Continuing in 2016 to make inroads on the books I own (un-read) and not buy too many new ones. Progress to date:
- January: books removed from list: 7, books added: 2; net result -5
- February: books removed from list: 4, books added: 0; net result -4 (total YTD: -9)
- March: books removed from list: 8, books added:8; net result 0 (total YTD: -9)
- April: books removed from list: 6, books added: 0; net result -6 (total YTD: -15)
- May: books removed from list: 6, books added: 4; net result -2 (total YTD: -17)
- June: books removed from list: 3, books added: 0; net result -3 (total YTD: -20)
- July: books removed from list: 4; books added: 8; net result +4 (total YTD: -16)
- August: books removed from list: 2; books added: 0; net result -2 (total YTD: -18)
- September: books removed from list: 3; books added: 0; net result -3 (total YTD: -21)
- October: books removed from list: 4; books added: 13; net restul +9 (total YTD: -13)
In November:
- I read three books from my list (Faery Tales by Carol Ann Duffy, The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurente, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy)
- I got 3 books as birthday presents (Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine, Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs, The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness)
- and one as a belated birthday present (Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor)
- I re-read three books we already own (Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix) as a prelude to reading another book already in the house (which Geoff got for his birthday) (Goldenhand)
books read: 7
books removed from list: 3 books added: 4; net result +1 (but I didn't actually buy any!)
[Goal (no more than 1 book added to the list for every two books removed) not achieved this month.]
[Goal (no more than 1 book added to the list for every two books removed) not achieved this month.]
Here's the updated list of Books to Read in 2016. There were 55 books at the beginning of January, and now there are 43 - of those, only 4 are left from before 2015. [Books with an asterisk].
- Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky (charity shop, October 2016)
- Susan Barker, The Incantations (charity shop, July 2016)
- Leigh Bardugo, Seige and Storm (Abe Books, October 2016)
- Philip Baruth, The Brothers Boswell (Waterstones Canterbury bargain bin, July 2015)
- Rachel Caine, Paper and Fire (birthday present, November 2016)
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (AbeBooks, October 2015)
- Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel (birthday present, November 2015)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (World of Books, October 2015)
- Anthony Doerr, About Grace (Waterstones Piccadilly, July 2016)
- Helen Dunmore, Ingo (charity shop, October 2016)
- Helen Dunmore, Stormswept (charity shop, October 2016)
- Helen Dunmore, Tide's Knot (charity shop, October 2016)
- Ford Maddox Ford, Parade's End (Nov 2012 - birthday present - bought after the BBC adaptation - but I knew I wouldn't read it straight away as I wanted to let time pass from the adaptation. Enough time has probably passed now...) *
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (would be a re-read, bought shortly after his death - spring 2014 - as I was reminded how much I enjoyed it and I didn't seem to own a copy - think my old one fell apart, probably...) *
- Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (2014)*
- Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant (charity shop, December 2015)
- Matt Haig, The Humans (charity shop, October 2016)
- Melissa Harrison, At Hawthorn Time (Waterstones Piccadilly, March 2016)
- Antonia Hodgkin, The Devil in the Marshalsea (charity shop, May 2016)
- Andrew Michael Hurley, The Loney (Waterstones Piccadilly, March 2016)
- Jennifer Johnston, Two Moons (charity table at Sainsbury's, July 2016)
- Maria McCain, The Wilding (charity shop, December 2015)
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (charity table, Wetland Centre, May 2015)
- Neil MacGregor, Germany: Memories of a Nation (birthday present, Nov 2016)
- John McGregor, This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You (Waterstones Piccadilly, July 2016)
- Darragh McKeon, All That is Solid Melts into Air (Waterstones Kingston, May 2016)
- Philipp Meyer, American Rust (charity shop, December 2015)
- David Mitchell, Slade House (Waterstones online, October 2016)
- Alice Munro, Runaway (Waterstones Piccadilly, March 2016)
- Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here (birthday present, November 2016)
- Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories (charity shop, December 2015)
- Elizabeth Redfern, The Music of the Spheres (charity shop, December 2015)
- Ransom Riggs, Hollow City (Waterstones Piccadilly, July 2016)
- Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls (birthday present, November 2016)
- Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love (charity shop, October 2016)
- Gregory David Roberts, Shataram (Abe Books, July 2016)
- Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways (Mother's Day present, March 2016)
- Caterina Ingleman Sanders, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules (charity shop, October 2016)
- Jane Smiley, Some Luck (Waterstones Reading, October 2015)
- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Barnes & Noble (in MD), Summer 2013 - a re-read, as I read it when a teen) *
- Rose Tremain, Tresspass (charity shop, December 2015)
- Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways (charity shop, October 2016)
- Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (charity shop, October 2016)
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