Saturday 4 January 2014

2013 in books

Inspired by my friend Vinca (http://vinxbooks.wordpress.com/), I'm cleaning up 2013 with a list of everything I read in 2013, as it turns out I never actually managed to blog a single book review in 2013!

This is what I read, using GN for graphic novels and NF for non-fiction. I'd love your suggestions for my reading list in 2014, especially new authors, simply comment on this post to start populating my reading list for 2014.
  1. Eugine Onegin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
  2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger (GN)
  4. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
  5. The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate and Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett (NF)
  6. You Had Me at Hello by Mhairi McFarlane
  7. A Dancer in Wartime: One Girl's Journey from the Blitz to Sadler's Wells by Gillian Lynne (NF)
  8. The Bay at Midnight by Diane Chamberlain
  9. 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson
  10. Little Girl Lost by Brian McGilloway
  11. In the Land of the Long White Cloud by Sarah Lark
  12. Summer Secrets by Barbara Freethy
  13. White Bones (Katie Maguire) by Graham Masterton
  14. A Reason to Kill (DI Matt Barnes) by Michael Kerr
  15. Sara's Child (The Sara Colson Trilogy) by Susan Elle
  16. Gray Justice by Alan McDermott
  17. The Penal Colony by Richard Herley 
  18. Sentence of Marriage (Promises to Keep) by Shayne Parkinson
  19. Mud and Gold (Promises to Keep) by Shayne Parkinson
  20. Settling the Account (Promises to Keep) by Shayne Parkinson
  21. A Second Chance (Promises to Keep) by Shayne Parkinson
  22. The One You Love (Emma Holden Suspense Mystery) by Paul Pilkington
  23. Daisy's War by Shayne Parkinson
  24. All I Want by Shayne Parkinson
  25. Salt Bride: A Georgian Historical Romance by Lucinda Brant
  26. Rope Enough (The Romney and Marsh Files) by Oliver Tidy
  27. The French House by Nick Alexander
  28. Silent Boy by Torey Hayden (NF)
  29. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  30. The Boy from Reactor 4 Grest Stelmach
  31. Salt Redux by Lucinda Brant
  32. The Elephant Girl by Henriette Gyland
  33. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
  34. Beneath an Irish Sky by Isabelle Connor
  35. After the Fall by Charity Norman
  36. Night Road by Kristin Hannah
  37. Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger
  38. Gingerbread Man by Maggie Shayne
  39. The Detective's Daughter by Lesley Thomson
  40. 2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson
  41. 3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club) by James Patterson
  42. The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon
  43. Finding Emma by Steena Holmes
  44. Emma's Secret by Steena Holmes
  45. Dead Line by Chris Ewan
  46. Darker Than My Shadow by Katie Green (GN, NF)
  47. His Shadowed Heart by Hazel Statham
  48. The Crystal Mirror by Tim Malnick and Katie Green
  49. A Man Above Reproach by Evelyn Price
  50. The Defiant Governess (Lessons in Love) by Andrea Pickens
  51. All's Fair in Love & Seduction (The Elusive Lords) by Beverley Kendall
  52. An Heir of Deception (The Elusive Lords) by Beverley Kendall
  53. The Earl's Inconvenient Bride (Marriage by Scandal) by Ruth Ann Nordin
  54. Rockwell's Lady by AC Wilson
  55. My Lady Coward by Jaimey Grant
  56. A Grosvenor Square Christmas by Various
  57. The Bride Wore Blue (Brides of Bath) by Cheryl Bolen

I'm starting afresh for 2014 with plenty of books to read and review, plus a busy diary of ballet and maybe some opera to keep the blog going. 

2 comments:

  1. Impressive...I think I've only made it to about 15 this year!! :(

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  2. The wonders of spending about three hours a day commuting...

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