Books

I read a Twitter post the other day about a woman who typed a list of every book she ever read. While I doubt that I could do that, here’s a (much shorter) list of some of the digital and analog editions I’ve read over the years in author order.

  1. Agrawal, Roma – Nuts and Bolts: Seven small inventions that changed the world (in a big way)
  2. Alexander, Samuel – Degrowth in the Suburbs
  3. Alexievich, Svetlana – Boys in Zinc
  4. Ali, Ayaan Hirsi – Infidel
  5. Allen, Charlotte Vale – Daddy’s Girl
  6. Arnold, Catherine – Bedlam: London and its Mad
  7. Asbridge, Thomas – The Crusades: The War For The Holy Land
  8. Austen, Jane – Emma
  9. Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
  10. Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
  11. Backman, Fredrik – A Man Called Ove
  12. Backman, Fredrik – Anxious People
  13. Barker, Juliet – Agincourt
  14. Bart, Ehrman D – Jesus, Interupted
  15. Benjamin, Alison – World Without Bees
  16. Bentley, Joyce – Importance of Being Constance
  17. Bergreen, Laurence – Over the Edge of the World
  18. Blas, Javier & Farchy, Jack – The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the World’s Resources
  19. Boase, Tessa – Etta Lemon
  20. Boaz, Noel T – Dragon Bone Hill
  21. Booth, Michael – The Almost Nearly Perfect People
  22. Brand, Katy – Brenda Monk is Funny
  23. Brassey, Annie – A Voyage in the Sunbeam
  24. Brown, John – In Search of John Brown – The Shipbuilder & The Colonialist
  25. Bryson, Bill – One Summer
  26. Bukowski, Charles – Post Office
  27. Bukowski, Charles – Factotum
  28. Bukowski, Charles – Women
  29. Bukowski, Charles – Ham on Rye
  30. Bukowski, Charles – Hollywood
  31. Burchell, S C – The Suez Canal
  32. Burgis, Tom – Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
  33. Cansfield, Nick – Slablife 1
  34. Cansfield, Nick – Slablife 2
  35. Cansfield, Nick – Slablife 3
  36. Carpenter, Humphrey – W.H. Auden
  37. Carson, Rachel – Silent Spring
  38. Castor, Helen – Joan of Arc
  39. Chandler, Robert – The Foundation Pit
  40. Change, Jung – Mao
  41. Chiang, Yee – Silent Traveller in London
  42. Collen, Alanna – 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
  43. Collins, Dando – The Ides
  44. Cooper, Fagence – Effie
  45. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Tiger: The Siege of Seringapatam, 1799
  46. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803
  47. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Fortress: The Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
  48. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Trafalgar: The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805
  49. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Rifles: The French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809
  50. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Havoc: The Northern Portugal Campaign, Spring 1809
  51. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Eagle: The Talavera Campaign, July 1809
  52. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Gold: The Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
  53. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810
  54. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Fury: The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811
  55. Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Battle: The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, May 1811
  56. Cornwall, Bernard – Sharpe’s Company: The Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
  57. Crocker, Aimée – And I’d Do It Again
  58. Curtis, Lettice – Lettice Curtis: Her Autobiography
  59. Curtis, Scarlett – Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies)
  60. Dawkins, Richard – The Blind Watchmaker
  61. Dawkins, Richard – The God Delusion
  62. Doughty, Caitlin – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  63. Druckerman, Pamela – French Children Don’t Throw Food
  64. Dumas, Alexandre – The Lady of the Camellias
  65. Durrell, Gerald – My Family and Other Animals
  66. Essinger, James – Jacquard’s Web
  67. Everitt, Anthony – Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
  68. Fallada, Hans – Alone in Berlin
  69. Fallada, Hans – Wolf Among Wolves
  70. Firbank, Ronald – Vainglory
  71. Fitzsimons, Peter – Batavia
  72. Ford, Richard – A Handbook for Travellers in Spain
  73. Frater, Alexander – The Balloon Factory
  74. French, Dawn – Dear Fatty
  75. French, Marilyn – The Women’s Room
  76. Frieda, Leonie – Vatherine de Medici
  77. Friedman, Myra – Buried Alive
  78. Gaiman, Neil – Norse Mythology
  79. Gillard, Julia – My Story
  80. Gray, John – Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
  81. Hallett, Christine E – Nurses of Passchendale: Caring for the wounded of the Ypres campaigns 1914-1918
  82. Hamilton, Patrick – Hangover Square
  83. Hammer, Joshua – The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
  84. Harari, Noah – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
  85. Harden, Blaine – Escape from Camp 14
  86. Harris, Sam – Letter to a Christian Nation
  87. Hawkey, Arthur – Black Night off Finisterre
  88. Heller, Erica – Yossarian Slept here – When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life
  89. Heller, Joseph – Catch 22
  90. Hill, Paul – Road to Hastings
  91. Hitchens, Christopher – God is Not Great
  92. Howell, Georgina – Daughter of the Desert: The extraordinary life if Gertrude Bell
  93. Hudge, Susie – Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained
  94. Hoffs, Gill – Sinking of RMS Tayleur
  95. Holmes, Richard – Falling Upwards
  96. Hong, Euny – The Birth of Korean Cool
  97. Howard, Jules – Wonderdog
  98. Humphrys, John – The Great Food Gamble
  99. Irving, John – A Prayer for Owen Meany
  100. Irving, John – A Son of the Circus
  101. Irving, John – A Widow for One Year
  102. Irving, John – Avenue of Mysteries
  103. Irving, John – Imaginary Girlfriend
  104. Irving, John – In One Person
  105. Irving, John – Last Night in Twisted River
  106. Irving, John – Setting Free the Bears
  107. Irving, John – The 158-Pound Marriage
  108. Irving, John – The Cider House Rules
  109. Irving, John – The Fourth Hand
  110. Irving, John – The Hotel New Hampshire
  111. Irving, John – The Last Chairlift
  112. Irving, John – The Water-Method Man
  113. Irving, John – The World According to Garp
  114. Irving, John – Until I find You
  115. Jackson, Shirley – The Lottery and Other Stories
  116. Jackson, Shirley – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  117. Jacobs, Naomi – Forgotten Girl
  118. Jafari, Shakardokht – Shakar: A Woman’s Journey from Refugee to Cancer Pioneer
  119. Jerome, Jerome K – Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
  120. Jerome, Jerome K – Three Men on the Bummel
  121. Jones, Dan – Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
  122. Kelly, Christopher – Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire
  123. Kelly, Ian – Mr Foote’s Other Leg
  124. Kerman, Piper – Orange is the New Black
  125. Klein, Naomi – This Changes Everything
  126. Kolbert, Elizabeth – The Sixth Extinction
  127. Koven, Seth – Slumming
  128. Krasnostein, Sarah – The Trauma Cleaner
  129. Kurkov, Andrey – A Matter of Life and Death
  130. Kurkov, Andrey – Death and the Penguin
  131. Kurkov, Andrey – Penguin Lost
  132. Kurkov, Andrey – The Bickford Fuse
  133. Kurkov, Andrey – The Gardener from Ochakov
  134. Kurkov, Andrey – The Milkman in the Night
  135. Lacey, Robert – Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
  136. Lagerlof, Selma – Herr Arne’s Penge
  137. Lee, Edward – The Bighead
  138. Levin, Ira – A Kiss before Dying
  139. Levin, Ira – Rosemary’s Baby
  140. Levin, Ira – The Boys From Brazil
  141. Levin, Ira – The Stepford Wives
  142. Levin, Ira – This Perfect Day
  143. Lewis, Helen – Difficult Women
  144. Lillis, Joanna – Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
  145. Lindgren, Astrid – Pippi Longstocking
  146. Lindgren, Astrid – Pippi Longstocking Goes Abroad
  147. Lindhout, Amanda – A House in the Sky
  148. Lively, Penelope – Moon Tiger
  149. Luurtsema, Nat – Cuckoo in the Nest
  150. Macdonald, Helen – H is for Hawk
  151. Maguire, Gregory – Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years)
  152. Marçal, Katrine – Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in a World Built for Men
  153. Mason, Zachary – The Lost Books of the Odyssey
  154. Mayhew, Emily – Wounded
  155. McCarthy, Mary – The Group
  156. McCormick, Maureen – Here’s the Story
  157. McDonald, Brian – Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants
  158. McGoogan, Ken – Fatal Passage
  159. McKibben, Bill – Eaarth
  160. Mifflin, Margot – Blue Tattoo
  161. Miller, AD – Snowdrops
  162. Min, Anchee – Red Azalea
  163. Moffett, Mark W – The Human Swarm: How our societies arise, thrive and fall
  164. Moorhead, Sam – AS410: The Year that Shook Rome
  165. Mortimer, Ian – The Greatest Traitor – The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
  166. Mortimer, Ian – Perfect King
  167. Mulgrew, Kate – Born with Teeth
  168. Munro, Sharyn – The Woman on the Mountain
  169. Neeper, MA – The Eyes of an Atheist
  170. Nicholls, Marnie – The Amazing Mrs Livesey
  171. O’Hanlon, Redmond – In Trouble Again
  172. O’Hanlon, Redmond – No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
  173. O’Hara, John – Appointment in Samarra
  174. O’Regan, Marie (editor) – Wonderland
  175. Orwell, George – Animal Farm
  176. Palmer, Ned – A Cheesemonger’s History of The British Isles
  177. Pamuk, Orhan – The Museum of Innocence
  178. Parsons, Nicholas – Nicholas Parsons – With Just a Touch of Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation
  179. Parsons, Nicholas – Straight Man: My Life in Comedy
  180. Pearson, Harry – Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows
  181. Peppiatt, Michael – Francis Bacon in Your Blood
  182. Perez, Caroline Criado – Invisible Women
  183. Perrottet, Tony – Naked Olympics, The – The True Story of the Ancient Games
  184. Pietikäinen, Joanna – Heartists
  185. Pratt, Keith L – Everlasting Flower: A history of Korea
  186. Preston, Antony – The World’s Worst Warships
  187. Preston, Paul – The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century
  188. Rajesh, Monisha – Around India in 80 Trains
  189. Rajesh, Monisha – Around the World in 80 Trains
  190. Raser, Annie – The Art of Frugal Hedonism
  191. Raven, Adam & Autumn – A Year in a Yurt: An adventure in off-grid living full of practical advice
  192. Riddell, Fern – The Victorian Guide to Sex
  193. Rilke, Rainer Maria – Two Prague Stories
  194. Robinson, Jane – Bluestockings
  195. Ross, Leone – Come Let us Sing Anyway
  196. Russell, Helen – The Year of Living Danishly
  197. Saddler, Allen – Bless ’em All
  198. Sagan, Carl – Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  199. Saunders, Jennifer – Bonkers
  200. Semeraro, Vivien & Newman, David A – Regina Diana
  201. Shah, Sonia – Pandemic
  202. Shavit, Ari – My Promised Land
  203. Shaw, Dr Julia – The Memory Illusion: Remembering, forgetting and the science of false memory
  204. She, Lao – Cat People
  205. She, Lao – Mr Ma and Son
  206. She, Lao – Rickshaw Boy
  207. Shermer, Michael – Why Darwin Matters
  208. Shriver, Lionel – The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
  209. Smith, Victoria – Hags
  210. Southon, Emma – Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
  211. Spinney, Laura – Pale Rider
  212. Strgatsky, Arkady – Roadside Picnic
  213. Sullivan, Rosemary – Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
  214. Swan, Shanna – Countdown
  215. Sykes, Bryan – Seven Daughters of Eve
  216. Taleb, Nicholas – Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  217. Taylor, Jessica – Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exploring the Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma
  218. Teeuwisse, Jo – Fake History: 101 things that never happened
  219. Thackery, William Makepeace – Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  220. Thackery, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
  221. Tormey, Simon – Anti-Capitalism
  222. Tressell, Robert – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  223. Uglow, Jenny – The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
  224. Uglow, Jenny – The Pinecone
  225. Verlag, Christian Brandstatter – Sisi: Myth and truth
  226. Vincent, James – Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
  227. Vinten, Alice – On the Line
  228. Wallman, James – Stuffocation
  229. Warrick, Joby – Black Flags
  230. Waters, John – Role Models
  231. Webster, Jason – The Spy with 9 Names
  232. Wells, Colin – Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
  233. Williams, Kevin – Read all About it
  234. Wilson, Sarah – Violated: A Shocking and Harrowing Survival Story From the Notorious Rotherham Abuse Scandal
  235. Woods, Hannah Rose – Rule Nostalgia: A backwards history of Britain
  236. Xinran – Sky Burial
  237. Ypi, Lea – Free
  238. Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief
  239. Zweig, Stefan – The Post Office Girl