I love books, I can't deny it. I love how they look on my book cases, I love their stories, I love their smell and I love the memories I have attached to them.
It is because of these feelings, and because there are so many books that I want to read, that I own so many books (509 at 31 July 2011). What is certain is that this collection will continue to grow.
So this is my attempt to record my personal journey reading the books that I own. I might not enjoy them all, I might not even read them all but I do hope that I learn things and have fun along the way.
I also hope that by publicly listing all the books that I own, you will be able to form a better idea of what kind of books I like and what kind of reviews you can expect on Page Turners.
Post script: These are the books I own in hard copy. I am not including my roughly 450 ebooks in this project.
Title - Author
- 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2010 Collected
19th Wife, The David Ebershoff20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne4.50 From Paddington Agatha ChristieA Body in the Library Agatha ChristieA Case of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed HanifA Certain Justice PD James- A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
- A Fairly Honourable Defeat Iris Murdoch
A Fraction of the Whole Steve Toltz- A Guide to the Birds of Far East Africa Nicholas Drayson
- A Handbook of Literary Terms H L Yelland, S C Jones & K S W Easton
- A Life Like Other Peoples Alan Bennet
- A Lion Among Men Gregory Maguire
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder: Inspector Singh Investigatges Shamini FlintA New Earth Eckhart Tolle- A Partisan's Daughter Louis de Bernieres
A Room with a View EM ForsterA Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson- A Special Relationship Douglas Kennedy
- A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
A Tale of Time City Diana Wynne Jones- A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
- A Town Called Alice Neville Shute
- A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'EngelABC Murders, The Agatha Christie- Absolute Friends John Le Carre
- Absurdistan Eric Campbell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Mark Twain- Agatha Christie: An Autobioagraphy Agatha Christie
- Agnes Grey Anne Bronte
Alchemist, The Paulo Coelho- Alentejo Blue Monica Ali
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood- All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
- Almost French Sarah Turnbull
- Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Michael Chabon
Amber Spyglass, the Phillip Pullman- American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
- American Rhapsody Joe Esterhas
- Amoung The Barbarians Paul Sheehan
- Amulet Roberto Bolano
- An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy
- An Equal Music Vikram Seth
An Iron Rose Peter TempleAnd Then There Were None Agatha ChristieAngels and Demons Dan BrownAngels Fall Nora Roberts- Angel's Game, The Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Anne of Green Gables LM MontgomeryApe House Sara Gruen- Apocalypse DH Lawrence
- Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne
- At Home Bill Bryson
Atonement Ian McEwanAutograph Man, The Zadie Smith- Barrytown Trilogy, The Roddy Doyle
- Bay of Noon, The Shirley Hazzard
- Beautiful Malice Rebecca James
- Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martel
- Becky EV Thompson
- Bell Jar, The Sylvia Plath
- Between the Assassinations Aravind Adiga
Big Four, The Agatha ChristieBig Over Easy, The Jasper Fforde #####Billie's Kiss Elizabeth Knox- Birds Without Wings Louis de Bernieres
- Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Black Russian, The Lenny Bartulin- Blackwater Lightship, The Colm Toibin
- Blessing, The Nancy Mitford
Blind Assassin, The Margaret Atwood- Blindness Jose Saramago
Boat, The Nam Le- Bodily Harm Margaret Atwood
- Bonesetter's Daughter, The Amy Tan
- Book of Lost Tales 1, The JRR Tolkein
- Book of Lost Tales 2, The JRR Tolkein
- Book of Lost Threads, The Tess Evans
- Book of Secrets, The Fiona Kidman
Book Thief, The Markus ZusakBreaker, The Kit DentonBrick Lane Monica Ali- Brida Paulo Coelho
Bride Stripped Bare, The AnonymousBrideshead Revisited Evelyn WaughBroken Shore, The Peter TempleBronze Horseman, The Paullina Simmons- Buying Time Pamela Samuels Young
- By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Paulo Coelho
Capricornia Xavier HerbertCaptain Corelli's Mondolin Louis de Bernieres- Carpentaria Alexis Wright
- Case of the Man Who Died Laughing, The Tarquin Hall
Case of the Missing Servant, The Tarquin HallCat Amoung the Pigeons Agatha Christie- Catch 22 Joseph Heller
- Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
- Cathedral Raymond Carver
Catweazle Richard Carpenter- Centaur, The John Updike
- Charlotte Gray Sebastien Faulks
- Children's Book, The AS Byatt
Chocolat Joanne HarrisChrysalids, The John Wyndham- City of the Beasts Isabel Allende
Clan of the Cave Bear, The Jean M Auel- Clean Straw for Nothing George Johnston
- Cloud Sketcher, The Richard Rayner
Clouded Hills, The Brenda Jagger- Cloudstreet Tim Winton
- Cockatoos, The Patrick White
Cold Mountain Charles FranklinCollector, The John Fowles- Collectors, The Robert Carter
- Colour of Magic, The Terry Pratchett
- Colour Purple, The Alice Walker
Companero Jorge CanstanedaComplete Novels of Jane Austen, The Jane Austen- Complete Short Stories of HG Wells, The HG Wells
- Complete Tolkein Companion, The JEA Tyler
- Conditions of Faith Alex Miller
- Consider Phlebas Iain M Banks
- Constant Gardener, The John le Carre
- Contemporary Classics Don Anderson (ed)
- Contemporary Portraits Murray Bail
- Court in the Middle Andrew Fraser
- Crackdown Val McDermid
- Crime & Punishment Fyodor Dosteovesky
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Mark HaddonDark Portal, The Robin JarvisDaughter of Fortune Isabel Allende- Dave Grohl: Foo Fighters, Nirvana etc Martin James
Day of the Triffids, The John WyndhamDay We Had Hitler Home Rodney HallDeaf Sentence David LodgeDeath on the Nile Agatha ChristieDeception Point Dan Brown- Devil and Miss Prym, The Paulo Coelho
Diamond Dove by Adrian Hyland (Sept 2011)- Diamonds are Forever Ian Flemming
Digital Fortress Dan BrownDisgrace JM CoetzeeDocument Z Andrew Croome- Don't Tell Alfred Nancy Mitford
Double Crown Marie HeeseDown Under Bill BrysonDracula Bram Stoker- Dreamquake Elizabeth Knox
Drowning Ruth Christina SchwarzDumb Witness Agatha Christie- Dune Frank Herbert
- East of Eden John Steinbeck
Earthly Delights by Kerry GreenwoodEclipse Stephanie Meyer- Edible Woman, The Margaret Atwood
- Electrical Field, The Kerri Sakamoto
Enduring Love Ian McEwan- Engelby Sebastien Faulks
- English Patient, The Michael Ondaatje
- Essential Spike Miligan Spike Milligan
Eucalyptus Murray BailEvery Book Its Reader Nicholas A BasbanesEvery Secret Thing Marie MunkaraEyre Affair, The Jasper Fforde- Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, The Yann Martel
- Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier
Falls, The Joyce Carol Oates- Family Frying Pan, The Bryce Courtney
Father Frank Paul Burke- Fearful Symmetry, The Audrey Niffenegger
Fellowship of the Ring, The JRR TolkeinFences and Windows Naomi Klein- Fever Pitch Nick Hornby
Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Mitch AlbomFlint and Roses Brenda Jagger (Aug 2011)For the Term of his Natural Life Marcus ClarkeForgotten Garden, The Kate Morton- Foucault's Pendulum Umberto Eco
- Foxfire Joyce Carol Oates
Fugitive Pieces Anne MichaelsGathering, The Anne Enright- Game Control Lionel Shreiver
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Stieg LarssonGirl who Kicked the Hornetts Nest, The` Stieg LarssonGirl who Played with Fire, The Stieg Larsson- Girl With A Pearl Earing Tracy Chevalier
God of Small Things, The Arundhati RoyGok Wan: Enjoy Your Wardrobe Gok Wan- Golden Gate, The Vikram Seth
Gone with the Wind Margaret MitchellGood Earth, The Pearl S BuckGould's Book of Fish Richard Flannagan- Grapes of Wrath, The John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby, The F Scott FitzgeraldGreen Years, The AJ Cronin- Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Salman Rushdie
- Guernsy, Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimmamanda Ngozi Adichie- Hand Me Down World Lloyd Jones
Handmaid's Tale, The Margaret Atwood- Hard Times Charles Dickens
- Harmony Silk Factory, The Tash Aw
Harp in the South, The Ruth ParkHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets JK RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows JK RowlingHarry Potter and the Half Blood Prince JK RolwingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix JK RowlingHarry Potter and the Philosophers Stone JK RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling- Heliopolis James Scudamore
Hell Island Matthew Reilly- Hints on Advocacy R Harris QC
- History of the Hobbit: Mr Baggins JRR Tolkein
- History of Love, The Nicole Krauss
Hobbit Companion, The David DayHobbit, The JRR TolkeinHome Based Bookstore, The Steve Weber- Homeland Barbara Kingsolver
- Hotel Iris Yoko Ogawa
House of Spirits Isabel AllendeHousehold Guide to Dying, The Debra Adelaide- Housekeeper and the Professor, The Yoko Ogawa
- How to Win A Cosmic War Reza Aslan
Hundred & Ninety-Nine Steps, The Michael Feber- Hundred Secret Senses, The Amy Tan
- Hungry Hill Daphne Du Maurier
- I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolff
I See A Voice Jonathan Ree- Ice Station Matthew Reilly
- Iliad, The Homer
- Illywhacker Peter Carey
- I'm Dying Laughing Christina Stead
In Cold Blood Truman CapoteIn Her Shoes Jennifer Weiner- In Pursuit Joanna FitzPatrick
- India: A Million Mutinies Now VS Naipul
Ines of My Soul Isabel Allende- Infidel: My Life Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Infinities, The John Banville
- Inheritance of Loss, The Kiran Desai
- Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson
Infinte Plan, The Isabel Allende- Innocent, The Ian McEwan
Invisible Man, The HG Wells- Island Beneath the Sea Isabel Allende
- Jack Maggs Peter Carey
Jane Eyre Charlotte BronteJasper Jones Craig SilveyJaws Peter BenchleyJessica Bryce CourtneyJungle Book, The Rudyard KiplingJurassic Park Michael Crichton- Juror, The George Dawes Green
- Kangaroo DH Lawrence
- Key to Rebecca, The Ken Follett
- Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
- Kingdom of the Golden Dragon Isabel Allende
- Kitchen God's Wife, The Amy Tan
- Kite Runner, The Khaled Hosseini
Lacuna, The Barbara Kingsolver- Lady Audley's Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Chatterley's Lover DH Lawrence- Lady Oracle Margaret Atwood
Land of Painted Caves, The Jean M Auel- Landscape of Farewell Alex Miller
- Last Warner Woman, The by Kei Miller
- Laurie Laurie Daley
Legacy, The Kirsten Tranter- Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, The Washington Irving
- Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
- Lewis Percy Anita Brookner
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill BrysonLife of Pi Yann MartelLillian's Story Kate GrenvilleLion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The CS LewisListerdale Mystery, The Agatha Christie- Lonely Polygamist, The Brady Udall
- Lord Edgware Dies Agatha Christie
- Lord of the Rings: The Complete Collection, The JRR Tolkein
- Losing You Nicci French
Lost Dog, The Michelle de KretserLost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde- Love and Longing in Bombay Vikram Chandra
- Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia MarquezLovely Bones, The Alice SeboldLovesong Alex Miller- Lucky Country, The Donalid Horne
- Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
- Maestro Peter Goldsworthy
Mammoth Hunters, The Jean M Auel- Man Who Would be King and other stories Rudyard Kipling
- Mandela Anthony Sampson
- Manhattan Dreaming Anita Heiss
Mao's Last Dancer Li CunxinMarie Antoinette Antonia FraserMask of Benevolence, The Harlan LaneMaster of Middle Earth Paul KocherMemoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden- Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway
- Mephisto Klaus Mann
Messenger, The Markus ZusakMiddlesex Jeffrey Eugenides- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
Midnights Children Salman RushdieMidwich Cuckoos, The John WyndhamMill on the Floss, The George Elliot- Miss Marple Omnibus Agatha Christie
Monet- Moor's Last Stance, The Salman Rushdie
- Moral Disorder Margaret Atwood
Moral Hazard Kate Jennings- Mother, Missing Joyce Carol Oates
- Murder in Mesopotamia Agatha Christie
Murder in the Vicarage Agatha ChristieMurder on a Midsummer Night Kerry GreenwoodMy Brilliant Career Miles FranklinMy Brother Jack George JohnstonMy Career Goes Bung Miles FranklinMy Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell- My Invented Country Isabel Allende
- My Sister, My Love Joyce Carol Oates
My Sister's Keeper Jodi PicoultMysterious Affair at Styles, The Agatha Christie- Mystery of a Hansom Cab, The Fergus Hume
- Name of the Rose, The Umberto Eco
- Nancy Mitford Omnibus, The Nancy Mitford
Nanny Diaries, The Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin- Nanny Returns Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin
- Nazi Literature in the Americas Roberto Bolano
- Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing Margaret Atwood
Neither Here Nor There Bill BrysonNemesis Isaac Asimov (Sept 2011)- Netherland Joseph O'Neill
New Moon Stephanie Meyer- New Rulers of the World, The John Pilger
- Northern Clemency, The Phillip Hensher
Northern Lights Phillip PullmanNotes from a Big Country Bill Bryson- Notwithstanding Louis de Bernieres
- Odd One Out Margaret McInnerney
- Odyssey, They Homer
Of Love and Shadows Isabel Allende- Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Olivia Joules & the Overactive Imaginiation Helen FieldingOne Day by David Nicholls (Oct 2011)- On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Flemming
- One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Original Sin PD James
- Orlando Virginia Woolf
Oryx & Crake Margaret Atwood- Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
- Oscar Wildes Stories for all Ages Stephen Fry (ed)
- Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
Passage, The Justin Cronin- Passions of the Mind AS Byatt
Paula Isabel AllendePayback: Debt and the Shadow of Wealth Margaret Atwood- Pearl, The John Steinbeck
Penelopiad, The Margaret Atwood- Persimmon Tree, The Bryce Courtney
Picnic at Hanging Rock Joan LindsayPicture of Dorian Gray, The Oscar Wilde- Picture Perfect Jodie Picoult
- Pigs in Heaven Barbara Kingsolver
Pilot's Wife, The Anita ShrevePlains of Passage, The Jean M Auel- Playing Beattie Bow Ruth Park
Poisonwood Bible, The Barbara KingsolverPortrait in Sepia Isabel AllendePortrait of a Lady Henry James- Poster Boy Allan Cope
Potato Factory, The Bryce CourtneyPower of One, The Bryce Courtney- Power Without Glory Frank Hardy
- Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Muriel Spark
Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen- Prince and The Pauper, The Mark Twain
Princess Bride, The William GoldmanPursuit of Happinesss, The Douglas Kennedy- Pursuit of Love, The Nancy Mitford
- Rabbit, Run John Updike
- Rachel Papers, The Martin Amis
Raw Shark Texts, The Steven HallReader, The Bernard SchlinkRebecca Daphne Du MaurierRedwall Brian Jacques- Remains of the Day, The Kazuo Ishiguro
- Remembering Babylon David Malouf
Return of the King, The JRR TolkeinRice Bowl Sechen Christine LimRoad, The Cormac McCarthyRobber Bride, The Margaret Atwood- Robbery Under Arms Rolf Boldrewood
- Rumpole & The Age of Miracles John Mortimer
Satanic Verses, The Salman Rushdie- Savage Detectives, The Roberto Bolano
- Scarlett Letter, The Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Sea, The Sea, The Iris Murdoch
- Sea Lady, The Margaret Drabble
Secret Adversary, The Agatha ChristieSecret Garden, The Frances Hodgson Burnett (Sept 2011)Secret River, The Kate Grenville- Seive of Time: The Memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl
- Selected Stories Anton Chekhov
- Setting Free the Bears John Irving
- Sex and the City Candace Bushnell
Shadow: 5 Presidents and Watergate Bob WoodwardShadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz ZafonShakespeare Bill BrysonShantaram Gregory David Roberts- Shaping of Midle Earth, The JRR Tolkein
Shelters of Stone, The Jean M Auel- Shindler's List Thomas Keneally
- Shining, The Stephen King
- Shining Country, The Kate Alexander
- Shirley Charotte Bronte
- Sidetracked Henning Mankell
- Sick Puppy Carl Hiassen
Silk Alessandro Baricco- Silmarillion, The JRR Tolkein
Sinkings, The Amanda CurtainSlap, The Christos TsiolkasSleeping Murder Agatha ChristieSleeping Sword, The Brenda Jagger- Slumdog Millionaire Vikus Swarup
- Small Memories Jose Seragamo
- So, What's Today's Brilliant Excuse Joy Atkin
- Solar Ian McEwan
Solomon's Song Bryce Courtney- Something Wrotten Jasper Fforde
- Son of a Witch Gregory Maguire
- Songs of Solomon Toni Morrison
Sound of One Hand Clapping, The Richard FlannaganSounds From Silence Graeme Clark, Prof- Space Between Us, The Thrity Umrigar
Space Ranger Isaac AsimovSpare Room, The Helen Garner- Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami
- State of the Union Douglas Kennedy
- Stonefish Keri Hulme
- Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The David Wroblewski
Strange Adventure's of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Robert Louis StevensonSubtle Knife, The Phillip Pullman- Sum of Our Days, The Isabel Allende
- Sunday Philosophy Club, The Alexander McCall Smith
Surfacing Margaret AtwoodSuspicions of Mr Whicher, The Kate Summerscale (Aug 2011)- Sweet and Simple Kind, The Yasmine Gooneratne
Swords & Crowns & Rings Ruth Park- Sylvia's Lovers Elizabeth Gaskell
Tales of Beedle the Bard, The JK Rowling- Talking About Detective Fiction PD James
Tandia Bryce Courtney- Tax Inspector, The Peter Carey
Tent, The Margaret AtwoodTess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy- Testimony Anita Shreve
- That Deadman Dance Kim Scott
- They Do It With Mirrors Agatha Christie
- Thing Around Your Neck, The Chimmamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Alice Walker
Third Pig Detective Agency, The Bob Burke#####- Third Twin, The Ken Follett
- Thorn Birds, The Colleen McCulloch
Time Travellers Wife, The Audrey Niffenegger- Time We Have Taken, The Steven Carroll
Toast, The Best Thing Since Well…. Daylan Jones- To Sir, With Love ER Braithwaite
Tommo & Hawk Bryce CourtneyTom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce- Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary Dmitiri Volkogunov
- Tully Pauline Simmons
Turn of the Screw, The Henry JamesTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules VerneTwilight Stephanie MeyerTwo Towers, The JRR Tolkein- Tyrrany of Distance, The Geoffrey Blainey
- Unfinished Tales JRR Tolkein
- Unknown Terrorist, The Richard Flannagan
- Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken Murray Walker
Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, The Peter CareyValley of the Horses, The Jean M Auel- Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Maggie O'Farrell
Vernon God Little DBC Pierre- Veronika Decides to Die Paulo Coelho
Vintner's Luck, The Elizabeth Knox- Virgin Blue, The Tracy Chevalier
Virgin Suicides, The Jeffrey Eugenides- Voss Patrick White
Wanting Richard Flannagan- Washington Square Henry James
- Waterland Graham Swift
War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, The Louis de BernieresWe Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel ShreiverWe Were the Mulvaney's Joyce Carol Oates- Wednesday's Child Peter Robinson
Well of Lost Plots Jasper Fforde- What Maisie Knew Henry James
- Where the Heart Is Billie Letts
- While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson
White Earth, The Andrew McGahan- White Teeth Zadie Smith
- White Thorn Bryce Courtney
Wicked Gregory Maguire- Wild Swans: 3 Daughters of China Jung Chang
- Winter of Our Discontent, The John Steinbeck
Wisdom of Forgiveness, The Dalai Lama & Victor ChanWitches, The Roald Dahl- Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wives of Henry Oades, The Johanna Moran
Wuthering Heights Emily BronteWoman in a Lampshade Elizabeth Jolley- World Cup: The Complete History Terry Crouch
- Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
- Women in Love DH Lawrence
Zorro Isabel Allende
I was inspired to start this by Jillian at A Rooms of One's Own who has her own Project "Read What I Own". Thanks Jillian.
