Books Read

2009

JAN

Gilead-Marilynne Robinson
True Believers-Joseph O’Connor
Angels Flying Slowly-Jill Roe

2008

DECEMBER
The Pitmen Painters-Lee Hall

NOVEMBER
Heroes and Villains-Angela Carter

OCTOBER
Graveyard Book-Neil Gaiman
Tales of Terror from The Black Ship
Anil’s Ghost-Michael Ondaatje

SEPTEMBER
The Door-Magda Szabo
The White Tiger-Aravind Adiga
Nights at the Circus-Angela Carter
Wise Children-Angela Carter
The Medusa Frequency-Russell Hoban
Threshold-Ursula K Le Guin

AUGUST
Strange Words-Patrick Chamoiseau
The Garlic Ballads-Mo Yan

JULY
Kitchen-Banana Yoshimoto

JUNE
An Artist in the Floating World-Kazuo Ishiguro
Eucalyptus-Murray Bail
The Birds of the Innocent Wood-Deirdre Madden

MAY
Noah’s Ark-Barbara Trapido
Fugitive Pieces-Anne Michaels

APRIL
No Other Life-Brian Moore

MARCH
Mr Pip-Lloyd Jones
The Battle for Gullywith-Susan Hill

FEB
Drowning Ruth-Christina Schwarz
Notes from an Exhibition-Patrick Gale

JAN
The Brief History of the Dead-Kevin Brockmeier
Breath, Eyes, Memory-Edwidge Danticat
i before e (except after c)-Judy Parkinson

2007

Try Anything Twice-Jan Struther
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian-Marina Lewycka
Washington Square
The Ladies Paradise
Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
Ordinary Families-E. Arnot Robertson
The Rooms inMy Mother’s House-Olga Lorenzo
Women and Craft-Gillian Elinor
The Virago Book pf Such Devoted Sisters-Shena Mackay
A Wedding in December-Anita Shreve
Where or When-Anita Shreve
Light on Snow-Anita Shreve
Instances of the Number 3-Salley Vickers
Miss Webster and Cherif-Patricia Duncker
Pelagia and the White Bulldog-Boris Akunin
How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher-Simon Barnes
98 reasons for Being-Clare Dudman
Private Papers-Margaret Forster