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!). 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. The ones in bold are my priorities.
Note: for additional goodies, I love dark chocolate, over 70% is best, or any sweeties that are under 1% saturated fat. Although I like cats, I am really very much not keen on cat-themed stuff.
Abel West, Catherine – Saving Ruby King
Al-Solaylee, Kamal – Return
Adenuga, Ify – Endless Fortune
Agard, John – Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and Other Stories
Aiken, Joan – Any apart from The Serial Garden
Ashdown, Isabelle – Flight
Ashton, Helen – any except Bricks and Mortar, Half Crown House or Yeoman’s Hospital
Attah, Ayesha – Zainab Takes New York
Babalola, Bolu – Honey and Spice
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
Badree, Travis – Legends & Lattes
Baldursdottir, Kristin – Karitas Untitled
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
Basu, Diksha – The Windfall
Beck, Koa – White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
Bell, Quentin – Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, Virginia Woolf: A Biography
Benjamin, Ruha – Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Berg, Elizabeth – The Confession Club
Bertsche, Rachel – MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend
Biala, Yewande – Reclaiming
Bickley, Jodi Ann – One Million Lovely Letters
Bishop, Anne – Becoming an Ally
Boakye, Jeffrey – I Heard What You Said
Bostridge, Mark – Lives for Sale
Bourne, Stephen – Mother Country: Britain’s Black Community on the Home Front 1939-1945
Bridge, Ann – any except for Illyrian Spring, The Lighthearted Quest and Peking Picnic
Brinton, Sybil – Old Friends and New Faces
Brooks, Gwendolyn – Maud Martha
Brottman – The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison
Brown, Nancy Marie – A Good Horse has no Color
Brown, Whitney – Between Stone and Sky
Busby, Margaret (ed.) – New Daughters of Africa
Calder, Simon – That Summer: The Journey That Changed Me
Cavan, Romilly – Beneath the Visiting Moon
Chang, David – Eat A Peach
Charone, Barbara – Access All Areas
Chetty, Darren – Welsh (Plural)
Chiaverini, Jennifer – Circle of Quilters, Quilter’s Homecoming, The Lost Quilter, The Winding Ways Quilt
Chim, Wai – Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
Clark, Taylor – Starbucked
Clarke, John Cooper – I Wanna Be Yours
Clayton, Victoria – Clouds among the Stars
Clipston, Amy – The Kauffman Amish Bakery Collection (Kindle)
Cole, Teju – Every Day is for the Thief
Couchman, Diane – Afloat
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
Copeland, Libby – The Lost Family
Cote, Richard N. – The Redneck Riviera
Couchman, Danie – Afloat
Cruz, Angie – Soledad
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
Davis, Jennifer Phar – The Pursuit of Endurance
Dennis-Benn, Nicole – Patsy, Here Comes the Sun
DePress, Traci – A Can of Peas
Deresiewicz, William – A Jane Austen Life
DeWoskin, Rachel – Foreign Babes in Beijing
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee – The Lives Of Strangers
Douglas, Caroline – Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences
Duerden, Nick – Exit Stage Left
Dyckhoff, Tom – 100 Buildings, 100 Years
Ecott, Tim – The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year
Ehrlich, Gretel – The Solace of Open Spaces
Eir, Oddny – Land of Love and Ruins
Eiseman, Leatrice – Color, Messages and Meanings: A “Pantone” Color Resource
Eliot, Henry – The Penguin Classics Book
Epstein, David – The Sports Gene
Fa-Aoso, Aaron – So Far, so Good
Fairman, Richard – London: A Literary Anthology
Fell, Blair – The Sign for Home
Fine, Doug – Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
Fitzgerald, Laura – Dreaming in English
Flanders, Judith – The Making of Home
Foley, Aaron – Boys Come First
Fowler, Therese Anne – A Good Neighborhood
Frank, Lisa and McVeigh, Paul (eds) – Northern Exposure: Belfast Stories
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
Freeman, Steven – Gone Feral
Gaffney, Ginger – Half Broke
Gange, David – The Frayed Atlantic Edge
Garza, Alicia – The Purpose of Power: How to Build Movements for the 20th Century
Gaw, Matt – The Pull of the River, Under the Stars
Gibbons, Stella – Here be Dragons, My American, 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
Glassley, William E. – A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
Good, Beth – The Cornish Colouring Book Club
Gooley, Tristan – The Natural Explorer
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
Grant, Richard – The Deepest South of All
Groom, Nick – Twenty-First Century Tolkien
Guene, Faiza – Dreams from the Endz
Gurnah, Abdulrazak – Dottie, Gravel Heart
Habila, Helon – Travellers
Hadley, Tessa – The London Train
Hahn, Daniel – Catching Fire: A Translation Diary
Hall, David – Worktown
Handel Richardson, Henry – any except The Getting of Wisdom, Maurice Guest
Hanley, Lynsey – Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide
Hannah-Jones, Nikole – The 1619 Project
Hannigan, Tim – The Travel Writing Tribe (out May 2021 – wait for paperback, Nov 22)
Hashimoto, Emily – A World Between
Haslem, Dave – Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues
Haupt, Lyanda Lynn – Crow Planet
Haycraft, John – Adventures of a Language Traveller
Heiss, Anita – Am I Black Enough For You? 10 Years On
Hessler, Peter – Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China and the West
Hibbert, Talia – Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Take a Hint, Dani Brown, Act Your Age, Eve Brown
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
Howe, Ben Ryder – My Korean Deli
Hubbard, Phil – Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England
Hubble, Nick – Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory
Hui, Angela – Takeaway: Stories from a Life Behind the Counter (pub July 2023)
Hughes, Steffan Meyric – Circle Line
Hull, Katharine – The Far Distant Oxus
Humphreys, Alastair – My Midsummer Morning
Igharo, Jane – The Sweetest Remedy, Ties that Tether
Ilboudo, Monique – So Distant from my Life
Imafidon, Anne-Marie – She’s in CTRL: How Women can Take Back Tech
Inman, Robert – Coming Home: Life, Love & All Things Southern, Home Fires Burning
Jacobs, A.J. – Drop Dead Healthy
Jackson, Dan – The Northumbrians
Jackson, Kwana – Knot Again (Real Men Knit)
Jaigurdar, Adiba – The Henna Wars, Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating
Jana, Tiffany – Subtle Acts of Exclusion
Janke, Terri – True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous Knowledge and Culture
Janmohamed, Shelina – Love in a Headscarf: Muslim woman seeks the One
Jawando, Danielle – And the Stars were Burning Brightly
Jefferson, Margot – Negroland: A Memoir
Jen, Gish – World and Town
Johnson, Alex – Book Towns: Forty-Five Paradises of the Printed World, A Book of Book Lists, Shelf Life
Johnson, Donald S. – Phantom Islands of the Atlantic
Johnson, George M. – All Boys Aren’t Blue
Johnson, Lorraine – The Ladybird Story: Children’s Books for Everyone
Jones, John Sam – The Journey is Home
Jones, Saeed – How We Fight for our Lives
Jones, Tayari – Leaving Atlanta
Jurczyk, Eva – The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Jurek, Scott – North
Kavenna, Joanna – Zed
Kendall, Gillian – Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas
Kesvani, Hussein – Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims
Khan, Mariam (ed.) – It’s Not About the Burqa
Kiely, Brendan – The Other Talk: Reckoning With Our White Privilege
King, Cassandra – The Same Sweet Girls
King, Richard – How Soon is Now?
Knight, Lynn – The Button Box
Knighton, Conor – Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-To-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
Koeppel, Dan – To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
Konchar Farr, Cecilia – Reading Oprah: How Oprah’s Book Club Changed the Way America Reads
Korneliussen, Niviaq – Last Night in Nuuq
Lambton, Gunda – Sun in Winter: A Toronto Wartime Journal, 1942-1945
Lanham, J. Drew – The Home Place
LB, Jade – Keisha the Sket
Lee, Jennifer – The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
Lee, Jessica J. – Turning
Leverson, Ada – Any except Love’s Shadow/Tenterhooks/Love at Second Sight (The Little Ottleys)
Lewis-Jones, Huw – The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
Lichtenstein, Rachel – On Brick Lane
Lipstiz Bern, Sandra – Un-conventional Family
Liu, Eric – Accidental Asian
Llewellyn, Suzette (ed) – Still Breathing: 100 Black Voices (wait for pb)
Lloyd, Helen – Iceland Serow Saga
Loda, Hafsi – Modesty: A Fashion Paradox
London, Iggy – Mandem (publ March 2023)
Long, Sarah – A Year in the Chateau
Lovric, Michelle – The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters
Macaskill, Hilary – Virginia Woolf at Home
Mahfouz, Sabrina – The Things I Would Tell You
Manzoor, Sarfraz – Greetings from Bury Park
Marks, Lisa – Ryan is Ready for you Now
Marren, Peter – Chasing the Ghost
Mars, Roman – The 99% Invisible City
Marsh, Jan – The Pre-Raphaelite Circle
Marshall, John – Wide-Open World
Marshall, Tim – Wheelchairs, Perjury and the London Marathon
Mask, Dierdre – Address Book
Masumoto, David – Epitaph for a Peach
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, Terry – The Interruption of Everything, Getting to Happy, Who Asked You?, I Almost Forgot About You
McNeil, Jean – Ice Diaries
Medie, Peace Adzo – His Only Wife
Mehta, Rahul – Quarantine
Miller, Jean Kearns – Women From Another Planet?
Miller, Kei – Things I Have Withheld
Mills, Magnus – The Forensic Records Society
Mitchell, Laurence – Westering
Mirza, Fatima Farheen – A Place for Us
Moaveni, Azadeh – Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Molope, Kagiso Lesego – Such a Lonely, Lovely Road
Montgomery, Candice – Home and Away
Moore, Tim – I Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History
Mooro, Alya – The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle-Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes
Morgan, Ann – Reading the World
Morgan, Sally – My Place
Moriyama, Naomi and Doyle, William – The Sisterhood of the Enchanted Forest
Morley, Paul – A Sound Mind
Moss, Stephen – This Birding Life, Mrs Moreau’s Warbler, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, A Sky Full of Starlings, The Accidental Countryside, Skylarks with Rosie
Msimang, Sisonke – Always Another Country
Mullan, John – What Matters in Jane Austen?
Mulvany, Nancy C. – Indexing
Murphy, G. Ronald – Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North
Mynott, Jeremy – Birdscapes: Birds in our Imagination and Experience
Nair, Preethi – Beyond Indigo
Nairn, Ian – Nairn’s Towns (new Notting Hill Books edition)
Natera, Cleyvis – Neruda on the Park
Nazeer, Kamran – Send in the Idiots
Newson, John – Seven Years Old in the Home Environment
Nicolson, Adam – The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters
Noble, Safiya Umoja – Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Ojla, Sukh – Sunny
Ogene, Timothy – Seesaw
Osborne, Bella – The Library
Osborne, John – Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio
Otele, Olivette – African Europeans: An Untold Story
Overall, Sonia – Heavy Time
Page, Libby – An Island Home (wait for Pb)
Paphitis, Theo – Enter the Dragon
Parikian, Lev – Why do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Parker, John – Once a Runner
Paul, Pamela – My Life with Bob
Pennock, Caroline Dodds – On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Peters, Pam – The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
Philips, Caryl – Crossing the River
Pinker, Steven – The Sense of Style
Pitron, Guillaume – Digital Hell (out in English Oct 2023)
Powell, Anthony – What’s Become of Waring?
Powell, Violet – The Life of a Provincial Lady: Study of E.M. Delafield and Her Works
Powys, John Cooper – A Glastonbury Romance, Wolf Solent
Price, Neil – The Viking Way
Pryde, Jessica – Black Love Matters
Purcell, Mark – The Country House Library
Pye, Michael – The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made us who we are
Pye-Smith, Charlie – Britain’s Bounty: Land of Plenty
Quinion, Michael – Port Out, Starboard Home
Rahim, Sameer – Asghar and Zahra
Randall, Will – Indian Summer
Ratinon, Claire – Unearthed: On Race and Roots and how the Soil Taught me I Belong (pb June 23)
Richards, Doug – Running Hot and Cold
Richardson, Nigel – The Accidental Detectorist
Ridley, Lee – I’m Only In It For the Parking
Rivers Siddons, Anne – Homeplace, Heartbreak Hotel
Robinson, Ben – England’s Villages
Rock, Ian – The 1930s House Manual
Roy, Sandeep – Don’t Let him Know
Sackville-West, Robert – Inheritance: Knole and the Sackvilles
Salwak, Dale – The Life and Work of Barbara Pym
Samuel, Bill – An Accidental Bookseller: A Personal Memoir of Foyles
Sanmao – Stories of the Sahara
Schaefer, Kayleen – Text me When you Get Home
Schine, Cathleen – The Grammarians
Scieszka, Casey – To Timbuktu
Scott, Kim – That Deadman Dance
Seth, Leila – On Balance: An Autobiography
Seward, Desmond – Renishaw Hall
Shachtman, Tom – Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish
Schaller, Susan – A Man Without Words (new ed.)
Schuyler, George – Black No More
Shanbhag, Vivek – Ghachar Ghochar
Shapiro, Larry – Zen and the Art of Running
Sharp, Margery – any except The Foolish Gentlewoman, The Nutmeg Tree, The Eye of Love or Cluny Brown. Especially Martha in Paris and Martha, Eric and George. In Dean Street Press’s collection: Rhododendron pie, Four gardens, Harlequin house, The stone of chastity
Shelton, Robin – Allotted Time: Two Blokes, One Shed, No Idea
Shute, Nevil – The Far Country
Simpson, John – The Word Detective
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake – As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
Sinclair, April – Coffee Makes you Black, Ain’t Gonna be the Same Fool Twice
Skinner, Cornelia Otis – anything
Smiley, Jane – Some Luck, Riding Lessons, Saddles and Secrets, Taking the Reins
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
Stafford, Ed – Expeditions Unpacked
Stallwood, Veronica – any except Oxford Exit and Oxford Mourning
Stamper, Phil – Golden Boys
Summers, Julie – Uninvited Guests: The Secret Lives of Britain’s Country Houses 1939-45
Sykes, Brian – Blood of the Isles
Sykes, Pandora – What Writers Read
Tapsctott, Don – Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Thesiger, Wilfred – My Life and Travels
Thomas, Sarah – The Raven’s Nest
Thorsson, Gudmundur Andri – And the Wind Sees All
Tomes, Susan – Sleeping in Temples
Turner, Nick – Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon
Twitty, Michael – The Cooking Gene
Uman, Ousman – North to Paradise
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
Watts, Duncan – Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Wedd, Kit – The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House
Weis, Lois – Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class
Wiley, Jo – My World in Motion
Wilenski, Marjorie – Table Two (Dean Street Press)
Wilkinson, Ellen – The Division Bell
Willder, Louise – Blurb your Enthusiasm
Williams, Ian – Disorientation
Winkler, Lisa K. – On the Trail of the Ancestors: A Black Cowboy’s Ride Across America
Wong, P. P. – The Life of a Banana
Woo, Sung J. – Everything Asian
Woolley, Simon – Soar: My Journey from Council Estate to the House of Lords (pub Oct 2023)
Woozeer, Laila – Not Quite White
Wright, John – A Spotter’s Guide to Countryside Mysteries
Wright, Laurence – God Save Texas
Wynne Jones, Diana – Conrad’s Fate, The Pinhoe Egg, The Year of the Griffin
Yabouza, Adrienne – Co-Wives, Co-Widows
Young, E.H. – Celia, Yonder, A Corn of Wheat, River Holiday
Zamora, Javier – Solito (when in pb)
Zayan, Hafsa – We are all Birds of Uganda
Zevin, Gabrielle – The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry
Three Investigators Novels I have yet to get (marked in red)
- Murder on A Girls’ Night Out
- Murder on A Bad Hair Day
- Murder Runs in the Family
- Murder Makes Waves
- Murder Gets A Life
- Murder Shoots the Bull
- Murder Carries A Torch
- Murder Boogies with Elvis
The Earlene Fowler Benni Harper mysteries
1. Fool’s Puzzle (1994)
3. Kansas Troubles (1996)
4. Goose in the Pond (1997)
5. Dove in the Window (1998)
6. Mariner’s Compass (1999)
7. Seven Sisters (2000)
8. Arkansas Traveler (2001)
9. Steps to the Altar (2002)
10. Sunshine and Shadow (2003)
11. Broken Dishes (2004)
12. Delectable Mountains (2005)
13. Tumbling Blocks (2007)
14. State Fair (2010)
15. Spider Web (2011)
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