The British Books Challenge challenges us to read British all year!
By signing up, the reader aims to finish 12 books by U.K. authors (born in the U.K., or living in the U.K. and first published in the U.K.) in 2012, an average of one book a month. Because I read a lot, I have decided this year to give fair due to a writer I have managed not to read. Mostly.
For my British Books Challenge 2012 I will read Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
Yep, you read that right!
I have always loved Good Omens, having read that as part of my Neil Gaiman obsession. Now I am told that that book is overtly Pratchett, so I will have to give him a go! I will start on the 39 novels in Sir Terry‘s discworld series and I’m pretty sure I’ll finish them all in a year. And if I need a Discworld break, I’ll munch on one of Angry Robot Books‘s excellent selection. They are a U.K.-based publisher and a good deal of their authors are British. My Angry Robot Books break selection will be;
Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett,
The World House by Guy Adams,
Empire State by Adam Christopher,
Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther,
Damage Time by Colin Harvey,
Winter Song by Colin Harvey,
Pretty Little Dead Things by Gary McMahon,
Dead Bad Things by Gary McMahon,
The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle,
Sixty-One Nails by Mike Shevdon
and maybe a Neil Gaiman or J.K. Rowling book here or there.
And oh, how I wish Chuck Wendig and Matt Forbeck were British, so I could include Blackbirds and Carpathia, respectively! Alas!
I’ll be posting the reviews for these books on my blog but will also collect the links here.
Wish me happy reading. 
(P.S. I don’t want to be pedantic, or maybe I do, but the name of this challenge is a slight misnomer. Of course if you’re British you’re from the U.K, but not all people from the U.K are British. And since this challenge includes authors from Northern Ireland, this is actually the U.K. Books Challenge. Pedanticness over. Maybe this irks me because I was born in Holland in The Netherlands and my husband is from The Netherlands but not Holland. Get it? The two are not the same. Go on… Ask me. I dare you.)
Thanks for including me in your reading list, Victoria! I hope you enjoy “The Alchemist of Souls” – one of the major characters happens to be from The Netherlands
Hey Anne,
thanks for stopping by. And excellent about your character being Dutch, I think your book just bumped up the break-pile.
Look forward to reading it.
I just might join you on that challenge, although I am not British but by ♥
Oh, lovely Anne, you don’t have to be British to participate. I’m not!
Look forward to discovering your to-read list. Will you post it on your website?
V.
so glad you’ve joined the Challenge.
If the Irish part bothers you as it isn’t technically part of Britain it’s fine if you don’t count them. I have just taken the challenge on from Becky and she wanted to be inclusive. To be fair last year I read 60 books for the British Books Challenge and I don’t think any of them were from Northern Ireland
Hey Kirsty,
thanks for stopping by. No, it doesn’t bother me really. I was just being my annoying nit-picky self.
I don’t think any of my books stem from Northern Ireland and to be honest, I think most U.K. writers are from Britain anyway!
Good luck on running the contest. And have fun!
Victoria