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"The person, be it a gentleman or a lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill."

- Jane Austen <3

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Classics

  • Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
  • Austen, Jane – Emma
  • Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
  • Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
  • Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey
  • Austen, Jane – Persuasion
  • Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park
  • Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
  • De Balzac, Honoré – Cousin Bette
  • Defoe, Daniel – Moll Flanders
  • Dickens, Charles - Little Dorrit
  • Eliot, George - Middlemarch
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
  • Hardy, Thomas – Far From the Madding Crowd
  • Hardy, Thomas – The Woodlanders
  • Hardy, Thomas – Jude the Obscure
  • Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  • James, Henry – Portrait of a Lady
  • Lawrence, DH – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
  • Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe
  • Scott, Walter - The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Shakespeare, William – Twelfth Night
  • Shakespeare, William – Macbeth
  • Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
  • Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
  • Stoker, Bram – Dracula
  • Thackeray, William M – Vanity Fair
  • Woolf, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway
  • Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
  • Zola, Emile - The Ladies' Paradise

Fiction

  • Adams, Douglas – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • Alsanea, Rajaa – Girls of Riyadh
  • Atwood, Margaret – Alias Grace
  • Baker, Jo - Longbourn
  • Blake, Sarah - The Postmistress
  • Brown, Dan – Angels and Demons
  • Brown, Dan – The Da Vinci Code
  • Boyce, Niamh - The Herbalist
  • Boylan, Clare & Bronte, Charlotte – Emma Brown
  • Burton, Jessie - The Miniaturist
  • Chevalier, Tracy - The Last Runaway
  • Chevalier, Tracy - Falling Angels
  • Clark, Clare - Savage Lands
  • Czerkawska, Catherine - The Physic Garden
  • Donnelly, Jennifer - A Northern Light
  • Donnelly, Jennifer - The Winter Rose
  • Duffy, Stella - Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
  • Dunant, Sarah – The Birth of Venus
  • Dunant, Sarah – In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel
  • Faulks, Sebastian - The Girl at the Lion d'Or
  • Fitch, Janet – White Oleander
  • Follett, Ken – The Pillars of the Earth
  • Follett, Ken – World Without End
  • Frazier, Charles – Cold Mountain
  • Furnivall, Kate – The Russian Concubine
  • Furnivall, Kate – The Red Scarf
  • Gabaldon, Diana - Cross Stitch (Outlander 1)
  • Gael, Juliet – Romancing Miss Bronte
  • Gibbon, Lewis Grassic – A Scots Quair: Sunset Song
  • Golden, Arthur – Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Gregory, Philippa – The Queen’s Fool
  • Gregory, Philippa – The Constant Princess
  • Gregory, Philippa – The White Queen
  • Harris, Jane – The Observations
  • Harris, Joanne – Chocolat
  • Heath, Rachel – The Finest Type of English Womanhood
  • Herbert, James – The Ghosts of Sleath
  • Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha
  • Holeman, Linda – The Moonlit Cage
  • Holeman, Linda – In a Far Country
  • Holeman, Linda – The Linnet Bird
  • Kay, Jackie - Trumpet
  • Kostov, Elizabeth – The Historian
  • Larsson, Stieg – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
  • Levine, James A. – The Blue Notebook
  • MacDonald, Ann-Marie – Fall on Your Knees
  • Martin, George R. R. - A Game Of Thrones
  • McCullough, Colleen – Antony & Cleopatra
  • McEwan, Ian – Atonement
  • McEwan, Ian – On Chesil Beach
  • McKay, Ami – The Birth House
  • Modiano, Patrick – Des Inconnues
  • Levy, Marc – Et si c’etait vrai…
  • Peacock, Caro - A Foreign Affair
  • Quinn, Kate - Mistress of Rome
  • Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things
  • Sa, Shan – Empress: A Novel
  • Sebold, Alice – The Lovely Bones
  • Sijie, Dai – Par une nuit où la lune ne s’est pas levée
  • Smith, Wilbur – A Falcon Flies
  • Smith, Wilbur – Men of Men
  • Stachniak, Eva - The Winter Palace
  • Stedman, M L - The Light Between Oceans
  • Tolkein, JRR – The Hobbit
  • Tolkein, JRR – The Lord of the Rings
  • Townsend, Sue – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾
  • Townsend, Sue – The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
  • Townsend, Sue – True Confessions of Adrian Mole
  • Umrigar, Thirty - The Space Between Us
  • Vassanji, M.G. – The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
  • Weir, Alison - Innocent Traitor
  • Weir, Alison - The Captive Queen
  • Wills, Gabriele – A Place To Call Home
  • Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief

Non-fiction

Memoir

  • Ali, Ayaan Hirsi – Infidel
  • Godwin, Peter - Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
  • Grant, Elizabeth – Memoirs of a Highland Lady
  • Thompson, Flora - Lark Rise to Candleford

Religion

  • Dawkins, Richard – The God Delusion
  • Harris, Sam – Letter to a Christian Nation: A Challenge to Faith
  • Henderson, Bobby - The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  • Hitchens, Christopher – The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
  • Hitchens, Christopher – God is Not Great

Culture

  • Bryson, Bill - Mother Tongue
  • Bryson, Bill - Notes From A Small Island
  • Forsyth, Mark - The Etymologicon
  • Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales
  • Mitchell, David - Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse
  • Swift, Katherine - The Morville Hours
  • Theroux, Louis – The Call of the Weird
  • Turnbull, Colin M – The Forest People

Science

  • Dawkins, Richard – The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
  • Diamond, Jared – Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

History

  • Ackroyd, Peter – London: The Biography
  • Bailey, Catherine - The Secret Rooms
  • Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs & Steel
  • Fellowes, Jessica - The World Of Downton Abbey
  • Herman, Arthur - How the Scots Invented The Modern World
  • Hillenbrand, Laura - Seabiscuit
  • Hitchens, Christopher – Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger
  • Hitchens, Christopher – The Elgin Marbles: Should They be Returned to Greece?
  • Mortimer, Ian - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
  • Waller, Maureen – Sovereign Ladies

Biography

  • Foreman, Amanda – The Duchess
  • Weir, Alison – Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England

Childbirth

  • Balaskas, Janet - Active Birth
  • Gurevich, Rachel - The Doula Advantage
  • Lowe, Ananda & Zimmerman, Rachel - The Doula Guide to Birth

Very Short Introductions

  • Knott, Kim – Hinduism
  • Solomon, Norman – Judaism
  • Lim, Timothy – The Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Ford, David F – Theology
  • Baggini, Julian – Atheism
  • Ruthven, Malise – Islam
  • Cook, Michael – The Koran
  • Ruthven, Malise – Fundamentalism
  • Keown, Damien – Buddhism
  • Nesbitt, Eleanor – Sikhism
  • Monaghan, John & Just, Peter – Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Bahn, Paul – Archaeology
  • Cunliffe, Barry – The Celts
  • Salway, Peter – Roman Britain
  • Blair, John – The Anglo-Saxon Age
  • Gillingham, John & Griffiths, Ralph – Medieval Britain
  • Howe, Stephen – Empire
  • Parker, John & Rathbone, Richard – African History
  • Pinder, John & Usherwood, Simon – The European Union
  • Wright, Tony – British Politics
  • Gosden, Chris – Prehistory
  • Beard, Mary & Henderson, John – Classics
  • Kelly, Christopher – The Roman Empire
  • Shaw, Ian – Ancient Egypt
  • Wilson, Penelope – Hieroglyphs
  • Pinch, Geraldine – Egyptian Myth
  • Morales, Helen – Classical Mythology
  • Bynum, William – The History of Medicine
  • Hoskin, Michael – The History of Astronomy
  • Coles, Peter – Cosmology
  • Howard, Jonathan – Darwin
  • Thomson, Keith – Fossils
  • Charlesworth, Brian & Deborah – Evolution
  • Wood, Bernard – Human Evolution
  • Hope, Tony – Medical Ethics
  • Sidebottom, Harry – Ancient Warfare
  • Richards, Julian D. – The Vikings
  • Tyerman, Christopher – The Crusades
  • Brotton, Jerry – The Renaissance
  • Doyle, William – The French Revolution
  • Smith, S. A. - The Russian Revolution
  • Howard, Michael - The First World War
  • Graham, Helen - The Spanish Civil War
apr 15 2011 ∞
apr 3 2015 +