I Read Therefore I Am discussion

1. Lars Kepler – The Hypnotist
2. Daphne du Maurier – The Birds and Other Stories
3. Jon Mcgregor – If nobody speaks of remarkable things
4. Mari Strachan – The Earth Hums in B Flat
5. Stephen Donaldson – The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
6. Steven Erikson – The Collected Tales of Borchelain and Korbal Broach
7. Ursula Le Guin – The Earthsea Trilogy
8. Anthony Horowitz - The House of Silk
9. Richard Kelly – The Possessions of Doctor Forrest
10. Raymond Khoury – The Last Templar
11. JRR Tolkien – Unfinished Tales
12. Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt – Dracula. The Undead
13. Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan – The Night Eternal
14. Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
15. Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days
16. China Mieville – Kraken
17. Joseph De Lacey – Black Feathers
18. Kate Mosse – Citadel
19. Justin Cronin – The Twelve
20. Robert E Howard – Heroes in the Wind
21. Isak Dinesen – Winters Tales
22. John Keel – The Mothman Prophecies
23. Tudor Parfitt – The Lost Ark of the Covenant
24. John Withington – A disastrous History of the world
25. RM Liuzza – Old English Literature
26. R Loomis (ed) Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
27. Robin Hanbury-Tenison (ed) – The Great Explorers
28. Chretien de Troyes – Percival
29. Guy Gavriel Kay – Lord of Emperors
30. HG Wells – Complete Short Stories
31. John Betjeman – Tennis Whites and Teacakes
32. John Keats – Complete Poems
33. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Complete Poems
34. Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
35. William Shakespeare – Complete Works
36. The Brothers Grimm – Annotated Brothers Grimm
37. The Annotated Dracula
38. The Annotated The Secret Garden
39. Ian Cameron Esslemont – Return of the Crimson Guard
40. The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf
41. Katherine Mansfield – The Collected Stories
42. Jack London – The Call of the Wild
43. Yann Martel – Life of Pi
44. Randy Taguchi – Fujisan
45. Amir Gutfruend – Our Holocaust
46. John Harrison – Cloud Road: A Journey through the Inca Heartland
47. John Harrison – Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica
48. William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity Fair
49. Oscar Wilde – A House of pomegranates
50. Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince and Other Tales
51. Rosemary Sutcliff – The Eagle of the Ninth
52. Douglas Adams – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
53. Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles
54. Graham Joyce – Some Kind of Fairy-tale
55. Neal Stephenson – Reamde
56. Belinda Starling – The Journal of Dora Damage
57. Helen Dunmore – The Greatcoat
58. David Logan – Lost Christmas
59. Jo Baker – The Telling
60. Michael Marshall Smith et al – New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
61. Peter Labrow – The Well
62. James Everington – The Shelter
63. John M Dow – From Within
64. Rhonda Carpenter – The Mark of a Druid
65. Jonathan Aycliffe – Naomi’s Room
66. Various Author's – Hallowe’en
67. John Galsby – The Lonely Shadows: Tales of Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos
68. Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
69. Daniel Woodrell – Winter’s Bone
70. Tan Twan Eng – The Gift of Rain
71. Louisa May Alcott- Little Women
72. John Baxter – The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
73. Victor hugo – The Hunchback of notreDame
74. Jane Austen – Persuasion
75. Frank L baum – The Complete Wizard Of Oz
76. Carol Rifka Brunt – Tell the Wolves Im Home
77. Claire King – The Night Rainbow
78. Alden Bell – The Reapers are the Angels
79. James Treadwell – Advent
80. Jeff Campbell(ed) Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes
81. Steven Savile – The Hollow Earth and Other Stories
82. Graham Joyce: Tales for a Dark Evening
83.James Herbert – Shrine
84. James Herbert – The Dark
85. Max Brooks – World War Z

There's probably a few that have slipped through the net...but I think that's enough to be getting on with!

Ooh - really enjoyed The Earth Hums In B Flat - her 2nd book Dead Mans Embers is in my TBR pile- theres a couple of books in your list that feature in mine (more on my kindle which I haven't listed yet).

It looks really good so hopefully will get to it soon! I didn't realise how many I had until I started making a list - I have added (most) of the ones on my kindle as well though so apart from the few stragglers that were hiding that's it. I really need to concentrate on getting though them but then I go to the library/charity bookshop/kindle sale page etc and it's too tempting!

I'm going to cross them off when I get through so I can see if I making a dent in the mountain.

Ok so that's one down - 84 still to go!

So I've crossed out Vanity Fair as read but need to add:

86. Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls
87. Jonathan Stroud - The Amulet of Samarkand
88. Justine Picardie - Daphne
89. Daphne du Maurier - The House on the Strand
90. Bill Hussey - Through A Glass Darkly

Oh dear - I found some more:

91. HG Wells - The Island of Dr Moreau
92. ML Stedman - The Light Between Oceans
93. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
94. Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
95. Gustave Flaubert - Madam Bovary
96. Matthew Gregory - The Monk
97. Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Ernest
98. Judith Flanders - The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dicken's London
99. Grahame Farrell - Gaslight Villany: True Tales if Victorian Murder
100.Sean Martin - The Cathars
101. Paul Parsons - How to Destroy the Universive: and 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Physics
102. Alex Scully - Enter At Your Own Risk: Old Masters New Voices. An Anthology of Dark Fiction.

Ok so that's another 5 crossed off the list - down to 97! But probably not for long

Crossed off The Shining Girls
but have also recently bought:
103. Brabdon Sanderson - Mistborn: The Final Empire
104. Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
105. Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes
106. John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One In
107. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House of the Seven Gables
108. Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
109. Ann Ward Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho
110. Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
111. A Book of Horrors edited by Stephen Jones
112.Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
113. Charles de Lint - Promises to Keep
114. Charles de Lint - Muse and Reverie

So I feel as if I'm taking one step forward and then ten back!

Ooh I've got Melmoth the Wanderer - readalong sometime?

Yeah definitely! I am really going to try and get these read by the end of next year (she says) so will let you know when I'm thinking about that one.

Yay! What did you think about the Shining Girls? I've heard mixed reviews.

It was good, not as amazing as some of the reviews make out but a decent pageturner. I've heard really good things about her other 2 books Zoo City and Moxyland so will be checking them out at some point.

115. Alice Munro - Dear Life: Stories
116. C J Sansom - Dominion
117. Agatha Christie - Murder on the Links
118. Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
119. Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
120. Brandon Sanderson - The Well of Ascension

121. Simon Kurt Unsworth - Quiet Houses
122. Tim Travers - Pirates: A History
123. Catharine Arnold - Necropolis: London and Its Dead
124. Ariana Klepac - The Whales Companion

125. O Henry - The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories

126. Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Marina
127. Marisha Pessl - Night Film
128. John Harwood - The Asylum
129. Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Watcher in the Shadows
130. Adam Nevill - House of Small Shadows
131. Neil Spring - The Ghost Hunters
132. Stephen Donaldson - The Last Dark (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant)

133. Steven Erikson - Deadhouse Gates
134. Steven Erikson - Memories of Ice
135. Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland
136. Johnathon Aycliffe - The Silence of Ghosts
137. Stephen Jones (ed) - The Mammoth Book of Zombies
138. Kendare Blake - Anna Dressed in Blood
139. Tatiana de Rosnay - Sarah's Key
140. Ruth Izeki - A Tale for the Time Being
141. George Eliot - Daniel Deronda
142. Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After
143. Alexandre Dumas - Vicomte de Bragelonne
144. Alexandre Dumas - Louise de La Vallière
145. Alexandre Dumas - The Man in the Iron Mask
146. Joy Stephenson - The Soul-Travellers
147. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
148. Sarah J Maas - Throne of Glass
149. Susan Ee - Angelfall
150. Maggie Stefvater - The Raven Boys
151. Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
152. Andrew Kauffmann - All My Friends are Superheroes
153. Jim Butcher - Storm Front
154. Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
155. Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey
156. DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover
157. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
158. DH Lawrence - Women in Love
159. Charlotte Bronte - Shirley
160. Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford
161. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
162. Joseph Sheridan le Fanu - Uncle Silas
163. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
164. Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
165. Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
166. Charles Dickens - Bleak House
167. Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son
168. Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit
169. Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby
170. Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
171. Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge
172. Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit
173. Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law
174. Catheryne Valente - Deathless
175. Maggie O'Farrell - The Hand That First Held Mine
176. Therese Anne Fowler - Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
177. Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
178. Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone
179. Rachel Kushner - The Flamethrowers
180. Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
181. Eric Lomax - The Railway Man
182. Hilary Mantel -Wolf Hall
183. Agatha Christie - Murder at the Vicarage
184. Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy
185. Plato - The Republic
186. Simon Sebag Montefiore - Young Stalin
187. Solomon Northup -Twelve Years a Slave
188. The Forward Book of Poetry 2014
189. Robin Robertson - The Wrecking Light
190. Anna Akhmatova - Evening
191. Anna Akhmatova - Final Meeting

OOPS!!! But in my defence a lot of them are free or very cheap ;)

I'm feeling a little bit better now :0)

Always happy to help!

Been into Durham this morning and found my way into the Oxfam bookshop which I love! So obviously had to adopt a couple of books...
192. Micheal Cunningham - The Hours
193. David Guterson - Snow Falling On Cedars / East Of The Mountains
194. Elizabeth Kostova - The Swan Thieves
195. Maggie O Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
196. Jeff Guinn - Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
197. Anne Salmond - The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South Seas
198. Isabelle Allende - The House of the Spirits

I've read a few of these Laurel, but the stand out one by a mile is The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. I came to Maggie O'Farrell though my book group and she is now one of my favourite authors. I've recommended this to so many people - I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Do you think the Oxfam shops specialise in good books? The one in Alnwick is great, and much better than the other charity shops.

I love them Hilary, the one in Newcastle is good too although the one in Sunderland isn't as good, but I always find them loads better than other charity shops as well. I think I was quite restrained earlier - last time I was in I came out with 13 books!!
I'm really glad you recommend the Maggie O'Farrell book so highly, I'm really looking forward to reading it ;)

I also love the Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - an amazing though upsetting book.
The Hours is a great read too - have you read Mrs Dalloway? Cos I think you get more out of the Hours if you've read that 1st.

Yes I have but thanks for the heads up!

199. William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
200. Javier Marias - The Infatuations
201. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
202. Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
203. John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Love The Infatuations :0)

I read the first few pages on the way back to the car and it seemed very promising - hoping to get to it sooner rather than later!

Recent additions to the tbr mountain:
204. Danta Alighieri - The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1: Inferno
205. John Milton - Paradise Lost
206. Arturo Perez Reverte - The Dumas Club
207. Chris Yates - Nightwalk: A Journey into the Heart of Nature
208. Victoria Hislop - The Story: Love, Loss and the Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories
209. Mike Ashley - The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
210. Mark Cocker - Crow Country
211. Max Adams - The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
212. James McPherson- Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
213. Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses


And I had a bit of a splurge on the kindle spring sale this morning and got....
214. Kirsty Logan - The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales
215. David rose - Posthumous Stories
216. Caroline Ross - Small Scale Tour
217. Anna Kim - Anatomy of a Night
218. Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen - The Rabbit Back Literature Society
219. Joaquin Perez Azaustre - The Swimmers
220. Alexis Stamatic - Bar Flaubert
221. Christa Wolf - Cassandra: A Novel And Four Essays
222. Claudie Gallay - The Breakers
223. Joyce Carol Oates - A Fair Maiden