- The book thief / Markus Zusak 6
- Letter to my daughter / Maya Angelou 5
- The zookeeper's wife / Diane Ackerman. 5
- The 19th Wife / David Ebershoff 4
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows 4
- Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman 4
- PS I love You / Cecelia Ahern 4
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto / Michael Pollan 4
- Running With Scissors / Augusten Burroughs 3
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer 3
- Mr Pip / Lloyd Jones 3
- The girl with the dragon tattoo / Stieg Larson 3
- The Girl on the Landing / Paul Torday 3
- Beautiful Boy/ David Sheeff 3
- Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World 2
- The House of Spirits /Isabel Allende 2
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Carson McCullers 2
- Live Bodies / Maurice Gee 2
- A Mercy / Toni Morrison 2
- Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen 2
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle / David Wroblewski 2
- Twilight / Stephenie Meyer 2
- Tu / Patricia Grace 2
- Unaccustomed Earth / Jhumpa Lahiri 2
- The uncommon reader / Alan Bennett 2
- The middle place / Kelly Corrigan 2
- On Hitler's mountain : my Nazi childhood / Irmgard Hunt 2
- Shakespeare's Wife /Germaine Greer 2
- Three Cups of Tea /Greg Mortenson 2
- The memory keeper's daughter / Kim Edwards 2
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle / Barbara Kingsolver 2
- Atonement / Ian McEwan 1
- People of the Book: A Novel / Geraldine Brooks 1
- The opium clerk / Kunal Basu 1
- Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride 1
- What to do when someone dies / Nicci French 1
- Wild Swans : Daughters of China / Jung Chan 1
- The various flavours of coffee / Anthony Capella 1
- This horrid practice : the myth and reality of traditional Maori cannibalism / Paul Moon. 1
- A million little pieces / James Frey 1
- The Mitford Girls / Mary Lovell 1
- The Man Who Loved China / Simon Winchester 1
- The Lieutenant / Kate Grenville 1
- Life of Pi / Yann Martel 1
- The independence of Miss Mary Bennett / Colleen McCollough 1
- I know this much is true / Wally Lamb 1
- Enduring Love /Ian McEwan 1
- The Gathering / Anne Enright 1
- Back When We Were Grown Ups / Anne Tyler 1
- Blindsight / Maurice Gee 1
- Until the final hour : Hitler's last secretary / Traudl Junge ; edited by Melissa Müller 1
- The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon 1
- Memoirs of a Geisha / Arthur Golden 1
- Shanharam: A Novel / Gregory David Roberts 1
- A thousand splendid suns /Khaled Hosseini 1
- The birthday present / Barbara Vine
- Durable Goods / Elizabeth Berg
- Eucalyptus / Murray Bail
- To Siberia / Per Patterson
- The minutes of the Lazurus Club / Tony Pollard
- Sophies World /Jostein Gaarder
- Water for elephants / Sara Gruen
- Books: A memoir / Larry McMurty
- Fantastic pasts : imaginary adventures in New Zealand history / Matthew Wright
- The journal of Helene Barr
- The last lecture / Randy Pausch
- Letters from the Bay of Islands: The story of Marianne Williams, Caroline Fitzgerald
- Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe / Laurence Bergreen
- The Twelve little Cakes/ Dominika Dery
- Gilead / Marilynne Robinson
- The god of small things / Arundhati Roy
- The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood
- Mao's Last Dancer / Cunxin Li
- Maps for lost lovers / Nadeem Aslam
- Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach
Not sure how we'll deal with the tied titles at 12-14 but I think the randomiser might be put into action. ;-)
So - if you want to vote and haven't, please do so. Thanks!
Have a great weekend too - ours is a long weekend due to Auckland Anniversary day. Ours will involve roof painting so I hope your break is more exciting! LOL!
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The list's looking great.
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If you want to start with potato peel society I can lend you the book?
Interesting list - there seems to be a wife theme :)
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ReplyDeleteVery interesting list, and I am very pleased to see a few that I voted for in the top part of the list. I might just have to head to the library over the weekend.
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