Bringing over my list:
1.) Gossip From the Forest, Sara Maitland
2.) Ritual, Adam Nevill
3.) The Penny Heart, Martine Bailey
4.) Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
5.) The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Library Volume 1: Histories
6.) The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma
7.) The History of the English Puppet Theatre, by George Speaight
8.) The Year of Reading Dangerously, by Andy Miller
9.) Republic of Thieves, by Scott Lynch
10.) Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard
11.) Wychwood, by George Mann
12.) Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King and Owen King
13.) Last Days, by Adam Nevill
14.) The Owl Killers, by Karen Maitland
15.) Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella
16.) Happy, by Derren Brown
17.) A Surfeit of Lampreys, by Ngaio Marsh
18.) Death Knocks Twice, by Robert Thorogood
19.) Cheer up, Love, by Susan Calman
20.) The North Water, by Ian McGuire
21.) The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters
22.) A Morbid Taste for Bones, by Ellis Peters
23.) Rogues, edited by George RR Martin
24.) End of Watch, Stephen King
25.) Brave, Rose McGowan
26.) The Blackest Streets, Life and Death of a Victorian Slum, Sarah Wise
27.) Eligible, Curtis Sittenfield
28.) The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
29.) The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry
30.) The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland, by John Lewis-Stempel
31.) The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, by Martyn Waites
32.) Game of Thrones, by George RR Martin
33.) The Fire Child, by SK Tremayne
34.) Death of Kings, by Bernard Cornwell
35.) Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues, by James Fearnley
36.) The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles, by Carolyne Larrington
37.) The Break, by Marian Keyes
37.) Tudor Monastery Farm
38.) Under A Pole Star, by Stef Penney
39.) The Cheapside Corpse, by Susanna Gregory
40.) The Eyes of the Reindeer, Eva Weaver
41.) The Outcasts of Time, Ian Mortimer
42.) Death and the Dancing Footman, Ngaio Marsh
43.) Why Mummy Drinks, The Diary of an Exhausted Mum, by Gill Sims
44.) Colour Scheme, Ngaio Marsh
45.) Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
46.) A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
47.) The Harrowing, James Aitcheson
48.) Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World, by Laura James
49.) Day Four, Sarah Lotz
50.) The Silent Companions, Laura Purcell
51.) This Thing of Darkness, by Harry Thompson
and finally:
52.) Thin Air, by Michelle Paver -- Finished this in one day in the end. It's a short, compelling read, but in the end very similar to Dark Matter, with a similar sort of set-up: internally conflicted young man who isn't quite at ease with his companions, hostile environment, a possible haunting. Oh, and the comforting companionship of a dog.
Dark Matter was scarier (I know not everyone found it scary, but I listened to it on audiobook and found the ending chilling), with more memorable haunted objects: it had a skinning pole, while Thin Air has a [clears throat] rucksack, but I liked the ever-present danger of the environment, and it had a lovely MR Jamesian feel to it with the bone trumpet in the beginning, along with certain later events. A few bits, like the window onto the abyss, weren't capitalised on as well as they could have been, and while Dark Matter had some gripping moments throughout, here the tension doesn't really ramp up until the end.
Well worth a read if you like ghost stories, but it is a bit of a shame it all felt so familiar.
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Continuing the easy quick reads theme with Spectacles, Sue Perkins's memoir, . So far, funny with a few slightly silly bits. Worth it, though, even if just for the photograph of Sue as a child looking like Damien from the Omen. It's... a little unnerving.