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. Although I like cats, I am really very much not keen on cat-themed stuff.
Aiken, Joan – The Serial Garden (and all others)
Alharthi, Jokha – Celestial Bodies
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
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
Bickley, Jodi Ann – One Million Lovely Letters
Bostridge, Mark – Lives for Sale
Bridge, Ann – any except for Illyrian Spring, The Lighthearted Quest and Peking Picnic
Brinton, Sybil – Old Friends and New Faces
Brown, Pamela – Maddy Again (Blue Door)
Calder, Simon – That Summer: The Journey That Changed Me
Cavan, Romilly – Beneath the Visiting Moon
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
Cox, Tom – Ring the Hill
Cross, Amanda – any except No Word From Winifred
Cote, Richard N. – The Redneck Riviera
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
Davies, Catrina – Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
Dent, Susie – Dent’s Modern Tribes
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
Fairman, Richard – London: A Literary Anthology
Fine, Doug – Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
Fitzgerald, Laura – Dreaming in English
Flanders, Judith – The Making of Home
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
Front, Rebecca – Curious
Gange, David – The Frayed Atlantic Edge
Garner, Alan – Where Shall we Run To?
Gaw, Matt – The Pull of the River
Gibbons, Stella – Here be Dragons, My American, 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
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
Hall, David – Worktown
Handel Richardson, Henry – any except The Getting of Wisdom, Maurice Guest
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
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
Howe, Ben Ryder – My Korean Deli
Hubble, Nick – Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory
Hull, Katharine – The Far Distant Oxus
Hunt, Nick – The Parakeeting of London
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, 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, Lorraine – The Ladybird Story: Children’s Books for Everyone
Jones, Tayari – An American Marriage
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
Kerby, Susan Alice – Miss Carter and the Ifrit
King, Cassandra – The Same Sweet Girls
King, Richard – How Soon is Now?, The Lark Ascending
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
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
Lodge, David – Quite a Good Time to be Born
Lovric, Michelle – The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters
Macaskill, Hilary – Virginia Woolf at Home
Magnusson, Sally – The Sealwoman’s Gift
Manzoor, Sarfraz – Greetings from Bury Park
Marsh, Jan – The Pre-Raphaelite Circle
Marshall, Tim – Wheelchairs, Perjury and the London Marathon
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
McCulloch, Gretchen – Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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
Mole, Tom – The Secret Life of Books
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
Mynott, Jeremy – Birdscapes: Birds in our Imagination and Experience
Nair, Preethi – Beyond Indigo
Nairn, Ian – Nairn’s Towns (new Notting Hill Books edition)
Nancollas, Tom – Seashaken Houses
Nazeer, Kamran – Send in the Idiots
Newson, John – Seven Years Old in the Home Environment
Oman, Carola – Nothing to Report and Somewhere in England
Osborne, John – Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio
Paphitis, Theo – Enter the Dragon
Parikian, Lev – Why do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Parker, John – Once a Runner
Paul, Pamela – My Life with Bob
Pavey, Ruth – A Wood of One’s Own
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
Powers, Richard – The Overstory
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
Ramsay, Uuganaa – Mongol
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
Salwak, Dale – The Life and Work of Barbara Pym
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
Shelton, Robin – Allotted Time: Two Blokes, One Shed, No Idea
Shute, Nevil – The Far Country
Sinclair, April – Coffee Makes you Black, Ain’t Gonna be the Same Fool Twice
Sinclair, Iain – London Overground
Singh, Anita – The Story of the Great British Bake-Off
Skinner, Cornelia Otis – anything
Smiley, Jane – 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
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
Thesiger, Wilfred – My Life and Travels
Thirkell, Angela – See list at the bottom
Thomas, Angie – On the Come Up
Tomes, Susan – Sleeping in Temples
Tree, Isabella – Wilding
Treverton Jones, Tamsin – Windblown
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
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 (Furrowed Middlebrow)
Wilkinson, Ellen – The Division Bell
Wolff, Kurt – The Rough Guide to Country Music
Woo, Sung J. – Everything Asian
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
Angela Thirkell Barsetshire series I have yet to get (marked in red)
- High Rising (1933)
- Wild Strawberries (1934)
- The Demon in the House (1934)
- August Folly (1936)
- Summer Half (1937)
- Pomfret Towers (1938)
- The Brandons (1939)
- Before Lunch (1940)
- Cheerfulness Breaks In (1940)
- Northbridge Rectory (1941)
- Marling Hall (1942)
- Growing Up (1943)
- The Headmistress (1944)
- Miss Bunting (1945)
- Peace Breaks Out (1946)
- Private Enterprise (1947)
- Love Among the Ruins (1948)
- The Old Bank House (1949)
- County Chronicle (1950)
- The Duke’s Daughter (1951)
- Happy Returns (1952)
- Jutland Cottage (1953)
- What Did It Mean? (1954)
- Enter Sir Robert (1955)
- Never Too Late (1956)
- A Double Affair (1957)
- Close Quarters (1958)
- Love at All Ages (1959)
- Three Score and Ten (1961)
Three Investigators Novels I have yet to get (marked in red)
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