I’m now reinstalled in my lovely, if slightly chilly, student room, and have spent the day lugging heavy boxes around and unpacking. Of course the reason the boxes were so heavy was that I brought an awful lot of books back with me! It is one of the things I like most about packing for uni at the end of each holiday: going through all the bookshelves in my house picking out books I haven’t yet read and books I want to reread so that I have a shelf-full of books to distract myself with during term time. I think I’d go crazy without them! Of course doing this doesn’t stop me from being tempted by the bookshops every now and then to splurge my student loan on new books!
So here is my bookshelf for this term; I think it’s quite a good mix of fiction and non-fiction and is broadly representative of my tastes (although there’s not enough sci-fi or fantasy, but that’s usually what I splurge on in Waterstones)
Stephen Oppenheimer, Out of Eden
Stephen Oppenheimer, The Origins of the British
Alison Baverstock, How to get a job in Publishing
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Tom Holland, Persian Fire
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
Margaret Forster, Hidden Lives
Cicero, Selected Works (Penguin Edition)
Margaret Forster, Over
Sebastian Faulks, Charlotte Gray
Clare Tomalin, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Mike Dash, Tulipomania
Lalita Tademy, Red River
Jaqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Dart
Anita Shreve, The Last Time They Met
Anton Chekhov, Plays, (Penguin Classics Edition)
Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups
Andrew Haslam, Book Design
Yolanda Zappaterra, Editorial Design
Chris Stringer, Homo Britannicus
I’ll keep you updated on how many of this selection I get through and what I think of them!
