Books I've Read

I love reading – always have, as far as I can remember. In September 2004 I started to keep a note of all the books I read.  Some are from the Book Group I go to, some are authors I know I like, some have been recommended to me whilst others have just had an appealing picture on the cover!

I’ve linked to the ones I’ve mentioned, or reviewed, in a post.

2004

1.  The Da Vinci Code  -  Dan Brown

2.  Astonishing Splashes of Colour  -  Clare Morrall

3.  The Reading Group  -  Elizabeth Noble

4.  I Capture the Castle  -  Dodie Smith

5.  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist  -  Robert Tressell

6.  Five on a Secret Trail  -  Enid Blyton (revisiting happy childhood reading with this one!)

7.  Deafening  -  Francis Itani

8.  Buddha Da  -  Anne Donovan

9.  Digital Fortress  -  Dan Brown

2005

1.  Night of Rain and Stars  -  Maeve Binchy

2.  Girl with a Pearl Earring  -  Tracy Chevalier

3.  The Kite Runner  -  Khaled Hosseini

4.  The Time Traveller’s Wife  -  Audrey Niffenegger

5.  The American Boy  -  Andrew Taylor

6.  A Married Man  -  Catherine Alliott

7.  Cloud Atlas  -  David Mitchell

8.  The Kalahari Typing School for Men  -  Alexander McCall Smith

9.  Case Histories  -  Kate Atkinson

10.  The Bad Mother’s Handbook  -  Kate Long

11.  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  -  K.K. Rowling

12.  The Ivy Chronicles  -  Karen Quinn

13.  Live Bait  -  P.J. Tracy

14.  The Laments  -  George Hagan

15.  The Wives of Bath  -  Wendy Holden

16.  Notes on a Scandal  -  Zoe Heller

17.  The Other Woman  -  Jane Green

18.  Angels and Demons  -  Dan Brown

19.  The Turn of the Screw  -  Henry James

20.  The Jigsaw Man  -  Paul Britton

21.  Unchained Melanie  -  Judy Astley

22.  The Shadow of the Wind  -  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

2006

1.  The Poisonwood Bible  -  Barbara Kingsolver

2.  History of Love  -  Nicola Krausse

3.  44 Scotland Street  -  Alexander McCall Smith

4.  Light on Snow  -  Anita Shreve

5.  We Need to Talk about Kevin  -  Lionel Shriver

6.  Hunting Unicorns  -  Bella Pollen

7.  A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine  -  Marina Lewycka

8.  The Shop on Blosssom Street  -  Debbie Macomber

9.  Having a Lovely Time  -  Jenny Eclair

10.  A Good Yarn  -  Debbie Macomber

11.  A Million Little Pieces  -  James Frey

12.  In the Fold  -  Rachel Cusk

13.  The Learning Curve  -  Melissa Nathan

14.  Arthur and George  -  Julian Barnes

15.  Azur Like It  -  Wendy Holden

16.  Whitethorn Woods  -  Maeve Binchy

2007

1.  The Island  -  Victoria Hislop

2.  The Girls  -  Lisa Lorens

3.  Nella Last’s War – edited by Robert Malcolmson

4.  Deception Point  -  Dan Brown

5.  Making Your Mind Up  -  Jill Mansell

6.  The Tenderness of Wolves  -  Stef Penney

7.  Salem Falls  -  Jodi Picoult

8.  My Sister’s Keeper  -  Jodi Picoult

9.  The Secret Life of Bees  -  Sue Monk Kidd

10.  The Sunday Philosophy Club  -  Alexander McCall Smith

11.  The Little Lady Agency  -  Hester Browne

12.  My Friend Leonard  -  James Frey

13.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows  -  J.K. Rowling

14.  Anybody Out There?  -  Marian Keyes

15.  The Waitress  -  Melissa Nathan

16.  Atonement  -  Ian McEwan

17.  The Owl Service  -  Alan Garner (revisiting a book I read when I was about 12, and wish I hadn’t – it wasn’t as atmospheric as I remembered)

18.  Little Lady in the Big Apple  -  Hester Browne

19.  Northern Lights  -  Philip Pullman (first read it in 1997)

2008

1.  This Year Will be Different  -  Maeve Binchy

2.  A Thousand Splendid Suns  -  Khaled Hosseini

3.  The Freedom Writers Diary  -  Erin Gruwell

4.  May Contain Nuts  -  John O’Farrell

5.  A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil  -  Christopher Brookmyre

6.  Be My Enemy  -  Christopher Brookmyre

7.  The Eyre Affair  -  Jasper Fforde

8.  Slummy Mummy  -  Fiona Neill

9.  Twenty Wishes  -  Debbie Macomber

10.  The Manny  -  Holly Peterson

11.  The Home-Maker  -  Dorothy Cranfield Fisher

12.  Reading in Bed  -  Sue Gee

13.  The Fortnight in September  -  R.C. Sherriff

14.  Bones and Ashes  -  Kathy Reichs

15.  The Handmaid’s Tale  -  Margaret Attwood

16.  Call the Midwife  -  Jennifer Worth

17.  Snobs  -  Julian Fellowes

18.  Dreams from my Father  -  Barack Obama

2009

1.  The Road Home  -  Rose Tremain

2.  An Offer You Can’t Refuse  -  Jill Mansell

3.  Nineteen Minutes  -  Jodi Picoult

4.  The Last Fighting Tommy  -  Harry Patch and Richard van Emden

5.  Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea  -  Michael Morpurgo

6.  The Carrot Cake Murder  -  Joanna Fluke

7.  The Road  -  Cormac McCarthy

8.  One Good Turn  -  Kate Atkinson

9.  Snow Flower and the Secret Fan  -  Lisa See

10.  I Don’t Know How She Does It  -  Alison Pearson

11.  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  -  Stieg Larsson

12.  Petite Anglaise  -  Catherine Sanderson

13.  The Book Thief  -  Markus Zusak

14.  When Will There be Good News  -  Kate Atkinson

15.  The Reader  -  Bernhard Schlink

16.  The Girl Who Played With Fire  -  Stieg Larsson

17.  By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept  -  Paul Coelho

18.  This Charming Man  -  Marian Keyes

19.  Broken Window  -  Jeffery Deaver

20.  Travels with my Aunt  -  Graham Greene

21.  Longitude  -  Dava Sobel

22.  The Tent, the Bucket and Me  -  Emma Kennedy

23. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest  -  Stieg Larsson

2010

1.  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  -  Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

2.  Winter Solstice  -  Rosamunde Pilcher

3.  The Return  -  Maeve Binchy

4.  The Secret River  -  Kate Grenville

5.  The Help  -  Kathryn Stockett

6.  The Return  -  Victoria Hislop

7.  Gods Behaving Badly  -  Marie Phillips

8.  One Day  -  David Nicholls

9.  To Kill a Mockingbird  -  Harper Lee

10.  Twilight  -  Stephanie Meyer

11.  44 Scotland Street  -  Alexander McCall Smith

12.  All Balls and Glitter  -  Craig Revel Horwood

13.  The Outcast  -  Sadie Jones

14.  The Unbearable Lightness of Scones  -  Alexander McCall Smith

15.  The Very Thought of You  -  Rosie Alison

16.  The Thirteenth Tale  -  Diane Settlefield

17.  Espresso Tales  -  Alexander McCall Smith

18.  The Snowman  -  Jo Nesbo

2011

1.  The Long Way Round  -  Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman

2.  The Other Family  -  Joanna Trollope

3.  Middlesex  -  Jeffrey Eugenides

4.  Her Fearful Symmetry  -  Audrey Niffeneger

5.  The Ice Cream Girls  – Dorothy Koomson

6.  The Winter Ghosts  -  Kate Mosse

7.  Gypsy Boy  -  Mikey Walsh

8.  Picture Perfect  -  Jodi Picoult

9.  The Other Hand  -  Chris Cleave

10.  PS I Love You  -  Cecilia Ahern

11.  Anger Management for Beginners  -  Giles Coren

12.  Framed  -  Frank Cotrell Boyce

13.  Bonne Vacances  -  Rosie Millard

14.  The Lost Gardens of Heligan  -  Tim Smit

15.  Minding Frankie  -  Maeve Binchy

16.  Warnings of Gales  -  Annie Sanders

17.  The Burning Wire  -  Jeffery Deaver

18.  The Gap Year for Grown Ups  -  Annie Sanders

19.  A Tiny Bit Marvellous  -  Dawn French

20.  Thief  -  Malorie Blackman

21.  Love Over Scotland  -  Alexander McCall Smith

22.  Montmorency  -  Eleanor Updale

23.  The World According to Bertie  -  Alexander McCall Smith

24.  Only in America  -  Matt Frei

25.  Caught  -  Harlen Coben

26.  A Christmas Carol  -  Charles Dickens

27.  It’s Not What You Think  -  Chris Evans

2012

1.  Christmas at Tiffany’s  -  Karen Swan

2.  Before I go to Sleep  -  S.J. Watson

3.  Never Let Me Go  -  Katsuo Ishiguro

4.  Memoirs of a Fruitcake  -  Chris Evans

5. Amenable Women  -  Mavis Cheek

6.  War Horse  -  Michael Morpurgo

7.  King of the Cloud Forests  -  Michael Morpurgo

8.  The Interpretation of Murder  -  Jed Rubenfeld

9.  Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day  -  Winifred Watson

10.  The Great Gatsby  -  F. Scott Fitzgerald

11.  Miss Buncle’s Book  -  D. E. Stevenson

12.  Good Evening Mrs Craven  -  Mollie Panter-Downes

13.  Street Child  -  Berlie Doherty

14.  The Importance of Being Seven  -  Alexander McCall Smith

15.  Bertie Plays the Blues  -  Alexander McCall Smith

16.  The Midwife’s Confession  -  Diane Chamberlain

17.  The Big Over Easy  -  Jasper Fforde

18.  Life, Death and Vanilla Slices  -  Jenny Eclair

19.  One Moment, One Morning  -  Sarah Rayner

20.  The Two Week Wait  -  Sarah Rayner

21.  Miss Ranskill Comes Home  -  Barbara Euphan Todd

22.  The Night Circus  -  Erin Morganstern

23.  The Leopard  -  Jo Nesbo

24.  Safe House  -  Chris Ewan

25.  Last Christmas  -  Julia Williams

26.  The Expats  -  Chris Pavone

2013

1.  My Animals and Other Family  -  Clare Balding

2.  Christmas Magic  -  Cathy Kelly

3.  The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year  -  Sue Townsend

4.  Life of Pi  -  Yann Martel

5.  Gone Girl  -  Gillian Flynn

6.  The Perfect Present  -  Karen Swan

7.  The Understudy  -  David Nicholls

8.  An African Love Story  -  Daphne Sheldrick