Mae's reading list
2008
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Stark by Edward Bunker
Lonely Planet: Eastern Europe by Tom Masters
Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
Notes From a Big Country by Bill Bryson
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing
Poems and Readings for Weddings by Julia Watson
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The World of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington, Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais
Did I Really Employ You?: A Step-by-step Guide to Effective Recruitment by Ann Andrews
Borderland by Gary Cross
Dubai Wallpaper City Guide by Wallpaper Magazine
A-Z of Interview Questions by Ann Andrews
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Equiano’s Travels, or Gustavus Vassa the African by Olaudah Equiano
Spellbound: The Legend of the Ice People: 1 by Margit Sandemo
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Island by Victoria Hislop
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
The Best Day of Someone Else’s Life by Kerry Reichs
My Epileptic Lurcher by Des Dillon
Reading in Bed by Sue Gee
Claudia and the Great Search (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
Kristy and the Secret of Susan (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
Dawn’s Wicked Stepsister (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
Mary Anne and the Great Romance (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
Winter Vacation (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
Mallory and the Mystery Diary (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Where’s Bin Laden: CIA Undercover Edition by Daniel Lalic
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
Volvo lastvagnar by Erlend Loe
The Lovers’ Room by Steven Carroll
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
47 books
2007
Between Mom and Jo by Julie Anne Peters
Cut Her Dead by Iain Mcdowall
The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman
The Venus Fix by M. J. Rose
The Death List by Paul Johnston
A Woman’s Work Is Never Done by Rowan Barnes-Murphy
Gangsters Wives by Lee Martin
Goldkeeper by Sally Prue
Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita
Bed Rest by Sarah Bilston
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Rough Guide to Tutankhamun by Michael Haag
Africa: 25 Ultimate Experiences by Rough Guides
New Zealand: 25 Ultimate Experiences by Rough Guides
Down Under by Bill bryson
The World of the “Golden Compass” by Clive Gifford
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Victorian London by Liza Picard
Bill Bryson’s African Diary by Bill Bryson
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Don’ts for Husbands by Blanche Ebbutt
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Don’ts for Wives by Blanche Ebbutt
Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell
Flight from Deathrow by Harry Hill
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Doppler by Erlend Loe
Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
Love in the Present Tense by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Restless by William Boyd
This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes
The Girls by Lori Lansens
The Butterfly Tattoo by Philip Pullman
The Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman
A Guide to Wizards of the World by Dugald Steer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth by Mary S. Lovell
Three Nagas in Norway by Easterine Kire Iralu
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Wisp
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newth Scamander
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabahn by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Midtveis by Soudabeh Alishahi
Music: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cook
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by Gillian Butler and Freda Mcmanus
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Ringmaster’s Daughter by Jostein Gaarder
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Free Expression is No Offence: An English PEN Book by Lisa Appignanesi
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
A Tale of Two Goats (Nabogeitene) by Tom Barber and Rosalind Beardshaw
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (SYP book club)
Does Anything Eat Wasps? by Mick O’Hare
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (MA book club)
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction by Kim Knott
Mafalda & Friends by Quino
The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
QI: The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine Mccaughrean
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? by Mick O’Hare
85 books
2006
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (MA book club)
Rites of Passage by William Golding
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (MA book club)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Severed Head by Iris Murdoch (SYP book club)
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver (MA book club)
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (SYP book club, not finished)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
High Society by Ben Elton
Past Mortem by Ben Elton
18 books
2005
The Frightful First World War and the Woeful Second World War by Terry Deary and Martin Brown
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
Making Divorce Work: In 9 Easy Steps by Keith Barret
Return of the Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
India: Stevnemøte med skjebnen by Torbjørn Færøvik
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
A Child Called ‘It’ by Dave Pelzer
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Sickened by Julie Gregory
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
25 books
2004
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabahn by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Stark by Ben Elton
10 books
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