2011 Reads

I may not review everything I read this year; because of some my school reading is a yawn-fest. But on the other hand, my OCD nature does not like incompleteness, and my show-off nature does not want you to think that I slacked off the reading some weeks. We’ll see.

66) Charles Dickens – Great Expectations

65) Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games

64) Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility

63) Jane Austen – Mansfield Park

62) Joshua Foer – Moonwalking With Einstein

61) Philippa Gregory – The Lady of the Rivers

60) Elaine Showalter – A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

59) Mary S Lovell – The Churchills: A Family at the Centre of History

58) Jane Austen – Emma

57) Caitlin Moran – How To Be a Woman

56) Henry James – The Portrait of a Lady

55) Gretchen Gerzina – Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unpredictable Life of the Author of The Secret Garden

54) Tina Fey – Bossypants

53) Virginia Woolf – The Voyage Out

52) Siri Hustvelt – The Summer Without Men

51) Daphne Du Maurier – Jamaica Inn

50) Alison Weir – Elizabeth the Queen

49) Elizabeth Gaskell – Cranford

48) Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace

47) Patti Smith – Just Kids

46) Jacqueline Susan – The Valley of the Dolls

45) Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone

44) Allegra Goodman – The Cookbook Collector

43) Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

42) Meg Rosoff – The Bride’s Farewell

41) Victoria Coren – For Richer, For Poorer

40) John Sutherland – How to Read a Novel

39) Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad

38) C J Sansom – Dissolution

37) Rebecca Hunt – Mr Chartwell

36) Stephanie Staal – Reading Women

35) Judith Mackrell – Bloomsbury Ballerina

34) Julia Glass – I See You Everywhere

33) Wally Lamb – The Hour I First Believed

32) Agatha Christie – A Murder Is Announced

31) Anne Bronte – Agnes Grey

30) Primo Levi – If This is a Man

29) W.G. Sebald – The Rings of Saturn

28) Michael Holyroyd: Works on Paper

27) Gertrude Stein – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

26) Marge Piercy – Sleeping With Cats

25) Nick Hornby – The Polysyllabic Spree

24) Philippa Gregory – The Red Queen

23) Vera Brittain – Testament of Youth

22) George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss

21) Erin Blakemore – The Heroine’s Bookshelf

20) Marge Piercy – Three Women

19) Rose Tremain – Trespass

18) Colette – My Apprenticeships and Music Hall Sidelights

17) Kate Atkinson – Started Early, Took My Dog

16) Mark Bostridge and Paul Berry: Vera Brittain – A Life

15) Mary Seacole: The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands

14) Edmund Gosse: Father and Son

13) Julia Glass: The Widower’s Tale

12) George Sand: Lettres d’un Voyageur

11) Nicole Krauss: Great House

10) Mary Wollestonecraft: Letters from a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

9) Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an Opium Eater

8 ) Peter Geye: Safe From the Sea

7) Steig Larsson: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest

6) Wait for Me: Deborah Devonshire

5) Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe

4) Emma Donaghue: Room

3) St Augustine: The Confessions of St Augustine

2) Helen Simpson: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

1) Tom McCarthy: C