Now All Roads Lead To France
Margaret Rutherford: Dreadnought with Good Manners
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
A Monk and Two Peas
Nureyev: His Life*
14 books
0/14
3.Classics
Notes from Undergroundfinished Jan 2014
Dombey and Son
The Brothers Karamazov
Vanity Fair
Gulliver's Travels
Northanger Abbey
War and Peace*
The Nebuly Coat
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Middlemarch*
Ivanhoe*
The Divine Comedy
The Warden
14 books
1/14
4.Crime/thriller fiction
The Cat Who Went Bananas finished Jan 2014
Death By A HoneyBee finished January 2014
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
C is for Corpse
Murder in the Philosophy Department
Like This, For Ever
The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken
Gallows View
Thus Was Adonis Murdered
The Seven-Percent Solution
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
The Final Countdown
The Lewis Man finished May 2014
Bones In Her Pocket
14 books
2/14
5.Fantasy/sci-fi//dystopias
The Hobbit read Jan 2014
A Swiftly Tilting Planet finished February 2014
The Atlantis Complex finished March 2014
The 5th Wave finished April 2014
The Year of the Flood spring 2014
Soul Music July 2014 haven't read this but have read
Guards! Guards! and Moving Pictures June 2014
Many Waters
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Moon Over Soho
Faerie Tale: A Novel of Terror and Fantasy
MaddAddam
Cloud Atlas
Tollesbury Time Forever
The Afternet Part 2: Redemption
Out of the Silent Planet
14 books
7/14
6.General fiction
Cuckoo finished Jan 2014
The Dinner finished January 2014
The White Witch
The Harpole Report finished March 2014
The Cuckoos of Batch Magna
The Thirteenth Tale
Mrs Harris MP
The Help
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York
Clea
Harpole & Foxberrow, General Publishers
44 Scotland Street
The Book Thief
Austenland
14 books
3/14
7.Historical fiction
The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I
A Humble Companion
Peaceweaver
The Sky's Dark Labyrinth
The Eagle Of The Ninth
Mozart's Last Aria
The Red Queen
The White Queen
Shakespeare's Witch
Love's Will
The Uprights
Uneasy Lies the Crown, A Novel of Owain Glyndwr
The Silk Weaver's Daughter: A Novel of Love, Loyalty and Faith
Mozart's Wife
14 books
0/14
8.History
Life of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere finished Jan 2014
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets finished Jan 2014
The Dambusters
Disneywar
Salt: A World History
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre
by the Men and Women Who Were There*
The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III's Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds
The Winter King
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire*
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
A Ballad History of England
The First World War: The War to End All Wars
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does
Aristocrats Go to War: Uncovering the Zillebeke Cemetery
14 books
2/14
9.Miscellaneous/humour
Dear Martha: the letters of Arthur Bell Nicholls to Martha Brown finished January 2014
Are You Dave Gorman? finished January 2014
Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World: Whatever the Game — Dave Takes on All Comers! finished January 2014
Faulks on Fiction finished January 2014
The 'Three Colours' Trilogy finished January 2014
Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books finished March 2014
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language finished July 2014
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
In Defence of Dogs
The Faber Book Of The Sea: An Anthology
The Faber Book of Utopias
Great Hoaxes of the World
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales
15 books
7/ 15
10.Natural history/science
The Secret World of Slugs and Snails: Life in the Very Slow Lane
finished Jan 2014
Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History*
The Epigenetics Revolution
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded*
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
The Natural History of Selborne*
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions
The Natural History Of The Garden
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
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11.Poetry
What the Light Was Like finished January 2014
The Faber Book of Ballads
Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai
In The Gold Of Flesh: Poems Of Birth And Motherhood
The Parish: A Satire
The Mind-Reader
The Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems
Dance With A Shadow
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse
The Bloodaxe Book Of Contemporary Women Poets: Eleven British Writers
Why Is the Sky?
Collected Poems
Not to Speak of the Dog
The Shepherd's Calendar
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12.Spirituality/faith/religion
Looking Through the Cross: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2014
Hidden Ground Of Love: The Letters Of Thomas Merton On Religious Experience
And Social Concerns
Why I am Still an Anglican: Essays and Conversations
The Fulcrum and the Fire
Becoming Human
The Broken Body: Journey to Wholeness
Healing Dreams: Their Power And Purpose In Your Spiritual Life
Prayer in the shadows
Miracles
The Lion's World: A journey into the heart of Narnia
Wild Beast And Angels
A Heart To Listen
Patterns Not Padlocks
Mount Fuji and Mount Sinai: A Critique of Idols
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13.Short Stories/Short Story collections/mythology/fairy stories
The Christmas Dog finished January 2014
Toast
Daughters of Africa
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Crimson Fairy Book
Constitutional
The Complete Stories
The Second Penguin Book Of Modern Women's Short Stories: An Anthology
Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales
The Puffin Book Of Twentieth Century Children's Stories
The Virago Book of Women Gardeners
The Cleverness of Ladies
Dear George And Other Stories
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14.Travel
No Full Stops in India
100 Places You Will Never Visit
And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
You've gone too far this time, Sir!
Sightlines
Cycling Through Africa
The Faber Book Of Exploration: An Anthology Of Worlds Revealed By Explorers Through The Ages
Voyage of the Beagle
The Journals
The Sindbad Voyage
Pole to Pole
Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
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