Books Read 2011

(an ‘x’ indicates a re-read – thanks, David, for pointing out that I’d forgotten to mention this!)

1. Howards End – E.M. Forster
2. And Furthermore – Judi Dench and John Miller
3. The English – Jeremy Paxman
4. The Skin Chairs – Barbara Comyns
5. Bonjour Tristesse – Francoise Sagan
6. Personal Pleasures – Rose Macaulay
7. A Kind Man – Susan Hill
8. Gay Life – E.M. Delafield
9. William – E.H. Young
10. Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
11. The Machine Stops/The Celestial Omnibus – E.M. Forster
12. At Large and At Small – Anne Fadiman
13. To Tell My Story – Irene Vanbrugh
14. Saplings – Noel Streatfeild
15. The Gingerbread Woman – Jennifer Johnston
16. A House in the Country – Jocelyn Playfair
17. Echo – Violet Trefusis
18. People on a Bridge – Wislawa Szymborska
19. As We Are Now – May Sarton
20. Love of Seven Dolls – Paul Gallico
21. Not to Disturb – Muriel Spark
22. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
23. The Perfect Pest – Adiran Porter
24. Mr. Chartwell – Rebecca Hunt
25. Countess Under the Stairs – Eva Ibbotson
26. The Caravaners – Elizabeth von Arnim
27. Broderie Anglaise – Violet Trefusis
28. The Thought-Reading Machine – Andre Maurois
29. Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
30. Going Postal – Terry Pratchett
31. The Unbearable Bassington – Saki
32. Virginia – Jens Christian Grondahl
33. A View From Downshire Hill -Elizabeth Jenkins
34. A Truth Universally Acknowledged – (ed.) Susannah Carson
35. Illyrian Spring – Ann Bridge
36. Jennie – Paul Gallico
x37. Mr. Pim Passes By – A.A. Milne
38. Life Among the Savages – Shirley Jackson
39. How Can You Bear To Be Human? – Nicolas Bentley
40. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
41. The Slaves of Solitude – Patrick Hamilton
42. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur – Violette Leduc
43. The Lottery and other stories – Shirley Jackson
x44. The Love-Child – Edith Olivier
x45. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
x46. Lady Into Fox – David Garnett
x47. The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
x48. Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
49. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
50. The Element of Lavishness – William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner
51. The Triumphant Footman – Edith Olivier
52. The Town in Bloom – Dodie Smith
53. Lipstick – Lady Kitty Vincent
54. Sylvia & David – the letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and David Garnett
55. Gin & Ginger – Lady Kitty Vincent
56. Dearest Jean – Rose Macaulay
57. Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner
58. A Fairy Leapt Upon My Knee – Bea Howe
59. People Who Say Goodbye – P.Y. Betts
60. Shaving Through the Blitz – G.W. Stonier
61. Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
62. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
63. Red Pottage – Mary Cholmondeley
64. Westwood – Stella Gibbons
65. One Day – David Nicholls
66. Live Alone and Like It – Marjorie Hillis
67. Without Knowing Mr. Walkley – Edith Olivier
68. The Tiny Wife – Andrew Kaufman
69. Prison to Praise – Merlin Carothers
70. Safety Pins – Christopher Morley
71. A Baker’s Dozen – Llewelyn Powys
72. The Earth Hums in B Flat – Mari Strachan
73. The Misses Mallett – E.H. Young
x74. Still-William – Richmal Crompton
75. Common or Garden Crime – Sheila Pim
76. Christopher and Columbus – Elizabeth von Arnim
77. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay – Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimborough
78. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomania – Eugene Field
79. The Invention of Morel – Adolfo Bioy Casares
x80. William the Good – Richmal Crompton
81. Singled Out – Virginia Nicholson
82. Two Serious Ladies – Jane Bowles
83. Appius and Virginia – G.E. Trevelyan
x84. The Backward Shadow – Lynne Reid Banks
x85. The L-Shaped Room – Lynne Reid Banks
86. Living Alone – Stella Benson
87. Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady – Edith Olivier
88. Here’s How – Virginia Graham
x89. The Venetian Glass Nephew – Elinor Wylie
x90. Two Is Lonely – Lynne Reid Banks
91. The Pearl – John Steinbeck
92. The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton
93. So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
94. Up At The Villa – W. Somerset Maugham
95. The Double – Fyodor Dostoevsky
96. The Amorous Bicycle – Mary Essex
97. Wasted Womanhood – Charlotte Cowdroy
x98. Miss Hargreaves – Frank Baker
99. The House – Richmal Crompton
100. Let Not The Waves of the Sea – Simon Stephenson
101. A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennesse Williams
102. Nella Last’s Peace – Nella Last
103. A Covenant With Death – Stephen Becker
104. Stop What You’re Doing and Read This – various
105. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
106. Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynne Truss