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I’ve now completed 120 books and have 43 sitting waiting to be read, which leaves me with only 37 still to get hold of. Hopefully I can complete this in the next year.

As I haven’t updated for so long, this is the full list of which I’ve read, which are waiting to be read and which I still don’t have.

1984 – George Orwell READ
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens READ
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving READ
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth READ
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens READ
A Town Called Alice – Nevil Shute
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll READ
Animal Farm – George Orwell READ
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy TBR
Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer READ
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulkes READ
Black Beauty – Anna Sewell READ
Bleak House – Charles Dickens TBR
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley READ
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh READ
Bridget Jones’s Diary- Helen Fielding READ
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres READ
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller READ
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl READ
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons READ
Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky TBR
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens TBR
Double Act – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Dune Frank – Herbert READ
Emma – Jane Austen READ
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy READ
Girls in Love – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell READ
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman READ
Goodnight, Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian READ
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens TBR
Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling READ
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling READ
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman TBR
Holes – Louis Sachar TBR
I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith READ
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte READ
Kane and Abel – Jeffrey Archer
Katherine – Anya Seton TBR
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott READ
Lord of the Flies – William Golding READ
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez READ
Magician – Raymond E Feist READ
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden READ
Middlemarch – George Eliot READ
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie TBR
Mort – Terry Pratchett
Night Watch – Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman READ
Of Mice & Men – John Steinbeck TBR
On the Road – Jack Kerouac READ
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez TBR
Perfume – Patrick Suskind TBR
Persuasion – Jane Austen READ
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen READ
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier READ
Swallows & Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy READ
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho READ
The BFG – Roald Dahl READ
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger READ
The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M Auel READ
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas TBR
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy READ
The Godfather – Mario Puzo TBR
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck READ
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald READ
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams TBR
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien READ
The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – CS Lewis READ
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien READ
The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton READ
The Magus – John Fowles TBR
The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
The Princess Diaries – Meg Cabot READ
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell TBR
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett READ
The Secret History – Donna Tartt READ
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher READ
The Stand – Stephen King READ
The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCollough TBR
The Twits – Roald Dahl READ
The Wind in the willows – Kenneth Grahame READ
The Woman in White – William Wilkie Collins READ
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee READ
Treasure Island – Louis Stevenson READ
Ulysses – James Joyce
Vicky Angel – Jacqueline Wilson READ
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy TBR
Watership Down – Richard Adams TBR
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne READ
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte READ

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry TBR
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque READ
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis TBR
Angus, Thongs & Full-Frontal Snogging – L Rennison READ
Atonement – Ian McEwan READ
Bad Girls – Jacqueline Wilson READ
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson TBR
Charlotte’s Web – E B White READ
Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
Danny, The Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith READ
Dracula – Bram Stoker READ
Dustbin Baby – Jacqueline Wilson READ
East of Eden – John Steinbeck READ
Fantastic Mr Fox – Roald Dahl TBR
Flowers in the Attic – Virginia Andrews TBR
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley READ
George’s Marvellous Medicine – Roald Dahl READ
Girls Out Late – Jacqueline Wilson
Girls in Tears – Jacqueline Wilson
Goosebumps – R L Stine
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad READ
Heidi – Johanna Spyri READ
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby READ
Hogfather – Terry Pratchett READ
House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski READ
It – Stephen King READ
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl READ
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull – Richard Bach READ
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy TBR
Kim – Rudyard Kipling READ
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Lola Rose – Jacqueline Wilson
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov READ
Lorna Doone – RD Blackmore TBR
Man & Boy – Tony Parsons READ
Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brian TBR
Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett TBR
Moby Dick – Herman Melville TBR
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens TBR
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey TBR
Papillon – Henri Charriere READ
Point Blanc – Anthony Horowitz
Possession – A S Byatt READ
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett READ
River God – Wilbur Smith
Secrets – Jacqueline Wilson
Shogun – James Clavell TBR
Silas Marner – George Eliot TBR
Skeleton Key – Anthony Horowitz
Sleepovers – Jacqueline Wilson
Small Gods – Terry Pratchett READ
Sons & Lovers – D H Lawrence TBR
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder READ
Soul Music – Terry Pratchett TBR
Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz READ
Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon TBR
The Beach – Alex Garland READ
The Color Purple – Alice Walker READ
The Cruel Sea – Nicholas Monsarrat
The Dare Game – Jacqueline Wilson
The Day of the Jackal – Frederick Forsyth
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham READ
The Far Pavilions – M M Kaye
The Fifth Elephant – Terry Pratchett TBR
The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
The Green Mile – Stephen King READ
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood READ
The Horse Whisperer -Nicholas Evans READ
The Hounds of the Baskervilles -Arthur Conan Doyle
The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov READ
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy READ
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco TBR
The Old Man & the Sea – Ernest Hemingway READ
The Once & Future King – T H White READ
The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde READ
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver READ
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay TBR
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend READ
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx READ
The Silver Sword – Ian Serraillier
The Suitcase Kid – Jacqueline Wilson READ
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan READ
The Truth – Terry Pratchett
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
The Very Hungry Catapillar – Eric Carle READ
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
The Witches – Roald Dahl READ
The World According to Garp – John Irving TBR
They Used to Play On Grass – T Venables & G Williams
Thief of Time – Terry Pratchett TBR
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K Jerome READ
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh READ
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray TBR
War of the Worlds – H G Wells READ
Witches Abroad – Terry Pratchett READ
Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett READ

I managed to open an OBCZ at the Tyneside Cinema Coffee Rooms on the second floor of the Tyneside Cinema in the centre of Newcastle, which is also where we hold our monthly meet ups. It seems to be very popular, books are definitely being taken away but the journal entries are few and far between. Here’s hoping they pick up.

I haven’t managed to increase my repayments due to the fact that I’m about to start maternity leave. However, I now know what is left and have worked out that at the current repayments, I will have cleared it all by January 2009, which sounds like ages away, but is only 2 1/2 years. My H has offered to pay it all off now for me but I refused (probably regret that at a later date!) This was my foolishness, my debt from before I met him and it’s not fair that he should pay it off for me. I’m determined to do this.