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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.
Books marked with [BookBusters] are from our book group.
- Agrawal, Roma – Nuts and Bolts: Seven small inventions that changed the world (in a big way)
- Agrawal, Roma – Built: The hidden stories behind our structures
- Alexander, Samuel – Degrowth in the Suburbs
- Alexievich, Svetlana – Boys in Zinc
- Ali, Ayaan Hirsi – Infidel
- Allen, Charlotte Vale – Daddy’s Girl
- Arnold, Catherine – Bedlam: London and its Mad
- Asbridge, Thomas – The Crusades: The War For The Holy Land
- Austen, Jane – Emma
- Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
- Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
- Backman, Fredrik – A Man Called Ove
- Backman, Fredrik – Anxious People
- Backman, Fredrik – Beavertown
- Barker, Juliet – Agincourt
- Bart, Ehrman D – Jesus, Interupted
- Becker, Elizabeth – You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
- Benjamin, Alison – World Without Bees
- Bentley, Joyce – Importance of Being Constance
- Bergreen, Laurence – Over the Edge of the World
- Blas, Javier & Farchy, Jack – The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the World’s Resources
- Boase, Tessa – Etta Lemon
- Boaz, Noel T – Dragon Bone Hill
- Booth, Michael – The Almost Nearly Perfect People
- Borden, Mary – The Forbidden Zone
- Brand, Katy – Brenda Monk is Funny
- Brand, Stewart – The Maintenace of Everything Part One (Bookbusters)
- Brassey, Annie – A Voyage in the Sunbeam
- Brown, John – In Search of John Brown – The Shipbuilder & The Colonialist
- Bryson, Bill – One Summer
- Bukowski, Charles – Post Office
- Bukowski, Charles – Factotum
- Bukowski, Charles – Women
- Bukowski, Charles – Ham on Rye
- Bukowski, Charles – Hollywood
- Burchell, S C – The Suez Canal
- Burgis, Tom – Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
- Cansfield, Nick – Slablife 1
- Cansfield, Nick – Slablife 2
- Cansfield, Nick – Slablife 3
- Carpenter, Humphrey – W.H. Auden
- Carson, Rachel – Silent Spring
- Castor, Helen – Joan of Arc
- Chandler, Robert – The Foundation Pit
- Chang, Jung – Mao
- Chiang, Yee – Silent Traveller in London
- Cline, Emma – The
- Collen, Alanna – 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
- Collins, Dando – The Ides
- Cooper, Fagence – Effie
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Tiger: The Siege of Seringapatam, 1799
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Fortress: The Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Trafalgar: The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Rifles: The French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Havoc: The Northern Portugal Campaign, Spring 1809
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Eagle: The Talavera Campaign, July 1809
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Gold: The Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Fury: The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811
- Cornwell, Bernard – Sharpe’s Battle: The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, May 1811
- Cornwall, Bernard – Sharpe’s Company: The Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
- Crocker, Aimée – And I’d Do It Again
- Curtis, Lettice – Lettice Curtis: Her Autobiography
- Curtis, Scarlett – Feminists Don’t Wear Pink (and other lies)
- Cusk, Rachel – Outline
- Dawkins, Richard – The Blind Watchmaker
- Dawkins, Richard – The God Delusion
- Diamond, Jared – Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed/Survive [BookBusters]
- Dolan, Naoise – The Happy Couple
- Doughty, Caitlin – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Druckerman, Pamela – French Children Don’t Throw Food
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Lady of the Camellias
- Durrell, Gerald – My Family and Other Animals
- Essinger, James – Jacquard’s Web
- Everitt, Anthony – Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
- Fallada, Hans – Alone in Berlin
- Fallada, Hans – The Drinker
- Fallada, Hans – Wolf Among Wolves
- Firbank, Ronald – Vainglory
- Fitzsimons, Peter – Batavia
- Ford, Richard – A Handbook for Travellers in Spain
- Frater, Alexander – The Balloon Factory
- French, Dawn – Dear Fatty
- French, Marilyn – The Women’s Room
- Frieda, Leonie – Vatherine de Medici
- Friedman, Myra – Buried Alive
- Gaiman, Neil – Norse Mythology
- Gillard, Julia – My Story
- Gray, John – Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
- Hallett, Christine E – Nurses of Passchendale: Caring for the wounded of the Ypres campaigns 1914-1918
- Hamilton, Patrick – Hangover Square
- Hammer, Joshua – The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
- Harari, Noah – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- Harden, Blaine – Escape from Camp 14
- Harris, Sam – Letter to a Christian Nation
- Hawkey, Arthur – Black Night off Finisterre
- Heller, Erica – Yossarian Slept here – When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life
- Heller, Joseph – Catch 22
- Hill, Paul – Road to Hastings
- Hitchens, Christopher – God is Not Great
- Horowitz, Anthony – The Word is Murder
- Howell, Georgina – Daughter of the Desert: The extraordinary life if Gertrude Bell
- Hudge, Susie – Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained
- Hoffs, Gill – Sinking of RMS Tayleur
- Holmes, Richard – Falling Upwards
- Hong, Euny – The Birth of Korean Cool
- Howard, Jules – Wonderdog
- Humphrys, John – The Great Food Gamble
- Irving, John – A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Irving, John – A Son of the Circus
- Irving, John – A Widow for One Year
- Irving, John – Avenue of Mysteries
- Irving, John – Imaginary Girlfriend
- Irving, John – In One Person
- Irving, John – Last Night in Twisted River
- Irving, John – Setting Free the Bears
- Irving, John – The 158-Pound Marriage
- Irving, John – The Cider House Rules
- Irving, John – The Fourth Hand
- Irving, John – The Hotel New Hampshire
- Irving, John – The Last Chairlift
- Irving, John – The Water-Method Man
- Irving, John – The World According to Garp
- Irving, John – Until I find You
- Jackson, Shirley – The Lottery and Other Stories
- Jackson, Shirley – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Jacobs, Naomi – Forgotten Girl
- Jafari, Shakardokht – Shakar: A Woman’s Journey from Refugee to Cancer Pioneer
- Jerome, Jerome K – Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
- Jerome, Jerome K – Three Men on the Bummel
- Jones, Dan – Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
- Kelly, Christopher – Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire
- Kelly, Ian – Mr Foote’s Other Leg
- Kemp, Luke – The Goliath Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
- Kendzior, Sarah – Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
- Kerman, Piper – Orange is the New Black
- Khlevniuk, Oleg V – Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
- Klein, Naomi – This Changes Everything
- Kolbert, Elizabeth – The Sixth Extinction
- Koven, Seth – Slumming
- Krasnostein, Sarah – The Trauma Cleaner
- Kurkov, Andrey – A Matter of Life and Death
- Kurkov, Andrey – Death and the Penguin
- Kurkov, Andrey – Penguin Lost
- Kurkov, Andrey – The Bickford Fuse
- Kurkov, Andrey – The Gardener from Ochakov
- Kurkov, Andrey – The Milkman in the Night
- Lacey, Robert – Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
- Lagerlof, Selma – Herr Arne’s Penge
- Lee, Edward – The Bighead
- Levin, Ira – A Kiss before Dying
- Levin, Ira – Rosemary’s Baby
- Levin, Ira – The Boys From Brazil
- Levin, Ira – The Stepford Wives
- Levin, Ira – This Perfect Day
- Lewis, Helen – Difficult Women
- Lillis, Joanna – Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
- Lindgren, Astrid – Pippi Longstocking
- Lindgren, Astrid – Pippi Longstocking Goes Abroad
- Lindhout, Amanda – A House in the Sky
- Lively, Penelope – Moon Tiger
- Loehr, Kirsty – A Short History of Queer Women
- Luurtsema, Nat – Cuckoo in the Nest
- Macdonald, Helen – H is for Hawk
- Maguire, Gregory – Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years)
- Man, John – Kublai Lhan
- Marçal, Katrine – Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in a World Built for Men
- Mason, Zachary – The Lost Books of the Odyssey
- Mayhew, Emily – Wounded
- McCarthy, Mary – The Group
- McCormick, Maureen – Here’s the Story
- McDonald, Brian – Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants
- McGoogan, Ken – Fatal Passage
- McKenna, Marthe – I was a Spy! The classic account of behind the lines espionage in the first world war
- McKibben, Bill – Eaarth
- Mifflin, Margot – Blue Tattoo
- Miller, AD – Snowdrops
- Min, Anchee – Red Azalea
- Moffett, Mark W – The Human Swarm: How our societies arise, thrive and fall
- Moore, Michael – Stupid White Men
- Moorhead, Sam – AS410: The Year that Shook Rome
- Mortimer, Ian – The Greatest Traitor – The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
- Mortimer, Ian – Perfect King
- Mulgrew, Kate – Born with Teeth
- Munro, Sharyn – The Woman on the Mountain
- Murray, Nicholas – Kafka
- Neeper, MA – The Eyes of an Atheist
- Nicholls, Marnie – The Amazing Mrs Livesey
- Nordman, Erik – The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action [BookBusters]
- O’Hanlon, Redmond – In Trouble Again
- O’Hanlon, Redmond – No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
- O’Hara, John – Appointment in Samarra
- O’Regan, Marie (editor) – Wonderland
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm
- Palmer, Ned – A Cheesemonger’s History of The British Isles
- Pamuk, Orhan – The Museum of Innocence
- Parsons, Nicholas – Nicholas Parsons – With Just a Touch of Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation
- Parsons, Nicholas – Straight Man: My Life in Comedy
- Pearson, Harry – Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows
- Peppiatt, Michael – Francis Bacon in Your Blood
- Perez, Caroline Criado – Invisible Women
- Perrottet, Tony – Naked Olympics, The – The True Story of the Ancient Games
- Perrottet, Tony – Route 66 AD, on the trail of ancient Roman tourists
- Pietikäinen, Joanna – Heartists
- Pratt, Keith L – Everlasting Flower: A history of Korea
- Preston, Antony – The World’s Worst Warships
- Preston, Paul – The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century
- Pryor, Rain – Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love and Loss with Richard Pryor
- Rajesh, Monisha – Around India in 80 Trains
- Rajesh, Monisha – Around the World in 80 Trains
- Raser, Annie – The Art of Frugal Hedonism
- Raven, Adam & Autumn – A Year in a Yurt: An adventure in off-grid living full of practical advice
- Riddell, Fern – The Victorian Guide to Sex
- Rilke, Rainer Maria – Two Prague Stories
- Robinson, Jane – Bluestockings
- Ross, Leone – Come Let us Sing Anyway
- Russell, Helen – The Year of Living Danishly
- Saddler, Allen – Bless ’em All
- Sagan, Carl – Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
- Saunders, Jennifer – Bonkers
- Semeraro, Vivien & Newman, David A – Regina Diana
- Shah, Sonia – Pandemic
- Shavit, Ari – My Promised Land
- Shaw, Dr Julia – The Memory Illusion: Remembering, forgetting and the science of false memory
- She, Lao – Cat People
- She, Lao – Mr Ma and Son
- She, Lao – Rickshaw Boy
- Shermer, Michael – Why Darwin Matters
- Shriver, Lionel – The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
- Shteyngart, Gary – Little Failure: A
- Smith, Victoria – Hags
- Southon, Emma – A History of Rome in 21 Women
- Southon, Emma – Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
- Spinney, Laura – Pale Rider
- Strgatsky, Arkady – Roadside Picnic
- Sullivan, Rosemary – Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Swan, Shanna – Countdown
- Sykes, Bryan – Seven Daughters of Eve
- Taleb, Nicholas – Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Taylor, Jessica – Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exploring the Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma
- Teeuwisse, Jo – Fake History: 101 things that never happened
- Tellgren, Anna (ed) – Brassaï: The secret signs of Paris
- Thackery, William Makepeace – Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
- Thackery, William Makepeace – Vanity Fair
- Tormey, Simon – Anti-Capitalism
- Tressell, Robert – The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- Tunzelmann, Alex von – Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues that Made History
- Tunzelmann, Alex von – Indian Summer: The secret history of the end of an empire
- Uglow, Jenny – The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
- Uglow, Jenny – The Pinecone
- Upton, George – Elizabeth – Empress of Austria
- Van Der Kiste, John – The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy
- Verlag, Christian Brandstatter – Sisi: Myth and truth
- Vincent, James – Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
- Vinten, Alice – On the Line
- Wallman, James – Stuffocation
- Warrick, Joby – Black Flags
- Waters, John – Role Models
- Webster, Jason – The Spy with 9 Names
- Wells, Colin – Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
- Williams, Kevin – Read all About it
- Wilson, Sarah – Violated: A Shocking and Harrowing Survival Story From the Notorious Rotherham Abuse Scandal
- Winchester, Simon – The Map That Changed the World
- Woods, Hannah Rose – Rule Nostalgia: A backwards history of Britain
- Xinran – Sky Burial
- Ypi, Lea – Free
- Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief
- Zweig, Stefan – The Post Office Girl