I like to read a mixture of fiction and non-fiction, both print and e-books.
Here are my blog posts about books and reading:
Book Reviews – Fiction
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Life Seemed Good, But…. by Richard Bell
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Our House by Louise Candlish
XX by Angela Chadwick
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Short Stories from the 19th Century selected by David Stuart Davies
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
The Other Things by Jonathan Dransfield
Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. by Malcolm Duffy
Sofa Surfer by Malcolm Duffy
The Doll: Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Inheritance by Jenny Eclair
Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror by Natasha Farrant, illustrated by Lydia Corry
The Woman in the Window by A J Finn
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet
House of Glass by Susan Fletcher
Timothy Mean and the Time Machine by William A E Ford
The Temp by Michelle Frances
Five Days of Fog by Anna Freeman
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
An Unreliable Man by Jostein Gaarder
Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner
The Beach by Alex Garland
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Bachelor by Stella Gibbons
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith
The Girl in the Letter by Emily Gunnis
Haverscroft by S A Harris
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
A Different Time by Michael K Hill [Write Reads blog tour]
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
Four by Andy Jones
The Trouble with Henry and Zoe by Andy Jones
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
The Rumour by Lesley Kara
Who Did You Tell? by Lesley Kara
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
He Said / She Said by Erin Kelly
The Burning Air by Erin Kelly
The Sick Rose by Erin Kelly
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw
Reality, and Other Stories by John Lanchester
The Wall by John Lanchester
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
The White Road by Sarah Lotz
Let Me Lie by Clare Mackintosh
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine
The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp by Sarra Manning
The One by John Marrs
The Passengers by John Marrs
Friend Request by Laura Marshall
Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Hopeful Monsters by Roger McKnight
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Light Keeper by Cole Moreton
The Girl Next Door by Phoebe Morgan
Train Man by Andrew Mulligan
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
My Lover’s Lover by Maggie O’Farrell
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell
The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
The Switch by Beth O’Leary
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry
Remember Me by Christopher Pike
The Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike
In the Sun by Mixie Plum
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
Station Zero by Philip Reeve
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J K Rowling
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay by J K Rowling
The Exploding Book by Mike Russell
Magic by Mike Russell
Final Girls by Riley Sager
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
Once Upon A River by Diane Setterfield
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories edited by Tom Shippey
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
Beyond the Deepwoods by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home by James Tiptree Jr
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Plague by Jean Ure
Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia Velton
After the Green Withered by Kristin Ward [first chapter review – Write Reads blog tour]
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Food of the Gods by H G Wells
The Time Machine by H G Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Way Inn by Will Wiles
Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams
Much Obliged, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Loner by Georgina Young
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Book Reviews – Non-Fiction
James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes by James Acaster
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Unicorn: the Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi
Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
The Apple Orchard by Pete Brown
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
What the Hell Just Happened?! by Richy K. Chandler
Look Up: Our Story with the Stars by Sarah Cruddas
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
How to Fail by Elizabeth Day
Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
Mauve by Simon Garfield
Timekeepers by Simon Garfield
Eat, Drink, Run by Bryony Gordon
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Peggy and Me by Miranda Hart
Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story by Leah Hazard
Handle With Care: True Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor by Rachael Hearson
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Aunt Branwell and the Brontë Legacy by Nick Holland
Threads of Life by Clare Hunter
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Eric Idle
Women in Sport: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis
Defeating the Ministers of Death by David Isaacs
Me by Elton John
Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones
Toymaker by Tom Karen
Into the Fire: My Life as a London Firefighter by Edric Kennedy-Macfoy
The Hats That Made Britain by David Long
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey
The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
Mail Obsession: A Journey Round Britain by Postcode by Mark Mason
Critical by Matt Morgan
A Sound Mind by Paul Morley
The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton
The Story of NOW That’s What I Call Music in 100 Artists by Michael Mulligan
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down by Nicey and Wifey
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O’Farrell
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Don’t Need the Sunshine by John Osborne
Help Me! by Marianne Power
Don’t Look Back in Anger by Daniel Rachel
Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music by Mark Radcliffe
Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh
Step by Step: The Life in My Journeys by Simon Reeve
Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
Strangeways: A Prison Officer’s Story by Neil Samworth
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos
Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction by John Sutherland
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L Trump
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow
Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah by Benjamin Zephaniah
Reading
5 classic books which should be adapted for the screen
It’s my 30th birthday! Here are my top 30 books…
A long time ago in a library far away: 6 weeks of summer reading magic
Money, sex, death and… sunshine [the poetry of Philip Larkin]
Poetry is all around us [written on National Poetry Day 2018]
This book seems familiar! Have I read it before? Let me check the spreadsheet…
The 5 themes of Roald Dahl [in honour of Roald Dahl Day 2018]
Books I’ve abandoned this year [2020]
Cats, cats and more cats: 5 books from my early years
‘DNF guilt’ – 3 books I did not finish and why
Pineapples and toilets: Weird books from my shelf
Paperback writers and neverending stories: books in songs!
Authors I want to re-read – and some I don’t
10 writers I’d love to have coffee with
10 writers I’d love to have coffee with – time travel edition
Fictional presents I’ll never get for Christmas
5 books which are literally about hearts: an alternative Valentine’s Day post
My mum’s favourite books [a Mother’s Day post]
Elmer is 30! [Elmer Day 2019]
Insects in books, films and music
Spaceship, sieve, peach? Fictional transport
Pumpkins, portkeys and polar bears: Fictional transport again
What happened when I used a random generator to choose my re-reads
Why I use a random number generator to choose my next read
The time-travelling bookworm series: adventures into my reading past! Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5
The time travelling bookworm: rebooted series! Voyage in the Dark, The Yearbook, Red Velvet, The Midwich Cuckoos, Zarconi’s Magic Flying Fish, The Story of an African Farm, Northern Lights, Point Horror Collection 1, South Riding, Three of Diamonds, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Dreamweaver, Ethan Frome, Not Dressed Like That, You Don’t!, Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater, Wuthering Heights,
The recommended authors series: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Sue Townsend, David Wiesner, Terry Pratchett, J K Rowling
The character of the month series: Lucy Snowe, Moist von Lipwig, Mr Darcy, Harry Potter, Beth March, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Bertie Wooster, Ebenezer Scrooge
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