Booklovin Blues: April 2015

To Kill a Mockingbird

Alison 10

Anna 10

Annette 10

Cheryl 10

Deb 8

Megan 10

Average 9.6

Book list

1984 - George Orwell
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
A life of Impossible Days - Tabitha Bird
A Room Made of Leaves - Kate Grenville
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic - Thomas Naylor
Agatha Christie - Free choice
All that I am - Anna Funder - 5.4
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - 8.0
An Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett - 8.44
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua - 7.57
Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson - 6.3
Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton
Breath - Tim Winton
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Brief Answers to Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent - 6.8
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - 9.08
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - 6.6
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos
Dear Mrs Bird - A.J. Pearce
Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates - Susanna de Vries - 6.75
Desirelines - Peter & Richard Wherrett
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick - 7.2
Dog Boy - Eva Hornung
Dracula - Bram Stoker - 6.85
Educated - Tara Westover
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
Eugenia - Mark Tedeschi - 7.25
Eyrie - Tim Winton - 7.3
Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret & Extraordinary Lives - Helen O'Neill
Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
French Exit - Patrick DeWitt
Ghost Empire - Richard Fidler
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald - 3.4
Hand Me Down World - Lloyd Jones
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
Island Home - Tim Winton - 7.8
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
Joe Cinque's Consolation - Helen Garner
Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
Little fires everywhere - Celeste Ng
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lola Benski - Lily Brett - 7.3
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson - 7.78
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - 9.05
Mr Pip - Lloyd Jones
Mrs Queen Takes the Train - William Kuhn - 7.3
My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
My Invented Country - Isabelle Allende
Nancy Wake - Peter FitzSimons
Paris Without End: the True Story of Hemingway's First Wife - Gioia Diliberto - 9.3
Q & A - Vikas Swarup
Rhubarb - Craig Silvey
Samuel Pepys - Claire Tomlin
Sapphire Skies - Belinda Alexandra - 4.2
Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Shakespeare: the World as Stage - Bill Bryson - 7.6
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Small Island - Andrea Levy - 8.0
Song for Achilles - Madeline Miller - 5.6
Still Alice - Lisa Genova - 6.7
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - 7
The Ape House - Sara Gruen
The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu - Joshua Hammer
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
The Camel Book Mobile - Masha Hamilton - 7.1
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Children - Charlotte Wood
The Choke - Sophie Laguna
The Colour - Rose Tremain - 2.12
The Cookbook Collector - Allegra Goodman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Dinner - Herman Koch - 6.9
The Drowner/The Shark Net - Robert Drewe
The Dry - Jane Harper - 7.7
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
The Funny Thing About Norman Forman - Julietta Henderson
The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson
The Golden Age - Joan London
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt - 7.2
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
The Happiest Refugee - Anh Do
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson - 7.14
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver
The Land Before Avocado - Richard Glover
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh 7.6
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos - Dominic Smith
The Lido - Libby Page
The Light Between Oceans - ML Steadman - 5.25
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul - Deborah Rodriguez
The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan - 7.8
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern - 4.8
The Paris Wife - Paula McLain - 5.75
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Reader on the 6.27 - Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
The Riders - Tim Winton
The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer - Paul Barry
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion - 8.12
The Sea Bed - Marele Day - 4.8
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
The Seven Good Years - Etgar Keret
The Shell - Christina Olsen
The Shepherd's Hut - Tim WInton
The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert - 8.5
The SIlent PAtient - Alex Michaelides
The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick - 6.28
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway - 6.5
The Spy - Paulo Coelho - 6.8
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Trip of a Lifetime - Monica McInerney
The Walker - Jane R Goodall
The White Earth - Andrew McGahan
The White Girl - Tony Birch
The Widow and her Hero - Thomas Kenneally
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Zookeepers War- Steven Conte
This House of Grief - Helen Garner - 7.3
This Is Where I Leave You - Johnathon Tropper
Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 9.6
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 7.7
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
We Have Always Lived In the Castle - Shirley Jackson
When God was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman - 6.5
White Gardenia - Belinda Alexandra
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - 7.14
Wonder - R J Palacio - 8.7
Working Class Boy - Jimmy Barnes
Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis

What else we're reading

March 2015- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee