Do you remember books?

[cinelli]

Do you remember books? I am rather ashamed to write that I have just finished a book by a very well regarded author and, on adding its name to my list of books read, have found that I had already read it. Admittedly it was 30 years ago but, and this is the point, I didn’t remember a single thing about it. Do you remember books, plots, characters?

And that’s another question: do you keep a list of books you have read? The reason I do it is that, occasionally when I am looking to choose a new book to read, I look back on my list and say, “I enjoyed that – I must try another by him/her”.

Cinelli

[AleisterCrowley]

Oh yes, have bought books I already own - but 90% come from charity shops anyway, so no great loss. Plus I recycle the paperbacks back to charity shops so I'm never quite sure what I've still got in a pile somewhere. One day I'll get organised (or my executor will organise stuff for me...)
I can usually remember if I've read something after the first chapter or so - if I cant remember it it's effectively 'new' anyway!

[Slarti]

Mostly, I remember those that I've read and I can usually remind myself as I probably still have them, if I bought them. Though there are quite a few that came from the library and so don't have them.

But, because I mostly keep books, no I don't keep a list. And even if I had kept one it would take quite a while to find any given book in it, given the numbers involved.

I have bought books more than once, by mistake, but only where they have been re-released under a different name.


But I can't claim to always remember books as I have just started reading Arthur C Clarke's Earthlight which I know I've read, but have almost no recollection of. Perhaps it will come back to me when I get past chapter 2.


Slarti

[Urbandreamer]

But, because I mostly keep books, no I don't keep a list. And even if I had kept one it would take quite a while to find any given book in it, given the numbers involved.

This is the reason that I mostly buy eBooks now. It's easy to keep 100's (693 at present) of eBooks and searching the "stacks" is quick as the blink of an eye. That said I do sometimes buy books that I previously bought/read quite deliberately to re-read them. Especially if culling my paper books shelves.

BTW I use calibre to store, index and make them available by Wi-Fi at home. It will even convert formats so that I can read on either Kindle or Kobo (though DRM is an issue).

[Slarti]

But, because I mostly keep books, no I don't keep a list. And even if I had kept one it would take quite a while to find any given book in it, given the numbers involved.

This is the reason that I mostly buy eBooks now. It's easy to keep 100's (693 at present) of eBooks and searching the "stacks" is quick as the blink of an eye. That said I do sometimes buy books that I previously bought/read quite deliberately to re-read them. Especially if culling my paper books shelves.

BTW I use calibre to store, index and make them available by Wi-Fi at home. It will even convert formats so that I can read on either Kindle or Kobo (though DRM is an issue).

I have eBooks, mostly for travel, but if I like the book then I buy a physical copy, if I can. That is probably why I have well over 10k of them.

eBooks just can't match up to the look, feel and smell of a book and I find that they give greater pleasure than an eBook. For a start it is easier to skip back a few pages, or more, to check if your memory is letting you down.

Slarti

[Sblake]

Nope - only books I remember were ones I had to read at school then watched film - e.g. Lord of Flies.

[Urbandreamer]

eBooks just can't match up to the look, feel and smell of a book and I find that they give greater pleasure than an eBook.

I have a different opinion, but know many who would totaly agree with you.

For a start it is easier to skip back a few pages, or more, to check if your memory is letting you down.

Ah, in that I totaly disagree. It's many years ago, but I needed a quote from The Prince. It was a simple matter to search the eBook. Indeed I was able to go further and cut the quote out to post it rather than type it.
If you are using a reference book there may be only so much that can exist on one page, or it may refer back to a earlier chapter. Using multiple monitors and the book open more than once it's easily possible to have different pages of the same book available to read at the same time.
If you want (and know what you are doing) you can edit the book insering hot links or compiling cross reference tables rather than highlighting or noteing page numbers.
Even, for your own purposes, combine sections of different books together for easy reference.

I have an eBook (rather than paper book) with my personal kitchen recipys (not offered for publication). It just made so much sense to me to be able to carry my recipys with me in the early days of PDA's. These days I can just copy a recipy from it to a friend or work mate with a couple of clicks, and since they are not photocopys of other peoples recipy books, quite legaly.

Still if you prefer paper books I can't fault you for taking joy in the fact.

For those who do keep both paper books and records of what they have read then can I recomend Alexandria.
I don't use it because I've moved on to ebooks. But when I did, it seemed great.
http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/

10k is a lot of books, I had about 8k, which need a lot of space. I culled my paper books down to about 1-2k when ebooks came on the scene. There are some that simply can not be obtained anymore in paper form and never made it to digital. The others I'll buy again in eBook form if I want to re-read them.

BTW how do you organise your stacks* when you have series that have multiple authors to make it easy to find a book? Ie The Hairs of Alexandria series which had three authors but was a series? Do you order by author or group by series. With Calibre I automatically do both and also by genre and sub-genre ie indian-cookery.

LAST 2p worth. Paper books can be a joy, but eBooks have huge advantages.

*Stacks: Traditionally bound books were stacked, not put on shelves. Conservetors go to huge lengths to enable individual books to safely sit on shelves. Without such work the weight of an old book will over time rip it from its binding. Only the binding is normaly supported on a shelf with the bulk of the book hanging from it. Of course this is less of a problem if the book can be replaced with ease, after all is it not the content rather than the object that is important in that case?

[AleisterCrowley]

I love physical books - my favourite reading time is in bed before 'lights out', and there's no way i could curl up with an eBook...
They do have their uses though - my friend is an IT person and he keeps technical manuals on his Kindle - easy to transport and search. They are also useful for train journeys, holidays etc - better than having nothing to read !
My books are split between home and temporary rented accom at the moment. When I do shelve them they end up alphabetical by author , then subdivided into fiction/non fiction, with the fiction chronological and the non fiction by theme. So, Len Deighton gets Ipcress > Charity followed by cookbooks, military history.

[Slarti]

BTW how do you organise your stacks* when you have series that have multiple authors to make it easy to find a book? Ie The Hairs of Alexandria series which had three authors but was a series? Do you order by author or group by series. With Calibre I automatically do both and also by genre and sub-genre ie indian-cookery.

LAST 2p worth. Paper books can be a joy, but eBooks have huge advantages.

For series with multiple authors, I start by placing them under the original author and then if someone else joins in I just follow on with the series. Only ones I can think of where that applies are some of the books set in David Webber's "Honourverse" where he has written most of the main series, but other SF writers have taken side trips with some of the minor characters.

For me the only advantage of eBooks is that I can put a library in my pocket when travelling.

Oh, and 95% of my books are fiction, reference works are mostly electronic.

Slarti

[AleisterCrowley]

Only ones I can think of where that applies are some of the books set in David Webber's "Honourverse"
The most famous continuation novels are the James Bond ones - Amis, Gardner,Benson etc. In this case I ignore the author and stick them on the end of the original series in publication order.

[Slarti]

Only ones I can think of where that applies are some of the books set in David Webber's "Honourverse"
The most famous continuation novels are the James Bond ones - Amis, Gardner,Benson etc. In this case I ignore the author and stick them on the end of the original series in publication order.

I should have said, only ones that I own where that applies

I did try the Amis Bond and was so impressed I gave it to my parents and they, book hoarders also, gave it to a jumble sale.

Slarti

[AleisterCrowley]

It's not good (and I'm normally an Amis 'fan')
the only half-decent continuation one I've read is Devil May Care (S Faulks)

[TopOnePercent]

Most books I buy these days are special deals on the Kindle. Even then, Amazon has politely declined to sell me another copy of a digital book I already own so many times I'm thinking I'm senile. I've unintentionally read a number of dead tree books twice, but the way I look at it is that if I can't remember it before I get far into it, then re-reading it should be enjoyable enough.

Most fiction books are things I read to pass time and relax. I tend to recall very little of them a short while after I've read it. Things I've studied and not used I remember for a little longer but not for long. Things I've studied and applied I recall for a long time.

[Urbandreamer]

Most fiction books are things I read to pass time and relax.

I read a lot or listen to talking books, but so much so that it can't be said to "pass time". Indeed I need to find time.

I tend to recall very little of them a short while after I've read it. Things I've studied and not used I remember for a little longer but not for long.

That may be a choice of genre or dictated by why you read fiction. "Hard" science fiction takes scientific concepts and wraps a story around them while "space opera" may be great fun but is not supposed to make you think. Fantasy can also be written or have been written to contain complicated ideas or even political satire (think Gulivers Travels).

It can be difficult to guess in advance, but sometimes the author drops a clue in the title.

Consider the book "Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen" synopsis on Wiki here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman ... _Red_Queen

and if, like me, you didn't instantly get the clue, here it is.
http://www.allaboutscience.org/evolutio ... is-faq.htm

[TopOnePercent]

That may be a choice of genre or dictated by why you read fiction. "Hard" science fiction takes scientific concepts and wraps a story around them while "space opera" may be great fun but is not supposed to make you think.

Thank you for those entertaining definitions. It's genuinely the first time I've heard such, and I expect to remember them for quote a while.

[Halicarnassus]

Do you remember books? I am rather ashamed to write that I have just finished a book by a very well regarded author and, on adding its name to my list of books read, have found that I had already read it. Admittedly it was 30 years ago but, and this is the point, I didn’t remember a single thing about it. Do you remember books, plots, characters?

Yes and no. It depends on what the book did for me. If I loved a book I'd be able to definitely summarise it and over some musing moments, recall many details.

On the other hand, books that haven't really did much for me, make little long term impression, especially in memory.

And that’s another question: do you keep a list of books you have read? The reason I do it is that, occasionally when I am looking to choose a new book to read, I look back on my list and say, “I enjoyed that – I must try another by him/her”.

Cinelli

I have tried a number of things from lists to writing small summaries of how I felt about a read and when I read it. I'm currently just doing the former.

If you're interested I'll paste my reads in the next post since I kept record from January 2017.

[Halicarnassus]

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reveries of the Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Autobiography - Gandhi
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
This book will save your life - Amy M. Homes
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
How to be Rich - Felix Dennis
Carbon Calculator - Mark Lynas
Why Vegan: The Ethics of Eating and the Need for Change - Kath Clements
Questions Are the Answers: How to Get to Yes in Network Marketing - Allan Pease
Your First Year in Network Marketing - Mark & Rene Yarnell
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I can make you Rich - Paul McKenna
Ex Libris - Anne Fadiman
Rich Dad's Guide to Investing - Robert Kiyosaki
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
Life's Missing Instruction Manual - Joe Vitale
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S Classon
Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Samuel Johnson
A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - James Boswell
Free the Animals: The Story of the Animal Liberation Front - Ingrid Newkirk
Getting Things Done - David Allen
The Millionaire Mortgage Broker - Darrin Seppinni
How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling - Frank Bettger
Calum's Road - Roger Hutchinson
A Waxing Moon, The Modern Gaelic Revival - Roger Hutchinson
The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti - Charles William Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell (r)
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer (r)
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah
The History of King Lear - William Shakespeare
Z for Zachariah - Robert O'Brien
In My Own Words - Dalai Lama
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening - Stephen Batchelor
The Buddhism Handbook - John Snelling
The Path of Insight Meditation - Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield
Wisdom of the Buddha - F. Max Muller (ed)
Buddhist Meditation in the Southern School - G.Constant Lounsbery
Holy Cow - Sarah MacDonald
Ulysses - James Joyce
Becoming and Effective Teacher - Tony Fetherston
Educational Psychology - Anita Woolfolk, Kay Margetts
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea - Mark Kurlansky
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Teach Yourself How to Run a Marathon - Tim Rogers
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Steppe - Anton Chekhov
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
The Story of an Unknown man - Anton Chekhov
Three Years - Anton Chekhov
My Life - Anton Chekhov
Your Money or Your Life - Vicki Robin
Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals - Marilyn Friend & Lynne Cook
Silas Marner - George Elliot
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Spy who came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti
The Ball and the Cross - G.K. Chesterton
Tomorrow when the War Began - John Marsden
Poor Fellow My Country - Xavier Herbert
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A Memoir of the 'Forty-Five - James Johnstone
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
First Folio a Little Book of Folio Forewords - Katherine Taylor
Woodbrook - David Thompson
The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico
The Aeneid - Virgil (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
The Histories - Herodotus
The Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Iliad - Homer
The Witches - Roald Dahl
The Twits - Roald Dahl
Georges Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Greek Philosophers - W.K.C. Guthrie
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Diary of a Village Shopkeeper - Thomas Turner
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Royal House of Stewart - the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - H. Scruton
Tam O'Haggis: The Life and Times of Robert Burns - Fiona Morton
The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin
The Overcoat - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Robert Louis Stevenson - Lord Guthrie
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Story of Tom Brennan - J.C. Burke
The God of Philosophy - Roy Jackson
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti (r)
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
So long and thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder - Shamini Flint
The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill - James Melville
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
Marx in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
Nietzsche in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
Spinoza in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
The History of Scotland - Knox and Houston
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Running Through the Wall - Neil Jamison
Father Damien - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Odyssey - Homer
An Inland Voyage - Robert Louis Stevenson
Fontainebleau - Robert Louis Stevenson
Forest Notes - Robert Louis Stevenson
Karl Marx's Theory of History, A Defence - G.A. Cohen
Why Read Marx Today? - Jonathan Wolff
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Macbeth and Son - Jackie French
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Mumu - Ivan Turgenev
Thrawn Janet - Robert Louis Stevenson
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Rights of the Reader - Daniel Pennac
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
To Kill a Mocking-Bird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Amateur Emigrant - Robert Louis Stevenson
Across the Plains - Robert Louis Stevenson
Word Brain - Bernd Sebastian Kamps
The Silverado Squatters - Robert Louis Stevenson
My Ántonia - Willa Cather
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored man - James Weldon Johnson
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson - Thomas Jefferson
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Why Marx was Right - Terry Eagleton
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Human Chain - Seamus Heaney
The Hunting Sketches - Ivan Turgenev
Truth Freedom and Love - Anton Chekhov
The Aeneid - Virgil (trans. Cecil Day Lewis)
St Ives - Robert Louis Stevenson
The English Language by Robert Burchfield
Home from the Sea - A Robert Louis Stevenson Poetry Anthology by Ivor Brown
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Men at Arms- Evelyn Waugh
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Officers and Gentlemen - Evelyn Waugh
The Quiet Man - Maurice Walsh
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Unconditional Surrender - Evelyn Waugh
In The South Seas - Robert Louis Stevenson
Reading the Oxford English Dictionary - Ammon Shea
Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin - Tracy Lee Simmons
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Call for the Dead - John le Carré
The Social Animal - David Brooks
Socialism made Easy - James Connolly
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution - Ruth Scurr
The German Ideology - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
How Marxism Works - Chris Harman
The Pleasure Trap - Douglas J Lisle
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
African Diary - Bill Bryson
Songs of Innocence and of Experience - William Blake
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The 5:2 Diet Book - Kate Harrison
The Well-Educated Mind - Susan Wise Bauer
How Marxism Works - Chris Harman (R)
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels (R)
Deep Green Resistance - McBay, Keith, Jensen.
Treat Your Own Back - Robin Mackenzie
The Fast Diet - Michael Mosley
The General Danced at Dawn - George MacDonald Fraser
McAuslan in the Rough - George MacDonald Fraser
The Sheikh and the Dustbin - George MacDonald Fraser
When the Clyde Ran Red - Maggie Craig
The Mountains of California - John Muir
Stickeen - John Muir
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti (r)
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti (r)
I married a Communist - Philip Roth
Dreams That Die - John Wight
The Soul of Man under Socialism - Oscar Wilde
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Bilbo's Last Song - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (BBC Radio Dramatisation)
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921 - Isaac Deutscher
Connected Communities: Philosophical Communities - Jules Evans
Philosophies for Life and other Dangerous Situations - Jules Evans
The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain De Botton
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends - Humphrey Carpenter
On Fairy Stories - JRR Tolkien
Speaker's Meaning - Owen Barfield
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
JRR Tolkien - Michael Coren
The Most Reluctant Convert. C.S. Lewis' Journey to Faith - David Downing
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
The Steps to the Empty Throne - Nigel Tranter
Venus and Adonis - William Shakespeare
The Path of the Hero King - Nigel Tranter
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Price of the King's Peace - Nigel Tranter
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Henry V - William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Philosophy for Beginners - Max Charlesworth
Rhyme and Reason, St. Thomas and Modes of Discourse - Ralph McInerny
Daily Readings with Blaise Pascal - Robert van den Weyer
Daily Readings with Søren Kierkegaard - Robert van den Weyer
Handbook of Christian Apologetics - Peter Kreeft
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Dawkins Delusion - Alister McGrath
The Way - Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer
Tolkien - Humphrey Carpenter
Pascendi Dominici Gregis - Pope Pius X
Open Letter to Confused Catholics - Marcel Lefebvre
Mercy - Cardinal Walter Kasper
From Ecumenism to Silent Apostasy - Society of Saint Pius X
JRR Tolkien: Author of the Century - Tom Shippey
The Problems With the New Mass: A Brief Overview of the Major Theological Difficulties Inherent in the Novus Ordo Missae - Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Providentissimus Deus - Pope Leo XIII
Catholic Conversion Book - Tracy Tucciarone
Friendly Reflections - Christopher Ferrara
They Have Uncrowned Him - Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
No Crisis in the Church? - Simon Galloway
Medjugorie: A Warning - Michael Davies
St. Louis de Montfort - Total Consecration
The Goldfish Bowl: The Church since Vatican II - Michael Davies
The Barbarians have Taken over - Michael Davies
Saint Athanasius - Frances A Forbes
Saint Pius X - Monsignor John P Carroll Abbing
The Christian Father: What he should be and what he should do - Rev. W. Cramer
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Angels and Devils - Rev. Dr. L. Rumble
The New Paganism - John Vennari
St. Antony of the Desert - St. Athanasius
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
St. Joseph, Fatima and Fatherhood, Reflections on the Miracle of the sun - Msgr. Joseph Cirrincione
Why not share the Faith? - A.R. Winter
A Scientist finds God - Alexis Carrel
Can we be Saints? - Frank Duff
The Liturgical Year Volume I: Advent - Dom Prosper Gueranger
The Dominican Life - FD Joret
The Liturgical Year Volume 2: Christmas Book One - Dom Prosper Gueranger
The Liturgical Year Volume 3: Christmas Book Two - Dom Prosper Gueranger
Sapientiae Christianae - Pope Leo XIII
The Liturgical Year Volume 4: Septuagesima - Dom Prosper Gueranger
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Leisure the basis of Culture - Josef Pieper
The Liturgical Year Volume 5: Lent - Dom Prosper Gueranger
The Reign of Christ the King - Michael Davies
The Holy See's Teaching on Catholic Schools - Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB
St Peter Damian: his teaching on the spiritual life - Owen J. Blum, O.F.M
Teacher and Training - Richard Henry Tierney SJ
St Edmund Campion: A Life - Evelyn Waugh
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
The Confessions - St Augustine
Sins of the Tongue: The Backbiting Tongue - Fr. Belet
My Daily Bread - Anthony J Paone SJ
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (r)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (r)
Advice to Parents - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence - Fr. Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure & St. Claude de la Colombiere
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Love thy Neighbour - Mary Foster
Richard III - William Shakespeare
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Freelance Writing - Linda Jones
Blogging for writers - Robin Houghton
E-books the Smart Way - Pat Flynn
The Fast Diet - Michael Mosley
The Divine Comedy - Dante translated by Dorothy Sayers
What will Hell be like? - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Canonisation of Blessed John Ogilvie - The Office for Papal Ceremonies
St Paul - Frederick WH Myers
The Silverado Squatters - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Old and the New Pacific Capitals - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Mountain Town in France - Robert Louis Stevenson
The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet - Dr Michael Mosley
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Realist Guide to Religion and Science - Fr. Paul Robinson
The Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
Sideways - Rex Pickett
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
The Dominican Life - FD Joret
Success or your Money Back - Shed Simove
It's The Mass that Matters - Michael Davies
The Magic of Written Goals - Kim Broemer
79 Network Marketing Tips - Wes Linden
The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
Humility of the Heart - Fr. Cajetan Mary de Bergamo
The Art of Wandering - Merlin Coverley
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy - Motimer J. Adler
The Divine Comedy - Dante translated by Mark Musa
The Four Temperaments - Rev. Conrad Hock
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot - James Stockdale
The Temperament God Gave You - Art Bennett and Laraine Bennett
Culture Counts - Roger Scruton
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri (R)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (R)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
The Life of St Mungo - Jocelyn, Monk of Furness
Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Warren Buffet Way - Robert Hagstrom
The Soul of the World - Roger Scruton
Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
The Catholic Book of Character and Success - Edward F Garesche SJ
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Scotch - Robert Bruce Lockhart
Churchill - Roy Jenkins
Natural born heroes - Christopher McDougall

[Slarti]

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reveries of the Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Autobiography - Gandhi
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
This book will save your life - Amy M. Homes
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
How to be Rich - Felix Dennis
Carbon Calculator - Mark Lynas
Why Vegan: The Ethics of Eating and the Need for Change - Kath Clements
Questions Are the Answers: How to Get to Yes in Network Marketing - Allan Pease
Your First Year in Network Marketing - Mark & Rene Yarnell
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I can make you Rich - Paul McKenna
Ex Libris - Anne Fadiman
Rich Dad's Guide to Investing - Robert Kiyosaki
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
Life's Missing Instruction Manual - Joe Vitale
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S Classon
Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Samuel Johnson
A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - James Boswell
Free the Animals: The Story of the Animal Liberation Front - Ingrid Newkirk
Getting Things Done - David Allen
The Millionaire Mortgage Broker - Darrin Seppinni
How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling - Frank Bettger
Calum's Road - Roger Hutchinson
A Waxing Moon, The Modern Gaelic Revival - Roger Hutchinson
The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti - Charles William Russell
Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell (r)
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer (r)
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah
The History of King Lear - William Shakespeare
Z for Zachariah - Robert O'Brien
In My Own Words - Dalai Lama
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening - Stephen Batchelor
The Buddhism Handbook - John Snelling
The Path of Insight Meditation - Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield
Wisdom of the Buddha - F. Max Muller (ed)
Buddhist Meditation in the Southern School - G.Constant Lounsbery
Holy Cow - Sarah MacDonald
Ulysses - James Joyce
Becoming and Effective Teacher - Tony Fetherston
Educational Psychology - Anita Woolfolk, Kay Margetts
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea - Mark Kurlansky
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Teach Yourself How to Run a Marathon - Tim Rogers
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Steppe - Anton Chekhov
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
The Story of an Unknown man - Anton Chekhov
Three Years - Anton Chekhov
My Life - Anton Chekhov
Your Money or Your Life - Vicki Robin
Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals - Marilyn Friend & Lynne Cook
Silas Marner - George Elliot
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Spy who came in from the Cold - John Le Carré
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti
The Ball and the Cross - G.K. Chesterton
Tomorrow when the War Began - John Marsden
Poor Fellow My Country - Xavier Herbert
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A Memoir of the 'Forty-Five - James Johnstone
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
First Folio a Little Book of Folio Forewords - Katherine Taylor
Woodbrook - David Thompson
The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico
The Aeneid - Virgil (trans. Robert Fitzgerald)
The Histories - Herodotus
The Weir of Hermiston - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Iliad - Homer
The Witches - Roald Dahl
The Twits - Roald Dahl
Georges Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Greek Philosophers - W.K.C. Guthrie
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
The Diary of a Village Shopkeeper - Thomas Turner
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Royal House of Stewart - the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - H. Scruton
Tam O'Haggis: The Life and Times of Robert Burns - Fiona Morton
The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin
The Overcoat - Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Robert Louis Stevenson - Lord Guthrie
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Dubliners - James Joyce
The Story of Tom Brennan - J.C. Burke
The God of Philosophy - Roy Jackson
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti (r)
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
So long and thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams
Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder - Shamini Flint
The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill - James Melville
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
Marx in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
Nietzsche in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
Spinoza in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern
The History of Scotland - Knox and Houston
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
Running Through the Wall - Neil Jamison
Father Damien - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Odyssey - Homer
An Inland Voyage - Robert Louis Stevenson
Fontainebleau - Robert Louis Stevenson
Forest Notes - Robert Louis Stevenson
Karl Marx's Theory of History, A Defence - G.A. Cohen
Why Read Marx Today? - Jonathan Wolff
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Macbeth and Son - Jackie French
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Mumu - Ivan Turgenev
Thrawn Janet - Robert Louis Stevenson
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Rights of the Reader - Daniel Pennac
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
To Kill a Mocking-Bird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Amateur Emigrant - Robert Louis Stevenson
Across the Plains - Robert Louis Stevenson
Word Brain - Bernd Sebastian Kamps
The Silverado Squatters - Robert Louis Stevenson
My Ántonia - Willa Cather
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored man - James Weldon Johnson
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson - Thomas Jefferson
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Why Marx was Right - Terry Eagleton
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Human Chain - Seamus Heaney
The Hunting Sketches - Ivan Turgenev
Truth Freedom and Love - Anton Chekhov
The Aeneid - Virgil (trans. Cecil Day Lewis)
St Ives - Robert Louis Stevenson
The English Language by Robert Burchfield
Home from the Sea - A Robert Louis Stevenson Poetry Anthology by Ivor Brown
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Men at Arms- Evelyn Waugh
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Officers and Gentlemen - Evelyn Waugh
The Quiet Man - Maurice Walsh
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Unconditional Surrender - Evelyn Waugh
In The South Seas - Robert Louis Stevenson
Reading the Oxford English Dictionary - Ammon Shea
Unweaving the Rainbow - Richard Dawkins
Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin - Tracy Lee Simmons
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Call for the Dead - John le Carré
The Social Animal - David Brooks
Socialism made Easy - James Connolly
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution - Ruth Scurr
The German Ideology - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
How Marxism Works - Chris Harman
The Pleasure Trap - Douglas J Lisle
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
African Diary - Bill Bryson
Songs of Innocence and of Experience - William Blake
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The 5:2 Diet Book - Kate Harrison
The Well-Educated Mind - Susan Wise Bauer
How Marxism Works - Chris Harman (R)
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels (R)
Deep Green Resistance - McBay, Keith, Jensen.
Treat Your Own Back - Robin Mackenzie
The Fast Diet - Michael Mosley
The General Danced at Dawn - George MacDonald Fraser
McAuslan in the Rough - George MacDonald Fraser
The Sheikh and the Dustbin - George MacDonald Fraser
When the Clyde Ran Red - Maggie Craig
The Mountains of California - John Muir
Stickeen - John Muir
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti (r)
I'm Not Scared - Niccolò Ammaniti (r)
I married a Communist - Philip Roth
Dreams That Die - John Wight
The Soul of Man under Socialism - Oscar Wilde
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Bilbo's Last Song - JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (BBC Radio Dramatisation)
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921 - Isaac Deutscher
Connected Communities: Philosophical Communities - Jules Evans
Philosophies for Life and other Dangerous Situations - Jules Evans
The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain De Botton
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends - Humphrey Carpenter
On Fairy Stories - JRR Tolkien
Speaker's Meaning - Owen Barfield
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell
JRR Tolkien - Michael Coren
The Most Reluctant Convert. C.S. Lewis' Journey to Faith - David Downing
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
The Steps to the Empty Throne - Nigel Tranter
Venus and Adonis - William Shakespeare
The Path of the Hero King - Nigel Tranter
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Price of the King's Peace - Nigel Tranter
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Henry V - William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Philosophy for Beginners - Max Charlesworth
Rhyme and Reason, St. Thomas and Modes of Discourse - Ralph McInerny
Daily Readings with Blaise Pascal - Robert van den Weyer
Daily Readings with Søren Kierkegaard - Robert van den Weyer
Handbook of Christian Apologetics - Peter Kreeft
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The Dawkins Delusion - Alister McGrath
The Way - Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer
Tolkien - Humphrey Carpenter
Pascendi Dominici Gregis - Pope Pius X
Open Letter to Confused Catholics - Marcel Lefebvre
Mercy - Cardinal Walter Kasper
From Ecumenism to Silent Apostasy - Society of Saint Pius X
JRR Tolkien: Author of the Century - Tom Shippey
The Problems With the New Mass: A Brief Overview of the Major Theological Difficulties Inherent in the Novus Ordo Missae - Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Providentissimus Deus - Pope Leo XIII
Catholic Conversion Book - Tracy Tucciarone
Friendly Reflections - Christopher Ferrara
They Have Uncrowned Him - Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
No Crisis in the Church? - Simon Galloway
Medjugorie: A Warning - Michael Davies
St. Louis de Montfort - Total Consecration
The Goldfish Bowl: The Church since Vatican II - Michael Davies
The Barbarians have Taken over - Michael Davies
Saint Athanasius - Frances A Forbes
Saint Pius X - Monsignor John P Carroll Abbing
The Christian Father: What he should be and what he should do - Rev. W. Cramer
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Angels and Devils - Rev. Dr. L. Rumble
The New Paganism - John Vennari
St. Antony of the Desert - St. Athanasius
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
St. Joseph, Fatima and Fatherhood, Reflections on the Miracle of the sun - Msgr. Joseph Cirrincione
Why not share the Faith? - A.R. Winter
A Scientist finds God - Alexis Carrel
Can we be Saints? - Frank Duff
The Liturgical Year Volume I: Advent - Dom Prosper Gueranger
The Dominican Life - FD Joret
The Liturgical Year Volume 2: Christmas Book One - Dom Prosper Gueranger
The Liturgical Year Volume 3: Christmas Book Two - Dom Prosper Gueranger
Sapientiae Christianae - Pope Leo XIII
The Liturgical Year Volume 4: Septuagesima - Dom Prosper Gueranger
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Leisure the basis of Culture - Josef Pieper
The Liturgical Year Volume 5: Lent - Dom Prosper Gueranger
The Reign of Christ the King - Michael Davies
The Holy See's Teaching on Catholic Schools - Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB
St Peter Damian: his teaching on the spiritual life - Owen J. Blum, O.F.M
Teacher and Training - Richard Henry Tierney SJ
St Edmund Campion: A Life - Evelyn Waugh
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
The Confessions - St Augustine
Sins of the Tongue: The Backbiting Tongue - Fr. Belet
My Daily Bread - Anthony J Paone SJ
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson (r)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (r)
Advice to Parents - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence - Fr. Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure & St. Claude de la Colombiere
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Love thy Neighbour - Mary Foster
Richard III - William Shakespeare
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Freelance Writing - Linda Jones
Blogging for writers - Robin Houghton
E-books the Smart Way - Pat Flynn
The Fast Diet - Michael Mosley
The Divine Comedy - Dante translated by Dorothy Sayers
What will Hell be like? - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Canonisation of Blessed John Ogilvie - The Office for Papal Ceremonies
St Paul - Frederick WH Myers
The Silverado Squatters - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Old and the New Pacific Capitals - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Mountain Town in France - Robert Louis Stevenson
The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet - Dr Michael Mosley
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Realist Guide to Religion and Science - Fr. Paul Robinson
The Heart of Midlothian - Sir Walter Scott
Sideways - Rex Pickett
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
The Dominican Life - FD Joret
Success or your Money Back - Shed Simove
It's The Mass that Matters - Michael Davies
The Magic of Written Goals - Kim Broemer
79 Network Marketing Tips - Wes Linden
The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
Humility of the Heart - Fr. Cajetan Mary de Bergamo
The Art of Wandering - Merlin Coverley
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy - Motimer J. Adler
The Divine Comedy - Dante translated by Mark Musa
The Four Temperaments - Rev. Conrad Hock
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot - James Stockdale
The Temperament God Gave You - Art Bennett and Laraine Bennett
Culture Counts - Roger Scruton
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri (R)
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (R)
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
The Life of St Mungo - Jocelyn, Monk of Furness
Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Warren Buffet Way - Robert Hagstrom
The Soul of the World - Roger Scruton
Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
The Catholic Book of Character and Success - Edward F Garesche SJ
Uniformity with God's Will - St Alphonsus de Ligouri
Scotch - Robert Bruce Lockhart
Churchill - Roy Jenkins
Natural born heroes - Christopher McDougall

You read that lot in 3.5 months?


Slarti

[Urbandreamer]

You read that lot in 3.5 months?


Slarti

I'm sure that the date's a typo. However I now vividly recall Selina Scott questioning the char of the Judges for the Booker prize (Fay Weldon) if she had actually read all 100 books!

[Halicarnassus]

Ha Sorry that was meant to read January 2007. Just over ten years ago.