As previously, the list no one has been waiting for...
Books read- 22
Pages read- 10,165 (up from last year, so I've read fewer books, but they've been longer!)
Numbers of new books- 22
Fiction/Non-fiction ratio- 5:17 (another dreadful year for fiction)
Longest Book- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, 1005 pgs.
Shortest Book- The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted, Mark Forsyth, 23 pgs.
Quickest Read- The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted, Mark Forsyth, August 30th 2018
Longest Read- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, July 4th 2017 - May 15th 2018
Most Read Authors- No repeat reads this year!
Ebooks- No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Naomi Klein; Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, Dan Ephron; The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Rick Perlstein.
Audio books- More of a podcast man this year. Maybe they should get a review too...
Useless Fact- I really am surprised at how many books about one historical city Ken Follett has got in him...
Numbers of new books- 22
Fiction/Non-fiction ratio- 5:17 (another dreadful year for fiction)
Longest Book- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, 1005 pgs.
Shortest Book- The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted, Mark Forsyth, 23 pgs.
Quickest Read- The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted, Mark Forsyth, August 30th 2018
Longest Read- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, July 4th 2017 - May 15th 2018
Most Read Authors- No repeat reads this year!
Ebooks- No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Naomi Klein; Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, Dan Ephron; The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Rick Perlstein.
Audio books- More of a podcast man this year. Maybe they should get a review too...
Useless Fact- I really am surprised at how many books about one historical city Ken Follett has got in him...
The List
Things Can Only Get Worse?: Twenty Confusing Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, John O'Farrell
The Anglo-Saxons, James Campbell, Eric John, Patrick Wormald
Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World, 1918-1923, Maurice Walsh
Race of a Lifetime, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, Edmund Hillary
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
The Ghost, Robert Harris
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Naomi Klein
A Column of Fire, Ken Follett
Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's Hidden History, Andy Beckett
Moskva, Jack Grimwood
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel, Dan Ephron
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, Charlotte Higgins
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does, Simon Garfield
Time and Chance, James Callaghan
The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of Not Getting What You Wanted, Mark Forsyth
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Rick Perlstein
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-56, Anne Applebaum
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England, Janina Ramirez
Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee, John Bew
The Tigers of the Snow: How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends, Jonathan Neale
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