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Books from the past

This book group has been going since late 2003 (I think). Here is a record of all the books we've read.

Before August 2005

Spies like us by Hugh Lunn
Scurvy by Stephen R. Bown
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor Al-Hussein
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
A short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2005

August: The Mayne Inheritance by Rosamund Siemon
September: Coronation Talkies by Susan Kurosawa
October: A Remarkable Journey by Carol Kidu
November: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

2006

January: The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa
February: Small Island by Andrea Levy
March: Q and A by Vikram Swarup
April: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
May: A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
June: Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
July: Holy Cow by Sarah McDonald
August: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
September: Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
October: The Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
November: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

2007

January: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
February: Snake by Dewi Anggraeni
March: How Proust can change your life by Alain De Botton
April: Rosie Little's Cautionary Talkes for Girls by Danielle Woods
May: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
June: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
July: The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
August: Freakonomics by S. Levitt and S. Dubner
September: Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk
October: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
November: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai

2008

January: Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew by Christine Wallace
February: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
March: A long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
April: When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
May: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
June: Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
July: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
August: Sixty Lights by Gail Jones
September: Toast by Nigel Slater
October: Animal Farm by George Orwell
November: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

2009

January: The Spy who came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
February: Naked by David Sedaris
March: The Comfort of Figs by Simon Cleary
April: Gould's book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
May: People of the book by Geraldine Brookes
June: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
July: One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
August: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
September: Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
October: The Solid Mandala by Patrick White
November: Coraline by Neil Gaiman

2010

January: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
February:
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April: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel by Muriel Barbery
May:Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
June: The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
July: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

September: The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
October: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
November: Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow by Peter Hoeg

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Campaign ruby by Jessica rudd