I thought it was time I updated you on my reading.
I enjoy reading and like to have a variety of reading material. I often have a couple of books on the go at the same time. I enjoy fiction and nonfiction. I read for pleasure. I try to alternative heavier tomes with lighter stories. I read to stimulate the mind, to appreciate a story and to enable me to dream.
Of late my reading rate has slowed right down. I have a long backlog of books to read. The trouble is that I am writing so much I hardly have time to fit the reading in. If there is one thing I enjoy more than reading it is writing.
Anyone got any great books they think I should read?
Family, sex, travel, wine, eating, reading and writing. What could be better?
Some of us are born fortunate. We should never forget it!
Books I have read since retiring Sept 2011
| 1.Just Kids | Patti Smith |
| 2. Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel |
| 3. Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami |
| 4. Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami |
| 5. Maggie Girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| 6. Great Singers of the 2oth Century | David Spiller |
| 7. East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| 8. God is not Great | Christopher Hitchins |
| 9. The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| 10. Full Dark No Stars | Stephen King |
| 11. 3 Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson & David Relin |
| 12. Birdie | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 13. 11.22.63 | Stephen King |
| 14. IQ84 – Book 1 | Haruki Murakami |
| 15. IQ84 – Book 2 | Haruki Murakami |
| 16. IQ84 – Book 3 | Haruki Murakami |
| 17. Good Man Jesus scoundrel Christ | Philip Pullman |
| 18. After dark | Haruki Murakami |
| 19. After the quake | Haruki Murakami |
| 20. Long walk to forever | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 21. The Optimist | Lawrence Shorter |
| 22. The Atheist’s Bible | Joan Konner |
| 23. The portable Atheist | Christopher Hitchins |
| 24. The vanishing elephant | Haruki Murakami |
| 25. Salmonella men on planet porno | Yasutaka Tsutsui |
| 26. The Chrysalids | John Wyndham |
| 27. Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| 28. A long way down | Nick Hornby |
| 29. Blind willow, sleeping woman | Haruki Murakami |
| 30. My dear I wanted to tell you | Louisa Young |
| 31. Grimus | Salman Rushdie |
| 32. South of the border West of the sun | Haruki Murakami |
| 33. The Return | Victoria Hislop |
| 34. Stonemouth | Iain Banks |
| 35. The girl at the Lion D’Or | Sebastian Faulks |
| 36. The Long Song | Andrea Levy |
| 37. Underground | Haruki Murakami |
| 38. My Family and other animals | Gerald Durrell |
| 39. One Flew over the Cuckoos nest | Ken Kessey |
| 40. Hard boiled Wonderland and the end of the world | Haruki Murakami |
| 41. Red | Gary Neville |
| 42. The colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett |
| 43. The light fantastic | Terry Pratchett |
| 44. Dance Dance dance | Haruki Murakami |
| 45. Portnoy’s complaint | Philip Roth |
| 46. The lost Symbol | Dan Brown |
| 47. Guards Guards | Terry Pratchett |
| 48. What I talk about when I talk about running | Haruki Murakami |
| 49. A Maggot | John Fowles |
| 50. Who I am | Pete Townsend |
| 51. The story of Free & Bad Company | Steven Rosen |
| 52. Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami |
| 53. Mr Stone and the knights companion | V S Naipal |
| 54. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| 55. Mister God, I am Anna | Finn |
| 56. The Birthday book | Haruki Murakami |
| 57. A precocious autobiography | Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
| 58. The wind-up bird chronicles | Haruki Murakami |
| 59. Siddharta | Herman Hesse |
| 60. Hydrogen Sonatta | Iain M Banks |
| 61. The bonesetters daughter | Joy Tan |
| 62. Keep the Asphidistr flying | George Orwell |
| 63. Birds, animals and friends | Gerald Durrell |
| 64. Garden of the Gods | Gerald Durrell |
| 65. Andy Warhol Diaries | Andy Warhol |
| 66. First born | Arthur C Clarke |
| 67. Sweettooth | Ian McEwan |
| 68. Arguably | Christopher Hitchins |
| 69. Bring up the bodies | Hilary Mantell |
| 70. Equal Rites | Terry Pratchett |
| 71. Mort | Terry Pratchett |
| 72. Cutting for stone | Aham Verghese |
| 73. Sourcery | Terry Pratchett |
| 74. The particular sadness of lemon cake | Aimee Bender |
| 75. The dovekeepers | Alice Hoffman |
| 76. The Ginger Man | J P Donleavy |
| 77. The great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| 78. Dharma bums | Jack Kerouac |
| 79. For whom the bell tolls | Ernest Hemmingway |
| 80. A wild sheep chase | Haruki Murakami |
| 81. Fug you | Ed Sanders |
| 82. A hat full of sky | Terry Pratchett |
| 83. Ring world | Larry Niven |
| 84. Wintersmith | Terry Pratchett |
| 85. The Quarry | Iain Banks |
| 86. Stoner | John Williams |
| 87. Blowing the Blues | Dick Heckstall-Smith |
| 88. The heart of things | A C Grayling |
| 89. Things the Grandchildren should know | Mark Oliver Everett |
| 90. Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 91. The Comfort of Strangers | Ian McEwan |
| 92. The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| 93. Tarantula | Bob Dylan |
| 94. Bound for glory | Woody Guthrie |
| 95. Flaubert’s parrot | Julian Barnes |
| 96. Talking it over | Julian Barnes |
| 97. Raw spirit | Iain Banks |
| 98. The favourite game | Leonard Cohen |
| 99. Beautiful losers | Leonard Cohen |
| 100. Corrections | Jonathan Frantzen |
| 101. The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| 102. The three Musketeers | Alexander Dumas |
| 103. After the flood | Margaret Atwood |
| 104. Hellraiser | Ginger Baker |
| 105. A Casual Vacancy | JK Rowling |
| 106. Wind through the Keyhole | Stephen King |
| 107. The Ragged Trousered Philantropists | Robert Tressell |
| 108. Maddadam | Margaret Atwood` |
| 109. Ringworld Engineers | Larry Niven |
| 110. The sense of an ending | Julian Barnes |
| 111. Ringworld children | Larry Niven |
| 112. Breakfast of champions | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 113. The blind assassin | Margaret Atwood |
| 114. The Midwich Cuckoos | John Wyndham |
| 115. The Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
| 116. Wyrd Sisters | Terry Pratchett |
| 117. Juliet Naked | Nick Hornby |
| 118. Confessions of a crap artist | Philip K Dick |
| 119. Doctor Sleep | Stephen King |
| 120. White Rooms & imaginary Westerns | Pete Brown |
| 121. Moral disorder | Margaret Atwood |
| 122. The hare with amber eyes | Edmund de Waal |
| 123. Apocalypse | D H Lawrence |
| 124. The Cosmological eye | Henry Miller |
| 125. The last continent | Terry Pratchett |
| 126. Thud | Terry Pratchett |
| 127. A tale for the time being | Ruth Ozeki |
| 128. Survivor | Chum Mey |
| 129. Falling leaves | Adeline Yen Mah |
| 130. Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |
| 131. Go Now | Richard Hell |
| 132. Bluebeard’s egg | Margaret Atwood |
| 133. Life before man | Margaret Atwood |
| 134. Life after life | Kate Atkinson |
| 135. The Who & the story of Tommy | Nigel Cawthorne |
| 136. Mr Mercedes | Stephen King |
| 137. Umbrella | Will Self |
| 138. The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde |
| 139. The Children’s act | Ian McEwan |
| 140. The Magic of Reality | Richard Dawkins |
| 141. The Shack | Wm Paul Young |
| 142. The last interview | Kurt Vonnegutt |
| 143. Strong motion | Jonathan Franzen |
| 144. Soul Music | Terry Pratchett |
| 145. The sun also rises | Ernest Hemingway |
| 146. The Woman who died a lot | Jasper Fforde |
| 147. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki | Haruki Murakami |
| 148. On the Road – original scroll | Jack Kerouac |
| 149. Discomfort zone | Jonathan Frantzen |
| 150. The Establishment and how they get away with it | Owen Jones |
| 151. The Kill List | Frederick Forsythe |
| 152. The Song of the Quarkbeast | Jasper Fforde |
| 153. One of our Thursdays is missing | Jasper Fforde |
| 154. No Matter What | Sally Donovan |
| 155. The story of my heart | Richard Jefferies |
| 156. Time must have a stop | Aldous Huxley |
| 157. Immortal coils | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 158. Chavs | Owen Jones |
| 159. Revival | Stephen King |
| 160. In God I doubt | John Humphrys |