All The Books We Read In 2015
…because we forget. And because finishing books is great, whether we review them here or not, and should occasion stickers and gold stars.
Lucy
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Paradise Lost – John Milton
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall – Ann BrontΓ«
Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey
Inferno – Dante Alighieri
Anton Chekhov – Three Sisters
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Death In The Family – Karl Ove Knausgaard
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
A Change Of Climate – Hilary Mantel
La Dame Aux Camelias – Alexandre Dumas
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
A Room Of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
Everyday Is Mother’s Day – Hilary Mantel
Shirley – Charlotte Bronte
Novel On Yellow Paper – Stevie Smith
The Wolf Border – Sarah Hall
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith
Eleven – Mark Watson
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Summer – Edith Wharton
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Purgatorio – Dante Alighieri
Adventures in Human Being – Gavin Francis
The Dubliners – James Joyce
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower – Marcel Proust
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood – Charles Dickens
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Venetia – Georgette Heyer
Sylvester – Georgette Heyer
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Call of the Wild – Jack London
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
Shark – Will Self
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy – Lawrence Sterne
The Old Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens
Dorian – Will Self
Satin Island – Tom McCarthy
Stoner – John Williams
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Beowulf – Some Anglo-Saxon dude
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Travels With My Aunt – Graham Greene
Writing Home – Alan Bennett
Down And Out in Paris And London – George Orwell
Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
How To Be Both – Ali Smith
A Quartet in Autumn – Barbara Pym
Dune – Frank Herbert
Lanark – Alisdair Gray
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
SARAH
Tess of the D’Urbevilles – Thomas Hardy
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Le Grandes Meaulnes – Alain-Fournier
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Harvest – Jim Crace
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Spirit Level – Wilkinson & Pickett
Buddha, vol 2 – The Four Encounters – Osama Tezuka
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Antigone – Sophocles
Hot Water – P.G. Wodehouse
Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Circle – Dave Eggers
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Old Goriot – Honore de Balzac
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carre
1984 – George Orwell
The Lowland – Jhumpa Lahiri
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Here – Richard McGuire
Emma – Jane Austen
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
Puck of Pook’s Hill – Rudyard Kipling
Daytripper – Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba
How To Build A Girl – Caitlin Moran
How to be Both – Ali Smith
Wise Children – Angela Carter
The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton
Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Singing Sands – Josephine Tey
Walking To Hollywood – Will Self
Please, Mister Postman – Alan Johnson
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
The Crimson Rooms – Katherine McMahon
The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
The Man of the Crowd – Edgar Allan Poe
The Flaneur – ed. Keith Tester
The Invisible Flaneuse – eds. D’Souza & McDonough
A View of the Harbour – Elizabeth Taylor
The Ladies’ Paradise – Emile Zola
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
A Spool Of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler
That is quite a lot of books! π
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I fear this may be down to reading in my lunch breaks at work, and those lunch breaks maybe going on a little longer than they should π
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I gave up reading during lunch breaks. I really got lost in my book π
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What would be really handy would be if we could reverse it, 8 hours of reading and 1 hour of work π
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Blissful. π That is how it ought to be π
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I’ve just had a look through and they have stacked up quickly. By December I’ll have forgotten what the first half were about, and by this time next year, I won’t even remember I’ve read them!
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I know one thing, I have just finished Moby-bloody-Dick! *runs to add it to the list* This means I never have to read it again! Hurrah!
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Hahhaa…!! It happens π
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Some great reads here.
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A lot of very familiar titles there and quite a few not so… That’s a helluva lot of books you two got through. π
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It makes us feel less guilty about constantly buying them if we get round to reading lots of them π
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Lol… I know the feeling! π
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