So what books did you get for Christmas?

[Lifeinagoldfishbowl]

and what books are you buying with your gift vouchers?

I got a 10 pack of Pann books including;

Bitter Sweets - Roopa Farooki
Crazy as chocolate - Elisabeth Hyde
The first assistant - Claire Naylor

(Which I have read before)

The last anniversary - Liane Moriarty
A small part of me - Noelle Harrison
The Alphabet sisters - Monica McInerney
At a time like this - Catherine Dunn
Good Harbor - Anita Diamant
Recipes for a perfecct marriage - Kate Kerrigan
The adultery clb - Tess Stimson

I want to buy turn of the screw with my vouchers - and not sure what else

NONE.
Ist year ever.
But got vouchers so may get the Dragon Tattoo series.

I got The Defence of the Realm, the Authorized History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew.

Have wanted it for ages

Out of curiosity & slightly OT, does your dh/family moan when you ask for books? Mine do, 'but that's boring, that's all you ever ask for'. So far they don't seem to have got the hint that yes I do want books, I don't need another set of pjs/bath sets etc

Nope, my family and DH all love books too so it is fine. Never ask my dad for books though, mainly as it is much easier for him to get books wrong.

flame, lucky you!

I got None for the first year ever too

feels quite strange really

have huge pile next to bed to finish anyway (am reading William Boyd Ordinary Thunderstorms at the moment)

the first twilight book which i found odd as have no interest in vampires etc.plus another book that ive not heard off but doesnt look very interesting.

I got the latest Stuart McBride, and latest Mark Billingham (mind gone blank for titles!),

Wolf Hall (late b'day present, so opened it Xmas) and this - not usually my kind of thing but I read the first one when I was ill and really enjoyed it.

Thanks Wheelybug, I'm trying to decide which to read first

My sister and mum are always happy to buy me books, as is dh.
And a couple of friends always buy me them for my birthday.

I love to get books, and also like ot give them as presents.

I got 2 Ken Follett books - IL's wanted something to keep me going til next Christmas

Also MIL lent me Guernica and have a couple of library books that are due back this week so have lots to read.

Hurrah!

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Monty Don - Ivington Diaries
Amanda Vickery - Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
Shirley Williams autobiog
Nigel Slater veg book
Heston Blumenthal - Fat Duck Cookbook
Chinese cookery book
Daily Mash book

Another Kate Atkinson here - One Good Turn. Really good read!!

Jo Brand's autobiography

The Winter Queen - Phillipa Gregory

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

DH got me
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper - Lives in Art
(Pre-selected by me)

-the kind of thick, intelligent biography that i only have time to read at the tail end of the year, i am loving it.

I am having a mid-twentieth century phase as a rest from the nineteenth century (and the 21st obviously).

I didn't get a single book this year - am still astonished.

the lost symbol dan brown
small island andrea levy
and
the time travellers wife

chunkykitkat what is the winter queen like I love Philippa Gregory and have read most of her books so far

I got Ted Hughes Birthday Letters
Tim Harford book title forgotten
Freakonomics
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle (which my MIL tried to borrow, having mistaken it for the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown )

I got The White Queen (Philippa Gregory), Lustrum (Robert Harris), The Scarpetta Factor (Patricia Cornwell) and The Baboons Who Went This Way and That (Alexander McCall Smith) - my smallest Christmas haul for years!

Am halfway through The White Queen and finding it one of her better ones but that may be because I'm more interested in the Plantagenets than the Tudors.

A load of Dickens, on request
A vegetarian cookbook that looks quite poncey
Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry

Not much this year, since I'm up to the eyeballs in MA reading.

Friedrich Nietzsche - "Thus spoke Zarasthustra" and "Beyond Good and Evil"
Hunter S. Thompson - "Hell's Angels".

Cant't even start them yet, as am halfway through Barnaby Rudge and have a pile waiting beside bed.

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (DH thinks I need a challenge!)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

I got a treasury of Bunty stories!

I also got Punch cartoons and a collection of LadyGram puzzles - does that count?

Valley of the Dolls

The new one by The Time Travellers Wife person - can't remem what called..

The Message

I LOVED The American Wife!

Littlerach - if you haven't decided yet, start with the reluctant fundamentalist as its a REALLY quick read.

As for getting books for christmas - most people buy me books. MIL usually makes some disparaging comment but otherwise everyone happily buys them (My Mum actually bought me a second hand book for 1p as part of my presents - got other lovely things too but Paula was out of stock on amazon and she found it for 1p on the marketplace... but she knew I wouldn't mind that but you can't do that with everyone !)

The Little Stranger which I have started but almost passed out reading the incident near the beginning. Seriously. Went faint and had to lie down