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