I did this a few years ago and it kept me going, so I’m rolling it out again. We’re on 28 December when I first created this page, I’m currently reading Running Like a Girl and The Enchanted Castle. The first to get me back in the swing of running again and the latter because it’s Christmas and boy did I need some down-time reading.
I’m hoping for 52+ books this coming year, at least one a week. Care to join me? (This would help if WordPress hadn’t lost some of my books in a random edit, going back over the page history, I found some, but not all, that I’d added here.)
Currently reading:
- Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions, Russell Brand
- Miracle Morning for Addiction Recovery, Hal Elrod, Anna David, Joe Polish, Honoree Corder
- His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
Completed books:
- Braving the Wilderness, Brené Brown (audiobook)
- Love Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton
- H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
- Mrs McGinty’s Dead, Agatha Christie (audiobook)
- A Far Cry From Kensington, Muriel Spark (audiobook)
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (Book Club selection)
- Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, Alan Alda
- The Darling Buds of May, HE Bates (I re-read this every year, so I’m not sure it counts!)
- How To Break Up With Your Phone, Catherine Price
- Oh! To Be In England, HE Bates
- When The Green Woods Laugh, HE Bates
- Uncommon Type, Tom Hanks – well this was glorious, and I know what I’m using one of my audible credits for…
- A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L’Engle. Before watching it at the movies, I hope they don’t stuff it up.
- The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin (Book Club selection)
- Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan
- Spiritual Liberation, Michael Bernard Beckwith
- Strength in Stillness, Bob Roth – do not bother with this, it’s not a how to on Transcendental Meditation, it’s an advert.
- The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie (audiobook, brought it for Run For The Kids)
- Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Book Club selection)
- Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- They Do It With Mirrors, Agatha Christie (audiobook)
- An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (Book Club selection)
- Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
- Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard (audiobook)
- How The Marquis Got His Coat Back, Neil Gaiman (short story)
- Cards On The Table, Agatha Christie (audiobook, brought for Run The Rock)
- Never Greener, Ruth Jones
- Heartburn, Nora Ephron
- The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins (audiobook)
- Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor
- Own The Day, Own Your Life, Aubrey Marcus
- The Art of Asking, Amanda Palmer (audiobook)
- Mapp and Lucia, EF Benson
- The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey (Book Club selection)
- A Tale of Two Families, Dodi Smith
- Stop Thinking, Start Living, Richard Carlson
- Hercule Poirot, Complete Short Stories (all 51 of them!), Agatha Christie
- Murder At The Vicarage, Agatha Christie (audiobook)
- 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins – I brought the hardback as the audiobook was so good.
- The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett – like many of the books I add to my reading list, found when discussed on A Good Read – excellent podcast, but a Radio 4 program in the UK.
- Buddhism For The Unbelievably Busy, Meshel Laurie (audiobook)
- The Helene Hanff Omnibus, Helene Hanff (given to me by Patrick years ago, it moved out to Australia with me)
- Promise Me Dad, Joe Biden
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris (Book Club selection)
- I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death, Maggie O’Farrell
- Pretty Honest, Sali Hughes
- The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
- Trouble in Paradise, Robert B. Parker (if anyone wants to buy me the box set of DVDs with Tom Selleck, thanks in advance)
- Four Respectable Ladies Seeking Part-time Husband, Barbara Toner (Book Club selection)
- The Gabriel Method, Jon Gabriel
- Lullaby, Leïla Slimani (Book Club selection)
- Mistral’s Daughter, Judith Krantz (because sometimes you need a bit of cheez)
- Lovers, Judith Krantz (ditto)
- The Two of Us, Sheila Hancock
- Not My Father’s Son, Alan Cumming (audiobook)
- American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
- Back, After The Break, Osher Günsberg
- A Legacy of Spices, John le Carré (this was lent to me by a colleague after a chat about books, another view of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold – really good).
- Where Am I Now, Mara Wilson
- Death In Paradise, Robert B. Parker
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Stone Cold, Robert B. Parker
- Rising Strong, Brené Brown (audiobook)
- Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie (audiobook)
Couldn’t finish:
- Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley. Not for the want of trying either – I gave it four seperate goes and gave up. (Book club selection)
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