Hello!

Welcome to my bookshelf. I have been bookcrossing for some time in Birmingham but have moved recently so activity is a little less structured (and I'm missing my monthly meet-ups). However, if you do see something, and can bear with me during my current upheaval, please do PM me and I will see if I can get it to you. NB - if something is in the permanent collection I will not be able to send it on.

I'm happy to post books by surface mail to overseas guests so please ask if you would like something, but don't expect to see it for a while!

My wishlist is below and anything is gratefully received. I'm trying to RABCK my favourite books to people's wishlists and find it's one of the best ways to bookcross!

Wishlist below thanks to www.cliff1976.com


Below is the list of books I have read so far this year. I tend to like a surprisingly low number of books so to limit this I've started working off recommendations. Quality has certainly taken a turn for the better since this time - let's hope it continues!

Books read 2006
1. Deep end of the ocean - Jacquelyne Mitchard
2. Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
3. The Lilac Bus - Maeve Binchy
4. Knowledge of Angels - Jill Paton Walsh
5. Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
6. 31 Songs - Nick Hornby
7. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre - Very recommended!
8. Longitude - Dava Sobel
9. Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
10.Five Patients - Michael Crichton
11.Velocity - Dean Koontz
12.Animal Farm - George Orwell
13.The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
14.Girlfriend in a coma - Douglas Coupland - Very recommended!
15.Possession - AS Byatt - half read!
16.The Long Walk - Stephen King
17.The Crystal Bucket - Clive James
18.Down By The River
19.Around the Way Girls - Various
20.The Bachman Books - Stephen King
21. The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
22. My Legendary Girlfriend - Mike Gayle
23. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
24. Boys and Girls Learn Differently!- Michael Gurian
25. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
26. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark - Very recommended1
27. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - Very recommended!(and one of my best wild catches!!)
28. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - half read :(
29. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
30. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
31. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
32. Saturday - Ian McEwan
33. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
34. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
35. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
36. The Red Tent - Anita Diament
37. The Outsider - Albert Camus

Currently Reading -
Current Audiobook -

Next to be read
Behind the Scenes in the Museum - Kate Atkinson
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
The Dice Man - Luke Reinhart
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
The Dark of the Heart - Elizabth Brown
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maughan
The Day of the Locust - Nathaneal West
Victoria Line, Central Line - Maeve Binchy
Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
Tully - Paula Simmons
The Master and Margarita - Bulgokov
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Lolita - Nabokov
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell