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