Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Books Read in 2008

I have lots of things to talk about when I come back but in the meanwhile, here's my list of books read in 2008. This is the first year I've kept a list.

00 means it's a re-read. In all fairness, I've decided not to count the books I've already read.

JANUARY

1. Pride and Prejudice : le roman de Jane Austen et le film de Joe Wright - Laurent Bury
2. Family Roundabout - Richmal Crompton
3. Le Blé en herbe - Colette
4. Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
5. The Making of a Marchioness - Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. Tea With Mr Rochester - Frances Towers
7. The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Antonia Fraser
8. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
9. Angel - Elizabeth Taylor
10. Mr Darcy's Diary - Amanda Grange
11. A l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs - Marcel Proust
12. A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
13. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
14. Possession - A.S. Byatt
15. The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin - Kate Chopin
16. The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
17. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
18. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R.L. Stevenson
19. King Richard III - William Shakespeare
20. The Home-Maker - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

FEBRUARY

21. Cranford Omnibus - Elizabeth Gaskell
22. Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
23. Jane Austen : The World of Her Novels - Deirdre le Faye
24. The Closed Door and Other Stories - Dorothy Whipple
25. Friday's Child - Georgette Heyer
26. Middlemarch - George Eliot
27. The Diary of a Provincial Lady - E.M. Delafield
28. The Provincial Lady Goes Further - E.M. Delafield
29. Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
30. The Provincial Lady in America - E.M. Delafield

MARCH

31. The Provincial Lady in Wartime - E.M. Delafield
32. Mariana - Monica Dickens
33. Jane and the Man of the Cloth - Stephanie Barron
34. Hostages to Fortune - Elizabeth Cambridge


APRIL

35. Jane and the Wandering Eye - Stephanie Barron
36. Howards End - E.M. Forster
37. Consequences - E.M. Delafield
38. Saplings - Noel Streatfeild

MAY

39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Mistress of the Revolution - Catherine Delors
41. Good Evening, Mrs Craven - Mollie Panter-Downes
42. Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
43. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
44. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
45. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
46. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
47. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
48. Someone at a Distance - Dorothy Whipple

JUNE

49. Hons and Rebels - Jessica Mitford
50. Jane Austen - Carol Shields
51. Mrs Darcy's Dilemma - Diana Birchall
52. A Lost Lady - Willa Cather
53. Blaming - Elizabeth Taylor
54. The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann
55. Every Eye - Isobel English
56. The Young Pretenders - Edith Henrietta Fowler
57. Frost in May - Antonia White

JULY

58. Contes de la Bécasse - Guy de Maupassant
59. Love and Louis XIV - Antonia Fraser
60. Decca : The Letters of Jessica Mitford - Peter Sussman (edited by)
61. The Dud Avocado - Elaine Dundy
62. The Far Cry - Emma Smith
63. Le Côté de Guermantes - Marcel Proust
64. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter
65. Evelina - Frances Burney
66. Celia Johnson - Kate Fleming
67. Kate : The Woman Who Was Hepburn - William J. Mann
68. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter

AUGUST

69. The Old Man and Me - Elaine Dundy
70. Union Street - Pat Barker
71. All Passion Spent - Vita Sackville-West
72. Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee
73. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
74. Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
75. A Series of Unfortunate Events : The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
76. A Series of Unfortunate Events : The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
77. A Series of Unfortunate Events : The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
78. Tipping the Velvet- Sarah Waters
79. Dusty Answer - Rosamond Lehmann
80. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
81. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
82. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E.M. Forster
83. Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
84. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
85. The Gate of Angels - Penelope Fitzgerald
86. The Clocks - Agatha Christie
87. His Dark Materials : The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

SEPTEMBER

88. His Dark Materials : The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
89. His Dark Materials : The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
90. Curtain Up - Noel Streatfeild
91. Wintle's Wonders - Noel Streatfeild
92. Lyra's Oxford - Philip Pullman
93. Sally Lockhart : The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
94. Sodome et Gomorrhe - Marcel Proust
95. Captain Wentworth's Diary - Amanda Grange
00. Persuasion - Jane Austen

OCTOBER

00. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
96. The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
97. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
00. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
98. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
99. A House and Its Head - Ivy Compton-Burnett
100. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

NOVEMBER

101. A Very Great Profession : The Woman's Novel 1914-1939 - Nicola Beauman
102. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
103. The Feminine Middlebrow Novel : 1920s to 1950s - Nicola Humble
104. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
105. City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare
106. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
107. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

DECEMBER

108. King Lear - William Shakespeare
109. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
110. Vanity Fair - William M. Thackeray
111. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
112. La Prédiction de Nadia - Marie Desplechin
113. Baby-Sitter Blues - Marie-Aude Murail
114. Le Trésor de mon Père - Marie-Aude Murail
115. L'Orpheline dans l'Arbre - Susie Morgenstern
116. Quatre Soeurs : Enid - Malika Ferdjoukh
117. Le Jeu du Chat et de la Souris - Setona Mizushiro
118. Quatre Soeurs : Hortense - Malika Ferdjoukh
119. Provincial Daughter - R.M. Dashwood
120. Good Behaviour- Molly Keane
121. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths - Barbara Comyns
122. Miss Charity - Marie-Aude Murail
123. The Bread and Butter Stories - Mary Norton