Friday, 1 January 2010

To be read in this the year of our Lord 2010

  1. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
  2. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
  3. 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)
  4. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
  5. A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harris
  6. Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
  7. Virolution - Frank Ryan (The last of my Christmas book pressies)
  8. The Mitfords: Letters between six sisters - Charlotte Mosley
  9. April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay (Cry every time I read this book - makes my top 100 books)
  10. Farewell to the East End - Jennifer Worth
  11. Wedlock - How Georgian Britain's worst husband met his match - Wendy Moore
  12. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer
  13. Kisses on A Postcard - Terence Frisby
  14. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
  15. 1984 - George Orwell
  16. Austerlitz - W.G Sebald
  17. Night - Elie Wiesel
  18. Scottish Covenanter Stories: Tales from the Killing time - Dane Love
  19. 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)
  20. The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
  21. Once - Morris Gleitzman
  22. Waiting for Anya - Michael Morpurgo
  23. Miss MacKenzie - Anthony Trollope
  24. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
  25. A plethora of regency romance novels - as is my guilty wont - Balogh, Quick, Quinn, Laurens etc
  26. The death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
  27. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
  28. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
  29. 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
  30. 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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