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