Last year was a pretty tough year for book reading! I had a list of 24 which I set myself in January 2010 and at last look I had read just seven from the list but on reflection I have read at least ten that weren’t on the list at all!
So for 2011 I have decided to write a list of 12 books that I will definitely read and then set myself another 12 to that I read 24 in total (or more hopefully).
My 12 to read are:
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
- The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
- At Home – Bill Bryson
- Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Sister – Rosamund Lupton
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- The First Rumpole Omnibus – John Mortimer
- A Florentine Death – Michele Giuttari
- Nantucket Nights – Elin Hilderbrand
- On Beauty – Zadie Smith
- Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- Either Labyrinth or The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
I’ll embolden once I finish and hopefully at the end of 2011 will add a list of the other 12 books I’ve read.
This year I’ve joined a book group – so I’m sure there will be more to add unless we use my list to pick the books!

I like your list. Strangely I have read none of these. This is in complete contrast with Word Ferret’s list at http://elizadashwood.wordpress.com/the-book-list-2011/. Good luck in your reading!
Lovely idea to have an inspired list. I too like your
choices tho’ have not managed to catch the appeal of Kate Mosse.
Labyrinth struck me as a slightly better than a Dan Brown. Off now
to compose my own list! Hazel
Hi Hazel Christie – never seen the appeal to Kate Mosse either but people keep giving me her books as presents so feel I ought to try and read at least one!
Hi Hazel Hall – I can’t believe how different my list is to Eliza’s either – it was her that started me off with the reading list….
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