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The Immoralist by André Gide(22/2/2012
The Quiet American by Graham Greene (24/4/2012)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (16/5/2012)
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (29/5/2012)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (4/6/2012)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith(17/8/2012)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes(14/6/2012)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (10/11/2012)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn(1/12/2012)
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene(18/12/2012)
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble(27/12/2012)
48 + 12 = 60

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 5/4/2013
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 14/4/2013
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 28/5/2013
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 9/12/2013
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky 16/1/2014
The Gathering by Anne Enright 25/10/2014
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DÃaz 9/12/2014
60 + 8 = 68

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 20/4/2015
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee15/7/2015
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov28/8/2015
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 28/8/2015
Candide by Voltaire 25/9/2015
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 28/9/2015
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 20/12/2015
68 + 8 = 76

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 20/2/2016
Evelina by Fanny Burney 13/3/2016
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 2/4/2016
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 10/10/2016
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 17/10/2016
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 6/11/2016
76 + 7 = 83

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 9/3/2017
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 1/4/2017
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 3/5/2017
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 17/9/2017
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 29/9/2017
83 + 6 = 89

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 21/1/2018
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein2/9/2018
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 11/2/2018
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris & Mrs Harris Goes to New York by Paul Gallico 12/2/2018
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 23/9/2018
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard 18/12/2019
89 + 7 = 96

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 5/2/2021
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 15/4/2021
Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights by Anonymous 26/7/2021
Beloved by Toni Morrison8/7/2022
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 30/6/2022
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 25/8/2022
Dracula by Bram Stoker 17/12/2022
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 30/12/2022
96+ 9 = 105

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym 18/5/2023
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 21/5/2023 ....repeat read pre 2009
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez 25/5/2023
Silas Marner by George Eliot 29/5/2023
Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann 3/6/2023
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 8/6/2023 ....repeat read pre 2009
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka 17/6/2023 ....repeat read pre 2009
The Castle by Franz Kafka 25/6/2023
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 28/6/2023
Fathers and sons by Ivan Turgenev 29/6/2023
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 4/7/2023 .....repeat read
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 14/7/2023
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 17/7/2023
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 31/7/2023
Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương 20/9/2023
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 30/9/2023
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante 23/10/2023
Rabbit, Run by John Updike 28/10/2023
The Circle by Dave Eggers 2/11/2023
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene 8/11/2023
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow 4/12/2023
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 21/12/2023
Notes from the Undergroundby Fyodor Dostoevsky 28/12/2023
Regeneration by Pat Barker 29/12/2023
The Plumed Serpent by D.H. Lawrence 31/12/2023
105 + 26 = 131

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga 22/1/2024
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 26/1/2024
I'm Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti 28/1/2024
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 9/4/2024
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 15/5/2024 (reread)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 14/8/2024 (reread)
Rob Roy by Walter Scott 11/11/2024
* Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 20/11/2024 (reread)
* Animal Farm by George Orwell 22/11/2024 (reread)
1984 by George Orwell 26/11/2024 (reread)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 9/12/2024 (reread)
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh 15/12/2024
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse 22/12/2024 (reread)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 29/12/2024 (reread)
131+13= 142
* already counted in above lists

Rabbit Redux by John Updike 16/2/2025
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 2/3/2025
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 17/3/2025
142 + 4 =147
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe31/10/2009
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood 16/10/2009
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 25/10/2009
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 5/11/2009
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 20/11/2009
The Twins by Tessa de Loo 12/12/2009
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee19/11/2010
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 9/11/2009
*Animal Farm by George Orwell 3/11/2009
Unless: A Novel by Carol Shields 11/11/2002
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 6/12/2009
The Outsider aka The stranger by Albert Camus 6/2/2010
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson 5/3/2010
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud 14/5/2010
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 3/8/2010
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer19/7/2010
Sula by Toni Morrison 7/9/2010
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 19/8/2010
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 20/11/2010
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 3/1/2010
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 25/4/2010
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood15/9/2009
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice 25/8/2010
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid 4/11/2010
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang5/12/2010
Atonement by Ian McEwan 17/12/2010
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 2/1/2011
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 12/1/2011
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 13/1/2011
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 7/1/2011
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 22/1/2011
The Lover by Marguerite Duras 26/1/2011
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid 29/1/2011
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 20/3/2011
The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley27/2/2011
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 6/4/2011
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan 7/7/2011
The Secret History by Donna Tartt 6/5/2011
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 25/3/2011
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 17/72011
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 6/8/2011
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides23/8/2011
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 17/7/2010
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels 23/10/2011
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel 5/11/2011
The Middle Parts of Fortune aka Her private's we by Frederic Manning 10/11/2011
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell 12/3/2011
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