Books read in 2011
Rather later than usual, here's my 2011 list. As ever:
1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
2. The Road Home - Rose Tremain
3. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
4. Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
5. Fludd - Hilary Mantel
6. Close Relations - Deborah Moggach
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
8. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
10. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
11. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
12. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
13. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
14. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Schooling - Heather McGowan
16. F in Exams - Richard Benson
17. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
18. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend
19. The Terracotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
20. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
21. Stone's Fall - Iain Pears
22. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
23. Gallery Girl - Wendy Holden
24. Whisky Galore - Compton McKenzie
25. Snoop - Sam Gosling
26. One of our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
27. Being Emily - Anne Donovan
28. Metamorphoses - Franz Kafka
29. Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg
30. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai (R)
31. The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston
32. Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man - Claire Tomalin
33. Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
34. The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton
35. They F*** You Up - Oliver James
36. He's Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
37. The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte
38. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
39. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
40. How I Paid for College - Mark Acito
41. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
42. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
43. The Outcast - Sadie Jones
44. Fatherland - Robert Harris
45. The Flood - David Maine
46. Zoology - Ben Dolnick
47. I'll Take You There - Joyce Carol Oates
48. Twitchiker - Paul Smith
49. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
50. The Optimist - Lawrence Shorter
51. The Sea House - Esther Freud
52. The Crimson Rooms - Katharine McMahon
53. The Merrybegot - Julie Hearn
54. The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
55. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
56. The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee
57. Love All - Elizabeth Jane Howard
58. The Queen's Sorrow - Suzannah Dunn
59. The Madonna of the Seven Hills - Jean Plaidy
60. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
61. The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory
62. Masai Dreaming - Justin Cartwright
63. Agent Zig-zag - Ben Cartwright
64. Alexandria - Lindsey Davies
65. If he Lived - Jon Stephen Fink
66. Heligoland - Shena Mackay
67. Rest Upon the Wind - Gill Twissel
68. The Cuckoo's Parting Cry - Anthea Halliwell
69. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
70. It's Called a Break-up 'cos it's Broken - Greg Behrendt
71. A Greek God at the Ladies' Club - Jenna McKnight
72. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graeme
73. Counselling for Toads - Robert de Board
74. Echo Park - Michael Connolly
75. Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
76. The History Boys - Alan Bennett
77. Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
78. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
79. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth (R)
80. The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gattis
81. The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
82. You Must be Sisters - Deborah Moggach
83. Primo Time - Anthony Sher
84. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
85. Twilight - Stephanie Myers
86. New Moon - Stephanie Myers
87. Eclipse - Stephanie Myers
88. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Myers
89. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
90. Howard's End is on the Landing - Susan Hill
91. The Age of Absurdity - Michael Foley
92. So You Think You're Human - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
93. Christian Martyrs for a Muslim People - Martin McGee
94. Leaving the World - Douglas Kennedy
95. Jihad vs McWorld - Benjamin R Barber
96. Almost Heaven - Julia Quinn
97. Want to Know a Secret? - Sue Moorcroft
98. Love and Freedom - Sue Moorcroft
99. Getting Away With It - Julie Cohen
100. The Secret Diary of Miss Miranda Cheever - Julia Quinn
101. How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
102. Beauty - Robin McKinley
103. Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man - Claudia Carrol
104. If This is Heaven, I Want My Money Back - Claudia Carrol
105. The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe
106. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
107. Sovereign - CJ Samson
108. The Man Who Disappeared - Claire Morral
109. The Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
110. Stig of the Dump - Clive King (R)
111. Crawling at night - Nani Power
112. Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy (R)
113. House of Silence - Linda Gillard
114. Swimmer - Bill Broady
115. Fredrica - Georgette Heyer
116. Revelation - CJ Samson
117. Running a Writers' Circle - Simon Whaley
118. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
119. La Mechanique du Diable - Philip Pullman
120. The Confessions of Katherine Howard - Susanna Dunn
121. At Home - Bill Bryson
122. Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
123. The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer
124. Equations of Life - Simon Mordon
125. Friday's Child - Georgette Heyer
126. A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
127. Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne
128. Heartstone - CJ Samson
129. The Angel in the House - Kate O'Riordan
130. In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
131. Summer - Edith Wharton
132. The Defrosting of Charlotte Small - Anabelle Giles
133. Half Magic - Edward Eager (R)
134. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincey
135. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (R)
136. Untying the Knot - Linda Gillard
137. How to Survive in a Science Fiction Universe - Charles Yu
138. The Skeleton in the Closet - MC Beaton
139. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
140. A Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
141. The Ambitious Stepmother - Fidelis Morgan
142. The Inimitable Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
143. Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
144. One Last Breath - Stephen Booth
145. The Dead Place - Stephen Booth
146. There Goes the Bride - MC Beaton
147. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
148. The Murder Room - PD James
149. To the Moon and back = Jill Mansell
150. I Heart Hollywood - Lindsey Kelk
151. Is Heathcliff a Murderer? - John Sutherland
152. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
153. The Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid
154. The Best British Mysteries 2005 - Maxim Jakubowski (ed)
155. Agnes Grey - Charlotte Bronte
156. Cotillon - Georgette Heyer
157. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
158. Marrying Up - Wendy Holden
159. A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy (R)
160. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk-Kidd
161. The Truth About Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell
162. Through the Language Glass - Guy Deutscher
163. In the Midst of Death - Lawrence Block
164. Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson
165. On the Cutting Edge - Lawrence Block
166. One Day - David Nicholls
167. The Whisperer - Donato Carrisi
168. Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
169. Wish You Were Here - Nigel Webb
170. Jane Austen: The World of her Novels - Deirdre Le Faye
171. Juliet Naked - Nick Hornby
172. Willing Slaves - Madeline Bunting
173. The Strange Cae of Origami Yoda - Tom Angleberger
174. The Song of the Quarkbeast - Jasper Fforde
175. The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (R)
176. Meet Molly - Valerie Tripp
177. Happy Birthday Addy - Corrine Porter
178. Felicity Learns a Lesson - Valerie Tripp
179. Meet Samantha - Susan S Adler
180. Hasty Death - MC Beaton
181. The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
182. The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
183. The Secret Shoppers' Revenge - Kate Harrison
184. A Desirable Residence - Madeline Wickham
185. Comfort and Joy - India Knight
186. The Selfish Capitalist - Oliver James
187. Supersense - Bruce Hood
188. The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
189. Crossing the Paradise Line - Annabelle Giles
190. Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson
191. The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
192. Christmas Cookie Murder - Leslie Meier
193. Resistance - Anita Shreve
194. The Summons - John Grisham
195. The Whole Day Through - Patrick Gale
- (R) (in any colour) indicates a re-read;
- These books are linked to their JEs on BookCrossing;
- These books were lent to me by non-bookcrossers;
- At the time of posting I still had copies of these;
- These books are on Kindle.
1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
2. The Road Home - Rose Tremain
3. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
4. Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
5. Fludd - Hilary Mantel
6. Close Relations - Deborah Moggach
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
8. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
10. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
11. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
12. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
13. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
14. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Schooling - Heather McGowan
16. F in Exams - Richard Benson
17. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
18. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend
19. The Terracotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
20. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
21. Stone's Fall - Iain Pears
22. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
23. Gallery Girl - Wendy Holden
24. Whisky Galore - Compton McKenzie
25. Snoop - Sam Gosling
26. One of our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
27. Being Emily - Anne Donovan
28. Metamorphoses - Franz Kafka
29. Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg
30. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai (R)
31. The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston
32. Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man - Claire Tomalin
33. Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
34. The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton
35. They F*** You Up - Oliver James
36. He's Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
37. The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte
38. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
39. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
40. How I Paid for College - Mark Acito
41. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
42. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
43. The Outcast - Sadie Jones
44. Fatherland - Robert Harris
45. The Flood - David Maine
46. Zoology - Ben Dolnick
47. I'll Take You There - Joyce Carol Oates
48. Twitchiker - Paul Smith
49. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
50. The Optimist - Lawrence Shorter
51. The Sea House - Esther Freud
52. The Crimson Rooms - Katharine McMahon
53. The Merrybegot - Julie Hearn
54. The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
55. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
56. The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee
57. Love All - Elizabeth Jane Howard
58. The Queen's Sorrow - Suzannah Dunn
59. The Madonna of the Seven Hills - Jean Plaidy
60. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
61. The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory
62. Masai Dreaming - Justin Cartwright
63. Agent Zig-zag - Ben Cartwright
64. Alexandria - Lindsey Davies
65. If he Lived - Jon Stephen Fink
66. Heligoland - Shena Mackay
67. Rest Upon the Wind - Gill Twissel
68. The Cuckoo's Parting Cry - Anthea Halliwell
69. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
70. It's Called a Break-up 'cos it's Broken - Greg Behrendt
71. A Greek God at the Ladies' Club - Jenna McKnight
72. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graeme
73. Counselling for Toads - Robert de Board
74. Echo Park - Michael Connolly
75. Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
76. The History Boys - Alan Bennett
77. Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
78. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
79. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth (R)
80. The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gattis
81. The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
82. You Must be Sisters - Deborah Moggach
83. Primo Time - Anthony Sher
84. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
85. Twilight - Stephanie Myers
86. New Moon - Stephanie Myers
87. Eclipse - Stephanie Myers
88. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Myers
89. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
90. Howard's End is on the Landing - Susan Hill
91. The Age of Absurdity - Michael Foley
92. So You Think You're Human - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
93. Christian Martyrs for a Muslim People - Martin McGee
94. Leaving the World - Douglas Kennedy
95. Jihad vs McWorld - Benjamin R Barber
96. Almost Heaven - Julia Quinn
97. Want to Know a Secret? - Sue Moorcroft
98. Love and Freedom - Sue Moorcroft
99. Getting Away With It - Julie Cohen
100. The Secret Diary of Miss Miranda Cheever - Julia Quinn
101. How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
102. Beauty - Robin McKinley
103. Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man - Claudia Carrol
104. If This is Heaven, I Want My Money Back - Claudia Carrol
105. The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe
106. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
107. Sovereign - CJ Samson
108. The Man Who Disappeared - Claire Morral
109. The Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
110. Stig of the Dump - Clive King (R)
111. Crawling at night - Nani Power
112. Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy (R)
113. House of Silence - Linda Gillard
114. Swimmer - Bill Broady
115. Fredrica - Georgette Heyer
116. Revelation - CJ Samson
117. Running a Writers' Circle - Simon Whaley
118. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
119. La Mechanique du Diable - Philip Pullman
120. The Confessions of Katherine Howard - Susanna Dunn
121. At Home - Bill Bryson
122. Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
123. The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer
124. Equations of Life - Simon Mordon
125. Friday's Child - Georgette Heyer
126. A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
127. Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne
128. Heartstone - CJ Samson
129. The Angel in the House - Kate O'Riordan
130. In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
131. Summer - Edith Wharton
132. The Defrosting of Charlotte Small - Anabelle Giles
133. Half Magic - Edward Eager (R)
134. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincey
135. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (R)
136. Untying the Knot - Linda Gillard
137. How to Survive in a Science Fiction Universe - Charles Yu
138. The Skeleton in the Closet - MC Beaton
139. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
140. A Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
141. The Ambitious Stepmother - Fidelis Morgan
142. The Inimitable Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
143. Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
144. One Last Breath - Stephen Booth
145. The Dead Place - Stephen Booth
146. There Goes the Bride - MC Beaton
147. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
148. The Murder Room - PD James
149. To the Moon and back = Jill Mansell
150. I Heart Hollywood - Lindsey Kelk
151. Is Heathcliff a Murderer? - John Sutherland
152. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
153. The Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid
154. The Best British Mysteries 2005 - Maxim Jakubowski (ed)
155. Agnes Grey - Charlotte Bronte
156. Cotillon - Georgette Heyer
157. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
158. Marrying Up - Wendy Holden
159. A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy (R)
160. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk-Kidd
161. The Truth About Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell
162. Through the Language Glass - Guy Deutscher
163. In the Midst of Death - Lawrence Block
164. Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson
165. On the Cutting Edge - Lawrence Block
166. One Day - David Nicholls
167. The Whisperer - Donato Carrisi
168. Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
169. Wish You Were Here - Nigel Webb
170. Jane Austen: The World of her Novels - Deirdre Le Faye
171. Juliet Naked - Nick Hornby
172. Willing Slaves - Madeline Bunting
173. The Strange Cae of Origami Yoda - Tom Angleberger
174. The Song of the Quarkbeast - Jasper Fforde
175. The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (R)
176. Meet Molly - Valerie Tripp
177. Happy Birthday Addy - Corrine Porter
178. Felicity Learns a Lesson - Valerie Tripp
179. Meet Samantha - Susan S Adler
180. Hasty Death - MC Beaton
181. The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
182. The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
183. The Secret Shoppers' Revenge - Kate Harrison
184. A Desirable Residence - Madeline Wickham
185. Comfort and Joy - India Knight
186. The Selfish Capitalist - Oliver James
187. Supersense - Bruce Hood
188. The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
189. Crossing the Paradise Line - Annabelle Giles
190. Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson
191. The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
192. Christmas Cookie Murder - Leslie Meier
193. Resistance - Anita Shreve
194. The Summons - John Grisham
195. The Whole Day Through - Patrick Gale