Reading...

On my quilting & art blog, there's a list in the sidebar of what I've been reading.  At the moment, it's stupidly long, so I decided to trim it back a bit, maybe to just this year, but of course I don't want to lose the list, so I've decided the easiest thing to do is make it into a blog post, perhaps with a few divisions as to years, etc (these may be somewhat approximate, as I didn't used to put a date down in my sidebar, except for those books read for my postal book group).  I used to have a notebook wherein I wrote down the names of all the books I read (by month) and starred the ones that were particularly good - these days, I tend to use LibaryThing.com, unless I forget...

Anyway.  Here's it is, for those interested. Or just for my personal record, as the case may be.

2012

• The Promise of Rain, Donna Milner
• The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon
• Lies, Enrique De Heriz
• Lick Creek, Brad Kessler
• Clara and Mr Tiffany, Susan Vreeland
• What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt
• The Lighthouse, Alison Moore
• Juxtaposition, Piers Anthony (re-read)
• The Attenbury Emeralds, Jill Paton Walsh
• Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
• Blue Adept, Piers Anthony (re-read)
• The Red Queen, Margaret Drabble
• Noah's Ark, Barbara Trapido
• The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer (re-read)
• Split Infinity, Piers Anthony (re-read)
• Great House, Nicole Krauss
• The Return of Captain John Emmett, Elizabeth Speller
• Bleeding Heart Square, Andrew Taylor
• The Memory Stones, Kate O'Riordan
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Tom Franklin
• The Case of the Imaginary Detective, Karen Joy Fowler
• The Woman Who Died a Lot, Jasper Fforde
• Keeping the World Away, Margaret Forster (pbg Aug 12)
• The St Zita Society, Ruth Rendell
• Fixing Shadows, Susan Barrett
• Taft, Ann Patchett
• Your Blue-Eyed Boy, Helen Dunmore
• The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
• Monday Mourning, Kathy Reichs
• La Cucina, Lily Prior
• Death Comes to Pemberley, PD James
• Persuasion, Jane Austen (re-read)
• Excellent Women, Barbara Pym (pbg July 12)
• State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
• Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
• The Underground Man, Mick Jackson
• The White Woman on a Green Bicycle, Monique Roffey (part)
• Stones for my Father, Trilby Kent (teen)
• The Red House, Mark Haddon
• State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
• Star of the Sea, Joseph O'Connor
• Aria, Susan Segal
• The Fourth Hand, John Irving (part)
• Bare Bones, Kathy Reichs
• Labyrinth, Kate Mosse
• The Post-Birthday World (half), Lionel Shriver
• Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale
• The Magician's Assistant, Ann Patchett
• Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch
• Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
• False Colours (reread), Georgette Heyer
• Blue Water, Manette Ansay
• Abhorsen (jfic, reread), Garth Nix
• Lirael (jfic, reread), Garth Nix
• Sabriel (jfic, reread), Garth Nix
• Ashes (jfic), Ilsa J Bick
• Island of Bones, Imogen Robertson
• The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
• The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
• Grave Secrets, Kathy Reichs
• An Invisible Sign of My Own, Aimee Bender
• The Sugar Queen, Sarah Addison Allen
• The Amnesia Clinic, James Scudamore
• Fatal Voyage, Kathy Reichs
• Good Things I Wish You, Manette Ansay
• The Song House, Trezza Azzopardi
• These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer (re-read)
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Aimee Bender
• His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman (re-read)
• Five People you Meet in Heaven, Mitch Ablom
• The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
• The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
• Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
• Started Early, Took my Dog, Kate Atkinson
• Dragonharper Trilogy, Anne McCaffrey (re-read)
• The Girl of his Dreams, Donna Leon
• The Somnambulist, Essie Fox
• Becoming Jane Eyre, Sheila Kohler
• The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins
• Day of the Bees, Thomas Sanchez
• The Sea Change, Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
• Sleep Toward Heaven, Amanda Eyre Ward
• The Prince of Mist, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Hand that First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell (pbg, Feb 12)
• Girl Reading, Katie Ward
• The Death Instinct, Jed Rubenfeld
• The Travelling Horn Player, Barbara Trapido (re-read, pbg Jan 12)
• Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
• The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
• The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
• Dark Assassin, Anne Perry

2011

• The Sealed Letter, Emma Donohue
• Deadly Decisions, Kathy Reichs
• The Whisperer, Donato Carrisi
• God of the Hive, Laurie King
• Beatrice and Virgil, Yann Martel
• The Help, Kathryn Stockett (half)
• The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht (pbc Dec 11)
• The Sisters Brothers, Patrick de Witt
• Death du Jour, Kathy Reichs
• Blue Poppies, Jonathan Falla
• The Piano Teacher, Janice Y K Lee
• Cage of Stars, Jacquelyn Mitchard (pbg Nov 11)
• Deja Dead, Kathy Reichs
• A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh
• The Shifting Tide, Anne Perry
• The Riddle and the Knight, Giles Milton
• The Great Lover, Jill Dawson
• December, Elizabeth Winthrop
• The Mathematics of Love, Emma Darwin
• The Brutal Art, Jesse Kellerman
• When God Was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman
• The School of Night, Louis Bayard
• The Long Song, Andrea Levy
• The Winter Ghosts, Kate Mosse
• The Lake Shore Limited, Sue Miller
• Waiting for Columbus, Thomas Trofimuk
• The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
• The Year of Eating Dangerously, Tom Parker Bowles
• Underfoot in Show Business, Helene Hanff (pbg July 11)
• The Summer of the Bear, Bella Pollen
• Grace Williams Says it Loud, Emma Henderson
• Last Night in Twisted River, John Irving
• The Red House Mystery, A A Milne
• Luncheon of the Boating Party, Susan Vreeland
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Steig Larsson
• Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (part)
• A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews
• Dancing Backwards, Salley Vickers
• The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson
• City of the Mind, Penelope Fitzgerald
• Clare, Janice Galloway
• Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford
• The Twisted Root, Anne Perry (re-read)
• Whited Sepulchres, Anne Perry (re-read)
• Weighed in the Balance, Anne Perry (re-read)
• The Silent Cry, Anne Perry (re-read)
• Cain his Brother, Anne Perry (re-read)
• Sins of the Wolf, Anne Perry (re-read)
• A Sudden Fearful Death, Anne Perry (re-read)
• Solar, Ian MacEwan
• One Day, David Nicholls (pbg Mar 11)
• The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
• The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Rector's Daughter, F.M. Mayer
• The Other Hand, Chris Cleave (pbg Feb 11)
• Defend and Betray, Anne Perry (re-read)
• A Dangerous Mourning, Anne Perry (re-read)
• Face of a Stranger, Anne Perry (re-read)
• Howard's End is on the Landing, Susan Hill
• C, Tom McCarthy
• The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt

2010

• The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Louis de Berniers
• Goldengrove Unleaving, Jill Paton Walsh
• Room, Emma Donoghue
• In a Strange Room, Damon Galgut
• Duplicate Keys, Jane Smiley
• Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Margaret Forster
• Noah's Compass, Anne Tyler
• Ella Minnow Pea (reread), Mark Dunn (pbg Nov 10)
• The Savage Garden, Mark Mills
• Crown of Dust, Mary Volmer
• Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
• The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
• The Food of Love, Anthony Capella
• A Buyer's Market, Anthony Powell
• Waltzing through Flaws, Paula Sharp
• The Marriage Bed, Regina McBride
• Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin
• Swift as Desire, Laura Esquivel
• My Tango with Barbara Strozzi, Russell Hoban (pbg Sept 10)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
• Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
• The Mermaid Chair, Sue Monk Kidd
• The Forest Lover, Susan Vreeland
• Bel Canto (reread), Ann Patchett
• The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffman
• Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
• The Language of Bees, Laurie R King
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
• Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
• the Resurrectionist, James Bradley
• The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Incendiary, Chris Cleve (pbg, summer '10)
• A Question of Upbringing, Anthony Powell
• Journeys in the Dead Season, Spencer Jordan
• A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
• Remember Me, Trezza Azzopardi
• The Middle Kingdom, Andrea Barrett
• The Passion of Artemesia, Susan Vreeland
• The Boy Next Door, Irene Sabatini
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
• Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamshie
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
• The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds
• The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
• My Dream of You, Nuala O'Faolain
• The Dark Room, Rachel Seifert
• When Will There Be Good News? Kate Atkinson
• The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies
• The Outcast, Sadie Jones
• Steal you Away, Niccolo Ammaniti
• Fly in the Ointment, Anne Fine
• The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
• The Conjuror's Bird, Martin Davies (pbg, Apr 10)
• Inkedeath, Cornelia Funke
• The Lighthouse, PD James
• Miss Wyoming, Douglas Coupland (re-read)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith
• Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier
• The Probable Future, Alice Hoffman
• American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
• The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, Eva Rice (pbg)
• Lord Sunday, Garth Nix
• The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
• The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• The Return of John Macnab, Andrew Greig (pbg)
• The Winter House, Nicci Gerard

2009

• Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
• The Rose of Sebastopol, Katharine Macmahon
• The Private Patient, PD James
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter (6 books in the series), Laurell K Hamilton
• The Wilderness, Samantha Harvey
• Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
• Soul Mountain, Gao Xingjian
• The Gathering, Anne Enright
• The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt
• Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif
• Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
• Poppyland, Raffaela Barker
• Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby
• Other Eden, Sarah Bryant
• The Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
• Run, Ann Patchett (pbg - Sept 09)
• Shadow Catcher, Michelle Paver
• The View from Castle Rock, Alice Munro
• Home, Marilynne Robinson
• The Dark is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper
• A Painted House, John Grisham (pbg - Aug 09)
• Painting Mona Lisa, Jeanne Kalogridis
• The Pirate's Daughter, Margaret Cezair-Thompson
• Bitter Sweets, Roopa Farooki
• The Distant Land of my Father, Bo Caldwell
• Random Acts of Heroic Love, Danny Scheinmann
• Mr Toppit, Charles Elton
• First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde
• The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
• Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
• The Unfortunates, Laurie Graham
• Mudbound, Hillary Jordan (pbg - Jun 09)
• The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton
• The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim
• A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth (finally!)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
• Reading the Oxford English Dictionary, Ammon Shea
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, Ann Weisgarber
• Heaven's Edge, Romesh Gunesekera
• The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (re-read)
• The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck (pbg - May 09)
• Enduring Love, Ian MacEwan
• Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
• Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
• The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
• The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
• Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
• The Scapegoat, Daphne duMaurier (pbg - Apr 09)
• Empire Falls, Richard Russo (pbg - Apr 09)
• In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant (pbg - Mar 09)
• Twilight (jfic), Stephenie Meyer
• North Child (jfic), Edith Pattou
• The Last Girls, Lee Smith (pbg- Mar 09)
• The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
• The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
• In her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner
• Veronica, Mary Gaitskill (pbg - Jan 09)
• Burning Bright, Tracy Chevalier

2008

• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (pbg - Dec 08)
• The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie (most of it)
• Property, Valerie Martin
• I'm Not Scared, Niccolo Ammaniti (pbg - Nov 08)
• People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
• The Daughters of Egalia, Gerd Brantenberg (pbg - Oct 08)
• A Lost Lady, Willa Cather
• My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time, Liz Jensen (pbg - Sept 08)
• East of the Sun, Julia Gregson
• The Other Side of the Bridge, Mary Lawson
• The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff
• A Wedding in December, Anita Shreve (pbg - Jul 08)
• Crow Lake, Mary Lawson
• The Mysteries of Glass, Sue Gee (pbg)
• The Friday Night Knitting Club, Kate Jacobs
• Eve Green, Susan Fletcher
• Mother Country, Jeremy Harding (pbg - Apr 08)
• O, Jerusalem (reread) Laurie R King
• The Moor (reread), Laurie R King
• A Letter of Mary (reread), Laurie R King
• A Monstrous Regiment of Women (reread), Laurie R King
• The Beekeeper''s Apprentice (reread), Laurie R King
• Back when we were Grownups (reread), Anne Tyler (pbg - Mar 08)
• Uniform Justice, Donna Leon
• Bloodlines, Jan Burke
• The Cross Country Quilters, Jennifer Chiaverini
• What was lost, Catherine O'Flynn
• Hey, Nostradamus, Douglas Coupland
• Nella Last's War (diary) (pbg - Feb 08)
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
• Restoring Grace, Katie Fforde
• The Silver Pigs, Lindsay Davis (pbg- Jan 08)
• Lighthousekeeping, Jeannette Winterson (pbg- Jan 08)

2007

• N is for Noose, Sue Grafton (pbg - Dec 07)
• City of Light, Lauren Belfer
• A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon
• Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
• The Grenadillo Box, Janet Gleeson
• Lirael (reread), Garth Nix
• Watership Down (reread), Richard Adams
• The Half Life of Stars, Louise Wener
• The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
• Snow, Orhan Pamuk (pbg - Oct 07)
• Now in November, Josephine Johnson (pbg - Oct 07)
• Digging to America, Anne Tyler (pbg - Sep 07)
• Practically Perfect, Katie Fforde
• All 7 Harry Potter novels (the first six are re-reads)
• Dorothy L Sayers: All the rest of the Lord Peter books (again - yes, a binge!)
• Spring Sonata, Bernice Rubens (pbg - Aug 07)
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards (pbg - Jul 07)
• The Foundling, Georgette Heyer
• The Untelling, Tayari Jones
• Keeping the World Away, Margaret Forster
• Tennis and the Masai, Nicholas Best (pbg- Jun 07)
• The Secret River, Kate Grenville
• Like Water for Chocolate (re-read), Laura Esquivel (pbg- May 07)
• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (pbg - Apr 07)
• Dorothy L Sayers: all the Peter & Harriet novels
• Disobedience, Naomi Alderman
• Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
• Locked Rooms, Laurie R King
• Eldest, Christopher Paolini
• The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld
• Emotionally Weird, Kate Atkinson
• The Sea, John Banville
• How to be Lost, Amanda Eyre Ward (pbg)
• The Colour, Rose Tremain (pbg)
• Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
• The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Neffenegger
• These Foolish Things, Deborah Moggach (postal book group)
• Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai

2006

• Every Breath you Take, Michelle Spring
• Ragtime in Simla, Barbara Cleverly
• The True Adventures of the Amazing Hunt Sisters (about half), Elisabeth Roberts
• Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
• Round Robin, Jennifer Chiaverelli
• Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
• Madam, Will You Talk?, Mary Stewart (re-read)
• This Rough Magic, Mary Stewart (re-read)
• Eragon, Christopher Paolini
• The Island, Victoria Hislop
• Attention All Shipping, Charlie Connelly
• The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier
• The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan
• I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith (re-read)
• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
• Fleshmarket Close, Ian Rankin
• An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
• The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler
• When we Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Headmaster's Wife, Jane Haddam
• Never Let me Go, Kazue Ishiguro
• The Shape Changer's Wife, Sharon Shinn
• Minaret, Leila Abouleia
• Things we knew were true, Nicci Gerard
• The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud, postal book group (hated this)
• Gem Squash Tololoshe, Rachel Zadok
• City of Falling Angels, John Berendt
• We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
• She's Come Undone (re-read), Wally Lamb
• Sir Thursday, Garth Nix
• The Dream Life of Sukanov, Olga Grushin
• Astonishing Splashes of Colour
• The Reader, Bernhard Schink
• Life with a Star, Jiri Weil
• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
• Metro Girl, Janet Evanovich
• Housewife Down, Alison Penton Harper
• The Olive Readers, Christina Aziz
• Plain Song, Kent Harif

2005 

• Shadows in the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Drowned Wednesday, Garth Nix
• Blue Smoke, Nora Roberts
• Grim Tuesday, Garth Nix
• Mister Monday, Garth Nix
• The Boy who Taught the Beekeeper to Read, Susan Hill
• The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor
• Strangers, Taichi Yamada
• Flora's Lot, Katie Fforde
• Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
• The Quilter's Apprentice, Jennifer Chiaverelli
• Emma Brown, Clare Boylan 

2005 covers only August - December. This is the point at which I started keeping track of my reading again, after not doing so since 2003 (I do have a book which starts in January 1999 and goes up until 2003 - I will spare you those reads, though) - I guess 2003 was really busy and I either didn't read much, or got out of the habit of writing down what I did read. Considering that my 3rd child was born in Feb 2003, I can't imagine why I was busy at all!