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Book Club Choices 2010

Refusal  Soazig Aaron
The House of the Mosque  Kadar Abdolah
Things Fall Apart  Chinua Achebe
The Outlander  Gil Adamson
Half of a Yellow Sun  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Tuesdays with Morrie  Mitch Albom
Infidel My Life  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In the Kitchen  Monica Ali
Daughter of Fortune  Isabel Allende
The Crossroads  Niccolo Ammaniti
A Woman in Berlin, Diary 20th April 1945 to 22nd June 1945  Anonymous
The Girl in a Blue Dress  Gaynor Arnold
The Wasted Vigil  Nadeem Aslam
Case Histories  Kate Atkinson
When Will There Be Good News?  Kate Atkinson
The Handmaid’s Tale  Margaret Atwood
Wilderness Tips  Margaret Atwood
Emma  Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey  Jane Austen
Invisible  Paul Auster
Man in the Dark  Paul Auster
The Twin  Gerbrand Bakker
Use of Weapons  Iain M. Banks
The Elegance of the Hedgehog  Muriel Barbery
No Time for Goodbye  Linwood Barclay
Life Class  Pat Barker
A Long Long Way  Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture  Sebastian Barry
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty  Sebastian Barry
I Predict a Riot  Colin Bateman
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly  Jean-Dominique Bauby
Arc  Stephen Baxter
Flood  Stephen Baxter
City of Thieves  David Benioff
The Uncommon Reader  Alan Bennett
The Ghost at the Table  Suzanne Berne
Journal  Helene Berr
Open-Handed  Chris Binchy
This Year it Will Be Different  Maeve Binchy
Christine Falls  Benjamin Black
The Silver Swan  Benjamin Black
Guernica, a Novel  Dave Boling
The Book of Fires  Jane Borodale
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas  John Boyne
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders  Oscar Brandreth
The Visitor  Maeve Brennan
The Demon’s Lexicon  Sarah Rees Brennan
A Whispered Name  William Broderick
Jane Eyre  Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights  Emily Bronte
People of the Book  Geraldine Brooks
History’s Daughter  Maire Macswiney Brugha
The Good Earth  Pearl S. Buck
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town Charles Bukowski
Born Under a Million Shadows  Andrea Busfield
The Children’s Book  A.S. Byatt
The Semantics of Murder  Aifric Campbell
All in the Mind  Alastair Campbell
The Various Flavours of Coffee Anthony Capella
Breakfast at Tiffany’s  Truman Capote
Ender’s Game  Orson Scott Card
His Illegal Self  Peter Carey
Oscar And Lucinda  Peter Carey
If This is Paradise, I Want My Money Back  Claudia Carroll
O Pioneers!  Willa Cather
The Song of the Lark  Willa Cather
The Rehearsal  Eleanor Catton
The Amazing Advenures of Kavalier & Clay  Michael Chaban
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon
Burning Bright  Tracy Chevalier
The Girl with a Pearl Earring  Tracy Chevalier
I Heard That Song Before Mary Higgins Clark
The Other Hand  Chris Cleave
The Cut of Love  Helena Close
The Woods  Harlan Coben
Disgrace  J.M. Coetzee
Slow Man  J.M. Coetzee
The Woman in White  Wilkie Collins
The Hat Shop on the Corner  Marita Conlon-Mckenna
Bad Men  John Connolly
The Black Angel  John Connolly
The Book of Lost Things  John Connolly
The Gum Thief  Douglas Coupland
It’s A Long Way from Penny Apples  Bill Cullen
The Conjuror’s Bird  Martin Davies
Alexandria  Lindsey Davis
Rebels and Traitors  Lindsey Davis
The Inheritance of Loss  Kiran Desai
A Blade of Grass  Lewis Desoto
Ship of Dreams Ship of Dreams Martina Devlin
The Brief Wonderour Life of Oscar Wao  Junot Diaz
The Man in the High Castle' Philip K. Dick
The Cricket on the Hearth  Charles Dickens
Life Mask  Emma Donoghue
Room, A Novel  Emma Donoghue
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits  Emma Donoghue
Touchy Subjects  Emma Donoghue
Julius Winsome  Gerard Donovan
The Pleasure Seekers  Tishani Doshi
What Would Ma Say? A Dublin Memoir  Kathleen Doyle
A Star Called Henry  Roddy Doyle
The Woman Who Walked into Doors Roddy Doyle
Friends Indeed  Rose Doyle
The Olive Farm  Carol Drinkwater
Jamaica Inn  Daphne Du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel  Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca  Daphne Du Maurier
In the Company of the Courtesan Sarah Dunant
Sacred Hearts  Sarah Dunant
In Zodiac Light  Robert Edric
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter  Kim Edwards
Zeitoun  Dave Eggers
American Tabloid  James Ellroy
Meltdown  Ben Elton
The Gathering  Anne Enright
Middlesex  Jeffrey Eugenides
One for The Money  Janet Evanovitch
Alone in Berlin  Hans Fallada
The Siege of Krishnapur  J.G. Farrell
A Week in December  Sebastian Faulks
Birdsong  Sebastian Faulks
Engleby  Sebastian Faulks
Past Imperfect  Julian Fellowes
The Eyre Affair  Jasper Fforde
Our Precious Lulu  Anne Fine
The Great Gatsby  F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary  Gustave Flaubert
The Last King of Scotland  Giles Foden
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close  Jonathan Safran Foer
The Quickening Maze  Adam Foulds
The Blind Side of the Heart  Julia Franck
The Diary of a Young Girl  Anne Frank
Man’s Search for Meaning  Viktor E. Frankl
Dear Fatty  Dawn French
The Christmas Mystery  Jostein Gaarder
Notes from an Exhibition  Patrick Gale
The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway
Blackout  Luiz Alfredo García-Roza
Old Filth  Jane Gardam
The Man in the Wooden Hat  Jane Gardam
Cranford  Elizabeth Gaskell
Waiting for the Evening New, Stories of the Deep South  Tim Gautreaux
Eat, Pray, Love  Elizabeth Gilbert
The Colour of Law  Mark Gimenez
The Perk  Mark Gimenez
Outliers, The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell
Winterland  Alan Glynn
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun  Peter Godwin
Intuition  Allegra Goodman
The Pickup  Nadine Gordimer
At Sea  Laurie Graham
Stamboul Train  Graham Greene
The End of the Affair  Graham Greene
The Quiet American  Graham Greene
The White Queen  Philippa Gregory
The Lieutenant  Kate Grenville
The Secret River  Kate Grenville
The Villa Triste  Lucretia Grindle
Marley & Me  John Grogan
Water for Elephants  Sara Gruen
Snow Falling on Cedars  David Guterson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night  Mark Haddon
De Niro’s Game  Rawi Hage
Writing on My Forehead  Nafisa Haji
The Reluctant Fundamentalist  Mohsin Hamid
Disguise  Hugo Hamilton
The Sailor in the Wardrobe  Hugo Hamilton
The Speckled People  Hugo Hamilton
The Camel Bookmobile  Marsha Hamilton
The Spy Game  Georgina Harding
Far from the Madding Crowd  Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure  Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Ubervilles  Thomas Hardy
Blackberry Wine  Joanne Harris
Pompeii  Robert Harris
The Ghost  Robert Harris
The Adulteress  Noelle Harrison
The Go-Between  L.P. Hartley
Dona Nicanora’s Hat Shop  Kirstan Hawkins
Settlement  Christoph Hein
Stranger in a Strange Land  Robert Heinlein
The Believers  Zoe Heller
For Whom the Bell Tolls  Ernest Hemingway
Last Train from Liguria  Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Friends of Eddie Coyle  George V. Higgins
The Book of Negroes  Laurence Hill
The Island  Victoria Hislop
The Return  Victoria Hislop
The Archivist’s Story  Travis Holland
A Thousand Splendid Suns  Khaled Hosseini
The Wrong Kind of Blood  Declan Hughes
Invention of Everything Else  Samantha Hunt
Wolf of the Plains  Conn Iggulden
Hypothermia  Arnaldur Indridason
Silence of the Grave  Arnaldur Indridason
Never Let Me Go  Kazuo Ishiguro
Nocturnes, Five Stories of Music and Nightfall  Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day  Kazuo Ishiguro
The Turn of the Screw  Henry James
A Good Land  Nada Jarrar
Truth or Fiction  Jennifer Johnston
Mister Pip  Lloyd Jones
Small Wars  Sadie Jones
Dubliners  James Joyce
Ulysses  James Joyce
The Birthday Party  Panos Karnezis
Let It Be Morning  Sayed Kashua
The Green Fool  Patrick Kavanagh
The Bodhran Makers  John. B Keane
To My Daughter in France  Barbara Keating
The Ladies Lending Library  Janice Kulyk Keefer
Walk the Blue Fields  Claire Keegan
With My Lazy Eye  Julia Kelly
The People’s Train  Thomas Keneally
What Becomes  A.L. Kennedy
State of the Union  Douglas Kennedy
Temptation  Douglas Kennedy
Ellis Island  Kate Kerrigan
This Charming Man  Marian Keyes
Ulysses & Us, the Art of Everyday Living  Declan Kiberd
The Secret Life of Bees  Sue Monk Kidd
All Names Have Been Changed  Claire Kilroy
Tenderwire  Claire Kilroy
The Calligrapher’s Daughter  Eugina Kim
Under the Dome  Stephen King
Leaving Ardglass  William King

Prodigal Summer  Barbara Kingsolver
The Lacuna  Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
 Barbara Kingsolver
Kim  Rudyard Kipling
English Passengers  Matthew Kneale
The Historian  Elizabeth Kostova
The Swan Thieves  Elizabeth Kostova
Into the Wild  Jon Krakauer
The History of Love
 Nicole Krauss
The Girls  Lori Lansens
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet  Reif Larsen
The Girl Who Played with Fire  Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  Stieg Larsson
Lady Chatterley’s Lover  D.H. Lawrence
The Other Side Of The Bridge  Mary Lawson
A Most Wanted Man  John Le Carre
The Indian Clerk  David Leavitt
To Kill a Mocking Bird  Harper Lee
Shutter Island  Dennis Lehane
Rupture  Simon Lelic
Wilful Behaviour  Donna Leon
The Blue Notebook  James Levine
Small Island  Andrea Levy
A Grief Observed  C.S. Lewis
Liar’s Poker  Michael Lewis
A Short History Of Tractors In The Ukrainian  Marina Lewycka
Two Caravans  Marina Lewycka
We Are All Made of Glue  Marina Lewycka
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter And Jam  Lauren Liebenberg
Turn Left At Greenland, In Search of the Real America  Mark Little
Deaf Sentence  David Lodge
Rain On The Wind  Walter Macken
The Scorching Wind  Walter Macken
Lifelines  Niall Macmonagle
Molly Fox’s Birthday  Deirdre Madden
Goodnight Mister Tom  Michelle Magorian
Not Without My Daughter  Betty Mahmoody
Company of Liars  Karen Maitland
Human Love  Andrei Makine
Le Testament Francais  Andrei Makine
The Woman Who Waited  Andrei Makine
Faceless Killers  Henning Mankell
Beyond Black  Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall  Hilary Mantel
No Job for a Woman  Sandra Mara
Embers  Sándor Márai
Love in the Time of Cholera  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Lighted Rooms  Richard Mason
Of Human Bondage  William Somerset Maugham
The Painted Veil  William Somerset Maugham
The Glass Room  Simon Mawer
The Holy City  Patrick McCabe
Winterwood  Patrick McCabe
Dancer  Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin  Colum McCann
Zoli  Colum McCann
The Road  Cormac McCarthy
Atonement  Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach  Ian McEwan
Saturday  Ian McEwan
Solar  Ian McEwan
Amongst Women  John McGahern
The Rising  Brian McGilloway
A Kingdom for the Brave  Tamara McKinley
The Rose of Sebastopol  Katharine McMahon
The People’s Act of Love  James Meek
Moby Dick  Herman Melville
Night Train to Lisbon  Pascal Mercier
The Emperor’s Children  Claire Messud
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee  Rebecca Miller
The Senator’s Wife  Sue Miller
The Savage Garden  Mark Mills
Black Swan Green  David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas  David Mitchell
Highland Fling  Nancy Mitford
The Affair  Santa Montefiore
Anne of Avonlea  L.M. Montgomery
Lies of Silence  Brian Moore
The Statement  Brian Moore
February  Lisa Moore
Natural Flights of the Human Mind Clare Morrall
Things My Mother Never Told Me  Blake Morrison
A Mercy  Toni Morrison
Three Cups Of Tea  Greg Mortenson
The Forgotten Garden  Kate Morton
The House at Riverton  Kate Morton
The Winter Ghosts  Kate Mosse
The Land Of Green Plums  Herta Muller
Drive Like a Woman, Shop Like a Man, Greener Is Cheaper  Mary Mulvihill
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship Loveship Marriage  Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman  Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness  Alice Munro
Skippy Dies  Paul Murray
The Lost Child a True Story  Julie Myerson
Garden of the Dead  Andrew Neiderman
All Our Worldly Goods  Irene Nemirovsky
David Golder  Irene Nemirovsky
Fire In the Blood  Irene Nemirovsky
Le Bal  Irene Nemirovsky
Suite Francaise  Irene Nemirovsky
The Dogs and the Wolves  Irene Nemirovsky
The Redbreast  Jo Nesbo
James Connolly a Full Life  Donal Nevin
One Day  David Nicholls
Ways To Live Forever  Sally Nicholls
Her Fearful Symmetry  Audrey Niffenegger
Bridge Across My Sorrows  Christina Noble
Girl With Green Eyes  Edna O’Brien
In the Forest  Edna O’Brien
The Ante-Room  Kate O’Brien
Ghost Light  Joseph O’Connor
Redemption Falls  Joseph O’Connor
The Irish Male – His Greatest Hits Joseph O’Connor
Adam Gould  Julia O’Faolain
Are You Somebody?  Nuala O’Faolain
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox  Maggie O’Farrell
What Was Lost  Catherine O’Flynn
Netherland  Joseph O’Neill
The CEO of the Sofa  P.J. O’Rourke
The Gravedigger’s Daughter  Joyce Carol Oates
Dreams from My Father  Barack Obama
Divisadero  Michael Ondaatje
Good Evening Mrs Craven  Mollie Panter-Downes
The Last Station The Last Station  Jay Parini
The Truth Commissioner  David Park
Baking Cakes In Kigali  Gaile Parkin
The Hourglass  Julie Parsons
Run  Ann Patchett
Cry, The Beloved Country  Alan Paton
Judge & Jury  James Patterson
Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps  Barbara Pease
Drama City  George Pelecanos
The Tenderness of Wolves  Stef Penney
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
Horseshoes and Holy Water  Mefo Phillips
House Rules  Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper  Jodi Picoult
Picture Perfect  Jodi Picoult
Second Glance  Jodi Picoult
Bad Day in Black Rock  Kevin Power
Lush Life  Richard Price
Goldengrove  Francine Prose
Excellent Women  Barbara Pym
God’s Own Country  Ross Raisin
The Crying Tree  Naseem Rakha
Serena  Ron Rash
House Of Suns  Alastair Reynolds
Barney’s Version  Mordecai Richler
Sea Swept  Nora Roberts
Home  Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping  Marilynne Robinson
Living Next-Door to the God of Love Justina Robson
The Human Stain  Philip Roth
An Anthropologist on Mars, Seven Paradoxical Tales  Oliver Sacks
The Catcher in the Rye  J.D. Salinger
Revelation  C.J. Sansom
Winter in Madrid  C.J. Sansom
Persepolis  Marjane Satrapi
Shane  Jack Schaefer
The Reader  Bernhard Schlink
The Almost Moon  Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones  Alice Sebold
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan  Lisa See
The Thirteenth Tale  Diane Setterfield
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  Mary Ann Shaffer
Frankenstein  Mary Shelley
The Runners  Fiachra Sheridan
A Wedding in December  Anita Shreve
Testimony  Anita Shreve
The Last Time They Met  Anita Shreve
We Need to Talk About Kevin  Lionel Shriver
Ancestor  Scott Sigler
The Corner David Simon
Animal’s People  Indra Sinha
The American Wife  Curtis Sittenfield
Toast, The Story of a Boy’s Hunger Nigel Slater
Ice Road  Gillian Slovo
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept  Elizabeth Smart
Corduroy Mansions  Alexander McCall Smith
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built Alexander McCall Smith
Unbearable Lightness Of Scones Alexander McCall Smith
Changing My Mind, Occasional Essays Zadie Smith
Breakneck  Erica Spindler
Revenge  Mary Stanley
My Name Was Judas  C.K. Stead
The Art of Racing in the Rain  Garth Stein
Of Mice and Men  John Steinbeck
The Help  Kathryn Stockett
Dracula  Bram Stoker
A Perfect Waiter  Alain Claude Sulzer
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher  Kate Summerscale
Perfume  Patrick Suskind
Slumdog Millionaire  Vikas Swarup
Some Prefer Nettles  Junichiro Tanizaki
17 Martin Street  Marilyn Taylor
An Irish Country Doctor  Patrick Taylor
My Father’s Places  Aeronwy Thomas
Man Gone Down  Michael Thomas
Brooklyn  Colm Tóibín
Homage To Barcelona  Colm Tóibín
War And Peace Leo Tolstoy
A Fraction of the Whole Steve Toltz
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen  Paul Torday
The Colour  Rose Tremain
The Road Home  Rose Tremain
Trespass  Rose Tremain
Love and Summer  William Trevor
The Story of Lucy Gault  William Trevor
Second Honeymoon  Joanna Trollope
This Is Where I Leave You  Jonathan Tropper
The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn  Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  Mark Twain
Back When We Were Grown Ups  Ann Tyler
Ladder of Years  Ann Tyler
Noah’s Compass  Ann Tyler
Digging to America  Ann Tyler
Rabbit, Run  John Updike
Beyond Suspicion  Tanguy Veil
Miss Garnet’s Angel  Salley Vickers
Lean on Pete  Willy Vlautin
Slaughterhouse 5  Kurt Vonnegut
The Glass Castle  Jeanette Walls
The Curious Case of the Mayo Librarian Pat Walsh
That’s Another Story, The Autobiography  Julie Walters
Fingersmith  Sarah Waters
Night Watch  Sarah Waters
The Little Stranger  Sarah Waters
Brideshead Revisited  Evelyn Waugh
Chalcot Crescent  Fay Weldon
The Invisible Man  H.G. Wells
The Picture of Dorian Gray  Oscar Wilde
Lottery  Patricia Wood
Beyond Nab End  William Woodruff
The Day of the Triffids  John Wyndham
Sky Burial  Xue Xinran
Revolutionary Road  Richard Yates
The Angel’s Game  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

Most popular titles were the 2010 Dublin: One City One Book choice The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker - the winner of the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín.

In the year that Dublin was designated a UNESCO City of Literature it is fitting that 43 Dublin authors featured on the reading list including authors such as Emma Donoghue who was shorted listed for the Man Booker Prize 2010 and Joseph O’Connor whose book Ghost Light has been chosen for Dublin: One City, One Book 2011. Paul Murray who has been short listed for the Costa Award 2010 also featured on this illustrious list.

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.