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My wish list

I’ve taken my wishlist off Amazon because it was all getting confusing, (but left a link to this page on it – hello if you’ve come from there!). My BookCrossing wishlit isn’t available to everyone. So here’s my wishlist. If you buy something off it and you want to have it removed to save double buying, email my husband and he’ll remove it! If you want to check whether I already have a book, all of the books I own and those I’ve read in the last few years but not kept are indexed on LibraryThing.

Note: for additional goodies, I love dark chocolate, over 70% is best, or any sweeties that are under 1% saturated fat. I like cats but I’m not keen on cat-themed stuff.?

Aiken, Joan – The Serial Garden (and all others)

Ashdown, Isabelle – Flight

Ashton, Helen – any except Bricks and Mortar

Baines, Phil – Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005, Puffin By Design: 70 Years of Imagination 1940 – 2010

Baker, Frank – Miss Hargreaves

Baker, Nicholson – Anthologist

Balding, Clare – Walking Home

Balenovich, Walt – Travels in a Blue Chair: Alaska to Zambia Ushuaia to Uluru

Barber, Peter – The Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps

Barnes-Murphy, Simon – Word of Mouth

Bell, Quentin – Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, Virginia Woolf: A Biography

Booker, Christopher – The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

Bridge, Ann – any except for Illyrian Spring and The Lighthearted Quest

Brinton, Sybil – Old Friends and New Faces

Brown, Pamela – Golden Pavements, Maddy Again (Blue Door)

Calder, Simon – That Summer: The Journey That Changed Me

Chiaverini, Jennifer – Circle of Quilters,  Quilter’s Homecoming, The Lost Quilter,  The Winding Ways Quilt

Clark, Taylor – Starbucked

Clayton, Victoria – Clouds among the Stars

Cocks, H. G. – Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column

Cole, Joni B. – Water Cooler Diaries

Collins, Andrew – Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners

Cross, Amanda – any except No Word From Winifred

Cote, Richard N. – The Redneck Riviera

Crouch, Marcus – the Nesbit Tradition: Children’s Novel, 1945-70

Cunningham, Michael – Golden States, Land’s End: A Walk through Provincetown

Darley, Gillian – Villages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias

Daswani, Kavita – Salaam, Paris

DePress, Traci – A Can of Peas

DeWoskin, Rachel – Foreign Babes in Beijing

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee – The Lives Of Strangers

Douglas, Caroline – Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences

Dyckhoff, Tom – 100 Buildings, 100 Years

Eiseman, Leatrice – Color, Messages and Meanings: A “Pantone” Color Resource

Ellis, Samantha – How to be a Heroine

Fairman, Richard – London: A Literary Anthology

Fine, Doug – Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living

Fitzgerald, Laura – Dreaming in English

Frank, Robert H. – The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything

Frankel, Alex – Punching In: One Man’s Undercover Adventures

Franzen, Jonathan – The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Front, Rebecca – Curious

Garfield, Simon – On the Map

Gibbons, Stella – Westwood, Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, Here be Dragons, My American, Starlight, The Bachelor, The Matchmaker

Gibson, Robert – The End of Youth: The Life and Work of Alain-Fournier

Gilliver, Peter – The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

Glaeser, Edward – Triumph of the City

Glaspell, Susan – The Visioning, Ambrose Holt and Family

Glass, Julia – I See You Everywhere

Gordon, Kim – Girl in a Band

Gosling, Sam – Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

Graf, Ellen – The Natural Laws of Good Luck: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage

Graham, Ysendra Maxtone – Terms and Conditions

Grant, Adam – Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

Guene, Faiza – Dreams from the Endz

Hall, David – Worktown

Handel Richardson, Henry – any

Harris, Joanne M. – The Gospel of Loki

Haslem, Dave – Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues

Haycraft, John – Adventures of a Language Traveller

Heminsley, Alexandra – Running Like a Girl

Hessler, Peter – Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China and the West

Hitiura Vaite, Celestine – Breadfruit: A Novel,  The Marriage Proposal, Tiare in Bloom

Holgate, Andy – Can’t Swim, Can’t Ride, Can’t Run

Holroyd, Michael – Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

Hook, Philip – Breakfast at Sotheby’s

Hubble, Nick – Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory

Hull, Katharine – The Far Distant Oxus

Inman, Robert – Coming Home: Life, Love & All Things Southern

Jacobs, A.J. – Drop Dead Healthy

Janmohamed, Shelina – Love in a Headscarf: Muslim woman seeks the One

Jen, Gish – World and Town

Johnson, Donald S. – Phantom Islands of the Atlantic

Johnson, Lorraine – The Ladybird Story: Children’s Books for Everyone

Kelly, Nataly – Found in Translation

Kendall, Gillian – Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas

Kennedy, Margaret – The Ladies of Lyndon

King, Cassandra – The Same Sweet Girls

King, Richard – How Soon is Now?

Knight, Lynn – The Button Box

Konchar Farr, Cecilia – Reading Oprah: How Oprah’s Book Club Changed the Way America Reads

Lambton, Gunda – Sun in Winter: A Toronto Wartime Journal, 1942-1945

Le Guin, Ursula – The Other Wind

Leboff, David – No Need to Ask! Early Maps of London’s Underground Railways

Lee, Jennifer – The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Lee, Jessica J. – Turning

Leverson, Ada – Any except Love’s Shadow

Lichtenstein, Rachel – On Brick Lane

Lipstiz Bern, Sandra – Un-conventional Family

Liu, Eric – Accidental Asian

Lodge, David – Quite a Good Time to be Born

Lovric, Michelle – The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters

Magrs, Paul – Aisles

Manzoor, Sarfraz – Greetings from Bury Park

Marcus, Sara – Girls to the Front

Marsh, Jan – The Pre-Raphaelite Circle

Mason, Mark – Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground

Mayor, F.M. – The Squire’s Daughter

McClure, Wendy – The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie

McCorkle, Jill – Going Away Shoes

McLean, Stuart – Home from the Vinyl Cafe: A Year of Stories

McMillan, Jo – Motherland

McMillan, Terry – The Interruption of Everything, Getting to Happy, Who Asked You?, I Almost Forgot About You

Mehta, Rahul – Quarantine

Miller, Jean Kearns – Women From Another Planet?

Mills, Magnus – The Forensic Records Society

Moaveni, Azadeh – Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran

Moore, Tim – I Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History

Moran, Joe – On Roads

Morgan, Ann – Reading the World

Mullan, John – What Matters in Jane Austen?

Mulvany, Nancy C. – Indexing

Murden McClure, Tori – A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean

Nair, Preethi – Beyond Indigo

Nairn, Ian – Nairn’s Towns (new Notting Hill Books edition)

Nazeer, Kamran – Send in the Idiots

Newson, John – Seven Years Old in the Home Environment

Osborne, John – Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio

Paphitis, Theo – Enter the Dragon

Parker, John – Once a Runner

Parks, Tim – Where I’m Reading From

Paul, Pamela – My Life with Bob

Peters, Pam – The Cambridge Guide to English Usage

Pinker, Steven – The Sense of Style

Powell, Anthony – What’s Become of Waring?

Powell, Violet – The Life of a Provincial Lady: Study of E.M.Delafield and Her Works

Pye, Michael – The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made us who we are

Quinion, Michael – Port Out, Starboard Home

Randall, Will – Indian Summer

Richards, Doug – Running Hot and Cold

Rivers Siddons, Anne – Homeplace, Heartbreak Hotel

Rock, Ian – The 1930s House Manual

Roy, Sandeep – Don’t Let him Know

Sackville-West, Robert – Inheritance: Knole and the Sackvilles

Sangera, Sathnam – If You Don’t Know Me by Now

Scieszka, Casey – To Timbuktu

Seward, Desmond – Renishaw Hall

Shachtman, Tom – Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish

Sharp, Margery – any except The Foolish Gentlewoman, The Nutmeg Tree or Cluny Brown

Shea, Ammon – The Phone Book

Shelton, Robin – Allotted Time: Two Blokes, One Shed, No Idea

Sinclair, Iain – London Overground

Skinner, Cornelia Otis – anything

Smiley, Jane – Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, Some Luck

Smith, Brix – The Rise, The Fall and The Rise

Soyinka, Susan – From East End to Land’s End

Stacpole, Henry de Vere – The Man Who Lost Himself

Stallwood, Veronica – any except Oxford Exit and Oxford Mourning

Stefanson, Jon Kalman – Heaven and Hell, The Sorry of Angels

Stevenson, D.E. – Mrs Tim Gets a Job

Sykes, Brian – Blood of the Isles

Tapsctott, Don – Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

Tete-Michel, Kpomassie – An African in Greenland

Theroux, Paul – Deep South

Thesiger, Wilfred – My Life and Travels

Thirkell, Angela –  Christmas at High Rising, Summer Half,  The Brandons

Tomes, Susan – Sleeping in Temples

Turner, Nick – Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon

Varieties of English (The Americas and the Caribbean ed. Schneider; The Pacific and Australasia ed. Burridge; Africa, Asia and Southeast Asia ed. Mesthrie)

Visram, Rozina – Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

Ward, James – Adventures in Stationery

Watts, Duncan – Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

Webb, Mary – Gone to Earth, Seven for a Secret

Wedd, Kit – The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House

Weis, Lois – Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class

Welch, Wendy – The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap

Wiley, Jo – My World in Motion

Wilkinson, Sheena – Too Many Ponies

Winchester, Simon – Outposts

Wolff, Kurt – The Rough Guide to Country Music

Woo, Sung J. – Everything Asian

Woolf, Virginia – Hyde Park Gate News

Wynne Jones, Diana – Conrad’s Fate, The Pinhoe Egg, The Year of the Griffin

Young, Al – Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora

Young, E.H. –  Celia, Yonder, A Corn of Wheat, River Holiday

Zevin, Gabrielle – The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry