All About Books discussion

Ok, well there might be a few classics that have sneaked onto this list, which is basically another name for my Mount TBR. These are mainly books that have been on my physical shelf, kindle or audible for a year or more. Time to whittle them down a bit.

Physical Bookshelf

Penguin Great Loves
The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love
Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests
Cures for Love
The Seducer's Diary
A Mere Interlude
The Kreutzer Sonata
Deviant Love
Something Childish But Very Natural
The Virgin and the Gipsy
Bonjour Tristesse
Bodily Secrets
The Women Who Got Away



Gollancz 50
The Book of the New Sun
Hyperion
The Lies Of Locke Lamora
Eric
The Name of the Wind



Modern Fiction
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Thirteenth Tale
White Teeth
March: A Love Story In A Time Of War
The Gargoyle
Battle Royale
Her Fearful Symmetry
Fourth of July Creek
The Axeman's Jazz
Made in Sweden Part 1: The Father



Biography/Memoir
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 1527-1608
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything



History
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45



Kindle

Slavery/Race
Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Up from Slavery: an autobiography
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl



Greek
The Republic
Phaedo
The Apology
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
Oedipus Trilogy
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics



Modern Fiction
The Shock of the Fall
The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Stardust



Biography/Memoir
Hitch-22
Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Case of Edith Cavell A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants
Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
South: The Story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 Expedition



Non Fiction
A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
On the Origin of Species
The Communist Manifesto



Audible
The Crimson Petal and the White
Villette
Alan Turing: The Enigma Abridged
The Mill on the Floss
The Prince and the Pauper
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Treasure Island
Great Expectations
Barchester Towers
Silas Marner

Phew, now I'm exhausted. Far too tired to actually read a book.

Feel free to comment about any of the above, tell me which ones you've loved, or hated. Which I should get to first and which you think can wait a while longer!

Pink, I loved The Kreutzer Sonata and A Thousand Splendid Suns. If I were you, I would go with those two first, they're really beautiful.

Thanks for the tip. I'm actually about to start And the Mountains Echoed for another group read and I'm looking forward to reading another Khaled Hosseini book. I really liked The Kite Runner, although I have heard they all get a bit too similar.

I'll make a note to try The Kreutzer Sonata first out of the Penguin Loves books.

Great Challenge Pink!
Some of these titles are favourites with me, some I've not even heard! I'll follow you closely!

That's always the best way Laura, it's good to share favourites and make new discoveries!

That's why I'm here in the first place!

Pink wrote: "Thanks for the tip. I'm actually about to start And the Mountains Echoed for another group read and I'm looking forward to reading another Khaled Hosseini book. I reall..."

Well, they do get a bit similar, still the stories are different and both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are very good books in their own right. I think I liked the second better than the first one, actually. I've recently bought And the Mountains Echoed and am very intrigued to read it, too. Someone I trust told me it's his best one so far.

I've only heard great things about The Crimson Petal and the White...I'll be trying to prioritize that book next year too.

Wicked is a fun story too so I'd recommend that one :)

The thing I like most, apart from the title of your challenge, is seeing the pictures of the Gollancz books. My parents used to have loads of them when I was a child.

As always, a great list for me to use to add to my TBR list! :0)

Good luck!
A lot of interesting books of different genres, I like this.

Thanks everyone :)

Erica, I've also only heard good things about The Crimson petal and the white, that's what made me use my last audible credit to buy it, before suspending my account. Now I just need to brace myself to listen, it's a long one....41 hours, 36 minutes!

Gill, I wasn't sure if those Gollancz covers were the old original versions, or if they were for the collection. I picked up a set of seven of them very cheaply from The Book People last Christmas.

dely, I like to have different genres and read different sorts of books. Keeps things interesting and it expands my tastes :)

Nice mix of books Pink! I have a few of these on my 2016 list as well -- especially the audiobook of Villette. I noticed Alannah had a Bronte category -- maybe we should do a readalong!

Sounds good to me! I'll have to pop over to her page and take a look.

I absolutely loved The Gargoyle, hope you do too!

I loved the Gargoyle & Wicked too, along with A Thousand Splendid Suns. I have yet to read & the Mountain Echoed too. I'd like to get to Fearful Symmetry as well. SO many books! I think I tried NW & had to put it aside, so White Teeth might be the same kind of fail for me & I own both books. :(

Oh I've had all those books you mention on my shelf for too long. I was bought White Teeth when it came out...which was quite a while ago now! I did watch some of the TV adaptation, but it was that long ago that I can't remember anything about it now! Haven't read any of Zadie Smith's other books yet.

January
I'm off to a terrible start as usual. I've read two books from my huge list and several others that I wasn't planning. Might have to give this more attention!

The Virgin and the Gipsy Meh, this was okay.

Apology of Socrates Bit boring. Plato's version was better.

February
Another 3 books crossed off the list -

Bonjour tristesse I wasn't overly impressed and it felt written by a spoilt teenager.

The Communist Manifesto I was impressed with this one. Don't know why I never picked it up before.

Silas Marner Boring.

Pink wrote: " February

The Communist Manifesto I was impressed with this one. Don't know why I never picked it up before..."

I've been meaning to read it since in High school! I should do it, if only to know it

Laura, yes do, it's such a quick and easy read and one that you feel like you should have read, no matter whether you agree or not.

Pink wrote: Gollancz 50
The Book of the New Sun
Hyperion
The Lies Of Locke Lamora
Eric
The Name of the Wind

Of these, I tried The Book of the New Sun and really didn't see what all the fuss was about, but maybe I just don't get it. I've read a bunch of Discworld books but it's a very long series and I never got around to Eric. It sounds fun though.

Of the classics on your list I enjoyed Great Expectations and Plato is on my tbr.