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Sunday, January 08, 2012

The book 2011 edit

It’s reached that new year moment where folks the world over are making resolutions late or reflecting on them, and Kezzie is making her final book list of the year! It feels like a new year tradition now!
Here are the majority of the books I read (not counting all the short kiddie ones read for Guided reading and a few others forgotten)

1. Cora Harrison: I was Jane Austen's best friend

2. Michael Morpurgo: Waiting for Anya.

3. Budge Wilson Before Green Gables.

4. Mary Ann Scaffer and Annie Barrows. The Guernsey Literay and Potato Peel Pie Society.

5. Elizabeth Aston Mr Darcy's daughters

6. Nancy Goudie Treasures of Darkness.

7. Eleanor H Porter Pollyanna grows up.

8. Terry Pratchett The unadulterated cat.

9. Anne Perry The face of a stranger.

10. Aleksandr Orlov A simples life.

11. Ted Hughes The Iron woman

12. Joseph Galliano (editor) and various famous types. Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self

13. J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

14. Anne Perry Half Moon Street

15. Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love

16. Joan Aiken The Youngest Miss Ward

17. Gavin Pretor-Pinney The cloud collector's handbook.

18. Noel Streatfield. Party shoes

19. Tony Wilmott Birdoswald Roman Fort (English Heritage Guidebooks)

20. Maria Von Trapp The Sound of Music- the story of the Trapp family singers

22. Georgette Heyer Cotillion

23. Alison Prince My Story Henry the VIII's wives

24. Michael Morpurgo Kaspar- Prince of cats

25. David Almond. Skellig

26. Alexander McCall Smith Espresso tales

27 Michael Morpurgo Cool!

28. Frances Pascall Sweet valley high confidential: 10 years on

29. Anthony Horrowitz Scorpia Rising

30. Julia Quinn On the way to the wedding

31. Kate Morton The House at Riverton.

32. Alexander McCall Smith 44 Scotland Street.

33. Kate Morton The forgotten garden.

34. Vikram Seth An equal music.

35. Christina Jordis Bali Java in my dreams

36. Lorna Hill Masquerade at the Wells

37. Lorna Hill Return to the Wells

38. Gillian Cross Facing the demon headmaster

39. Alexander McCall Smith Love over Scotland. (44 Scotland street series)

40. Robert Mandelburg The Case of the Curious Campaign - a whodunit of many mini-mysteries.

41. Lorna Hill Ella at the Wells.

42. Piers Moore Ede Honey and Dust: Travels in Search of Sweetness

43. Sue Finden Casper- the travelling cat

44. Pamela Aidan An assembly such as this. The Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman trilogy part 1.

45. Georgette Heyer These old shades

46. Louis Sachar Marvin Redpost:Class President

47. Louis Sachar Marvin Redpost: A magic crystal

48. Louis Sachar Marvin Redpost: A flying birthday cake.

49. Edward Eager The Time Garden.

50. Don Richardson Lords of the Earth:

51. Pamela Aidan Duty and Desire: The Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman trilogy, part 2

52. Pamela AidanThese three remain - Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman trilogy

53. Isabel Wolff A vintage affair

54. Louis Sachar Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at birth.

55. Lorna Hill No castanets at the Wells.

56. Lorna Hill Jane leaves the Wells.

57. Daniel Mason. The Piano tuner.

58. Lorna Hill Rosanna joins the Wells

59. Lorna Hill Principal Role

60. Philip Ridley Krindlekrax

61. Timothy Whuffenpuffen

62. Angela Brazil The Jolliest term on record.

63. Charles Dickens The Christmas books: A Christmas carol, The Chimes, The cricket on the hearth

64. Carola Dunn Death at Wentwater court

65. Carola Dunn The winter garden mystery.

66. Carola Dunn Requiem for a mezzo.

67. Keri Smith How to be an Explorer of the World

I've loved most of the books I've read but particular favourites include the Pamela Aidan Darcy books and the Daisy Dalyrimple books are exciting because there are still another 18 or so for me to read (I've always enjoyed devouring whole series!) , I've adored all the Alexander McCall Smith books and the Kate Morton books were a revelation!

Possibly the most boring was the Dickens- it just seemed a bit rambly but I want to read some of his longer books next year!

67 books isn't bad for a year, (or so I thought until I read that Alex had read 371- HOW????) so what should I do next year?  Aim for something in particular or just see how it goes?

Suggestions on a postcard in the comments box below please!