Reading

2010

That awkward age – Roger McGough
Play to kill – PJ Tracy
Living dolls: the return of sexism – Natasha Walter
Breaking dawn - Stephenie Meyer
Martin misunderstoon – Karin Slaughter
The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini
Impotant artifacts and personal property from the collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion and jewelry - Leanne Shapton
The owl killers - Karen Maitland
Handbags and hopscotch – Lucy Mangan
Cool, calm parent - Hollie Smith
Juliet, naked - Nick Hornby
The girl who kicked the hornets’ nest – Stieg Larsson
Toxic childhood – Sue Palmer
The men who stare at goats – Jon Ronson
The girl who played with fire – Stieg Larsson
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
Pompeii - Robert Harris

2009

The warrior’s princess - Barbara Erskine
Fractured - Karin Slaughter
The girl with the dragon tattoo – Stieg Larsson
The politics of breastfeeding - Gabrielle Palmer
Bel canto - Ann Patchett
New moon – Stephenie Meyer
Maternity – Francesca Newby
Why love matters – Sue Gerhardt
Baby-led weaning – Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett
Final jeopardy – Linda Fairstein
Worldwide adventures in love - Louise Wener
Not on the label – Felicity Lawrence
Over the edge – Stuart Pawson
The cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
Bad science - Ben Goldacre
Cloud atlas - David Mitchell
Brown owl’s guide to life - Kate Harrison
The buried circle – Jenni Mills
Eldest – Christopher Paolini
Number9 dream – David Mitchell
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Eragon — Christopher Paolini
Double cross — James Patterson
Darkly dreaming Dexter — Jeff Lindley
When will there be good news? — Kate Atkinson
Gone — Lisa Gardner
The 19th wife — David Ebershoff
Two caravans — Marina Lewycka
Carry me down — MJ Hyland

2008

The grapes of wrath — John Steinbeck
The baby group — Rowan Coleman
No time for goodbye — Linwood Barclay
Love falls — Esther Freud
The accidental mother — Rowan Coleman
The tenderness of wolves — Stef Penney
Cat and mouse — James Patterson
Mary, Mary — James Patterson
The shadow of the wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
History of love — Nicole Krauss
This charming man — Marian Keyes
Skin Privilege — Karin Slaughter
The book thief — Markus Zusak
Blind willow, sleeping woman — Haruki Murakami
Tescopoly — Andrew Simm
Unconditional parenting — Alfie Kohn
The chrysalids — John Wyndham
One good turn — Kate Atkinson
Exit music — Ian Rankin

2007

Daughters of fire — Barbara Erskine
How weaning happens — Diane Bengson
Labyrinth — Kate Mosse
The time-traveller’s wife — Audrey Niffenegger
Faithless — Karin Slaughter
The island — Victoria Hislop
What mothers do (especially when it looks like nothing) — Naomi Stadlen
Espresso tales — Alexander McCall Smith
The naming of the dead— Ian Rankin
Raising girls — Gisela Preuschoff
Keeping faith — Jodi Picoult
Rise and fall of a yummy mummy — Polly Williams
The history of love — Nicole Krauss
Allotted time — Robin Shelton
Little face — Sophie Hannah
Yummy! — Jane Clarke
Don’t sweat the aubergine — Nicholas Clee
Delia’s kitchen garden — Gay Search
Sleepyhead — Mark Billingham
My roots — Monty Don

2006

The killing hour — Lisa Gardner
The great vegetable plot — Sarah Raven
Snow blind — PJ Tracey
Siblings without rivalry — Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Orcs omnibus — Stan Nicholls
Three in a bed — Deborah Jackson
The allotment book — AM Clevely
Going gaga — Mel Giedroyc
The lost art of keeping secrets — Eva Rice
Lost in a good book — Jasper Fforde
The midwife’s tale — Gretchen Moran Laskas
Hideous kinky — Esther Freud
The historian — Elizabeth Kostova
An island apart — Lilian Beckwith
She may not leave — Fay Weldon
3 shoes, 1 sock and no hairbrush — Rebecca Abrams
Raising babies — Steve Biddulph
Thyme out — Katie Fforde
The fishfinger years — Fiona Gibson
The bookseller of Kabul — Asne Seierstad
Zorro — Isabel Allende
A faint cold fear — Karin Slaughter
The pact — Jodi Picoult
The jewel garden — Monty & Sarah Don
44 Scotland Street — Alexander McCall Smith
Slow man — JM Coetzee
They f*** you up — Oliver James
Never let me go — Kazuo Ishiguro
Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
Thud! — Terry Pratchett

2005
The kitchen diaries — Nigel Slater
Talk to the hand — Lynne Truss
My sister’s keeper — Jodi Picoult
Live bait — PJ Tracy
The murder room — PD James
The secret of happy children — Steve Biddulph
The family way — Tony Parsons
Going postal — Terry Pratchett
The tenko club — Elizabeth Noble
More secrets of happy children — Steve Biddulph
Wrong about Japan — Peter Carey
Arthur and George — Julian Barnes
The da Vinci code — Dan Brown
Deception point — Dan Brown
Angels and demons — Dan Brown
In another light — Andrew Greig
Want to play? — PJ Tracy
Blindsighted — Karin Slaughter
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince — JK Rowling
We need to talk about Kevin — Lionel Shriver
A short history of tractors in Ukrainian — Marina Lewycka
Liars and Saints — Maile Meloy
South of the border, west of the sun — Maruki Murakami
Toast — Nigel Slater
The bad mothers’ handbook — Kate Long
The reading group — Elizabeth Noble
How not to be a perfect mother — Libby Purves
Fleshmarket Close — Ian Rankin
The other side of the story — Marian Keyes
Case histories — Kate Atkinson

2004
(Umpteen baby books)
(some I have forgotten including, I think, the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency 2,3 and maybe 4)
Notes on a scandal — Zoe Heller
Reading Lolita in Tehran — Azar Nafisi
Eats, shoots and leaves — Lynne Truss
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time — Mark Haddon
Dreams of my Russian summers — Andrei Makiney
Resurrection Men — Ian Rankin
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
The robber bride — Margaret Atwood
Rabbit-proof fence — Doris Pilkington
Dude, where’s my country — Michael Moore
A taste for death — PD James
Monstrous regiment — Terry Pratchett
In cold blood — Truman Capote
The no. 1 ladies’ detective agency — Alexander McCall Smith

2003
(Umpteen pregnancy & baby books)
31 songs — Nick Hornby
The female eunuch — Germaine Greer
King Solomon’s carpet — Barbara Vine
The other Boleyn girl — Philippa Gregory
Seven years in Tibet — Heinrich Harrer
Hiding from the light — Barbara Erskine
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
A necessary end — Peter Robinson
Fingersmith — Sarah Walters
The memory game — Nicci French
My life on a plate — India Knight
A walk in the woods — Bill Bryson
Aftermath — Peter Robinson
In a dry season — Peter Robinson
A certain justice — PD James
Samurai Williams — Giles Milton
Three stories — Alan Bennett
Death in holy orders — PD James
One hit wonderland — Tony Hawks
A debt to pleasure — John Lanchester
Fox evil — Minette Walters
High society — Ben Elton
Man and wife — Tony Parsons
Clan of the cave bear — Jean M Auel
My family and other animals — Gerald Durrell
Behind the scenes at the museum — Kate Atkinson
So you want to write — Barbara Ueland
Dark paradise — Tami Hoag
Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix — JK Rowling
We have always lived in the castle — Shirley Jackson
The remains of the day — Kazuo Ishiguro
A sight for sore eyes — Ruth Rendell
My uncle Oswald — Roald Dahl
The age of innocence — Edith Wharton
Like water for chocolate — Laura Esquirel
The way we live now — Anthony Trollope
House of cards — Michael Dobbs
The garden party and other stories — Katherine Mansfield
Angels — Marian Keyes
The persian boy — Mary Renault
Oscar and Lucinda — Peter Carey
In love and war — Maria Corelli
The bluest eye — Toni Morrison
Down under — Bill Bryson
Protect and defend — Richard North Patterson
Unbeaten tracks in Japan — Isabella L Bird
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius — Dave Eggers
I’m a stranger here myself — Bill Bryson
The great gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
The eyes of a child — Richard North Patterson
The lady and the monk — Pico Iyer
Whistling for the elephants — Sandi Toksvig
Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert
Little adventures in Tokyo — Rick Kennedy
Blackberry wine — Joanne Harris
No safe place — Richard North Patterson
Hokkaido highway blues — Will Ferguson
Red dog — Louis de Bernieres
Life of Pi — Yann Martel
The first man in Rome — Colleen McCullough

2002
Border crossing — Pat Barker
The little friend — Donna Tartt
A prayer for Owen Meany — John Irving
The golden gate — Vikram Seth
Northern lights — Philip Pullman
Cry wolf — Tami Hoag
True history of the Kelly gang — Peter Carey
The bridges of Madison county — Robert James Waller
Heart of darkness — Joseph Conrad
The captive — Colette
Black & blue — Ian Rankin
Made in America — Bill Bryson
England, England — Julian Barnes
Bleeding hearts — Ian Rankin
Learning to fly — Victoria Beckham
Dead famous — Ben Elton
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world — Haruki Murakami
45 — Bill Drummond
Persuasion — Jane Austen
Dust to dust — Tami Hoag
Whispers in the sand — Barbara Erskine
The falls — Ian Rankin
Girl with a pearl earring — Tracy Chevalier
The shape of snakes — Minette Walters
Catfish and mandala — Andrew Pham
Emotionally weird — Kate Atkinson
Postcards from the bed — Marian Keyes
A history of the world in 10½ chapters — Julian Barnes
The salaryman’s wife — Sujata Massey
The stretch — Stephen Leather
The simple truth — David Baldacci
Life isn’t all ha ha hee hee — Meera Syall
The amber spyglass — Philip Pullman
Three men in a boat — Jerome K Jerome
Alias Grace — Margaret Attwood
After you’d gone — Maggie O’Farrell
Beowulf — Seamus Heaney
Still waters — Tami Hoag
One hundred years of solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Guilty as sin — Tami Hoag
The sea, the sea — Iris Murdoch
The subtle knife — Philip Pullman
The seven daughters of Eve — Bryan Sykes
Last summer — Andrew Greig
Doctor Thorne — Anthony Trollope
Flying under bridges — Sandy Toksvig
Barchester Towers — Anthony Trollope
C: because cowards get cancer too — John Diamond
The naturalists — Diane Smith
The prophet — Kahil Gibran
How to be good — Nick Hornby
One for my baby — Tony Parsons
Memoirs of a geisha — Arthur Golden