Sunday, November 06, 2011
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Welcome to my library. A quiet place for me to consider the books I have read and enjoyed, and the current titles lying by my bed. Discussion is welcomed in this library!
About Me
- Nzeru Louisa
- While growing up, the computer programmes that suggest what you should do always suggested teaching. So I followed their advice - fortunately it turned out well My husband and I live and work in London.
Books read in 2012
- Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
- Sanctus - Simon Toyne
Books by my bedside
- The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
Book Blogs ... and other inspiring blogs
Books Read in 2011
- Deep Waters - Barbara Nadel
- The Black Book - Orhan Pamuk
- Arabesk - Barbara Nadel
- A 3rd helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul
- Nation - Terry Pratchett
- A Chemical Prison - Barbara Nadel
- The Wizard of the Crow - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
- Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Skinner's Festival - Quintin Jardine
- Carbon Diaries 2017 - Saci Lloyd
- Carbon Diaries 2015 - Saci Lloyd
- Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
- The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness
- The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
- When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
- The Bride's Farewell - Meg Rosoff
- Out of Shadows - Jason Wallace
- The Butterfly Tattoo - Philip Pullman
- A Rush of Blood - Quintin Jardine
- The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
- The Pale Horse - Agatha Christie
- Belshazzar's Daughter - Barbara Nadel
- The Secret Countess - Eva Ibbotson
- No and Me - Delphine de Vigan
- Skinner's Rules - Quintin Jardine
- HIVE: Zero Hour - Mark Walden
- HIVE: Rouge - Mark Walden
- Pretty Dead Things - Barbara Nadel
- Petrified - Barbara Nadel
- Dance with Death - Barbara Nadel
- The Other Side of You - Salley Vickers
- An Expert in Murder - Nicola Upson
- HIVE: Dreadnought - Mark Walden
- The Diamond Takers - Karen Wallace
- The Time Machine - HG Wells
- Maps for Lost Lovers - Nadeem Aslam
- Season of the Songbirds - Nadeem Aslam
- Some Kind of Black - Diran Adebayo
- The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
- Toast - Nigel Slater
- Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
Books Read in 2010
- Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- Brown Eyes - ed Nicole Moore
- When She Was White - Judith Stone
- Father Brown Stories - GK Chesterton
- Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy
- The Last Gospel - David Gibbons
- Magic: New Stories - ed JK Rowling
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham
- City of the Beasts - Isabelle Allende
- BogChild - Siobhan Dowd
- A Swift Pure Cry - Siobhan Dowd
- The Shoe Queen - Anna Davis
- Girl Meets Cake - Susie Day
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
- The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
- Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
- The Amnesia Clinic - James Scudamore
- Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke
- The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
- Semi-Detached - Paul Heathorn
- The Stuff of Nightmares - Malorie Blackman
- City of Stars - Mary Hoffman
- The Water Bearer - Dianne Hofmeyr
- August Heat - Andrea Camilleri
- Escape Velocity - Mark Walden
- The Overlord Protocol - Mark Walden
- Completely Unexpected Tales - Roald Dahl
- The Great Automatic Grammatizator and Other Stories - Roald Dahl
- The Constant Gardener - John Le Carre
- That Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ndozi Adichi
- The Cypriot - Andreas Koumi
- Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
- We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
- Flying with Icarus and Other Stories - Curdella Forbes
- The Shakespeare Secret - JL Carrell
- Flood Child - Emily Diamand
Books Read in 2009
- Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri
- The Scent of the Night - Andrea Camilleri
- Excursion to Tindari - Andrea Camilleri
- Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
- Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key - Jack Gantos
- The Voice of the Violin - Andrea Camilleri
- Diary of a Wimpy Kidd - Jeff Kinney
- The Shape of Water - Andrea Camilleri
- Clandestine in Chile - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Once - Morris Gleitzman
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- Crick Crack, Monkey - Merle Hodge
- The Wheel of Surya - Jamila Gavin
- Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
- Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
- Crossing the River - Caryl Phillips
- The Kite Rider - Geraldine McCaughrean
- A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo
- Cast Adrift - Peter Guttridge
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
- Agatha Christie: Murder in Three Stages - Novelisations by Charles Osborne
- The Star of Kazan - Eva Ibbotson
- Olympiad: An Historical Novel - Tom Holt
- The Prestige - Christopher Priest
- The Human Factor - Graham Greene
- Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
- Beruit, I Love You: A Memoir - Zena El Khalil
- The Final Analysis of Dr Stark - Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
- Miss Marple Complete Short Stories - Agatha Christie
- All The Way Home - Bookey Peek
- Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
- The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
- The Labours of Hercules - Agatha Christie
- The Big Four - Agatha Christie
- Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
- The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
- Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
- The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
- Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende
- The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman - Louis de Bernieres
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
- Junk - Melvyn Burgess
- Blazing Star - Lynne Markham
- It's a 50/50 Thing - Chris Higgins
- Deep Joy, or Something Like It - Karen McCombie
- Happiness and All That Stuff - Karen McCombie
- Hunky Dory - Jean Ure
- Finding Violet Park - Jenny Valentine
- Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson
- Smokescreen - Bernard Ashley
- Broken Soup - Jenny Valentine
- Higher Institute of Villainous Education - Mark Walden
- The Road of the Dead - Kevin Brooks
- Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick
- Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers
- The Illustrated Mum - Jacqueline Wilson
- Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself - Judy Blume
- Waving, Not Drowning - Rosie Rushton
- Unheard Voices - Malorie Blackman (collection)
- Jack Sweettooth - Malorie Blackman
- Tell Me No Lies - Malorie Blackman
- Does My Head Look Big In This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah
- The Fire Eaters - David Almond
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- The Complete Book of Aunts - Rupert Christiansen
- Before I Die - Jenny Downham
- Saffy's Angel - Hilary McKay
- Colour Bar - Susan Williams
- Ruby Red - Linzi Glass
- The View from Saturday - E.L. Konigsburg
- At Bertram's Hotel - Agatha Christie
- The Sound of Laughter - Peter Kay
- The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
- Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Fire Gospel - Michel Faber
- Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama
- Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
- Double Cross - Malorie Blackman
Books read in 2008
- Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
- The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
- The Tailor King - Anthony Arthur
- Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
- When A Crocodile Eats the Sun - Peter Godwin
- Fearless Fighter - Vera Chirwa
- The Freedom Writers Diary - Erin Gruwell
- Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
- Apache: Girl Warrior - Tanya Landman
- Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa - Peter Godwin
- A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
- The Raphael Affair - Iain Pears
- Boy - Roald Dahl
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
- The Medici Secret - Michael White
- Fallen Gods - Quintin Jardine
- The Immaculate Deception - Iain Pears
- Misadventure in the Middle East - Henry Hemming
- Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
- Not Without My Sister - Kristina, Juliana and Celeste
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
- The Gathering - Anne Enright
- My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
1001 Books to Read Before You Die ... Not dead yet!
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Yound Man by James Joyce
- A Scot's Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
- Aesop's Fables
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Frankenstein by Mary W Shelley
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- If This is a Man by Primo Levi
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Metamorphoses by Ovid
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orweell
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Castle of /otranto by Horace Walpole
- The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Monk by MG Lewis
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
- The Picture of Dorien Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
- The Quiet America by Graham Greene
- The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
- The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Worldwide books ... Worldwide readership?!
