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Friday, 30 July 2010

July 2010 book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Posted by M at 5:15 pm

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We are a Sydney-based book group who meet once a month to talk about a book chosen by one of our members. We discuss the book, we grade it (out of 10) and we get side-tracked onto other issues.

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Our top rated books 2004 -2011 (in no specific order)

Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Bereft by Chris Womersley
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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2011 Book List

The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Before I go to Sleep by S J Watson
A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French
Room by Emma Donaghue
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Death of a Red Heroine by Qui Xiaolong
Bereft by Chris Womersley
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons
Tinkers by Paul Harding

2010 Book List

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Ghost Child by Caroline Overington
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shafer
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
The Legacy by Kirsten Trantor
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Day after Night by Anita Diamant
Things Without a Name by Joanne Fedler

2009 Book List

The Age of Reason by Jean Paul Sartre
Breath by Tim Winton
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
A Confederacy of Dunces
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

2008 Booklist

My Year of Meat by Ruth Ozeki
Half a Life by V.S.Naipaul
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Love Life by Ray Kluun
The Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak

2007 BookList

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
You Gotta Have Balls by Lily Brett
A heart of Stone by R Dorrestein
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles by Elizabeth Stead
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

2006 Booklist

Let's talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
The Kite Runner by Kaled Hosseini
Lucky by Alice Sebold
It’s not about the bike: My journey back to life by Lance Armstrong
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
Velocity by Mandy Sayer
The Factory by Paddy O'Reilly
The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose

2005 Booklist

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
People Who Have Stolen from Me by David Cohen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Life By Design: The Art and Lives of Florence Broadhurst by Siobhan O'Brien
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Joe Cinque’s Consolation by Helen Garner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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