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Favourite books of 2010
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt

Best books of 2009
The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
The Mammoth Cheese - Sheri Holman
Buddha Da - Anne Donovan

Best books of 2008
Until I Find You - John Irving
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
number9dream - David Mitchell
Turtle Diary - Russell Hoban
The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe
The 21/2 Pillars of Wisdom - Alexander McCall Smith
Oscar & Lucinda - Peter Carey
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G. Farrell
Animal's People
Darkmans

Best books of 2007
Green Dolphin Country - Elizabeth Goudge
The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris
A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters - Julian Barnes
Winter in Madrid - C. J. Sansom
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Thinks.... - David Lodge
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
Love over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith


Best books of 2006
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Gentlemen & Players - Joanne Harris
The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Slow Boats to China & Slow Boats Home - Gavin Young
Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon - Isabel Allende
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
Story Wallah - Shyam Selvadurai

My 2005 best reads:
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
A Fortune-Teller Told Me - Tiziano Terzani
Blackberry Wine (read again!) - Joanne Harris
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Lives of the Monster Dogs - Kirsten Bakis
Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Avenger - Frederick Forsyth
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series
English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
Mr Pye - Mervyn Peake

My 2004 Top 10:
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Z.
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Altered Land - Jules Hardy
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Second Angel - Philip Kerr
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
True Tales of American Life
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Sun Dog

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