Books Read this Year (2022)
1. The Art of Baking Blind - Sarah Vaughan
2. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Holly Seddon
Books Read this Year (2019)
1. Dead Heading - Catherine Aird
Books Read in 2018
16. Last Man in Tower - Aravind Adiga
15. A Father For Daisy - Karen Abbott 14. Past Tense - Catherine Aird
13. Thanks for the Memories - Cecelia Ahern 12. The Blacksmith’s Girl - Rosemary Aitken
11. Meet Me in Venice - Elizabeth Adler 10. The Break - Katherena Vermette
9. The Upright Piano Player - David Abbott 8. One Hundred Names - Cecelia Ahern
7. Winter Journey - Diane Armstrong 6. The Floating Garden - Emma Ashmere
5. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson 4. Promise - Sarah Armstrong
3. The Auschwitz Violin - Maria Angels Anglada 2. The Burning Chambers - Kate Mosse
1. The Only Story - Julian Barnes
Books Read In 2017
1. Damaged - Cathy Glass
Books Read In 2016
1. Friends - Julia Busquets
Books Read In 2015
12. Until You're Mine - Samantha Hayes
11. The Go-Giver - Bob Burg & John David Mann 10. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
9. I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh 8. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
7. The Silent Sister - Diane Chamberlain 6. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
5. The Well - Catherine Chanter 4. Stonehenge - Bernard Cornwell
3. The Memory Book - Rowan Coleman 2. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
1. The Lace Balcony - Johanna Nicholls
Books Read in 2014
13. In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
12. The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81 - J B Morrison
11. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
10. Paradise of the Blind - Duong Thu Huong 9. Amongst Women - John McGahern
8. The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham 7. Arrhythmia - Richard Rossiter
6. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger 5. Agnes Grey and Poems - Anne Bronte
4. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse 3. Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
2. Cocaine Nights - J G Ballard 1. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer - Philip Carlo
Books Read in 2013
33. Paradise - Toni Morrison
32. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen 31. A Possible Life - Sebastian Faulks
30. Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi 29. The Dead School - Patrick McCabe
28. The English - Jeremy Paxman 27. Waiting - Ha Jin
26. Star Gazing - Linda Gillard 25. A Cat's Little Instruction Book - Leigh W Rutledge
24. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides 23. The Information - Martin Amis
22. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Böll
21. How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman 20. Fantomas - Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
19. Looking For the Possible Dance - A L Kennedy
18. The Lemon Orchard - Luanne Rice 17. Tampa - Alissa Nutting
16. The End of the Alphabet - C S Richardson 15. The Winter Vault - Anne Michaels
14. The Touch - Colleen McCullough 13. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
12. Room - Emma Donoghue 11. The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville
10. The Unknown Terrorist - Richard Flanagan 9. Strait is the Gate - Andre Gide
8. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen 7. Novel With Cocaine - M Ageyev
6. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 5. The Book of Proper Names - Amelie Nothomb
4. Disappearance - David Dabydeen 3. The Dress Lodger - Sheri Holman
2. The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing 1. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
Books Read in 2012
49. The Life of Insects - Victor Pelevin
48. Homeland - Barbara Kingsolver 47. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
46. The Business - Iain Banks 45. Native Son - Richard Wright
44. Oroonoko or, The Royal Slave - Aphra Behn 43. Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
42. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
41. The Spare Room - Helen Garner 40. The More I See of Men, the More I Love My Cat - Daisy Hay
39. A Certain Smile - Francoise Sagan 38. The Invention of Solitude - Paul Auster
37. The Human Fly and Other Stories - T C Boyle
36. A Dance to the Music of Time (Part 1 - Spring) - Anthony Powell
35. Angel Rock - Darren Williams 34. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
33. The Enigma of Arrival - V S Naipaul 32. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
31. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 30. Well - Matthew McIntosh
29. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys 28. Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
27. Water Witch - Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice
26. Jack Frusciante Left the Band - Enrico Brizzi 25. Where or When - Anita Shreve
24. A Girl Could Stand Up - Leslie Marshall 23. The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
22. The Light of Day - Graham Swift 21. The Revenge For Love - Wyndham Lewis
20. An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
19. A Question of Power - Bessie Head 18. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
17. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenistyn
16. The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind 15. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
14. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov 13. Invisible - Paul Auster
12. Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis 11. Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley
10. Rabbit is Rich - John Updike 9. Aesop's Fables - Aesop
8. The Third Brother - Nick McDonell 7. The Interesting Narrative - Olaudah Equiano
6. For Love - Sue Miller 5. The Rise of Life on Earth - Joyce Carol Oates
4. Evasion - Francoise Sagan 3. Cakes and Ale - William Somerset Maugham
2. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Conan Doyle
1. Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi
Books Read in 2011
69. Underworld - Don DeLillo
68. The Double - Jose Saramago 67. Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
66. Deeper Than the Dead - Tami Hoag 65. Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
BR>64. Orlando - Virginia Woolf 63. Homo Faber - Max Frisch
62. The Broken Window - Jeffery Deaver 61. Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
60. The Green Man - Kingsley Amis 59. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
58. Border Crossing - Pat Barker 57. The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks
56. Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
55. Forgotten - Cat Patrick 54. The Butterfly House - Marcia Preston
53. S. - John Updike 52. Moon Palace - Paul Auster
51. The Cement Garden - Ian McEwan 50. The Infinities - John Banville
49. Great Flying Doctor Stories - Bill 'Swampy' Marsh
48. The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood 47. The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt
46. The Way Through the Woods - Colin Dexter 45. Void Moon - Michael Connelly
44. Laughing as they Chased Us - Sarah Jackman 43. The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
42. Walking on Glass - Iain Banks 41. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
40. She - H Rider Haggard 39. Coastliners - Joanne Harris
38. Great Apes - Will Self 37. The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
36. Queer - William Burroughs 35. Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
34. Hold Tight - Harlan Coben 33. Death in Summer - William Trevor
32. Fury - Salman Rushdie 31. Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
30. Persuasion - Jane Austen 29. The Player of Games - Iain M Banks
28. Ease - Patrick Gale 27. Love in Excess - Eliza Haywood
26. Running Wild - J G Ballard 25. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter
24. Cigarettes - Harry Mathews 23. The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
22. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote 21. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
20. Rabbit Redux - John Updike 19. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
18. Fall of the Bar - Last Drinks for the Working Man's Pub! - Glenn Ryan
17. The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark 16. Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
15. Sunset Park - Paul Auster 14. The Twelfth Card - Jeffery Deaver
13. Will You Be There? - Guillaume Musso 12. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
11. Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton 10. The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
9. The Professor's House - Willa Cather 8. Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
7. The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford 6. Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
5. The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy 4. Uncle Silas - J S LeFanu
3. Hardly Working - Chris Moran 2. The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
Books Read in 2010
68. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
67. Sula - Toni Morrison 66. Mr. Vertigo - Paul Auster
65. Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray
64. The Music of Chance - Paul Auster 63. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
62. Postcards - E Annie Proulx 61. 3 by Finney - Jack Finney
60. The Reapers - John Connolly 59. A Scientific Romance - Ronald Wright
58. The Millstone - Margaret Drabble 57. Say Goodbye - Lisa Gardner
56. The Visit of the Royal Physician - Per Olov Enquist
55. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 54. How the Dead Live - Will Self
53. Dead Babies - Martin Amis 52. Nowhere Man - Aleksandar Hemon
51. The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving 50. Dorian - Will Self
49. The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley 48. The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
47. Changing Habits, Changing Lives - Cyndi O'Meara
46. Pasteur's Gambit - Stephen Dando-Collins 45. Fateless - Imre Kertesz
44. Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult 43. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
42. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh 41. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
40. Gallows Thief - Bernard Cornwell 39. The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel - Maureen Lindley
38. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler 37. The Infernal - Kim Wilkins
36. The Gathering - Anne Enright 35. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
34. At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien 33. Platform - Michel Houellebecq
32. Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons 31. Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes
30. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters 29. The Nun - Denis Diderot
28. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 27. Erewhon - Samuel Butler
26. London Orbital - Iain Sinclair 25. Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
24. Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal 23. The Siege of Krishnapur - J G Farrell
22. The Recognitions - William Gaddis 21. The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
20. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt 19. Lost Girls and Love Hotels - Catherine Hanrahan
18. The Mist in the Mirror - Susan Hill 17. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
16. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
15. White Noise - Don DeLillo 14. Grimus - Salman Rushdie
13. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud 12. The Go-Between - L P Hartley
11. Like Life - Lorrie Moore 10. The Rings of Saturn - W G Sebald
9. Making the Rounds with Oscar - David Dosa 8. The Drowned World - J G Ballard
7. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco 6. Cutter and Bone - Newton Thornburg
5. August is a Wicked Month - Edna O'Brien 4. Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
3. Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley 2. What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
1. Gut Symmetries - Jeanette Winterson
Books Read in 2009
105. The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
104. The Book of Rapture - Nikki Gemmell 103. Chess - Stefan Zweig
102. The Road to Lichfield - Penelope Lively 101. Schooling - Heather McGowan
100. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
99. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West 98. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
97. L'Assommoir (Drunkard) - Emile Zola 96. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
95. Austerlitz - W G Sebald 94. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
93. Disgrace - J M Coetzee 92. The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon
91. The Fox - D H Lawrence 90. The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
89. Life & Times of Michael K - J M Coetzee 88. The Master - Colm Toibin
87. The Necklace - Cheryl Jarvis 86. Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
85. The 13 Clocks - James Thurber 84. New Grub Street - George Gissing
83. Tremble - Tobsha Learner 82. Here, There & Everywhere - Chris Roberson
81. Rabbit, Run - John Updike 80. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Horace McCoy
79. The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk - David Ambrose
78. The Wedding Officer - Anthony Capella 77. A Song of Stone - Iain Banks
76. The Facts of Life - Patrick Gale 75. The Pursuit of Happiness - Douglas Kennedy
74. Mailman - J Robert Lennon 73. The Magus - John Fowles
72. Little Birds - Anais Nin 71. Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
70. The Third Man - Graham Greene 69. Quiver - Tobsha Learner
68. Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock 67. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
66. The Meaning of Night - Michael Cox 65. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
64. Alone - Lisa Gardner 63. Weddings and Wives - Dale Spender (Ed)
62. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh 61. The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
60. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
59. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk 58. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
57. Junky - William S Burroughs 56. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
55. Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee 54. Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
53. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs 52. Jack Maggs - Peter Carey
51. Evelina - Fanny Burney 50. The Best American Erotica 2006 - Susie Bright (Ed)
49. Manly Books - Skyring 48. The Past and Other Lies - Maggie Joel
47. Willard and His Bowling Trophies - Richard Brautigan
46. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami 45. God Bless You, Mr Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
44. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
43. The End of the Affair - Graham Greene 42. The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch
41. Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult 40. Book of the Dead - Patricia Cornwell
39. The Cider House Rules - John Irving 38. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
37. Training Solutions First Aid - A & S Sparkes
36. A Severed Head - Iris Murdoch 35. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
34. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 33. Silas Marner - George Eliot
32. The Emigrants - W G Sebald 31. The Monk - Matthew Lewis
30. Adjunct: An Undigest - Peter Manson 29. Nana - Emile Zola
28. Worstward Ho - Samuel Beckett 27. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
26. Faces in the Water - Janet Frame 25. The Piano Teacher - Elfriede Jelinek
24. Espedair Street - Iain Banks 23. Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 21. In the Forest - Edna O'Brien
20. The Sea - John Banville 19. Reveries of the Solitary Walker - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
18. Guilt about the Past - Bernhard Schlink 17. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
16. Petals of Blood - Ngugi wa Thiong'o 15. The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
14. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene 13. Howards End - E M Forster
12. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 11. House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
10. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
9. Man in the Dark - Paul Auster 8. The Iron Heel - Jack London
7. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston 6. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
5. Embers - Sandor Marai 4. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
3. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 2. Angelica's Grotto - Russell Hoban
1. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Books Read in 2008
154. Fierce People - Dirk Wittenborn
153. A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami 152. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
151. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
150. A House Somewhere - Don George & Anthony Sattin 149. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
148. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo 147. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
146. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov 145. The Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
144. The Human Stain - Philip Roth 143. Red Herrings and White Elephants - Albert Jack
142. The First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 141. The Wilt Alternative - Tom Sharpe
140. Smiley's People - John Le Carre 139. Stone and Water - Poetry - Chrishoula Demetrakakis
138. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk 137. The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood
136. The Honourable Schoolboy - John Le Carre 135. Mercy - Jodi Picoult
134. Other People - Martin Amis 133. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
132. White Teeth - Zadie Smith 131. What's Your Poo Telling You? - Josh Richman and Anish Sheth
130. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 129. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
128. The Counterfeiters - Andre Gide 127. The Bell - Iris Murdoch
126. Passing - Nella Larsen 125. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
124. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 123. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
122. The Floating Opera / The End of the Road - John Barth
121. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon 120. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
119. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd 118. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
117. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson 116. House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
115. The Shipping News - Annie Proulx 114. Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
113. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon 112. Contact - Carl Sagan
111. The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis 110. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
109. Saturday - Ian McEwan 108. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
107. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
106. Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss 105. Thursbitch - Alan Garner
104. Drop Shot - Harlan Coben 103. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
102. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd 101. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
100. The Last Temptation - Nikos Kazantzakis 99. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
98. Ada - Vladimir Nabokov 97. The Distinguished Guest - Sue Miller
96. Bonjour Tristesse - Franciose Sagan 95. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
94. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 93. The Talk of the Town - Ardal O'Hanlon
92. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey 91. A Passage to India - E M Forster
90. The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa 89. The Book of Evidence - John Banville
88. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 87. Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
86. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 85. Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
84. The Witch of Cologne - Tobsha Learner 83. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
82. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 81. The Trial - Franz Kafka
80. Neuromancer - William Gibson 79. City Primeval - Elmore Leonard
78. The Quest for Christa T. - Christa Wolf 77. Man of My Dreams - Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forster, Virginia Kantra
76. The Breast - Philip Roth 75. Unless - Carol Shields
74. Flights of Love - Bernhard Schlink 73. The Long Afternoon - Giles Waterfield
72. After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell 71. Oscar and Lucinda: Screenplay - Laura Jones
70. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver 69. Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker
68. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro 67. Tuesday Night at the Kasbah - Patricia Kitchin
66. Cock and Bull - Will Self 65. Diary: A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk
64. Eden Close - Anita Shreve 63. Black Diamonds - Kim Kelly
62. All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve 61. Black Ice - Sandy Curtis
60. The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster 59. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
58. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 57. Affinity - Sarah Waters
56. The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor 55. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
54. The Outsider - Albert Camus 53. Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
52. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
51. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink 50. Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
49. My Brother Michael - Mary Stewart 48. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
47. Tomaree - Debbie Robson 46. Bond of Blood - Benjamin Nicholls
45. Trial By Fire - Benjamin Nicholls 44. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
43. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
42. Atomised - Michel Houellebecq 41. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
40. Complicity - Iain Banks 39. Drop City - T C Boyle
38. Under the Skin - Michel Faber 37. The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
36. The Immoralist - Andre Gide 35. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
34. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro 33. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
32. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
31. Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad 30. Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
29. England Made Me - Graham Greene 28. I am the Cheese - Robert Cormier
27. Don't Move - Margaret Mazzantini 26. Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
25. A World Apart - Caro Fraser 24. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
23. Timbuktu - Paul Auster 22. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
21. Bel-Ami - Guy de Maupassant 20. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
19. The Quiet American - Graham Greene 18. The Lover - Marguerite Duras
17. Possession - A S Byatt 16. Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
15. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan 14. Wonders of the World - Rough Guides
13. Ethical Travel - Rough Guides 12. Wildlife Adventures - Rough Guides
11. Journeys - Rough Guides 10. World Food - Rough Guides
9. The Poison That Fascinates - Jennifer Clement
8. Felicia's Journey - William Trevor 7. What Maisie Knew - Henry James
6. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 5. The Virgin in the Garden - A S Byatt
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi 3. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2. Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1. Why She Left Us - Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Books Read in 2007
147. All That Swagger - Miles Franklin
146. The Traveller - John Katzenbach 145. Be Careful What You Wish For - Alexandra Potter
144. A Room With a View - E M Forster 143. The Murder Book - Jonathan Kellerman
142. Captain Corelli's Island: Cephallonia - Andy Harris
141. Love's Work - Gillian Rose 140. Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
139. Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs 138. The Years - Virginia Woolf
137. And On The Seventh Day - Paulo Coelho 136. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
135. The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra 134. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
133. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen 132. A Taste For It - Monica McInerney
131. The Red Notebook - Paul Auster 130. Bloody Mary - Meg Henderson
129. To the Burning City - Alan Gould 128. The Door Into Summer - Robert A Heinlein
127. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult 126. Au Revoir - Mary Moody
125. Keystone - Peter Lovesey 124. Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
123. In the Night Room - Peter Straub 122. Harvesting the Heart - Jodi Picoult
121. Lisey's Story - Stephen King 120. Getting Rid of Matthew - Jane Fallon
119. The World According to Garp - John Irving 118. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
117. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 116. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
115. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
114. Remember Me - Trezza Azzopardi 113. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
112. Death Delights - Gabrielle Lord 111. Family Pictures - Sue Miller
110. The Dead of Winter - Lisa Appignanesi 109. Paula - Isabel Allende
108. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood 107. Second Glance - Jodi Picoult
106. Lime Bar - Matt Condon 105. Total Eclipse - Elizabeth Rigbey
104. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 103. Dirt Music - Tim Winton
102. A Change in the Lighting - Amy Witting 101. Angel Puss - Colleen McCullough
100. All Through the Night - Mary Higgins Clark
99. Where Angels Fear To Tread - E M Forster 98. Candide - Voltaire
97. The Other Woman - Jane Green 96. The Littlest Hitler - Ryan Boudinot
95. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis 94. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
93. Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult 92. The Graduate - Charles Webb
91. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene 90. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
89. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
88. The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne 87. Elizabeth Costello - J M Coetzee
86. Beloved - Toni Morrison 85. Running Backwards Over Sand - Stephanie Dowrick
84. Swamp - Run For Your Lives! - Gary Clark 83. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
82. Body Surfing - Anita Shreve 81. Turtle Moon - Alice Hoffman
80. The Island - Victoria Hislop 79. The Miracles of Santo Fico - D L Smith
78. Passage - Connie Willis 77. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
76. Chocolat - Joanne Harris 75. Salt On Our Skin - Benoite Groult
74. Foetal Attraction - Kathy Lette 73. Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow - Peter Hoeg
72. Wilderness Tips - Margaret Atwood 71. The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
70. Rough Music - Patrick Gale 69. Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
68. The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve 67. Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
66. Meeting Point - Roisin McAuley 65. Written in the Stars - Sarah Ball
64. Puerto Vallarta Squeeze - Robert James Waller
63. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis 62. Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy - Jostein Gaarder
61. Tell No One - Harlan Coben 60. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
59. Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank - Robert W Fuller
58. Heat Haze - Fay Weldon 57. Singing Bird - Roisin McAuley
56. Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
55. Perfume - Patrick Suskind 54. The Birth House - Ami McKay
53. The Cat Sanctuary - Patrick Gale 52. The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Dante Alighieri
51. Doctor Death - Jonathan Kellerman 50. A Keeper of Sheep - William Carpenter
49. Snow Along the Border - Raymond Sawkins 48. Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
47. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje 46. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
45. On Beulah Height - Reginald Hill 44. The Asti Spumante Code: A Parody - Toby Clements
43. A Feather on the Breath of God - Sigrid Nunez
42. False Impression - Jeffrey Archer 41. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
40. The Broken Cord - Michael Dorris 39. The Unwanted - John Saul
38. Cheaters - Eric Jerome Dickey 37. Charmed Circle - Barbara Whitnell
36. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom 35. Technical Hitch - Jane Sigaloff
34. Wrack - James Bradley 33. Do Cats Need Shrinks? - Peter Neville
32. Affection - Ian Townsend 31. Sanctuary - Lisa Appignanesi
30. Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve 29. Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
28. Clea's Moon - Edward Wright 27. Eating Fire and Drinking Water - Arlene J Chai
26. Ya-Yas in Bloom - Rebecca Wells 25. White Coolies - Betty Jeffrey
24. The Interpreter - Suzanne Glass 23. Lady Oracle - Margaret Atwood
22. Until Proven Guilty - Christine McGuire 21. The Mysterious Cat: Feline Myth & Magic Through the Ages - Joan Moore
20. Mad About the Boy - Maggie Alderson 19. Eucalyptus - Murray Bail
18. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan 17. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
16. God's Callgirl - Carla Van Raay 15. The Stolen Child - Clare Boylan
14. Perfect Victim - Christine McGuire & Carla Norton
13. Indigo - Graham Joyce 12. The Philosopher Cat - Kwong Kuen Shan
11. Quill - Neal Drinnan 10. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
9. Prince of the Lilies - Rod Jones 8. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
7. At Risk - Patricia Cornwell 6. Lost to View - James Horden
5. Paris Trout - Pete Dexter 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
3. Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris 2. In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
1. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Books Read in 2006
167. Sam's Letters to Jennifer - James Patterson
166. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - James Patterson
165. A Gracious Plenty - Sheri Reynolds 164. Love Song - Nikki Gemmell
163. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer - Steven Millhauser
162. Homework - Suneeta Peres da Costa 161. Cattitude - Christine Montaquila & Kim Levin
160. Mary, Mary - Julie ParsonsBR> 159. Fatal Observations - Catherine Merriman
158. Painted Woman - Sue Woolf 157. The Lulu Magnet - Matthew Condon
156. A Needle in the Heart - Fiona Kidman 155. Keeping Faith - Jodi Picoult
154. Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
153. A Dangerous Woman - Mary McGarry Morris 152. Shadows of Olive Trees - Susanne Gervay
151. The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster 150. A Good House - Bonnie Burnard
149. Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaski - Mineko Iwasaki & Rande Brown
148. Nellcott Is My Darling - Golda Fried 147. Jumping the Queue - Mary Wesley
146. How to Live with a Neurotic Cat - Stephen Baker
145. The World Below - Sue Miller 144. Hiding from the Light - Barbara Erskine
143. The Christmas Box Collection - Richard Paul Evans
142. Dead Sexy - Kathy Lette 141. Murder at the Fortnight - Steve J Spears
140. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle 139. Max and the Cats - Moacyr Scliar
138. Book Lover - Jennifer Kaufman, Karen Mack 137. Sleepwalking - Julie Myerson
136. Signspotting - Absurd & Amusing Signs From Around the World - Doug Lansky, Lonely Planet
135. Little Johnnie and the Naughty Boat People - Christopher Milne
134. Honeymoon - Amy Jenkins 133. The Last Magician - Janette Turner Hospital
132. A Life of My Own - Mary Tucker 131. Julian's House - Judith Hawkes
130. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
129. The Summer Garden - Paullina Simons 128. Still Life - Louise Penny
127. My Wicked, Wicked Ways - Errol Flynn 126. One Last Time - John Edward
125. The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan 124. The Girl in Times Square - Paullina Simons
123. The Tapestries - Kien Nguyen 122. Story of O - Pauline Reage
121. Jennie's Reprisal - Carol Bennett 120. The Walker - Jane R Goodall
119. Haunted - James Herbert 118. Black Hearts - Arlene J Chai
117. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice 116. Conversations with Cats - Bill Perry
115. Acid Row - Minette Walters 114. Winter Close - Hugh Mackay
113. Paper Nautilus - Nicholas Jose 112. The Snow Falcon - Stuart Harrison
111. The Thoughts of Chairman Meow - Mike O'Brien
110. The Boy in the Moon - Kate O'Riordan 109. Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
108. The Return - Andrea Hart 107. On the Street Where You Live - Mary Higgins Clark
106. The Rose Crossing - Nicholas Jose 105. Semana Santa - David Hewson
104. The Apostle Bird - Garry Disher 103. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
102. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 101. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
100. Now You See Me - Jean Bedford 99. Lonely Planet Greece
98. Matthew Flinders' Cat - Bryce Courtenay 97. With Malice Aforethought - Bill Wannan
96. Odd One Out - Monica McInerney 95. Falling - Anne Provoost
94. Mad Cows - Kathy Lette 93. The Peppered Moth - Margaret Drabble
92. Predator - Patricia Cornwell 91. The Easy Sin - Jon Cleary
90. Timepiece - Richard Paul Evans 89. Crossing Paths - Debbie Robson
88. Gone - Chris Nyst 87. Louis: A normal novel - Kathleen Stewart
86. Sea Glass - Anita Shreve 85. Four Letters of Love - Niall Williams
84. Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller 83. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
82. Animal Farm - George Orwell 81. Strange Fits of Passion - Anita Shreve
80. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 79. Mary Reilly - Valerie Martin
78. Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe 77. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
76. The Service of Clouds - Delia Falconer 75. The Naked Husband - Mark D'Arbanville
74. The Hoax - Sophie Masson 73. The Red Thread - Nicholas Jose
72. Shark Song - Carolin Window 71. Slightly Settled - Wendy Markham
70. Harnessing Peacocks - Mary Wesley 69. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
68. Knitting - Anne Bartlett 67. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
66. Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult 65. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
64. The Bay of Contented Men - Robert Drewe 63. Full House - Penelope Hanley
62. Weather - Julie Capaldo 61. Tomaree - Debbie Robson
60. Only Love Is Real - Brian L. Weiss 59. While I Was Gone - Sue Miller
58. Guilty Creatures - Sue Welfare 57. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
56. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood 55. Libertine - Peta Spear
54. The Colour of Hope - Susan Madison 53. The Solitaire Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
52. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 51. Alba - Rachel King
50. The Brimstone Wedding - Barbara Vine 49. Daughters of the House - Michele Roberts
48. A Little Love Song - Michelle Magorian 47. Cat - Freya North
46. Suicide Blonde - Darcey Steinke 45. Atonement - Ian McEwan
44. The Story Collector - Susan Price 43. Three Blind Mice - Ed McBain
42. If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? - Cynthia Heimel
41. The Bride Stripped Bare - Anonymous 40. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth
39. What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson 38. The Hills is Lonely - Lillian Beckwith
37. The Girl Who Played Go - Shan Sa 36. It's Not You It's Me - Allison Rushby
35. Hill Towns - Anne Rivers Siddons 34. Checkers - John Marsden
33. California Angel - Nancy Taylor Rosenberg 32. You Remind Me Of Me - Dan Chaon
31. Amanda in the Private House - Esme Ombreux 30. Dear Henry - Brenda Little
29. White Oleander - Janet Fitch 28. The Skylark's Song - Audrey Howard
27. Art & Lies - Jeanette Winterson 26. The Australian Food Guide - Damien Davis
25. The Book of Secrets - Robert J. Petro and Therese A Finch
24. Assuming the Position - Rick Whitaker 23. The Pillow Fight - Matthew Condon
22. A Long Time Dying - Olga Masters 21. Women on Death Row - Mike James
20. Murder One: They Went to the Death Chamber - Mike James
19. The Cat Who Came For Christmas - Cleveland Amory 18. Virtual Love - Susan Oudot
17. The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly 16. Small Tales of a Town - Susan Webster
15. A Barefoot Wedding - Elizabeth Falconer 14. Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
13. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
12. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 11. Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells
10. The Food of Love - Anthony Capella 9. Don't Kiss Them Goodbye - Allison DuBois
8. The Sound of One Hand Clapping - Richard Flanagan
7. Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody 6. Little Lies - Hugh Mackay
5. Tulip Fever - Deborah Moggach 4. Light House - William Monahan
3. Copycat Marketing 101 - Burke Hedges 2. Do Cats Have ESP? - Jeane Dixon
1. Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty
3rd AUSTRALIAN BOOKCROSSING CONVENTION
ADELAIDE - OCTOBER 2006!
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