| January |
February |
March |
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Constitutional (short stories) by Helen Simpson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd |
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Close Range (short stories) by Annie Proulx
Rapture (poems) by Carol Ann Duffy |
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (reread, aloud with my son)
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| April |
May |
June |
Spies by Michael Frayn
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters |
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre |
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness by John T. Hul |
| July |
August |
September |
A Factory of Cunning by Philippa Stockley
Theft by Peter Carey |
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
On Writing by Stephen King |
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (reread – comfort read!)
half of Untold Stories by Alan Bennett |
| October |
November |
December |
A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Vanishing of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
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Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (biography) by Claire Tomalin
When We Were Bad (not yet published) by Charlotte Mendelson |
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris (had to read it for a cultural radio program)
The Accidental by Ali Smith
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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What I read in:
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002 |
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