I will continue to read books with some link to the region in which I’m travelling, but I’ll start the year reading a book I’ve wanted to read for a long time and indelibly linked to sailing….
Longitude – Dava Sobel
Love and Ruin – Paula McLain
Islands in the Stream – Ernest Hemingway
The Republic of Pirates – Colin Woodard
Buccaneer: The Provocative Odyssey of Jack Reed: Adventurer, Drug Smuggler and Pilot Extraordinaire – MayCay Beeler
Washington Black – Esi Edugyan
Sailing Around the World – Guy Bernadin
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
A Salty Piece of Land – Jimmy Buffett
Wild – Cheryl Strayed
The Eyes of Darkness – Dean Koontz
In the Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick
A Cooks Tour – Anthony Bourdain
Thunderball – Ian Fleming
Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy. Book 1) – Jeff VanderMeer
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
Circling the Sun – Paula McLain
All Aboard – Rod Shiers
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming (This is my 20th book in the first five months of the year , which is definitely a result of the lockdown)
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Piccadilly Jim – P G Wodehouse
With All Due Respect – Nikki R Haley
The Stranger – Albert Camus
The Last Train to Key West – Chanel Cleeton
Addicted to Adventure – Bob Shepton
Autumn – Ali Smith
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
News of the World – Paulette Jiles (My 30th book of the year and still only the second week of August)
Dr No – Ian Fleming
The Evening and the Morning – Ken Follett….this the prequel to Pillars of the Earth, which remains my favourite book of all time.
Lockdown – Peter May
The Warmth of Waves – Lynette Fisher
The Witches – Roald Dahl
Next Year in Havana – Chanel Cleeton
Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
The Lions of Fifth Avenue – Fiona Davis
The Sun Down Motel – Simone St James
Survive the Savage Sea – Dougal Robertson…I first read this amazing story soon after it was first published in 1973, and many years before my dreams to sail. I found the book again at the Hull Maritime Festival while living on my boat in Hull marina. This is my 40th book of the year.
The Road Virus Heads North – Stephen King
Cycle of the Werewolf – Stephen King
Dedication – Stephen King
Paper Money – Ken Follett
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E M Forster
Dolan’s Cadillac – Stephen King
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A Smuggler’s Guide to Good Manners – Kenny Ranen…which is my fiftieth book of this year of lockdowns. It is now 20 December, and I may start a new book to finish in the New Year.
I have started to read…American Tabloid – James Ellroy, and will likely finish this as my first book of 2021.
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