Books read in 2008 for pleasure

* Denotes - excellent read# Denotes - did not finish

The Man in the Picture - Susan Hill
The Tenderness of Wolves - Steph Penney
At Large and At Small - Anne Fadiman
Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
I Found My Horn - Jasper Rees
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Gilgamesh
Captain Professor - Michael Howard
Our Horses in Egypt - Roslin Balsen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
Utz - Bruce Chatwin
Oxford Letters - Veronica Stallwood#
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
Oxford Exit - Veronica Stallwood#
Evening in the Palace of Reason - James Gaines*
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth**
Quicksands - Sybille BedfordJigsaw - Sybille Bedford
Barcelona - the Great Enchantress - Robert Hughes
The Concert Pianist - Conrad Williams
The Boy Who Loved Books - John Sutherland
Diaries, 1971 - 1988, James Lees-Milne
Another Self - James Lees-Milne
Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Immortality - Milan Kundera
Publisher - Tom Maschler
The Untouchable - John Banville*
Shroud - John Banville
Diaries 1942 - 1954 - James Lees-Milne
The Assassins Cloak - Alan and Irene Taylor
Jane and Prudence - Barbera Pym
The Collector of Worlds - Iliya Troyanov
The Morville Hours - Kathrine Swift**
A Life's Music - Andrei Makine*
On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin *
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
Learning to Dance - Michael Mayne
Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham*
Saturday - Ian McEwan
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Oxford - Jan Morris
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall Smith
The Common Reader - Alan Bennett
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh*
Remember Me - Melvyn Bragg
A Man Like Any Other - Mary Cavanagh
The Savage Garden - Mark Mills
Sea Change - Mairi Hedderwick
The White War - Mark Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian - Yourcenar*
Following Hadrian - Elizabeth Speller
The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill
New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society -Mary Ann Shaffer
The Library at Night - Alberto Manguel*
G M Trevelyan, A Life in History - David Cannadine
The Birdman - Henry Douglas-Home
The Carlyles at Home - Thea Holme*
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Song of the Rolling Earth - John Lister-Kaye
Reading in Bed - Steven Gilbar*
A Book of Silence - Sara Maitland*
On Tour with Thomas Telford - Chris Morris
Sir John Vanbrugh - Vaughan Hart
A Winter Book - Tove Jansson
The Odyssey - Homer ~(annual read)
The Pleasure of the Past - David Cannadine
Reading in Bed - Steven Gilbar
Curiosities of Literature - John Sutherland
Lanterns Across the Snow - Susan Hill (annual read)*
A Time to Keep Silence - Patrick Leigh Fermor*