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