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Reading Group Choices 2008

Abani, Chris  Graceland
Abdel – Fattah, Randa  Does My Head Look Big in This?
Adega, Aravind  The White Tiger
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi  Half of a Yellow Sun
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi  Purple Hibiscus
Albom, Mitch  For One More Day
Albom, Mitch  The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Albom, Mitch  Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson
Allende, Isabel  Daughter of Fortune
AllendeI, Isabel  Portrait in Sepia
Amirrezvani, Anita  The Blood of Flowers
Anonymous Woman in Berlin – Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945
Aslam, Nadeem Maps for Lost Lovers
Atkinson, Kate,  One Good Turn
Atwood, Margaret  Moral Disorder
Atwood, Margaret  The Blind Assassin
Augustus, Patrick  Don’t Make Me Laugh
Austen, Jane Emma
Austen, Jane Persuasion
Banville, John  The Sea
Banville, John  The Untouchable
Barker, Pat Life Class
Barnes, Julian  Arthur And George
Barry, Sebastian  A Long Long Way
Barry, Sebastian  The Secret Scripture
Bennett,Alan The Uncommon Reader
Bennett, Ronan  Havoc in its Third Year
Bennett, Ronan The Catastrophist
Bin Laden, Carmel  The Veiled Kingdom
Bird, Charlie  This is Charlie Bird
Black, Benjamin  Christine Falls
Black, Benjamin  The Silver Swan
Bowen, Elizabeth  Last September
Boyne, John  Mutiny on the Bounty
Boyne, John  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Bragg, Melvyn  Remember Me
Broderick, William  The Sixth Lamentation
Bronte, Charlotte  Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily  Wuthering Heights
Burke, James Lee  The Tin Roof Blown Down
Capella, Anthony  The Food of Love
Capote, Truman  In Cold Blood
Cercas, Javier  The Speed of Light
Chang, Jung  Wild Swans
Chevalier, Tracy  Girl with a Pearl Earring
Chevalier, Tracy  The Lady and the Unicorn
Clark, Mary Higgins  I Heard that Song Before
Cleverly, Barbara  The Last Kashmiri Rose
Clinton, Hillary Rodham  Living History
Coben, Harlan  The Woods
Coetzee, J.M.  Disgrace
Cole, Martina  Faceless
Coleman, Rowan  The Accidental Mother
Conlon, McKenna Marita  The Hat Shop on the Corner
Connelly, Michael  Chasing the Dime
Considine, June  Deceptions
Considine, June  When the Bough Breaks
Cross, Eric  The Tailor and Ansty
Davies, Martin  The Conjuror’s Bird
Davies, Peter Ho  The Welsh Girl
De Foe, Daniel  Robinson Crusoe
De Lillo, Don  Falling Man
Desai, Kiran  The Inheritance of Loss
Dibdin, Michael  Back to Bologna
Dick, Philip K  A Scanner Darkly
Dick Philip K.  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dickens, Charles  A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles  Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles  The Old Curiosity Shop
Didion, Joan  The Year of Magical Thinking
Doig, Ivan  The Whistling Season
Du Maurier, Daphne  Frenchman’s Creek
Du Maurier, Daphne  My Cousin Rachel
Du Maurier, Daphne  Rebecca
Dunant, Sarah  In The Company of the Courtesan
Dunmore, Helen  House of Orphans
Dunne, Catherine  A Name for Himself
Dunne, Catherine  Something Like Love
Durcan, Paul  Poetry of Paul Durcan
Dyson, Jeremy  What Happens Now
Considine, (ed) Ciara Moments: Irish Women Writers in Aid of the Tsunami Victims
Edwards, Kim  The Memory Keepers Daughter
Eggers, Dave What Is the What, The Autobiography Of Valentino Achak Deng
Eliot, George  Silas Marner
Ellis, Julie  A Woman for All Seasons
Ellory, R.J.  A Quiet Belief in Angels
Enright, Anne  The Gathering
Eugenides, Jeffrey  Middlesex
Evans, Nicholas  The Smoke Jumper
Faulks, Sebastian  Birdsong
Faulks, Sebastian  Engleby
Faulks, Sebastian  Human Traces
Faulks, Sebastian  On Green Dolphin Street
Fitzgerald, F. Scott  The Great Gatsby
Flagg, Fannie  A Redbird Christmas
Flaubert, Gustave  Madame Bovary
Foer, Jonathan Safran  Everything Is Illuminated
Foer, Jonathan Safran  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Fraser, Antonia  Marie Antoinette
Frazier, Charles  Thirteen Moons
French, Tana  In the Woods
Furnivall, Kate  The Russian Concubine
Gale, Patrick  Notes from an Exhibition
Gallagher, Bryan  Barefoot in Mullyneeny
Gerritsen, Tess  Vanish
Ghosh, Amitav  The Glass Palace
Gibbons, Stella  Cold Comfort Farm
Gilmour, David  The Film Club, a Dad, His Son and the Education He Couldn’t Refuse
Gimenez, Mark  The Colour of Law
Godwin, Peter  When a Crocodile Eats The Sun
Gooneratne, Yasmine  The Sweet and Simple Kind
Gowdy, Barbara  Helpless
Greene, Graham  The End of the Affair
Greene, Niamh  Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife
Greer, Andrew Sean  The Confessions Of Max Tivoli
Gregory, Philippa  The Little House
Grimbert, Philipe  Secret
Gruen, Sandra  Water for Elephants
Guterson, David  East of the Mountains
Haddon, Mark  A Spot of Bother
Haddon, Mark  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hage, Rawi  De Niro’s Game
Hagi, Ursula  Stones from the River
Hamid, Moshin  The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamilton, Hugo  Disguise
Hamilton, Hugo  The Sailor in the Wardrobe
Hamilton, Hugo  The Speckled People
Hardy, Thomas  Far from the Madding Crowd
Harris, Jane  The Observations
Harris, Joanne  Blackberry Wine
Harris, Joanne  Chocolat
Harris, Joanne  Gentlemen and Players
Harris, Joanne  The Lollipop Shoes
Hart, John  Down River
Hawksley, Lucinda  Katey, the Life and Loves of Dicken’s Artist Daughter
Heller, Zoe  Notes on a Scandal
Highsmith, Patricia  The Talented Mr Ripley
Hislop, Victoria  The Island
Hobbs, Peter  The Short Day Dying
Hoffman, Alice  The Ice Queen
Holland, Travis  The Archivist’s Story
Hornby, Nick  A Long Way Down
Hosseini, Khaled  A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hosseini, Khaled  The Kite Runner
Hyde, Elisabeth  The Abortionist’s Daughter
Hyland, M.J.  Carry Me Down
Ishiguro, Kazuo  Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo  The Remains of the Day
James, P.D  The Lighthouse
Jelloun, Tahar Ben  The Last Friend
Johnson, Jennifer  Foolish Mortals
Johnston, Jennifer  How Many Miles to Babylon?
Johnston, Jennifer  Two Moons
Jones, Gail  Dreams of Speaking
Jones, Lloyd  Mister Pip
Jones, Sadie  The Outcast
Joyce, James  Dubliners
Kavanagh, Linda  Time after Time
Kavanagh, Patrick  Tarry Flynn
Keane, Molly  Time after Time
Keating, Barbara  To My Daughter in France
Kelly, Julia  With My Lazy Eye
Kennedy, Douglas  A Special Relationship
Kennedy, Douglas  The Pursuit Of Happiness
Keyes, Marian  This Charming Man
Khadra, Yasmina  The Attack
Kidd, Sue Monk  The Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver, Barbara  Prodigal Summer
Kingsolver, Barbara  The Poisonwood Bible
Krauss, Nicole  The History of Love
Kureishi, Hanif  Gabriel’s Gift
Lamb, Wally  I Know This Much Is True
Landy, Derek  Skulduggery Pleasant
Lansens, Lori  The Girls
Lawrence, D.H.  Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Lawson, Mary  Crow Lake
Lawson, Mary  The Other Side of the Bridge
Lee, Harper  To Kill a Mocking Bird
Lee, Maureen  September Girls

Lennox, Judith  Before the Storm
Leonard, Hugh  Home before Night
Levy, Andrea  A Small Island
MacLeod, Alastair  No Great Mischief
Makine, Andrei  The Woman Who Waited
Malone, Martin  The Silence of the Glasshouse
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia  Love in the Time of Cholera
Martel, Yann  Life of Pi
Mason, Daniel  The Piano Tuner
Maugham, Somerset  The Painted Veil
McCabe, Patrick  Winterwood
McCall, Smith Alexander  Kalahari Typing School for Men
McCall, Smith Alexander  No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
McCall, Smith Alexander  Tears of The Giraffe
McCall, Smith Alexander  The Sunday Philosophy Club
McCall, Smith Alexander  The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
McCann, Colum  This Side of Brightness
McCann, Colum  Zoli
McCarthy, Cormac  All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, Justine  Mary McAleese, The Outsider
McCrea, Barry  The First Verse
McDowall, Iain  Cut Her Dead
McEwan, Ian  Amsterdam
McEwan, Ian  Atonement
McEwan, Ian  On Chesil Beach
McEwan, Ian  Saturday
McGahern, John  Amongst Women
McGahern, John  That They May Face the Rising Sun
McGahern, John  The Dark
McGilloway, Brian  Borderlands
McGrath, Paul  Back From the Brink
McGregor, Jon  If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
McLeod, Alistair  No Great Mischief
McLynn, Pauline  Better Than a Rest
McMahon, Katherine The Rose of Sebastopol
Miller, Arthur  Death of a Salesman
Miller, Rebecca  The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Miller, Sue  The Senator’s Wife
Mills, Mark  The Savage Garden
Mistry, Rohinton  A Fine Balance
Mitchell, David  Black Swan Green
Mitchell, David  Cloud Atlas
Moggach, Deborah  In the Dark
Moggach, Deborah  Tulip Fever
Moore, Brian  The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Morrall, Clare  Natural Flights of the Human Mind
Morrison, Blake  And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Morrison, Toni  Beloved
Mortimer, John  Murders and Other Friends, Another Part of Life
Morton, Kate  The Forgotten Garden
Morton, Kate  The House At Riverton
Mosse, Kate  Labyrinth
Munro, Alice  Runaway
Murray, Jenni  Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter
Nafisi, Azar  Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nemirovsky, Irene  David Golder
Nemirovsky, Irene  Le Bal
Nemirovsky, Irene  Suite Francaise
Niffenegger, Audrey  The Time Traveller’s Wife
Notaro, Anita  Take a Look at Me Now
Nugent, Andrew  The Four Courts Murder
O’Brien, Edna  Down by the River
O’Brien, Edna  In the Forest
O’Brien, Kate  Without My Cloak
O’Brien, Máire Cruise  The Same Age as the State
O’Callaghan, Mary Rose Billy Come Home
O’Connor, Frank  My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories
O’Connor, Joseph  Redemption Falls
O’Connor, Joseph  Star of the Sea
O’Faolain, Nuala  Are You Somebody?
O’Faolain, Nuala  The Story of Chicago May
O’Farrell, Maggie  The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Obama, Barack  Dreams from My Father – A Story of Race and Inheritance
Olsson, Linda  Astrid & Veronica
Ondaatje, Michael  The English Patient
Pamuk, Orhan  My Name is Red
Parks, Tim  Rapids
Parsons, Julie  The Hourglass
Patchett, Ann  Bel Canto
Patchett, Ann  Run
Paton, Alan  Cry, The Beloved Country
Pearse, Lesley  A Lesser Evil
Pearson, Allison  I Don’t Know How She Does It
Peet, Mal  Keeper
Peju, Pierre  The Girl from the Chartreuse
Penman, Sharon  Here Be Dragons
Penney, Stef  The Tenderness of Wolves
Petterson, Per  Out Stealing Horses
Picoult, Jodi  Keeping Faith
Picoult, Jodi  Perfect Match
Picoult, Jodi  Second Glance
Picoult, Jodi  My Sister’s Keeper
Pilcher, Rosamund  Winter Solstice
Poitier, Sidney  The Measure of a Man
Proust, Marcel  Swann’s Way
Quirke, Antonia Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Stranger
Regan, Linda Behind You
Reichl, Ruth  Garlic and Sapphires
Reilly, Martina  The Summer Of Secrets
Rhys, Jean  Wide Sargasso Sea
Richards, Emilie  Wedding Ring
Rivas, Manuel  The Carpenter’s Pencil
Rock, Dickie  Always Me
Roth, Philip  Everyman
Roth, Philip  The Human Stain
Roth, Philip  The Plot Against America
Roy, Arundhati  The God of Small Things
Rubenfeld, Jed  The Interpretation of Murder
Rushdie, Salman  Shalimar the Clown
Sansom, C.J.  Winter in Madrid
Schlink, Bernhard  The Reader
Schneider, Helga  Let Me Go
Sebold, Alice  The Almost Moon
Sebold, Alice  The Lovely Bones
Seierstad, Asne  The Bookseller of Kabul
Seiffert, Rachel  The Dark Room
Setterfield, Diane  The Thirteenth Tale
Shields, Carol  Jane Austen
Shields, Carol  The Stone Diaries
Shreve, Anita  A Wedding in December
Shreve, Anita  Body Surfing
Shreve, Anita  Resistance
Shriver, Lionel  We Need To Talk About Kevin
Sivanandan, A.  When Memory Dies
Smith, Ali  The Accidental
Smith, Zadie  White Teeth
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander  One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
Somerville, Edith  The Real Charlotte
St. Aubyn, Edward  Mother’s Milk
Standage, Tom  A History of the World in Six Glasses
Steinbeck, John  Of Mice and Men
Steinbeck, John  The Grapes Of Wrath
Summerscale, Kate  The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher
Swarup, Vikas  Q and A
Swift, Jonathan  Gulliver’s Travels
Szabo, Magda  The Door
Tan, Amy  The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Taylor, Andrew  The Four Last Things
Thompson, Kate  Creature of the Night
Tóibín, Colm  Mothers and Sons
Topolski, Carol  Monster Love
Torday, Paul  Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Townsend, Sue  Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾
Traynor, Desmond  The Myth of Exile and Return
Tremain, Rose  The Darkness of Wallis Simpson and other Stories
Tremain, Rose  The Road Home
Trevor, William  A Bit on the Side
Trevor, William  The Story of Lucy Gault
Trollope, Joanne  Second Honeymoon
Tropper, Jonathan  Bush Falls
Tropper, Jonathan  How to Talk to a Widower
Tyler, Anne  A Patchwork Planet
Tyler, Anne  Digging to America
Umrigar, Thrity  The Space between Us
Vickers, Salley  The Other Side of You
Vincenczi, Penny  Almost a Crime
Von Armin, Elizabeth  Enchanted April
Ward, Amanda Eyre  How to Be Lost
Waters, Sarah  Fingersmith
Waugh, Evelyn  Brideshead Revisited
Wells, Rebecca  The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Wharton, Edith  The Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith  The House of Mirth
Wharton, Thomas  The Logogryph
Wiesel, Elie  Night
Yates, Richard  Revolutionary Road
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz  The Shadow of the Wind
Zusak, Marcus  The Book Thief

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