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Fiction
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The Book Thief – Mark Zusak
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Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
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Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
The Coroner's Lunch – Colin Cotterill
Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
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Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
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The Family Tree – Carole Cadwaller
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Girl with a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
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The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
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Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamandi Ngozi Adiche
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The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Industry of Souls – Martin Booth
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The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
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The Laying on of Hands – Alan Bennett
Lottery – Patricia Wood
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The Madonnas of Leningrad – Debra Dean
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Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
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My Sister's Keeper – Jodi Picoult
Old Filth – Jane Gardam
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The Other Side of the Bridge – Mary Lawson
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The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
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Purple Hibiscus – Chimamandi Ngozi Adichie
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Restless – William Boyd
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Run – Ann Patchett
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The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian – Marina Lewycka
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Slumdog Millionaire – Vikas Swarup
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
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The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (short stories)
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The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
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Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
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Winter in Madrid – CJ Sansom
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New Zealand Fiction
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10 PM Question, The - Kate de Goldi
As the Earth Turns Silver - Alison Wong
Ask the Posts of the House [short stories] - Witi Ihimaera
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Bulibasha - Witi Ihimaera
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Captive Wife, The - Fiona Kidman
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Edwin & Matilda - Laurence Fearnley
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How to Stop a Heart from Beating - Jackie Ballantyne
Landings - Jenny Pattrick
Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs - Linda Olsson
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Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
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Remember Me - Derek Hansen
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Non Fiction
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Born on a Blue Day - Daniel Tammet
Bright Star – Beatrice Hill Tinsley - Christine Cole Catley [a big read]
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Child of Tibet - Soname Yangchien
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The - Jean Dominique Bauby
Down Under - Bill Bryson
Dreams From My Father - Barak Obama
Family that Couldn’t Sleep, The - DT Max
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Glass Castle, The – Jeanette Walls
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House by the Dvina – Eugenie Fraser
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House of Stone – Christine Lamb
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Infidel: My Life – Ali Ayaan Hirsi
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Life is So Good - George Dawson
Little Daughter - Zoya Phan
Mao’s Last Dancer – Li Cunxin
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Nancy Wake - Peter FitzSimmons
Nazi Officer’s Wife, The – Edith Hahn Beer
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