Book lovers discussion

Here is my reading list of books I already own for 2011. I will try to complete it but I do not suffer a book if I am not getting anything out of it. I have a two or three chapter rule but by careful selection I rarely actually ditch a book once started.

Once read I will offer them on Bookmooch. I either got them on Bookmooch or from charity shops so I like to recycle them once read. The only one on the list which I have read before is 1984. I like to read this every decade.

Any and all comments welcome.

January Bones of the Hills Conn Iggulden
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
Notes On a Scandal Zoe Heller

February Switch Bitch Roald Dahl
The Man Who Was Thursday GK Chesterton
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher KateSummerscale

March Arthur and George Julian Barnes
According to Quennie Beryl Bainbridge
Odin's Child Tim Severin

April The Penolopiad Margaret Atwood
White Fang Jack London
If This is a Man/The Truce Primo Levi

May Shutter Island Dennis Lehane
The Time Travelors Wife Audrey Niffenegger
A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle

June Guernica Dave Boling
Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
Small Island Andrea Levy

July Old Goriot Honore De Balzac
Father Brown GK Chesterton
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini

August Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
Fingersmith Sarah Waters
In the Land of Oz Howard Jacobson

September Girl With Pearl Earing Tracy Chevalier
The Devil's Laughter Frank Yerby
Turkish Gambit Boris Akunin

October Crash JG Ballard
Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge
The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve

November King Soloman's Mine Rider Haggard
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
John McNab John Buchan

December The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
Facing Up Bear Ghrylls
Winesberg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson

Great list Norm! I recently read Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and I loved it! There were so many twists and turns it left my head spinning. Good luck with your 2011 reading goals!

Norm A Thousand Splendid Suns is, I thought, amazing. I also really liked Shutter Island and after reading your profile I think you'll enjoy it.

Hi Norm. I've read seven on your list and especially enjoyed "Fingersmith", "White Fang" and "The Time Traveller's Wife". Seventeen more on your list are also on my "to read" shelves!! Maybe I'll be able to fit one or two in next year - have said I'll try for three a month, at least...who knows?

Norm....I thought Shutter Island and Fingersmith were great reads! I plan to read Alias Grace in 2011 too. ATSSuns is fantastic too!

Shelli wrote: "Norm....I thought Shutter Island and Fingersmith were great reads! I plan to read Alias Grace in 2011 too. ATSSuns is fantastic too!"

Thanks for your coment Shelli. Others have mentioned Fingersmith, Shutter Island and ATSSuns so I may bring them forward on my list. are you reading anything decent now? Always looking for new ideas - anything but this romantic vampire tripe that is the vogue these days.

The Time Travelers Wife and A Thousand Splendid Suns are 2nd my faces. I hope you enjoy them!

My 2 faves. My phone corrects my spelling :/