Currently Reading:
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Books Read In 2017
January
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Great Winglebury Duel by Charles Dickens
February
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory
The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Steel Flea by Nikolay Leskov
Candide by Voltaire
March
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Atheist's Mass by Honoré de Balzac
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Cold Calling by Haydn Wilks
April
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Remember, Body... by CP Cavafy
May
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Meek One by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
June
IT by Stephen King
A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
July
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
August
Nasty Women by 404 Ink
The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman
Emma by Jane Austen
The Great Fire of London by Samuel Pepys
The Power by Naomi Alderman
September
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh
The Reckoning by Edith Wharton
Arms From the Sea by Rich Shapero
Fat Jimmy and the Blind Ballerina by Eddie Owens
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
Hings by Chris McQueer
October
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Weave A Murderous Web by Anne Rothman-Hicks and Ken Hicks
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
A Little Candle and Other Stories by Letitia McClintock
My Dearest Father by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Transit by Rachel Cusk
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
November
One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus
Strange Scottish Stories by William Owen
Socrates' Defence by Plato
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
The Black Lady of Broomhill by Helen Moir
December
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Hings: the B-Sides by Chris McQueer
Sindbad the Sailor
The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year by Sue Townsend
Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner
Antigone by Sophocles
Books To Be Read
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
'Tis by Frank McCourt
End of Watch by Stephen King (trilogy - need first two)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (K)
The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Lucky by Alice Sebold
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (K)
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen
The Old Man of the Moon by Shen Fu
Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (K)
The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Gudgeon by Aesop
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the Woods by Tana French
Catharine by Jane Austen
Lips Too Chilled by Matsuo Basho
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
The Turtle Boy by Kealan Patrick Burke (K)
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
To-morrow by Joseph Conrad
The Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth (K)
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
Dancing In My Nuddy-Pants by Louise Rennison
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers by Louise Rennison
Luuurve Is A Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? by Louise Rennison
Stop in the Name of Pants! by Louise Rennison
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (K)
The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe by Richard Hakluyt
Notes On a Scandal by Zoe Heller
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (K)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Robber Bridegroom by Brothers Grimm
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
I Hate and I Love by Catullus
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (K)
Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Il Duro by D.H. Lawrence
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
Paradise Lost by John Milton (K)
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Fall of Icarus by Ovis
The Montmartre Investigation by Claude Izner
Come Close by Sappho
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
Every Day is For the Thief by Teju Cole (K)
Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands by Ivan Turgenev
The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter by David Colbert
O Cruel Alexis by Virgil
26a by Diana Evans
A Slip Under the Microscope by H.G. Wells
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (K)
As If by Blake Morrison
The Madness of Cambyses by Herodotus
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Speaking of Siva by Anon
Letters from a Nut by Ted L. Nancy
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi (K)
The Dhammapada by Anon
Dispossession by Chaz Brenchley
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Glue by Irvine Welsh
The Body Politic by Jean-Jacques Rosseau
Before You Sleep: Three Horrors by Adam Nevill (K)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The World is Full of Foolish Men by Jean de la Fontaine
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sea Raiders by H.G. Wells
Paper Towns by John Green (K)
Hannibal by Livy
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
The Legacy by Katharine Webb
The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain
Wicked Children: Murderous Tales from History by Karen Maitland (K)
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Tyger, Tyger by William Blake
Six Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green (K)
The Yellow Book by Ernest Leverson, Arthur Symons & John Buchan
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Kidnapped by Olaudah Equiano
Mr Toppit by Charles Elton
A Modern Detective by Edgar Allan Poe
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Suffragettes
Will o' the Wisp: a Golden Age Mystery by Patricia Wentworth (K)
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
How to Be a Medieval Woman by Margery Kempe
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer (K)
The Nun of Murano by Giacomo Casanova
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
A Terrible Beauty is Born by W.B. Yeats
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy
Night Shift by Stephen King
The Ghost Files by Apryl Baker (K)
Nonsense by Edward Lear
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
The Frogs by Aristophanes
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Why I Am So Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche
Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus (K)
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Fat by Rob Grant
Seven Hanged by Leonid Andreyev
The Odyssey by Homer
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran
O Frabjous Day! by Lewis Carroll
Mirror Mirror by Anthony M Strong (K)
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London by John Gay
The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh
The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman
The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian (K)
Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars by Dante
Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
A Nervous Breakdown by Anton Chekhov
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Is this a dagger which I see before me? by William Shakespeare
The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
My life had stood a loaded gun by Emily Dickinson
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (K)
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
Desperation by Stephen King
Matilda by Mary Shelley
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
The Jump by Martina Cole
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Family by Martina Cole
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Flush by Virginia Woolf
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (K)
Lot No 249 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Rule of Benedict by Benedict of Nursia
The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris (K)
One Day by David Nicholls
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Girl In Between by Laekan Zea Kemp (K)
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
West of Here by Jonathan Evison (K)
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Reheated Cabbage by Irvine Welsh
Cell by Stephen King
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
We the Animals by Justin Torres (K)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (K)
Yes Man by Danny Wallace
The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (K)
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (K)
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the First, The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
The Liar by Stephen Fry
Bright Young Things by Scarlett Thomas
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (K)
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
PopCo by Scarlett Thomas
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Red House by Mark Haddon
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (K)
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Ten Storey Love Song by Richard Milward
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (K)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Villain's Daughter by Roberta Kray
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (K)
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Complete Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
The Burning of Bridget Cleary by Angela Bourke
The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott
Jane Austen's Guide to Dating by Lauren Henderson
My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst (K)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum
1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies
Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene
The Remains of the Day by Kazu Ishiguro
History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe (K)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
If I Break by Portia Moore (K)
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Painted Lady by Richard Masefield (K)
Django Unchained by Reginald Hudlin
Entry Island by Peter May
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
The Medium by CJ Archer (K)
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One by Roald Dahl
The Complete Short Stories: Volume Two by Roald Dahl
Dark Realms by Kristen Middleton (K)
Bought in 2015:
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Goethe
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick
314 by A.R. Wise (K)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Grumpy Old Wizards by John O'Riley (K)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Blindness by José Saramago
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Non-Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Coraline by Neil Gaiman and P Craig Russell
The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente
The Iliad by Homer (K)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Scottish Witches by Lily Seafield
The Man In The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (K)
Persepolis by Maryjane Satrapi
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (K)
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land
The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrove
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (K)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (K)