The Shivering Sands, by Victoria Holt – 5/5
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, by Ben Sherwood – 4/5
The Queen’s Fool, by Philippa Gregory – 4.5/5
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters – 4.5/5
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque – 5/5
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy – 3/5
The Pilo Family Circus, by Will Elliott – 3/5
As Far As You Can Go, by Lesley Glaister – 4/5
The Voice of the Violin, by Andrea Camilleri – 5/5
Who Moved My Blackberry?, by Lucy Kellaway – 2/5
The Shape of Water, by Andrea Camilleri – 5/5
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, by Peter Ackroyd – 4/5 (Very interesting new take on the Frankenstein sory, with Mary Shelley actually appearing as a character in the book.)
The Bullet Trick, by Louise Welsh – 3/5
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells – 4/5
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey – 4.5/5
The Carnival Master, by Craig Russell – 3/5
The Terracotta Dog, by Andrea Camilleri – 5/5
Betty Blue, by Philippe Djian – 5/5
The Bad Dog’s Diary, by Martin Howard – 5/5
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield – 3/5
Stained Souls, by Ferran O’Neill – 2/5
About A Boy, by Nick Hornby – 3/5
The Dressmaker, by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck – 4/5
The Shoe Queen, by Anna Davis – 4/5 (Beware shoe addicts! This book could be bad for your bank balance!)
Martin Misunderstood, by Karin Slaughter – 2/5
Hide and Seek, by Clare Sambrook – 5/5 (Beautiful and sad. A fantastic read.)
Edward Trencom’s Nose, by Giles Milton – 3/5
A Patchwork Planet, by Anne Tyler – 4/5
The Savage Garden, by Mark Mills – 3/5
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, by Xiaolu Guo – 2/5
When We Were Bad, by Charlotte Mendelson – 3/5
Never Say Never, by Melissa Hill – 3/5
Rue de la Pompe, by James Earle McCracken – 4/5
The Snack Thief, by Andrea Camilleri – 5/5
The Conjuror’s Bird, by Martin Davies – 3/5
The Memory of Running, by Ron McLarty – 2/5
Above Suspicion, by Lynda La Plante – 4/5
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie – 2/5
Random Acts of Heroic Love, by Danny Scheinmann – 2.5/5
The Suicide Shop, by Jean Teule – 3/5
After Dark, by Haruki Murakami – 3/5
Chart Throb, by Ben Elton – 3/5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera – 2.5/5
Close Range, by Annie Proulx – 2/5
Big Cherry Holler, by Adriana Trigiani – 5/5
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein – 5/5 (Fabulous, funny, sad and very moving story, narrated by a wonderful dog. Read it, but keep the tissues close by to mop up your tears!)
Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom – 3/5
Light on Snow, by Anita Shreve – 3/5
The Virgin of Small Plains, by Nancy Pickard – 3/5
The Almost Moon, by Alice Sebold – 1.5/5
Gold, by Dan Rhodes – 4/5
Mistress of Pleasure, by Delilah Marvelle – 3/5
Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan – 5/5 (Utterly fabulous.)
The Other Great Depression, by Richard Lewis – 3/5
New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer, by Bill Maher – 4/5
Sorbonne Confidential, by Laurel Zuckerman – 2.5/5
Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier – 5/5 (Some books are classics for a reason. This is one of them.)
Working Knowledge, by Petr Kral – 1/5
The Last Days of Newgate, by Andrew Pepper – 4.5/5
Excursion to Tindari, by Andrea Camilleri – 4.5/5
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, by Howard Sounes – 4/5
A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, by Charles Dickens – 4/5
Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid, by Denis Leary – 4/5
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