Books books books
So, way back I posted my reading of the Jan-March quarter, and fully intended to follow it up with a list at the end of July.
I made the list, I just forgot to post it. But now, it is the end of the third quarter of the year (or yesterday was), so here are the books I've read.
April
Metroland - Julian Barnes
Before She Met Me - Julian Barnes
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L Sayers*
The Echo-Maker (which I gave up on, so shouldn’t really be on this list) - Richard Powers
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
May
Have His Carcase - Dorothy L Sayers*
The Golden Notebook (v slowly) - Doris Lessing
Busman’s Honeymoon - Dorothy L Sayers*
Thrones, Dominations - Dorothy L Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh*
The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh/Dorothy L Sayers*
June
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling*
The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
The Fashion in Shrouds - Margery Allingham
July
The Archivist - Martha Cooley
Welcome to Higby - Mark Dunn
Twentysomething - Ian Hollingshead
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
A Room With A View - E M Forster*
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini
The Innocent - Ian McEwan
August
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks - Christopher Brookmyre
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Psalm 119 - Heather McRobie
The Days of Judy B - Rose Heiney
Life’s Too Short to Frost a Cupcake - Rosie Wilde (nb, TOTAL trash, wish I hadn’t found it kicking about at work and decided I fancied a bit of fluff to read)
September
Persuasion - Jane Austen*
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
*=re-read
I made the list, I just forgot to post it. But now, it is the end of the third quarter of the year (or yesterday was), so here are the books I've read.
April
Metroland - Julian Barnes
Before She Met Me - Julian Barnes
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Clouds of Witness - Dorothy L Sayers*
The Echo-Maker (which I gave up on, so shouldn’t really be on this list) - Richard Powers
The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
May
Have His Carcase - Dorothy L Sayers*
The Golden Notebook (v slowly) - Doris Lessing
Busman’s Honeymoon - Dorothy L Sayers*
Thrones, Dominations - Dorothy L Sayers/Jill Paton Walsh*
The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh/Dorothy L Sayers*
June
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling*
The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
The Fashion in Shrouds - Margery Allingham
July
The Archivist - Martha Cooley
Welcome to Higby - Mark Dunn
Twentysomething - Ian Hollingshead
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
A Room With A View - E M Forster*
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini
The Innocent - Ian McEwan
August
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks - Christopher Brookmyre
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Psalm 119 - Heather McRobie
The Days of Judy B - Rose Heiney
Life’s Too Short to Frost a Cupcake - Rosie Wilde (nb, TOTAL trash, wish I hadn’t found it kicking about at work and decided I fancied a bit of fluff to read)
September
Persuasion - Jane Austen*
Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
*=re-read