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The Big Read 2011

The Big Read of 2011 is bigger and better – aiming for 100 (doubling 2010’s target!) this year :D

001 | A Partisan’s Daughter – Louis de Bernières
002 | The Girls – Lori Lansens
003 | The Understudy – David Nicholls
004 | Nocturnes – Kazuo Ishiguro
005 | Talk to the Snail – Stephen Clark
006 | Ciao Bella – Helena Frith Powell
007 | Darkest Fear – Harlan Coben
008 | The Storyteller’s Daughter – Saira Shah
009 | Pomegranate Soup – Marsha Mehran
010 | Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey through Islamic Lands – Aatish Taseer
011 | Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – Amy Chua
012 | The Book of Fame – Lloyd Jones
013 | Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
014 | The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
015 | Heat Wave – Richard Castle
016 | Naked Heat – Richard Castle
017 | Twenties Girl – Sophie Kinsella
018 | Me and Mr Darcy – Alexandra Potter
019 | French or Foe? – Polly Platt
020 | Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
021 | Bitter Sweets – Roopa Farooki
022 | The Twisted Heart – Rebecca Gowers
023 | Vision in White – Nora Roberts
024 | Savour the Moment – Nora Roberts
025 | The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
026 | Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death – MC Beaton
027 | Hold Tight – Harlan Coben
028 | Butterfly Tattoo – Phillip Pullman
029 | Can You Keep a Secret? – Sophie Kinsella
030 | A Palace in the Old Village – Tahar Ben Jelloun
031 | Blood Brothers – Nora Roberts
032 | The Hollow – Nora Roberts
033 | The Pagan Stone – Nora Roberts
034 | The Prince of Mist – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
035 | Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
036 | Freakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
037 | The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender
038 | Brain Rules – John Medina
039 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
040 | Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City – Stephen Clarke
041 | Harry Potter à l’Ecole des Sorciers – JK Rowling
042 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
043 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
044 | Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
045 | Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul – Charles Timoney
046 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
047 | The Alchemist and the Angel – Joanne Owen
048 | 59 Seconds – Richard Wiseman
049 | One for My Baby – Tony Parsons
050 | No Second Chance – Harlan Coben
051 | The Alchemy of Murder – Carol McCleary
052 | The Japanese Lover – Rani Manicka
053 | The Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz
054 | Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland – Jasper Winn
055 | The Girl with Glass Feet – Ali Shaw
056 | 44 Scotland Street – Alexander McCall Smith
057 | The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
058 | Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie
059 | Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments – Alex Boese
060 | The Emperor’s Tomb – Steve Berry
061 | The Flying Troutmans – Miriam Toews
062 | Maneater – Gigi Levangie Grazer
063 | Lavender Morning – Jude Deveraux
064 | Days of Gold – Jude Deveraux
065 | Scarlet Nights – Jude Deveraux
066 | The House of the Mosque – Kader Abdolah
067 | Tehran, Lipstick and Loopholes – Nahal Tajadod
068 | The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
069 | Little Princes – Conor Grennan
070 | Heartwishes – Jude Deveraux
071 | The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
072 | The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
073 | The Room – Emma Donoghue
074 | Strange Fits of Passion – Anita Shreve
075 | Heat Rises – Richard Castle
076 | Boffinology – Justin Pollard
077 | A Woman of Secrets – Amelia Carr
078 | Hippo Eats Dwarf! – Alex Boese
079 | Back Spin – Harlan Coben
080 | Espresso Tales – Alexander McCall Smith
081 | A Change in Altitude – Anita Shreve
082 | Travelling with Pomegranates – Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor
083 | Swimsuit – James Patterson
084 | Anthropology – Dan Rhodes
085 | Hotel Iris – Yoko Ogawa
086 | The Flirt – Kathleen Tessaro
087 | On Love : A Novel – Alain de Botton
088 | The Science of Kissing – Sheril Kirshenbaum
089 | Les Misérables (English translation) – Victor Hugo
090 | The Fifth Mountain – Paulo Coelho
091 | Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
092 | The Moneypenny Diaries – Kate Westbrook
093 | Falling Awake – Jayne Ann Krentz
094 | This Side of Paradise – F Scott Fitzgerald
095 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
096 | A Loving Scoundrel – Johanna Lindsey
097 | The Help – Kathryn Stockett
098 | A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers – Xiaolu Guo
099 | The Sunday Philosophy Club – Alexander McCall Smith
100 | The Private Lives of Pippa Lee – Rebecca Miller
101 | The Woman in the Fifth – Douglas Kennedy
102 | First Comes Marriage – Mary Balogh
103 | Then Comes Seduction – Mary Balogh
104 | At Last Comes Love – Mary Balogh
105 | Seducing An Angel – Mary Balogh
106 | A Secret Affair – Mary Balogh
107 | The Chocolate Run – Dorothy Koomson

Ps: 21.12.2011 Woo – now that I’ve finished this year’s challenge, I can proceed to read some random whimsical novels (that comes in a series to boot) ;)

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