A Brief
History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - Adam Rutherford
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| A life in Letters – George Orwell. |
| A Month in the Country – J L Carr |
A Preface to
Paradise Lost - C S Lewis
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| A Woman Surgeon – L Martindale |
| Aliens – edited by Jim Al Khalili |
| Apple of my Eye – Helene Hanff |
Ask a
Policeman - Members of the Detection Club circa '33
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| Breakfast at Sothebys – Philip Hook |
| Chronicles on Our Troubled Times - Thomas Piketty |
| Coriolanus - Livy |
| Coriolanus - William Shakespeare |
Death at the
Opera - Gladys Mitchell
|
Death on the
Riviera - John Bude
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Doreen
- Barbara Noble
|
Dumb Witness
- Agatha Christie
|
Estuary
- Rachel Lichtenstein
|
| Foe -
Coetzee
|
| Good Parcel of English Soil - Richard Mabey |
| Goodbye to all Cats - PG Wodehouse |
| Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood |
How to Live on
24 Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett
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Jacob's Room
is full of Books - Susan Hill
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| Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte |
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
|
| Kinsey and Me – Sue Grafton |
Letter From
New York - Helene Hanff
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| Lives in Writing – David Lodge |
London Belongs
to Me - Norman Collins
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| Lost Children - Edith Pargeter |
Making it Up
as I go Along - Marian Keyes
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Memoirs of a
Novelist - Virginia Woolf
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| Murder Underground - Mavis Doriel Hay |
| Music – Andrew Gant |
| Mystery in White – J Jefferson Farjeon |
Paradise Lost
- John Milton
|
Pax Britannica
- Jan Morris
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| Resorting to Murder - Detection Club Members |
| Respectable – Lynsey Hanley |
| Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe |
| Silent Nights - Detection Club Members |
Silent Witness
- Agatha Christie
|
Smile
- Oliver Burkeman
|
Something
Fresh - P G Wodehouse
|
Sounds and
Sweet Airs - Anna Beer
|
Summer
Lightning - P G Wodehouse
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Talking About
Detective Fiction - P D James
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| The Awakening – Kate Chopin |
The British
Museum is Falling Down - David Lodge
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The Cat Inside
- William S Burroughs
|
The Cornish
Coast Murder - John Bude
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| The Crime at Black Dudley - Margery Allingham |
The Devil at
Saxon Wall - Gladys Mitchell
|
| The Devils Elbow – Gladys Mitchell |
The Ghost
Network - Catie Disabato
|
| The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovitch |
| The Life Changing Magic of Tidying - Marie Kondo |
| The Persuaders - The Hidden Industry that Wants to Change your Mind - James Garvey |
| The Philosophy of Andy Warhol |
The Plague and
I - Betty MacDonald
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The Rebecca
Notebook and other Memories - Daphne duMaurier
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The Santa
Klaus Murder - Mavis Doriel Hay
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The Scoop and
Behind the Screen - Dorothy L Sayers, Christie, Berkeley and others
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The Secret
House of Death - Ruth Rendell
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| The Story of Classic Crime in 100 books - Martin Edwards |
The Waxworks
Murder - John Dickson Carr
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The World in
the Evening - Christopher Isherwood
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The Year of
the Ladybird - Graham Joyce
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Thirteen
Guests - J Jefferson Farjeon
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Three Act
Tragedy - Agatha Christie
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Trieste and
the Meaning of Nowhere - Jan Morris
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| Underfoot in Show Business – Helene Hanff |
| Ways of Seeing – John Berger |
| When Last I died – Gladys Mitchell |
| Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no-one can afford to pay John Lanchester |
| Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys |
Which is 76 books in comparison to last years 110. I think part of the explanation is that a) I haven't included text books because I don't read them in full and b) last year I reread a lot of Agatha Christie, which tends to go down quick.
The Agatha Christie effect probably also accounts for the men catching up the women this year. In fact they overtook. 37 books by men to 34 by women, with 5 by a joint team or group.
32 on the list were non fiction and 44 fiction, which means that my non fiction reading has dropped very little compared to my fiction reading. It's also the year - thanks to reading Sounds and Sweet Airs, that I discovered Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn) and Barbara Strozzi.
Favourite book of 2017? London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins.
Happy New Year Everyone.
Happy New Year Everyone.
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