I don’t make a fuss of my milestone birthdays, or any birthdays for that matter. I’m not even sure that my family even know it’s my 70th birthday. However, my partner always makes a big fuss of me. For my 60th I walked the Camino de Santiago alone. For me it was the perfect way to celebrate this milestone birthday. I can remember being very grateful that I was still fit and healthy enough to do this walk, and was a bit proud of myself for being brave enough to do it alone.

At the moment, on my birthday, we are at Bright in the Alpine country, having a relaxing week with friends. This isn’t a birthday celebration. It’s totally coincidental that we are getting together in my birthday week. So far, it’s been great few days away, with lots of time for reading and getting into nature.

Just for fun, I thought I’d make a list of 70 books that I have loved during 70 years.

I really can’t remember much about the books that I read in my teens or early twenties, which is why there are more recently published books on the list, than books from decades ago.

The following books are listed in no particular order. They started out in alphabetical order, but as we are on holidays, that became a bit of a chore and they are mostly random. It’s been fun reminiscing and choosing. When choosing I focused on books they I would read again.

70 Books

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

All The President’s Men by Carl Bernstein

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anatomy by Dana Schwartz

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Atonement by Ian McEwan

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Bleak house by Charles Dickens

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Bush Christmas by Ralph Smart

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Devotion by Hannah Kent

Dune by Frank Herbert

Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lola in The Mirror by Trent Dalton

London by Edward Rutherford

Love Story – Trent Dalton

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Solomon’s Song by Bryce Courtney

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Stand by Stephen King

We Were the Mulvanney’s by Joyce Carol Oates

The Chocolate Maker’s Wife by Karen Brooks

The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes

The Dictionary of lost Words by Pip Williams

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

The Good People by Hannah Kent

The Shining by Stephen King

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

The Persimmon tree by Bryce Courtenay

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Power of one by Bryce Courtenay

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Where The Crawdad’s Sing by Delia Owens

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