Last year's book tracking was so enjoyable (to me at least) that I've decided to do it again. I'm also going to try to be even stricter about book buying - employing a 2:1 system - I have to remove 2 titles from my TBR list for every one book I buy, either new or used. Not counting any books I may be given in the course of the year (there are usually a few).
So, here's my updated list of Books to Read in 2016. I am starting with 55 books - 10 of which were on the list at the start of the 2015 as well [Books with an asterisk]. Last year I read 112 books, so in theory I should be able to get through all of these (it doesn't always work that way, of course- for instace, it's impossible to go into the library without coming out again with at least 3 or 4 books to try!).
- Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows (Waterstones online, November 2015)
- Philip Baruth, The Brothers Boswell (Waterstones Canterbury bargain bin, July 2015)
- Laura Beatty, Darkling (Big Waterstones, August 2015)
- Stephen Burke, The Good Italian (Fiumicino Airport, July 2015)
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (AbeBooks, October 2015)
- Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel (birthday present, November 2015)
- Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Waterstones Kingston, Boxing Day 2015)
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (World of Books, October 2015)
- Rene Denfield, The Enchanted (Waterstones Reading, October 2015)
- Anthony Doerr, All the Light we Cannot See (Big Waterstones, August 2015)
- Hans Fallada, Alone in Berlin (car boot sale, Bristol, Sept 2015)
- Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall (charity shop, August 2015)
- 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...) *
- E M Forster, Howards End (late 2014) *
- 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 *
- Graham Greene, Brighton Rock *
- Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant (charity shop, December 2015)
- Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree (Waterstones Durham, August 2015)
- Smith Henderson, Fourth of July Creek (Big Waterstones, August 2015)
- Georgette Heyer, A Christmas Party (from my mother, December 2015)
- Anthony Horowitz, Moriarty (Waterstones Kingston, Boxing Day 2015)
- Anjali Joseph, Saraswati Park *
- Laurie R King, Dreaming Spies (birthday present, November 2015)
- Donna Leon, Doctored Evidence (charity shop, December 2015)
- Maria McCain, The Wilding (charity shop, December 2015)
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (charity table, Wetland Centre, May 2015)
- Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (charity shop, December 2015)
- John McGregor, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things (charity shop, April 2015 - will be a re-read as have read it in (apparently) October 2004 for a book group)
- Tom McNeal, Goodnight, Nebraska (AbeBooks, March 2015)
- Philipp Meyer, American Rust (charity shop, December 2015)
- Kim Newman, An English Ghost Story (The Last Bookshop, Brisol, Sept 2015)
- David Nicholls, Us (Waterstones Durham, August 2015)
- Kate O'Brien, The Land of Spices *
- Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories (charity shop, December 2015)
- Liliane Paul, The Bees (Waterstones Reading, October 2015)
- Elizabeth Redfern, The Music of the Spheres (charity shop, December 2015)
- Peter Robinson, Abbatoir Blues (charity shop, August 2015)
- Peter Robinson, Bad Boy (charity shop, December 2015)
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Prisoner of Heaven (charity shop, August 2015)
- 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) *
- Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire (charity shop, August 2015)
- Andrew Taylor, The Anatomy of Ghosts (passed on from Geoff, April 2015)
- Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves (Waterstones Kingston, Boxing Day 2015)
- Rosie Thomas, The Illusionists (WH Smith, May 2015)
- Rose Tremain, Merivel (Birthday, 2014) *
- Rose Tremain, Tresspass (charity shop, December 2015)
- Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread (World of Books, October 2015)
- Barry Unsworth, The Ruby in her Navel *
- Ferdinand von Schirach, The Girl who wasn't There (charity shop, December 2015)
- Susan Vreeland, Lisette's List (birthday present, November 2015)
- William Wharton, Birdy (The Last Bookshop, Bristol, Sept 2015)
- Niall Williams, Only Say the Word (charity shop, August 2015)
- Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A J Firky (Waterstones Reading, October 2015)
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