Saturday, January 16, 2010

The book list of 2009

Look me in the eye - JE Robison
Ishq & Mushq - Priya Basil
Midnight champagne - A Manette Ansay
Anybody out there? - Marian Keyes
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway ****
All that happened at No.26 - Denise Scott
Surfacing - Margaret Attwood
People of the book - Geraldine Brook ****
In a fishbone church - Catherine Chidgey
Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
Bambert's book of missing stories - Reinhardt Jung ****
Saving fish from drowning - Amy Tan
Pelagia and the black monk - Boris Akunin ****

.....then there was a break for Easter.

The ninth life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen ****
The lace reader - Brunonia Barry
The hero's walk - Anita Rau Badanni
Valley of grace - Marion Halligan
Breath - Tim Winton ****

.....and in term 2:

The voice of the violin - Andrea Camilleri
The reader - Bernard Schlink
The good thief - Hannah Tinti ****
Year of wonders - Geraldine Brook
Dewey - Vicki Myron
Burning Sunday - Michael McCoy
Sign & reels - Joanne Harris

.....and some of these early ones I dont recall because that was July:

The women in black - Madeleine StJohn
The girl who played with fire - Steig Larsson ****
T is for trespass - Sue Grafton
Salvation Creek - Susan Duncan
The elegance of the hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
Book of the dead - Patricia Cornwall
A cup of light - Nicole Mores
The janissary tree - Jason Goodwin
The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society - Mary Ann Shaffer
The last lecture - Randy Pausch
The master butchers singing club - Louise Erdritch
The testament - John Grisham
Belong to me - Marisa de los Santos
Zorro - Isabel Allende
The private patient - PD James
The messenger - Markus Zusack
Ya yas in bloom - Rebecca Wells
Excursion to Tindari - Andrea Camilleri
Watching out - Anne Granger
The last place you look - Norma Curtis
Extremely loud and incredibly close - Jonathon Safran Foer
Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear
Until its over - Nicci French
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Doctored evidence - Donna Leon
The seamstress - Frances de Pontes Peebles
Wesley, remarkable owl - Stacey O'Brien
Journey to the stone country - Alex Miller
Before the frost - Henning Mantell
The cruellest month - Louise Penny
Kill for me - Karen Rose
Dinner at the homesickness restaurant - Anne Tyler
The little girl who was too fond of matches - Gaetan Soucy
The cat who played post office - Lillian Jackson Braun
One good turn - Kate Atkinson
The cat who talked to ghosts - Lillian Jackson Braun
Point of origin - Patricia Cornwall


**** loved it!

1 comment:

  1. My gosh, the blogosphere has brought me a literary friend as well as an arty friend! You blow me away with your reading, lady! I thought I was voracious, but I'm a nibbler in comparison. You should post some reviews of which ones you loved and would recommend to your blog readers!

    My latest kick is to read the classics I was supposed to have read by now. Like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility (which I liked much more than P&P), etc. I realize that some classics just aren't my thing and others are marvelous little treasures to have finally found!

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