Books Read 2012

* Italics denote ebooks *

January 2012

1. An Idiot Abroad by Karl Pilkington
2. Pop Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones & Anonymous
3. The Group by Mary McCarthy
4. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
5. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
6. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot
8. The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
9. The Doctor Will See You Now by Max Pemberton
10. The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
11. I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington
12. The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook by Fred Bronson
13. The Freudian Slip by Marion Von Adlerstein

February 2012

1. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
2. The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
3. Burley Cross Postbox Theft by Nicola Barker
4. The Dancing Years (Morland Dynasty #33) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
5. Burqalicious by Becky Wicks

 March 2012

1. Dark Mirror by Barry Maitland
2. Between the Lines by Jason Donovan
3. A Top Gear Christmas by Top Gear
4. Scandalous by Tilly Bagshawe
5. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
6. The Red Thread by Dawn Farnham
7. I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
8. Top Gear: The Official Annual 2012 by Top Gear
9. The Point of Rescue by Sophie Hannah

 April 2012

1. The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
2. Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
3. The Debutante by Kathleen Tessaro
4. Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
5. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

May 2012

1. Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984-2007 by Marc Andrews, Claire Issac & David Nichols
2. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

June 2012

1. Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
2. The Gallows Bird by Camilla Lackberg
3. Mad Men Unbuttoned by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
4. I Am an Executioner: Love Stories by Rajesh Parameswaran
5. The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa
8. Abdication by Juliet Nicolson

July 2012

1. Bossypants by Tina Fey
2. Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May
3.  The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari
4. All That I Am by Anna Funder – Part 1 
5. All That I Am by Anna Funder – Part 2
6. All That I Am by Anna Funder – Part 3 
7. The Prisoner of Paradise by Romesh Gunesekera

August 2012

1. Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding
2. Original Sin by Tasmina Perry
3. The Scent of Lemon Leaves by Clara Sanchez
4. Alison Wonderland by Helen Smith 
5. A Deeper Darkness by J.T. Ellison
6. The Unfinished Journals of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier – Readalong, Week 1
7. The Unfinished Journals of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier – Readalong, Week 2
8. The Unfinished Journals of Elizabeth D by Nichole Bernier – Readalong, Week 3
9. Do No Harm by Carol Topolski
10. A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

September 2012

1. The Harbour by Francesca Brill
2. Goodbye Lullaby by Jan Murray
3. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
4. The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber
5. Ada’s Rules by Alice Randall
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
7. The Geneva Trap by Stella Rimington
8. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James

October 2012

1. Netherwood by Jane Sanderson
2. Better Than Chocolate by Sheila Roberts
3. The Casual Vacancy by J K Rowling
4. Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
5. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
6. Heaven Should Fall by Rebecca Coleman
7. In Stitches by Dr Nick Edwards

November 2012

1. Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser
2. Elza’s Kitchen by Marc Fitten
3. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
4. Beautiful Chickens by Christie Aschwanden
5. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
6. Wilderness by Lance Weller
7. Shadow of the Rock by Thomas Mogford
8. Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl
9. The Prodigal Son by Colleen McCullough

December 2012

1. Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson
2. The Dissection of Murder by Felicity Young
3. Balilicious by Becky Wicks
4. In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl
5. I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
6. Blood Line by Lynda La Plante
7. Underground London by Stephen Smith
8. Mrs Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
9. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
10. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey