Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The all important books - Updated

These are the books that have filled our 18nights and many more days on trains........(so far)
We've included marks out of ten- just for fun.

We've added a few more (without marks)


Cloud atlas - David Mitchell 8.5/10

The lovely bones - Alice Sebold 8/10

On chesil beach - Ian McEwan 7/10

Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro 6/10

No country for old men - Cormac McCarthy 7/10

In Siberia - Colin Thubron 7/10

Shadow of a silk road - Colin Thubron 8/10

The last Templar - Raymond Khoury 4/10

The 'Myrsco'? helix - ? 3.5/10

The black Angel - John Connolly 5/10

The runaway - Martina Cole 7/10

Everything's eventual - Steven King 3.5/10

The damage done - Warren Fellows 3/10

Dead souls, Let it Bleed, Black and Blue, The Hanging Garden - Ian Rankin 6/10

City of bones - Michael Connelly

Some Hope - Edward St Aubyn

Senior Vivo and the coca lord - Louis de Bernieres

'Round Ireland with a fridge - Tony Hawkes

Sophie's world - Jostein Gaarder - Katie, read this one, you'd love it!

Saturday - Ian McEwan

The killing fields - Christopher Hudson

Lonely Planet unpacked

Void moon - Michael Connelly

And then we came to the end - Joshua ferris

Under the banner of heaven - John Krakauer

City of Joy - Dominique LaPierre - Fiona's favorite

Horse whisperer - Nicholas Evans

May you be the mother of 100 sons - Elizabeth Bumiller

The girl in the picture - Denise Chong

Heart of darkness - Joseph Conrad

The summons - John Grisham

100 years of solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez

I chose to live - Sabine Dardenne

The return of Merlin - Deepak Chopra

The memory keepers daughter - Kim Edwards

Forgotten Kingdom - Peter Goullart

High Society - Ben Elton

Night Fall - Nelson Demille

Sea Lion - ?

Point deception - Marcia Muller

The tunnels of CuChi - Tom Mangold and John Penycate

First they killed my father - Loung Ung

All the pretty horses - Cormac McCarthy - Favorite Writer

The gathering - Anne Enright

The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini

Brave new world - Aldous Huxley

Animal farm - George Orwell

Bravemouth - Pamela Stephenson

Haunted(Oz Ghosts) - John Pinkney

Into the wild - John Krakaur

The zahir - Paulo Coelho

From potters field - Patricia Cornwell



and a plethora of vaguely useful travel books

Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway

Lonely Planet Beijing

Lonely Planet China

Let's go Vietnam

Lonely Planet Southeast Asia

Frommers - Australia

1 comment:

Tamara said...

Ooooh, just finished the girl in the picture, good read.

Getting through a plethora of books here myself (hence the use of the word plethora...and probably the use of the word hence too) Easy to do when you are doing nothing on an island with no electricity.

Chat soon!