Captivated~by~Fantasy

Dissertation Books- 

1. Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families by John C. Friel
2. Twentieth- Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age by Clive Bloom
3. Thriller: Genesis and Structure of a Popular Genre by Jerry Palmer
4. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History by Cathy Caruth
5. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by Martin Priestman
6. Crime Fiction from Poe to the Present by Martin Priestman
7. Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction by Laurie Vickroy
8. Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood by Lenore Tear

University Books- 

1. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
2. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
3. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
4. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
5. Close Range by Annie Proulx

Books I read for fun-  

1. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
2. The Girl Before by J.P.Delaney
3. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
4. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
5. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
7. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
8. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
9. My Favourite Manson Girl by Alison Umminger
10. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
11. The Book of You by Claire Kendal
12. I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
13. Strictly Between Us by Jane Fallon
14. Twist Me by Anna Zaires
15. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
16. This is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
17. Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland
18. Ordeal by Linda Lovelace
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
20. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
21. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

So, that is 34 books so far this year…not great but it was a challenging academic year.