Recent Book Activity
Extraordinary Lives 2
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Galatea
Me Before You
Till Death, or a Little Light Maiming, Do Us Part
Friend Request
Amandine
The Mystery of the Headless Horseman
Odd One Out
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
The End of Your Life Book Club
The House of Fiction
History of England
Such a Fun Age
London Rain
The Good Turn
The Balcony
The Scandal
Statistics |
4 weeks | all time |
|---|---|---|
| books registered | 1 | 365 |
| released in the wild | 1 | 72 |
| controlled releases | 0 | 202 |
| releases caught | 0 | 5 |
| controlled releases caught | 0 | 194 |
| books found | 1 | 176 |
| tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 9 |
| new member referrals | 0 | 5 |
| forum posts | 1 | 266 |
Extended Profile
Updated: September 26, 2022
Currently reading:
Bookrings I'm hosting:
AUS ONLY Joe Cinque's Consolation ~ Helen Garner Stalled
Int'l Mercy ~ Jodi Picoult completed
Int'l Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's(Pocket Penguins 70's) ~ Marian Keyes completed
Int'l Ray Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson
Int'l The Lilies of the Field ~ William E Barrett completed
Int'l Cry, the Beloved Country ~ Alan Paton completed
Int'l The Book Of Negroes ~ Lawrence Hill completed
Int'l When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead completed
Int'l The Last Song ~ Nicholas Sparks
Bookrings/bookrays I have participated in:
The Twins at St.Clare's ~ Enid Blyton
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian~Marina Lewycka
Black Like Me ~ Robert Bonazzi, John Howard Griffin
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier ~ T.E. Carhart
Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom ~ Soname Yangchen, Vicki MacKenzie
On Chesil Beach ~ Ian McEwan
The Spare Room ~ Helen Garner
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ~ Eva Rice
Austenland ~ Shannon Hale
A Month in the Country ~ Joseph Lloyd Carr
War Horse ~ Michael Morpurgo
Finn Family Moomintroll ~ Tove Jansson
Pigs ~ Robert Munsch
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ~ James Weldon Johnson
My Birthday RABCK Buddy is Haugtussa
Some of the RABCKs received (thanks so much!):
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ~ Rebecca Wells from priceliss
The Secret of Guidance ~ F.B. Meyer from snowy652
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Roald Dahl from Carole888
Same Kind of Different As Me ~ Ron Hall, Denver Moorefrom Stephario
Books read in 2021
1. A Sceptic's Guide to Meaning ~ Mike Willisee
2. The Survivors ~ Jane Harper
3. The Boundary ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
4. A Burning ~ Megha Majumdar
5. A Bear Called Paddington ~ Michael Bond
6. The Part-time Job ~ P.D. James
7. Why Fish Don't Exist ~ Lulu Miller
8. Future Home of the Living God ~ Louise Erdich
9. Sex and Vanity ~ Kevin Kwan
10. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ~ Elif Shafak
11. The Midnight Library ~ Matt Haig
12. The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health ~ Michael Moseley
13. Other People's Houses ~ Kelli Hawkins
14. The Thursday Murder Club ~ Richard Osman
15. Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography ~ Tom Moore
16. The Paris Library ~ Janet Skeslien Charles
17. Detective Cross ~ James Patterson
18. Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1) ~ Harlan Corben
19. The Punjabi Pappadum ~ Robert Newton
20. A Quiver Full of Arrows ~ Jeffrey Archer
21. The Duke and I ~ Julia Quinn
22. The Viscount Who Loved Me~ Julia Quinn
23. An Offer from a Gentleman ~ Julia Quinn
24. You Have Arrived at Your Destination ~ Amor Towles
25. Deal Breaker ~ Harlan Corben
26. Romancing Mister Bridgerton ~ Julia Quinn
27. The Windsor Knot ~ S.J. Bennett
28. The Rose Code ~ Kate Quinn
29. The Favour ~ Laura Vaughan
Books read in 2020
1. Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth ~ Paula Byrne
2. The Guardians ~ John Grisham
3. Nothing Ventured ~ Jeffrey Archer
4. Notre-Dame ~ Ken Follett
5. When the Time Comes ~ Adele O'Neill
5. Tell Tale: Short Stories ~ Jeffrey Archer
6. When the Crawdads Sing ~ Delia Owens
7. Normal People ~ Sally Rooney
Books read in 2019
1. The Year of the Farmer ~ Rosalie Ham
2. Becoming ~ Michelle Obama
3. Meet Me at the Museum ~ Anne Youngson
4. The Frangipani Tree Mystery ~ Ovidia Yu
5. The Pearl Thief ~ Fiona McIntosh
6. Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials ~ Ovidia Yu
7. The Feng Shui Detective ~ Nury Vittachi
8. Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love ~ James Runcie
9. The Man in the High Castle ~ Philip K Dick
10. Malice ~ Keigo Higashino
11. Newcomer ~ Keigo Higashino
12. The Land Before Avocado ~ Richard Glover
13. The Scholar - Dervla McTiernan
14. The Rosie Result ~ Graeme Simsion
15. The Fragments ~ Toni Jordan
16. The Other Wife ~ Michael Robotham
17. The Suspect ~ Michael Robotham
18. Two Can Keep A Secret ~ Karen M. McManus
19. The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone ~ Felicity McLean
20. The Salt Path ~ Raynor Winn
21. Birthday Girl ~ Haruki Murakami
22. River of Salt ~ Dave Warner
23. My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie ~ Todd Fisher
24. The Mother-in-Law ~ Sally Hepworth
25. Picnic at Hanging Rock ~ Joan Lindsay
26. The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton ~ Anstey Harris
27. China Rich Girlfriend ~ Kevin Kwan
28. The Rook ~ Daniel O'Malley
29. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters ~ Balli Kaur Jaswal
30. Rich People Problems ~ Kevin Kwan
31. The Erratics ~ Vicki Laveau-Harvie
32. The Secret Runners of New York ~ Matthew Reilly
33. Good Girl Bad Girl ~ Michael Robotham
34. Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women ~ Roseanne Montillo
35. Warlight ~ Michael Ondaatje
36. Crossing the Lines ~ Sulari Gentill
37. The Testaments ~ Margaret Atwood
38. The Ex ~ Nicole Moriarty
39. Platform Seven ~ Louise Doughty
40. The Whisper Network ~ Chandler Baker
41. Where the Dead Go ~ Sarah Bailey
42. Needlemouse ~ Jane O'Connor
43. Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life ~ Kitty Flanagan
44. Don't Let Go ~ Harlan Coben
45. Intrigo ~ Håkan Nesser
46. I Know Who You Are ~ Alice Feeney
47. After the Party ~ Cressida Connolly
48. The Wife and The Widow ~ Christian White
49. No One Home ~ Timothy Weaver
50. Inspector Chopra and the Million-Dollar Motor Car ~ Vaseem Khan
Books read in 2018
1. Wonder ~ R. J. Palacio
2. The Anthill Murders ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
3. The Rooster Bar ~ John Grisham
4. Lead Me Home ~ Amy K. Sorrells
5. The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse ~ Alexander McCall Smith
6. The Dry ~ Jane Harper
7. The Case for Christ ~ Lee Strobel
8. A Time of Love and Tartan ~ Alexander McCall Smith
9. A Separation ~ Katie Kitamura
10. The Friend ~ Dorothy Koomson
11. Run Like Crazy ~ Tristan Miller
12. The Trick to Time ~ Kit de Waal
13. Scholar and Gypsy ~ Anita Desai
14. The Woman in the Window ~ A. J. Finn
15. The Breakthrough ~ Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Custard Heart ~ Dorothy Parker
17. The Tattooist of Auschwitz ~ Heather Morris
18. Little Fires Everywhere ~ Celeste Ng
19. The Rúin ~ Dervla McTiernan
20. The Wife Between Us ~ Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
21. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ~ Gail Honeyman
22. The President is Missing ~ Bill Clinton and James Patterson
23. A Moveable Feast ~ Ernest Hemingway
24. Murder at the Grand Raj Palace ~ Vaseem Khan
25. Everything I Never Told You ~ Celeste Ng
26. The Pastor and the Painter ~ Cindy Wockner
27. The Reader on the 6.27 ~ Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
28. Meghan: A Hollywood Princess ~ Andrew Morton
29. The Nowhere Child ~ Christian White
30. My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 years of the Royal Marriage ~ Ingrid Seward
31. Butterfly on a Pin ~ Alannah Hill
32. The Summer of '82 ~ Dave O'Neil
33. See What I Have Done ~ Sarah Schmidt
34. I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting ~ Rebecca Harrington
35. Reborn on the Run: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons ~ Catra Corbett
36. Scrublands ~ Chris Hammer
37. People of the Book ~ Geraldine Brooks
38. The Lost Man ~ Jane Harper
39. Crazy Rich Asians ~ Kevin Kwan
40. The Ones You Trust ~ Caroline Overington
41. The Reckoning ~ John Grisham
42. My Purple Scented Novel ~ Ian McEwan
43. Another Ordinary Day ~ Leigh Sales
44. Sharp Objects ~ Gillian Flynn
46. The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village ~ Joanna Nell
47. The Colours of All the Cattle ~ Alexander McCall Smith
48. Camino Island ~ John Grisham
49. Martha and Hanwell ~ Zadie Smith
50. The Missing Girl ~ Shirley Jackson
Books read in 2017
1. Sidney Chambers and The Problems of Evil ~ James Runcie
2. Unsinkable: A Memoir ~Debbie Reynolds, Dorian Hannaway
3. Bridget Jones's Baby ~ Helen Fielding
4. The art of people: the 11 simple people skills that will get you everything you want ~ Dave Kerpen
5. Miracles From Heaven ~ Christy Beam
6. His Bloody Project ~ Graeme Macrae Burnet
7. How Sweet the Sound: A Novel ~ Amy K Sorrells
8. Big Little Lies ~ Liane Moriarty
9. Belgravia ~ Julian Fellowes
10. The Princess Diarist ~ Carrie Fisher
11. The Human Flies ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
12. The Five People You Meet in Heaven ~ Mitch Albom
13. The Satellite People ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
14. The Wrong Girl ~ Zoe Foster-Blake
15. The Bertie Project ~ Alexander McCall Smith
16. The Catalyst Killing ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
17. The Age of Miracles ~ Karen Thompson Walker
18. Chameleon People ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
19. They Were Christians ~ Cristóbal Krusen
20. The Secret Keeper ~ Kate Morton
21. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra ~ Vaseem Khan
22. The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown ~ Vaseem Khan
23. Into The Water ~ Paula Hawkins
24. Small Great Things ~ Jodi Picoult
25. The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star ~ Vaseem Khan
26. The Way of the Runner ~ Adharanand Finn
27. The Handmaid's Tale ~ Margaret Atwood
28. The Unlikely Marathoner ~ Donna Campisi
29. Crooked House ~ Agatha Christie
30. The Body in the Library ~ Agatha Christie
31. Shockaholic ~ Carrie Fisher
32. One of Us is Lying ~ Karen M. McManus
33. New Boy ~ Tracy Chevalier
34. Unmasked ~ Turia Pitt and Bryce Corbett
35. Force of Nature ~ Jane Harper
36. Hag-Seed ~ Margaret Atwood
37. The Stranger ~ Harlan Coben
38. Reconstructing Amelia ~ Kimberly McCreight
39. Not to Disturb ~ Muriel Spark
40. The Paradigm ~ Jonathan Cahn
41. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye ~ David Lagercrantz
Books read in 2016
1. The Accident ~ Chris Pavone
2. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend ~ Katarina Bivald
3. Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography ~ Tom Jones
4. Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours ~ Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis and Robin Gaby Fisher
5. The Expats ~ Chris Pavone
6. Imagine Heaven ~ John Burke
7. Chance Developments ~ Alexander McCall Smith
8. After the Quake ~ Haruki Murakami
9. The Girl in the Spider's Web ~ David Lagercrantz
10. The Guest Cat ~ Takashi Hiraide
11. The Long Run ~ Catriona Menzies- Pike
12. The Litigators ~ John Grisham
13. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up ~ Marie Kondo
14. Seven Wonders ~ Ben Mezrich
15. Play Dead ~ Harlan Coben
16. A Grief Observed ~ C.S. Lewis
17. The Confession ~ John Grisham
18. Then Sings My Soul ~ Amy Sorrells
19. Lost & Found ~ Brooke Davis
20. The One That Got Away ~ Caroline Overington
21. The Tea Planter's Wife ~ Dinah Jefferies
22. The Racketeer ~ John Grisham
23. Defending Jacob ~ William Landay
24. The Travelers ~ Chris Pavone
25. The President's Hat ~ Antoine Laurain
26. The Mystery of the Shemitah ~ Jonathan Cahn
27. Eligible ~ Curtis Sittenfeld
28. The Best of Adam Sharp ~ Graeme Simsion
29. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business ~ Patrick Lencioni
30. The Lady in the Van ~ Alan Bennett
31. When Breath becomes Air ~ Paul Kalanithi
32. Precious and Grace ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
33. The Bletchley Girls ~ Tessa Dunlop
34. Ramona the Pest ~ Beverley Cleary
35. Finding Colin Firth ~ Mia March
36. Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama ~ Edited by Jory John
37. Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation ~ James Runcie
38. The Magnolia Story ~ Chip and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino
39. The Reckoning ~ Edith Wharton
40. The Tinder Box ~ Hans Christian Andersen
Books read in 2015
1. Emma ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Stay where you are and then leave ~ John Boyne
3. The Snobs ~ Muriel Spark
4. Reunion ~ Fred Uhlman
5. Running with the Kenyans ~ Adharanand Finn
6. The Piano Teacher: A Novel ~ Janice Y. K. Lee
7. Carry On, Jeeves ~ P. G. Wodehouse
8. The Husband's Secret ~ Liane Moriarty
9. The Book Thief ~ Markus Zusak
10. The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café ~ Alexander McCall Smith
11. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls ~ Marco Polo
12. The Beautifull Cassandra ~ Jane Austen
13. Queen Victoria's Youngest Son: The Untold Story of Prince Leopold ~ Charlotte Zeepvat
14. The Broker ~ John Grisham
15. Girl Runner ~ Carrie Snyder
16. The Unexpected Vacation of George Thring ~ Alastair Puddick
17. The Girl on the Train ~ Paula Hawkins
18. The Children Act ~ Ian McEwan
19. First Impressions ~ Charlie Lovett
20. Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation ~ Muriel Emanuel & Vera Gissing
21. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage ~ Haruki Murakami
22. Stone Mattress ~ Margaret Atwood
23. The Goldfinch ~ Donna Tartt
24. Esio Trot ~ Roald Dahl
25. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy ~ Helen Fielding
26. The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon ~ Aesop
27. Black-Eyed Susans ~ Julia Heaberlin
28. Proof of Heaven ~ Eben Alexander
29. The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine ~ Alexander McCall Smith
30. The Boy Who Could See Death ~ Salley Vickers
31. The Harbinger ~ Jonathan Cahn
32. On Life After Death ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
33. Wild ~ Cheryl Strayed
34. The Case of the Love Commandos ~ Tarquin Hall
35. Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins ~ James Runcie
36. Tumbledown Manor ~ Helen Brown
37. Heaven Changes Everything : The Rest of Our Story ~ Todd Burpo & Sonja Burpo
38. Running Like a Girl ~ Alexandra Heminsley
39. Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables ~ David M. Bader
Books read in 2014
1. The Death Instinct ~ Jed Rubenfeld
2. The Interpretation of Murder ~ Jed Rubenfeld
3. Sycamore Row ~ John Grisham
4. A Streetcat Named Bob ~ James Bowen
5. Dumb Witness ~ Agatha Christie
6. Evil Under The Sun ~ Agatha Christie
7. The Fault in Our Stars ~ John Green
8. The Forever Girl ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
9. Jeeves and the Wedding Bells ~ Sebastian Faulks
10. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar ~ Robert Alexander
11. Sweet Tooth ~ Ian McEwan
12. The Minor Beauty Adjustment Salon ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
13. Rasputin's Daughter ~ Robert Alexander
14. 12 Years A Slave ~ Solomon Northup
15. The Rosie Project ~ Graeme Simsion
16. It's Not You ~ Sara Eckel
17. Is Everyone hanging out (without me)? ~ Mindy Kaling
18. Against the Clock: Breaking the 4 minute Mile ~ John Bryant
19. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ~ James Thurber
20. Sarah's Key ~ Tatiana de Rosnay
21. Heaven is for Real ~ Todd Burpo with Lyn Vincent
22. Bonkers: My Life in Laughs ~ Jennifer Saunders
23. What I Loved ~ Siri Hustvedt
24. Her ~ Harriet Lane
25. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch ~ Alison Arngrim
26. Keep on Running ~ Phil Elliott
27. Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change ~ John Hagee
28. Gone Girl ~ Gillian Flynn
29. The Rosie Effect ~ Graeme Simsion
30. Eternal on the Water ~ Joseph Monninger
31. The Princess Bride ~ William Goldman
32. Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma ~ David Boyle
Books read in 2013
1. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography ~ William Anderson
2. Three Men on the Bummel ~ Jerome K. Jerome
3. The Amber Amulet ~ Craig Silvey
4. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken ~ Tarquin Hall
5. The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
6. Saving the World ~ Julia Alvarez
7. The Case of the Missing Servant ~ Tarquin Hall
8. The Perks of being a Wallflower ~ Stephen Chbosky
9. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ~ James Weldon Johnson
10. Jasper Jones ~ Craig Silvey
11. Lincoln ~ Thomas Keneally
12. The Case of the Man who Died Laughing ~ Tarquin Hall
13. Testimony ~ Anita Shreve
14. In the Skin of a Lion ~ Michael Ondaatje
15. The Wonder Spot ~ Melissa Bank
16. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte
17. A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust ~ Alison Leslie Gold
18. Astrid Lindgren: Storyteller to the world ~ Johanna Hurwitz
19. Child Wonder ~ Roy Jacobsen
20. Interpreter of Maladies ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
21. Shadow Waltz (The Marjorie McClelland Mysteries) ~ Amy Patricia Meade
22. Same Kind of Different As Me ~ Ron Hall, Denver Moore
23. Black Moonlight (The Marjorie McClelland Mysteries) ~ Amy Patricia Meade
24. Player One ~ Douglas Coupland
25. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle ~ Fiona J. M. Aitken
26. Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son ~ Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez & Hope Edelman
27. A Long Way Home ~ Saroo Brierley
28. Sunshine on Scotland Street ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
29. Goodnight Mister Tom ~ Michelle Magorian
30. Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers: A Scotland Street Novel ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
31. The Sisters ~ Nancy Jensen
32. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death ~ James Runcie
33. 11/22/63 ~ Stephen King
34. America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ~ Sarah Bradford
35. Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night ~ James Runcie
36. Funny in Farsi ~ Firoozeh Dumas
Books read in 2012
1. Austenland ~ Shannon Hale
2. Death Comes to Pemberley ~ P. D. James
3. Give It All to Him ~ Max Lucado
4. The Book Of Negroes ~ Lawrence Hill
5. Poor Man's Wealth ~ Rod Usher
6. Hotel Iris ~ Yoko Ogawa
7. Unbroken ~ Laura Hillenbrand
8. No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub ~ Virginia Ironside
9. Elizabeth Costello ~ J. M. Coetzee
10. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life by P.S. Hill
11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ~ Rebecca Skloot
12. The Shack ~ WM. Paul Young
13. A Month in the Country ~ Joseph Lloyd Carr
14. War Horse ~ Michael Morpurgo
15. The Midwife's Confession ~ Diane Chamberlain
16. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ~ Haruki Murakami
17. Postern of Fate ~ Agatha Christie
18. Mr Darcy's Diary ~ Maya Slater
19. Sparkling Cyanide ~ Agatha Christie
20. Finn Family Moomintroll ~ Tove Jansson
21. The Servant's Quarters ~ Lynn Freed
22. The Cleverness of Ladies ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
23. Eleven~ Mark Watson
24. In the Time of the Butterflies ~ Julia Alvarez
25. Mary Bennet ~ Jennifer Paynter
26. Behind the Beautiful Forevers ~ Katherine Boo
27. The Light Between the Oceans ~ M. L. Stedman
28. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection ~ Alexander McCall Smith
29. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party ~ Alexander McCall Smith
30. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ~ Rachel Joyce
31. Jeannie Out of the Bottle ~ Barbara Eden with Wendy Leigh
32. The House of Memories ~ Monica McInerney
33. Half the Sky ~ Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
34. The Company of the Dead ~ David J. Kowalski
35. The Dinner ~ Herman Koch
36. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie ~ Wendy McClure
Books read in 2011
1. Campaign Ruby ~ Jessica Rudd
2. Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
3. Bertie sings the Blues ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
4. Mysterious Benedict Society ~
5. Bone China ~ Roma Tearne
6. Ghost of a Chance ~ Amy Patricia Meade
7. A Guide to the Birds of East Africa ~ Nicholas Drayson
8. The Help ~ Kathryn Stockett
9. One Day ~ David Nicholls
10. Room ~ Emma Donoghue
11. The Housekeeper and the Professor ~ Yoko Ogawa
12. Seven Types of Ambiguity ~ Elliot Perlman
13. Stories I Only Tell My Friends ~ Rob Lowe
14. The Tall Man ~ Chloe Hooper
15. Portugese Irregular Verbs ~ Alexander McCall Smith
16. The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs~ Alexander McCall Smith
17. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances ~ Alexander McCall Smith
Books read in 2010
1. True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess ~ Wendy Leigh
2. The Dog Who Came In From The Cold ~ Alexander McCall-Smith (audiobook)
3. Fantastic Mr Fox ~ Roald Dahl
4. The Twits ~ Roald Dahl
5. The Lost Art of Gratitude ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
6. A Change in Altitude ~ Anita Shreve
7. London is the Best City in America ~ Laura Dave
8. Towards Zero ~ Agatha Christie
9. The Chocolate Cat Caper (Chocoholic Mysteries, No. 1) ~ JoAnna Carl
10. The Double Comfort Safari Club ~ Alexander McCall Smith
11. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~ Stieg Larsson
12. Naive. Super ~ Erlend Loe
13. Astrid and Veronika ~ Linda Olsson
14. The Makioka Sisters ~ Junichiro Tanizaki
15. The Girl Who Played with Fire ~ Stieg Larsson
16. Hummingbirds ~ Joshua Gaylord
17. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ~ Stieg Larsson
18. Mao's Last Dancer ~ Li Cunxin
19. Dear Fatty ~ Dawn French
20. Still Alice ~ Lisa Genova
21. When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead
22. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ~ Agatha Christie
23. Rosewater and Soda Bread ~ Marsha Mehran
24. Partners in Crime ~ Agatha Christie
25. 84 Charing Cross Road/The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street ~ Helen Hanff
26. The Legacy ~ Kirsten Tranter
27. Open ~ Andre Agassi
28. Oxygen ~ Carol Cassella
29. Death in the Clouds ~ Agatha Christie
30. Man in the Dark ~ Paul Auster
31. The Hand that First Held Mine ~ Maggie O'Farrell
32. The New York Trilogy ~ Paul Auster
33. 50 Dates Worse Than Yours ~ Justin Racz
34. The Brooklyn Follies ~ Paul Auster
35. Oracle Night ~ Paul Auster
36. Sad Cypress ~ Agatha Christie
37. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen ~ Syrie James
38. The Importance of Being Seven ~ Alexander McCall Smith
39. Lunch in Paris ~ Elizabeth Bard
40. Million Dollar Baby ~ Amy Patricia Meade
41. Her Fearful Symmetry ~ Audrey Niffenegger
42. The Lilies of the Field ~ William Edmund Barrett
43. The Charming Quirks of Others ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
44. The Mysterious Affair at Styles ~ Agatha Christie
45. Between The Assassinations ~ Aravind Adiga
46. Murder is Easy ~ Agatha Christie
47. Elephants Can Remember ~ Agatha Christie
48. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case ~ Agatha Christie
49. Parky: My Autobiography ~ Michael Parkinson
50. The Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins
Books read in 2009
1. The Best Day of Someone Else's Life ~ Kerry Reichs
2. La's Orchestra Saves the World ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
3. The Comfort of Saturdays ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
4. The Spare Room ~ Helen Garner
5. The Hour I First Believed ~ Wally Lamb
6. And Then There Were None ~ Agatha Christie
7. Like Water for Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel
8. East of the Sun ~ Julia Gregson
9. The Secret Adversary ~ Agatha Christie
10. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Mary Ann Shaffer
11. Pride and Prescience ~ Carrie Bebris
12. Cranford ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
13. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ~ John Boyne
14. The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Star Trek 1 ~ James Blish
16. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
17. A Wedding in December ~ Anita Shreve
18. Persepolis ~ Marjane Satrapi
19. Suspense and Sensibility ~ Carrie Bebris
20. The Marriage Club ~ Kate Legge
21. Alice in La La land ~ Sophie Lee
22. The Household Guide to Dying ~ Debra Adelaide
23. Corduroy Mansions ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
24. Innocent House/Original Sin ~ PD James
25. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ~ Eva Rice
Books read in 2008
1. Those Faraday Girls ~ Monica McInerney
2. Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson
3. Suite Francaise ~ Irene Nemirovsky
4. The Moving Finger ~ Agatha Christie
5. Otherwise Pandemonium (Pocket Penguins 70's) ~ Nick Hornby
6. Third Girl ~ Agatha Christie
7. Persuasion ~ Jane Austen
8. Due Preparations for the Plague ~ Jannette Turner Hospital
9. On Chesil Beach ~ Ian McEwan
10. The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (Pocket Penguins 70's)
11. The Miracle at Speedy Motors ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
12. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books ~ J. Peder Zane (Ed.)
13. The Screwtape Letters ~ C. S. Lewis
14. Five Little Pigs ~ Agatha Christie
15. Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast ~ Bill Richardson
16. Persuading Annie ~ Melissa Nathan
17. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Pocket Penguins 70s)~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
18. The Denniston Rose ~ Jenny Pattrick
19. What the Dead Know ~ Laura Lippman
20. The Diana Chronicles ~ Tina Brown
21. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
22. At Bertram's Hotel ~ Agatha Christie
23. The Lucy Family Alphabet ~ Judith Lucy
24. The Pursuit of Love ~ Nancy Mitford
25. Love in a Cold Climate ~ Nancy Mitford
26. The Blessing ~ Nancy Mitford
27. The Portable Door ~ Tom Holt
28. Tales of the Unexpected ~ Roald Dahl
29. Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome
30. Sense & Sensibility ~ Jane Austen
31. Boy ~ Roald Dahl
32. Going Solo ~ Roald Dahl
Books read in 2007
1. Espresso Tales ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Love Over Scotland ~Alexander McCall-Smith
3. The History of Love ~ Nicole Krause
4. The Europa Conspiracy ~Tim Lahaye and Bob Phillips
5. I was Bono's Doppelganger ~ Neil McCormick
6. Right Attitude to Rain~Alexander McCall-Smith
7. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox ~ Maggie O'Farrell
8. White Girl Black Girl ~ Joyce Carol Oates
9. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders ~ John Mortimer
10. After you'd gone ~ Maggie O'Farrell
11. When you wake and find me gone ~ Maureen McCarthy
12. The Thirteenth Tale ~ Diane Setterfield
13. Bill Bryson's African Diary
14. Jane Austen ~ Carol Shields
15. The Memory Keeper's Daughter ~ Kim Edwards
16. The Twins at St.Clare's ~ Enid Blyton
17. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian~Marina Lewycka
18. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ~Alexander McCall-Smith
19. Amsterdam ~ Ian McEwan
20. The Hamilton Case ~ Michelle de Kretser
21. The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Perms, Friendship and Freedom ~ Deborah Rodriguez
22. Black Like Me ~ Robert Bonazzi, John Howard Griffin
23. The Secret Life Of Bees ~ Sue Monk Kidd
24. The Shifting Fog (AKA The House at Riverton) ~ Kate Morton
25. The Careful Use of Compliments ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
26. Moral Disorders ~ Margaret Atwood
27. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier ~ T.E. Carhart
28. Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's (Pocket Penguins 70's)~ Marian Keyes
29. The World According to Bertie ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
30. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ~ Rebecca Wells
31. Dream Angus ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
32. Anonymous Lawyer ~ Jeremy Blachman
33. The Survivor ~ Thomas Keneally
34. Blind Submission ~ Debra Ginsberg
35. Scenes from Academic Life ~ David Lodge
36. And Now All This ~ W. C. Sellar, R. J. Yeatman
37. A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
38. Shearwater ~ Andrea Mayes
39. Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom ~ Soname Yangchen, Vicki MacKenzie
40. My side of the matter (Pocket Penguins 70's)~ Truman Capote
Books read in 2006
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ~ Mark Haddon
2. Harvesting the Heart ~ Jodi Piccoult
3. Morality for beautiful girls ~Alexander McCall-Smith
4. The Kalahari Typing School for Men ~Alexander McCall-Smith
5. The Full Cupboard of Life ~Alexander McCall-Smith
6. The Rising ~ Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
7. The Secret of Ararat ~ Tim Lahaye and Bob Phillips
8. Northanger Abbey ~ Jane Austen
9. The Devil wears Prada ~ Lauren Weisberger
10. Night ~ Elie Wiesel
11. The Pact ~ Jodi Piccoult
12. Separate Lies ~ Nigel Balchin
13. Shopgirl ~ Steve Martin
14. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
15. The Testament ~ John Grisham
16. Joe Cinque's Consolation ~ Helen Garner
17. The Student Chronicles ~ Alice Garner
18. Bono on Bono: Conversations with Michka Assayas
Books read in 2005
1. Coronation talkies ~ Susan Kurosawa
2. The Motorcycle Diaries ~Che Guvara
3. The Time Traveller's Wife ~Audrey Niffenegger
4. Portugese Irregular Verbs ~Alexander McCall-Smith
5. The Da Vinci Code ~Dan Brown
6. Down Under ~Bill Bryson
7. The Jane Austen Book Club ~ Karen Joy Fowler
8. Soon ~Tim LaHaye
9. Never Let Me Go ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
10. The Known World ~Edward Jones
11. The Wish List ~Melanie LaBrooy
12. The Rising ~Tim LaHaye & Jenkins
13. The Sandglass ~Romesh Gunasekera
14. The Sunday Philosophy Club~Alexander McCall-Smith
15. Night of Rain and Stars ~Maeve Binchy
16. The Lovely Bones ~Alice Sebold
17. Girl with a pearl earring ~Tracey Chevalier
18. The Alphabet Sisters ~Monica Mcinerney
19. Friends, Lovers and Chocolate~Alexander McCall-Smith
20. The Last Juror ~John Grisham
21. 44 Scotland Street~Alexander McCall-Smith
22. The Girl in Times Square ~Paullina Simons
23. The Clocks ~Agatha Christie
24. Why didn't they ask Evans? ~Agatha Christie
25. My sister's keeper ~Jodi Piccoult
26. Babylon Rising ~Tim LaHaye
Currently reading:
Bookrings I'm hosting:
AUS ONLY Joe Cinque's Consolation ~ Helen Garner Stalled
Int'l Mercy ~ Jodi Picoult completed
Int'l Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's(Pocket Penguins 70's) ~ Marian Keyes completed
Int'l Ray Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson
Int'l The Lilies of the Field ~ William E Barrett completed
Int'l Cry, the Beloved Country ~ Alan Paton completed
Int'l The Book Of Negroes ~ Lawrence Hill completed
Int'l When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead completed
Int'l The Last Song ~ Nicholas Sparks
Bookrings/bookrays I have participated in:
The Twins at St.Clare's ~ Enid Blyton
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian~Marina Lewycka
Black Like Me ~ Robert Bonazzi, John Howard Griffin
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier ~ T.E. Carhart
Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom ~ Soname Yangchen, Vicki MacKenzie
On Chesil Beach ~ Ian McEwan
The Spare Room ~ Helen Garner
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ~ Eva Rice
Austenland ~ Shannon Hale
A Month in the Country ~ Joseph Lloyd Carr
War Horse ~ Michael Morpurgo
Finn Family Moomintroll ~ Tove Jansson
Pigs ~ Robert Munsch
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ~ James Weldon Johnson
My Birthday RABCK Buddy is Haugtussa
Some of the RABCKs received (thanks so much!):
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ~ Rebecca Wells from priceliss
The Secret of Guidance ~ F.B. Meyer from snowy652
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ~ Roald Dahl from Carole888
Same Kind of Different As Me ~ Ron Hall, Denver Moorefrom Stephario
Books read in 2021
1. A Sceptic's Guide to Meaning ~ Mike Willisee
2. The Survivors ~ Jane Harper
3. The Boundary ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
4. A Burning ~ Megha Majumdar
5. A Bear Called Paddington ~ Michael Bond
6. The Part-time Job ~ P.D. James
7. Why Fish Don't Exist ~ Lulu Miller
8. Future Home of the Living God ~ Louise Erdich
9. Sex and Vanity ~ Kevin Kwan
10. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ~ Elif Shafak
11. The Midnight Library ~ Matt Haig
12. The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health ~ Michael Moseley
13. Other People's Houses ~ Kelli Hawkins
14. The Thursday Murder Club ~ Richard Osman
15. Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography ~ Tom Moore
16. The Paris Library ~ Janet Skeslien Charles
17. Detective Cross ~ James Patterson
18. Win (Windsor Horne Lockwood III, #1) ~ Harlan Corben
19. The Punjabi Pappadum ~ Robert Newton
20. A Quiver Full of Arrows ~ Jeffrey Archer
21. The Duke and I ~ Julia Quinn
22. The Viscount Who Loved Me~ Julia Quinn
23. An Offer from a Gentleman ~ Julia Quinn
24. You Have Arrived at Your Destination ~ Amor Towles
25. Deal Breaker ~ Harlan Corben
26. Romancing Mister Bridgerton ~ Julia Quinn
27. The Windsor Knot ~ S.J. Bennett
28. The Rose Code ~ Kate Quinn
29. The Favour ~ Laura Vaughan
Books read in 2020
1. Kick: The True Story of JFK's Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth ~ Paula Byrne
2. The Guardians ~ John Grisham
3. Nothing Ventured ~ Jeffrey Archer
4. Notre-Dame ~ Ken Follett
5. When the Time Comes ~ Adele O'Neill
5. Tell Tale: Short Stories ~ Jeffrey Archer
6. When the Crawdads Sing ~ Delia Owens
7. Normal People ~ Sally Rooney
Books read in 2019
1. The Year of the Farmer ~ Rosalie Ham
2. Becoming ~ Michelle Obama
3. Meet Me at the Museum ~ Anne Youngson
4. The Frangipani Tree Mystery ~ Ovidia Yu
5. The Pearl Thief ~ Fiona McIntosh
6. Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials ~ Ovidia Yu
7. The Feng Shui Detective ~ Nury Vittachi
8. Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love ~ James Runcie
9. The Man in the High Castle ~ Philip K Dick
10. Malice ~ Keigo Higashino
11. Newcomer ~ Keigo Higashino
12. The Land Before Avocado ~ Richard Glover
13. The Scholar - Dervla McTiernan
14. The Rosie Result ~ Graeme Simsion
15. The Fragments ~ Toni Jordan
16. The Other Wife ~ Michael Robotham
17. The Suspect ~ Michael Robotham
18. Two Can Keep A Secret ~ Karen M. McManus
19. The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone ~ Felicity McLean
20. The Salt Path ~ Raynor Winn
21. Birthday Girl ~ Haruki Murakami
22. River of Salt ~ Dave Warner
23. My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie ~ Todd Fisher
24. The Mother-in-Law ~ Sally Hepworth
25. Picnic at Hanging Rock ~ Joan Lindsay
26. The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton ~ Anstey Harris
27. China Rich Girlfriend ~ Kevin Kwan
28. The Rook ~ Daniel O'Malley
29. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters ~ Balli Kaur Jaswal
30. Rich People Problems ~ Kevin Kwan
31. The Erratics ~ Vicki Laveau-Harvie
32. The Secret Runners of New York ~ Matthew Reilly
33. Good Girl Bad Girl ~ Michael Robotham
34. Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women ~ Roseanne Montillo
35. Warlight ~ Michael Ondaatje
36. Crossing the Lines ~ Sulari Gentill
37. The Testaments ~ Margaret Atwood
38. The Ex ~ Nicole Moriarty
39. Platform Seven ~ Louise Doughty
40. The Whisper Network ~ Chandler Baker
41. Where the Dead Go ~ Sarah Bailey
42. Needlemouse ~ Jane O'Connor
43. Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life ~ Kitty Flanagan
44. Don't Let Go ~ Harlan Coben
45. Intrigo ~ Håkan Nesser
46. I Know Who You Are ~ Alice Feeney
47. After the Party ~ Cressida Connolly
48. The Wife and The Widow ~ Christian White
49. No One Home ~ Timothy Weaver
50. Inspector Chopra and the Million-Dollar Motor Car ~ Vaseem Khan
Books read in 2018
1. Wonder ~ R. J. Palacio
2. The Anthill Murders ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
3. The Rooster Bar ~ John Grisham
4. Lead Me Home ~ Amy K. Sorrells
5. The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse ~ Alexander McCall Smith
6. The Dry ~ Jane Harper
7. The Case for Christ ~ Lee Strobel
8. A Time of Love and Tartan ~ Alexander McCall Smith
9. A Separation ~ Katie Kitamura
10. The Friend ~ Dorothy Koomson
11. Run Like Crazy ~ Tristan Miller
12. The Trick to Time ~ Kit de Waal
13. Scholar and Gypsy ~ Anita Desai
14. The Woman in the Window ~ A. J. Finn
15. The Breakthrough ~ Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Custard Heart ~ Dorothy Parker
17. The Tattooist of Auschwitz ~ Heather Morris
18. Little Fires Everywhere ~ Celeste Ng
19. The Rúin ~ Dervla McTiernan
20. The Wife Between Us ~ Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
21. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ~ Gail Honeyman
22. The President is Missing ~ Bill Clinton and James Patterson
23. A Moveable Feast ~ Ernest Hemingway
24. Murder at the Grand Raj Palace ~ Vaseem Khan
25. Everything I Never Told You ~ Celeste Ng
26. The Pastor and the Painter ~ Cindy Wockner
27. The Reader on the 6.27 ~ Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
28. Meghan: A Hollywood Princess ~ Andrew Morton
29. The Nowhere Child ~ Christian White
30. My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 years of the Royal Marriage ~ Ingrid Seward
31. Butterfly on a Pin ~ Alannah Hill
32. The Summer of '82 ~ Dave O'Neil
33. See What I Have Done ~ Sarah Schmidt
34. I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting ~ Rebecca Harrington
35. Reborn on the Run: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons ~ Catra Corbett
36. Scrublands ~ Chris Hammer
37. People of the Book ~ Geraldine Brooks
38. The Lost Man ~ Jane Harper
39. Crazy Rich Asians ~ Kevin Kwan
40. The Ones You Trust ~ Caroline Overington
41. The Reckoning ~ John Grisham
42. My Purple Scented Novel ~ Ian McEwan
43. Another Ordinary Day ~ Leigh Sales
44. Sharp Objects ~ Gillian Flynn
46. The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village ~ Joanna Nell
47. The Colours of All the Cattle ~ Alexander McCall Smith
48. Camino Island ~ John Grisham
49. Martha and Hanwell ~ Zadie Smith
50. The Missing Girl ~ Shirley Jackson
Books read in 2017
1. Sidney Chambers and The Problems of Evil ~ James Runcie
2. Unsinkable: A Memoir ~Debbie Reynolds, Dorian Hannaway
3. Bridget Jones's Baby ~ Helen Fielding
4. The art of people: the 11 simple people skills that will get you everything you want ~ Dave Kerpen
5. Miracles From Heaven ~ Christy Beam
6. His Bloody Project ~ Graeme Macrae Burnet
7. How Sweet the Sound: A Novel ~ Amy K Sorrells
8. Big Little Lies ~ Liane Moriarty
9. Belgravia ~ Julian Fellowes
10. The Princess Diarist ~ Carrie Fisher
11. The Human Flies ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
12. The Five People You Meet in Heaven ~ Mitch Albom
13. The Satellite People ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
14. The Wrong Girl ~ Zoe Foster-Blake
15. The Bertie Project ~ Alexander McCall Smith
16. The Catalyst Killing ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
17. The Age of Miracles ~ Karen Thompson Walker
18. Chameleon People ~ Hans Olav Lahlum
19. They Were Christians ~ Cristóbal Krusen
20. The Secret Keeper ~ Kate Morton
21. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra ~ Vaseem Khan
22. The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown ~ Vaseem Khan
23. Into The Water ~ Paula Hawkins
24. Small Great Things ~ Jodi Picoult
25. The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star ~ Vaseem Khan
26. The Way of the Runner ~ Adharanand Finn
27. The Handmaid's Tale ~ Margaret Atwood
28. The Unlikely Marathoner ~ Donna Campisi
29. Crooked House ~ Agatha Christie
30. The Body in the Library ~ Agatha Christie
31. Shockaholic ~ Carrie Fisher
32. One of Us is Lying ~ Karen M. McManus
33. New Boy ~ Tracy Chevalier
34. Unmasked ~ Turia Pitt and Bryce Corbett
35. Force of Nature ~ Jane Harper
36. Hag-Seed ~ Margaret Atwood
37. The Stranger ~ Harlan Coben
38. Reconstructing Amelia ~ Kimberly McCreight
39. Not to Disturb ~ Muriel Spark
40. The Paradigm ~ Jonathan Cahn
41. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye ~ David Lagercrantz
Books read in 2016
1. The Accident ~ Chris Pavone
2. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend ~ Katarina Bivald
3. Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography ~ Tom Jones
4. Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours ~ Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis and Robin Gaby Fisher
5. The Expats ~ Chris Pavone
6. Imagine Heaven ~ John Burke
7. Chance Developments ~ Alexander McCall Smith
8. After the Quake ~ Haruki Murakami
9. The Girl in the Spider's Web ~ David Lagercrantz
10. The Guest Cat ~ Takashi Hiraide
11. The Long Run ~ Catriona Menzies- Pike
12. The Litigators ~ John Grisham
13. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up ~ Marie Kondo
14. Seven Wonders ~ Ben Mezrich
15. Play Dead ~ Harlan Coben
16. A Grief Observed ~ C.S. Lewis
17. The Confession ~ John Grisham
18. Then Sings My Soul ~ Amy Sorrells
19. Lost & Found ~ Brooke Davis
20. The One That Got Away ~ Caroline Overington
21. The Tea Planter's Wife ~ Dinah Jefferies
22. The Racketeer ~ John Grisham
23. Defending Jacob ~ William Landay
24. The Travelers ~ Chris Pavone
25. The President's Hat ~ Antoine Laurain
26. The Mystery of the Shemitah ~ Jonathan Cahn
27. Eligible ~ Curtis Sittenfeld
28. The Best of Adam Sharp ~ Graeme Simsion
29. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business ~ Patrick Lencioni
30. The Lady in the Van ~ Alan Bennett
31. When Breath becomes Air ~ Paul Kalanithi
32. Precious and Grace ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
33. The Bletchley Girls ~ Tessa Dunlop
34. Ramona the Pest ~ Beverley Cleary
35. Finding Colin Firth ~ Mia March
36. Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama ~ Edited by Jory John
37. Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation ~ James Runcie
38. The Magnolia Story ~ Chip and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino
39. The Reckoning ~ Edith Wharton
40. The Tinder Box ~ Hans Christian Andersen
Books read in 2015
1. Emma ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Stay where you are and then leave ~ John Boyne
3. The Snobs ~ Muriel Spark
4. Reunion ~ Fred Uhlman
5. Running with the Kenyans ~ Adharanand Finn
6. The Piano Teacher: A Novel ~ Janice Y. K. Lee
7. Carry On, Jeeves ~ P. G. Wodehouse
8. The Husband's Secret ~ Liane Moriarty
9. The Book Thief ~ Markus Zusak
10. The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café ~ Alexander McCall Smith
11. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls ~ Marco Polo
12. The Beautifull Cassandra ~ Jane Austen
13. Queen Victoria's Youngest Son: The Untold Story of Prince Leopold ~ Charlotte Zeepvat
14. The Broker ~ John Grisham
15. Girl Runner ~ Carrie Snyder
16. The Unexpected Vacation of George Thring ~ Alastair Puddick
17. The Girl on the Train ~ Paula Hawkins
18. The Children Act ~ Ian McEwan
19. First Impressions ~ Charlie Lovett
20. Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation ~ Muriel Emanuel & Vera Gissing
21. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage ~ Haruki Murakami
22. Stone Mattress ~ Margaret Atwood
23. The Goldfinch ~ Donna Tartt
24. Esio Trot ~ Roald Dahl
25. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy ~ Helen Fielding
26. The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon ~ Aesop
27. Black-Eyed Susans ~ Julia Heaberlin
28. Proof of Heaven ~ Eben Alexander
29. The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine ~ Alexander McCall Smith
30. The Boy Who Could See Death ~ Salley Vickers
31. The Harbinger ~ Jonathan Cahn
32. On Life After Death ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
33. Wild ~ Cheryl Strayed
34. The Case of the Love Commandos ~ Tarquin Hall
35. Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins ~ James Runcie
36. Tumbledown Manor ~ Helen Brown
37. Heaven Changes Everything : The Rest of Our Story ~ Todd Burpo & Sonja Burpo
38. Running Like a Girl ~ Alexandra Heminsley
39. Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables ~ David M. Bader
Books read in 2014
1. The Death Instinct ~ Jed Rubenfeld
2. The Interpretation of Murder ~ Jed Rubenfeld
3. Sycamore Row ~ John Grisham
4. A Streetcat Named Bob ~ James Bowen
5. Dumb Witness ~ Agatha Christie
6. Evil Under The Sun ~ Agatha Christie
7. The Fault in Our Stars ~ John Green
8. The Forever Girl ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
9. Jeeves and the Wedding Bells ~ Sebastian Faulks
10. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar ~ Robert Alexander
11. Sweet Tooth ~ Ian McEwan
12. The Minor Beauty Adjustment Salon ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
13. Rasputin's Daughter ~ Robert Alexander
14. 12 Years A Slave ~ Solomon Northup
15. The Rosie Project ~ Graeme Simsion
16. It's Not You ~ Sara Eckel
17. Is Everyone hanging out (without me)? ~ Mindy Kaling
18. Against the Clock: Breaking the 4 minute Mile ~ John Bryant
19. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ~ James Thurber
20. Sarah's Key ~ Tatiana de Rosnay
21. Heaven is for Real ~ Todd Burpo with Lyn Vincent
22. Bonkers: My Life in Laughs ~ Jennifer Saunders
23. What I Loved ~ Siri Hustvedt
24. Her ~ Harriet Lane
25. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch ~ Alison Arngrim
26. Keep on Running ~ Phil Elliott
27. Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change ~ John Hagee
28. Gone Girl ~ Gillian Flynn
29. The Rosie Effect ~ Graeme Simsion
30. Eternal on the Water ~ Joseph Monninger
31. The Princess Bride ~ William Goldman
32. Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma ~ David Boyle
Books read in 2013
1. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography ~ William Anderson
2. Three Men on the Bummel ~ Jerome K. Jerome
3. The Amber Amulet ~ Craig Silvey
4. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken ~ Tarquin Hall
5. The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
6. Saving the World ~ Julia Alvarez
7. The Case of the Missing Servant ~ Tarquin Hall
8. The Perks of being a Wallflower ~ Stephen Chbosky
9. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ~ James Weldon Johnson
10. Jasper Jones ~ Craig Silvey
11. Lincoln ~ Thomas Keneally
12. The Case of the Man who Died Laughing ~ Tarquin Hall
13. Testimony ~ Anita Shreve
14. In the Skin of a Lion ~ Michael Ondaatje
15. The Wonder Spot ~ Melissa Bank
16. Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte
17. A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara: Hero of the Holocaust ~ Alison Leslie Gold
18. Astrid Lindgren: Storyteller to the world ~ Johanna Hurwitz
19. Child Wonder ~ Roy Jacobsen
20. Interpreter of Maladies ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
21. Shadow Waltz (The Marjorie McClelland Mysteries) ~ Amy Patricia Meade
22. Same Kind of Different As Me ~ Ron Hall, Denver Moore
23. Black Moonlight (The Marjorie McClelland Mysteries) ~ Amy Patricia Meade
24. Player One ~ Douglas Coupland
25. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle ~ Fiona J. M. Aitken
26. Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son ~ Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez & Hope Edelman
27. A Long Way Home ~ Saroo Brierley
28. Sunshine on Scotland Street ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
29. Goodnight Mister Tom ~ Michelle Magorian
30. Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers: A Scotland Street Novel ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
31. The Sisters ~ Nancy Jensen
32. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death ~ James Runcie
33. 11/22/63 ~ Stephen King
34. America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ~ Sarah Bradford
35. Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night ~ James Runcie
36. Funny in Farsi ~ Firoozeh Dumas
Books read in 2012
1. Austenland ~ Shannon Hale
2. Death Comes to Pemberley ~ P. D. James
3. Give It All to Him ~ Max Lucado
4. The Book Of Negroes ~ Lawrence Hill
5. Poor Man's Wealth ~ Rod Usher
6. Hotel Iris ~ Yoko Ogawa
7. Unbroken ~ Laura Hillenbrand
8. No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub ~ Virginia Ironside
9. Elizabeth Costello ~ J. M. Coetzee
10. Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life by P.S. Hill
11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks ~ Rebecca Skloot
12. The Shack ~ WM. Paul Young
13. A Month in the Country ~ Joseph Lloyd Carr
14. War Horse ~ Michael Morpurgo
15. The Midwife's Confession ~ Diane Chamberlain
16. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ~ Haruki Murakami
17. Postern of Fate ~ Agatha Christie
18. Mr Darcy's Diary ~ Maya Slater
19. Sparkling Cyanide ~ Agatha Christie
20. Finn Family Moomintroll ~ Tove Jansson
21. The Servant's Quarters ~ Lynn Freed
22. The Cleverness of Ladies ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
23. Eleven~ Mark Watson
24. In the Time of the Butterflies ~ Julia Alvarez
25. Mary Bennet ~ Jennifer Paynter
26. Behind the Beautiful Forevers ~ Katherine Boo
27. The Light Between the Oceans ~ M. L. Stedman
28. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection ~ Alexander McCall Smith
29. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party ~ Alexander McCall Smith
30. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ~ Rachel Joyce
31. Jeannie Out of the Bottle ~ Barbara Eden with Wendy Leigh
32. The House of Memories ~ Monica McInerney
33. Half the Sky ~ Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
34. The Company of the Dead ~ David J. Kowalski
35. The Dinner ~ Herman Koch
36. The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie ~ Wendy McClure
Books read in 2011
1. Campaign Ruby ~ Jessica Rudd
2. Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
3. Bertie sings the Blues ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
4. Mysterious Benedict Society ~
5. Bone China ~ Roma Tearne
6. Ghost of a Chance ~ Amy Patricia Meade
7. A Guide to the Birds of East Africa ~ Nicholas Drayson
8. The Help ~ Kathryn Stockett
9. One Day ~ David Nicholls
10. Room ~ Emma Donoghue
11. The Housekeeper and the Professor ~ Yoko Ogawa
12. Seven Types of Ambiguity ~ Elliot Perlman
13. Stories I Only Tell My Friends ~ Rob Lowe
14. The Tall Man ~ Chloe Hooper
15. Portugese Irregular Verbs ~ Alexander McCall Smith
16. The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs~ Alexander McCall Smith
17. At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances ~ Alexander McCall Smith
Books read in 2010
1. True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess ~ Wendy Leigh
2. The Dog Who Came In From The Cold ~ Alexander McCall-Smith (audiobook)
3. Fantastic Mr Fox ~ Roald Dahl
4. The Twits ~ Roald Dahl
5. The Lost Art of Gratitude ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
6. A Change in Altitude ~ Anita Shreve
7. London is the Best City in America ~ Laura Dave
8. Towards Zero ~ Agatha Christie
9. The Chocolate Cat Caper (Chocoholic Mysteries, No. 1) ~ JoAnna Carl
10. The Double Comfort Safari Club ~ Alexander McCall Smith
11. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~ Stieg Larsson
12. Naive. Super ~ Erlend Loe
13. Astrid and Veronika ~ Linda Olsson
14. The Makioka Sisters ~ Junichiro Tanizaki
15. The Girl Who Played with Fire ~ Stieg Larsson
16. Hummingbirds ~ Joshua Gaylord
17. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest ~ Stieg Larsson
18. Mao's Last Dancer ~ Li Cunxin
19. Dear Fatty ~ Dawn French
20. Still Alice ~ Lisa Genova
21. When You Reach Me ~ Rebecca Stead
22. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ~ Agatha Christie
23. Rosewater and Soda Bread ~ Marsha Mehran
24. Partners in Crime ~ Agatha Christie
25. 84 Charing Cross Road/The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street ~ Helen Hanff
26. The Legacy ~ Kirsten Tranter
27. Open ~ Andre Agassi
28. Oxygen ~ Carol Cassella
29. Death in the Clouds ~ Agatha Christie
30. Man in the Dark ~ Paul Auster
31. The Hand that First Held Mine ~ Maggie O'Farrell
32. The New York Trilogy ~ Paul Auster
33. 50 Dates Worse Than Yours ~ Justin Racz
34. The Brooklyn Follies ~ Paul Auster
35. Oracle Night ~ Paul Auster
36. Sad Cypress ~ Agatha Christie
37. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen ~ Syrie James
38. The Importance of Being Seven ~ Alexander McCall Smith
39. Lunch in Paris ~ Elizabeth Bard
40. Million Dollar Baby ~ Amy Patricia Meade
41. Her Fearful Symmetry ~ Audrey Niffenegger
42. The Lilies of the Field ~ William Edmund Barrett
43. The Charming Quirks of Others ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
44. The Mysterious Affair at Styles ~ Agatha Christie
45. Between The Assassinations ~ Aravind Adiga
46. Murder is Easy ~ Agatha Christie
47. Elephants Can Remember ~ Agatha Christie
48. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case ~ Agatha Christie
49. Parky: My Autobiography ~ Michael Parkinson
50. The Hunger Games ~ Suzanne Collins
Books read in 2009
1. The Best Day of Someone Else's Life ~ Kerry Reichs
2. La's Orchestra Saves the World ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
3. The Comfort of Saturdays ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
4. The Spare Room ~ Helen Garner
5. The Hour I First Believed ~ Wally Lamb
6. And Then There Were None ~ Agatha Christie
7. Like Water for Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel
8. East of the Sun ~ Julia Gregson
9. The Secret Adversary ~ Agatha Christie
10. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Mary Ann Shaffer
11. Pride and Prescience ~ Carrie Bebris
12. Cranford ~ Elizabeth Gaskell
13. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ~ John Boyne
14. The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. Star Trek 1 ~ James Blish
16. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
17. A Wedding in December ~ Anita Shreve
18. Persepolis ~ Marjane Satrapi
19. Suspense and Sensibility ~ Carrie Bebris
20. The Marriage Club ~ Kate Legge
21. Alice in La La land ~ Sophie Lee
22. The Household Guide to Dying ~ Debra Adelaide
23. Corduroy Mansions ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
24. Innocent House/Original Sin ~ PD James
25. The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets ~ Eva Rice
Books read in 2008
1. Those Faraday Girls ~ Monica McInerney
2. Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson
3. Suite Francaise ~ Irene Nemirovsky
4. The Moving Finger ~ Agatha Christie
5. Otherwise Pandemonium (Pocket Penguins 70's) ~ Nick Hornby
6. Third Girl ~ Agatha Christie
7. Persuasion ~ Jane Austen
8. Due Preparations for the Plague ~ Jannette Turner Hospital
9. On Chesil Beach ~ Ian McEwan
10. The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (Pocket Penguins 70's)
11. The Miracle at Speedy Motors ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
12. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books ~ J. Peder Zane (Ed.)
13. The Screwtape Letters ~ C. S. Lewis
14. Five Little Pigs ~ Agatha Christie
15. Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast ~ Bill Richardson
16. Persuading Annie ~ Melissa Nathan
17. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Pocket Penguins 70s)~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
18. The Denniston Rose ~ Jenny Pattrick
19. What the Dead Know ~ Laura Lippman
20. The Diana Chronicles ~ Tina Brown
21. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
22. At Bertram's Hotel ~ Agatha Christie
23. The Lucy Family Alphabet ~ Judith Lucy
24. The Pursuit of Love ~ Nancy Mitford
25. Love in a Cold Climate ~ Nancy Mitford
26. The Blessing ~ Nancy Mitford
27. The Portable Door ~ Tom Holt
28. Tales of the Unexpected ~ Roald Dahl
29. Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome
30. Sense & Sensibility ~ Jane Austen
31. Boy ~ Roald Dahl
32. Going Solo ~ Roald Dahl
Books read in 2007
1. Espresso Tales ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
2. Love Over Scotland ~Alexander McCall-Smith
3. The History of Love ~ Nicole Krause
4. The Europa Conspiracy ~Tim Lahaye and Bob Phillips
5. I was Bono's Doppelganger ~ Neil McCormick
6. Right Attitude to Rain~Alexander McCall-Smith
7. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox ~ Maggie O'Farrell
8. White Girl Black Girl ~ Joyce Carol Oates
9. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders ~ John Mortimer
10. After you'd gone ~ Maggie O'Farrell
11. When you wake and find me gone ~ Maureen McCarthy
12. The Thirteenth Tale ~ Diane Setterfield
13. Bill Bryson's African Diary
14. Jane Austen ~ Carol Shields
15. The Memory Keeper's Daughter ~ Kim Edwards
16. The Twins at St.Clare's ~ Enid Blyton
17. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian~Marina Lewycka
18. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive ~Alexander McCall-Smith
19. Amsterdam ~ Ian McEwan
20. The Hamilton Case ~ Michelle de Kretser
21. The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of Perms, Friendship and Freedom ~ Deborah Rodriguez
22. Black Like Me ~ Robert Bonazzi, John Howard Griffin
23. The Secret Life Of Bees ~ Sue Monk Kidd
24. The Shifting Fog (AKA The House at Riverton) ~ Kate Morton
25. The Careful Use of Compliments ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
26. Moral Disorders ~ Margaret Atwood
27. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier ~ T.E. Carhart
28. Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's (Pocket Penguins 70's)~ Marian Keyes
29. The World According to Bertie ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
30. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ~ Rebecca Wells
31. Dream Angus ~ Alexander McCall-Smith
32. Anonymous Lawyer ~ Jeremy Blachman
33. The Survivor ~ Thomas Keneally
34. Blind Submission ~ Debra Ginsberg
35. Scenes from Academic Life ~ David Lodge
36. And Now All This ~ W. C. Sellar, R. J. Yeatman
37. A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
38. Shearwater ~ Andrea Mayes
39. Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom ~ Soname Yangchen, Vicki MacKenzie
40. My side of the matter (Pocket Penguins 70's)~ Truman Capote
Books read in 2006
1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time ~ Mark Haddon
2. Harvesting the Heart ~ Jodi Piccoult
3. Morality for beautiful girls ~Alexander McCall-Smith
4. The Kalahari Typing School for Men ~Alexander McCall-Smith
5. The Full Cupboard of Life ~Alexander McCall-Smith
6. The Rising ~ Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
7. The Secret of Ararat ~ Tim Lahaye and Bob Phillips
8. Northanger Abbey ~ Jane Austen
9. The Devil wears Prada ~ Lauren Weisberger
10. Night ~ Elie Wiesel
11. The Pact ~ Jodi Piccoult
12. Separate Lies ~ Nigel Balchin
13. Shopgirl ~ Steve Martin
14. To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee
15. The Testament ~ John Grisham
16. Joe Cinque's Consolation ~ Helen Garner
17. The Student Chronicles ~ Alice Garner
18. Bono on Bono: Conversations with Michka Assayas
Books read in 2005
1. Coronation talkies ~ Susan Kurosawa
2. The Motorcycle Diaries ~Che Guvara
3. The Time Traveller's Wife ~Audrey Niffenegger
4. Portugese Irregular Verbs ~Alexander McCall-Smith
5. The Da Vinci Code ~Dan Brown
6. Down Under ~Bill Bryson
7. The Jane Austen Book Club ~ Karen Joy Fowler
8. Soon ~Tim LaHaye
9. Never Let Me Go ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
10. The Known World ~Edward Jones
11. The Wish List ~Melanie LaBrooy
12. The Rising ~Tim LaHaye & Jenkins
13. The Sandglass ~Romesh Gunasekera
14. The Sunday Philosophy Club~Alexander McCall-Smith
15. Night of Rain and Stars ~Maeve Binchy
16. The Lovely Bones ~Alice Sebold
17. Girl with a pearl earring ~Tracey Chevalier
18. The Alphabet Sisters ~Monica Mcinerney
19. Friends, Lovers and Chocolate~Alexander McCall-Smith
20. The Last Juror ~John Grisham
21. 44 Scotland Street~Alexander McCall-Smith
22. The Girl in Times Square ~Paullina Simons
23. The Clocks ~Agatha Christie
24. Why didn't they ask Evans? ~Agatha Christie
25. My sister's keeper ~Jodi Piccoult
26. Babylon Rising ~Tim LaHaye
