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Reading Group Choices

Books read by Reading Groups in Dublin City Public Libraries in 2011

The House Of The Mosque Kadar Abdolah
Mornings in Jenin Susan Abulhawa
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Purple Hibiscus  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nobody’s Child Kate Adie
The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
Have A Little Faith Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Cry of Silver Annamaria Alfieri
Brick Lane Monica Ali
Daughter Of Fortune Isabel Allende
A Woman In Berlin, Diary 20th April 1945 To 22nd June 1945 Anonymous
The Secret of my Face Karen Ardiff
Girl In A Blue Dress Gaynor Arnold
The Wasted Vigil Nadeem Aslam
Somewhere Towards the End Diana Athill
One Good Turn Kate Atkinson
Started Early, Took my Dog Kate Atkinson
When Will There Be Good News? Kate Atkinson
Cat's Eye Margaret Atwood
Emma Jane Austen
Persuasion Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The Twin Gerbrand Bakker
The Infinities John Banville
The Sea John Banville
The Elegance Of The Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
No Time For Goodbye Linwood Barclay
Double Vision Pat Barker
Regeneration Pat Barker
Arthur and George Julian Barnes
City of Bohane Kevin Barry
There are Little Kingdoms Kevin Barry
A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry
Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry
The Diving-Bell And The Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby
City of Thieves Alan Bennett
The Lady in the Van Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt
Echoes Maeve Binchy
Finding Frankie Maeve Binchy
The Return Journey Maeve Binchy
Jamrach's Menagerie Carol Birch
Death in Summer Benjamin Black
Christine Falls Benjamin Black
Elegy for April Benjamin Black
The Lemur Benjamin Black
The Silver Swan Benjamin Black
Lorna Doone R.D. Blackmore
A Journey Tony Blair
A Second Life Dermot Bolger
The Family on Paradise Pier Dermot Bolger
Guernica, A Novel Dave Boling
The Book of Fires Jane Borodale
The Last September Elizabeth Bowen
Any Human Heart William Boyd
Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd
Restless Wiliam Boyd
Through Black Spruce Joseph Boyden
The Absolutist John Boyne
The House of Special Purpose John Boyne
A Brief History of the Dead Kevin Brockmeier
A Whispered Name William Broderick
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Strangers Anita Brookner
Mother tongue, The English Language Bill Bryson
Separate Beds Elizabeth Buchan
The Children’s Book A.S. Byatt
The Meeting Point Lucy Caldwell
Chicken Soup for the Soul Jack Canfield and Mark Victor
In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Parrot and Oliver in America Peter Carey
Other People's Money Justin Cartwright
To Heaven by Water Justin Cartwright\
Beginners Raymond Carver
The Lost Daughter Diane Chamberlain
Girl with the Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
Worth Dying For Lee Child
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
Savage Lands Clare Clark
The Shadow of a Smile Mary Higgins Clark
The Other Hand Chris Cleave
Hold Tight Harlan Coben
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee
Summertime, Scenes from Provincial Life J.M. Coetzee
The Take Martina Cole
Echo Park Michael Connolly
The Reversal Michael Connolly
The Black Angel John Connolly
The Book Of Lost Things John Connolly
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
The Tenth Chamber Glenn Cooper
The Coroner's Lunch Colin Cotterill
The Spanish Gardiner A.J. Cronin
Galore Michael Crummey
Capital Sins Peter Cunningham
The Maid Kimberly Cutter
Sarah's Key Tatiana De Rosnay
No and Me Delphine De Vigan
The Hare with the Amber Eyes Edmund De Waal
Adam Ted Dekker
Nothing to Envy, Real Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
Bleak House Charles Dickens
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
Homer and Langley E.L. Doctorow
The Gingerman J.P. Donleavy
A Gathering Light Jennifer Donnelly
Room Emma Donoghue
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
The Courtesan and the Samurai Lesley Downer
A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle
Rory and Ita Roddy Doyle
The Red Queen Margaret Drabble
Return to Olive Farm Carol Drinkwater
The Olive Farm Carol Drinkwater
The Doll Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
Sacred Hearts Sarah Dunant
Missing Julia Catherine Dunne
Set in Stone Catherine Dunne
The 19th Wife David Ebershoff
Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
Middlemarch George Eliot
A Quiet Belief in Angels R.J Ellory
Saints of New York R.J. Ellory
The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright
The Gathering Anne Enright
The Brave Nicholas Evans
In the Dark Streets Shining Pamela Evans
Alone In Berlin Hans Fallada
Troubles J.G. Farrell
A Week In December Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
Engleby Sebastian Faulks
Past Imperfect Julian Fellowes
The Night of the Mi'raj Zoë Ferraris
Summer of Love Katie Fforde
Our Precious Lulu Anne Fine
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Donor Helen Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett
The Memory of Love Aminatta Forna
The Blind Side Of The Heart Julia Franck
Freedom Jonathan Franzen 
Faithful Place Tana French
The Jewel of St Petersburg Kate Furnivall
The Russian Concubine Kate Furnivall
Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder
Notes From An Exhibition Patrick Gale
The Cellist Of Sarajevo Steven Galloway
There's an Egg in My Soup, and Other Adventures of an Irishman in Poland Tom Galvin
Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert
The Solitude of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano
Winterland Alan Glynn
When A Crocodile Eats The Sun Peter Godwin
Bad Science Ben Goldacre
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
The Pickup Nadine Gordimer
Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City Greg Grandin
Ravens George Dawes Green
The Beach House Jane Green
Brighton Rock Graham Greene
The End Of The Affair Graham Greene
The Ministry of Fear Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
The Quiet American Graham Greene
The Story of a Marriage Andrew Sean Greer
The White Queen Philippa Gregory
The Confession John Grisham
To the End of the Land David Grossman
The Good Son Michael Gruber
Ape House Sara Gruen
Water For Elephants Sara Gruen
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Xiaolu Guo
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time Mark Haddon
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
Soul Surfer, a Teenage Survival Story Bethany Hamilton
Speckled People Hugo Hamilton
A Room Swept White Sophie Hannah
Talk to the Headscarf Emma Hannigan
Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Tess Of The D’Ubervilles Thomas Hardy
The Fear Index Robert Harris
The Ghost Robert Harris
The Adulteress Noelle Harrison
Dona Nicanora’s Hat Shop Kirstan Hawkins
Round Ireland with a Fridge Tony Hawks
The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard
Race of a Lifetime John Heilemann
Settlement Christoph Hein
Notes on a Scandal Zoe Heller
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
Last Train From Liguria Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill
The Woman in Black Susan Hill
The Island Victoria Hislop
The Return Victoria Hislop
The Story Sisters Alice Hoffman
Rubicon Tom Holland
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst
1222 Anne Holt
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
The Wrong Kind Of Blood Declan Hughes
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains Of The Day Kazuo Ishiguro
When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro
The Friday Night Knitting Club Kate Jacobs
The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
The Pull of the Moon Diane Janes
The True Deceiver Tove Jansson
Grace and Truth Jennifer Johnston
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
The Outcast Sadie Jones
Dubliners (The Dead) James Joyce
Metropole Ferenc Karinthy
Zorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis
A Durable Fire Barbara Keating
In Borrowed Light Barbara Keating
Foster Claire Keegan
Walk the Blue Fields Claire Keegan
An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan
Homecoming Cathy Kelly
With My Lazy Eye Julia Kelly
Pigeon English Stephen Kelman
Temptation Douglas Kennedy
The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
The Calligrapher's Daughter Eugenia Kim
Full Dark, No Stars Stephen King
The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
Confessions of a Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic and Sister Sophie Kinsella
Goodnight, Beautiful Dorothy Koomson
My Best Friend's Girl Dorothy Koomson
The Woman He Loved Before Dorothy Koomson
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova
The History Of Love Nicole Krauss
Girl in Translation Jean Kwok
The Stonecutter Camilla Läckberg
Live Fire Stephen Leather
Rough Justice Stephen Leather

The Indian Clerk David Leavitt
The Piano Teacher Janice Lee
Mystic River Dennis Lehane
A Question of Belief Donna Leon
The Collaborator Margaret Leroy
The Cleft Doris Lessing
If This is Man Primo Levy
The Long Song Andrea Levy
Missing Susan Lewis
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
We Are All Made of Glue Marina Lewycka
The Vagrants Yiyun Li
King Death Toby Litt
Deaf Sentence David Lodge
The Governor John Lonergan
The Bancroft Strategy Robert Ludlum
Sister Rosamund Lupton
The Highest Tide Jim Lynch
The Irish Navvy Donall MacAmhlaigh
The House of Slamming Doors Mark MacAuley
The Bishop's Man Linden MacIntyre
Molly Fox’s Birthday Deirdre Madden
The Woman Who Waited Andrei Makine
The Troubled Man Henning Mankell
Death in Venice Thomas Mann
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An Object of Beauty Steve Martin
The Lighted Rooms Richard Mason
In The Country of Men Hisham Matar
Guy De Maupassant's Short Stories Guy De Maupassant 
The Glass Room Simon Mawer
The Book Club Kate McCabe
The Stray Sod Country  Patrick McCabe
Winterwood Patrick McCabe
Let The Great World Spin Colum McCann
This Side of Brightness Colum McCann
The Road Cormac McCarthy
The Reluctant Taoiseach, John A. Costello David McCullagh
An Expensive Education Nick McDonell
Amsterdam Ian McEwan
Atonement Ian McEwan
Enduring Love Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan
Solar Ian McEwan
Amongst Women John McGahern
Memoir John McGahern
Those Faraday Girls Monica McInerney
The Birth House Ami McKay
Under Fishbone Clouds James Meekings
Night Train To Lisbon Pascal Mercier
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee Rebecca Miller
The Senator’s Wife Sue Miller
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet David Mitchell
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
Lies Of Silence Brian Moore
February Lisa Moore
A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore
Dancing to the Precipice Caroline Moorehead
The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais
Natural Flights Of The Human Mind Clare Morrall
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Distant Hours Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton
The House At Riverton Kate Morton
The Long Fall Walter Mosley
The Winter Ghosts Kate Mosse
Runaway Alice Munro
The Love Of A Good Woman Alice Munro
The View from Castle Rock Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness Alice Munro
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
At Five in the Afternoon, My Battle with Male Cancer Michael Murphy
John The Revelator Peter Murphy
Skippy Dies Paul Murray
Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky
The Courilof Affair Irene Nemirovsky
The Redbreast Jo Nesbo
The Redeemer Jo Nesbo
The Snowman Jo Nesbo
Apartment 16 Adam Nevill
One Day David Nicholls
The Moon's a Balloon David Niven
The Four Courts Murder Andrew Nugent
In The Forest Edna O’Brien
The Hard Life, An Exegesis of Squalor Flann O'Brien
Ghost Light Joseph O’Connor
Redemption Falls Joseph O’Connor
If I Never See You Again Niamh O’Connor
The Priest Gerard O'Donovan
The Hand That First Held Mine Maggie O'Farrell
The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox Maggie O’Farrell
The News Where You Are Catherine O’Flynn
Netherland Joseph O’Neill
Little Bird of Heaven Joyce Carol Oates
Dreams From My Father Barack Obama
The Housekeeper and the Professor Yoko Ogawa
Animal Farm George Orwell
The Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk
The Truth Commissioner David Park
Baking Cakes In Kigali Gaile Parkin
Bruised Siobhán Parkinson
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Gypsy Lesley Pearse
The Tenderness Of Wolves Stef Penney
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
Keeping Faith Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
Picture Perfect Jodi Picoult
Plain Truth Jodi Picoult
Second Glance Jodi Picoult
The Tenth Circle Jodi Picoult
Strumpet City James Plunkett
True Grit Charles Portis
Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett
The Shipping News Annie Proulx
The Rescue Man Anthony Quinn
Exit Music Ian Rankin
In the Place of Justice Wilbert Rideau
Isabella Blow Martina Rink
Connie of Kettle Street Carol Rivers
Gilead Marilynne Robinson
Home Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
Nemesis Philip Roth
The Human Stain Philip Roth
The Interpretation of Murder Jed Rubenfeld
The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie
Bridge of Sighs Richard Russo
Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi
The Catcher In The Rye J.D. Salinger
Shane Jack Schaefer
The Reader Bernhard Schlink
The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer
Wilt Tom Sharpe
The Runners Fiachra Sheridan
Big Fat Love Peter Sheridan
Forty-Seven Roses, A Memoir Peter Sheridan
A Wedding In December Anita Shreve
Testimony Anita Shreve
A Change in Altitude Anita Shreve
So Much For That Lionel Shriver
We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver
Jasper Jones Craig Silvey
American Wife Curtis Sittenfield
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Charming Quirks of Others Alexander McCall Smith
Stalin's Ghost Martin Cruz Smith
Child 44 Tom Rob Smith
The Lotus Eaters Tatjana Soli
Sisters of Sinai Janet Soskice
Burying The Bones, Pearl Buck in China Hilary Spurling
My Name Was Judas C.K. Stead
The Art Of Racing In The Rain Garth Stein
Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck
According to Luke Gerard Stembridge
Unspoken Gerard Stembridge
The Help Kathryn Stockett
The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale
The Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann
Deadly Communion Frank Tallis
The Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan
The Night Before Christmas Alice Taylor
17 Martin Street Marilyn Taylor
The Swimmer Roma Tearne
Ghost Train To The Eastern Star Paul Theroux
Notes For The Next Time Eirin Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S Thompson
Walden Henry David Thoreau
Folly Alan Titchmarsh
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín
The Master Colm Tóibín
Charles Dickens, A Life Claire Tomalin
The Road Home Rose Tremain
Trespass Rose Tremain
A Bit On The Side William Trevor
Felicia's Journey William Trevor
Love And Summer William Trevor
The Story Of Lucy Gault William Trevor
The Warden Anthony Trollope
Second Honeymoon Joanna Trollope
The Other Family Joanna Trollope
This Is Where I Leave You Jonathan Tropper
The Slap Christos Tsiolkas
Back When We Were Grown Ups Anne Tyler
Digging to America Anne Tyler
Dinner at Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler
Ladder Of Years Anne Tyler
Noah’s Compass Anne Tyler
The Amateur Marriage Anne Tyler
The Lonely Polygamist Brady Udall
My Father's Tears and Other Stories John Updike
Away Jane Urquhart
Cutting For Stone Abraham Verghese
Rendezvous Esther Verhoef
Aphrodite's Hat Salley Vickers
The Other Side of You Sally Vickers
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls
The German Boy Tricia Wastvedt
Fingersmith Sarah Waters
The Little Stranger Sarah Waters
The Legacy Katherine Webb
Chalcot Crescent Fay Weldon
Journey of a Lifetime Alan Whicker
Mother Ireland Victoria White
The Picture Of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Cross and the Switchblade David Wilkerson
The Age of Miracles, Embracing the New Midlife Marianne Williamson
When God was a Rabbit Sarah Winman
Lottery Patricia Wood
Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell
After The Fire, A Still Small Voice Evie Wyld
The Ginger Tree Oswald Wynd
Momma and the Meaning of Life, Tales of Psychotherapy Irvin D Yalom
The Shack William P. Young
The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Prince of Mist Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
The Shadow Of The Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Post Office Girl Stefan Zweig

Most popular titles

In 2011 125 book clubs attached to Dublin City Libraries enjoyed and discussed 497 different books!

Most popular titles were the 2011 Dublin: One City One Book choice Ghost Light by Joseph O’Connor; Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann - the winner of the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

Most Popular Authors

Emma Donoghue, Roddy Doyle, Sebastian Faulks, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Barbara Kingsolver, Marina Lewycka, Ian McEwan, Colum McCann, Alice Munro, Irene Nemirovsky, Jodi Picoult, Anita Shreve, Alexander McCall Smith, Ann Tyler and Sarah Waters.