Currently reading; Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Read or re-read recently: * indicates a favourite
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Brick Lane, Monica Ali
*Little Women, Louisa M Alcott
Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
Zorro, Isabel Allende
Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
Emotionally Weird, Kate Atkinson
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
*The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad, Margaret Attwood
*Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
*Emma, Jane Austen
*Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
*Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
*Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
*Persuasion, Jane Austen
*The Sea, John Banville
The Infinities, John Banville
Arthur & George, Julian Barnes
The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
The Clothes They Stood Up In, Alan Bennett
*The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
*Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
*Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Mummy’s Legs, Kate Bingham
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
*Possession, AS Byatt
The Virgin in the Garden, AS Byatt
Angels and Insects, AS Byatt
*The Children’s Book, AS Byatt
*Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey
*The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Mrs Fytton’s Country Life, Mavis Cheek
Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Elizabeth Costello, J.M. Coetzee
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Dear Francesca, Mary Contini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
*The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
Family Afloat, Aubrey de Selincourt
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Hard Times, Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Paddy Clarke ha ha ha, Roddy Doyle
A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
The Sea Lady, Margaret Drabble
*Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
*Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne du Maurier
The Siege, Helen Dunmore
House of Orphans, Helen Dunmore
Capturing the Stars, Helen Dunmore
*The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Valley and the Farm, Monica Edwards
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Blast from the Past, Ben Elton
Swift as Desire, Laura Esquivel
On Green Dolphin Street, Sebastian Faulks
The Girl at the Lion d’Or, Sebastian Faulks
Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks
*Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding
*Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Lady’s Maid, Margaret Forster
Have the Men Had Enough? Margaret Forster
Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Margaret Forster
Anne Frank’s Diary, Anne Frank
Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud
Catherine de Medici, Leonie Frieda
Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry
The Liar, Stephen Fry
Paperweight, Stephen Fry
Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
The White Family, Maggie Gee
*Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
*Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer
The Queen’s Fool, Philippa Gregory
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller
The Believers, Zoe Heller
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Tatty, Christine Dwyer Hickey
*Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Høeg
The Quiet Girl, Peter Høeg
The Woman and the Ape, Peter Høeg
The Odyssey, Homer
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
About a Boy, Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
How to be Good, Nick Hornby,
*The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
A Rough Guide to the Heart, Pam Houston
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Daisy Miller, Henry James
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome
Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan
The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley
*The Vintner’s Luck, Elizabeth Knox
The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru
Women in Love, DH Lawrence
*To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
*Small Island, Andrea Levy
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam, Lauren Liebenberg
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
Changing Places, David Lodge
The British Museum is Falling Down, David Lodge
Nice Work, David Lodge,
Small World, David Lodge
Beyond Black, Hilary Mantell,
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Four Feathers, AEW Mason
The No1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith
The Full Cupboard of Life, Alexander McCall Smith
In The Company of Cheerful Ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
Morality for Beautiful Girls, Alexander McCall Smith
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
‘Tis, Frank McCourt
Atonement, Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
When We Were Bad, Charlotte Mendelson
*Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
The Misanthrope, Moliere
Do Not Pass Go, Tim Moore
Astonishing Splashes of Colour, Clare Morrall
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Murakami
Twelve Bar Blues, Patrick Neate
The Tim Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Book Group, Elizabeth Noble
The Tenko Club, Elizabeth Noble
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, Susan Orlean
The Bolter, Frances Osborne
In the Place of Fallen Leaves, Tim Pears
I Don’t Know How She Does It, Allison Pearson
*The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
Before I Say Goodbye, Ruth Picardie
The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
That Old Ace in the Hole, E. Annie Proulx
The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Boy with the Topknot, Sathnam Sanghera
Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House, George Bernard Shaw
The Last Time They Met, Anita Shreve
*The Accidental, Ali Smith
Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith
*I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
*White Teeth, Zadie Smith
The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith
*On Beauty, Zadie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale
The Fifth Summer, Titia Sutherland
The Light of Day, Graham Swift
Anita and Me, Meera Syal
Life isn’t all Haha Heehee, Meera Syal
*The Door, Magda Szabo
The Mad Martins, Reginald Taylor
Vanity Fair, Wm M Thackeray
Bone China, Roma Tearne
*Brixton Beach, Roma Tearne
*The House by the Thames, Gillian Tindall
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, Parts I, II & III, JRR Tolkien
Unfinished Tales, JRR Tolkien
The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien
Frankie and Stankie, Barbara Trapido
*The Colour, Rose Tremain
*Music and Silence, Rose Tremain
*The Road Home, Rose Tremain
*Restoration, Rose Tremain
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Morality Play, Barry Unsworth
Candide, Voltaire
The Other Side of You, Salley Vickers
Mr Golightly’s Holiday, Salley Vickers
Miss Garnett’s Angel, Salley Vickers
*Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
*The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
*Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh
**Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
A Dubious Legacy, Mary Wesley
*All Passion Spent, Vita Sackville West
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
*The Powerbook, Jeanette Winterson
*To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
Gem Squash Tokoloshe, Rachel Zadok
On the shelf, to be read
*indicates started and put down again
The City of Fallen Angels, John Berendt
Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov*
A Whistling Woman, AS Byatt
Headlong, Michael Frayn
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James*
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt*
The Innocent, Ian McEwan
Enduring Love, Ian McEwan*
The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
The Best of Saki (HH Munro)
The Babes in the Wood, Ruth Rendell
The Book of Dave, Will Self
