Book List 2008-2010
2010
1. Dances With Wolves – Michael Blake 2. The Bridges of Madison County – Robert James Waller3. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood 4. Chocolat – Joanne Harris
5. Sylvia – Bryce Courtenay 6. Forbidden Love – Norma Khouri 7. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield (read before) 8. The End of the Alphabet – C S Richardson 9. Night – Elie Wiesel 10. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver 11. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet – Colleen McCullough 12. The God Squad – Paddy Doyle 13. Dreaming With God – Bill Johnson 14. The Autobiography of George Muller – George Muller 15. The Tea Rose – Jennifer Donnelly 16. A Promise for Nadia – Zana Muhsen 17. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak 18. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 19. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway 20. For the Term of His Natural Life – Marcus Clarke 21. The Lieutenant – Kate Grenville 22. Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee – Chloe Hooper 23. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 24. The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera 25. Animal Farm – George Orwell 26. The Secret River – Kate Grenville
27. The Color Purple – Alice Walker 28. The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes (didn’t finish) 29. From Strength to Strength – Sara Henderson 30. The Blessing – Gary Smalley 31. Pagan Christianity – Frank Viola 32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon 33. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury 34. Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda 35. Gilead – Marilynne Robinson 36. Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller 37. Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson
2009
1. The Hospital by the River – Catherine Hamlin 2. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 3. Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones 4. The End of Poverty – Jeffery Sachs 5. Once Were Warriors – Alan Duff 6. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 7. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 8. A Town Like Alice – Neville Shute 9. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Husseini 10. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 11. The Shack – WM P Young 12. Mercy – Jodi Picoult13. The Memory Keepers Daughter – Kim Edwards 14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe 15. Escape – Carolyn Jessop 16. Perfect Match – Jodi Picoult 17. Hidden – Cathy Glass 18. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd 19. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai 20. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer 21. Handle With Care – Jodi Picoult 22. Jany Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 23. Jessica – Bryce Courtenay (read before) 24. Antony and Cleopatra – Colleen McCullough 25. The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom 26. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 27. The Memory Keepers Daughter – Kim Edwards 28. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kid 29. The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai 30. The Other Hand – Chris Cleave
2008
1. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 2. The Willoughbys – Lois Lowry 3. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol 4. The Borrowers – Mary Norton 5. The Complete Tales – Beatrix Potter 6. Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling 7. Pipi Longstocking – Astrid Lindgren 8. Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain 9. The Catcher in the Rye – J D Sallinger 10. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 11. The Sea – John Banville 12. Adventures of Pioneer Women in NZ 13. Five Days in London – John Lukacs14. Absolute Power – Ian Wishart 15. The Handmaid and the Carpenter – Elizabeth Berg 16. Sarah – Orson Scott Card 17. A Voice in the Wind – Francine Rivers 18. The Constant Princess – Philippa Gregory 19. Resistance – Owen Sheers 20. Morgan’s Run – Colleen McCullough 21. Jessica – Bryce Courtenay 22. The Touch – Colleen McCullough 23. The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough 24. The City of Joy – Dominique Lapierre 25. I am David – Anne Holm 26. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield 27. The Widow and Her Hero - Thomas Keneally 28. Lies That Go Unchallenged – Charles Colson 29. The Pilot’s Wife – Anita Shreve 30. Mrs Kimble – Jennifer Haigh
31. Honey for a Child’s Heart - Gladys Hunt 32. The Well Trained Mind – Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer 33. For the Children’s Sake – Susan Schaeffer Macauley
34. The Perfect Storm – Sebastion Junger 35. Forest Gump – Winston Groom 36. Schindler’s List – Thomas Keneally 37. Corelli’s Mandolin – Loius DeBernieres (didn’t finish) 38. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje 39. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks 40. Tandia – Bryce Courtenay 41. Left to Tell – Immaculee Ilibagiza 42. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier – Ishmael Beah 43. Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela 44. There is no me without You – Melissa Fay Greene 45. Cry the Beloved Country – Alan Paton 46. Heart of Darfur – Lisa French Blaker 47. Arlington Park – Rachel Cusk 48. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan 49. Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds – Tom Davis
