Recent Book Activity

Likes: Books on feminism, gender and sexuality, biographies, gay fiction, black fiction, Anita Diamant, Douglas Kennedy, Douglas Coupland, Pearl Cleage, Patrick Gale, Laurie Graham, Paul Torday to name but a few authors. Going to meets, and plenty of wild-releasing.

Dislikes: Chick-lit, fantasy, crime/mystery, any book that implies all women are interested in is babies/husbands/shoes.

Books Read in 2012 so far:
1. My So-Called Life - Joanna Nadin
2. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
3. The Understudy - David Nicholls
4. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
5. A Tiny Bit Marvellous - Dawn French

Books Re-read in 2012
1. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend
2. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby


Books Read in 2011
1. The Island - Victoria Hislop
2. How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
3. The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
4. Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
5. Invisible River - Helena McEwen
6. Sister - Rosamund Lupton
7. The Jewel of St Petersburg
8. Ellis Island - Kate Kerrigan
9. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
10. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
11. One Day - David Nicholls
12. The Sentimentalists - Johanna Skibsrud
13. More Than You Can Say - Paul Torday
14. Starter For Ten - David Nicholls
15. The Story of Beautiful Girl -
16. Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
17. Meat Market - Laurie Penny
18. These Things Hidden - Heather Gudenkauf
19. Half-broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
20. Baking Cakes In Kigali - Gaile Parkin
21. Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
22. Room - Emma Donoghue
23. The Bitch In The House - Cathi Hanauer
24. Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters
25. Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
26. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
27. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
28. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
29. The Translation of The Bones - Francesca Kay
30. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
31. Little Bee - Chris Cleave
32. The Legacy - Katherine Webb
33. Incendiary - Chris Cleave
34. When God Was A Rabbit - Sarah Winman
35. The Novel In The Viola - Natasha Solomons
36. The Sealed Letter - Emma Donoghue
37. Shadowstory - Jennifer Johnston
38. Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue
39. How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran

Books Re-read in 2011
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
2. The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
3. Just As I Am - E Lynne Harris
4. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
5. Fudge-a-mania - Judy Blume
6. How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
7. Two Weeks With The Queen - Morris Gleitzman