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Justin's 2011 Reading List

Keep track of your reading for 2011 here! One thread per member, please.
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Wed January 26th, 2011, 12:36 pm

1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (NF) - by Dee Brown - 2/5
2. Daughter of Time - by Josephine Tey - 3.5/5
3. As Meat Loves Salt - by Maria McCann - 4.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Wed February 16th, 2011, 4:55 pm

4. Away - by Amy Bloom - 4/5
5. The Siege - by Helen Dunmore - 3.5/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Mon March 7th, 2011, 11:24 am

6. Persepolis - by Marjane Satrapi - 3.5/5
7. Oryx & Crake - by Margaret Atwood - 2.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue May 3rd, 2011, 1:24 pm

8. The Betrayal - by Helen Dunmore - 2.5/5
9. The Long Song - by Andrea Levy - 3.5/5
10. The Confessions of Catherine de Medici - by CW Gortner - 3/5
11. A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin - 4/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Mon July 18th, 2011, 10:04 am

12. Things Fall Apart - by Chinua Achebe - 3.5/5
13. The Leopard - by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - 3.5/5
14. The Hare With Amber Eyes [NF] - by Edmund de Waal - 2.5/5
15. Mr Chartwell - by Rebecca Hunt - 3.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue August 9th, 2011, 10:39 am

16. Helena - by Evelyn Waugh - 4/5
17. Monster - by Jonathan Kellerman - 2.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue September 13th, 2011, 2:16 pm

18. Silent in the Grave - by Deanna Raybourn - 3/5
19. Some Hope - by Edward St Aubyn - 3.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Mon October 10th, 2011, 5:37 pm

20. Fingersmith - by Sarah Waters - 3.5/5

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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Thu November 17th, 2011, 3:35 pm

21. The Golden Mean - by Annabel Lyon - 4/5
22. Notes on a Scandal - by Zoe Heller (contemporary) - 3/5
23. A Thousand Splendid Suns - by Khaled Hosseini - 4/5
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Post by sweetpotatoboy » Tue January 3rd, 2012, 2:33 pm

24. Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce (not HF)
25. Trade Winds by Christina Courtenay (HF)
26. Achilles by Elizabeth Cook (Iliad-based novella)
27. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (sort of memoir)
28. The Last Empress by Anchee Min (HF)

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