Somehow, it is that time of year again, where I realise I have read some stuff.
Books read- 32
Pages read- 11,524
Target- 30
- Fiction/Non-fiction
ratio- 1:31, perhaps the worst year ever for fiction
- Longest Book- FDR, 858 pages
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Shortest Book- Marx, 92 pages
- Quickest Read- Marx, Beyond Wiping Noses and Richard II: A Brittle Glory, all read in a day
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Longest Read- Technically Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest, however that was a Kindle read for being in the tent so took three years. Otherwise, it was listening to The Secret Commonwealth, from Dec 2020 until July 2021.
- Most Read Authors- No repeats again.
- Ebooks- To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949; Stasiland; Four Princes; The Book of Trespass;
A Great and Terrible King; Beyond the Red Wall; Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest; Royal Witches; Dead Famous; Bloc Life; Fake History; Germany 1945
- Audio books- The Secret Commonwealth; Walking Home
- Useless Fact- How I'm ever going to keep this pace of reading up without lockdowns I don't know...
The List
- To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, Ian Kershaw
- Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, Anna Funder
- Prehistoric Britain, Timothy Darvill
- Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe, John Julius Norwich
- Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit, Philip Webster
- Marx, David McLellan
- FDR, Jean Edward Smith
- The Book of Trespass, Nick Hayes
- A History of the Bible: The Book and its Faiths, John Barton
- The Land of the Green Man: A Journey Through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles, Carolyne Larrington
- Everest and Conquest in the Himalaya: Science and Courage on the World's Highest Mountain, Richard Sale and George Rodway
- A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain, Marc Morris
- Beyond the Red Wall: Why Labour lost, how the Conservatives won and what will happen next?, Deborah Mattinson
- A Nation of Enemies: Chile under Pinochet, Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela
- Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest: A hillwalker's journey to the top of the world, Mark Horrell
- Summer of Blood: The Peasant's Revolt of 1381, Dan Jones
- Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville, Gemma Hollman
- The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman
- The Fall of Yugoslavia, Misha Glenny
- Richard II: A Brittle Glory, Laura Ashe
- Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country, John Kampfner
- Beyond Wiping Noses: Building an Informed Approach to Pastoral Leadership in Schools, Stephen Lane
- The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
- Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen, Greg Jenner
- Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend, Christopher Hadley
- Walking Home: Travels with a Troubador on the Pennine Way, Simon Armitage
- Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism, Peter Molloy
- A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neil MacGregor
- Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World, Otto English
- Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England, Thomas Penn
- Life in Medieval Ireland: Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome, Finbar Dwyer
- Germany 1945: From War to Peace, Richard Bessel
