Now, I am a little bit of a bookworm (OK, not that little!), and one of my New Year's resolutions was to read 50 new books this year. Not counting re-reads or books I don't finish. At the minute I write them all down in a beat-up looking notebook that a friend gave me for my birthday several years ago, so it seems like a good idea to transfer them onto here where my pen won't go through the pages...
January
Oresteia - Aeschylus (trans. Christopher Collard)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
February
The Children's Book - A.S Byatt
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Five People That You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Room - Emma Donoghue
March
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
The Swimmer - Roma Tearne
Grace Williams says it Loud - Emma Henderson
The Seas - Samantha Hunt
The Land of Painted Caves - Jean M. Auel
April
Repeat it Today With Tears - Anne Piele
Animal Farm - George Orwell
May
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne
June
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
July
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
One Day - David Nicholls
August
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
September
Complete Short Fiction - Oscar Wilde
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
October
Marley and Me - John Grogan
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
November
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Women - Charles Bukowski
1Q84 (Books 1 and 2) - Haruki Murakami
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - James Finn Garner
IQ84 (Book 3) - Haruki Murakami
December
Matilda - Roald Dahl
The BFG - Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Address Unknown - Kressmann Taylor
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
The Magicians King - Lev Grossman
Total: 53.
