Books Read by Peter Between 1940 and 2018 (Chronological List)
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Books read 1940 to 2018 (Chronological) 1 of 53 Books read by Peter between 1940 and 2018 (Chronological List) The list was compiled from a list begun in a notebook in 1969. From 2006/7, the list was continued in a file on the HP organiser and subsequent smart phones, backed up on my PC. The earlier entries from 1940 to 1969 were obtained by trawling through all the books in the house, and comparing with the later digitised entries. *** Many thanks to Patricia for her enthusiasm and help*** The list includes - biographies, histories, novels, the arctic, mountains, sailing, trains, travel and adventure. The list does NOT include - chemical, mathematical, computing and air quality and other scientific texts, hand and reference books, travel guides, etc., or school, town and Uni. library books read in the period before 1969. The dates including months - are from the written book lists made from 1969 - 2007, and the computer file from 2006 to the present. The dates with just years - are estimates made from memory for books from the shelves, mainly for books between 1940 to 1969. They correspond roughly to the periods: 1940-45, Primary school; 45-51, Grammar school; 51-53, AERE Harwell; 53-56, Birmingham; 56-59, Cambridge; 59-61, Princeton; 61-69, Keele. The Notes - are taken from the original lists and were mostly made when the entry was made. "Remembered" - denotes book not in the lists nor on the shelves, but simply recalled; mainly for childhood books. "re-read" - was a recollection of having read the book earlier; if the earlier read was itself in the lists, then there will be more than one entry for the book. The star ratings *, **, *** - were mostly made with the entry. They are sparse, mainly made in later years and hardly systematic! 1940 J.F. Horrabin The Japhet and Happy Annual Remembered 1940 Ruth Ainsworth Tales about Tony read several times 1940 Malcolm Saville Mystery at Wytch End Remembered 1942 HMSO Coastal Command Remembered 1942 HMSO Civil Defense Remembered 1943 Malcolm Saville Seven White Gates Remembered 1943 Walter Hutchinson Printers Pie from Lilly Jenn; read several times 1944 B. Melville Nicolas Round the Year 1944 HMSO Bomber Command Remembered 1944 Phyllis Megros All about Ciphers 1945 zz_Anonymous Railways, Ships and Aeroplanes ** from Mother Books read 1940 to 2018 (Chronological) 2 of 53 1945 C.B. Rutley Wid Life in the Jungle (Elephant, Baboon, Timur the Tiger) Remembered 1945 Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe 1945 Kenneth Graham Wind in the Willows read several times 1945 Thor Heyerdahl The Kon-Tiki Expedition read several times later 1945 V.W.V. Hagen Miskito Boy Remembered 1946 John Buchan Prester John 1947 George F. Blake British Ships and Ship Builders 1947 James Fisher Birds of Britain 1947 zz_Anonymous New Popular Educator (I & II) 1947 Sir Edward Evans British Polar Explorers 1947 Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines 1947 R.L. Stevenson An Inland Voyage 1947 Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 1947 Johnathan Swift Gulliver's Travels 1947 G.S. Ranshaw Modern Scientific Wonders and Inventions *** 1947 zz_Anonymous Triumphs of Engineering ** from Ted and Doreen 1947 zz_Anonymous How and why it Works ** 1948 William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 1948 zz_Anonymous The World's Railways and How they Work ** from Mother 1949 William Shakespeare Macbeth 1950 Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 1950 Charles Dickens Nicolas Nickleby 1950 Paul Brickhill The Great Escape ? 1950 Eric Linklater Poet's Pub Remembered 1950 John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Remembered 1950 Richard Llewellyn How Green was my valley 1950 Thorton Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey Remembered 1951 Nigel Balchin Small Back Room read several times 1951 W. A. Poucher Over Lakeland Fells from Anne 1951 Leslie Charteris Saint books 1951 C.F. Meade Approach to the Hills 1951 H.G. Wells The Invisible Man 1951 H.G. Wells A Short History of the World 1952 J.E.Q. Barford Climbing in Greta Britain 1953 Frank Smythe Climbs in the Canadian Rockies Newbury FE College Science Prize 1953 Eustace Chesser Love without Fear 1953 John Hunt The Ascent of Everest 1953 John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Remembered Books read 1940 to 2018 (Chronological) 3 of 53 1953 S.C. Coppleston Aquinas 1953 Daphne du Maurier Jamaica Inn 1953 Jan de Hartog Captain Jan 1953 Ralph Hill The Symphony 1953 Betrand Russell The Impact of Science on Society 1953 Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina 1953 Daphne du Maurier The Birds and Other Stories 1953 Ralph Hill The Concerto 1953 Werner Keller The Bible as History 1953 Peter Wildeblood Against the Law 1953 Paul Brickhill The Dam Busters 1953 Paul Brickhill The Great Escape 1953 Edward Young One of our Submarines 1954 John Buchan Greenmantle 1954 Leslie Charteris The Avenging Saint 1955 Paul Brickhill Reach for the Sky 1955 John Buchan 39 Steps 1956 Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands 1956 Frank Smythe Camp Six 1956 H.R. Trevor Roper The Last days of Hitler 1956 C.H. Waddington The Scientific Attitude *** 1956 Caroline Gordon The House of Fiction Remembered 1956 Cecil J. Allen The Railway 1956 Hermann Buhl Nanga Parbat Pilgrimmage 1956 Ernest Hemingway To Have and have not 1956 Fred Hoyle The Black Cloud 1956 S. Körner Kant 1956 D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers 1956 C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters 1956 Guy de Maupassant Bel Ami 1956 George Orwell Animal Farm 1956 George Orwell Nineteen Eighty Four 1956 Betrand Russell History of Western Philosophy 1956 Betrand Russell Mysticism and Logic 1956 Berhard Shaw Back to Methusela 1956 Berhard Shaw Man & Superman 1956 Berhard Shaw St Joan 1956 John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat Books read 1940 to 2018 (Chronological) 4 of 53 1956 Julian Symons Thomas Carlyle 1956 Leo Tolstoy War & Peace (1, 2, & 3) 1956 Voltaire Candide 1956 Evelyn Waugh Scoop 1956 Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1956 John Wyndham The Day of the Triffids 1956 John Wyndham The Seeds of Time 1956 Georges Houot 2000 Fathoms Down with Pierre Willm 1956 General Mark Clark Calculated Risk 1956 Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms 1956 Karl M. Herlighoffer Nanga Parbat 1956 A.A. & M. Hoehling The Last Voyage of the Lusitania 1956 Aldous Huxley Beyond the Mexique Bay 1956 D.H. Lawrence Kangaroo 1956 Fitzroy Maclean Eastern Approaches 1956 Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif 1956 Alec Robertson Chamber Music 1956 Marie Stopes Married Love 1956 Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall 1956 Ursula Bower Naga Path 1956 Aldous Huxley Eyeless in Gaza 1956 Walter Lord Night to Remember 1956 Guy de Maupassant Miss Harriet 1956 Evelyn Waugh Put Out More Flags 1956 Aldous Huxley Point Counterpoint 1956 Guy de Maupassant The Mountain Inn 1956 Otto Neubert Tutankamun 1956 Evelyn Waugh Black Mischief 1956 Aldous Huxley Chrome Yellow 1956 H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds 1956 Aldous Huxley Antic Hay 1956 H.G. Wells The History of Mr Polly 1956 James Joyce The Dubliners 1957 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote in part 1957 Honore de Balzac Eugenie Grandet 1957 Fydor Dostoyevsky Crime & Punishment 1957 William Faulkner As I Lay Dying 1957 Honore de Balzac Domestic Peace Books read 1940 to 2018 (Chronological) 5 of 53 1957 Fydor Dostoyevsky The Idiot 1957 Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary 1957 Russel Braddon Cheshire V.C. 1957 Ralph Buchsbaum Animals without Backbones vols. 1 & 2 1957 Rixon Bucknall Boat Trains and Channel Packets 1957 F. Spencer Chapman Memoirs of a Mountaineer 1957 James Fisher Rockall 1957 Peter Fleming Brazilian Adventure 1957 Harry J. Greenwall Northcliffe 1957 Heinrich Harrer Seven Years in Tibet 1957 Andre Migot Tibetan Marches 1957 Peter Fleming With the Guards to Mexico 1957 Peter Fleming Travels In Tartary 1957 Vladimir Dudintsev Not by Bread Alone 1957 Graham Greene Brighton Rock 1957 Nancy Mitford The Pursuit of Love 1957 Alberto Moravia Woman of Rome 1957 Alberto Moravia Conjugal Love 1958 Alan Bullock Hitler, A Study in Tyranny 1958 R.A. Hamilton Venture to the Arctic 1958 A.S. Romer Man and the Vertebrates vol. 1 & 2 1958 Dorothy Sayers The Nine Taylors 1958 Dorothy Sayers The Unpleasantness at Bellona Club 1958 Eric Shipton Upon that Mountain 1958 Dorothy Sayers Strong Poison 1958 John Tucker Kanchenjunga 1958 Dorothy Sayers Murder must advertise 1958 Dorothy Sayers Hangman's Holiday 1958 Dorothy Sayers In the Teeth of the Evidence 1958 Dorothy Sayers Busman's Honeymoon 1958 Ralph E. Lapp The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon ** 1958 Alan Paton Cry the beloved Country 1958 John Hersey Hiroshima *** 1959 André Gide Straight is the Gate 1959 André Gide The Immoralist 1959 Robert Falcon Scott Scott's Last Expedition *** 1959 Henry James The Ambassadors in part 1959 Robert Graves The Greek Myths (I & II) (in part) Books read 1940 to 2018 (Chronological) 6 of 53 1959 Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter 1959 Aldous Huxley Time must have a stop 1959 Giuseppe di Lampedusa The Leopard 1959 Athur Miller The Crucible 1959 Betrand Russell Marriage and Morals 1959 Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe 1959 C.P. Snow Science and Government 1959 J.W.N. Sullivan Beethoven; a Study in Greatness 1959 William Makepeace Thackery Vanity Fair 1959 Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn 1959 Rene Vallery-Radot The Life of Pasteur 1959 Herbert Wise (ed) Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 1959 C.P. Snow Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ** 1959 Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of Seven Gables 1959 Alan Moorehead The Russian Revolution 1959 Andre Pirro J.S. Bach 1959 W.J. Turner Mozart 1959 C. Vann Woodward The Strange Career of Jim Crow 1959 Nathaniel Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales 1960 John Buchan The Path of the King 1960 G.K. Chesterton The Flying Inn 1960 Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1960 Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl 1960 Alan Drury Advise and Consent Remembered 1960 Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 1960 John Buchan Hunting Tower 1960 G.K.