List of books read and reviewed for 2010:

1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin [2007]; Length: 338; Finished reading at: 1 Jan 2010

2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin [1951, ?]; Length: 192; Finished reading at: 3 Jan 2010

3. Dear Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Hardback. Publisher: Penguin [2009]; Length: 179; Finished reading at: 6 Jan 2010

4. The Heart of the Matter By Graham Greene
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Classics [originally published 1948, this edition 2004]; Length: 255; Finished reading at: 10 Jan 2010

5. The End of the Affair By Graham Greene
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Classics [originally published 1951, this edition 2004]; Length: 160; Finished reading at: 14 Jan 2010

6. The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage [first published in french as La Joueuse de go 2001, this edition 2006]; Length: 280; Setting: 1930’s Manchuria. Source: Library Loan Finished reading at: 16 Jan 2010

7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Red Classics [originally published 1926, this edition 2006]; Length: 183; Setting: 1920’s New York and Long Island. Source: Library Loan. Finished reading at: 17 Jan 2010

8. The Mind Gym : wake your mind up
Paperback. Publisher: Time Warner Books 2005, Length: 308; Non-fiction. Source: Library Loan. Finished reading at: 17 Jan 2010

9. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hardback. Publisher: Faber & Faber 2009; Length: 221; Setting: Modern day Europe or America. Source: Library Loan. Finished reading at: 14 Feb 2010

10. The Last Friend by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Hardback. Publisher: New Press 2006; Length: 182; Setting: 1950’s Morocco. Source: Own. Finished reading at: 16 Feb 2010

11. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Books 2008; Length: 166; Setting: 1960’s England. Source: Own. Finished reading at: 17 Feb 2010

12. Love in the Age of Indifference by Xiaolu Guo
Paperback. Publisher: Chatto & Windus, Random Books 2010; Length: 214 pages; Setting: Contemporary China and Europe. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 28 Feb 2010

13. One Day by David Nicholls
Hardback. Publisher: Hodder & Soughton 2009; Length: 437 pages; Setting: 80’s to Contemporary England. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 27 Feb 2010

14. The Man From Beijing, Henning Mankell
Hardback. Publisher: Harvill Secker 2010; Length: 362 pages; Setting: Contemporary Sweden and China. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 6 March 2010

15. The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Hardback. Publisher: Harvill Secker 2008; Length: 164 pages; Setting: Contemporary Japan. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 7 March 2010

16. A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage 1982, 2003; Length: 299 pages; Setting: 80’s Japan. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 14 March 2010

17. The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters
Hardback. Publisher: Virago 2009; Length: 499 pages; Setting: Post WWII Warwickshire, England. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 19 March 2010

18. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Classics 1937, 2000; Length: 106 pages; Setting: 1930’s California, USA. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 27 March 2010

19. Hardboiled Hard Luck, Banana Yoshimoto
Paperback. Publisher: Faber and Faber 2005; Length: 149 pages; Setting: Contemporary Japan. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 27 March 2010

20. The Islamist, Ed Husain
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Books 2007; Length: 288 pages; Setting: Contemporary Britain, Syria, Saudi Arabia. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 27 March 2010

21. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Paperback. Publisher: Phoenix 2004, originally published in Spanish in 2002; Length: 403 pages; Setting: Post civil war Spain. Source: My Colleague A. Creed. Finished reading at: 31 March 2010

22. Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Paperback. Publisher: Virago Modern Classics 2008, originally published in 1938; Length: 441 pages; Setting: 1930’s Cornwall. Source: Library. Finished reading at: 4 April 2010

23. Oranges are not the only fruits, Jeanette Winterson
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage 2001, originally published in 1985; Length: 171 pages; Setting: 1980’s Lancashire. Source: Library. Finished reading at: 8 April 2010

24. The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
Hardback. Publisher: Canongate, 2005; Length: 199 pages; Setting: Land of Greek Gods. Source: Library. Finished reading at: 9 April 2010

25. Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
Hardback. Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1993; Length: 150 pages; Setting: Late 80’s Japan. Source: Library Reserve Stock. Finished reading at: 10 April 2010. The book is translated from Japanese by Megan Backus.

26. La Prisonniere by Malika Oufkir
Paperback. Publisher: Bantam Books, 2001; Length: 397 pages; Setting: 1972 – 1998 Morocco. Source: Own. Finished reading at: 15 April 2010. The book is co-written by Mechele Fitoussi and translated from French by Ros Schwartz.

28. The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Hardback. Publisher: Little Brown, 2010; Length: 247 pages; Setting: Botswana. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 18 April 2010

27. Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Paperback. Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2002; Length: 186 pages; Setting: Contemporary Japan. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 20 April 2010. The book is translated from Japanese by Michael Emmerich .

29. The Armies by Evelio Rosero
Hardback. Publisher: MacLehose Press 2008; Length: 215 pages; Setting: Contemporary Columbia. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 25 April 2010. The book is translated from Spanish by Anne McClean.

30. A Thousand Good Years of Prayers, YiYun Li
Hardback. Publisher: Fourth Estate 2006; Length: 205 pages; Setting:  Contemporary China. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 26 April 2010.

31. Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
Hardback. Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, imprint of Penguin books 2010; Length: 339 pages; Setting: 2005 before and after math of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 1 May 2010.

32. Dream Angus, Alexander McCall Smith
Paperback. Publisher: Canongate 2007; Length: 173 pages; Setting: Celtic Myth and modern day Ireland and Scotland. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 2 May 2010.

33. Every Move You Make, David Malouf
Hardback. Publisher: Vintage books 2008; Length: 244 pages; Setting: Contemporary Australia. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 6 May 2010.

34. The Outside by Albert Camus (other title : Le E’stranger, The Stranger)
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Books 2000 (originally published 1942); Length: 119 pages; Setting: 1940’s Algeria. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 8 May 2010. Translated by Joseph Laredo.

35. Understanding Judaism by Carl S. Ehrlich
Hardback. Publisher: Duncan Baird 2004; Length: 111 pages; Setting: Non-fiction. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 8 May 2010.

36.Where Three Roads Meet, Salley Vickers
Paperback. Publisher: Canongate 2007; Length: 197; Setting: Greek Mythology Finished reading at: 12 May 2010

37. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Marry Ann Shaffer & Anne Barrows
Paperback. Publisher:  Bloomsbury 2009; Length: 248 pages; Setting: WWII Guernsey Island; Source: M. Creed, co-worker. Finished reading at: 17 May 2010

38. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Paperback. Publisher:  Vintage books 2000.; Length: 220 pages; Setting: Late 1990’s South Africa; Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 20 May 2010

39. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Scott Fitzgerald
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics [originally published 1922, this edition 2008]; Length: 202 pages; Setting: 1920’s. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 24 May 2010

40. Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
Paperback. Publisher: HarperCollins 2010; Length: 280 pages; Setting: 1930’s Somali, Yemen, Ethiopia and Sudan. Source: Library Loot. Abandoned mid-way at: 4 June 2010.

41. Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
Paperback. Publisher: Canongate 2008; Length: 164 pages; Setting: Contemporary Inverness, Scotland. Source: Library Loot. Abandoned mid-way at: 6 June 2010.

42. Miss Chopstick, Xinran
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Books, 2008; Length: 257 pages. Setting: Contemporary China, Nanjing. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 10 June 2010

43. The Silver Lining Playbook, Matthew Quick
Paperback. Publisher: Picador, 2009; Length: 289 pages. Setting: Contemporary America. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 15 June 2010

44. The Secret River, Kate Grenville
Paperback. Publisher: Canongate Books, 2006; Length: 349 pages. Setting: 1806  – 1814 New South Wales, Australia. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 12 June 2010

45. The Complete Book of Mothers-in-law, Luisa Dillner
Hardback. Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2008; Length: 272 pages. Setting: Everywhere, anywhere. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at: 19 June 2010

46. Ransom, David Malouf
Hardback. Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2009; Length: 244 pages; Setting: Land of Greek Gods. Source: Library. Finished reading at: 25 June 2010

47. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
Paperback. Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2002; Length: 318 pages (in a very tiny fonts!); Setting: Lima, Peru. Source: Library. Finished reading at: 26 June 2010

48. Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother, Xinran
Hardback. Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2010; Length: 212 pages; Setting: 60’s to present China. Source: Library. Finished reading at: 27 June 2010

49. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Hardback. Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1984, 2004; Length: 305 pages; Setting: 1968 Prague and around the world. Source: Library. Finished reading at: 2 July 2010

50. The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
Paperback. Publisher: Faber & Faber 2008; Length: 312 pages; Setting: 30′s and contemporary Ireland. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  9 July 2010

51. Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
Paperback. Publisher: Spectre 1999; Length: 438 pages; Setting: Around the globe. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  16 July 2010

52. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Hardback. Publisher: Collins 1980, originally published 1950; Length: 8o pages; Setting: India. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  18 July 2010

53. Hotel Iris, Yoko Ogawa
Paperback. Publisher: Harvill Secker 2010, originally published 1996; Length: 164 pages; Setting: Japan. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  25 July 2010. Translated by Stephen Synder.

54. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Books 2002; Length: 229 pages; Setting: Japan. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  29 July 2010.

54. Map of the Invisible World, Tash Aw
Paperback. Publisher: Fourth Estate, imprint of HarperCollins 2010; Length: 343 pages; Setting: 1960’s Indonesia andMalaysia. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  29 July 2010.

55. After Dark, Haruki Murakami
Paperback. Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2010; Length: 468 pages; Setting: Contemporary Japan. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  7th August 2010. Translated by Jay Rubin.

56. Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
Hardback. Publisher: Vintage books 2007; Length: 201 pages; Setting: Contemporary Japan. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  8th August 2010. Translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm.

57. The Map of Love, Ahdaf Souief
Paperback. Publisher: Bloomsbury 1999; Length: 516 pages; Setting: British occupied Egypt, Egypt 1997. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  18th August 2010.

58. Our Tragic Universe, Scarlett Thomas
Hardback. Publisher: Canongate 2010; Length: 428 pages; Setting: Dartmouth, UK. Source: Library. Finished reading at:  21st August 2010.

59. Mergers and Acquisitions by Dana Vachon
Paperback. Publisher: Arrow books 2008, Length: 290 pages; Setting: Contemporary New York Manhattan. Source: Library Loot, Finished reading at 27 August 2010.

60. Sky Burial by Xinran
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage 2005, Length: 164 pages; Setting: 1960’s Tibet and China. Source: Library Loot, Finished reading at 28 August 2010.

61. Weight by Jeanette Winterson
Hardback. Publisher: Canongate 2005, Length: 151 pages; Setting: Greek Mythology. Source: Library Loot, Finished reading at 29 August 2010.

62. After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Clssics 1963, 2001, Length: 271 pages; Setting: Japan 1960’s. Source: Library Loot, Finished reading at 5th September 2010.

63. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage East 1963, 2006, Length: 181 pages; Setting: Japan 1960’s. Source: Own book, Finished reading at 7th September 2010.

64. Asleep, Banana Yoshimoto
Paperback. Publisher: Faber & Faber 2001, Length: 177 pages; Setting: Japan in the 90’s. Source: Library Loot, Finished reading at 12th September 2010.

64. Rabbit Run, John Updike
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Books, 1960, 1995, Length: 309 pages; Setting: 1950’s American Jazz Age. Source: Library Loot, Finished skim reading at 12th September 2010.

66. The Gathering, Anne Enright
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage 2008, Length: 261 pages; Setting: Dublin and England 1925 to date. Source: Library Loot, Finished reading at 15th September 2010.

67. Identity by Milan Kundera
Paperback. Publisher: Faber & Faber 1999, Length: 153 pages. Setting: France. Source: Library Loot, Finished Reading at 19th September 2010. Translated from French by Linda Asher.

68. Hotel Du Lac, Anita Brookner
Paperback. Publisher: Penguin, 1984, 1993, Length: 184 pages. Setting: Switzerland, London. Source: Library Loot, Finished Reading at 21st September 2010.

69. The Maid, Yasutaka Tsutsui
Paperback. Publisher: Alma Books, 2010, originally published in Japanese in 1972, Length: 217 pages, Setting: 70’s Japan. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at 28^th September 2010, translated by Adam Kabat.

70. Yalo by Elias Khoury
Paperback. Publisher: Maclehose Press, 2010, originally published in Arabic in 2002,  Length: 344 pages, Setting: Beirut, Lebanon, Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at 3^rd October 2010, translated by Humphrey Davies.

71. The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Hardback. Publisher: Viking, 2005.  Length: 176 pages, Setting: Contemporary New York City, Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at 9th October 2010.

72. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
Hardback. Publisher: Everyman’s Library Classics, 1994, originally published in 1956.  Length: 247 pages, Setting: !960’s Japan, Source: Bracknell Library. Finished reading at 15th October 2010. Translated by Ivan Morris, Introduced by Donald Keene.

73. Budapest, Chico Barque
Hardback. Publisher: Bloomsbury 2004. Length: [183 pages], Setting: [Rio De Janeiro and Budapest], Source: Library. Finished reading at 19^th October 2010. Originally published in Portugese, translated by Alison Entrekin.

74. The Power and The Glory, Graham Greene
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2005, originally published in 1940.  Length: 220 pages, Setting: 1930′s Mexico, Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at 5th November 2010.

75. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage Classics 2008, originally published in 1981.  Length: 647 pages, Setting: 1950′s to 1960’s Before and after India’s independence and partition. Source: Own. Finished reading at 21 November 2010.

76. Mini-Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Hardback. Publisher: Bantam Press, 2010.  Length: 395 pages, Setting: Britain. Source: Library Loot. Finished reading at 24 November 2010.

77. Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Paperback. Publisher: Anchor Books 2000.  Length: 275 pages, Setting: San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Source:Own. Finished reading at 7 December 2010.

78. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Paperback. Publisher: Granta Books, July 2010 .  Length: 314 pages, Setting: 1960’s to 2010 North Korea. Source: Library loot (ordered a copy from Amazon). Finished reading at 12th December 2010.

79. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage books 2003. Length: 132 pages. Setting: Aftermath of the Kobe earthquake which happens around Tuesday, January 17, 1995, at 05:46, Source: Library loot (Bracknell Library). Finished reading at 17th December 2010.

80. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Paperback. Publisher: Virago Classics,  2006, originally published in 1936.  Length: 302 pages, Setting: Gothic Cornwall. Source: Own. Finished reading at Christmas Day! 2010. Short Introduction by Sarah Dunant.

81. Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden? by Morgan Spurlock
Paperback. Publisher: Vintage,  2008.  Length: 290 pages, Setting: Middle East and North Africa.  Source: Library. Finished reading at 28 December 2010.