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.
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
Acevedo, Elizabeth – With the Fire on High, The Poet X, Clap when you Land
Adenuga, Ify – Endless Fortune
Aiken, Joan – Any apart from The Serial Garden
Alharthi, Jokha – Celestial Bodies
Ashdown, Isabelle – Flight
Ashton, Helen – any except Bricks and Mortar, Half Crown House or Yeoman’s Hospital
Austin, Nefertiti – Motherhood so White
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
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
Bennett, Brit – The Mothers
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
Braithwaite, Candice – I am not your Baby Mother
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
Clayton, Victoria – Clouds among the Stars
Clipston, Amy – The Kauffman Amish Bakery Collection (Kindle)
Cole, Teju – Every Day is for the Thief,
Collectiva Sambra – Pandemic Solidarity
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
Delap, Lucy – Feminisms: A Global History
Dennis-Benn, Nicole – Patsy, Here Comes the Sun
Dent, Susie – Dent’s Modern Tribes
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
Ehrlich, Gretel – The Solace of Open Spaces
Eiseman, Leatrice – Color, Messages and Meanings: A “Pantone” Color Resource
Emecheta, Buchi – Second Class Citizen
Fairman, Richard – London: A Literary Anthology
Fine, Doug – Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living
Fitzgerald, Laura – Dreaming in English
Flagg, Fannie – The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop (when out in pb – 2021)
Flanders, Judith – The Making of Home
Fowler, Therese Anne – A Good Neighborhood
Frances-Wright, Deborah – The Guilty Feminist
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
Franklin, Miles – The Diaries of Miles Franklin, ed. Paul Brunton
Franzen, Jonathan – The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
Freeman, Steven – Gone Feral
Gaffney, Ginger – Half Broke
Gange, David – The Frayed Atlantic Edge
Garner, Alan – Where Shall we Run To?
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
Greene, A. Kendra – The Museum of Whales You Will Never See
Guene, Faiza – Dreams from the Endz
Hall, David – Worktown
Hall, Stuart: Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
Handel Richardson, Henry – any except The Getting of Wisdom, Maurice Guest
Hanley, Lynsey – Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide
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
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
Hunt, Nick – The Parakeeting of London
Inman, Robert – Coming Home: Life, Love & All Things Southern, Home Fires Burning
Jacobs, A.J. – Drop Dead Healthy
Jackson, Dan – The Northumbrians
Jalaluddin, Uzma – Hana Khan Carries On
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, Lorraine – The Ladybird Story: Children’s Books for Everyone
Jones, Saeed – How We Fight for our Lives
Jones, Tayari – Leaving Atlanta
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
Kendall, Mikki – Hood Feminism
Khan, Mariam (ed.) – It’s Not About the Burqa
Khan-Cullors, Patrisse and bandele, asha – When They Call you a Terrorist
King, Cassandra – The Same Sweet Girls
King, Richard – How Soon is Now?, The Lark Ascending
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
Lambton, Gunda – Sun in Winter: A Toronto Wartime Journal, 1942-1945
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
Loda, Hafsi – Modesty: A Fashion Paradox
Lodge, David – Quite a Good Time to be Born
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
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
Mehta, Rahul – Quarantine
Mendez, Paul – Rainbow Milk
Miller, Jean Kearns – Women From Another Planet?
Mills, Magnus – The Forensic Records Society
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
Morley, Paul – A Sound Mind
Mos-Shogbamimu, Dr Shola – This is Why I Resist
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
Mytting, Lars – The Bell in the Lake
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
Nicolson, Adam – The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters
Noah, Trevor – Born a Crime
Noble, Safiya Umoja – Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Oman, Carola – Nothing to Report and Somewhere in England
Osborne, John – Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio
Otele, Olivette – African Europeans: An Untold Story
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
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, Barclay – The Chinese in Britain
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
Ramsay, Uuganaa – Mongol
Randall, Will – Indian Summer
Reddy, Jini – Wanderland
Richards, Doug – Running Hot and Cold
Ritter, Christiane – A Woman in the Polar Night
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
Setter, Jane – Your Voice Speaks Volumes
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
Singh, Anita – The Story of the Great British Bake-Off
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
Taylor, Helen – Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of our Lives
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
Thomas, Angie – On the Come Up
Tomes, Susan – Sleeping in Temples
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
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
Wolff, Kurt – The Rough Guide to Country Music
Woo, Sung J. – Everything Asian
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
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)
- 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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