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Cinnamon Heart's 100 Books for 2016

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1Cinnamon_Heart
Mai 1, 2016, 5:34 pm

Hi, I've only just discovered LibraryThing and was inspired by the challenges and by all the books I've never heard of, and now need to read! Here's my list for January to April with asterisks against my favourites - how many have you read?

How to be a Heroine - Samantha Ellis*
The Tales of Max Carrados - Ernest Bramah
Franny & Zooey - J D Salinger
Getting It Done - Roger Fisher & Alan Sharp
Her Brilliant Career - Rachel Cooke*
Death Comes to Pemberley - P D James
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
Der Dritte Hand - Andre Klein
The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton*
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying - Marie Kondo
A Little History of the World - E H Gombrich*
Crooked Heart - Lissa Evans
Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Embers - Sandor Marai
Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig
Beautiful Outlaw - John Eldredge
A Passage to India - E M Forster
My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
Berlin at War - Roger Moorhouse
Contented Dementia - Oliver James
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte*
Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Herman
Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Mary Poppins - P L Travers
Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure - Joanne Harris
A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson*
The Abolition of Britain - Peter Hitchens

2Cinnamon_Heart
Mai 1, 2016, 5:42 pm

Who Moved the Stone? - Frank Morison
The Story of a New Name - Frank Morison
The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter*
The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton
The Go-Between - L P Hartley*
The Last Runaway - Tracy Chevalier
The Lost Honour of Katarina Blum - Heinrich Boll
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
Secret Knowledge - David Hockney
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Disclaimer - Renee Knight*
Cat Among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury*
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas*
Visions of Sugar Plums - Janet Evanovich*
Tamara Drewe - Posy Simmonds
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow - Adam Zamoyski*

So nearly halfway there with 48 books. Watch this space....!

3bryanoz
Mai 4, 2016, 6:01 pm

Welcome Cinnamon_Heart, some good reading going on here !

4Cinnamon_Heart
Aug. 22, 2016, 5:12 pm

Time flies when you are having fun! Just realised I haven't updated my 100 books in a while, so here goes for May until later August, with favourites asterisked....

The Sword in the Stone - T H White
Learning to Dream Again - Samuel Wells*
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips - Michael Morpurgo
Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen*
The Dancing Bear - Michael Morpurgo
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway*
The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante
Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus - Lawrence Durrell*
The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer
Heartstone - C J Samsom
Alone in a Wide, Wide Sea - Michael Morpurgo
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim*
White Teeth - Zadie Smith*
Mr & Mrs Dove - Katherine Mansfield
Don't Waste Your Life - John Piper
The Aftermath - Rhidian Brook
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie

5Cinnamon_Heart
Aug. 22, 2016, 5:15 pm

Measuring the World - Daniel Kehlmann
Us - David Nicholls
This Book Will Save Your Life - A MHomes
The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman - Denis Theriault
Perfect People - Peter James*
Three To Get Deadly - Janet Evanovich
Funny Girl - Nick Hornby*
Fatherland - Robert Harris*
Epitaph for Three Women - Jean Plaidy
The Lady in the Van - Alan Bennett
Fluent in Three Months - Benny Lewis
Beyond Chocolate - Sophie Boss and Audrey Boss
The Expats - Chris Pavone

So 85 read and just 15 to go...but somehow I don't think I will stop reading at that point...might even get some of my To Be Read pile started......