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
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
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
Baldwin, James – Go Tell it on the Mountain
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
Barnet, Ross – The Missing Lynx
Basu, Diksha – The Windfall
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
Bickley, Jodi Ann – One Million Lovely Letters
Bishop, Anne – Becoming an Ally
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
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
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
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
Dyckhoff, Tom – 100 Buildings, 100 Years
Ecott, Tim – The Land of Maybe: A Faroe Islands Year
Ehrlich, Gretel – The Solace of Open Spaces
Eiseman, Leatrice – Color, Messages and Meanings: A “Pantone” Color Resource
Epstein, David – The Sports Gene
Evaristo, Bernadine – Manifesto
Fairman, Richard – London: A Literary Anthology
Faloyin, Dipo – Africa is not a Country
Fine, Doug – Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
Fitzgerald, Laura – Dreaming in English
Flanders, Judith – The Making of Home
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, Mini Aodla – Life Among the Qallunaat
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
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
Guene, Faiza – Dreams from the Endz
Gyasi, Yaa – Homegoing, Transcendent Kingdom
Hall, David – Worktown
Handel Richardson, Henry – any except The Getting of Wisdom, Maurice Guest
Hanley, Lynsey – Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide
Hannigan, Tim – The Travel Writing Tribe (out May 2021 – wait for paperback)
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 – Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
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
Hubble, Nick – Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory
Hughes, Steffan Meyric – Circle Line
Hull, Katharine – The Far Distant Oxus
Humphreys, Alastair – My Midsummer Morning
Igharo, Jane – The Sweetest Remedy, Ties that Tether
Inman, Robert – Coming Home: Life, Love & All Things Southern, Home Fires Burning
Jacobs, A.J. – Drop Dead Healthy
Jackson, Dan – The Northumbrians
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, 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
Kelly, Nataly – Found in Translation
Kendall, Gillian – Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas
Khan, Mariam (ed.) – It’s Not About the Burqa
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
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)
Loda, Hafsi – Modesty: A Fashion Paradox
Long, Sarah – A Year in the Chateau
Lovric, Michelle – The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters
Macaskill, Hilary – Virginia Woolf at Home
Manzoor, Sarfraz – Greetings from Bury Park
Marren, Peter – Chasing the Ghost
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
May, Katherine – The Electricity of Every Living Thing
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
McKenzie, Alecia – A Million Aunties
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?
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
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
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
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
Myers, Benjamin – The Offing
Mynott, Jeremy – Birdscapes: Birds in our Imagination and Experience
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
Nicolson, Adam – The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters
Noah, Trevor – Born a Crime
Noble, Safiya Umoja – Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Ogene, Timothy – Seesaw
Onuzo, Chibundu – Sankofa
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
Peters, Pam – The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
Phillips, Jess – Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics
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
Powers, Richard – The Overstory
Powys, John Cooper – A Glastonbury Romance, Wolf Solent
Price, Neil – The Viking Way
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
Richards, Doug – Running Hot and Cold
Ridley, Lee – I’m Only In It For the Parking
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
Salwak, Dale – The Life and Work of Barbara Pym
Samuel, Bill – An Accidental Bookseller: A Personal Memoir of Foyles
Sanmao – Stories of the Sahara
Sarpong, June – Diversify
Schaefer, Kayleen – Text me When you Get Home
Schine, Cathleen – The Grammarians
Scieszka, Casey – To Timbuktu
Seward, Desmond – Renishaw Hall
Shachtman, Tom – Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish
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, Fanfare for tin trumpets, 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
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
Summers, Julie – Uninvited Guests: The Secret Lives of Britain’s Country Houses 1939-45
Sykes, Brian – Blood of the Isles
Tapsctott, Don – Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Tete-Michel, Kpomassie – An African in Greenland
Theroux, Paul – On the Plain of Snakes
Thesiger, Wilfred – My Life and Travels
Thirkell, Angela – See list at the bottom
Tomes, Susan – Sleeping in Temples
Turner, Nick – Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon
Twitty, Michael – The Cooking Gene
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
Williams, Ian – Disorientation
Wolff, Kurt – The Rough Guide to Country Music
Woo, Sung J. – Everything Asian
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
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
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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