Post by rosemary3 on Mar 30, 2016 22:07:05 GMT
Added May 2024:
The Lusiads - Luis Vaz de Camoes Interesting but bizarre Portuguese epic tale of the voyage of Vasco da Gama, mixing Roman gods with Christianity. 2.5 stars rounded up for educational aspect.
The Yogins of Ladakh - John Crook & James Low
A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh
All Souls' Day - Cees Nooteboom
Things: A Story of the Sixties - Georges Perec
Voss - Patrick White
Earlier:
Queer London - Peter Ackroyd A history of LGBTQ people in London. There was too much graphic sexual detail in it for me - perhaps I should have expected that, but I thought it would be more academic and restrained! 2 stars personally, but it did seem very well researched.
What If It's Us - Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
More Work for the Undertaker - Margery Allingham
The Mind Readers - Margery Allingham
The Cloud of Unknowing - Anonymous (audio)
The Middlesteins - Jami Attenberg
Jane Austen's Letters
The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji
The Drowned World - J G Ballard
O Caledonia - Elspeth Barker
Dark Side - Belinda Bauer
I Am Dust - Louise Beech
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
Riceyman Steps - Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett (audio)
Mapp and Lucia - E F Benson
Trouble for Lucia - E F Benson
The Case of the Abominable Snowman - Nicholas Blake
Billiards at Half Past Nine - Heinrich Boll
Her Royal Spyness - Rhys Bowen
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (audio)
Notes From a Big Country - Bill Bryson (audio)
Down Under - Bill Bryson (audio)
Death in White Pyjamas & Death Knows No Calendar - John Bude
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Story of the Stone vol 1 - Cao Xueqin
A Portrait of Jane Austen - David Cecil
The Wisdom of Father Brown - G K Chesterton
The Stranger - Harlan Coben
The Woods - Harlan Coben (audio)
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe (e)
Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
Sisters by a River - Barbara Comyns
The Public Burning - Robert Coover
Life, Love and the Archers - Wendy Cope
The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
Body Breaker - M W Craven
Fearless - M W Craven (e)
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
Buried For Pleasure - Edmund Crispin
The Hog's Back Mystery - Freeman Wills Crofts
The Citadel - A J Cronin
Dead Writers in Rehab - Paul Bassett Davies
The Greatest Novels of O. Douglas: Olivia in India,The Setons, Penny Plain, Ann and Her Mother, Pink Sugar (e)
Betsy & Lilibet - Sophie Duffy (e)
Manna From Hades - Carola Dunn (audio)
The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Durrenmatt
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman
LA Confidential - James Ellroy
The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI - Colin Evans
Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field - Eleanor Farjeon
Mystery in White - J Jefferson Farjeon
Thirteen Guests - J Jefferson Farjeon
Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney
Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
Dead Cert - Dick Francis
Forfeit - Dick Francis
For Kicks - Dick Francis
Break In - Dick Francis
Bolt - Dick Francis
Driving Force - Dick Francis
In the Frame - Dick Francis
Long Shot - Dick Francis
Proof - Dick Francis (audio)
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon - Geza Gardonyi
Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
Smallbone Deceased - Michael Gilbert (e)
Emotional Geology - Linda Gillard A depressed and grieving woman moves to a remote Scottish island. This had depth but I didn't really connect with it. 3 stars
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
Faithful Unto Death - Caroline Graham
Ross Poldark - Winston Graham
Demelza - Winston Graham
Warleggan - Winston Graham
The Twisted Sword - Winston Graham (e)
The Stranger from the Sea - Winston Graham
A Restless Evil - Ann Granger
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
The Man Within - Graham Greene
England Made Me - Graham Greene
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall (audio)
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
Death Is No Sportsman - Cyril Hare
Murder Underground - Mavis Doriel Hay
Alice - Christina Henry
Spook Street - Mick Herron
London Rules - Mick Herron
Slough House - Mick Herron
Joe Country - Mick Herron (e)
Bad Actors - Mick Herron (e)
The Drop & The List - Mick Herron
Locke & Key - Joe Hill (audio)
Turtle Diary - Russell Hoban
Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
All Change - Elizabeth Jane Howard (e)
The Ghost It Was - Richard Hull
Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley (audio)
Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes
Honeybath's Haven - Michael Innes
Hamlet, Revenge! - Michael Innes
Wow, No Thank You - Samantha Irby
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Dead If You Don't - Peter James
Platero and I - Juan Ramon Jimenez
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (audio)
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
Everything You Need - A L Kennedy
The Constant Nymph - Margaret Kennedy
Garden, Ashes - Danilo Kis
The First and Last Freedom - J Krishnamurti
The Plumed Serpent - D H Lawrence
The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
Dead Man's Hand - Mark Lock
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
Post After Post-Mortem - E C R Lorac
Murder in the Mill-Race - E C R Lorac
Romance of the Three Kingdoms I - Luo Guanzhong
The Maze - Philip Macdonald
Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
Fever and Spear - Javier Marias
Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh
Off With His Head - Ngaio Marsh
Death and the Dancing Footman - Ngaio Marsh
Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto
The Razor's Edge - W Somerset Maugham
Prague Spring - Simon Mawer
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (audio)
The Distant Echo - Val McDermid (e)
The Skeleton Road - Val McDermid (e)
Out of Bounds - Val McDermid (e)
Broken Ground - Val McDermid (e)
Past Lying - Val McDermid (e)
The Marshmallow Test - Walter Mischel
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop - Gladys Mitchell
Death Comes At Christmas (Dead Men's Morris) - Gladys Mitchell
The Twenty-Third Man - Gladys Mitchell
The Story Girl - L M Montgomery (audio)
Jane of Lantern Hill - L M Montgomery
Buddhaland Brooklyn - Richard C Morais
Cat Under Fire - Shirley Rousseau Murphy (audio)
The Confusions of Young Torless - Robert Musil A disturbing story of bullying and abuse in an Austrian boarding school before WWI. A bit like Lord of the Flies in its revelation of how vicious boys can be, but worse in a way because it was apparently based on the author's own schooldays. No rating - very well written, but I can't say I enjoyed it.
The Man Without Qualities vols 1, 2, 3 - Robert Musil
Heller - J D Nixon (e)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
The Chalk Girl - Carol O'Connell
Heresy - S J Parris
The Paston Letters - Paston family
The Madness of Crowds - Louise Penny (e)
Pollyanna - Eleanor H Porter (audio)
Truckers - Terry Pratchett
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (e)
A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
No Place for Ladies: Women in the Crimean War - Helen Rappaport Fascinating look at not only the nurses but also the army wives who went out to the Crimea with the regiments to live (and often die) in terrible conditions. 5 stars
Period Piece - Gwen Raverat
Village School - Miss Read
Battles at Thrush Green - Miss Read
Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Happiness for Humans - P J Reizin
No Man's Nightingale - Ruth Rendell (audio)
Midwinter of the Spirit - Phil Rickman
A Crown of Lights - Phil Rickman
Lost at Sea - Jon Ronson (audio)
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk - Kathleen Rooney
Emile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West
Tombland - C J Sansom
Winter in Madrid - C J Sansom (audio)
The Norfolk Mystery - Ian Sansom
Essex Poison - Ian Sansom
The Emigrants - W G Sebald
Great Apes - Will Self
Flesh and Blood - Andrew Shanahan (e)
Maigret on the Defensive - Georges Simenon
The Son - Georges Simenon
Aging With Grace - David Snowdon
Poison for Teacher - Nancy Spain
Symposium - Muriel Spark
Collected Stories - Muriel Spark
The Desperate Remedy - Martin Stephen
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
Ogres - Adrian Tchaikovsky (e)
Dog Stories - Diana Secker Tesdell (ed)
The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain
Sacred Country - Rose Tremain
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope (audio)
An Old Man's Love - Anthony Trollope (audio)
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite - Anthony Trollope (audio)
Dr Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope (audio)
Wings Above the Diamantina - Arthur Upfield
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Caravaners - Elizabeth Von Arnim Funny book about a bigoted German husband who goes on holiday in a gyspy-style caravan in England and can't handle his wife's growing independence of mind. Takes a swipe at pre-WWI German militarism. 4 stars
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Medieval Women in their Communities - Diane Watt (ed)
System Collapse - Martha Wells Book 7 in the Murderbot series but a followup to book 5. I felt this was a bit of a placeholder, letting us get to know some characters who will be important in later books without much originality in the plot. Also Murderbot's character development seems to be taking it towards becoming more and more like an average human, which detracts from the idea that the series celebrates neurodiversity. Enjoyable, but nowhere near as good as book 5 IMO. 3 stars
Lonesome Road - Patricia Wentworth
The Journey Home and Other Stories - Malachi Whitaker
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Last Train from Kummersdorf - Leslie Wilson
Messenger of Truth - Jacqueline Winspear
An Incomplete Revenge - Jacqueline Winspear
Among the Mad - Jacqueline Winspear
The Luck of the Bodkins - P G Wodehouse
My Man Jeeves - P G Wodehouse Some stories about Jeeves and some others. None were great. 2 stars
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories - P G Wodehouse PG Wodehouse's non-Jeeves stories tend to follow a pattern (man gets girl against apparently unachievable odds) but these were fun. 3 stars
A Terrible Kindness - Jo Browning Wroe
The Village of Eight Graves - Seishi Yokomizo
Chatterton Square - E H Young
The Call - Edith Ayrton Zangwill
The Yogins of Ladakh - John Crook & James Low
A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh
All Souls' Day - Cees Nooteboom
Things: A Story of the Sixties - Georges Perec
Voss - Patrick White
Earlier:
What If It's Us - Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
More Work for the Undertaker - Margery Allingham
The Mind Readers - Margery Allingham
The Cloud of Unknowing - Anonymous (audio)
The Middlesteins - Jami Attenberg
Jane Austen's Letters
The Decagon House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji
The Drowned World - J G Ballard
O Caledonia - Elspeth Barker
Dark Side - Belinda Bauer
I Am Dust - Louise Beech
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
Riceyman Steps - Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett (audio)
Mapp and Lucia - E F Benson
Trouble for Lucia - E F Benson
The Case of the Abominable Snowman - Nicholas Blake
Billiards at Half Past Nine - Heinrich Boll
Her Royal Spyness - Rhys Bowen
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (audio)
Notes From a Big Country - Bill Bryson (audio)
Down Under - Bill Bryson (audio)
Death in White Pyjamas & Death Knows No Calendar - John Bude
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Story of the Stone vol 1 - Cao Xueqin
A Portrait of Jane Austen - David Cecil
The Wisdom of Father Brown - G K Chesterton
The Stranger - Harlan Coben
The Woods - Harlan Coben (audio)
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe (e)
Slow Man - J.M. Coetzee
Sisters by a River - Barbara Comyns
The Public Burning - Robert Coover
Life, Love and the Archers - Wendy Cope
The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
Body Breaker - M W Craven
Fearless - M W Craven (e)
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
Buried For Pleasure - Edmund Crispin
The Hog's Back Mystery - Freeman Wills Crofts
The Citadel - A J Cronin
Dead Writers in Rehab - Paul Bassett Davies
The Greatest Novels of O. Douglas: Olivia in India,
Betsy & Lilibet - Sophie Duffy (e)
Manna From Hades - Carola Dunn (audio)
The Judge and His Hangman - Friedrich Durrenmatt
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman
LA Confidential - James Ellroy
The Father of Forensics: How Sir Bernard Spilsbury Invented Modern CSI - Colin Evans
Martin Pippin in the Daisy-Field - Eleanor Farjeon
Mystery in White - J Jefferson Farjeon
Thirteen Guests - J Jefferson Farjeon
Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney
Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
Dead Cert - Dick Francis
Forfeit - Dick Francis
For Kicks - Dick Francis
Break In - Dick Francis
Bolt - Dick Francis
Driving Force - Dick Francis
In the Frame - Dick Francis
Long Shot - Dick Francis
Proof - Dick Francis (audio)
Eclipse of the Crescent Moon - Geza Gardonyi
Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
Smallbone Deceased - Michael Gilbert (e)
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge
Faithful Unto Death - Caroline Graham
Ross Poldark - Winston Graham
Demelza - Winston Graham
Warleggan - Winston Graham
The Twisted Sword - Winston Graham (e)
The Stranger from the Sea - Winston Graham
A Restless Evil - Ann Granger
Lanark - Alasdair Gray
The Man Within - Graham Greene
England Made Me - Graham Greene
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall (audio)
The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy
Death Is No Sportsman - Cyril Hare
Murder Underground - Mavis Doriel Hay
Alice - Christina Henry
Spook Street - Mick Herron
London Rules - Mick Herron
Slough House - Mick Herron
Joe Country - Mick Herron (e)
Bad Actors - Mick Herron (e)
The Drop & The List - Mick Herron
Locke & Key - Joe Hill (audio)
Turtle Diary - Russell Hoban
Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
All Change - Elizabeth Jane Howard (e)
The Ghost It Was - Richard Hull
Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley (audio)
Death at the President's Lodging - Michael Innes
Honeybath's Haven - Michael Innes
Hamlet, Revenge! - Michael Innes
Wow, No Thank You - Samantha Irby
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Dead If You Don't - Peter James
Platero and I - Juan Ramon Jimenez
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (audio)
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost - Ismail Kadare
Everything You Need - A L Kennedy
The Constant Nymph - Margaret Kennedy
Garden, Ashes - Danilo Kis
The First and Last Freedom - J Krishnamurti
The Plumed Serpent - D H Lawrence
The Apes of God - Wyndham Lewis
Dead Man's Hand - Mark Lock
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Anita Loos
Post After Post-Mortem - E C R Lorac
Murder in the Mill-Race - E C R Lorac
Romance of the Three Kingdoms I - Luo Guanzhong
The Maze - Philip Macdonald
Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann
The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
Fever and Spear - Javier Marias
Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh
Off With His Head - Ngaio Marsh
Death and the Dancing Footman - Ngaio Marsh
Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto
The Razor's Edge - W Somerset Maugham
Prague Spring - Simon Mawer
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (audio)
The Distant Echo - Val McDermid (e)
The Skeleton Road - Val McDermid (e)
Out of Bounds - Val McDermid (e)
Broken Ground - Val McDermid (e)
Past Lying - Val McDermid (e)
The Marshmallow Test - Walter Mischel
The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop - Gladys Mitchell
Death Comes At Christmas (Dead Men's Morris) - Gladys Mitchell
The Twenty-Third Man - Gladys Mitchell
The Story Girl - L M Montgomery (audio)
Jane of Lantern Hill - L M Montgomery
Buddhaland Brooklyn - Richard C Morais
Cat Under Fire - Shirley Rousseau Murphy (audio)
The Man Without Qualities vols 1, 2, 3 - Robert Musil
Heller - J D Nixon (e)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates
The Chalk Girl - Carol O'Connell
Heresy - S J Parris
The Paston Letters - Paston family
The Madness of Crowds - Louise Penny (e)
Pollyanna - Eleanor H Porter (audio)
Truckers - Terry Pratchett
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (e)
A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
Period Piece - Gwen Raverat
Village School - Miss Read
Battles at Thrush Green - Miss Read
Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Happiness for Humans - P J Reizin
No Man's Nightingale - Ruth Rendell (audio)
Midwinter of the Spirit - Phil Rickman
A Crown of Lights - Phil Rickman
Lost at Sea - Jon Ronson (audio)
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk - Kathleen Rooney
Emile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Edwardians - Vita Sackville-West
Tombland - C J Sansom
Winter in Madrid - C J Sansom (audio)
The Norfolk Mystery - Ian Sansom
Essex Poison - Ian Sansom
The Emigrants - W G Sebald
Great Apes - Will Self
Flesh and Blood - Andrew Shanahan (e)
Maigret on the Defensive - Georges Simenon
The Son - Georges Simenon
Aging With Grace - David Snowdon
Poison for Teacher - Nancy Spain
Symposium - Muriel Spark
Collected Stories - Muriel Spark
The Desperate Remedy - Martin Stephen
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
Ogres - Adrian Tchaikovsky (e)
Dog Stories - Diana Secker Tesdell (ed)
The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain
Sacred Country - Rose Tremain
The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope (audio)
An Old Man's Love - Anthony Trollope (audio)
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite - Anthony Trollope (audio)
Dr Wortle's School - Anthony Trollope (audio)
Wings Above the Diamantina - Arthur Upfield
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Medieval Women in their Communities - Diane Watt (ed)
Lonesome Road - Patricia Wentworth
The Journey Home and Other Stories - Malachi Whitaker
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Last Train from Kummersdorf - Leslie Wilson
Messenger of Truth - Jacqueline Winspear
An Incomplete Revenge - Jacqueline Winspear
Among the Mad - Jacqueline Winspear
The Luck of the Bodkins - P G Wodehouse
A Terrible Kindness - Jo Browning Wroe
The Village of Eight Graves - Seishi Yokomizo
Chatterton Square - E H Young
The Call - Edith Ayrton Zangwill