May
- The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
- Encyclopaedia of Snowflakes, Sarah Emily Miano
- The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Ilustrado, Miguel Syjuco
June/July
- Number9Dream, David Mitchell
- The Harmony Silk Factory, Tash Aw
- The Calligrapher’s Daughter, Eugenia Kim
- My Name is Sei Shonagon, Jan Blensdorf
- Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh
- Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje (re-read 17/9/2012)
- The Glass Room, Simon Mawer
- Portraits in Fiction, A S Byatt
- Everything is Illuminated, Jon Safraan Foer
August
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- Chronicles of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- So Vast the Prison, Assia Djebar
- The Tiger’s Wife, Tea Obreht
- A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
(September 2011 – June 2012: a year in China, where WordPress is banned, and where English books aren’t necessarily hard to obtain, but would have been expensive/hard to carry back home!)
