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February 26, 2012

The Week That Was...

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Books Read 2012

10. Painter of Silence - Georgina Harding
9. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
8. The Sealed Letter - Emma Donoghue
7. The Translation of the Bones - Francesca Kay
6. Tides of War - Stella Tillyard
5. The Land of Decoration - Grace McCleen
4. The White Garden - Stephanie Barron
3. A Common Loss - Kirsten Tranter
2. The Chemistry of Tears - Peter Carey
1. Berlin Syndrome - Melanie Joosten

Books Read 2011

59. The Witches - Roald Dahl
58. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
57. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson
56. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
55. The Observations - Jane Harris
54. Gillespie and I - Jane Harris
53. Ruby Blues - Jessica Rudd
52. Campaign Ruby - Jessica Rudd (re-read)
51. Death Comes To Pemberley - P.D. James
50. The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
49. Annabel - Kathleen Winter
48. Reading Madame Bovary - Amanda Lohrey
47. Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
46. Stasiland - Anna Funder
45. Past The Shallows - Favel Parrett
44. State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
43. All That I Am - Anna Funder
42. Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
41. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
40. Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan
39. Cold Earth - Sarah Moss
38. Your Voice in my Head - Emma Forrest
37. Derby Day - D. J. Taylor
36. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
35. The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst
34. Night Waking - Sarah Moss
33. No and Me - Delphine De Vigan
32. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
31. My Last Duchess - Daisy Goodwin
30. Therese Raquin - Emile Zola
29. Paris Times Eight - Deirdre Kelly
28. A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley
27. The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
26. The Novel in the Viola - Natasha Solomons
25. Solar - Ian McEwan
24. The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
23. Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks
22. The Swimmer - Roma Tearne
21. The Pleasure Seekers - Tishani Doshi
20. Whatever You Love - Louise Doughty
19. When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
18. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
17. The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
16. The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt
15. Into The Woods - Anna Krien
14. We Had it So Good - Linda Grant
13. Left Neglected - Lisa Genova
12. The Thoughtful Dresser - Linda Grant
11. An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
10. Aphrodite's Hat - Salley Vickers
9. The Vagrants - Yiyun Li
8. Five Bells - Gail Jones
7. The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper
6. Poser - Claire Dederer
5. The Night Bookmobile - Audrey Niffenegger
4. The Tortoise and the Hare - Elizabeth Jenkins
3. The Past and Other Lies - Maggie Joel
2. This Is How - M. J. Hyland
1. Minding Frankie - Maeve Binchy

Persephone Books Read

The Shuttle - Frances Hodgson Burnett (No.71)
The Making of a Marchioness - Frances Hodgson Burnett (No.29)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson (No.21)

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Books Read in 2010

82. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
81. The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
80. Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
79. Harbour - John Ajvide Lindquist
78. Perfect Lives - Polly Samson
77. Saturday - Ian McEwan
76. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
75. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
74. Testimony - Anita Shreve
73. Great House - Nicole Krauss
72. The Distant Hours - Kate Morton
71. Fall Girl - Toni Jordan
70. Our Kind Of Traitor - John le Carré
69. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
68. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
67. Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
66. By Nightfall - Michael Cunningham
65. The Believers - Zoe Heller
64. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
63. Room - Emma Donoghue
62. Trespass - Rose Tremain
61. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
60. Starter For Ten - David Nicholls
59. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
58. The Betrayal - Helen Dunmore
57. Campaign Ruby - Jessica Rudd
56. The Siege - Helen Dunmore
55. The Group - Mary McCarthy
54. Mrs Harris Goes To Paris - Paul Gallico
53. The Outcast - Sadie Jones
52. The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman
51. One Day - David Nicholls
50. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larsson
49. The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
48. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
47. The Opposite Of Falling - Jennie Rooney
46. Chéri - Colette
45. Small Wars - Sadie Jones
44. How To Paint A Dead Man - Sarah Hall
43. Hearts and Minds - Amanda Craig
42. Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
41. Beautiful Malice - Rebecca James
40. Reading By Moonlight - Brenda Walker
39. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
38. The Shuttle - Frances Hodgson Burnett
37. La's Orchestra Saves The World - Alexander McCall Smith
36. The Carrie Diaries - Candace Bushnell
35. The Debutante - Kathleen Tessaro
34. Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel
33. The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
32. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
31. The Weed That Strings The Hangman's Bag - Alan Bradley
30. The World Beneath - Cate Kennedy
29. So Much For That - Lionel Shriver
28. Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
27. The Second-Last Woman In England - Maggie Joel
26. An Education - Lynn Barber
25. Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen
24. Inside The Whale - Jennie Rooney
23. Ransom - David Malouf
22. Shades Of Grey - Jasper Fforde
21. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
20. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
19. The Painter From Shanghai - Jennifer Cody Epstein
18. Vanessa & Virginia - Susan Sellers
17. The Waves - Virginia Woolf
16. The Year Of The Flood - Margaret Atwood
15. The Girl With Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
14. The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
13. The Legacy - Kirsten Tranter
12. A Life Like Other People's - Alan Bennett
11. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
10. A Fraction Of The Whole - Steve Toltz
9. The Infinities - John Banville
8. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. Playing With The Grown-Ups - Sophie Dahl
6. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
5. Love and Summer - William Trevor
4. Free To A Good Home - Catherine Deveny
3. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
2. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
1. A Week At The Airport - Alain De Botton

Books Read in 2008

A Room with a View By E.M. Forster
After Dark By Haruki Murakami
American Wife By Curtis Sittenfeld
Atonement By Ian McEwan
Be Near Me By Andrew O'Hagan
Bee Season By Myla Goldberg
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures By Vincent Lam
Careless By Deborah Robertson
Case Histories By Kate Atkinson
Change of Heart By Jodi Picoult
Daphne By Justine Picardie
Destined to Live By Sabina Wolanski
Gift From The Sea By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Holly Would Dream By Karen Quinn
Homecoming By Bernhard Schlink
Human Smoke By Nicholson Baker
In The Woods By Tana French
Juliet Dove, Queen of Love By Bruce Coville
Knots and Crosses By Ian Rankin
Life in Seven Mistakes By Susan Johnson
Lost in a Good Book By Jasper Fforde
Loving Frank By Nancy Horan
Man in the Dark By Paul Auster
My Amalfi Coast By Amanda Tabberer
My Reading Life By Bob Carr
Nice to Come Home To By Rebecca Flowers
No Angel By Penny Vincenzi
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
Novel About My Wife By Emily Perkins
One Fifth Avenue By Candace Bushnell
One Good Turn By Kate Atkinson
People of the Book By Geraldine Brooks
Rebecca By Daphne du Maurier
Sepulchre By Kate Mosse
Small Island By Andrea Levy
Something Dangerous By Penny Vincenzi
Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson
Stanley and Sophie By Kate Jennings
Thanks for the Memories By Cecelia Ahern
The Almost Moon By Alice Sebold
The Book of Lost Things By John Connolly
The Book Thief By Markus Zusak
The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen
The Eyre Affair By Jasper Fforde
The Flirt By Kathleen Tessaro
The Forgotten Garden By Kate Morton
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society By Mary Ann Shaffer
The Heretic's Daughter By Kathleen Kent
The Hour I First Believed By Wally Lamb
The Household Guide to Dying By Debra Adelaide
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet By Colleen McCullough
The Lieutenant By Kate Grenville
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen By Syrie James
The Other Hand By Chris Cleave
The Philosopher's Apprentice By James Morrow
The Piazzas of Florence By Lisa McGarry
The Pure Land By Alan Spence
The Sorrows of an American By Siri Hustvedt
The Spare Room By Helen Garner
The Stone Diaries By Carol Shields
The Tales of Beedle The Bard By J.K. Rowling
The Time Traveler's Wife By Audrey Niffenegger
The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga
The Wishing Year By Noelle Oxenhandler
The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion
The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement - Virginia Lloyd
This Charming Man By Marian Keyes
Those Faraday Girls By Monica McInerney
Twilight By Stephanie Meyer
Unaccustomed Earth By Jhumpa Lahiri
When Will There Be Good News? By Kate Atkinson
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

Books Read in 2009

88. A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
87. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
86. The Making of a Marchioness - Frances Hodgson Burnett
85. Howards End is on the Landing - Susan Hill
84. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
83. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
82. Pride & Prejudice (Graphic Novel)
81. The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern
80. Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith
79. The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marian Keyes
78. Almost French - Sarah Turnbull
77. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
76. Lovesong - Alex Miller
75. Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
74. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
73. True Pleasures - A Memoir of Women in Paris - Lucinda Holdforth
72. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
71. The Bradshaw Variations - Rachel Cusk
70. The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
69. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
68. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day - Winifred Watson
67. The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
66. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
65. The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory
64. French Milk - Lucy Knisley
63. Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
62. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
61. We Are All Made of Glue - Marina Lewycka
60. Fire in the Blood - Irene Nemirovsky
59. The Taste of Sorrow - Jude Morgan
58. The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
57. Coraline: The Graphic Novel - Neil Gaiman
56. Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
55. Buying a Piece of Paris - Ellie Nielsen
54. Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon
53. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
52. If I Stay - Gayle Forman
51. Prada and Prejudice - Mandy Hubbard
50. The Flâneur - Edmund White
49. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
48. Austenland - Shannon Hale
47. The Spy Game - Georgina Harding
46. The Easter Parade - Richard Yates
45. Valley of Grace - Marion Halligan
44. Envy - Anna Godbersen
43. Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
42. Rumours - Anna Godbersen
41. The Luxe - Anna Godbersen
40. Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani
39. Very Valentine - Adriana Trigiani
38. The Piano Teacher - Janice Y. K. Lee
37. How To Give Up Shopping - Neradine Tisaj
36. I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
35. The Gift of Speed - Steven Carroll
34. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
33. The Art of the Engine Driver - Steven Carroll
32. The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
31. Drood - Dan Simmons
30. The Lost Life - Steven Carroll
29. Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
28. The Women in Black - Madeleine St John
27. The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite - Beatrice Colin
26. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
25. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall Smith
24. Enough - John Naish
23. The Room of Lost Things - Stella Duffy
22. The Journal of Dora Damage - Belinda Starling
21. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
20. Gentlemen & Players - Joanne Harris
19. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
18. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice
17. The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R King
16. Girl in a Blue Dress - Gaynor Arnold
15. Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear
14. Wanting - Richard Flanagan
13. Butterfly - Sonya Hartnett
12. The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
11. Affinity - Sarah Waters
10. The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
9. Love Over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith
8. Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith
7. Tales From Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan
6. 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
4. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
3. Addition - Toni Jordan
2. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
1. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler

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