What books did you get for Christmas?

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Just being nosy!

What books have you had for Christmas this year? Fiction and/or non fiction.

Hoping to be given more books this weekend when we see more family.

No novels as I'm ploughing through the bookcase load I have plus the couple of hundred I must have on my kindle . I didn't ask for any anyway but I did get The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson as I pointed it out to DP I could do with that after realising I give one far too much especially about idiots at work!

The Letters of Sylvia Plath and Mariana by Monica Dickens. Hoping to add to that next week at the shops.

I had 'How to Reform Capitalism' from my DH. It does look interesting - honestly!

I got lots of new books, all inspired by the 50 book thread.

A prayer for Owen Meany (read The cider house rules recently which I loved)
Woman on the edge of time
The House by the lake
Oryx & Crake
I know this much is true
The stand
The nightingale
The 2nd Jackson Brodie
We have always lived in the castle - just started reading.

This should keep my busy for a few weeks.

How Not to Be a Boy - Robert Webb
Eddie Izzard’s biog
The Book of Dust
How hard can it be - Alison Pearson

I wanted Simon Amstell’s book but didn’t get it so will buy it at some point

Middlemarch
Bleak House
Sense and Sensibility
Cranford
Frankenstein
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Villette
and The complete works of Emily Dickinson.

2018 is going to be very classics themed.

Women and power by Mary beard, sapiens and Homo deus

The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey, which is about early Christian iconoclasts, and a Giorgio Locatelli cook-book.

I got the Kevin and Katie carrot book from Aldi (yes I bought it for myself). There were no books I actually fancied this year but I got my dp the Guy Martin books he saw and fancied reading

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Little Fires Everywhere
Mad Girl
All the Best People
Purple Hibiscus
The Scandal
The Gene

Plus £45 in Amazon vouchers, multiple books bought already! I'm very happy

rolling I got that Mary Beard book too! And Philip Pullman Book of Dust as well. Plus the 6 minute diary which I really like so far.
Am lucky!

Tattie I loved Oryx and Crake.

The Discworld Imaginarium
Elizabeth's London - Liza Picard
Time traveller's guide to Restoration Britain - Ian Mortimer
Y is for Yesterday - Sue Grafton
Let's explore diabetes with owls - David Sedaris

Lear by Jenny Uglow

HRC's What Happened (it's not good for my blood pressure, let's just leave it at that), a cookbook and a voucher.

the intelligent investor...

and the hundred-year-old man who climbed out the window.

Casting Off, the fourth Cazalet book. Am working my way through them.

@TheRollingCrone

Is it any good? I’ve been bought this but I’m having to psych myself up to actually read it.

The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

Lollipop it's brilliant, have just bought a copy for a hood friend. Mary Beards students are blessed to have her. It's really accessible, not at all a 'hard read'. You'll sit there and say "I know that I knew that - but Mary got it all straight in my head for me"

^Hood freind . I do not live in the mean streets of South Chicago

I got an Amzon voucher and have bought:
Sugar Money by Jane Harris (The Observations, Gillespie and I) - discounted to £3.49 on Kindle atm
Miss Ranskill comes Home by Barbara Euphan Tood -a Persephone book on the Kindle at £8 rather than the print £14

have some credit left so taking notes on this thread

Back to update as have just spent my vouchers after a lovely few hours in a bookshop.

Cosmopolitan anxieties by Ruth Mandell - a bit niche for some research
The Idiot by Elif Batuman. I loved The Possessed so have high expectations. I could have waited for paperback at beginning of Jan but if you can't buy a hardback with vouchers when can you?
Mansions of Misery by Jerry White about 17th/18th century debtors prison
The disappearance of Emile Zola by Michael Rosen - love Zola, loosely related to research
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
A history of 21 women by Jenni Murray
Istanbul Istanbul by Burhan Sonmez
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

Nothing. Can't decide if I'm disappointed or relieved because now I get to buy my own books without having to read all the rubbish that MIL normally buys me.

@TheCommoner I instructed DH to buy me got 'Lear' as well. It looks fascinating and the illustrations are superb. Love all Jenny Uglow's books.

He did manage to get me a surprise; À la Pym , a collection of Barbara Pym's own recipes. I'm having a bit of a Pym craze at the moment after we read Excellent Women at our local book group. She's always writing about food and meals and she was a keen cook. I'm not altogether sure I'll be cooking anything from the book but it's great fun.