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My goal is to use Library Thing to keep track of what I've been reading rather than to catalogue acquisitions or possessions. I support my public library and get very good use from it.
About Me
For me reading is escapism as well as information gathering. I'm somewhat a book snob, not caring much what's on the best seller list. Instead I look for fiction writers who are wordsmiths, stories that envelope the reader, and nonfiction that informs, presents new ideas and stimulates thought.
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I by Barbara W. Tuchman
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Story of Burnt Njal (Njal's Saga) (Xist Classics) by Anonymous
Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Sigrid Undset
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
Anni Albers by Ann Coxon
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I by Miranda Carter
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Thirteen Ways of Looking: Fiction by Colum McCann
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk
The Girl in the Tree by Sebnem Isigüzel
The Door (NYRB Classics) by Magda Szabó
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Answer Creek: A Novel by Ashley E. Sweeney
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (The Open Yale Courses Series) by Frank M. Snowden
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter
The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles
The Suspect by Fiona Barton
The Child by Fiona Barton
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
How It All Began: A Novel by Penelope Lively
Devotion: Hannah Kent by Hannah Kent
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
The Undertaking: A Novel by Audrey Magee
Happening (World Literature in Translation) by Annie Ernaux
Kairos: Jenny Erpenbeck by Jenny Erpenbeck
A Fair Isle Nurse: Memoirs of the only medical professional in Fair Isle in the mid 1960s by Mona McAlpine
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
The Late Lord Thorpe: A DC Smith Investigation by Peter Grainger
The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
Orbital: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) by Samantha Harvey
The Dentist: a DS Cross Thriller by Tim Sullivan
The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck
Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully by Kelly Starrett
Gravely Concerned: A Black Beacons Murder Mystery (DCI Evan Warlow Crime Thriller) by Rhys Dylan
The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans
The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon
The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
Strangers in Time: Every Second Counts In This Instant Sunday-Times-Bestselling Gripping Wartime Drama by David Baldacci
Twist: The instant Irish Times top 5 bestseller by Colum McCann
The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Ripeness: A breathtaking story of love and the search for belonging by Sarah Moss
So Far Gone: A Novel by Jess Walter
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Life Impossible: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Matt Haig
Daikon: A Novel by Samuel Hawley
Flashlight: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 by Susan Choi
The Book of Guilt: A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK 2025 by Catherine Chidgey
Book of Lives: The top ten Sunday Times bestseller by Margaret Atwood
True Biz: ‘Warm, complex and compelling’ Bridget Collins by Sara Nović
What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters by Marion Nestle
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin
Kin: A Novel by Tayari Jones
Mother Mary Comes To Me: The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes by Chanel Cleeton
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Bailey
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2 by Beth Brower
The Monk (George Cross Mysteries) by Tim Sullivan
We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat
Lady Tremaine: A Novel by Rachel Hochhauser
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4 by Beth Brower
The Keeper by Tana French
A Far-flung Life: The sweeping new epic from the bestselling author of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M L Stedman
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8 by Beth Brower
Grey Bees: A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in Ukraine by Andrey Kurkov
Culpability: A Novel by Bruce Holsinger

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