December 2004 - January 2005

I am currently judging a literary prize and so won't list the books I am
reading during these two months.

November 2004

Jane Austen by Claire Tomalin
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (reread)
Lionboy by Zizou Corder
The Sad Truth about Happiness by Anne Giardini

October 2004

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

September 2004

A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (short stories) by John Murray
Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson
Only two this month. Instead I decided to finish off most of the New Yorker magazines lying half-read around the house - very satisfying!

August 2004

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

July 2004

Candyfreak by Steve Almond
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Jay Fowler
Passion by Jude Morgan

June 2004

According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

May 2004

So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid
Stradivarius by Toby Faber
The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb
Venus as a Boy by Luke Sutherland

April 2004

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach

March 2004

What Was She Thinking?Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (reread)
Blake by Peter Ackroyd

February 2004

L'Affaire by Diane Johnson
Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

January 2004

Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life by Faulkner Fox
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson