Books Read

We have read the following books :   (Rating is out of 10, 1 being Not Worthwhile 10 being Worthwhile          

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Author

Suggested By

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AUG/2008

Oryx & Crake

A Girl in Winter

Eureka Street

1000 Splendid Suns

Ny Name is Asher Lev

Middlesex

Brick Lane

Sister Hollywood

The Way To Paradise

The Poisonwood Bible

M. Attwood

Phillip Larkin

McLiam Wilson

Khaled Hosseini

Chaim Potok

J Eugenides

Monica Ali

CK Stead

Mario Llosa

Barbara Kingsolver

Rosemary

Francis

Irene

Maree

Sarah

Lynne

Claire & Kay

Lesley

Caroline&Trish

Kevin

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

7

 

7

6

9

8.5

8

8

8

7.5

7

 

7

6

9

8.5

7.5

8

8

 7.5

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

1

1

1

JUL/2008

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Doris Pilkington

Bobbe

 

 

4.8

 

JUN/2008

An Awfully Big Adventure 

Beryl Bainbridge

Francis

4

8

6.3

9

MAY/2008

Author,Author

David Lodge

Trish

5

9

6.8

7

APR/2008

Digging to America

Anne Tyler

Kevin

5

7

6.3

6

MAR/2008

The Zahir

Paulo Coelho

Caroline

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?

4.2

7

FEB/2008

Mother’s Milk

Edward St Aubyn

Lesley

4

9

6.1

6

JAN/2008

Desert Flower

Waris Dirie

Marie

 

 

5

7

DEC/2007

Anil's Ghost

 

 Michael Ondaatje

Sarah

 

 

 

 

NOV/2007

Crow Lake

Mary Lawson

Rosemary

5

8

6.8

9

OCT/2007

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

Tracey

4

6.5

5.5

3

SEP/2007

Theft, A Love Story

Peter Carey

Irene

11

11

11

1 IW

SEP/2007

Restless

William Boyd

Lesley

7

8

7,5

2 BD/ SD

SEP/2007

Oranges are not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Trish

5

5

5

1 MB

SEP/2007

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

Rosemary

8

9

8.5

1 CB

SEP/2007

An Empty Room

Talitha Stevenson

Berenice

1

1

1

1 CB

AUG/2007

The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks

Liz

5

8

6.75

8

JUL/2007

101 Reykjavik

Hallgrimur Helgason

Irene

 

 

 

 

JUN/2007

The Inheritance of Loss  

Kiran Desai

Ruth

10

10

10

3

MAY/2007

The Interpretation of Murder

Jed Rubenfeld

Caroline

 

 

 

 

APR/2007

Oracle Night

Paul Auster

Lesley

 

 

 

 

MAR/2007

Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Trish

 

 

 

 

FEB/2007

War Trash

 Ha Jin

Bobbe

 

 

 

 

JAN/2007

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sarah

 

 

 

 

DEC/2006

Underground

Tobias Hill

Bereniece

 

 

 

 

NOV/2006

Slow Man

J.M.Coetzee

Rosemary

 

 

 

 

OCT/2006

LA Confidential/The Maltese Falcon

James Ellroy/Dashiell Hammett

Tracey

 

 

 

 

AUG/2006

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Michael

 

 

 

 

JULY 2006

 Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Caroline

 

 

 

 

JUNE 2006

 In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Liz

 

 

 

 

MAY/2006

Bad Blood

Lorna Sage

Suzanne

 

 

 

 

APR/2006

A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian

Marina Lewycka

concensus

 

 

 

 

MAR/2006

Case Histories

Kate Atkinson

Irene

 

 

 

 

FEB/2006

The Lambs of London

Peter Ackroyd

Lesley

 

 

 

 

JAN/2006

Saturday

Ian McEwan

Rosemary

 

 

 

 

NOV/2005

The Colour

Rose Tremain

Trish

 

 

 

 

OCT/2005

The Kite Runner

Khaled Husseini

Nicola

 

 

 

 

SEP/2005

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

concensus

 

 

 

 

JUL/2005

The Light of the Day

Graham Swift

Berenice

 

 

 

 

JUN/2005

The Infinite Plan

Isabel Allende

Emily

 

 

 

 

MAY/2005

Small Island

Andrea Levy

Tracey

 

 

 

 

APR/2005

Fantastic Night and Other Stories

Stefan Zweig

Caroline

 

 

 

 

MAR/2005

Dirt Music

Tim Winton

Michael

 

 

 

 

FEB/2005

The Human Stain

Philip Roth

Trish & Rosemary

 

 

 

 

JAN/2005

Absolute Friends

John Le Carre

concensus

 

 

 

 

DEC/2004

The Photograph

Penelope Lively

concensus

 

 

 

 

NOV/2004

Waterland

Graham Swift

Trish

 

 

 

 

OCT/2004

The Dressmaker

Beryl Bainbridge

Nicola