Books Read 2013

eBooks are in italics

January 2013

1. Garden of Stones by Sophie Littlefield
2. Kiss River by Diane Chamberlain
3. The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown
4. Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah
5. The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
6. 50 Shades of Grey Matter by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
7. In 5 Easy Steps by Lum Kit-Wye
8. Everything Changes But You by Maggie Alderson
9. The Life and Times of Call the Midwife: The Official Companion to Series One and Two by Heidi Thomas
10. Get Well Soon! My (un)brilliant Career as a Nurse by Kristy Chambers
11. Fifty Bales of Hay by Rachael Treasure
12. The Girl in the Hard Hat by Loretta Hill

February 2013

1. One Little White Lie by Loretta Hill
2. Winter of the World by Ken Follett
3. Happyslapped by a Jellyfish by Karl Pilkington
4. Just Breathe by Janette Paul
5. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
6. Lifesaving for Beginners by Ciara Geraghty (Readalong, Week 1)
7. Lifesaving for Beginners by Ciara Geraghty (Readalong, Week 2)
8. Lifesaving for Beginners by Ciara Geraghty (Readalong, Week 3)
9. Beneath Outback Skies by Alissa Callen
10. Grace Grows by Shelle Sumners
11. A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
12. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

March 2013

1. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
2. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
3. The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata
4. The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots by Loretta Hill
5. Hope’s Road by Margareta Osborn
6. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
7. Big Ray by Michael Kimball
8. The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
9. Run to Me by Diane Hester
10. The Vogue Factor by Kirstie Clements
11. The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan
12. Don’t Let Me Go by Susan Lewis

April 2013

1. Behind the Sun by Deborah Challinor
2. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
3. Penelope by Rebecca Harrington
4. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
5. Saving Grace by Fiona McCallum
6. Ruby Blues by Jessica Rudd
7. The Railwayman’s Wife by Ashley Hay
8. Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
9. The Storyteller’s Daughter by Maria Goodin
10. Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

May 2013

1. Little Known Facts by Christine Sneed
2. The Rules of Conception by Angela Lawrence
3. The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
4. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
5. Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
6. The Girl Below by Bianca Zander
7. The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
8. The Gunners of Shenyang by Jihui Yu
9. Z : A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
10. My Notorious Life by Madame X by Kate Manning
11. Austenland by Shannon Hale

June 2013

1. Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
2. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
3. Mimi by Lucy Ellmann
4. The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
5. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
6. The Observations by Jane Harris
7. 11.22.63 by Stephen King
8. Quiet by Susan Cain
9. Burned by Persephone Nicholas
10. The Midwife’s Here! by Linda Fairley

July 2013

1. A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
2. The Harem by Safia Fazlul
3. Too Hot to Handle by Victoria Dahl
4. Saturday Night Widows by Becky Aikman
5. Anybody But Him by Claire Baxter
6. The Dinner by Herman Koch
7. The Love Deception by Jennifer St George
8. The Yearning by Kate Belle
9. Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
10. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
11. London Under by Peter Ackroyd
12. Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
13. Currawong Creek by Jennifer Scoullar

August 2013

1. Longbourn by Jo Baker
2. Ravenous by Eden Summers
3. The Inevitability of Stars by Kathryn R. Lyster
4. Ask Me For More by Elise K. Ackers
5. Man Vs Child by Dominic Knight
6. Rescuing Dawn by Nicole Flockton
7. E for England by Elisabeth Rose
8. The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
9. What Tears Us Apart by Deborah Cloyed
10. Underland by Ed Chatterton
11. The World Was All Before Them by Matthew Reynolds

September 2013

1. A Girl Like You by Maureen Lindley
2. The Returned by Jason Mott
3. I Dream of Johnny by Juliet Madison
4. Playing By the Rules by Imelda Evans
5. Constance by Patrick McGrath
6. These Wonderful Rumours! by May Smith
7. Mr Wigg by Inga Simpson
8. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
9. Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann

October 2013

1. Outback Dreams by Rachael Johns
2. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
3. Nobody But Him by Victoria Purman
4. Sketcher by Roland Watson-Grant
5. Starstruck in Seattle by Juliet Madison
6. Eyrie by Tim Winton
7. Spotlight on Love by L. J. Young
8. Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
9. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
10. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
11. Murder and Mendelssohn by Kerry Greenwood

November 2013

1. It’s Love, Dude by Jenny Schwartz
2. Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois
3. Driftwood by Mandy Magro
4. Ask Me For Tomorrow by Elise K. Ackers
5. Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
6. Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels by Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan
7. The Man Plan by Elise K. Ackers
8. Christmas at the Gingerbread Café by Rebecca Raisin
9. Solo by William Boyd
10. Confessions of a Wild Child by Jackie Collins

December 2013

1. The Kissing Season by Rachael Johns
2. Dr No Commitment by Virginia Taylor
3. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
4. Melting the Snow on Hester Street by Daisy Waugh
5. Stranger by Megan Hart
6. My Brother-But-One by T.M. Clark
7. Right as Rain by Tricia Stringer
8. Catch of the Day by Carla Caruso
9. The Moaning of Life by Karl Pilkington
10. Murder in Mississippi by John Safran