Britannia's 2010 Reading

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Britannia's 2010 Reading

1BritAnnia
Edited: Jan 17, 2010, 1:29 pm

Unsure of specific categories so will start with noting a few books I think I want to re/read this year.

Book choices to remember:
The Once and Future King - T H White
The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Books by or about Arthur Conan Doyle
Books by or about H G Wells
Brunel biography
Follow the River - James Alexander Thom
Artemis Fowl book#2 as a readalong with Jac
Sarah Waters -TBR
Master of Ballantrae - with T?
Tenants of Wildfell Hall - with T?
Anna Karenina

Category choices to choose from:
1001 Books list
Knitting
Detective fiction
This & That: Comparing books of a similar theme.
Armchair travel
Audio books
British Victorian Literature
Early 20th Century British Literature
Author study: Read books by and about chosen author. (O Wilde, HG Wells, A Conan Doyle, CS Lewis)
Read-a-longs: Books I read along with...LT group/Jac/T&Jz/??
Chunksters (http://chunksterchallenge.blogspot.com/)
Books about books
Whateverdoesn'tfitanywhereelse category
Book to screen: Jaws, Inspector Lynley, Gone With the Wind,
Bestsellers

2BritAnnia
Edited: Apr 23, 2010, 2:04 pm

1001 Books list:

  1. Rabbit, Run by John Updike

  2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov

  3. Silas Marner by George Eliot




3BritAnnia
Edited: Jun 22, 2010, 1:40 pm

Still haven't decided categories yet..

  1. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

  2. There Goes the Bride by MC Beaton

  3. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

  4. Death of a Valentine by MC Beaton

  5. A Rhyming History of Britain by James Muirden

  6. The Lighthouse by PD James

  7. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

  8. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

  9. Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters

  10. Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson

  11. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

  12. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

  13. Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella

  14. Fleshmarket Alley by Ian Rankin

  15. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

  16. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson


4BritAnnia
Edited: Mar 11, 2010, 10:54 am

Read-alongs..


  1. The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (Jac)



Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Ravelry book group) TBR
Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (T) TBR