Click on the links to see the thoughts I have jotted down on particular books. These reviews are currently hosted on another of my websites, but don't worry, it's quite safe. The links will open another window.  When I get a few moments, I'll transfer them all over to this site.

Fiction

1. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (1st - 6th January)
2. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (7th - 11th January)
3. Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco (11th January)
4. The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (11th - 15th January)
5. The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez (15th - 16th January)
6. Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs (22nd to 24th January)
7. The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (25th to 30th January)
8. The Seventh Son by Reay Tannahill (31st January to 9th February)
9. Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs (25th to 27th February)
10. The Dante Club (9th to 22nd April)
11. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1st May 2006)
12. Don't Make Me Laugh by Patrick Augustus (2nd May 2006)
13. The Franchise Affair by Josehine Tey (3rd to 6th May)
14. The Burning Girl by Mark Billingham (27th to 29th May)
15. The Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kristen Bakis (June 2006)
16. Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs (2nd to 5th July)
17. Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi (6th July)
18. The Wishing Game by Patrick Redmond (23rd to 25th July)
19. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (26th-27th July)
20. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth (30th July to 2nd August)
21. The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner (3rd to 5th August)
22. The Great Stink by Clare Clark (12th to 25th August)
23. The Hound in the Left Hand Corner by Giles Waterford (26th August to 1st September)
24. The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum (15th-16th September)
25. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (10th - 12th September)
26. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon (September 2006)
27. The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde (September 2006)
28. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (September 2006)
29. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Temple - Part One (October 2006)
30. The Battle of Dorking by George Chesney (November 2006)
31. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov (November 206)
32. The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (Nov-Dec 2006)
33. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill (Dec 2006)
34. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Dec 2006)
35. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Dec 2006)
36. Property by Valerie Martin (Dec 2006)

Reading Group Reading

1. Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill (March 2006)
2. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (April 2006) (23rd to 30th April).
3. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (June 2006) (14th to 15th June)
4. The Whole World Over by Julia Glass (July 2006) (12th to 19th July)
5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (August 2006) (27th August to 4th September)
6. Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham (October 2006)
7. Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes (November 2006)

University Reading

1. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (10th to 20th February)
2. Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence (8th to 27th May)
3. A Passage to India by E M Forster (October - November 2006)
4. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (November 2006)

University Reading Part II (these are books have read substantial parts of but not read completely)

1. Moll Flanders: The Making of a Criminal Mind by Paula R. Backscheider
2. Literary Theory by Terry Eagleton
3. Handbook to Literary Research by Simon Eliot  and  W R Owens
4. Modern Literary Theory, edited by Rice and Waugh
5. Text in the Book Format by Keith E Smith
6. The Books of Henry VIII and his Wives by James P Carley
7. In Memoriam, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (May 2006)
8. Tennyson's Poems - Norton Critical, edited by Robert W Hill (2006)

9. Eagleton, Terry, Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others (London and New York: Verso, 2003)

10. Fish, Stanley, Is there a text in the class? (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1980)

11. Tomkins, Jane P., ed., Reader Response Criticism:  From Formalism to Post-Structuralism (Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1980)

Non-Fiction

1. The Mystery of the Princes by Audrey Williamson (16th - 21st January)
2. Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami (18th February)
3. Text in Book Format by Keith Smith (April 2006)
4. Guide to Belgian Chocolate (July 2006)
5. Embroideries from Snowshill, One of the World's Leading Collections of Costimer and Accessories of the 18th and 19th century.
6. V&A Needlepoint Collection by Karen Elder (8th September)
7. Bastard Prince: Henry VIII's Lost Son by Beverley A Murphy (September 2006)
8. Jack the Ripper - Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell. (October 2006)
9. The Bewitching of Anne Gunter by James Sharpe (November 2006)
10. The Good Fiction Guide edited by Jane Rogers (Dec 2006)

Poetry

1. Tennyson's selected poetry