Readings

Books read 2021

  • January
  • Sabriel – Garth Nix A, F
  • Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari A, NF
  • Midnight at Malabar House – Vaseem Khan Cr
  • All Systems Red – Martha Wells SF
  • Shanghai Girls – Lisa See A
  • February
  • Provenance – Ann Leckie A, SF
  • Bodily Harm – Margaret Atwood A L
  • Frenchman’s Creek – Daphne du Maurier A
  • Pandora’s Jar – Natalie Haynes A NF
  • American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins A
  • Over Sea, Over Stone – Susan Cooper A
  • Red Pill – Hari Kunzru
  • The Golden Tresses of the Dead – Alan Bradley A Cr
  • March
  • Labyrinth – Amanda Lohrey
  • Our Man in Havanna – Graham Greene A
  • Square Haunting – Francesca Wade NF A
  • The Fifth Child – Doris Lessaing
  • The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova (reread) A
  • April
  • Her Husband – Hughes and Plath – Dianne Middlebrook A NF
  • The Seven Doors – Agnes Ravatn Cr
  • Trouble in Nuala – Harriet Steel A Cr
  • Witchmark – CL Polk A
  • May
  • High Rising – Angela Thirkell A
  • Dark Clouds Over Nuala – Harriet Steel A Cr
  • Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz A Cr
  • The Secret Life of Mr Roos – Hakan Nesser Cr
  • A Necessary Evil – Abir Mukherjee A Cr
  • The Wyndham Case – Jill Paton Walsh Cr
  • The Wall – Marlen Haushofer
  • Twilight of Democracy – Anne Applebaum NF A
  • Air Above the Ground – Mary Stewart A
  • June
  • Just One Damned Thing After Another A
  • Ancient Wonderings – James Canton A NF
  • Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Writers and Lovers – Lily King A
  • The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra – Vaseem Khan A Cr
  • Stormsong – CL Polk A
  • Small Spaces – Katherine Arden
  • The Plot – Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • The City of Tears – Kate Mosse A
  • Friend Request – Laura Marshall A
  • Black Narcissus – Rumer Godden
  • The Midnight Library – Matt Haig A
  • July
  • The Bombay Prince – Sujata Massey
  • How to Train Your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
  • The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater A
  • The Guinevere Deception – Kiersten White A
  • Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo A
  • The Girl in the Tower – Katherin Arden A
  • The Magic Apple Tree – Susan Hill A NF
  • The Night Raven – Sarah Painter A
  • August
  • The Dying Day – Vassem Khan
  • Sorcery of Thorns – Margaret Rogerson A
  • Mrs England – Stacey Halls A
  • Cart and Cwidder – Diana Wynne Jones A
  • September
  • The Mystery of Mrs Christie – Marie Benedict A
  • Changeling – Molly Harper A
  • Death in the East – Abir Mukherjee A
  • The Kingdoms – Natasha Pulley A
  • Forestborn – Elayne Audrey Becker A
  • Emotional Female – Yumiko Kadota A NF
  • Fledgling – Molly Harper A
  • Starsight – Brendon Sanderson A
  • Magic Lessons – Alice Hoffman A
  • October
  • The Maidens – Alex Michaelides
  • Mortal Engines – Philip Reeve A
  • Predator’s Gold – Philip Reeve A
  • Infernal Devices – Philip Reeve A
  • A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson A
  • Jane Austen at Home – Lucy Worsley A NF

Book read 2020

  • January
  • The Dutch House – Anne Pratchett
  • Wolfe Island – Lucy Treloar (A) (Aust)
  • The Eyes of Tamburah – Maria V Snyder (A)
  • February
  • Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Evaristo (A)
  • Will and Testament – Vigdis Hjorth
  • The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place – Alan Bradley (A) (Flavia DeLuce #9)
  • Mr Nobody – Catherine Steadman
  • March
  • The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon (A)
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
  • Keep You Close – Lucie Whitehouse
  • Chasing the Shadows – Maria V Snyder (A)
  • April
  • The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L Sayers (A)
  • Lizard’s Tale – Weng Wai Chan
  • Wintering – Katherine May (NF)
  • The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai (A)
  • May
  • The Pool of Two Moons – Kate Forsyth (A) Aust
  • The Salaryman’s Wife – Sujata Massey (A)
  • Fleishman is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Aknar
  • The Testaments – Margaret Atwood (A)
  • The Moonspinners – Mary Stewart (A)
  • Polaris Rising – Jessie Mihalik (A)
  • Murder on the Rue Dumas – ML Longworth
  • Bitter Fruits – Alice Clark-Platts (A)
  • June
  • Aurora Rising – Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristof Aust
  • The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood (A)
  • A College of Magics – Caroline Stevermer
  • The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo Higashino
  • Circe – Madeline Miller (A)
  • The Salt Path – Raynor Winn (NF)
  • Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (A)
  • July
  • The Night Country – Melissa Albert
  • Prodigy – Marie Lu (A)
  • Zen Attitude – Sujata Massey
  • The Burning Girl – Claire Messud
  • August
  • Chernobyl Strawberries – Vesna Goldsworthy (B NF)
  • Too Much and Never Enough – Mary L Trump (A NF)
  • The Calculating Stars – Mary Robinette Kowal (A)
  • A House in Norway – Vigdis Hjorth
  • The Flower Master – Sujata Massey (Cr)
  • September
  • The Grand Sophie – Georgette Heyer A
  • A History of the Bible – John Barton A NF
  • The Calculating Stars – Mary Robinette Kowal A
  • Bruny – Heather Rose A Aust
  • Skyward – Brandon Sanderson A
  • The Bride’s Kimono – Sujata Massey
  • Worst Fears – Fay Weldon A
  • My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
  • October
  • The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel (A)
  • The Other Side of the Sky – Amie Kaufman and Meghan Spooner
  • The Left-Handed Booksellers of London – Garth Nix (A)
  • Moonflowers Murders – Anthony Horowitz (A)
  • November
  • The Young Elites – Marie Lu (A)
  • The Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste
  • Aurora Blazing – Jessie Mihalik (A)
  • Death in Kenya – M M Kaye (A)
  • Death in Her Hands – Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Hons and Rebels – Jessica Mitford (A)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – JK Rowling (A)
  • December
  • Where the Crawdad’s Sing – Delia Owens (A)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (A)
  • My Brother Michael – Mary Stewart (A)
  • Sweet Days of Discipline – Fleur Jaeggy
  • The Vanishing Stair – Maureen Johnson A YA Cr
  • Books = 62 F55 M7
  • Lit 18
  • F 13
  • Cr 11
  • NF 6
  • Spec 5
  • Genre 5

Books read 2019

  • January
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence – Artemis Cooper (A) (NF) (B)
  • Secrets of a Sun King – Emma Carroll (C)
  • The Quiet Woman – Christopher Priest
  • Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
  • Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
  • Skylarking – Kate Mildenhall
  • February
  • One Way to Venice – Jane Aitken Hodge
  • Rosie: Scenes From a Vanished Life – Rose Tremain (NF) (B)
  • Undying – Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (audio)
  • Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew’d – Alan Bradley (Flavia De Luce #8)
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Lee Israel (NF)
  • March
  • Ghost Wall – Sarah Moss
  • Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery (audio)
  • Small Fry – Lisa Brennan-Jobs (NF) (B)
  • The Scholar – Dervla McTiernan
  • Overstory – Richards Powers (audio)
  • April
  • The Story of a Lost Child – Elena Ferrante (A)
  • A Winter’s Promise – Christelle Dabos (Fan)
  • Mr Wrong – Elizabeth Jane Howard (SS)
  • The Erratics – Vicki Laveau-Harvie (NF) (B)
  • Normal People – Sally Rooney
  • May
  • In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larsen (NF) (H)
  • Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie (A) (SF)
  • Sisters – Gabrielle Lord (Aus)
  • Appointment in Arezzo – Alan Taylor (NF) (B)
  • The Stone Key – Isobelle Carmody (Aus)  Fantasy (A)
  • Machines Like Me – Ian McEwan
  • Gilgamesh – Joan London (A)
  • June
  • Runemarks – Joanne Harris (A)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula Le Guin
  • My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
  • The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller (A)
  • Winter – Marissa Meyer (A)
  • July
  • Bright Swallow – Vivian Bi (NF, B)
  • The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt (A)
  • Scarlet – Marissa Meyer (A)
  • The Wall – John Lanchester
  • Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier (A)
  • August
  • These Broken Stars – Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (A)
  • Tove Jansson: Work and Love – Tuula Karjalainen (B)
  • To Catch a Killer – Nele Neuhaus (Cr) (A)
  • Navigating the Stars – Maria V Snyder (A)
  • The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
  • Their Fractured Light – Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner (A)
  • September
  • The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden (A)
  • The Old Ways – Robert McFarlane (A) (NF)
  • Black Hour – Lori Rader-Day (Cr)
  • Milkman – Anna Burns (A)
  • The Night Visitor – Lucy Atkins
  • Zebra – Debra Adelaide
  • Hive – AJ Betts (A)
  • October
  • Country Girl – Edna O’Brien (B)
  • Illuminae – Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (A)
  • Legend – Marie Lu (A)
  • Warcross – Marie Lu (A)
  • The Carer – Deborah Moggach
  • The Missing of Clairedelune – Christelle Dabos (A)
  • November
  • Reign of Shadows – Sophie Jordan (A)
  • The Satapur Moonstone – Sujata Massey (A) (Cr)
  • Angel Mage – Garth Nix
  • The Theban Mysteries – Amanda Cross (Cr)
  • Wildcard – Marie Lu (F) (A)
  • December
  • Tam Lin – Pamela Dean (Spec)
  • Traces – Patricia Wiltshire (NF)
  • Still Life with Teapot – Brigid Lowry (NF, B)
  • The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman (F) (A)
  • Nevermoor  – Jessica Townsend (F) (A)
  • The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo

Books read 2018

  • January
  • Wolf Hollow – Lauren Wolk
  • La Belle Sauvage – Philip Pullman
  • February
  • The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
  • Bad Behaviour – Rebecca Starford
  • Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf
  • Hagseed – Margaret Atwood (audiobook)
  • Strangers in Company – Jane Aitkin Hodge
  • March
  • Lincoln at the Bardo – George Saunders
  • The House at Bishopsgate – Kate Hickman
  • A Life of My Own – Claire Tomalin
  • April
  • Leaping Fish and Ammonites – Penelope Lively
  • The Hazel Wood – Melissa Albert
  • I am, I am, I am – Maggie O’Farrell
  • Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
  • The Miniaturist – Jessie Burton (audiobook)
  • May
  • Marie Antoinette – Antonia Fraser (audiobook)
  • The Living and Dead in Winslow – Hakan Nesser (audiobook)
  • Ice Wolves – Amie Kaufman
  • Jacob’s Room is Full of Books – Susan Hill
  • June
  • Fear – Dirk Kurbjuweit
  • The Bookshop – Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Wildfire at Midnight – Mary Stewart
  • July
  • Educated – Tara Westover
  • Lorna Doone – R D Blackmore (audiobook)
  • The Road to Lichfield – Penelope Lively
  • Stasiland – Anna Funder (audio)
  • Flowers in the Attic – V C Andrews
  • August
  • Notes From a Roman Terrace – Joan Marble
  • The Librarian – Sally Vickers
  • Lirael – Garth Nix (audio)
  • Abhorsen – Garth Nix (audio)
  • Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
  • The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches – Alan Bradley
  • Unearthed – Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (audio)
  • September
  • The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante (audio)
  • Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Clariel – Garth Nix (audio)
  • Death on the Cherwell – Mavis Doriel Hay
  • Cinder – Marissa Meyer (audio)
  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Elena Ferrante (audio)
  • October
  • Snap – Belinda Bauer
  • Goldenhand – Garth Nix (audio)
  • The Mistress of Mellyn – Victoria Holt
  • Shakespeare’s Library – Stuart Kells
  • The Light on the Water – Olga Lorenzo
  • New Boy – Tracy Chevalier
  • November
  • This Shattered World – Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (audio)
  • Ithaka – Adele Geras
  • Mister Monday – Garth Nix (audio)
  • December
  • Life in the Garden – Penelope Lively (audio)
  • City of Gold and Shadows – Ellis Peters
  • Transcription – Kate Atkinson

Books read 2017

  • January
  • The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories – P D James
  • My Old Sweetheart – Susanna Moore
  • What Lies Between us – Nayomi Munaweera
  • The Magician’s Land – Lev Grossman (audio book)
  • February
  • The Gabriel Hounds – Mary Stewart
  • The Bird Tribunal – Agnes Ravtan
  • Darkness Visible – William Styron
  • March
  • Take Six Girls – Laura Thompson
  • Hot Milk – Deborah Levy
  • April
  • The Miracle Inspector – Helen Smith
  • Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son – Mark Colvin
  • Burial Rites – Hannah Kent (audio book)
  • May
  • A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson (audio book)
  • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street – Hilary Mantel
  • A Winter Away – Elizabeth Fair
  • June
  • Middlemarch – George Eliot (audio book)
  • Wild Swans – Jung Chang (audio book)
  • Lake of Dead Languages – Carol Goodman
  • July
  • A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
  • Everywhere I Look – Helen Garner (audio book)
  • A Lovely Way to Burn – Louise Welsh
  • From the Wreck – Jane Rawson
  • Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn (audio book)
  • August
  • The Lost Swimmer – Ann Turner
  • Anatomy of a Disappearance – Hisham Matar
  • Wind off the Small Isles – Mary Stewart
  • Hitch 22 – Christopher Hitchens – audio book
  • September
  • The Keep – Jennifer Egan
  • The Greenstone Grail – Amanda Hemingway
  • October
  • The Weed That Strings the Hagman’s Bag – Alan Bradley
  • One Life – Kate Grenville (audio book)
  • November
  • The Paris Winter – Imogen Robertson
  • Blackberry Wine – Joanne Harris
  • Grass For His Pillow – Lian Hearn (audio book)
  • December
  • In the Midst of Winter – Isabel Allende
  • The Good People – Hannah Kent
  • Based on a True Story – Delphine de Vigan

Books read 2016

  • January
  • Weathering – Lucy Wood
  • My History: A Memoir of Growing Up – Antonia Fraser
  • February
  • Black Rabbit Hall – Eve Chase
  • Jemima Shore’s First Case – Antonia Fraser
  • March
  • Witch Week – Diana Wynne Jones
  • My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
  • Blythewood – Carol Goodman
  • April
  • Enemy Women – Paulette Jiles
  • Gentlemen and Players – Joanne Harris
  • Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
  • Still Alice – Lisa Genova
  • May
  • Juniper Time – Kate Wilhelm
  • Stone Mattress – Margaret Atwood
  • June
  • Euphoria – Lily King
  • Uprooted – Naomi Novik
  • The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
  • July
  • The Dinner – Herman Koch
  • The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood
  • The Crime Writer – Jill Dawson
  • August
  • A Golden Age – Tahmina Anam
  • The Circle – Dave Eggers
  • September
  • Diary of a Nobody – George Grosssmith
  • The Year of the Griffin – Diana Wynne Jones
  • October
  • Travelling to Infinity – Jane Hawking
  • Hope Farm – Peggy Frew
  • November 
  • The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E Pearson
  • Iris & Ruby – Rosie Thomas
  • December
  • Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue
  • The Book of Whispers – Kimberley Starr
  • The Magician King – Lev Grossman (audio book)
  • The Witches: Salem 1692 A History – Stacy Schiff

Books read 2015

  • January
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J K Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J K Rowling
  • Digging for Richard III – Mike Pitts
  • A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley
  • February
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J K Rowling
  • Zealot – Reza Aslan
  • March
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J K Rowling
  • Green as Grass – Emma Smith
  • Above Suspicion – Helen MacInnes
  • April
  • The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – Hilary Mantel
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J K Rowling
  • The Crown – Nancy Bilyeau
  • May
  • The Painted Veil – W Somerset Maugham
  • Turn of Mind – Alice LaPlante
  • The Wolf Border – Sarah Hall
  • I am Half Sick of Shadows – Alan Bradley
  • June
  • The Disclaimer – Renee Knight
  • The Disinherited – Robert Sackville-West
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
  • Jane of Lantern Hill – L M Montgomery
  • Clade – James Bradley
  • July
  • The Strays – Emily Bitto
  • Miss Timmins’ School for Girls – Nayana Currimbhoy
  • Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor
  • August
  • Withering By Sea – Judith Rossell
  • The Last Weekend – Blake Morrison
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed
  • September
  • The Well – Catherine Chanter
  • The Utopia Experiment – Dylan Evans
  • Yesterday Morning – Diana Athill
  • Three Moments of an Explosion – China Mieville
  • October
  • Jack of Spades – Joyce Carol Oates
  • Tailchaser’s Song – Tad Williams
  • Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton – JG Ballard
  • November
  • Z is for Zachariah – Robert C O’Brien
  • I Never Said Goodbye – Pauline Knowles-Samarraie
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – JK Rowling
  • Crocodile on the Sandbank – Elizabeth Peters
  • December
  • The Natural Way of Things – Charlotte Wood
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling

Books read 2014

  • January
  • Imaginary Friends – Alison Lurie
  • Among Others – Jo Walton
  • February
  • A House in Fez – Susanna Clarke
  • The Violins of Saint-Jacques – Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • March
  • How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff
  • The Land of Decoration – Grace McGleen
  • The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
  • April
  • Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Speaking From Among the Bones – Alan Bradley
  • May
  • Agatha Christie and Archaeology – Charlotte Trumpler ed.
  • Absent in the Spring – Mary Westmacott
  • June
  • The Trouble With Flying – Richard Rossiter (ed)
  • The Bees – Laline Paull
  • The Battle of the Villa Fiorita – Rumer Godden
  • July
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
  • The Adjacent – Christopher Priest
  • The River of No Return – Bee Ridgway
  • My Salinger Year – Joanna Rakoff
  • August
  • The Jewels of Paradise – Donna Leon
  • The Night Guest – Fiona McFarlane
  • A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes
  • September
  • The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
  • The Turret – Margery Sharp
  • Sunset Song – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • October
  • Thunder on the Right – Mary Stewart
  • Dragonclaw – Kate Forsyth
  • The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Alan Garner
  • November
  • The Dovekeepers – Alice Hoffman
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flannigan
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare
  • December
  • Madeleine – Helen Trinca
  • Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
  • Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis

TBR

  • The Pursuit Of Love Nancy Mitford
  • Charlotte’s Web E. B. White
  • Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
  • Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
  • Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor
  • Waiting for the Barbarians JM Coetzee

Books read 2013

  • January
  • The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
  • The Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar – Suzanne Joinson
  • Why be Happy When You Can be Normal – Jeanette Winterson
  • February
  • Peony in Love – Lisa See
  • The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker
  • March
  • Flight Behaviour – Barbara Kingsolver
  • Zoo Time – Howard Jacobson
  • April
  • The Splendour Falls – Susanna Kearsley
  • The Far Time Incident – Neve Maslakovic
  • May
  • New Guinea Moon – Kate Constable
  • Have His Carcase – Dorothy L Sayers
  • Before I go to Sleep – SJ Watson
  • June
  • Daphne Du Maurier and her Sisters – Jane Dunn
  • Communion Town – Sam Thompson
  • July
  • Cold Magic – Kate Elliott
  • The Woman Upstairs – Claire Massud
  • August
  • The Crysalids – John Wynfham
  • Love Falls – Esther Freud
  • The Professor of Poetry – Grace McCleen
  • The Demonologist – Andrew Pryor
  • September
  • Miss Pym Disposes – Josephine Tey
  • Shelter – Frances Greenslade
  • October
  • When the Killing’s Done – T C Boyle
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger
  • November
  • A Book for All and None – Clare Morgan
  • True North – Brenda Niall
  • December
  • The Women in Black – Madelaine St John
  • Lexicon – Max Barry
  • The Great Western Beach – Emma Smith

Books read 2012

  • January
  • Death Comes to Pemberley – P D James
  • How I Became a Famous Novelist – Steve Hely
  • February
  • No Word From Winifred – Amanda Cross
  • Chalcot Crescent – Fay Weldon
  • March
  • Things We Didn’t See Coming – Stephen Amsterdam
  • A kingdom By The Sea – Nancy Phelan
  • April
  • The 19th Wife – David Ebershoff
  • May
  • Tirra Lirra by the River – Jessica Anderson
  • June
  • A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Skios – Michael Frayn
  • July
  • You Must be Sisters – Deborah Moggach
  • A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
  • August
  • The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
  • The Mystery of a Hansom Cab – Fergus Hume
  • September
  • A River in the Sky  – Elizabeth Peters
  • We of the Never Never – Jeannie Gunn
  • October
  • The Book of Murder – Guillermo Martinez
  • Fortress – Gabrielle Lord
  • Puberty Blues – Gabrielle Carey, Kathy Lette
  • November
  • Instruments of Darkness – Imogen Robertson
  • By Night in Chile – Roberto Bolano
  • The Villa of Death – Joanna Challis
  • The Bay of Noon – Shirley Hazzard
  • December
  • The Engagement – Chloe Hooper
  • Reading by Moonlight – Brenda Walker

Books read 2011

  • January
  • Whose Body? – Dorothy L Sayers
  • Avalon – Anya Seton
  • The Three Miss Kings – Ada Cambridge
  • February
  • The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  • The Sandalwood Tree – Elle Newmark
  • March
  • The Makioka Sisters – Tanizaki
  • April
  • Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Elizabeth and her German Garden – Elizabeth Von Arnim
  • May
  • The Raven’s Heart – Jess Blackadder
  • Sister – Rosamund Lupton
  • June
  • Don’t Tell Alfred – Nancy Mitford
  • The Finest Type of English Womanhood – Rachel Heath
    July
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
  • The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
  • August
  • Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
  • Breakout – David Tchappat
  • Bus Stop on a Strange Loop – Shaune Lafferty Webb
  • September
  • Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova (audio book)
  • October
  • The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht
  • The Mystery of the Portland Vase – Robin Brooks
  • November
  • Pioneer Writer: Louisa Atkinson – Patricia Clarke
  • The Magicians – Lev Grossman
  • December
  • A Thatched Roof – Beverley Nichols
  • Room – Emma Donoghue

Books read 2010

  • January
  • The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
  • Zombie Blondes – Brian James
  • February
  • Fugitive Blue – Claire Thomas
  • The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – Michael Chabon
  • The Owl Killers – Karen Maitland
  • March
  • The Anatomy of Wings – Karen Foxlee
  • April
  • The Wishing Game – Patrick Redmond
  • Youth – J M Coetzee
  • May
  • Quarantine – Jim Crace
  • Of Bees and Mist – Erick Setiawan
  • June
  • Thank you, Jeeves – P G Wodehouse
  • The Last Brother – Nathacha Appanah
  • The Blackstone Key – Rose Melikan
  • July
  • Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir – Agatha Christie Mallowan
  • The Ladies of Missalonghi – Colleen McCulloch
  • The  Behaviour of Moths – Poppy Adams
  • August
  • The Haunting of Bellamy 4, Monica Dickens
  • Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart
  • September
  • Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
  • Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
  • The Last Stormlord, Glenda Larke
  • We have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
  • October
  • Summertime, J M Coetzee
  • On the Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
  • The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
  • November
  • Leonard Woolf: A Life, Victoria Glendinning
  • The Bed I Made, Lucie Whitehouse
  • December
  • Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
  • The Small Hand, Susan Hill
  • The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, Susan Williams & Richard Glynn Jones