The Books of 2011

There are a few hours of 2011 left but I have finished all the books this year I’m ever going to finish. I have just started Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, which is as large as my dictionary!

This is a round up of my year of reading, and I have to say I think this is the best year yet:

93 books

My new author discoveries and particular recommends for the year are:

• Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
• Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Charles Dickens, Bleak House
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
• Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
• Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast AND The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
• Katherine Mansfield, At the Bay
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall and A Place of Greater Safety
• Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

There isn’t an author on that list whose backlist I don’t immediately want to  devour, except for Anne Brontë, which I’ve already done!

Here is how 2011 went for me: