52-book challenge: The 2013 books
Here follows the list of books read by me in 2013. It includes books read for pleasure but not for study or work purposes. Most of these books have been borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries but I’ve also been using Cambridgeshire Libraries (principally for local history) and Central Bedfordshire Libraries. A few are ones I already owned or borrowed from friends.
- A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 2: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Cambridge Nightclimbing by Hederatus
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- Winifred Nicholson: Music of Colour ed. Elizabeth Fisher
- Bought from Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge
- The Dinner by Herman Koch
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden by Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- The Cambridge Apostles by Richard Deacon
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turning and the invention of the computer by David Leavitt
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- E-book downloaded from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Hound of Ulster by Rosemary Sutcliffe
- E-book downloaded from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
- From own bookshelves
- Tales of the Fens; More Tales of the Fens by WH Barrett and Enid Porter
- Both borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- Secrets of the Labyrinth by Greg Mosse
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
- From own bookshelves
- Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Duncan Grant Murals in Lincoln Cathedral by Edward Mayor and Judith Robinson
- Bought from Lincoln Cathedral bookshop
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Paranormal Cambridgeshire by Damien O’Dell
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Science and the Unseen World by Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Text of the 1929 Swarthmore Lecture. Read while visiting the library at Woodbrooke.
- Godless for God’s Sake: Nontheism in Contemporary Quakerism ed. David Boulton
- Bought from The Quaker Centre bookshop in Euston, London
- Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Reason, Morality and Religion by Richard S Peters
- Text of the 1972 Swarthmore Lecture. Read while visiting the library at Woodbrooke.
- Fenland Riots and the English Revolution by Keith Lindley
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The miracle of mindfulness: a manual on meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 3: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Curfew by Phil Rickman
- Borrowed from Central Bedfordshire Libraries
- Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed by Simon Barnes
- Borrowed from Central Bedfordshire Libraries
- An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
- Audiobook downloaded from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Servant by Robin Maugham
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 4: The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Spirit of the Fens by Edward Storey
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- Stonea and the Roman Fens by Tim Malim
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- The Fatal Englishman: Three short lives by Sebastian Faulks
- Borrowed as a SELMS Consortium loan via Hertfordshire Libraries
- Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Full Moon by PG Wodehouse
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Outrage: The Edalji Five and the shadow of Sherlock Holmes by Roger Oldfield
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Heartstone by CJ Sansom
- From own bookshelves
- Women All On Fire: The women of the English Civil War by Alison Plowden
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- Christopher Wood: An English painter by Richard Ingleby
- Borrowed as a SELMS Consortium loan via Hertfordshire Libraries
- Sutton Hoo: Burial ground of kings by Martin Carver
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- The Lost City of Dunwich by Nicholas Comfort
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- Let The Old Dreams Die by John Ajvinde Lindquist
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Book of Margery Kempe
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- The Man in the Moss by Phil Rickman
- Ebook downloaded from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Coincidence Authority by JW Ironmonger
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Dominion by CJ Sansom
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- From own bookshelves
- Propaganda, Power and Persuasion (British Library Exhibition Catalogue) by David Welch
- Bought at the British Library after visiting the exhibition
- You Are Here: Discovering the magic of the present moment by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacob
- Audiobook downloaded from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- The Ocean At The End Of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Folk Socks: The history and techniques of hand-knitted footwear by Nancy Bush
- Borrowed as a SELMS Consortium loan via Hertfordshire Libraries
- A Fenland Chronicle by Sybil Marshall
- Borrowed from Cambridgeshire Libraries
- Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Small Coal and Smoke Rings: A fireman on the Great Western by Derek Brock
- Loan from a friend’s collection
- Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse
- Borrowed from Hertfordshire Libraries
- Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing by Marina Warner
- Bought after attending associated exhibition at The Castle Museum, Norwich
Total: 69 books
Tags: 2013 books, audiobooks, ebooks, fiction, local history
