Books Read 2012

32 Books read in 2012...



January:
1. The Message – Julie Highmore

2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Emily Goes to Exeter - M.C. Beaton

February:
4. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

5. Big Fish – Daniel Wallace

6. The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters

7. Butterfly Burning – Yvonne Vera

March:
8. Hawk of May – Gillian Bradshaw

9. The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy

April:
10. Kingdom of Summer - Gillian Bradshaw

11.Four Ways to Forgiveness – Ursula Le Guin

May:
12. In Winters Shadow - Gillian Bradshaw

13. The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

June:
14. Body of Glass – Marge Piercy

15. The Bottle Factory Outing – Beryl Bainbridge

July:
16. Something Borrowed – Paul Magrs

17. The Carhullan Army – Sarah Hall

18. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud – Ben Sherwood

19. The Help – Kathryn Stockett

August:
20. Conjugal Rites – Paul Magrs

21. Blue Heaven – Joe Keenan

22. The Trumpet Major – Thomas Hardy

23. Blind Willow Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

September:
24. Baudolino – Umberto Eco

October:
25. PopCo –Scarlet Thomas

November:
26. A Laodicean – Thomas Hardy

27. Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones

December:
28. The Female Man- Joanna Russ

29. Two on a Tower – Thomas Hardy

30. Strictly Shimmer – Amanda Roberts

31. Maps for Lost Lovers – Nadeem Aslam

32. Starfire Angels – Melanie Nilles

Books Read 2011

29 Books read in 2011...

January
1. Twelve days (Short Stories) (Shelley Silas Ed.)
2. The Sunne in Splendour (Sharon Pennman)
3. The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
4. Room (Emma Donoghue)

February
5. Never the Bride (Paul Magrs)
6. The Message to the Planet (Iris Murdoch)
7. The Careful Use of Compliments (Alexander McCall Smith)
8. Quirkology (NF)(Richard Wiseman)

March
9. The Room of Lost Things (Stella Duffy)
10. The Green Knight (Iris Murdoch)
11. Moominsummer Madness (Tove Jansson)
12. Strangers (Taichi Yamada)

April

13. Tanglewreck (Jeanette Winterson)
14. Jackson's Dilemma (Iris Murdoch)


May
14. Wild Swans (Jung Chang)
15. Tell it to the Bees (Fiona Shaw) 16. Case Histories (Kate Atkinson)


June
17. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
18. Pirates at Play (Violet Trefusis)


July
19. Desperate Remedies (Thomas Hardy)

August
20. Sepulchre (Kate Mosse)
21. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher- The Murder at Road Hill House-
(Kate Summerscale)

September
22. Nocturnes (Kazuo Ishiguro)
23. Under the Greenwood Tree (Thomas Hardy)
24. Snakes and earrings (Hitomi Kanehara)

October
25. A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)

November
26. A Pair of Blue Eyes (Thomas Hardy)

December

27. A Week in December (Sebastian Faulks)
28. Through a Glass Darkly (Jostein Gaarder)
29. Hard Boiled Hard Luck (Banana Yoshimoto)

Books Read in 2010

43 Books Read in 2010

January
1. The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman
2. A Door into Ocean - Joan Slonczewski

February
3. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
5. The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl

March
6. The Tenth Gift - Jane Johnson
7. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

April
8. The Mapmakers Opera - Bea Gonzalez
9. Twins - Genes, the Environment and the Mystery of Identity - Lawrence Wright
10. Atonement - Ian McEwan
11. The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
12. Johnny I Hardly Knew You - Edna O'Brien

May
13. Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
14. Missing - Susan Lewis
15. The Scared and Profane Love Machine - Iris Murdoch

June
16. The Colour - Rose Tremain
17. Blue Diary - Alice Hoffman
18. Bread and Chocolate - Phillippa Gregory
19. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
20. All Balls and Glitter - My Life - Craig Revel Horwood

July
21. Captain Starlight's Apprentice - Kathryn Heyman
22. Worst Fears - Fay Wheldon
23. The Secret Scriptures - Sebastian Barry
24. A Forgein Country - Francine Stock
25. Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto

August
26. The Woman in the Fifth - Douglas Kennedy
27. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
28. The Rose Labyrinth - Titania Hardy
29. Touching Earth - Rani Manicka
30. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
31. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
32. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
33. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs

September
34. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
35. The Fairest Among Women - Shifra Horn

October
36. Over - Margaret Forster
37. The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima
38. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
39. What I Talk About When I talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
40. Where Three Roads Meet - Salley Vickers

November
41. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
42. Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall

December
43. Nickolai of the North - Lucy Daniel Raby

Books Read in 2009

41 Books Read in 2009

January

1. The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)

2. Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver

3. Under the Net (Iris Murdoch)

February

4. Cloud of Sparrows (Takashi Matsuoka)

March

5. Spock Must Die (James Blish)

6. Miss Garnet's Angel (Salley Vickers)

7. The Uncommon Reader (Alan Bennett)

8. The Bell (Iris Murdoch)

April

9. The Sixth Lamentation (William Brodick)

10. The 19th Wife (David Ebershoff)

11. An Unofficial Rose (Iris Murdoch)

12. The Testamant of Gideon Mack (James Roberston)

13. The Italian Girl (Iris Murdoch)

May

14. Mr Goloightly's Holiday (Salley Vickers)

15. The Noce and the Good (Iris Murdoch)

16. On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)

17. Frankie and STankie (Barbara Trapido)

June

18. Iris: A Portrait of Iris Murdoch (John Bayley)

19. Elementals -Short Stories (A.S. Byatt)

July

20. In a Good Light (Clare Chambers)

21. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean -Dominique Baulby)

22. Twentieth Century Short Stories (D.R Barnes and R.F. Egford - Eds)

August

23. Footprints in the Sand (Sarah Challis)

24. Notes From an Exhibition (Patrick Gale)

25. The End of Mr. Y (Scarlett Thomas)

26. Dance, Dance, Dance. (Haruki Murakami)

27. Random Acts of Heroic Love (Danny Scheinmann)

September

28. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)

29. Hey Hostradamus! (Douglas Coupland)

30. Lady Oracle (Margaret Attwood)

October

31. The House of Spirits (Isabelle Allende)

32. Polaris and Other Stories (Fay Wheldon)

33. Love of Fat Men - Short Stories (Helen Dunmore)

November

34. The Other Hand (Chris Cleave)

35. The Planet Dweller (Jane Palmer)

36. The Lollipop Shoes (Joanne Harris)

37. The Shack (W.M. Young)

December

38. The Golden Child (Penelope Fitzgerald)

39. Coalescent (Stephen Baxter)

40. The Pilgrimage (Paulo Coelho)

41. Siberia (Ann Halam)

Books Read in 2008

33 Books read in 2008...

January:
1. The Autograph Man (Zadie Smith)

February:
2. A is for Alibi (Sue Grafton)
3. Playing Sardines (Short stories) (Michele Roberts)

March:
4. Labyrinth (Kate Mosse)
5. Five Sugars Please (Poems) (John Hegley)
6. Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)

April:
7. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)

May:
8. Me:Moir (Vic Reeves)
9. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Paul Torday)

June:
10. Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
11. The Human Factor (Graham Greene)
12. A Spot of Bother (Mark Haddon)
13. Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Joy Fowler)

July:
14. The Photograph (Penelope Lively)
15. Healing Flynn (Juliette Mead)
16. A Rhinestone Button (Gail Anderson-Dargatz)

August:
17. A Thousand Acres (Jane Smiley)
18. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
19. The House at Riverton (Kate Morton)
20. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
21. Engleby (Sebastian Faulks)

September:
22. The Triple Echo (H.E. Bates)
23. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

October:
24. Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver)
25. The Memory Keepers Daughter (Kim Edwards)
26. When The Emperor Was Divine (Julie Otsuka)
27. The Reading Group (Elizabeth Noble)

November:
28. The Discovery Of Chocolate (James Runcie)
29. The Paradoxicon (Non-Fiction)(Nicholas Falletta)

December:
30. Imagining God (Spirituality) (Trevor Dennis)
31. The Book of Loss (Julith Jedamus)
32. Air (Geoff Ryman)
33. Deucalion (Brian Caswell)

Books read in 2007

25 Books read in 2007...

January:
1.The Coffee Trader (David Liss)
2. The Piano Tuner (Daniel Mason)

February:
3. Snow Falling on Cedars (David Gutterson)
4. Girl in Hyacinth Blue (Susan Vreeland)

March:
5. K-PAX (Gene Brewer)
6. K-PAX II (Gene Brewer)
7. K-PAX III (Gene Brewer)

April:
8. Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad (Charlie Croker)
9. Flying Under Bridges (Sandi Toksvig)

May:
10. Single White e-mail (Jessica Adams)

June:
11. The Gabriel Club (Joydeep Roy Bhattacharya)
12. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
13. The Realm of Shells (Sonia Overall)

July:
14. Perfume (Patrick Suskind)
15. House of Light (Candida Clark)

August:
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
17. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)

September:
18. Fixing Shadows (Susan Barrett)

October:
19. Brain Men -The Insider's Guide To Quizzing(Markus Berkman)
20. The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass. (Adrian Plass)

November:
21. One For The Money (Janet Evanovich)

December:
22. The Instances of Three (Salley Vickers)
23. A Christmas Journey (Anne Perry)
24. Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland)
25. Black Swan Green (David Mitchell)