‘The Reader’ by Bernhard Schlink, ‘Strangers’ by Taichi Yamada and ‘In The Miso Soup’ by Ryu Murakami. Nicola Barker’s ‘Darkmans’ was easily the longest shortest I think is ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ by J.K. Beaton ‘Agatha Raisin’ novels but it was Mary Ann Shaffer’s ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ is officially the longest. I read quite a lot of long titled books such as any of the M.C. I have read a fair few new ones of which isn’t out until January, so a few pre-publication. The other was ‘Company of Liars’ by Karen Maitland which I really wanted to read but just wasn’t in the right mind frame for, maybe in 2009!Įmily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ which I thought didn’t live up to expectations at all. My Gran read this and struggled on through but said she wished she’d given up. I didn’t finish the aforementioned ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’ just because after realising that I was going to have to read the same boring storyline four times from different people I gave up during the second. I was also underwhelmed by Emily Bronte sadly.Īny that you simply couldn’t finish and why? I also thought that ‘Son of a Witch’ by Gregory Maguire was poor I don’t think anything he has done has been as good as ‘Wicked’ though. Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy was incredibly boring though I finished it, I didn’t finish Iain Pears ‘An Instance of the Fingerpost’. I have a pretty sneaky suspicion but you’ll have to wait until the end of the year!

I think the one I am reading now will be the last one of the year as after that am reading Anna Karenina and don’t think could read that in less than three days and finish this one so “When Will There Be Good News” will be my 102nd book of the year beating last years 69.ĥ0 male and 52 female which really shocked me as I thought I had read much more books by women than men, odd. However I thought of a few extra questions I would ask people, so here we go… I liked this idea of as well as blogging your favourites of the year you do something a bit different too.

So naturally I have started to go through what I think are the best books of the year which I will announce on the 30th of December, in the lead up and looking at other people blogs everyone is working out how many books they have read and by male or female authors like Simon Stuck in a Book.

Title by Ryū Murakami