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- Joined
- Mar 6, 2007
- Real Name
- Charlotte
- About My Library
I read as widely as I can. Genres include crime fiction, fiction in translation, fiction by authors from the African continent (especially South African and Nigerian), and contemporary British literature. For academic purposes I read (mostly past tense) history, gender studies, education policy. I follow the annual women's prize and Booker prizes, and am also on Litsy.
- About Me
- Like the library, a work in progress.
- Location
- Lancashire, England
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- Favorite Authors
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Svetlana Alexievich, Kate Atkinson, Alan Bennett, Teju Cole, Colin Cotterill, Tessa Dare, Miranda Davis, Carol Ann Duffy, Jenny Erpenbeck, Anne Fadiman, Jacky Fleming, Aminatta Forna, Petina Gappah, Linda Grant, Sarah Hall, Liz Jensen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet Malcolm, Andrew Miller, Michael Ondaatje, Julie Otsuka, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rachel Seiffert, Curtis Sittenfeld, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Kae Tempest, Colm Tóibín, Jill Paton Walsh, Sarah Waters, Bill Watterson
- Favorite Lists
- 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2021 Tournament of Books, 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2025 Booker Prize Longlist, 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 500 Great Books by Women, Amusing Book Titles, Around the World in 80 Books, Bibliomemoirs, The Black Archives: All Power To the People! Reading List, Book Riot's 100 must-read works of Jewish Fiction, Booker Prize Longlist 2024, Books Read in 2024, Books We Discovered On LibraryThing, Borderless Book Club, CBC Books - Canada's 100 (+ bonus 10): Which have you read?, Dublin Literary Award 2024 Longlist, Favorite Books in Translation, Favorite Recent Poetry: 1980-2022, Favorite Short Fiction, Favourite Virago Modern Classics, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Korean literature, Man Booker Prize Longlist 2015, The Modern Library (The Two Hundred Best Novels...., Must-Read Books by Black Authors, Not the NYT list of top 100 21st century books, NYT 100 best books of 21st C, Poetry volumes by single author, Top Five Books of 2013, Top Five Books of 2015, Top Five Books of 2018, Top Five Books of 2020, Top Five Books of 2023, A Ukraine Reading List, Women's Prize Longlist 2024, Women's reading list, Writers at Risk, Your favorite books from the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
- Local Favorites
Bookstores: Clarke's Bookshop, Edinburgh Books, Kalk Bay Books, London Review Bookshop, News From Nowhere, Oxfam Books, Parkinson's Books, Southport, The Edinburgh Bookshop
Libraries: British Library, British Library Newspapers, Central Library, Central Library, Liverpool - Picton Library - Hornby Library, Gamla Stans bibliotek (filial till Stockholms Stadsbibliotek), Jessie Street National Women's Library, Library of Congress, James Madison Memorial Building, Liverpool John Moores University - Aldham Robarts Learning Resource Centre, McDonald Road Library (Edinburgh), Ormskirk Library, Scottish Poetry Library, University of Edinburgh - New College Library
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