Books Read

We have read the following books :               Ratings : 1 = VERY BAD to 10 = VERY GOOD

Top Four for 2007: voted at our Christmas party: ‘Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow’, ‘Pompeii’, ‘White Ghost Girls’, ‘The People’s Act of Love’ with ‘The ninth life of Louis Drax’ voted memorable.

Meeting

Title

Author

MIN Vote

MAX Vote

Average Rating

AUG 2008

Human Traces

Sebastian Faulks

4

9

6.9

JUL 2008

Disgrace

J.M.Coetzee

4

8

6.8

JUN 2008

The Unknown Terrorist

Richard Flanaghan

5

10

7.5

MAY 2008

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Acichie

5

8

7.3

APR 2008

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

Rose Tremain

4

9

6.5

MAR 2008

His ‘n’ Hers  

Mike Gayle

1

8

5.8

FEB 2008

The Janissary Tree

Jason Goodwin 

2

8

4.9

JAN 2008

The Sea

John Banville

4

10

6.9

DEC 2007

One Good Turn

Kate Atkinson

0

8

5.3

NOV 2007

Pompeii   

Robert Harris

?

?

7.3

OCT 2007

Cockeyed

Ryan Knighton

 5

8

7

SEP 2007

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Peter Hoeg

7

 10

8

SEP 2007

The Accidental

Ali Smith

4

7

6.8

AUG 2007

Double Vision

Pat Barker      

5

8

7.2

AUG 2007

Case Histories

Kate Atkinson

6

9

8

JUL 2007

Cloud Atlas (read by Marion)

David Mitchell

9

9

9

JUL 2007

White Ghost Girls

Alice Greenway

6

8

7

JUN 2007

The People’s Act of Love

James Meek

3

8

5.4

MAY 2007

Hotel Du Lac

Anita Brookner

5

9

6.25

APR 2007

Night Watch

Sarah Waters

4

7

5.9

MAR 2007

Waterland

Graham Swift

5

8

6.5

FEB 2007

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

4

7

5.3

JAN 2007

The ninth life of Louis Drax  

Liz Jensen

2

9

7

NOV 2006

The Glittering Prizes

Fredrick Raphael

5

7

6

OCT 2006

Diary of an Ordinary Woman

Margaret Forster

2

7

5.1

SEPT 2006

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Le Carre

5

9

6.6

SEPT 2006

Bad Blood

Lorna Sage

0

8

6

JULY 2006

The Story of Lucy Gault

William Trevor

4

8

6.9

JUNE 2006

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

8

8

8

MAY/2006

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai Sijie

5

7

6.3

MAR/2006

The Jane Austen Book Club

Karen Joy Fowler

0

8

4.4

FEB/2006

Street Dreams

Faye Kellerman

4

8

5.4

JAN/2006

Chocolat

Joanne Harris

2

8

5.6

NOV/2005

Master & Commander

Patrick O’Brian

1

9

5

OCT/2005

Dirt Music

Tim Winton

 

 

7

SEP/2005

The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

 

 

 

AUG/2005

The Bookseller of Kabul

Asne Seierstad

 

 

 

JUL/2005

Billie Morgan

Joolz Denby

 

 

 

JUN/2005

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian

Marina Lewycka

 

 

 

MAY/2005

A Passage to Africa

George Alaghia

 

 

 

APR/2005

Toast:The Story of a Boy’s Hunger

Nigel Slater

 

 

 

MAR/2005

Brick Lane

Monica Ali

 

 

 

 

Neither Here Nor There

Bill Bryson

 

 

 

 

A Parrot in the Pepper Tree

Chris Stewart

 

 

 

 

On Green Dolphin Street

Sebastian Faulks

 

 

 

 

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

 

 

 

 

Frankie & Stankie

Barbara Trapido

 

 

 

 

Unless

Carol Shields

 

 

 

 

Close Range

Annie Proulx

 

 

 

 

Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

 

 

 

 

Middlemarch

George Elliot