Previously Read Books

 

 

2024

• I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes (Naila)
  
• Gionvanni's Room by James Baldwin (Cindy)
  
• A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont (Emma)
  
• A Sting in the Tail by David Goulson (Olivia) 

2023

• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Rowena 179)
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Carolyn)
  
• How the World Really Works: A Scientist Guide to our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil (Naila)
•  A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• East West Street by Phillip Sands
  

2022

• Loved and Missed by Suzie Boyt (Mandy)
  
• The Dutch House by Ann Pratchett (168)
  
• Michel the Giant: an African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie (Cindy)
  
• The Pomegranate Tree by Vanessa Altin (Emma)
  
• Fear and Loathing in LA by Hunter J Thompson (Mandy)
• Kara and the Sun by Kazu Ishiguro (Carolyn)
  
• The Pale Abyssnian by Miles Bresling 163 (Rowena)
  
• Mrs Palfry at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (Mandy)
  

2021

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Olivia)
  
• Bolder by Carl Honore (Jane )
  
• The Promise by Damon Galgut (Cindy )
  
• Beyond Brilliant by Dipna Anand 159 (Emma)
  
•  Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 158 (Carolyn)
• Cheri by Collette (Chrissie) 
• An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel (Mandy)
  
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Jackie?)
  
• The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris (Rowena)
  

2020

• Ok, Let's do your stupid idea by Patrick Freyne
  
• Frieda by Annabel Abs (Emma)
  
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rys (Carolyn)
  
• The Salt Path by Raynor Win (?)
  
• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (Rowena) 149
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernandine Everisto (Cindy)
• Three Women by Lisa Thaddeo (Jackie)
• Master and Maragrita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Olivia)
• Olive Ketteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Cindy)
• Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner (Jackie)
• If on a Winter's Night by Italo Calvino (Carolyn)

2019

• Fushima Dreams by Zelda Rhiando (Chrissie)
  
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (Rowena)
  
• Shadowplay by Joesph O'Connor
  
• Persuasion by Jane Austen (Rowena)
• Machines Like Us by Ian McEwan (Mandy)
• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Jackie)
• Self Made Man by Norah Vincent (Moira)
• Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (Cindy)
• Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn (Carolyn)
• A Gentleman of Moscow by Amor Towles (Rowena)

2018

• Unless by Carol Sheilds (Pauline)
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte (Jackie) 134
• Dietland by Sarai Walker
• The Paris Wife by Pauline McLain (Carolyn)
• Daughters of the Dragon by William Andrews (Rowena)
• Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
• Black Water by Louise Doughty (Chrissie Mar 2018) 129
• I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing (Olivia))
• Berlin Poplars by Anne Ragde (Carolyn)

2017

• All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville West
  
• The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
  
• The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere (Cindy)
• Strumpet City James Plunkett (Olivia)
• The Power by Naomi Alderman (Rowena)
• A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine by Marina Lewycka (Moira)
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Moira)
• House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Jackie)
• Rabbit by John Updike (Cindy)

2016

• A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous (Carolyn)
• Dissolution by CJ Samson (Olivia)
• The Chevalier by Mike Hobbs (Rowena)
• My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante (Rowena)
• The Secret Scriptures by Sebastian Barry (Jackie)
• Fat Chance by Simon Gray (Moira)
• Old Filth by Jane Gardam (Pauline)
• The Door by Magda Szabo (Cindy)
• Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury (Mandy) 

2015

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Olivia)
• How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (Rowena)
• The Rosie Project Don Tillman 1 by Graeme Simsion (Pam)
• Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge (Moira)
• The Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (Jackie)
• Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim (Mandy F)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey
• Wonder by RJ Palacio (Olivia)
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Rowena)
• Germania by Simon Winder (Carolyn)

2014

• 100. The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer (Pam) our 100th book!
• The Last Telegram by Liz Trenow (Rowena)
• The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony (Jackie)
• The Grand Banks Cafe by George Simenon (Cindy)
• Her Brilliant Career by Rachel Cooke (Amanda)
• Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
• Smut by Alan Bennett (Mandy)
• An Equal Music by Vikram Seth (Olivia)
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• Nothing to Envy - Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Simone)

2013

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Cindy)
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenies
• Eleven Minutes by Paul Coelho
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
• Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks (Rowena)
• The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker (Chrissie)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright

2012

• The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
  
• Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Rowena)
• Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maughan (Mandy)
• High Tea in Mosul by Lynne O'Donnell
• The Coroner's Lunch Colin Cotterill (Amanda)
• Ask the Dust by John Fante
• The Woman in Silk by Reg Gadney
• Before I go to Sleep by S J Watson (Rona)
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (Rowena)
• Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

2011

• Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
• The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
• The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Kiddnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• One Day by David Nicholls
• The Road by Cormac MacCarthy
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• More Than Just Conincidence by Julie Wassmer

2010

• Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
• A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemoroski
• The Great Lover by Jill Dawson
• Ghost by Robert Harris
• About the Author by John Colapinto
• Property by Valerie Martin
• Somebody at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
• Toast by Nigel Slater

2009

• The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
• 50. Midaq Alley by Naquib Mahfouz
• The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
• The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross
• The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Seige of Krishnapur by JG Farrell
• Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
• A Spy in the House of Love by Anis Nin

2008

• The Code of Woosters by PG Wodehouse
• The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula le Guin
• Solar Lottery by Philip K Dick
• The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin
• Paradise Overdose by Brian Antoni
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks (Chrissie)
  
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Rona)
  
• Regeneration by Pat Barker  (Rowena)
  
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
• Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard

2007

• The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling (Rowena)
• Frenchmans Creek by Daphne du Maurier (Amanda) 2007/11
  
• Shadow of the Wind by Carloz Ruiz Zafon
• Many Masters, Many Lives by Dr Brian Wiess (Nikki)

 

Books below this point were read before the blog was started

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Apples by Richard Milward (Chrissie)
• Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (Rowen)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks

 2006

• 'No, I don't want to join a book club' by Virginia Ironside
• Therapy by David Lodge (Carolyn)
• The Great Gatsby by Scott F FitzGerald
• Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton (Chrissie)
• The Bell Jar by Sylivia Plath (Mandy)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Cindy)
• The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Rowena)
• The Siege by Helen Dunmore (Jackie)
• Spunik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
• Our Spoons came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns (Amanda)

 2005

• On Green Dolphin St by Sebastian Faulks
• Immaculate Deception by Reg Gadney
• The Seige by Helen Dunmore (Jackie)
• The Love of Stones by Oliver Tobias
• The Airmen who wouldn't Die by John G Fuller (Peter)
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov (Katie)
• The Ginger Man by JD Donleavy (Chrissie)

2004

• Britain 1945 by Maureen Waller (Giles)
• Lady Chattersley's Lover by TH Lawrence (Mandy)
• The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (Amanda)