Books Read in 2012
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Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
Books Read in 2011
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The Alchemist (graphic novel) – Paulo Coelho
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The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
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Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design – Wendy Northcutt & Christopher M Kelly
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Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Naked – David Sedaris
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Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
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Barrel Fever – David Sedaris
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Diary (novel) – Chuck Palahnuik
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Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis
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What I talk about when I talk about running – Haruki Murakami
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Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut
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Atonement – Ian McEwan
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Dr Yes – Colin Bateman
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The life of Pi – Yann Martel
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The American (previously named “A very private gentleman”) – Martin Booth
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The Witch of Portobello – by Paulo Coelho
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Idiot Abroad – Karl Pilkington
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Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large – Michael Frayn
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson (2nd time that I’ve read it)
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The World of Karl Pilkington – Karl Pilkington
- The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan (2nd time that I’ve read it)
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
- The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell
- Tell all – Chuck Palahniuk
- Wingshooters – Nina Revoyr
- Monsters 1959 – David Maine
- Hell’s Angels – Hunter S Thompson
Books Read in 2010
- Rules of Attraction – Bret Easton Ellis
- Deception Point – Dan Brown
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
- Saturday – Ian McEwan
- Spiral – Koji Suzuki
- Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
- Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
- Up in the air – Walter Kim
- My name was Judas – CK Stead
- Ponte City – Norman Ohler
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemmingway
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (2nd time that I’ve read it)
- Red Velvet: Memoirs of a Working Girl – Lisa Lou
- Don’t tell mum I work on the rigs (she thinks I’m a piano player in a whorehouse) – Paul Carter
- Adrian Mole: The prostate years – Sue Townsend
- The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
- Eros Unbound – Anais Nin
- World Without End – Ken Follett
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
- Torn Apart – James Patterson and Hal Friedman
- Nineteen eighty-four – George Orwell
- Perfume – Patrick Suskind
Books Read in 2009
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The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4) – Eoin Colfer
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The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey – Chuck Palahniuk
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Tales if the Unexpected – Roald Dahl
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Motor Mouth – Janet Evanovich
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Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W – Gabriel Brownstein
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The Art of Travel – Alain de Botton
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Lord of the Flies – William Golding
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The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
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To Love, Honour and Betray – Kathy Lette
Books Read in 2008
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Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
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Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
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The Complete Secret Diaries of God – Kombuis Koos
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Water from the Sun and Discovering Japan – Bret Easton Ellis
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa – Antjie Krog
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Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis
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A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K Le Guin
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The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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The Pact – Jodi Picoult
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My Sister’s Keepter – Jodi Picoult
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Some of my Best Friends are White: Subversive Thoughts froan m an Urban Warrior – Ndumiso Ngcobo
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Bad Sex: We did it so you won’t have to – Nerve.com
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Budapest: A Novel – Chico Buarque
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The air-conditioned nightmare – Henry Miller
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A change of tongue – Antjie Krog
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Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
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The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
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For One More Day – Mitch Albom
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The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
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The Five People you Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
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Moist – Mark Haskell Smith
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The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
Top 5 books
1) Pagan and her Parents – Michael Arditti
2) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
3) The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
4) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W – Gabriel Brownstein
5) The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald