Goodbye 2014! This was the second year I participated in the British Books Challenge and here’s a list of everything I read complete with review:
In Winter The Sky – Jon McGregor
The Blue Lenses – Daphne Du Maurier
The Flavours of Love – Dorothy Koomson
Black Dust – Graham Joyce
Marriage Material – Sathnam Sanghera
The Twins – Saskia Sarginson
The Long Weekend, A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 – Robert Graves and Alan Hodge
Who Framed Klaris Cliff – Nikki Sheehan
Storm and Stone – Joss Stirling
Foreign Fruit – Jojo Moyes
Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Ghosts by John Harvey
The Lewis Man by Peter May
Talking About Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty with Chrissi
The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes
The Jewel In The Crown – Paul Scott
The Chessmen – Peter May
Of Mothers and Little People – Lucy Wood
A Room Full of Chocolate – Jane Elson
A Commonplace Killing – Sian Busby
The White Princess – Philippa Gregory
The Fortune Hunter – Daisy Goodwin
Dangerous Girls – Abigail Haas
A Case of Identity by Arthur Conan Doyle from the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The One Plus One – Jojo Moyes
The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis
Bees by Sarah Hall from the collection The Beautiful Indifference
The Ascent of Woman – Melanie Phillips
She Was Looking For This Coat – Jon McGregor
Sheltering Rain – Jojo Moyes
Longbourn – Jo Baker
The Science Magpie – Simon Flynn
Cruel Summer – James Dawson
Ganymede by Daphne du Maurier
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
Say Her Name – James Dawson
Xenos Beach by Graham Joyce
Down Among The Gods – Kate Thompson
That Dark Remembered Day – Tom Vowler
Heart Shaped Bruise – Tanya Byrne
I Am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Undone – Cat Clarke
Malvern Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
An Officer And A Spy – Robert Harris
The Knife of Never Letting Go – Patrick Ness
The Lie – Helen Dunmore
Echo Boy – Matt Haig
Ghosts With Teeth – Peter Crowther
Hollow Pike – James Dawson
Eeny Meeny – M.J. Arlidge
The Madness – Alison Rattle
Shadows On The Moon – Zoe Marriott
The Selfish Giant – Oscar Wilde
Before We Met – Lucie Whitehouse
The Girl With All The Gifts – M.R. Carey
Mad About You – Sinead Moriarty
Lights In Other People’s Houses – Lucy Wood
The Ship Of Brides – Jojo Moyes
Daughter – Jane Shemilt
The Boscombe Valley Mystery – Arthur Conan Doyle
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery – Henry Marsh
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
Swallows And Amazons – Arthur Ransome
The Agency – Sarah Hall
The Shock Of The Fall – Nathan Filer
The Vanishing Witch – Karen Maitland
The Private Blog of Joe Cowley – Ben Davis
Looking Up Vagina – Jon McGregor
Season To Taste Or How To Eat Your Husband – Natalie Young
The Pool by Daphne du Maurier
Partial Eclipse by Graham Joyce
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
Someone Else’s Skin – Sarah Hilary
Nocturne – Kazuo Ishiguro
How To Build A Girl – Caitlin Moran
The Memory Book – Rowan Coleman
The Common Enemy – Natasha Cooper
Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
So that makes it 80 British Books read for 2014 just one less than last year. Highlights have to be discovering the wonderful Patrick Ness, finding the perfect short stories from Natasha Cooper and Daphne du Maurier and realising that I’m quite in love with YA fiction. Why did it take me so long to read Malorie Blackman? Here’s to 2015, I can’t wait to see what goodies I find this year.
