Books Read 2010

2010

1. ‘The Age of Reason’ – Jean-Paul Sartre
2. ‘Nana’ – Emile Zola
3. ‘Faces in the Water’ – Janet Frame
4. ‘The Haunted Hotel’ – Wilkie Collins
5. ‘Vanity Fair’ – William Makepeace Thackeray
6. ‘Things We Didn’t See Coming’ – Steven Amsterdam
7. ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ – Milan Kundera
8. ‘To Room Nineteen’ – Doris Lessing (short story)
9. ‘Female Chauvinist Pigs’ – Ariel Levy
10. ‘The Well’ – Elizabeth Jolley
11. ‘Tropic of Cancer’ – Henry Miller
12. ‘The Cement Garden’ – Ian McEwan
13. ‘Don’t Look Now’ – Daphne du Maurier (short story)
14. ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ – Shirley Jackson
15. ‘The Professor’ -Charlotte Bronte
16. ‘Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault’ – Angela Carter
17. ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ – L. Frank Baum
18. ‘The Mill on the Floss’ – George Eliot
19. ‘The Little Stranger’ – Sarah Waters
20. ‘The Lost Symbol’ – Dan Brown
21. ‘Handling the Undead’ – John Ajvide Lindqvist
22. ‘Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison’ – M. C. Beaton
23. ‘The Brontes Went to Woolworths’ – Rachel Ferguson
24. ‘Maigret in Court’ – Georges Simenon
25. ‘Journey to the Centre of the Universe’ – Jules Verne
26. ‘American Psycho’ – Bret Easton Ellis
27. ‘A Town Like Alice’ – Nevil Shute
28. ‘Milk and Honey’ – Elizabeth Jolley
29. ‘Jude the Obscure’ – Thomas Hardy
30. ‘The Uncommon Reader’ – Alan Bennett
31. ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ – Muriel Spark
32. ‘Poor Miss Finch’ – Wilkie Collins
33. ‘Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death’ – M. C. Beaton
34. ‘Nausea’ – Jean-Paul Sartre
35. ‘The Prince of Mist’ – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
36. ‘Fingersmith’ – Sarah Waters
37. ‘Beautiful For Ever’ – Helen Rappaport
38. ‘They Do It With Mirrors’ – Agatha Christie
39. ‘Mrs. McGinty’s Dead’ – Agatha Christie
40. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ – Agatha Christie
41. ‘The Secret Garden’ – Frances Hodgson Burnett
42. ‘Someone at a Distance’ – Dorothy Whipple
43. ‘In a Strange Room’ – Damon Galgut
44. ‘Elizabeth and her German Garden’ – Elizabeth von Arnim
45. ‘Aurora Floyd’ – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
46. ‘Room’ – Emma Donoghue
47. ‘The Woman in Black’ – Susan Hill
48. ‘The Man in the Picture’ – Susan Hill
49. ‘The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days’ – Kate Holden
50. ‘Never Let Me Go’ – Kazuo Ishiguro
51. ‘Harbour’ – John Ajvide Lindqvist
52. ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ – Carson McCullers
53. ‘Junk News: The Failure of the Media in the 21st Century’ – Tom Fenton
54. ‘Light Boxes’ – Shane Jones
55. ‘Wuthering Heights’ – Emily Bronte (re-read)
56. ‘The Small Hand’ – Susan Hill
57. ‘The Recruit’ – Robert Muchamore
58. ‘Wyse Words’ – Pascal Wyse

– Books read in 2009

– Books read in 2008