Books Read 2013

30 Books read in 2013...

 January: 

 1. The Winter Ghosts – Kate Mosse

2. The Horned Man – James Lasdun

February:

3. The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

4. Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith

March:

5. Past Imperfect - Julian Fellowes

6.The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy

April:

7.The Secret Life of Bletchley Park  - (NF) Sinclair McKay

May:

8.The Ex Wives – Deborah Moggach

9. The Editors Wife – Clare Chambers

10. The Language of Others – Clare Morrall

11. Wessex Tales – Thomas Hardy

June:

12. Life of Man – Margaret Attwood

13. Before I go to Sleep – S.J. Watson

14. Pies and Prejudice (NF) Stuart Maconie

July:

15. The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver  

16. Amity and Sorrow – Peggy Riley

17. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

August:

18. Is It Just Me?  - Miranda Hart

19. A Group of |Noble Dames – Thomas Hardy

20. The White Horse – Jules Watson

21. The Pirates Daughter – Margaret Cezair-Thompson

September:

22. Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson

October:

23.Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy

24. Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch

November:

25. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

26.The Patience Stone – Atiq Rahimi

27.Women Can’t Park, Men Can’t Pack – The Psychology of Stereotypes  - Geoff Rolls (NF)

28. Alice Bliss- Laura Harrington

December:
29.Life’s Little Ironies – Thomas Hardy

30. The Sealed Letter – Emma Donoghue

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 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, 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 Sacred 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) (re-read) 

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 Foreign 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 (Shafira 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 2009

 41. Books read in 2009...

January: 

 1. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Non Fiction)(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 Brodrick)

10. The 19^th Wife (David Ebershoff)

11. An Unofficial Rose (Iris Murdoch)

12. The Testament of Gideon Mack (James Robertson)

13. The Italian Girl (Iris Murdoch)

May:

14. Mr Golighty’s Holiday (Salley Vickers)

15. The Nice 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 Bauby)

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 Nostradamus! (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 (Helen Dunmore)

November:

34. The Other Hand (Chris Cleave)

35. The Planet Dweller (Jane Palmer)

36. The Lollipop Shoes (Joanne Harris)
37. The Shack (WM Paul Young)

December:
38. The Golden Child (Penelope Fitzgerald)

39. Coalescent (Stephen Baxter)

40. The Pilgrimage (Paulo Coelho)

41. Siberia (Ann Halam)

Books Read 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 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, 6. K-Pax II, 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)