Books Read

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

Meeting

Title

Author

MIN Vote

MAX Vote

Average Rating

JUN 2009

Ali’s selection “The Behaviour of Moths”

Poppy Adams

5

8.5

6.8

MAY 2009

Marion’s selection “The White Tiger”

 Aravind Adiga

5

10

7.3

APR 2009

John’s selection 'What Was Lost'

Catherine O'Flynn

5

9

7

MAR 2009

Yvonne’s selection “My Cleaner”

Maggie Gee

7

9

7.9

FEB 2009

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones

6

9.75

8

FEB 2009

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

9

10

9.3

JAN 2009

The Falls

Ian Rankin

4

5

4.5

JAN 2009

The Rain Before It Falls

by Jonathon Coe

4

8

6.5

DEC 2008

Myrtha’s selection ‘The Photograph’

by Penelope Lively

6

8

7.5

NOV 2008

Penny’s selection “Arthur and George”

by Julian Barnes

5

9

7.3

OCT 2008

The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies 

4

9

6.7

SEP 2008

Period Piece : A Cambridge Childhood

 Gwen Raverat

6

8

6.5

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