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- Joined
- Mar 6, 2007
- Real Name
- Charlotte
- About My Library
- I read as widely as I can. Genres include crime fiction, fiction in translation, African fiction (especially South African and Nigerian), and contemporary British literature. For academic purposes I read history, gender studies, education policy.
- About Me
- Like the library, a work in progress.
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- Lancashire, England
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- Favorite Authors
- Leila Aboulela, Chinua Achebe, Douglas Adams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Boris Akunin, Kate Atkinson, Jane Austen, Elia Barceló, Julian Barnes, Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Geraldine Brooks, Peter Carey, Michael Chabon, J. M. Coetzee, Teju Cole, Wendy Cope, Colin Cotterill, E. E. Cummings, Tessa Dare, Miranda Davis, Roddy Doyle, Anne Fadiman, Jasper Fforde, Jacky Fleming, Aminatta Forna, Margaret Forster, Petina Gappah, Linda Grant, Sarah Hall, Kazuo Ishiguro, Liz Jensen, Antjie Krog, Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet Malcolm, Andrew Miller, David Mitchell, L. M. Montgomery, Michael Ondaatje, Julie Otsuka, Ruth Padel, Don Paterson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rachel Seiffert, Curtis Sittenfeld, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Colm TóibÃn, Jill Paton Walsh, Sarah Waters, Bill Watterson
- Favorite Lists
- 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2021 Tournament of Books, 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 500 Great Books by Women, Around the World in 80 Books, Bibliomemoirs, The Black Archives: All Power To the People! Reading List, Book Riot's 100 must-read works of Jewish Fiction, Booker Prize Longlist 2024, Books Read in 2024, Borderless Book Club, CBC Books - Canada's 100 (+ bonus 10): Which have you read?, Dublin Literary Award 2024 Longlist, Favorite Recent Poetry: 1980-2022, Favorite Short Fiction, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Korean literature, Man Booker Prize Longlist 2015, Must-Read Books by Black Authors, Not the NYT list of top 100 21st century books, NYT 100 best books of 21st C, Top Five Books of 2013, Top Five Books of 2015, Top Five Books of 2018, Top Five Books of 2020, Top Five Books of 2023, A Ukraine Reading List, Women's Prize Longlist 2024, Women's reading list, Writers at Risk, Your favorite books from the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
- Local Favorites
Bookstores: Broadhurst's Booksellers, Clarke's Bookshop, Clitheroe Books (was Roundstone Books), Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh Castle Bookshop, Elvis Shakespeare, Empire Books, Gould's Book Arcade, Hay Cinema Bookshop, Hill of Content, Kalk Bay Books, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, News From Nowhere, Obz Books, Oxfam Books, Parkinson's Books, Southport, Riverby Books, The Edinburgh Bookshop, The Old Town Bookshop, Waterstone's Ormskirk, Word Power Bookshop
Libraries: British Library, British Library Newspapers, Central Library, Central Library, Liverpool - Picton Library - Hornby Library, Gamla Stans bibliotek (filial till Stockholms Stadsbibliotek), Jessie Street National Women's Library, Library of Congress, James Madison Memorial Building, Liverpool John Moores University - Aldham Robarts Learning Resource Centre, McDonald Road Library (Edinburgh), Ormskirk Library, Scottish Poetry Library, University of Edinburgh - New College Library
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