Possible Books for Next Year

Hi Bookmates,
Yes we have skipped right over writing the Christmas List to instead plan next year's reading list.

The following list is just some of the titles and authors we have been recommending to each other throughout the year in our meetings. It is by no means exhaustive (as someone may have misplaced their notes) so please keep posting your choices or bringing titles along to the next few meetings.

Daughter of fortune by Isabel Allende (Fiction)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Fiction)
Secret Scripture by Sebastion Barry (Fiction)
Agatha Raisin by M C Beaton (Fiction)
Hamish Macbeth by M C Beaton (Fiction)
City of Thieves by David Benioff (Fiction)
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett (Fiction)
People of the book by Geraldine Brooks (Fiction)
Downunder by Bill Bryson (Non Fiction)
The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson (Non Fiction)
All this and a Bookshop Too by Dorothy Butler (Non Fiction)
Don't tell Mum I work on the rigs : she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse by Paul Carter (Non Fiction) SBC pick for July 2009
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Fiction)
Mao’s last dancer by Li Cunxin (Non Fiction) SBC pick for November 2009
The 10pm question by Kate DeGoldie (Fiction)
19th Wife by David Ebershoff (Fiction)
The memory keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards (Fiction) SBC pick for October 2009
The Fraud by Barbara Ewing (Fiction)
Stairway to the moon by Colin Falconer (Fiction)
Book Book by Fiona Farrell (Fiction)
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman (Fiction)
Two Pillars by Ken Follet (Fiction)
The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles (Fiction)
Scandal of the Season by Sophie Gee (Fiction)
Marley & Me by John Grogan Non (Fiction)
Water for elephants : a novel by Sara Gruen (Fiction)
SBC pick for September 2009
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Fiction) SBC pick for June 2009
A spot of bother by Mark Haddon (Fiction)
Remember Me by Derek Hansen (Fiction)
Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Fiction)
Notes on a scandal by Zoe Heller (Fiction)
The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseni (Fiction)
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseni (Fiction)
The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson (Non Fiction)
Five Boys by Mick Jackson (Fiction)
Three men in a boat : to say nothing of the dog! Jerome K Jerome (Fiction)
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Fiction) SBC pick for May 2009
Cathy Kelly (Fiction)
Marian Keyes (Fiction)
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction)
The life of Pi: a novel by Yann Martel (Fiction)
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Fiction)
No Country for Old men by Cormac McCarthy (Fiction)
Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough (Fiction)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (Fiction)
Long way down by Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman with Jeff Gulvin by (Non Fiction)
The time traveler's wife : a novel by Audrey Niffenegger (Fiction)
Temeraire by Naomi Novik (Fiction)
Let me sing you gentle songs by Linda Olsson (Fiction)
The Bolter by Frances Osbourne (Non Fiction)
My sister’s keeper by Jodi Picoult (Fiction)
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher (Fiction)
Nation by Terry Pratchett (Fiction)
The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Fiction)
Robert Rankin (Fiction)
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Fiction) SBC pick for August 2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (Fiction)
Anita Shreve (Fiction)
Longitude by Dava Sobel (Non Fiction)
The Planets by Dava Sobel (Non Fiction)
Q and A by Vikas Swarup (Fiction)
The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (Non Fiction)
The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder madness and the love of words Simon Winchester (Non Fiction)
P G Wodehouse (Fiction)