WHAT I READ IN 2008

January February March

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
(in US as The Sister)
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The Outcast by Sadie Jones*
first half of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

second half of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson*

April May June

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates*
Holes by Louis Sachar
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
first eighth of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Once upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
Dry Store Room No.1: The Secret Life of the
Natural History Museum
by Richard Fortey
The Spare Room by Nancy Garner
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod 

July August September

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale
English by Wang Gang
Fat Girl by Judith Moore
Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry 

The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Away by Amy Bloom 

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby 

October November December

Emma by Jane Austen (reread)
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy* 

 

A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner 

Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes (an excellent introduction to Darwin, esp if you struggle with the science; it talks about Darwin via his relationship with his daughter, who died age 10)
The Believers by Zoe Heller
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson 

What I read in:

2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
* means really excellent and recommended