UK Book Club discussion

1 Linn Ullmann - A blessed child
2 Alison Weir - Innocent traitor

Read two more

3. Philippa Gregory - The white Queen
4. Margaret Atwood - Year of the flood

Just finished

5. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - The founding

6. Penelope Lively - Family album

7. Rupture

8. Brixton Beach

9. The Hunger Games

Got a bit of updating to do!

10. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey

11.The Help

12. Acts of Violence

I have The Sisters Who Would be Queen to read I have a special infinity with Lady Jane as I lived near her as a kid and visited Bradgate Park nearly every week during the summer months for picnics with my parents and sibblings.

I hope you enjoy it! As you can tell from my list I have just discovered historical fiction and am now loving it as well as trying to update my history knowledge (So much I don't know, must have been asleep in history classes!!)

If you haven't read Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey by alison weir it is very good. would recommend it

Read that one! Loved it!

13. When Christ and His Saints Slept

14. Children of England

15.Walking to the Moon

16. Isa and May

17. The Lighted Rooms
18. Mistborn: The Final Empire

19. Shadow
20. The Angel's Game

(At last one I can also add to my authors a-z challenge!!)

21. One Moment, One Morning
22. Instruments of Darkness

23. The Wives of Henry Oades

24. The Tin-Kin

25. The High Lord

26. The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum

Amy wrote: "26. The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum"

Just looked that one up, sounds good. Did you enjoy it?

I gave it 3.5* out of 5. It was an unusual story (which is good when you've read as much as me!) and quite surreal in places. I found it a little fragmented as some of the story is told in flashback where the narrater is drowning (I'm not giving anything away as it happens in first sentence!) so there is not so much detail for some scenes. That spoilt it for me a bit some scenes i would have liked developed more! its not like anything else i've read though which is good.

if you read it let me know what you think!

27. The Harrowing

28. The Unit

Absolutely loved this book! Definitely the best one i have read this year.

Amy wrote: "28. The Unit

Absolutely loved this book! Definitely the best one i have read this year."

Just looked it up, sounds interesting, I've added it to my ever-growing to-read list...

29. Before the Earthquake

30. Novel About My Wife
31. The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Jo wrote: "Did you like The Forest of Hands and Teeth? I am curious about that one"

Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would! Didn't really like any of the characters very much which I think was the main problem for me. It was an interesting idea for a story though and an interesting world she has created so might try the next one just to see if it gets better!!

32. Small Wars

33. Time and Chance

34. The Mind's Eye

35. And This is True

36. Blueeyedboy

37. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

Hi Amy, I saw Philip Pullman being interviewed by Mariella Frostrup on The Book Show about The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - I thought it sounded like an intriguing read. I do like Philip Pullman in general - would you recommend this one?

Put it like this I read it in 4 hours! So yes I enjoyed it it makes you think about how the stories that surround Jesus (and stories in general) may have come about and changed over the years.

A resounding yes then! Def going on my to read list.

38. The Perfect Mother

39. The Well of Ascension

40. This Is Where I Leave You

41. Uglies

42. A Reliable Wife

43. Devil's Brood

44. The Kindest Thing

Bloody hell you going through the books fast ! ....i was proud of my 20 LOL ! .....

you've got loads on here im planning to read, how did you like brixton beach ?

ck x

Christa wrote: "Bloody hell you going through the books fast ! ....i was proud of my 20 LOL ! .....

you've got loads on here im planning to read, how did you like brixton beach ?

ck x"

Just goes to show I have too much time on my hands at the mo I'm on holiday so going through them quicker than usual!

I liked Brixton beach although it wasn't brilliant really liked the beginning but felt it tailed off a bit towards the end, felt it could have finished earlier than it did. Let me know what you think of it

45. All That Follows: A Novel

Amy, Does this mean you may be joining me to 150 books? I am getting very lonely! lol!

Lynne wrote: "Amy, Does this mean you may be joining me to 150 books? I am getting very lonely! lol!"

Don't think I'll be able to read quite that many - no matter how many holidays I take! I'm aiming for 100 as I read 92 last year

Well we will have a celebration when you get there!