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Read 2010

The Long Song - Andrea Levy

A Razor Wrapped In Silk - Roger N Morris

The Ninth Wave - Russell Celyn Jones

White Ravens - Owen Sheers

Vanessa and Virginia - Susan Sellers

The Island - Victoria Hislop

Fear - Stefan Zweig

The Last Station - Jay Parini

The Rapture - Liz Jensen

The House of the Mosque - Kader Abdolah
Family Romance - John Lanchester

Pastors and Masters - Ivy Compton Burnett

Blood Red, Snow White - Marcus Sedgwick

Miss Thing - Nora Chassler

Poor Mercy - Jonathan Falla

Dirty Snow - Georges Simenon
Challenge 2010
The Tin Drum Readalong
Really Old Classic Challenge
Wilkie Collins Mini Challenge
What's In A Name 3
Countdown Challenge 2010
Read the Book, See The Movie
Chunkster Challenge 2009
Twenty-Ten Challenge
Awesome Author Challenge
The Pub Challenge 2010
Decades Challenge 2010
Award Winners IV
Colourful Reading 2010
British Authors
Follow my progress report here .Read 2009

Gold - Blaise Cendrars

Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout

The Doomsters - Ross MacDonald
Carter Beats The Devil - Glen David Gold

Do You Think You're Clever? - John Farndon

Perfume - Patrick Süskind

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Andrea Hoover Bartlett

Clisson and Eugenie - Napoleon Bonaparte

The Passport - Herta Mueller

A Cure For All Diseases - Reginald Hill

The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black

Talking About Detective Fiction - P D James

Dismissed Dead - Ron Brammer

The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk

The File - Tim Garton Ash
Citylit Berlin

Citylit London

Miss Hargreaves - Frank Baker

Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day - Winnifred Watson

Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd

The Allure of Chanel - Paul Morand

Fighting It - Regi Claire

Foolish Mortals - Jennifer Johnston

The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac

The Bethlehem Murders - Matt Rees

Basil - Wilkie Collins
The Death of the Author - Gilbert Adair

Glasshopper - Isabel Ashdown

The Sufferings of Young Werther - Goethe

The Chronicles of Clovis - Saki

The Glass Room - Simon Mawer

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

BBC National Short Story Award 2008

Pharos - Alice Thompson

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

The Salati Case - Tobias Jones

The Year of the Flood - Eduardo Mendoza

A Cool Head - Ian Rankin
One City - One City Trust

Adam Gould - Julia O'Faolain

My Driver - Maggie Gee

The House at Riverton - Kate Morton

Fists - Pietro Grossi

My Cleaner - Maggie Gee

The Illustrated Brighton Moment - Susanna Jones (Editor)

98 Reasons for Being - Clare Dudman

Struwwelhitler - Dr Schrecklickheit
Der Struwwelpeter auf Englisch - Translated by Mark Twain

Struwwelpeter - Heinrich Hoffmann

Berlin Tales - Edited by Helen Constantine

The Wall Jumper - Peter Schneider

Emil and The Detectives - Erich Kastner

A Village Romeo and Juliet - Gottfried Keller

The Blind Side of the Heart - Julia Franck
All My Friends are Superheroes - Andrew Kaufman

Ice Cold - Andrea Maria Schenkel

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite - Beatrice Colin
The Jew's Beech - Annette von Droste-Hulshof

Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann
Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
The Murder Farm - Andrea Maria Schenkel

The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt - Eduardo Mendoza

The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt

Home - Marilynne Robinson

No Word From Gurb - Eduardo Mendoza

Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Mystic Pig - Richard Katrovas
Me and Kaminski - Daniel Kehlmann

Molly Fox's Birthday - Deirdre Madden
Dear Everybody - Michael Kimball
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
March Violets - Phillip Kerr
Shakespeare on Toast - Ben Crystal

The Letters - Fiona Robyn

The Earth Hums In B Flat - Mari Strachan

The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde

Fleck - Alasdair Gray

The Blue Fox - Sjon

The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett

Summer In February - Jonathan Smith

The Outlander - Gil Adamson
The Emperor of Ice-Cream - Brian Moore

Child's Play - Carmen Posadas

The Hidden - Tobias Hill
The Road Home - Rose Tremain

Beyond Sleep - W F Hermans

The Two Faces of January - Patricia Highsmith
A Night Out With Robert Burns

Grace - Alex Pheby

Royal Highness - Thomas Mann
What A Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
The Crossroads - Niccolo Ammaniti

Don't Get Fooled Again - Richard Wilson

Land of Marvels - Barry Unsworth
100 Shots of Short
22.-28 <b A Selection of Scottish Short Stories 21. Reality, Reality - Jackie Kay 20. The Ministry of Whiskey - Val McDermid 19. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F Scott Fitzgerald 18. Wants - Grace Paley 17. Lapin and Lapinova - Virginia Woolf 16. The Quarrel - Joyce Carol Oates 15. This Blessed House - Jumpra Lahiri 14. Here We Are - Dorothy Parker 13. The Skeleton In The Closet - Louisa May Alcott
12. Violets and Strawberries in The Snow - Sheena Mackay
11. The Grasshopper - Anton Chekhov
10. Incident on Lake Geneva - Stefan Zweig
9. The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
8. Catholics - Brian Moore
7. The History of the Master - Henry James
6. The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
5. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
4. Burning Secret - Stefan Zweig
3. Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin
2. The Other Two - Edith Wharton
1. The £1,000,000 Banknote - Mark TwainA Year In Books

The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
March Violets - Phillip Kerr

Summer In February - Jonathan Smith

The Two Faces of January - Patricia Highsmith
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