Reading

Books I’ve read, am reading now or want to read.

Key

🎧 = audiobook

⭐️ = loved

💡= thought-provoking

In progress

Reading now

  • The seed detective by Adam Alexander
  • The witch by Ronald Hutton
  • World wide waste by Gerry McGovern

Paused or pending

  • Matrescence by Lucy Jones
  • The secret lives of colour by Kassia St Clair
  • Content transformation by Hinrich von Haaren
Unfinished but may return to
  • Why women grow by Alice Vincent
  • Caliban and the witch by Silvia Federici
  • Mismatch by Kat Holmes
  • This changes everything by Naomi Klein
  • Zero waste fashion design by Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan
  • The artist’s way by Julia Cameron

Read this year

Nothing finished so far 📚

Previous years

  • Death comes to the Costa Del Sol by M.H. Eccleston
  • Sacred rest by Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith 🎧
  • Hex by Jenni Fagan ⭐️
  • Mystery at the manor by Alasdair Beckett-King 🎧
  • The accidental medium by Tracy Whitwell 🎧
  • Year in a small garden by Frances Tophill
  • How to plant a garden by Matt James
  • My tiny veg plot by Lia Leendertz
  • The Thursday murder club by Richard Osman
  • The golden enclaves by Naomi Novik 🎧
  • Others like me by Nicole Louie 💡
  • Braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 🎧 ⭐️
  • Sustainable content by Alisa Bonsignore 💡
  • Practical permaculture by Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein
  • Plastic-free life by Beth Terry
  • Clouds of witness by Dorothy L Sayers (BBC radio drama) 🎧
  • Gaudy night by Dorothy L Sayers 🎧
  • Buried deep and other stories by Naomi Novik 🎧 ⭐️
  • The mangle street murders by M.R.C. Kasasian 🎧
  • The curse of the house of Foskett by M.R.C. Kasasian 🎧
  • Death descends on saturn villas by M.R.C. Kasasian 🎧
  • The secrets of gaslight lane by M.R.C. Kasasian
  • Dark dawn over steep house by M.R.C. Kasasian 🎧
  • Betty Church and the suffolk vampire by M.R.C. Kasasian 🎧
  • The man who died twice by Richard Osman
  • The bullet that missed by Richard Osman
  • I’ll show myself out by Jessi Klein
  • Orbital by Samantha Harvey 🎧
  • The last devil to die by Richard Osman
  • Wild card by Fiona Lensvelt and Jen Cownie
  • Rebel witch by Kelly-Ann Maddox
  • The night raven by Sarah Painter
  • The silver mark by Sarah Painter
  • The fox’s curse by Sarah Painter
  • The pearl king by Sarah Painter

  • The shepherd’s crown by Terry Pratchett
  • Snuff by Terry Pratchett
  • A deadly education by Naomi Novik ⭐️
  • This time tomorrow by Emma Straub 🎧
  • Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett ⭐️
  • Four thousand weeks by Oliver Burkeman 🎧💡
  • Maps of our spectacular bodies by Maddie Mortimer 🎧 ⭐️
  • Stone blind by Natalie Haynes 🎧
  • The gynae geek by Dr Anita Mitra
  • You just need to lose weight and 19 other myths about fat people by Aubrey Gordon 🎧
  • Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors 🎧
  • Cold comfort farm by Stella Gibbons 🎧 ⭐️
  • Equal rites by Terry Pratchett
  • A touch of malice by Scarlett St. Clair
  • ADHD 2.0 by Edward M Hallowell and John J Ratey 🎧
  • Lilith by Nikki Marmery
  • Girls, woman, other by Bernardino Evaristo 🎧 ⭐️
  • The Trust by M.H. Eccleston ⭐️
  • Uprooted by Naomi Novik
  • A touch of ruin by Scarlett St. Clair
  • A modern herbal by Alys Fowler
  • The empty grave by Jonathan Stroud
  • A touch of chaos by Scarlett St. Clair
  • Stong poison by Dorothy L. Sayers 🎧
  • Unnatural death by Dorothy L. Sayers 🎧
  • Busman’s holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers 🎧
  • Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell ⭐️
  • Divine might by Natalie Haynes 🎧 ⭐️
  • Whose body? by Dorothy L Sayers 🎧
  • The suspicions of Mr Whisker by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • The thumb mark of St Peter by Agatha Christie
  • Magic for liars by Sarah Gailey ⭐️
  • Murder on the Santa Claws Express by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • How to do nothing by Jenny Odell 🎧
  • Death on the Isle by M.H. Eccleston ⭐️
  • A thousand ships by Natalie Haynes ⭐️
  • Thud by Terry Pratchett
  • Spinning silver by Naomi Novik
  • How to hang a witch by Adriana Mather 🎧
  • The last graduate by Naomi Novak 🎧
  • Tarot by Kim Arnold
  • The nine tailors by Dorothy L Sayers 🎧
  • Five red herrings by Dorothy L Sayers 🎧
  • Murder must advertise by Dorothy L Sayers 🎧
  • Women who run with wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés 🎧

  • Wild about weeds by Jack Wallington
  • Revive your garden by Nick Bailey
  • Filthy animals by Brandon Taylor
  • Your money or your life by Vicki Robin 🎧
  • The life-changing magic of tidying up by Marie Kondo
  • The number 2 feline detective agency by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • A pocket full of pie by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman
  • The seven moons of Maali Almeida ⭐️
  • The ghost of Christmas paws by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • (M)otherhood by Pragya Agarwel 💡
  • Dirty Laundry by Roxanne Emery and Richard Pink
  • The Michaelmas murders by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • Beyond the gravy by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • The illustrated freelancer’s guide by Heather Parry and Maria Stoian
  • The cat and the pendulum by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • All dogs have ADHD by Kathy Hoopmann
  • Life in the garden by Penelope Lively
  • The Ice Maid’s tail by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • The anti-racist organization by Shereen Daniels
  • Reward system by Jem Calder
  • The story of art without men by Katy Hessel 💡⭐️
  • Pure colour by Sheila Heti
  • Magical mystery paws by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • Cat among the pumpkins by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • A hat full of sky by Terry Pratchett
  • New small garden by Noel Kingsbury
  • A touch of darkness by Scarlett St Clair 🎧
  • Somebody loves you by Mona Arshi
  • The windmill murders by Mandy Morton 🎧
  • The death of downton tabby by Mandy Morton 🎧

  • Assembly by Natasha Brown
  • Carpe jugulum by Terry Pratchett ⭐️
  • City of girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Digital minimalism by Cal Newport
  • Inglorious empire by Shashi Tharoor 🎧💡
  • Once upon a river by Diane Setterfield 🎧
  • Rhapsody in green by Charlotte Mendleson ⭐️
  • Luster by Raven Leilani ⭐️
  • Sorrow and bliss by Meg Mason
  • The art of frugal hedonism by Anni Raser-Rowland
  • The fifth elephant by Terry Pratchett
  • The year of less by Cait Flanders 🎧
  • You’ll grow out of it by Jessi Klein 🎧 ⭐️
  • The wee free men by Terry Pratchett ⭐️
  • Veg in one bed by Huw Richards

  • The half-hour allotment by Lia Leendertz
  • Northern lights by Philip Pullman
  • The queen of the night by Alexander Chee
  • The subtle knife by Philip Pullman
  • You were born for this by Chani Nicolas
  • What white people can do next by Emma Dabiri
  • Skin care by Caroline Hirons
  • Burnout: solve your stress cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski ⭐️
  • Make your art no matter what by Beth Pickens ⭐️

  • Going postal by Terry Pratchett
  • Good omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  • Invisible women by Caroline Criado Perez ⭐️💡
  • Lords and ladies by Terry Pratchett
  • Monstrous regiment by Terry Pratchett
  • Politics of the everyday by Ezio Manzini
  • Reaperman by Terry Pratchett
  • The eyre affair by Jason Fforde
  • The good immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla
  • Thief of time by Terry Pratchett ⭐️
  • Content design by Sarah Richards
  • Complete guide to spinning yarn by Brenda Gibson
  • This golden fleece by Esther Rutter ⭐️

Reading was haphazardly logged before 2020. Here are a few I did note down.

  • Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • Feet of clay by Terry Pratchett
  • Jingo by Terry Pratchett
  • Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
  • Night watch by Terry Pratchett
  • Stone mattress by Margaret Atwood
  • The thing around your neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The truth by Terry Pratchett
  • Wild colour by Jenny Dean
  • Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
  • Come as you are by Emily Nagoski
  • Big magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Bodies by Susie Orbach

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