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The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

Frontier of dreams : the story of New Zealand by Bronwyn Dalley

Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud

The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum

Going Under by Ray French

Eric by Terry Pratchett

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Groups1001 Books to read before you die, Group Reads - Literature, It's a LondonThing, Lovers of NZ Literature, LT's list of great books you should read, New Zealand Thingamabrarians, Unread Support Group, What Are You Reading Now?

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Jenny Bornholdt, Jasper Fforde, D.H. Lawrence, Bill Manhire, A. A. Milne, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)

About me I'm a librarian between libraries. My secret dream is to open a bookshop (but doesn't everybody want to do that?). Meantime, I'm happy thinking about the custom bookshelves I'm going to have made for the house I'm eventually going to own. Currently I'm travelling in Europe (and missing my LibraryThing conversations!), so I might not be getting to any comments for a while. But, I'll be back, I promise you! (BTW, I finally finished War and Peace. Rock on!)

About my library This is our "UK" library, so just what we've bought since living in London for the last 4 years. We're moving back to NZ later in 2008, so I'll finally get to amalgamate this list with the dozens of boxes back home. Not all of the books here are mine, some (read: sport, fantasy, Jeremy Clarkson) belong to the lovely hubby. It's pointless to try and split them though, since we do read each others books from time to time.

Now Reading: The Red and the Black

Favourite books of 2007
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
"The Vintner's Luck" by Elizabeth Knox
"Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl
"First Among Sequels" by Jasper Fforde
"The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
"The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
"Gods Behaving Badly" by Marie Phillips
"Moab is my Washpot" by Stephen Fry
"Unimagined" by Imran Ahmad

Favourite books of 2006
Jasper Fforde (Everything, basically!)
"The Shadow of the Wind" Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Seeing" Jose Saramago
"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"King Dork" by Frank Portman
"The Little Friend" by Donna Tartt
"The Thin Place" by Kathryn Davis
"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
"The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby
"Mansfield" by C.K. Stead
"The Extra Large Medium" by Helen Slavin
"The Buddha of Suburbia" by Hanif Kureishi

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Killeymoon added:
The Maltese Falcon (Read a Great Movie) by Dashiell HammettNEW!

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The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiNEW!

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasNEW!

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Life: A User's Manual by Georges PerecNEW!

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The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by StendhalNEW!

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American Pastoral by Philip RothNEW!

Lucky you to be going to Africa! If your journey includes South Africa, [Centennial] by James Michener would be great to take with you. His history of the country enhances a visit there. I share many of your books.

posted by kerrlm at 10:33 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2008

Hi, i've just seen your latest reads, and found the list very interesting. I see that you've read Saramago's Seeing --- have u read the accompanying book, Blindness? If yes, did u like it too?

posted by deebee1 at 1:43 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2008

Hi! Sorry I didn't see your comment until now (Although I have been on holiday over Christmas). Maybe the curriculum changed or was quite different at the school I went / bad luck of the draw? I remember when in 7th form thinking "Wow we are actually going to read a book for English!" (To the Island) first time reading a book for English! And yet I had to study Braveheart, the Mel Gibson film twice - ugh. I hated English so much yet to my family that seemed weird because I was always reading! English at University however was completely different and I loved it. It wasn't easy, like I didn't get perfect grades, but it was so interesting and keeping up with the reading was hard. The ratio for each class was 1 book a week which is ok if you are taking one class but if you take two or three classes all of a sudden thats 2 or 3 books a week.

posted by kiwiflowa at 11:46 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2008

You're welcome! BTW, there's also an older version of Cold Comfort Farm, done by BBC in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Can't remember who is in that one. Both were good (but I'm a big Rufus Sewell fan).

~Deborah

posted by Cariola at 12:45 pm (EST) on Nov 25, 2007

Thanks for adding mine to your list of interesting libraries. We do share a lot of contemporary fiction titles! I'll be browsing your catalogue as soon as I have a little more time--on the way to work right now. Lucky you, to be in London! I am in the US and only make it over for one or two brief visits per year, generally to go to the theatre.

~Deborah

posted by Cariola at 7:37 am (EST) on Nov 12, 2007

Recent recommendations from NZ Lit. You probably caught up with the fact that Lloyd Jones has the nod from this corner of the globe for his novel "Mr Pip'for the COmmonwealth Prize... uneven, good in parts, especially in the middle but ending dribbles on self-consciously. Set in Bougainville rather than NZ though.
"Hibiscus Coast' by Paula Morris is a recent one - a bit of a thriller and set firmly in Auckland. Again a bit slow in the beginning but some memorable characters and some good tension.

posted by Zeldaz at 9:24 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2007

Hello, am new to LT but love it! We have many of the same books (McCall Smith, McEwan, Lawrence, Tartt, Austen and Atwood. I am an English teacher in New Brunswick Canada, very interested in good literature and good children's books. I see you have a copy of The Master and Margarita. I have recently bought it and am looking forward to reading it. Since you are from New Zealand, do you have any recommendations concerning New Zealand writers? Drop by my library and see my list of great Canadian novels. Brenda O.

p.s. Did you love Atonement and Saturday as much as I did?

posted by brendaough at 6:26 pm (EST) on Jan 2, 2007

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