Great, not rotten books – my favourite books ever!

The title of my website has caused a bit of confusion with people thinking I only write about crap books but in fact the idea was meant to be that I give a review, a bit like rotten tomatoes, so people get a clear idea if it is good or not.  Another issue that seems to be arising is that everyone thinks I hate all the books I read, now it is true that I am a bit opinionated (but what’s the point in a book blog if you are not), but I really enjoy lots of books.  So here is a quick overview of the best books I have read for those of you who are too busy or who can’t be bothered to read the whole review!  You can also be my friend on goodreads to see this.

	Title	Author	Avg rating	My rating
	The City of Falling Angels	Berendt, John	3.41
	Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past	Tremlett, Giles	3.82
	An Instance of the Fingerpost	Pears, Iain	3.85
	Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague	Brooks, Geraldine	3.93
	Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution	Steel, Mark	3.96
	Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England	Weir, Alison	3.83
	Diaries 1942-1954	Bloch, Michael	3.83
	Some Country Houses and Their Owners	Lees-Milne, James	3.43
	Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee	Syal, Meera	3.41
	Remarkable Creatures	Chevalier, Tracy *	3.67
	Precious Bane	Webb, Mary	4.25
	Inés of My Soul	Allende, Isabel	3.77
	Zorro	Allende, Isabel	3.68
	The Ladies of Grace Adieu: And Other Stories	Clarke, Susanna	3.79
	Any Human Heart	Boyd, William	4.13
	A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary	Hillers, Marta	4.28
	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Shriver, Lionel	3.99
	English Passengers	Kneale, Matthew	4.05
	Cloud Atlas	Mitchell, David	4.18

cover	title	author	avg rating	rating
	Making History	Fry, Stephen	3.95
	The Fry Chronicles	Fry, Stephen	3.86
	Suite Française	Némirovsky, Irène	3.73
	Ghosts of Spain	Tremlett, Giles	3.82
	Behind the Scenes at the Museum	Atkinson, Kate	3.89
	The Art of Travel	Botton, Alain de *	3.81
	The Mill on the Floss	Eliot, George	3.65
	The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)	Lewis, C.S.	4.23
	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell	Clarke, Susanna	3.73
	Death of a Salesman	Miller, Arthur	3.40
	The Digested Read: v. 2	Crace, John	4.50
	Catwatching	Morris, Desmond	3.89
	Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)	Atkinson, Kate	3.79
	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)	Lewis, C.S.	4.12
	The House of the Spirits	Allende, Isabel	4.11
	The Closed Circle	Coe, Jonathan	3.70
	What a Carve Up!	Coe, Jonathan	4.06
	The Rotters’ Club	Coe, Jonathan	3.92
	Wheel Of Fortune	Howatch, Susan	4.05
	Cashelmara	Howatch, Susan	4.04

cover	title	author	avg rating	rating
	Penmarric	Howatch, Susan	3.97
	Rebecca	Maurier, Daphne du	4.13
	Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)	Fielding, Helen	3.63
	Persuasion	Austen, Jane	4.11
	A Fine Balance	Mistry, Rohinton	4.29
	1984	Orwell, George	4.02
	Wuthering Heights	Brontë, Emily	3.72
	North and South	Gaskell, Elizabeth	4.11
	A Room with a View	Forster, E.M.	3.89
	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	4.22
	Jane Eyre	Brontë, Charlotte	4.04
	Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life	Weir, Alison	3.91
	The Poisonwood Bible	Kingsolver, Barbara	3.89
	The Remains of the Day	Ishiguro, Kazuo	4.05

Goodreads.com, a great website for book lovers.

Discovered Goodreads last month and am very jealous, I wish I had made a website like this.  Actually they do have millions (well, lots) of people writing for it, so I have no chance of emulating it.

Anyway this is a great website and worth looking at.  You can rate the books you have read or create a would like to read list.   You can also see what your friends are reading and how they have rated the books.  There are also lots of groups to join or quizzes to do.  I have also been looking at their worst books of all time list, for some inspiration on my next post about rubbish books and there are some controversial choices in there like Animal Farm and Tess of the D´Urbervilles at 28 and 30 respectively.  Despite this travesty it is still a little bit addictive.