Alannah's Book List - 2014

[Bionic Jean]

I first thought that when you were reading Middlemarch LOL.

The beauty of reading quickly though is (obviously) that you can read so much more. But what I have also discovered is that then you can come back to some of them much later, and gain a whole new perspective. It's like reading a new book! Yet you don't miss out on it at first either, if you can read quickly.

So I honestly think either can be valid approaches. We just have to choose what's right for us at the time :)

[Alannah]

35. Path of Pins (Paths, #2) by Hannah Kollef

[Alannah]

36. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

[Alannah]

37. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus

[Alannah]

38. The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
39. Great Expectations by Graham Martin
40. Women, Marriage, and Politics, 1860-1914 by Patricia Jalland
41. Women and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England by Joan Perkin
42. Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age by Martha Vicinus

[Leslie]

Lots of dissertation reading going on, I see! :)

[Bionic Jean]

Dissertation or not, they sound really interesting Alannah. I shall look these up! :)

[Alannah]

43. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

[Alannah]

Jean wrote: "Dissertation or not, they sound really interesting Alannah. I shall look these up! :)"

They were, especially The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders.

[Alannah]

44. Panic by Lauren Oliver
45. The Nineteenth-Century Sensation Novel by Lynn Pykett
46. "Great Expectations" by Roger D. Sell

[Bionic Jean]

Added to my TBR shelf, thank you :)

[Alannah]

Can't wait to hear what you think. Although it did give me some great ideas on how to tackle my dissertation.

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How was 'Panic'? It is on my Kindle, calling out to me, lol :)

[Alannah]

I loved it! I was hooked on it, it was something that really helped me get my mind off university work for a while. Think I gave it five stars, which I don't believe I have done so in a while.

[Alannah]

47. Essays and Dissertations by Chris Mounsey.

[[deleted user]]

Alannah wrote: "I loved it! I was hooked on it, it was something that really helped me get my mind off university work for a while. Think I gave it five stars, which I don't believe I have done so in a while."

Oh good, I'll read it soon then :)

[Alannah]

48. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[Alannah]

49. The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness

[Alannah]

50. Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin

[Alannah]

51. How to Write Essays and Dissertations: A Guide for English Literature Students by Nigel Fabb

[Alannah]

52. The World's Wife: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
53. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

[Alannah]

54. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin

[Leslie]

Alannah wrote: "54. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin"

How did you like that, Alannah? I have only read a few of his poems but he is one of my mother's favorite poets.

[Alannah]

Leslie wrote: "Alannah wrote: "54. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin"

How did you like that, Alannah? I have only read a few of his poems but he is one of my mother's favorite poets."

I would recommend Larkin to any poetry fan, his poems are quite interesting and are so full of imagery.

[Leslie]

Alannah wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Alannah wrote: "54. Collected Poems by Philip Larkin"

How did you like that, Alannah? I have only read a few of his poems but he is one of my mother's favorite poets."

I would rec..."

Great, and my local library even has this collection!

[Alannah]

55. A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women by Martha Vicinus

[Alannah]

56. Charles Dickens And The House Of Fallen Women by Jenny Hartley

[Alannah]

57. Dickens, Family, Authorship: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Kinship and Creativity by Lynn Cain
58. Charles Dickens by Robert Giddings
59. The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

[Alannah]

60. The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730-1848 by George Rudé

[Alannah]

61. Persuasion by Jane Austen

[Alannah]

62. Responses to Industrialisation: The British Experience, 1780-1850 by Malcolm I. Thomis

[Alannah]

63. Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels: The Subversion of Domestic Ideology by Brenda Ayres
64. The Victorian Novelist: Social Problems And Social Change by Kate Flint
65. What the Dickens by David Grylls
66. How to Read the Victorian Novel by George Lewis Levine
67. Victorian Fiction by Gail Marshall
68. Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900 by Merryn Williams
69. The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine by Deborah Wynne

[Alannah]

70. How To Study A Charles Dickens Novel by Keith Selby
71. Dickens and the Daughter of the House by Hilary M. Schor

[Alannah]

72. Dickens and Women by Michael Slater

[Alannah]

73. Dickens, Sexuality and Gender by Lillian Nayder

[Alannah]

74. Dickens And The Rise Of Divorce: The Failed Marriage Plot And The Novel Tradition by Kelly Hager

[Alannah]

75. Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jeremy Black
76. Dickens and the Concept of Home by Frances Elizabeth Armstrong
77. Charles Dickens: The Writer and His Work by Barbara Nathan Hardy
78. Charles Dickens and the Image of Women by David Holbrook
79. Women, 1870-1928: a select guide to printed and archival sources in the United Kingdom by Margaret Barrow

[Alannah]

80. Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900 by Philippa Levine

[Alannah]

81. Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home by Monica Feinberg Cohen
82. Dickens's Class Consciousness: A Marginal View by Pam Morris
83. The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens by John O. Jordan
84. Charles Dickens by Donald Hawes

[Amber]

Great job on your reading Alannah! I've only read 28 books so far in my reading challenge so far this year! :)

[Alannah]

Amber wrote: "Great job on your reading Alannah! I've only read 28 books so far in my reading challenge so far this year! :)"

Thank you Amber. :)

[Alannah]

85. The White Princess (The Cousins' War, #5) by Philippa Gregory

[Alannah]

86. A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses by Desmond Seward

[Alannah]

87. Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1) by Jamie McGuire

[Alannah]

88. The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I by Sally Varlow

[Alannah]

89. How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
90. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel

[Alannah]

91. The End of Domesticity: Alienation from the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James by Charles Hatten

[Alannah]

92. Writings of the Luddites by Kevin Binfield

[Anastasia]

Alannah wrote: "89. How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
90. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel"

Did you liked Wolf Hall? It's on my wishlist.

[Alannah]

Anastasia wrote: "Alannah wrote: "89. How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
90. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel"

Did you liked Wolf Hall? It's on my wishlist."

Yeah, I did. It wasn't bad, I think you really need an interest on the subject to enjoy it though.