This is where we’ll keep a list of the books that we’ve been reading this year. Lists are our friends.

Jenny’s Books

1. The First Century After Beatrice – Amin Maalouf (January)
2. Counting the Stars – Helen Dunmore (January)
3. Land of Green Plums – Herta Muller (January)
4. From a Crooked Rib – Nuruddin Farah (January)
5. Friday’s Child – Georgette Heyer (January)
6. Beauty and Misogyny – Sheila Jeffreys (January)
7. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Peter Hoeg (January)
8. Castle in the Air – Diana Wynne Jones (February)
9. The Museum of Innocence – Orhan Pamuk (February)
10. The Lives of Christopher Chant – Diana Wynne Jones (February)
11. Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle (February – March)
12. Enchanted Glass – Diana Wynne Jones (March)
13. The Complete Maus – Art Spiegelman (March)
14. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino (March)
15. We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists – Melody Berger (ed.) (March)
16. The Children’s Book – A.S. Byatt (March)
17. The Widow’s Tale – Mick Jackson (April)
18. The Balkan Trilogy – Olivia Manning (April)
19. The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers – Mary Morris and Larry O’Connor (eds.) – (April)
20. Why I am not a Christian – Bertrand Russell (April – May)
21. Bluebeard’s Egg – Margaret Atwood (May)
22. Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement – Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune (May)
23. After the Fire, A Still Small Voice – Evie Wyld (May)
24. Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism – bell hooks (May)
25. Manja – Anna Gmeyner (May-June)
26. The Quiet Gentleman – Georgette Heyer (June)
27. From the Test Tube to the Coffin: Choice and Regulation in Private Life – The Hon. Mrs Justice Hale (June)
28. A Civil Contract – Georgette Heyer (June)
29. Yellow Blue Tibia – Adam Roberts (June)
30. The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver (June)
31. Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Through the Ages – Jo Stanley (June)
32. The Odyssey – Homer (June – July)
33. The Exception – (July)
34. Samarkand – Amin Maalouf (July)
35. A History of the Arab Peoples – Albert Hourani (July-August)
36. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake (July-September)
37. The Death of Grass – John Christopher (September)
38. The Levantine Trilogy – Olivia Manning (September)
39. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (September)

Fliss’s Books

1. Fighting in Spain – George Orwell (January)
2. Behinds the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson (January)
3. Why I Write – George Orwell (January)
4. The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood (January)
5. Portrait of a Marriage – Nigel Nicolson (January)
6. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan (January)
7. Malaria – Susan Hillmore (January)
8. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – ZZ Packer (January)
9. The Coma – Alex Garland (January)
10. Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan (January)
11. Running Wild – J.G. Ballard (January)
12. Orlando – Virginia Woolf (January)
13. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome (February)
14. Tom’s Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce (February)
15. Griffin and Sabine – Nick Bantock (February)
16. Sabine’s Notebook – Nick Bantock (February)
17. The Golden Mean – Nick Bantock (February)
18. Ingo – Helen Dunmore (February)
19. The Whole Wide Beauty – Emily Woof (February)
20. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (March)
21. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick (March)
22. Wilderness Tips – Margaret Atwood (March)
23. The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo (March)
24. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie (April)
25. Junk – Melvin Burgess (April)
26. Mortal Engines – Philip Reeve (April)
27. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami (April)
28. Talking to the Dead – Helen Dunmore (April)
29. Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov (May)
30. Kiss of the Spider Woman – Manuel Puig (May)
31. Paradise – Abdulrazak Gurnah (May)
32. The Obelisk – E M Forster (May)
33. The Ghost Road – Pat Barker (May)
34. Lobster – Guillame Lecasble (May)
35. The Diving Pool – Yoko Ogawa (May)
36. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists – Gideon Defoe (May)
37. Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi (May)
38. Moderato Cantabile – Marguerite Duras (May)
39. A Russian Affair – Anton Chekhov (May)
40. Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman – Friedrich Christian Delius (May)
41. Dreamz from the Endz – Faiza Guene (June)
42. Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image – Ophira Edut (ed.) (June)
43. After the Fire, A Still Small Voice – Evie Wyld (June)
44. The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino (June)
45. Beside the Sea – Veronique Olmi (June)
46. The Undrowned Child – Michelle Lovric (June)
47. Un Lun Dun – China Mieville (June)
48. Septimus Heap Book One: Magyk – Angie Sage (June)
49. Black Harvest – Ann Pilling (June)
50. Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls – Frank Wedekind (June)
51. The Magic Toyshop – Angela Carter (June)
52. Septimus Heap Book Two: Flyte – Angie Sage (June)
53. The Thornthwaite Inheritance – Gareth P. Jones (June)
54. A Beginner’s Guide to Acting English – Shappi Khorsandi (June)
55. The Dread Pirate Fleur and the Ruby Heart – Sara Starbuck (June)
56. Carmen – Prosper Merimee (June)
57. The Helmet of Horror – Victor Pelevin (June)
58. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (July)
59. The Suicide Shop – Jean Teule (July)
60. The Prince of Mist – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (July)
61. The Owl Service – Alan Garner (July)
62. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson (July)
63. Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger (July)
64. The Venetian’s Wife – Nick Bantock (July)
65. Miss Garnet’s Angel – Salley Vickers (July)
66. Stravaganza: City of Masks – Mary Hoffman (July)
67. Nature Girl – Carl Hiaasen (July)
68. The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett (August)
69. A Hat Full of Sky – Terry Pratchett (August)
70. Wintersmith – Terry Pratchett (August)
71. Going Postal – Terry Pratchett (August)
72. Lunch in Paris, A Love Story with Recipes – Elizabeth Bard (September)
73. I Shall Wear Midnight – Terry Pratchett (September)
74. Cooking for Mr Latte – Amanda Hesser (September)
75. Envy – Alain Elkann (September)
76. Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy – Anthony Briggs (September)
77. French Milk – Lucy Knisley (September)
78. I Wouldn’t Thank You For a Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy (ed) (September)
79. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (September)
80. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams (September)
81. Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life – Bryan Lee O’Malley (September)
82. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker – Leanna Renee Hieber (September)
83. Ghost World – Daniel Clowes (September)
84. Larklight – Philip Reeve (September)
85. The Robe of Skulls – Vivian French (September)
86. Soulless – Gail Carriger (September)
87. The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker – Leanna Renee Hieber (September)
88. Changeless – Gail Carriger (September)
89. Blameless – Gail Carriger (September)
90. Starcross – Philip Reeve (October)
91. Voice Recognition, 21 Poets for the 21st Century – James Byrne and Clare Pollard (eds) (October)
92. Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg (October)
93. Night Watch – Terry Pratchett (October)
94. Swithering – Robin Robertson (October)
95. The Battle for Gullywith – Susan Hill (October)
96. Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet – Elaine Feinstein (October)
97. Poetry Writing, The Expert Guide – Fiona Sampson (November)
98. Canvas – Adam Zagajewski (November)
99. Regency Christmas Gifts – Stone, Kelly and Ranstrom (November)
100. Friday’s Child – Georgette Heyer (November)
101. The Quiet Gentleman – Georgette Heyer (November)
102. Cousin Kate – Georgette Heyer (November)
103. Bath Tangle – Georgette Heyer (November)
104. Frederica – Georgette Heyer (November)