I'M GOING TO BE AWAY FROM "Forget the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey instead." - Anonymous BOOKRAYS and BOOKRINGS The Book of Fred www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4324148 COMPLETED Travels with Charley www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4530830 COMPLETED The Book of Eve www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5049347 COMPLETED Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5049465 COMPLETED Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5576886 COMPLETED Coventry www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6574440 now travelling as rayCOMPLETED completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed stalled completed got my own copy lost completed completed completed released completed completed BOOKCROSSING CHALLENGES THAT I HAVE TAKEN PART IN: READALONGS THAT I HAVE TAKEN PART IN: CURRENTLY READING:
Books Read 2011 1) Is He Popenjoy? - Anthony Trollope
2) Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne 3) Bad Boy - Peter Robinson
4) The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis 5) The House at Pooh Corner - A. A. Milne
6) Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder 7) Venetia - Georgette Heyer
8) Judgment Day - Penelope Lively 9) Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom (reread)
10) The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff 11) Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
12) The Duke's Children - Anthony Trollope 13) The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
14) The Tomorrow-Tamer - Margaret Laurence 15) An Academic Question - Barbara Pym
16) The Chrysalids - John Wyndham 17) The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
18) The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett 19) When We Were Very Young - A.A. MIlne
20) The Frozen Thames - Helen Humphreys 21) Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne
22) Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi 23) Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg
24) A Question of Belief - Donna Leon 25) The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
26) At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
27) The Distant Hours - Kate Morton 28) The Razor's Edge - W.Somerset Maugham
29) The Cradle - Patrick Somerville 30) Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot
31) Aphrodite's Hat - Salley Vickers 32) The Tigers of Subtopia and Other Stories - Julian Symons
33) Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
34) Yes Man - Danny Wallace 35) The Stalking Horse - Jill McGown
36) Wild Horses - Dick Francis 37) Dickensian Whodunnits - Mike Ashely, ed.
38) A Rumour of God - Robert C. Sibley 39) Beating Cancer with Nutrition - Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD, CNS
40) The Distant Echo - Val McDermid 41) Elizabeth Gaskell - Jenny Uglow
42) Anne Hereford - Mrs. Henry (Ellen) Wood 43) My Lady Judge - Cora Harrison
44) Fortune Like the Moon - Alys Clare 45) Still Alice - Lisa Genova
46) The Illumination - Kevin Brockmeier 47) The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party - Alexander McCall Smit
48) Mr. Harrison's Confessions - Elizabeth Gaskell
49) My Lady Ludlow - Elizabeth Gaskell 50) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
51) The Long Song - Andrea Levy 52) A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley
53) The Edge - Dick Francis 54) The Immaculate Deception - Iain Pears
55) Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast - Bill Richardson (re-read)
56) The Midwife of Venice - Roberta Rich 57) Wilful Behaviour - Donna Leon
58) Poached Egg on Toast - Frances Itani 59) Drawing Conclusions - Donna Leon
61) Longshot - Dick Francis 62) Straight - Dick Francis
63) Far to Go - Alison Pick 64) Rough Music - Patrick Gale
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115) 116) 117) 118) Books Read 2005-2010 2010 1) Oddball @ Large - Bill Richardson
2) The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope 3) Fruit of the Lemon - Andrea Levy
4) The Time Machine - H.G. Wells 5) Rose Cottage - Mary Stewart
6) Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam
7) These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer 8) Devil's Cub - Georgette Heyer
9) The Riders - Tim Winton 10) The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farahad Zama
11) The Spiral Staircase - Karen Armstrong 12)The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
13) Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow - Faïza Guène 14) The Needle in the Blood - Sarah Bower
15) The Help - Kathryn Stockett 16) Come Walk with Me - Beatrice Mosionier
17) Villette - Charlotte Bronte 18) The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
19) Stormy Petrel - Mary Stewart 20) Throwaway Daughter - Ting-Xing Ye
21) Necessary as Blood - Deborah Crombie 22) The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
23) Beyond Belfast(A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet) - Will Ferguson
24) The Law and the Lady - Wilkie Collins 25) The Sea Captain's Wife - Beth Powning
26) The White Queen - Philippa Gregory 27) The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
28) Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin
29) Good to a Fault - Marina Endicott 30) The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
31) Outlander - Diana Gabaldon 32) A Respectable Trade - Philippa Gregory
33) The Death Maze - Ariana Franklin 34) A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
35) Dying Well. The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life - Ira Byock, M.D.
36) The Lost Garden - Helen Humphreys 37) Liars and Saints - Maile Meloy
38) Welcome to the World, Baby Girl - Fannie Flagg
39) Dead Cold - Louise Penny 40) The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
41) The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag - Alan Bradley 42) Dancing Backwards - Salley Vickers
43 Cancer: Increasing Your Odds for Survival - David Bognar
44) Riding the Wheel to Wellness: A Buddhist Perspective on Life's Healing Gifts, Meditation, Prayer & Visualisation - Charles Atkins
45) Nikolski - Nicolas Dickner 46) The Immortal LIfe of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
47) Yesterday They Took My Baby - Ben Wicks 48) The Lost Art of Gratitude - Alexander McCall Smith
49) As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories - Alistair MacLeod
50) Grave Goods - Ariana Franklin 51) The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
52) Blackout - Connie Willis 53) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (re-read)
54) A Murderous Procession - Ariana Franklin 55) The Friendly Jane Austen - Natalie Tyler
56) The Book of Awesome - Neil Pasricha 57) Come, Thou Tortoise - Jessica Grant
58) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 59) The Double Comfort Safari Club - Alexander McCall Smith
60) Lucia, Lucia - Adriana Trigiani 61) Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
62) In the Country of Illness - Robert Lipsyte 63) Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
64) Incontinent on the Continent (My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy) - Jane Christmas
65) The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton 66) March - Geraldine Brooks
67) A Few Green Leaves - Barbara Pym 68) The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
69) The Boy in the Moon (A Father's Search for His Disabled Son) - Ian Brown
70) Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith 71) There's No Place Like Hope (A Guide to Beating Cancer in MInd-Sized Bites) - Vickie Girard
72) The House at Riverton - Kate Morton 73) Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
74) Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama 75) Still Life - Louise Penny
76) A Peaceful Retirement - Miss Read 77) The Queen's Sorrow - Suzannah Dunn
78) The Prairie Bridesmaid - Daria Salamon 79) The Late George Apley - John P. Marquand
80) Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh 81) The Titian Committee - Iain Pears
82) Devices and Desires - P.D. James 83) A Dark Night's Work and Other Stories - Elizabeth Gaskell
84) Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger 85) The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
86) The Power of the Mind to Heal - Joan Borysenko, Ph.D & Miroslav Borysenko, Ph.D
87) This Body of Death - Elizabeth George 88) The History of Emily Montague - Frances Brooke
89) Leaning, Leaning Over Water - Frances Itani
90) The Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair 91) The Cruellest Month - Louise Penny
92) The Stone Carvers - Jane Urquhart 93) The Murder Stone - Louise Penny
94) Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock 95) Crackpot - Adele Wiseman
96) Death Mask - Ellis Peters 97) Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
98) The Jade Peony - Wayson Choy 99) Heartstone - C.J. Sansom
100) Crewe Train - Rose Macauley 101) Address Unknown - Kathrine Kressman Taylor
102) The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho (re-read)
103) The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope 104) Secret Daughter - Shilpi Somaya Gowda
105) Village Christmas - Miss Read 106) A Cup of Christmas Tea - Tom Hegg
107) A Memory of Christmas Tea - Tom Hegg 108) A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas
109) A Christmas Memory -Truman Capote 110) Our Lady of the Lost and Found - Diane Schoemperlen
111)Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Gaskell 2009
1) The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope 2) On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
3) Remembering the Bones - Frances Itani 4) The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
5) One Pair of Hands - Monica Dickens 6) Scuba Dancing - Nicola Slade
7) Ptarmaggedon - Karen Dudley 8) The Hanging Garden - Ian Rankin
9) Candles for the Dead - Frank Smith 10) The Whitechapel Conspiracy - Anne Perry
11) People of the Book - Geraldine March 12) The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
13) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 14) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
15) The Flying Troutmans - Miriam Toews 16) The Grave Tattoo - Val McDermid
17) Run - Ann Patchett 18) The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (re-read)
19) Fair Stood the Wind for France - H.E. Bates
20) Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym 21) Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
22) Birth Marks - Sarah Dunant 23) Q & A - Vikas Swarup
24) In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson (re-read) 25) Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear - Dan Gardner
26) La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte (The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant) - Michel Tremblay
27) The Shack - Wm.Paul Young 28) A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (re-read)
29) The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
30) How to Eat Like a Child (And Other Lessons in Not Being a Grownup) - Delia Ephron
31) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
32) Three Day Road - Joseph Boyden 33) The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
34) Star Gazing - Linda Gillard 35) The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
36) Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen 37) One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus
38) I Am Hutterite - Mary-Ann Kirkby 39) Moonfleet - J. Meade Falkner
40) The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill 41) A Guide to the Birds of East Africa - Nicholas Drayson
42) Tales of a Female Nomad - Rita Golden Gelman
43) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson 44) The House Sitter - Peter Lovesey
45) The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence 46) Can You Forgive Her - Anthony Trollope
47) A Darker Domain - Val McDermid 48) A Land of Two Halves: An Accidental Tour of New Zealand - Joe Bennett
49) Sylvanus Now - Donna Morrissey 50) Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Høeg
51) The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (re-read) 52) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (audio, re-read)
53) When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
54) Portobello - Ruth Rendell 55) The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
56) I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
57) A Passion in Rome - Morley Callaghan 58) Such Is My Beloved - Morley Callaghan
59) Wild Geese - Martha Ostenso 60) The Gun Seller - Hugh Laurie
61) La's Orchestra Saves the World - Alexander McCall Smith
62) The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (re-read) 63) The Sunflower. On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness - Simon Wiesenthal
64) The Good Mayor - Andrew Nicoll 65) The Reader - Bernhard Schlink (re-read)
66) The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
67) All the Colours of Darkness - Peter Robinson 68) Hunger - Knut Hamsun
69) Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann 70) A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
71) The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins 72) The Shanghai Moon - S.J. Rozan
73) Twenty Chickens for a Saddle - Robyn Scott 74) The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
75) A Place of Execution - Val McDermid 76) Settlers of the Marsh - Frederick Philip Grove
77) Tea Time for the Traditionally Built - Alexander McCall Smith
78) Reading by Lightning - Joan Thomas 79) The Sweet Dove Died - Barbara Pym
80) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
81) Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly) - Jean-Dominique Bauby
82) Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope 83) A Beautiful Place to Die - Malla Nunn
84) Lost Horizon - James Hilton 85) Fire in the Blood - Irène Némirovsky
86) The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing 87) The Tortilla Curtain - T. Corghessan Boyle
88) The Glassblower of Murano - Marina Fiorato 89) In Search of April Raintree - Beatrice Mosionier
90) Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood 91) Revelation - C.J. Sansom
92) The Murders of Mrs Austin & Mrs Beale - Jill McGown
93) Hunting Season - Nevada Barr 94) Voyageurs - Margaret Elphinstone
95) Moby Dick - Herman Melville 96) Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
97) The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke 98) Funeral in Blue - Anne Perry
99) The Jewel That Was Ours - Colin Dexter 100) The Bitter Bite - Jeffrey Ashford
101) The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka - Josef Skvorecky
102) Cotillion - Georgette Heyer 103) The Outlander - Gil Adamson
104) The Painted Veil - Somerset Maugham 105) The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
106) Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens 107) The Tricking of Freya - Christina Sunley
108) Silver Bay - Jojo Moyes 109) The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
110) About Face - Donna Leon 111) An Accomplished Woman - Jude Morgan
112) Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
113) I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (re-read) 114) Baking Cakes in Kigali - Gaile Parkin
115) The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler 116) The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
117) Big Stone Gap - Adriana Trigiani 118) Death in Cyprus - M.M.Kaye
2008 1) The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
2) Charles Dickens - Jane Smiley 3) Doctor Thorne - Anthony Trollope
4) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
5) Murder on Lenox Hill - Victoria Thompson 6) Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA - Brenda Maddox
7) The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett 8) Miracles - C.S. Lewis
9) Frenchman's Creek - Daphne DuMaurier 10) Perfect Happiness - Penelope Lively
11) The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver 12) The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
13) Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley 14) Kick Up Your Heels...Before You're Too Short to Wear Them - Loretta LaRoche
15) Shakespeare: The World as Stage - Bill Bryson
16) Latitudes of Melt - Joan Clark 17) Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
18) The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney 19) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
20) Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 21) Assault and Pepper - Tamar Myers
22) The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories - Connie Willis
23) With or Without God - Gretta Vosper 24) Evangeline and Other Poems - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25) Adam Bede - George Eliot 26) Confessions - Saint Augustine
27) The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell
28) Breakfast with Buddha - Roland Merullo 29) Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
30) An Unsuitable Attachment - Barbara Pym 31) Atonement - Ian McEwan
32) Ambiguous Loss - Pauline Boss 33) Ice Trap - Kitty Sewell
34) Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope 35) Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease - Dr. Sharon Moalem
36) Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie - Barbara Goldsmith
37) To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis 38) The Hills at Home - Nancy Clark
39) Friend of the Devil - Peter Robinson BR40) The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
BR41) Jane Austen: A Life - Claire Tomalin 42) Lullabies for Little Criminals - Heather O'Neill
43) Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
44) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne 45) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
46) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 47) Dark Flight - Lin Anderson
48) Eat,Pray,Love - Elizabeth Gilbert 49) Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman - Elizabeth Buchan
50) Dissolution - C.J.Sansom 51) The Spuddy - Lillian Beckwith
52) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
53) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (in French) 54) In Another Light - Andrew Greig
55) No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub - Virginia Ironside
56) The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho 57) Dark Fire - C.J. Sansom
58) Pimpernel Gold:How Norway Foiled the Nazis - Dorothy Baden-Powell
59) Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson 60) Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
61) The Ancient Ship - Zhang Wei 62) Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
63) Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay 64) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
65) A Bird in the House - Margaret Laurence 66) Saturday - Ian McEwan
67) The Outcast - Sadie Jones 68) Peace Pilgrim - Friends of Peace Pilgrim
69) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
70) Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living - Carrie Tiffany 71) Beloved - Toni Morrison
72) The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
73) The Miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith 74) Inés of My Soul - Isabel Allende
75) A Breach of Promise - Anne Perry 76) Prospero's Daughter - Constance Beresford-Howe
77) The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis 78) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
79) The Island - Victoria Hislop 80) Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
81) Careless in Red - Elizabeth George 82) Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
83) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
84) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (reread for book club)
85) The Sleeping Beauty - Elizabeth Taylor 86) Sovereign - C.J. Sansom
87) Bel Canto - Ann Patchett 88) Where Three Roads Meet - Salley Vickers
89) Coventry - Helen Humphreys 90) Hard Times - Charles Dickens
91) Where Memories Lie - Deborah Crombie 92) Washington Square - Henry James
93) The Girl of His Dreams - Donna Leon 94) The Innocent Traveller - Ethel Wilson
95) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 96) East of Eden - John Steinbeck
97) As For Me and My House - Sinclair Ross 98) Gothic Tales - Elizabeth Gaskell
99) The Diviners - Margaret Laurence 100) The Journey That Saved Curious George -Louise Borden
101) No Great Mischief - Alistair MacLeod 102) The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday - Alexander McCall Smith
103) See You in a Hundred Years - Logan Ward 104) Mistletoe and Murder - Carola Dunn
105) The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood - Helene Cooper
106) Pamela - Samuel Richardson 2007
1) Mansfield Park - Jane Austen 2) Driftnet - Lin Anderson
3) Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck 4) My Antonia - Willa Cather
5) Sanditon - Jane Austen and Another Lady 6) The Moon and Sixpence - W. Somerset Maugham
7) Edenborn - Nick Sagan 8) Irish Chain - Barbara Haworth-Attard
9) The Marriage Bed - Constance Beresford Howe 10) The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
11) Second Honeymoon - Joanna Trollope 12) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (re-read for book club)
13) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 14) Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy
15) An African in Greenland - Tété-Michel Kpomassie
16) My Remarkable Uncle - Stephen Leacock 17) The Fire-Dwellers - Margaret Laurence
18) Sleep Without Morning - Rae Foley 19) Short Cut to Santa Fe - Medora Sale
20) Monsieur Rene - Peter Ustinov 21) The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason
22) The Idea of Perfection - Kate Grenville 23) Birds of a Feather - Jacqueline Winspear
BR24) Wacousta or, The Prophecy; A Tale of the Canadas - John Richardson
BR 25)The Faith Club:A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew. Three Women Search for Understanding - Ranya Idliby,Suzanne Oliver,Priscilla Warner
BR26) The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards BR
27) Suite Francaise - Irène Némirovsky BR28) Piece of My Heart - Peter Robinson
BR29) One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson BR30) Memento Mori - Muriel Spark
BR31) A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve BR32) Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
BR33) The Pursuit of Happyness - Chris Gardner BR
34) Hoot to Kill - Karen Dudley BR35) The Red Heron - Karen Dudley
BR 36) The Unyielding Clamour of the Night - Neil Bissoondath BR
37) Macaws of Death - Karen Dudley BR38) The Measure of a Man - Sidney Poitier
BR39) The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald BR40) The Secret River - Kate Grenville
BR41) Dear Sad Goat: A Roundup of Truly Canadian Tales & Letters by Bill Richardson
BR42) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway BR43) The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
BR44) The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories - Henry James BR
45) A Corpse in the Cottage - Clair Gabriel Marcus BR46) The Book of Eve - Constance Beresford-Howe
BR47) Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat BR
48) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath BR 49) The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
BR50) Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler BR51) The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
BR52) Instances of the Number 3 - Salley Vickers BR
53) The Echo Maker - Richard Powers BR54) Torch - Lin Anderson BR
55) Blood Red Roses - Lin Anderson BR 56) Governor of the Northern Province - Randy Boyagoda
BR57) Who Has Seen the Wind - W.O. Mitchell BR 58) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
BR59) Sanditon and Other Stories - Jane Austen BR
60) Suffer the Little Children - Donna Leon BR61) The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
BR62) The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith BR
63) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini BR64) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
65) Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf BR66) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
BR67) Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote BR68) Uncle Silas - Sheridan LeFanu
BR69) October - Richard B. Wright BR70) Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
BR71) Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott BR72) Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
BR 73) Papillon - Henri Charrière BR74) Deadly Code - Lin Anderson
BR75) Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks BR76) Borkmann's Point - Hǻkan Nesser
BR77) Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth BR78) The Birth House - Ami McKay
BR79) The Return - Hǻkan Nesser BR80) The Land Newly Found - Eyewitness Accounts of the Canadian Immigrant Experience - Norman Hillmer and J.L. Granatstein
BR81) The Giver - Lois Lowry BR82) Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
BR83) Stars of the New Curfew - Ben Okri BR84) Water Like a Stone - Deborah Crombie
BR85) The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens BR
86) Churchill's Secret Agent - Josephine Butler BR87) The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
BR88) Stupeur et tremblements (Fear and Trembling) - Amélie Nothomb
BR89) Old Filth - Jane Gardam BR90) The Warden - Anthony Trollope
BR91) Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope BR92) The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
BR93) Poems - Emily Dickinson BR94) The Manticore - Robertson Davies
BR95) Bath Tangle - Georgette Heyer BR96) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
BR97) The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore BR
98) Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry BR99) When She Was White - Judith Stone
BR100) Miracle in the Andes - Nando Parrado BR101) The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
BR102) A Family and a Fortune - Ivy Compton-Burnett BR
103) Obasan - Joy Kogawa BR104) I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron
BR105) Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner BR
106) The Backwoods of Canada - Catharine Parr Traill BR107) How Reading Changed My Life - Anna Quindlen
BR108) From Stone Orchard - Timothy Findley BR109) Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan
BR110) The Semi-Detached House - Emily Eden BR111) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
BR112) Cousin Phillis - Elizabeth Gaskell BR113) The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
BR114) The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman BR115) Ja, No, Man: Growing Up White in Apartheid-Era South Africa - Richard Poplak
BR116) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens BR117) The Christmas Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
BR118) Indiscretion - Jude Morgan BR119) Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin
BR120) No Fond Return of Love - Barbara Pym BR121) The House in Norham Gardens - Penelope Lively
BR122) Jack Absolute - C.C. Humphreys BR2006
1) Silas Marner - George Eliot 2) Passage - Connie Willis
3) Half Magic - Edward Eager 4) A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
5) The Road Less Travelled - M. Scott Peck 6) The Sweetest Dream - Doris Lessing
7) Parnassus on Wheels - Christopher Morley 8) The Haunted Bookshop - Christopher Morley
9) Ces Enfants de ma Vie - Gabrielle Roy 10) Told by an Idiot - Rose Macauley
11) Jude - Kate Morgenroth 12) End in Tears - Ruth Rendell
13) Expecting Adam - Martha Beck 14) The Best of Gary Lautens - Gary Lautens
15) Queen of the Headaches - Sharon Butala 16) Jane Austen. A Life - Carol Shields
17) Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
18) She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb 19) Love Walked In - Marisa de los Santos
20) The Hatbox Letters - Beth Powning 21) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
22) Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev 23) Brick Lane - Monica Ali
24) Cane River - Lalita Tademy 25) Bellwether - Connie Willis
26) Black Teeth & Other North End Souvenirs - Richard Dubanski
27) Nowhere in Africa - Stefanie Zweig 28) Dirt Music - Tim Winton
29) Middlemarch - George Eliot 30) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
31) The Semi-Attached Couple - Emily Eden 32) When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
33) Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer 34) Everest. Mountain Without Mercy - Broughton Coburn
35) Death of a Red Heroine - Xialong Qiu 36) The Old Wine Shades - Martha Grimes
37) Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee 38) Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
39) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
40) A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton 41) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
42) Excellent Women - Barbara Pym 43) A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
44) The Seven Stars - Anthea Fraser 45) Ill Wind - Nevada Barr
46) The Flight of the Falcon - Daphne DuMaurier
47) The Ten Commandments - Anthea Fraser 48) The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49) Three to Get Deadly - Janet Evanovich 50) Celibates & Other Lovers - Walter Keady
51) Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene 52) Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
53) Waiting for Snow in Havana. Confessions of a Cuban Boy - Carlos Eire
54) Death in the Stocks - Georgette Heyer 55) No Name - Wilkie Collins
56) The Lighthouse - P.D. James 57) The Tipping Point. How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
58) Case Histories - Kate Atkinson 59) Less Than Angels - Barbara Pym
60) Don't Get Too Comfortable - David Rakoff 61) When the Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka
62) Through a Glass Darkly - Donna Leon 63) A Blade of Glass - Lewis DeSoto
64) Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel 65) Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith
66) The Education of Hyman Kaplan - Leonard Q. Ross (Leo Rosten)
67) Snobs - Julian Fellowes 68) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
69) Christopher and Columbus - Elizabeth Von Arnim
70) Who Will Cry When You Die? - Life Lessons from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - Robin S. Sharma
71) The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareshi
72) A Girl Named Disaster - Nancy Farmer 73) La Petite Poule D'Eau (Where Nests the Waterhen) - Gabrielle Roy
74) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer 75) The Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
76) The Go-Between - L. P. Hartley 77) The Language of God - Francis S. Collins
78) The Time in Between - David Bergen 79) Ties that Bind, Ties that Break - Lensey Namioka
80) The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind - David Guterson
81) Garden View - Mary Freeman 82) Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock
83) The Book of Fred - Abby Bardi 84) Witnesses to War: Eight true-life stories of Nazi persecution - Michael Leapman
85) Sprig Muslin - Georgette Heyer 86) A Loyal Character Dancer - Qiu Xialong
87) And Ladies of the Club - Helen Hoover Santmyer
88) Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast - Bill Richardson 89) Book by Book - Michael Dirda
90) It Was on Fire When I Lay Down On It - Robert Fulghum
91) The Blue Mountains of China - Rudy Wiebe 92) Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
93) The Year of Magical Thnking - Joan Didion 94) Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast Pillow Book - Bill Richardson
95) Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson 96) Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich - Stephen Leacock
97)The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar 98) Bachelor Brothers' Bedside Companion - Bill Richardson
>99) The Other Side of You - Salley Vickers 100) Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore
101)You've Got to Read This Book - Jack Canfield & Gay Hendricks
102)Not Buying It. My Year Without Shopping - Judith Levine
103) The Battle of the Somme - Martin Gilbert 104) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
105) A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym 106) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
107) Queenan Country - Joe Queenan 108) The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith
109) The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison 110) No Other Life - Brian Moore
111) Corner Store - Bess Kaplan 112) For One More Day - Mitch Albom
113) Ladder of Years - Anne Tyler 114) Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
115) Under the Ribs of Death - John Marlyn 116) Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
117) The Hamilton Case - Michelle De Kretser 118) Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
119) Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh 120) Esther Waters - George Moore
121) Ask Again Later - Jill A. Davis 122) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
123) Black Rain - Masuji Ibuse 124) Except the Dying - Maureen Jennings
125) Digging to America - Anne Tyler 126) 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
127) Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis 128) What Came Before He Shot Her - Elizabeth George
129) A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon 2005
1) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 2) Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
3) North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell 4) Portuguese Irregular Verbs - Alexander McCall Smith
5) The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs - Alexander McCall Smith
6) At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances - Alexander McCall Smith
7) Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and other Essays - Adele Wiseman
8) A Noble Radiance - Donna Leon 9) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
10) The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot 11) Orchestrated Death - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
12) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
13) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams 14) Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
15) So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams
16) Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams 17) The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith
18) Felicia's Journey - William Trevor 19) Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
20) Just One Look - Harlan Coban 21) Gift from the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
22) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 23) Death to Go - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
24) Dead End - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 25) Persepolis. The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi
26) A Short Guide to a Happy Life - Anna Quindlen
27) The Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim 28) Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
29) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 30) Imagined London. A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City - Anna Quindlen
31) Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides 32) New Grub Street - George Gissing
33) Rumpole's Last Case - John Mortimer 34) The Sad Truth about Happiness - Anne Giardini
35) The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 36) Appointment in Venice - Sally Stewart
37) Strange Affair - Peter Robinson 38) Nights of Rain and Stars - Maeve Binchy
39) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 40) Wordstruck - Robert MacNeil
41) Small Island - Andrea Levy 42) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
43) The Cure for Death by Lightning - Gail Anderson-Dargatz
44) The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd 45) In a Dark House - Deborah Crombie
46) Warning: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to your Health - William Glasser M.D.
47) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 48) Death Duties - Janet LaPierre
49) The Sea, the Sea - Iris Murdoch 50) Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
51) The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy 52) East Lynne - Ellen Wood
53) The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 54) An Accidental Canadian. Reflections on my Home and (not) Native Land - Margaret Wente
55) My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult 56) A Wrinkle in Time - Madleine L'Engle
57) The Serpent's Trail - Sue Henry 58) In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
59) Gone for Good - Harlen Coben 60) Thirteen Steps Down - Ruth Rendell
61) L'Etranger (The Stranger) - Albert Camus 62) Ishmael - Daniel Quin
63) Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell 64) In Praise of Slow. How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging th Cult of Speed - Carl Honore
65) 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
66) Love Among the Chickens - P.G. Wodehouse 67) The Shooting Party - Isabel Colegate
68) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 69) The Summer of a Dormouse - John Mortimer
70) Dead North - Sue Henry 71) Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
72) With No One As Witness - Elizabeth George 73) Cross Bones - Kathy Reichs
74) Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto 75) Parallel Journeys - Eleanor Ayer with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck
76) The Tea House on Mulberry Street - Sharon Owens
77) Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland 78) Rabbit, Run - John Updike
79) Walden - Henry David Thoreau 80) Green Grass, Running Water - Thomas King
81) With Malice Toward Some - Margaret Halsey 82) Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
83) Patty Jane's House of Curl - Lorna Landvik 84) Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason - Nancy Pearl
85) A Cup of Tea - Nora Ephron 86) A Population of One - Constance Beresford-Howe
87) A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews 88) Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
89) Home Truths - David Lodge 90) A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell
91) Tamarind Mem - Anita Rau Badami 92) More Book Lust - Nancy Pearl
93) The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
94) Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis 95) The Day the World Came to Town. 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Jim De Fede
96) Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis 97) Dubliners - James Joyce
98) The Silver Chair -C.S. Lewis 99) Upstream - Sharon Butala
100) Ringworld - Laryy Niven 101) Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan
102) The Horse and His Boy - C.S.Lewis 103) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
104) The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis 105) The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X & Alex Haley
106) The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis 107) The Gift of the Magi -O. Henry
108) The Heaven Tree - Edith Pargeter 109) The Green Branch - Edith Pargeter
110) The Scarlet Seed - Edith Pargeter 111) The Book Lady - Malcolm Forsythe
112) Common or Garden Crime - Sheila Pim BOOKS I'VE GIVEN UP ON 2008 Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
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2009 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott The Clockmaker - Thomas C. Haliburton
The Disinherited - Matt Cohen The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
2010 Isabel's Bed - Elinor Lipman
2011 Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow Free Hit Counter
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