- The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (I have read this before and loved it - loved reading it in summertime Berlin in an open air cafe)
- Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
- A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harris
- Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
- Virolution - Frank Ryan (The last of my Christmas book pressies)
- The Mitfords: Letters between six sisters - Charlotte Mosley
- April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay (Cry every time I read this book - makes my top 100 books)
- Farewell to the East End - Jennifer Worth
- Wedlock - How Georgian Britain's worst husband met his match - Wendy Moore
- The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer
- Kisses on A Postcard - Terence Frisby
- Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Austerlitz - W.G Sebald
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- Scottish Covenanter Stories: Tales from the Killing time - Dane Love
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (Scarlett is so much a stronger, likeable character in the book rather than the movie - really like this book)
- The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
- Once - Morris Gleitzman
- Waiting for Anya - Michael Morpurgo
- Miss MacKenzie - Anthony Trollope
- Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
- A plethora of regency romance novels - as is my guilty wont - Balogh, Quick, Quinn, Laurens etc
- The death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
- Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor (A good man is hard to find by FC is my favourite short story ever, closely followed by The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Gilman Perkins)
- Into the wilderness - Sara Donati (have read this before but not in a long time)
Okay so it is unlikely that I will confine myself to 30 books in the coming year, these are the ones that I will make an active effort to find and add to the "library". There will of course be others that catch my eye and they will be welcomed to the whanau - thankee kindly.
S.
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