Adulthood

Now that list of authors from my childhood seemed quite small, am sure I will remember another one or two and add them in to it, but for now here's my Adulthood books, or I should say here's the authors whose books I read from age 16ish onwards. The list is as follows:

• Wilbur Smith - The 'Egyptian' Novels, The 'Courtney' Novels, cry wolf, hungry as the sea, Those in Peril..
• Christian Jacq - Ramses II
• Terry Brooks - Sword of Shannara
• Star Trek Voyager (numerous authors)
• Trudi Canavan - Black Magician, Traitor spy
• Rachel Caine - Morganville Vampires, Weather Warden
• Karen Chance - Cassandre Palmer
• David Eddings - The Elder Gods
• James Clemens - Banned and the Bannished (Wit'ch series)
• J.V. Jones - Sword of Shadows, The book of words
• Paul Sussman - The Lost Army of Cambyses
• Juliet Marillier - Sevenwaters, Bridei, Twixt Firelight and Water. (read all her books)
• K.E.Mills - Rogue Agent
• Karen Miller - Kingmaker/Kingbreaker, Godspeaker, Fishermans Children
• Fiona McIntosh - Quickening Series, Trinity Series
• Maria V. Snyder - Poison Study to Spy Glass, Inside out, Outside in, Avry of Kazan
• Brent Weeks - Night Angel Trilogy, Perfect Shadow
• Kirstin Cashore - Seven Kingdoms Trilogy
• Keri Arthur - Riley Jenson Guardian Series
• Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Kate Morton - House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper
• Rachel Hore - A Place of Secrets
• Kate Mosse - Labyrinth, Sepulchure, The Winter Ghosts, Citedel
• Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn,
  The Emperor's Soul, The Alloy of Law, Elantris, The Stormlight Archive, War Breaker, The Rithimatist, The Emperor's Soul, Legion.
• Gregory Maguire - Wicked
• Kelley Armstrong - Darkest Powers
• Stephanie Meyer - Twilight, The Host
• James Patterson - Witch and Wizard
• Mia James - By Midnight
• Emily Gee - Thief with no shadow
• Jodie Picoult - My Sisters Keeper
• Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, Kane Cronicles, The son of Sobek
• Stephen Deas - The Thief-Taker's Apprentice
• Christine Feehan - Drake Sisters
• David Daglish - A Dance of Cloaks, A Dance of Blades
• Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
• Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
• L.A.Weatherly - Angel
• Amanda Hocking - Tryelle Trilogy 
• A.G.R.Moore - The Unseen Chronicles of Amelia Black,
  A Boy Named Hogg
• Robert Jordan - The Wheel of time
• Virgina Andrews - Delia
• Clare Balding - My Animals and Other Family
• Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Raised by Wolves Series
• Diane Chamberlain - Before the storm series, Breaking the Silence, The Midwife's Confession
• Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games Trilogy
• Elspeth Cooper - The Wild Hunt, Sons of the earth
• Dannika Dark - Mageri Series
• Linda Gillard - House of Silence
• Catherine MacLeod - Daisychains of Silence
• Gena Showater - Playing with Fire
• Tachyon Publications - Epic: Legends of Fantasy
• Alison Croggon - The Gift
• Susan Richards - Chosen by a horse
• Yann Martel - Life of Pi
• Elizabeth Edmonson - The Villa in Italy
• Tony Copperfield - Sick Notes: True Stories from the GP's Surgery
• Emma Milne - Tales from the Tail End: Adventures of a Vet in Practice
• Julie Kagawa - The Iron Fey
• Raymond E Fiest - Magicion, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon, Honored Enemy,  Jimmy the Hand, 
• Martin, George R. R. - Game of Thrones

From the beginning..

This blog is just a record keeping for myself for the books and their authors who have lead me through the journey from childhood to adult life.

My childhood to young adult list is as follows:

• Eric Carle – Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Enid Blyton - Famous Five

                - Secret Seven
                - The Faraway Tree

• C.S.Lewis 
• Roald Dahl
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm – Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• Jane Leslie Conly, Robert C. O’Brien – Rats of Nimh
• Steven Davies – Sophie series
• Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
• KM Peyton - Blind Beauty
• Lauren Brooke - Heartland
• Bennie Bryant - Saddle Club
• Nicolas Evans - The Horse Whisperer
• Tamora Pierce - The Tortall series, Circle of Magic series
• Dick King Smith - The Sheep-Pig
• Ann Brashares – Sisterhood of Travelling pants
• Marita Conlon-McKenna – Under the Hawthorne tree
• Carolyn Keene – Nancy Drew
• Astrid Lindgren – Pippa longstocking
• Ann M. Martin – Babysitters club
• Lucy Maud Montgomery – Ann of Green Gables
• Jill Murphy – The Worst Witch
• Edith Nesbitt – Railway Children, Phoenix and the Carpet
• Mary Norton – The Borrowers, Bedknob and Broomstick
• Jenny Oldfield – Homefarm Twins, Half Moon Ranch series
• Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden 
• Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmations
• R. L. Stine – Goosebumps
• E.B.White – Charlottes Web
• Jacqueline Wilson
• Garth Nix
• Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
• Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
• Louisa May Alcott - Little Woman
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
• Johanna Spyri - Heidi
• L. Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz
• J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan
• Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows
• Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
• Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses
• Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials
• J K Rowling
• J. R. R. Tolkien – Lord of the rings
• V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the attic
• Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express, Poirot
• Jane Austen
• Charles Dickens
• Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

My Introduction.

Hello,

My name is Cathy (I am not a small furry feline being so please don't call me Cat) and I am a student of 23 years of age, I've decided to create a blog to keep record of all the books I've read over the past 20 odd years.

Thank you