Reading List

One year on from first publishing this list and you know what, not such a failed venture. I thought it would languish untouched as I just read my favourite books over and over again. But that hasn’t been the case. And I have to admit that my love of crossing things off lists has sometimes been the only motivation to get through certain books that shall remain nameless (*cough* Charles Dickens *cough*).

There are, I’ll admit, some books that have been here right from the start but I just haven’t found myself in the mood to read Little Women yet.

So 2015’s reads have been archived here and 2016 can have a fresh start.

1. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
2. Lady Susan – Jane Austen
3. The Road to Little Dribbling – Bill Bryson
4. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
5. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
6. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
7. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
8. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
9. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
10. Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham
11. The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
12. Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
13. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
14. Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
15. We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves – Karen Joy Fowler
16. The Cuckoo’s Calling – John Galbraith
17. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
18. Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green
19. The Taming of the Queen – Philippa Gregory
20. Married Love – Tessa Hadley
21. Under the Greenwood Tree – Thomas Hardy
22. Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey
23. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
24. The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
25. Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones
26. Small Island – Andrea Levy
27. Dear Daughter – Elizabeth Little
28. White Fang – Jack London
29. Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
30. The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
31. The Innocent – Ian McEwan
32. Me Before You – JoJo Moyes
33. 1984 – George Orwell
34. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
35. Carry On – Rainbow Rowell
36. The Tales of Beedle the Bard – JK Rowling
37. Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
38. This One Is Mine – Maria Semple
39. Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Maria Semple
40. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Anne Barrows
41. The Rosie Effect – Graeme Simsion
42. Eligible – Curtis Sittenfield
43. Wild – Cheryl Strayed
44. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
45. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
46. In a Dark Dark Wood – Ruth Ware
47. Dandelion Clocks – Rebecca Westcott
48. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
49. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak