2008

April

• A Reading Diary, Alberto Manguel
• Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
• Life of Pi, Yann Martel
• Possession, A S Byatt

May

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J K Rowling *
• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy *
• The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
• The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

July

• Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf
• <A Writer’s Diary, Virginia Woolf >*
• <White Walls, Tatyana Tolstaya>
• Madeleine is Sleeping, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
• The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser
• The Mating Season, P G Wodehouse

August

• Breath, Tim Winton
• Twilight, Stephanie Meyer (a rant against poor writing)
• The Memory Room, Christopher Koch
• Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, Agatha Christie
• A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
• Granite and Rainbow, Virginia Woolf

September

• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
• To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
• Disquiet, Julia Leigh
• Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje *

October

• Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
• Saturday, Ian McEwan
• A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
• The Aeneid, Virgil (Knight prose translation)

December

• The Odyssey, Homer
• The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy