What have you read this year? And what will you read next year?

I decided I wanted to read 50 books this year but I won't have quite managed it. Have just finished my 45th. Would have done but at the same time as being pregnant and losing concentration my DH was seriously ill in hospital so it put me off track a bit. Here's my list though (not very highbrow):

Jan
Can Any Mother help me ? - Jenna Bailey
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressifeld
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan

Feb
The Mitford Girls - Mary S Lovell
Playing with the moon - Eliza Graham

March
The Good husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith
The Virgins Lover - Phillipa Gregory
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende

April
Pillow Talk - Freya North
31 Dream St - Lisa Jewell
The Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
Georgiana - Amanda Foreman

May
Peter Pan - JM Barrie
Peter Pan In Scarlet - Geraldine McCaughrean
The Girls - Lori Lansen
Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long
Portrait In Sepia - Isabel Allende
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
The Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall Smith

June
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
The Rain Before It Falls - Jonathan Coe
Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistead Maupin
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason

July
A Piano in the Pyranees - Tony Hawks
Second Chance - Jane Green
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini
PS I love you - Celia Ahern
The Memory Keepers Daughter -

Aug
Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Rebecca Miller

Sept
Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult
Friends Lovers and Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

Oct
The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith
Digging to America - Anne Tyler
The Careful use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith

Nov
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
Thanks for the Memories - Celia Ahern

Dec
God is an Englishman -RF Delderfield
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady -
Do you remember me ? Sophie Kinsella

About to start Nancy Mitford - in pursuit of love (To make up for the Kinsella ).

Last month
Restitution, Eliza Graham
Betrayal, Clare Francis
Silesian Station, David Downing
Little Dorrit, Charlie D.

Best reads this year were:
Of Human Bondage, S Maugham
In Cold Blood, T Capote
Both dh's and been on the shelves for years!

Read some great Sci Fi - Stephen Baxter's Evolution, and the Destiny's Children series.

Can't remember everything I've read this year but I know I enjoyed

Black Swan Green
Mr Pip
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Rose of Sebastopol

and I'm currently reading

Half of a Yellow Moon
Netherland

Great Gatsby
Mr Pip
On The Road
The Road
The Lovely Bones
The Red Tent
Notes from an Exhibition
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (unfinished)
The Laments
The Grapes of Wrath
Children of the Revolution
Brief Lives - Bill Deedes
Things Can Only Get Better
Wuthering Heights
Tin Men

and others which made so little impression I can no longer remember them!

Next year, I want to read much more and also to keep a list!

Well done for keeping a list!

I'm currently reading Richard Ford's Independence Day, which I've meant to read for years. It's marvellous

(oh, and as to the point of thread, I'll be reading it a long way into next year I think)

This is my book list up to Sept. Not kept it up to date since then, but have read quite a few more! Year of Wonders, The Book Thief and Into The Wild stand out for me as being great books. Loved Twilight and Rain Before It Falls and Notes From An Exhibition as well.

Jan
Richard Hammond ? Life On The Edge
Tom Parry ? Thumbs Up Australia
Somerset Maugham ? The Painted Veil
Terry Pratchett ? Wintersmith
Ben MacIntyre ? Agent ZigZag

feb
The Thirteenth Tale

March
Quinten Van Marle ? Boomerang Road
Simkin ? The Labour Progress Handbook
RJ Ellory ? A Quiet Belief In Angels
J Krakauer ? Into The Wild.

April-

Joe Simpson ? This Game Of Ghosts
Michael Connolly ? The Overlook
John Case ? The Genesis Code
Donna Tartt ? Secret History

May-

Angie Sage - Magyk
RJ Ellory ? City Of Lies
Robin Cooper ? Return Of The Timewaster Letters
F Cottam ? House Of Lost Souls
Garth Nix- Sabriel

June-

Geraldine Brookes ? year Of Wonders
Kate Mosse- Sephulcre

July-

Patrick Gale ? Notes From An Exhibition
Kate Summerscale ? The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher

August

No Time For Goodbye
Shadow Of The Sun
The Forgotten Garden
Making Money
The Book Thief
Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Rain Before It Falls
Hold Tight
Innocent Man

September

Twilight

I was pregnant and hideously ill for most of last year and then had a baby that never sleeps so I have bought about 10 books and actually read half of a heat magazine and a TV Guide. Do you think I might manage a whole chapter from a book next year?