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Reading at the Moment
Books Read 2011
- Edward St Aubyn: Mother's Milk
- Mary Vivian Hughes: A London Child of the 1870s
- Alice Hoffman: The Ice Queen
- Edward St Aubyn: Some Hope
- Elif Batuman: The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- Emma Donoghue: The Sealed Letter
- Dani Shapiro: Slow Motion
- Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Betsy Lerner: Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
- Portia de Rossi: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
- Joan Aiken: Midnight is a Place
- Tess Gerritsen: The Sinner
- Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast
- Tess Gerritsen: The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles 1)
- William Boyd: Restless
- Alan Jacobs: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
- Geoff Dyer: Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered
- Tim Parks: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
- Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending
- Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
- Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child
- Naomi Alderman: The Lessons
- S J Watson: Before I Go To Sleep
- Vendela Vida: The Lovers
- Tom Rachman: The Imperfectionists
- Robert Kirkman: The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye: Days Gone Bye v. 1
- Mike Carey: The Unwritten (Vol. 1) : Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
- Brian K. Vaughan: Y: The Last Man Vol. 1 - Unmanned
- Caitlin Moran: How To Be a Woman
- William Shakespeare: King Richard III
- Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
- Deborah Harkness: A Discovery of Witches
- Jane Harris: Gillespie and I
- Elizabeth Speller: The Return of Captain John Emmett
- Jennifer Egan: A Visit From the Goon Squad
- Belinda Starling: The Journal of Dora Damage
- Jonathan Dee: The Privileges
- Stella Duffy: Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
- Nicole Krauss: Great House
- William Boyd: Ordinary Thunderstorms
- Kate Atkinson: Started Early, Took My Dog
- Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall
- Jennifer Johnston: The Captains and the Kings
- Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley's Secret
- Nicola Barker: Darkmans
- Peter Ackroyd: The Fall Of Troy
- Peter Ackroyd: The Clerkenwell Tales
- Drusilla Modjeska: The Orchard
- Christopher Priest: The Glamour
Books Read 2010
- Elizabeth Taylor: Palladian (Virago modern classics)
- Richard Russo: That Old Cape Magic
- D J Taylor: Ask Alice: A novel
- Barbara Pym: Excellent Women
- J.G. Farrell: The Siege Of Krishnapur
- Mary Karr: Lit: A Memoir
- Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn
- F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
- Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
- Jude Morgan: The Taste of Sorrow
- Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey (Oxford World's Classics)
- Alix Kates Shulman: To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed
- Katharine Leaf West: Chapter of governesses;: A study of the governess in English fiction, 1800-1949,
- Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible
- Katharine Hibbert: Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society
- A.K. Schulman: Drinking the Rain
- Barbara Trapido: Sex and Stravinsky
- Guy Vanderhaeghe: The Last Crossing
- Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
- Michael Schmidt: Reading Modern Poetry
- Joseph Dan: Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction
- Peter Ackroyd: The Great Fire of London
- Charles Saatchi: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic: Everything You Need to Know About Art, Ads, Life, God and Other Mysteries and Weren't Afraid to Ask
- Rosie Boycott: A Nice Girl Like Me
- Peter Ackroyd: The House of Doctor Dee
- Roberto Bolano: The Savage Detectives
- James Salter: Last Night: Stories
- Vladimir Nabokov: Mary (Penguin Great Loves)
- Paula Fox: Desperate Characters
- Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife
- Marian Keyes: This Charming Man
- Sarah Dunant: Sacred Hearts
Books read in 2009
- Roger Lewis: Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as it is Lived
- Nick Hornby: Shakespeare Wrote for Money
- Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Sarah Waters: Affinity (Virago V)
- Susan Hill: Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home
- Angelica Garnett: Decieved With Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood
- Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Harvest Book)
- Mary Karr: The Liars' Club
- Sue Miller: The Distinguished Guest
- Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House
- Sue Miller: The Senator's Wife
- Lee Child: The Hard Way: A Jack Reacher Novel
- Jonathan Kellerman: Compulsion
- Patricia Highsmith: Carol
- Geraldine McCaughrean: The White Darkness
- Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair
- Nick Hornby: The Polysyllabic Spree
- Nick Hornby: Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt
- Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
- A.J.A. Symons: The Quest for Corvo (NYRB Classics)
- A.S. Byatt: The Children's Book
- Julie Myerson: The Lost Child
- Blake Morrison: And When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Tessa Hadley: Accidents in the Home
- Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
- Sebastian Faulks: Engleby
- Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Patricia Highsmith: Ripley's Game
- William Maxwell: The Chateau
- David Gilmour: The Film Club: No School. No Work... Just Three Films a Week
- Flannery O'Connor: Wise Blood
- Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections
- John Hart: Down River
- Jeanette Winterson: The Passion
- Dominic Dromgoole: Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life
Books read in 2008
- Patricia Highsmith: Ripley Under Ground
- Peter Alexander: Leonard Virginia Woolf: A Literary Partnership
- Jane Bowles: Two Serious Ladies (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
- Janet Malcolm: Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
- Janet Malcolm: In the Freud Archives
- Augusten Burroughs: Possible Side Effects: True Stories
- Penelope Fitzgerald: The Blue Flower
- Susie Boyt: My Judy Garland Life
- Michel Faber: The Fire Gospel (Myths)
- Al Alvarez: The Writer's Voice
- Francine Prose: Reading Like a Writer
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
- Diana Souhami: Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
- Sadie Jones: The Outcast
- Sarah Waters: Fingersmith
- Christopher Fowler: Full Dark House
- Patricia Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Rebecca Miller: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
- Annie Proulx: Close Range: Wyoming Stories
- Patrick Gale: Notes from an Exhibition
- Joshua Ferris: Then We Came to the End: A Novel
- William Shakespeare: The Tempest
- David Sedaris: Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim
- David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Alaa al Aswany: The Yacoubian Building
- Charlotte Mendelson: When We Were Bad
- Cormac McCarthy: The Road
- Joyce Carol Oates: I'll Take You There
- Greg Johnson: Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
- Joyce Carol Oates: Middle Age: A Romance
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics)
- James Wood: How Fiction Works
- Peter Ackroyd: London: The Biography
- Michael Dirda: Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
- Colm Toibin: The Master
- Anne Fadiman: At Large and at Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist
- Peter Tate: Flights of Fancy: Birds in Myth, Legend and Superstition
- Rosalind Belben: Our Horses in Egypt
- Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room
- David Lodge: Author, Author
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Books read in 2007
- Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
- Annie Dillard: The Maytrees
- Virginia Woolf: The Diary: 1931-1935 Vol 4
- Ilana R. Simons: A Life of One's Own
- Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods
- Susan Hill: The Various Haunts of Men
- Philip Roth: Exit Ghost
- Annie Dillard: The Writing Life
- Joyce Carol Oates: What I Lived for
- James Hamilton-Paterson: Amazing Disgrace
- Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter
- Christopher Brookmyre: A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil
- William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating
- Nick Hornby: Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt
- Tom McCarthy: Remainder
- Lee Child: Bad Luck and Trouble
- Michael Chabon: The Final Solution
- Lee Child: One Shot
- Kazuo Ishiguro: The Unconsoled
- Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach
- Virginia Woolf: Night and Day
- Rachel Cusk: Arlington Park
- Lorrie Moore: Self-help
- Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
- Kelly Link: Magic for Beginners
- Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry
- Diana Souhami: Selkirk's Island
- A.K. Schulman: Drinking the Rain
- James Meek: The People's Act of Love
- Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic)
- Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Virginia Woolf: The Diary: 1925-30 v. 3
- Neil Gaiman: Stardust
- John Brewer: Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
- Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint
- Francine Prose: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
- Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
- Virginia Woolf: The Voyage Out
- Virginia Woolf: The Diary: 1920-24 Vol 2
Books read in 2006
- William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Virginia Woolf: The Diary: 1915-19 v. 1
- Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale
- Jenny Diski: Stranger on a Train
- Jenny Diski: Skating to Antarctica
- Katherine McMahon: The Alchemist's Daughter
- Liza Picard: Dr Johnson's London
- Maureen Duffy: Capital
- Claire Messud: The Emperor's Children
- Tracey Emin: Strangeland
- Alberto Manguel: Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
- J. G. Ballard: The Drowned World
- Julia Cameron: Floor Sample
- Ken Bruen: The Guards
- Joyce Carol Oates: We Were the Mulvaneys
- Joyce Carol Oates: The Tattooed Girl
- Anita Brookner: Look at Me
- James Lasdun: Seven Lies
- James Morrow: The Last Witchfinder
- Richard Matheson: I am Legend
- Peter Ackroyd: Newton (Brief Lives S.)
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth
- William Leith: The Hungry Years
- Augusten Burroughs: Dry
- Jude Morgan: Indiscretion
- Joan Aiken: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
- Neil Gaiman: Coraline
- Daphne Du Maurier: Jamaica Inn
- J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Janet Gleeson: The Serpent in the Garden
- Michael White: Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer
- Sarah Waters: The Night Watch
- Jane Harris: The Observations
- Anne Tyler: Digging to America
- D J Taylor: Kept
- Maureen Duffy: Alchemy
- Mary Wollstonecraft: Mary
- Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
- Nick Hornby: The Polysyllabic Spree
- James Lasdun: The Horned Man
- Cynthia Ozick: The Bear Boy
- David Mitchell: Black Swan Green
- John Fuller: Flawed Angel
- Claire Tomalin: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
- Hilary Mantel: Fludd
- Lee Child: The Enemy
- Jonathan Kellerman: Twisted
- Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Johnathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude
- Elizabeth Taylor: Angel
- Alan Moore: V for Vendetta
- Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans
- Ian McEwan: Saturday
- Siri Hustvedt: The Blindfold
- Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black
- Helen Dunmore: The Siege
- Haven Kimmel: The Solace of Leaving Early
- Philippa Stockley: A Factory of Cunning
- James Shapiro: 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
- E.M. Forster: Howards End
- Ali Smith: The Accidental
- Mary Hays: Memoirs of Emma Courtney
- Janet Gleeson: The Grenadillo Box
- Stephen King: On Writing
- John Morrison: Anthony Blair, Captain of School: A Story of School Life by an Old Boy
- Ronan Bennett: Havoc, in Its Third Year
- William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Arden Shakespeare: Third S.)
- Diana Gabaldon: Lord John and the Private Matter
- John Banville: The Sea
- Julian Barnes: Arthur & George
- Elliot Perlman: Seven Types of Ambiguity
Books read in 2005
- William Shakespeare: Macbeth
- Arthur Machen: The Hill of Dreams (****)
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (*****)
- Jasper Fforde: Something Rotten (***)
- Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (****)
- Simon Gray: The Smoking Diaries (***)
- Tobias Wolff: Old School (***)
- Richard Yates: Easter Parade (***)
- Michel Faber: The Fahrenheit Twins (****)
- Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road (****)
- Peter Rushforth: Pinkerton's Sister (****)
- Joan Didion: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (***)
- Rachel Cusk: In the Fold (***)
- Park Honan: Shakespeare: A Life (****)
- James Frey: A Million Little Pieces (****)
- Amy Tan: Saving Fish from Drowning (**)
- Lisa Williams: Letters to Virginia Woolf (***)
- William Shakespeare: King Henry V
- Richard Holmes: Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage: A Biographical Mystery (****)
- Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote (****)
- Peter Ackroyd: The Lambs of London (****)
- Maureen Waller: 1700: Scenes from London Life (****)
- Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders (****)
- Simon Worrall: The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery (***)
- Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian (***)
- Gabriel Josipovici: Moo Pak (*****)
- Iain Sinclair: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (*****)
- Alice Munro: The Moons of Jupiter (****)
- Maria Beig: Hermine: An Animal Life (****)
- Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle (***)
- Alice Oswald: Dart (****)
- Kate Atkinson: Case Histories (****)
- James Hamilton-Paterson: Playing with Water: Passion and Solitude on a Philippine Island (***)
- Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (***)
- William Shakespeare: King Henry IV: Pt. 2
- Muriel Spark: The Finishing School (***)
- James Hamilton-Paterson: Cooking with Fernet Branca (****)
- Hester Davenport: Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III (****)
- Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping (*****)
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind (***)
- David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (*****)
- James Hamilton Paterson: Loving Monsters (****)
- Elizabeth Jenkins: The View from Downshire Hill (***)
- A L Kennedy: Paradise (***)
- W G Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (*****)
- Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (****)
- Jane Dunn: Elizabeth & Mary (***)
- Alan Garner: Thursbitch (*)
- Katherine Bucknell: Canarino (*****)
- David Flusfeder: The Gift (**)
- Ernest Hemingway: Fiesta (Vintage Classics) (***)
- Gabriel Zaid: So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance (****)
- W G Sebald: Austerlitz (****)
- Graham Greene: Brighton Rock (**)
- Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March (*****)
