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 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
