2011-01-28

Added August 2013:
Nothing To Envy - Barbara Demick (e)
Annie On My Mind - Nancy Garden
Ostrich Boys - Keith Gray Liked this. 4*

Added July 2013:
The Casino - Margaret Bonham
Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl
Plats du Jour - Patience Gray & Primrose Boyd
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Carlyles at Home - Thea Holme
The Crowded Street - Winifred Holtby
Lettice Delmer - Susan Miles
Ketchup Clouds - Annabel Pitcher
They Knew Mr Knight - Dorothy Whipple
On the Other Side - Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg

Added June 2013:
The Tiny Wife - Andrew Kaufman (e)
The Detective's Daughter - Lesley Thomson (e)
Self-Made Man - Norah Vincent (book fairy Fi)

Added May 2013:
The Reverse Commute - Sheila Blanchette (e)

Added April 2013:
Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
Kismetology - Jaimie Admans (e)
Tell It to a Stranger - Elizabeth Berridge
World's End - T C Boyle
The Exiles Return - Elisabeth De Waal
The Runaway - Elizabeth Anna Hart
Heat Lightning - Helen Hull
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Call for the Dead - John Le Carré (e)
Reuben Sachs - Amy Levy

Added March 2013:
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
The Rebel Angels - Robertson Davies
The Diary of a Provincial Lady - E M Delafield
U Is For Undertow - Sue Grafton
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
A Kind Man - Susan Hill
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin
Farewell Leicester Square - Betty Miller
Inside the Shadow City - Kirsten Miller
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn
A Dreadful Murder - Minette Walters (e)
The Wise Virgins - Leonard Woolf
Flush - Virginia Woolf

Added February 2013:
Vows To Kill - Mark Capell
South Riding - Winifred Holtby
The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Emma Kennedy
The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson
The Girl You Left Behind - Jojo Moyes
Home - Marilynne Robinson
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor

Added January 2013:
The Golden Ass - Apuleius (book fairy Aileen)
A Vow of Silence - Veronica Black (e)
Utter Folly - Paul Bassett Davies (e)
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
The Critical Path - D J Johnson (e)
Not the End of the World - Geraldine McCaughrean (e)
Diamond Star Halo - Tiffany Murray (e)
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
The Yellow Dog - Georges Simenon

Added December 2012:
The Other Elizabeth Taylor - Nicola Beauman
A Very Great Profession - Nicola Beauman
Thursdays in the Park - Hilary Boyd
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides
Waiting - Ha Jin
The Hundred-Year-Old Man... - Jonas Jonasson (e)
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
The Violent Bear It Away/Everything That Rises Must Converge/Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Ever Fallen in Love - Zoe Strachan (e)
Morvern Callar - Alan Warner
Tono-Bungay - H G Wells

Added November 2012:
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
Jennie Gerhardt - Theodore Dreiser
Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
Strange Meeting - Susan Hill
Sodom and Gomorrah - Marcel Proust
The Captive & The Fugitive - Marcel Proust
Time Regained - Marcel Proust
The Unseen - Katherine Webb

Added October 2012:
A Woman's Place 1910-1975 - Ruth Adam
The Half-Life of Hannah - Nick Alexander (e)
An Ethiopian Romance - Heliodorus (book fairy Aileen)
Earthquake Weather and other stories - Catherine Ryan Hyde (e)
Funerals for Horses - Catherine Ryan Hyde (e)
The Colour - Rose Tremain
The Girl with the Cat Tattoo - Theresa Weir (e)
The Persephone Book of Short Stories

Added September 2012:
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Matched - Ally Condie
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
Seven Up - Janet Evanovich
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg
The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals (e) - Wendy Jones
600 Hours of Edward - Craig Lancaster (e)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan
Was - Geoff Ryman
Change of Life - Anne Stormont (e)
Pompomberry House - Rosen Trevithick (e)
Miss Bugle Saw God in the Cabbages - Sara Yeomans

Added August 2012:
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (e)
Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
The Moth Diaries - Rachel Klein (e)
The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - Sinclair McKay (e)
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Along Came a Spider - James Patterson
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart
The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart
The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart
Marcelo in the Real World - Francisco X Stork

Added July 2012:
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Mindset - Carol S Dweck
Paper Towns - John Green (e)
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum - Mary Hooper (e)
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Truth or Dare - Celia Rees
Airs Above the Ground - Mary Stewart
Stormy Petrel - Mary Stewart
The Gabriel Hounds - Mary Stewart
The Ivy Tree - Mary Stewart
The Moonspinners - Mary Stewart
This Rough Magic - Mary Stewart
Thornyhold - Mary Stewart
Thunder on the Right - Mary Stewart
Wildfire at Midnight - Mary Stewart
Felicia's Journey - William Trevor
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Gone to Earth - Mary Webb (e)

Added June 2012:
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Their Finest Hour and a Half - Lissa Evans
Madame Doubtfire - Anne Fine
The Glass Guardian - Linda Gillard (e)
Memories of Rain - Sunetra Gupta
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D H Lawrence
Making Conversation - Christine Longford
Dark Matter - Michelle Paver
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
Murder at Mansfield Park - Lynn Shepherd
Touch Not the Cat - Mary Stewart
Are You Experienced? - William Sutcliffe
Stone Cold - Robert Swindells

Added May 2012:
I Look Divine - Christopher Coe
Castle Rackrent and The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
Rites of Passage - William Golding
The Children Who Lived in a Barn - Eleanor Graham
Slam - Nick Hornby
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
Never Mind - Edward St Aubyn (e)
The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance - Trisha Telep (ed) (e)
Good Things in England - Florence White

Added April 2012:
Clay - David Almond
Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson
Knowing Me Knowing You - Mandy Baggot (e)
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
Delicacy - David Foenkinos (e)
The Man in the Wooden Hat - Jane Gardam
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
Coffee, Tea, the Gypsy & Me - Caroline James (e)
The Children of the New Forest - Captain Marryat
Report for Murder - Val McDermid
Sisterland - Linda Newbery
The Poison Garden - Sarah Singleton
New Boy - William Sutcliffe

Added March 2012:
Junk - Melvin Burgess
The Floating Admiral - Detection Club
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
Franny and Zooey - J D Salinger

Added February 2012:
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales - Joseph Conrad
A London Home in the 1890s - Molly Hughes
A London Family Between the Wars - Molly Hughes
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan (e)
Emma's War - Deborah Scroggins
The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Added January 2012:
How I Paid for College - Marc Acito
13:55 Eastern Standard Time - Nick Alexander (e)
A Lifetime Burning - Linda Gillard
Few Eggs and No Oranges - Vere Hodgson
To Bed with Grand Music - Marghanita Laski
The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
House-Bound - Winifred Peck
Broadmoor Revealed - Mark Stevens (e)
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt (e)

Added December 2011:
The Case of the Missing Boyfriend - Nick Alexander (e)
Hostages to Fortune - Elizabeth Cambridge
The New House - Lettice Cooper
Family Roundabout - Richmal Crompton
The Abortionist's Daughter - Elisabeth Hyde
My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson
(Un)arranged Marriage - Bali Rai

Added November 2011:
Justine - Lawrence Durrell
Untying the Knot - Linda Gillard (e)
Carwash - Lesley Howarth
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Tigerlily's Orchids - Ruth Rendell

Added October 2011:
A Heritage and Its History - Ivy Compton-Burnett (e)
Letters from Menabilly - Daphne Du Maurier

An Episode of Sparrows - Rumer Godden

Enduring Love - Ian McEwan

ttyl - Lauren Myracle
Life As We Knew It - Susan Pfeffer
Dinners for Beginners - Rachel and Margaret Ryan
Lord Loss - Darren Shan
A Sentimental Journey - Lawrence Sterne

Up to 30 September 2011:
Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven - Jane Bailey (e)
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Candy - Kevin Brooks
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Postcards From No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers
The Wereling - Stephen Cole (e)
The Traitor Game - B.R. Collins (e)
Bindi Babes - Narinder Dhami
Bog Child - Siobhan Dowd
The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale (e)
Follow Me Down - Julie Hearn
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
City of Masks - Mary Hoffman (e)
Raven's Gate - Anthony Horowitz (e)
Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz (e)
Ultraviolet - Leslie Howarth
Girl, 15, Charming But Insane - Sue Limb (e)
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Keeper - Mal Peet (e)
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
The Sterkarm Handshake - Susan Price
Knots and Crosses - Ian Rankin

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - Dyan Sheldon (e)
Prep - Curtis Sittenfeld
Shadowmancer - G P Taylor
Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (e)
Money - Martin Amis
Crash - J G Ballard
The Sea - John Banville
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No One Writes to the Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
Empire of the Sun - J G Ballard
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The World According To Garp - John Irving
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
The Call of the Wild/White Fang - Jack London
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
Orlando - Virginia Woolf

Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective - Nancy Atherton
Miracles of Life - J G Ballard
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Slavery and Society at Rome - Keith Bradley
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
The Man Who Was Thursday - G K Chesterton
A House and its Head - Ivy Compton-Burnett
Parents and Children - Ivy Compton-Burnett
A Family and a Fortune - Ivy Compton-Burnett
Brothers and Sisters - Ivy Compton-Burnett

Horrible Histories: The Cut-Throat Celts - Terry Deary
Solace of the Road - Siobhan Dowd
Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Rendezvous and Other Stories - Daphne Du Maurier

The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards

The Life To Come - E M Forster
Fidelity - Susan Glaspell

The Collegians - Gerald Griffin
An Interrupted Life - Etty Hillesum

Raffles - E W Hornung
Slavery in the Roman World - Sandra R Joshel
Little Boy Lost - Marghanita Laski
Wylder's Hand - Sheridan Le Fanu
Family Album - Penelope Lively
Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Leaf Storm - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Darker Domain - Val McDermid
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
White Gold - Giles Milton
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
Bulldog Drummond - H C Neile
The Siege - Clara Claiborne Park
A House in the Country - Jocelyn Playfair
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe
The Monster in the Box - Ruth Rendell
Wolf to the Slaughter - Ruth Rendell

Boudica - Manda Scott
The Fortnight in September - R C Sherriff

Celtic Myths and Legends - Charles Squire

Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth Von Arnim

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