Recent Book Activity

Books I've been reading recently:

May 2012
Spindle's End
The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine: Melissa Bank
Safe Passage: Ida Cook
The Penelopiad: Margaret Atwood
Corpse Suzette: G. A. McKevett
I'll be Seeing You: Mary Higgins Clark
Family Trust: Amanda Brown
The Comfort of Strangers: Ian McEwan
Pharos: Alice Thompson
Dewey: Vicki Myron
The Triggerstone: Ged Maybury
People of the Book: Geraldine Brooks
The Haunted School: Carol Drinkwater
The New World Order: Ben Jeapes
Vampire Beach Initiation: Alex Duval
Heat and Dust: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

April 2012
A Fistful of Sky: Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Autumn Castle: Kim Wilkins
Room: Emma Donoghue
Drums of Autumn: Diana Gabaldon
Cleo: Helen Brown

March 2012
Voyager: Diana Gabaldon
Reunion: Sarah Sala
Under The Snow: Kerstin Ekman
Man in the Dark: Paul Auster

February 2012
Wildfire Woman: Marianna Spring
A Touch of Dead: Charlaine Harris
Dead in the Family: Charlaine Harris
Dead Reckoning: Charlaine Harris
Dead and Gone: Charlaine Harris
Better Than A Rest: Pauline McLynn
Frederique: Yvonne Du Fresne
The Red Queen: Margaret Drabble

January 2012
Mischief: Amanda Quick
The Woman Who Walked into Doors: Roddy Doyle
Wise Children: Angela Carter
Station Amusements in New Zealand: Lady Barker
The Odyssey: Homer
Lilian's Story: Kate Grenville
Set This House in Order: Matt Ruff
A Crack in the Line: Michael Lawrence
Triptych: Karin Slaughter
My Forbidden Face: Latifa

December 2011
Miss Mapp: E.F. Benson
The Devils Footprints: Amanda Stevens
Black and Blue: Anna Quindlen
The Trespass: Barbara Ewing
Above Suspicion: Gaelyn Gordon
Dead Ringer: Jasmine Cresswell
Enemy Women: Paulette Giles
Break No Bones: Kathy Reichs
Dead to Worse: Charlaine Harris
All Together Dead: Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead: Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail: Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World: Charlaine Harris
Club Dead: Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas: Charlaine Harris
Dead Until Dark: Charlaine Harris
The House of Doctor Dee: Peter Ackroyd

November 2011
A True Story Based on Lies: Jennifer Clement
The Man Who Wasn't Feeling Himself: Chad Taylor
Spies and Lovers: Tim Williamson
Julie and Romeo: Jeanne Ray
Change of Heart: Barbara Anderson
Station Life in New Zealand: Lady Barker
Russian Dolls: Bronwyn Tate
Broken: Daniel Clay

October 2011
LaBrava: Elmore Leonard
Visiting Ghosts: Judith White
The Man Who Never Lived: Kevin Ireland
All The Nice Girls: Barbara Anderson
An Unusually Clumsy Lover: Carin Svensson

September 2011
Mrs Pollifax and the Second Thief: Dorothy Gilman
Burning Bright: Tracey Chevalier
Shot: Sarah Quigley
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbour: Dan Maloney
Virago Classics: Various Authors
Body Surfing: Anita Shreve
Disorderly Conduct: Marilyn Duckworth
Finding Tom Connor: Sarah-Kate Lynch
Blue Blood: Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Secrets: Ruth Corbin
The Blue Lion: Graham Billing
Dancing with Strings: Frances Cherry
Agnes Grey: Anne Bronte

August 2011
Beneath a Silent Moon: Tracy Grant
Ghostwitten: David Mitchell
The Lambs of London: Peter Ackroyd
Billy: Albert French
Legend: Dinah McCall
The X Files #8: Voltage: Chris Carter
Rule Britannia: Daphne du Maurier
Captivity Captive: Rodney Hall
The Grisly Wife: Rodney Hall
The Second Bridegroom: Rodney Hall
Dragonswan: Sherrilyn Kenyon

July 2011
The Ghost: Danielle Steele
The Bombmaker: Stephen Leather
A Calculated Risk: Katherine Neville
Audrey Hepburn's Neck: Alan Brown
Johnno: David Malouf
Killing Orders: Sara Paretsky
Deadlock: Sara Paretsky
Indemnity Only: Sara Paretsky
Vox: Nicholson Baker
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen: Paul Torday
Five Children and It: Edith Nesbitt
Through the Grinder: Cleo Coyle
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: Paulo Coelho
The Radleys: Matt Haig

June 2011
The General Interruptor: Alex Martin
The Hand that First Held Mine: Maggie O'Farrell
The Aviary Gate: Katie Hickman
The Wild Girls Club: Anka Radakovich

May 2011
A Partisan's Daughter: Louis de Bernieres

April 2011
Salem Falls: Jodie Piccoult
Burning Issy: Melvin Burgess
The Queen of Subtelties: Suzannah Dunn
Lamb: Christopher Moore

March 2011
Midnight: Jacqueline Wilson
The Island of Heavenly Daze: Lori Copeland, Angela Hunt
Dogs are Smarter than Jack: Various Authors
Last Night in Twisted River: John Irvine
Morris up the Apple Tree: Vivian French, Guy Parker-Rees
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe: CS Lewis

February 2011
Dragonfly in Amber: Diana Gabaldon
Ever After: Wendy Loggia
Morris the Mouse Hunter: Vivian French, Guy Parker-Rees
Cross Stitch: Diana Gabaldon
Stormbreaker: Anthony Horowitz
Adults Only: Morris Gleitzman
A Hopeless Romantic: Harriet Evans

January 2011
Murder: John Steinbeck
The Worst Witch: Jill Murphy
The Devil and Miss Prym: Paul Coelho
Second Glance: Jodi Picoult
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: Samuel Johnson
Q is for Quarry: Sue Grafton
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Joan Lindsay
You Suck: Christopher Moore
Cloud Atlas: David Mitchell
A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini

December 2010
Mork n Mindy: Richard Anobile
Angels and Demons: Dan Brown
In the Company of the Courtesan: Sarah Dunant
The Cranberry Queen: Kathleen Demarco
Absolute Power: David Baldacci
All Clear: Connie Willis
A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens
Moon Tiger: Penelope Lively
Dirt in The Well: Linda Lyon
End in Tears: Ruth Rendell
A Spanish Lover: Joanna Trollope

November 2010
Not a Penny Less, Not a Penny More: Jeffrey Archer
The Case of the Missing Stradivarius: Emanuel E. Garcia
Ties of Love: Meg Hutchinson
The Memory Game: Nicci French
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: Alan Titchmarsh
Final Jeopardy: Linda Fairstein
Debt of Bones: TerryGoodkind
On the Yankee Station: William Boyd
Daughters of The Moon: SusanSallis
Anthropology & 100 Other Stories: Dan Rhodes
Lily-Josephine: Kate Saunders
Hero: Perry Moore

October 2010
At First Sight: Nicholas Sparks
Sally: Freya North
While I was Gone: Sue Miller
Mansfield Revisited: Joan Aiken
Mansfield Park: Jane Austen
The Thirteenth Tale: Diane Setterfield
Let The Great World Spin: Colum McCann
The Scarlet Pimpernel: Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Juno and Juliet: Julian Gough
PS I Love You: Cecilia Ahern
The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Monk Kidd

September 2010
Solar: Ian McEwan
Eyes Right: Joe Bennet
World Without End: Ken Follet

August 2010
Black Out: Connie Willis
Ines of My Soul: Isobel Allende
The Lady and The Unicorn: Tracy Chevalier
The Edible Woman: Margaret Atwood
Human Croquet: Kate Atkinson

July 2010
Her Fearful Symmetry: Audrey Niffenegger
The Probable Future: Alice Hoffman
A Breath of Fresh Air: Erica James
The Pact: Jodi Picoult

June 2010
The Distance Between Us: Maggie O'Farrell
The Help: Kathryn Stockett
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: Stephanie Meyer
Welcome to Temptation: Jennifer Crusie
The Reader: Bernhard Schlink
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest: Stieg Larsson

May 2010
The Year of Magical Thinking: Joan Didion
Accidentally Dead: Dakota Cassidy
Children of God: Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow: Mary Doria Russell
The Crack at the Edge of the World: Simon Winchester

April 2010
Restoree: Anne McCaffrey
The Woman in Black: Susan Hill
The Girl who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson
Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
The Book Thief: Markus Zusak
Happiness TM: Will Ferguson
Love in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford

March 2010
The Host: Stephanie Meyer
Jack Maggs: Peter Carey

February 2010
Breaking Dawn: Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse: Stephanie Meyer
New Moon: Stephanie Meyer
Twilight: Stephanie Meyer
The Private Patient: P.D. James

January 2010
Oryx and Crake: Margaret Attwood
Close to Home: Eileen MacDonald
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: John Berendt
Savages: Shirley Conran

December 2009
A Murderous Glaze: Melissa Glazer
Moment of Truth: Lisa Scottoline
A Case of Exploding Mangoes: Mohammed Hanif
The Secret House of Death: Ruth Rendell
Vanity Dies Hard: Ruth Rendell
To Fear a Painted Devil: Ruth Rendell
Underground: Andrew McGahan
Blindsight: Maurice Gee
Hawke's Cove: Susan Wilson
Perfume: Patrick Suskind
Delta of Venus: Anais Nin
Undead and Unemployed: Maryjanice Davidson

November 2009
What Happened that Night: Heather Marshall
The Brooklyn Follies: Paul Auster
O is for Outlaw: Sue Grafton
Birdie: Tina Shaw
Chicken Feed: Minette Walters
The Tenth Circle: Jodi Picoult

October 2009
After You'd Gone: Maggie O'Farrell
Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert
The Algebraist: Iain M Banks

September 2009
Whale Rider: Witi Ihimaera
The Bourne Sanction: Eric Van Lustbader
In The Kitchen: Monica Ali

August 2009
We Need to Talk ABout Kevin: Lionel Shriver

July 2009
Little Women: Louisa May Alcott

June 2009
Ribbons & Grace: Maxine Alterio
Undead and Unpopular: Mary Janice Davidson
Strange Fits of Passion: Anita Shreve
In The Kitchen: Monical Ali

Oct 08-May 09
The Virgin Blue: Tracey Chevalier
Devil Bones: Kathy Reichs
What Happen Then, Mr Bones: Charlotte Randall
Encounters With Animals: Gerald Durrell
My Cousin Rachel: Daphne Du Maurier
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: John Boyne
Timbuktu: Paul Auster
Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
Rocking Horse Road: Carl Nixon
Out Of Body Out Of Mind
Through a Glass Darkly: Karleen Koen
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway
The Undomestic Goddess: Sophie Kinsella
The Moor's Last Sigh: Salman Rushdie
Black Swan Green: David Mitchell
Mansfield: CK Stead
The King's General: Daphne Du Maurier

September 2008
Dracula: Bram Stoker
Den Leno & The Limehouse Golem: Peter Ackroyd
Darcy's Story: Janet Aylmer
Post Mortem: Patricia Cornwell
Peyton Place: Grace Metalious
Hotel du Lac: Anita Brookner

November 2007-August 2008 (only some as these months deleted in error!)
IBM and The Holocaust: Edwin Black
My Sister's Keeper: Jodi Piccoult
The Darling: Russell Banks
My Name Was Judas: C K Stead
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: Michael Chabon
The Pillars of the Earth: Ken Follett
On Chesil Beach: Ian McEwan
The Memory Keeper's Daughter: Kim Edwards
Painting Mona Lisa: Jeanne Kalogridis

October 2007
Lady Caroline Lamb: Elizabeth Jenkins

September 2007
Shogun: James Clavell
Jessica: Bryce Courteney
The Mulberry Empire: Philip Henshaw
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran Foer
Tights, Pantaloons & Genes: Yvonne Edwards
Book of Incredibly Short Stories: Brian Edwards
Swing, Brother, Swing: Ngaio Marsh
Our Maoris: Lady Martin
The Prisoner of Zenda: Anthony Hope
Where We Once Belonged: Sia Figiel
Dork Whore: Iris Bahr

August 2007
Above Suspicion: Lynda La Plante
The Time Traveller's Wife: Audrey Niffenegger
Simisola: Ruth Rendell
Fat Land: Greg Critser
Witch: Christopher Pike
Living Dead in Dallas: Charlaine Harris
Blue Genes: Val McDermid
The Phantom of Manhatten: Fredrick Forsyth
Felix in the Underworld: John Mortimer
Hot Shot: Charlotte Hughes

July 2007
Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
Jigs and Reels: Joanne Harris
A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry
Waiting to Exhale: Terry McMillan
The Blind Assassin: Margaret Attwood
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: JK Rowling
A Crack in Forever: Jeannie Brewer
Who Killed Bianca?: Emma Darcy
Peaches and Screams: G.A. McKevett
My Point...and I Do Have One: Ellen Degeneres
Lovely Bones: Alice Sebold

June 2007
In The Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon: Joanna Lumley
Stuart, A Life Backwards: Alexander Masters
Ella: Uri Geller
Mister Pip: Lloyd Jones
The Glass Castle: Jeanette Wells
The Letters: Edith Wharton
The Bookseller of Kabul: Asne Seierstad

May 2007
The Clothes of Nakedness: Benjamin Kwayke
Snake: Kate Jenkins
The Five People You Meet in Heaven: Mitch Albom
18 Seconds: George Schuman
The Lollipop Shoes: Joanne Harris

2007 Jan - April
The Secret River: Kate Grenville
Mrs Cook: Marele Day
Rosetta: Barbara Ewing
The Temp: Brigitte Lozerech
The Sea for Breakfast: Lillian Beckwith
The Favoured Child: Philippa Gregory
The Myth of Captain Cook: Jilian Robertson