Penny Grubb

Author and lecturer

Good reading

This is a random selection of books I’ve read.  In theory I add to the list when I read a book (but don’t always remember).  When I started this, I added fuller comments on this site.  There’s a link to the original list below.  However, then I discovered GoodReads so now I use that and I recommend that you do too.

How do I rate books?  Purely subjectively.  Some books I enjoy, some I don’t.  These days if I don’t get on with a book, I don’t finish it, so if I’ve listed it, it kept me reading.  If a book catches my mood, I can read it over and over, sometimes restarting the moment I’ve read the last page. 

I have great difficulty with the question “What is your favourite book?” or “Who is your favourite author?”  The answer can change day to day, hour by hour.  It depends on my mood, on what else is happening in my life, whether I am sitting down to read regularly or just snatching fragments of a book in bits of time between being busy with other stuff.

See my original good reading list here

See below for my own books on GoodReads.  And click here to go and explore for yourself.