2009

January
1/52 Ragtime in Simla – Barbara Cleverly
2/52 The Damascened Blade – Barbara Cleverly
2/52 Pigeon Post – Arthur Ransome (re-read)
3/52 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – Ian Fleming
4/52 The Man with the Golden Gun – Ian Fleming
5/52 The School by the River – Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
6/52 Greenmantle – John Buchan
7/52 Mr Standfast – John Buchan
8/52 The Master of Maryknoll – Malcolm Saville
9/52 The Three Hostages – John Buchan
10/52 Conspiracy in Death – J. D. Robb^
11/52 The Island of Sheep – John Buchan
12/52 Dissolution – C. J. Sansom^

February
13/52 Musicophilia* – Oliver Sacks^
14/52 Life Class – Pat Barker^
15/52 The 13 Treasures – Michelle Harrison^
16/52 Collected short stories – Arthur C. Clarke
17/52 The Black Swan* – Nassim Nicholas Taleb^
18/52 Night Watch – Sergei Lukyanenko^

March
19/52 Bad Science* – Ben Goldacre
19/52 Juliet Overseas – Clare Mallory (re-read)
19/52 New House at Winwood – Clare Mallory (re-read)
20/52 No Humans Involved – Kelley Armstrong
20/52 They Do It With Mirrors – Agatha Christie (re-read)
20/52 Boy Meets Girl – Meg Cabot (re-read)
20/52 The Boy Next Door – Meg Cabot (re-read)
21/52 The Saltmarsh Murders – Gladys Mitchell
22/52 Tom Brown’s Body – Gladys Mitchell
22/52 The Clock Strikes Twelve – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)

April
23/52 Black Magic Woman – Justin Gustainis^
24/52 Danger Point – Patricia Wentworth
25/52 Dark Fire – C. J. Sansom
26/52 Sovereign – C. J. Sansom
27/52 Boy – Takeshi Kitano^
28/52 Queen of Babble in the Big City – Meg Cabot
29/52 How Not To Write A Novel* – Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman^
30/52 When Last I Died – Gladys Mitchell
30/52 Ice Station Zebra – Alistair Maclean (re-read)
31/52 Wicked Uncle – Patricia Wentworth
32/52 Queen of Babble Gets Hitched – Meg Cabot
33/52 Ladies’ Bane – Patricia Wentworth

May
34/52 The Palace Tiger – Barbara Cleverly
35/52 The Bee’s Kiss – Barbara Cleverly
36/52 Tragedy At Law – Cyril Hare
37/52 When the Wind Blows – Cyril Hare
38/52 The Case of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks – James Anderson
39/52 She Went All The Way – Meg Cabot
40/52 Legend in Green Velvet – Elizabeth Peters
41/52 The Seventh Sinner – Elizabeth Peters
42/52 The Golden Rendezvous – Alistair Maclean
43/52 Bear Island – Alistair Maclean
44/52 The Ambler Warning – ‘Robert Ludlum’^
45/52 Iceberg – Clive Cussler
46/52 Elephant Song – Wilbur Smith
47/52 Ghost – Robert Harris
48/52 The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers^
49/52 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell^

June
50/52 Matter – Iain M. Banks
51/52 Patriot Games – Tom Clancy^
52/52 Perfect Fifths – Megan McCafferty
52/52 Death in Ecstasy – Ngaio Marsh (re-read)
52/52 Mystery of the Blue Train – Agatha Christie (re-read)
53. The Best of The Saint, Vol. 2 – Leslie Charteris
54. Dawn of the Dumb* – Charlie Brooker^
55. Made to be Broken – Kelley Armstrong
56. The Elusive Grasshopper – Malcolm Saville

July
57. The Mitfords: Letters between six sisters* – ed. Charlotte Mosley^
57. Silent in the Grave – Deanna Raybourn (re-read)
58. The Dark Crusader – Alistair Maclean
59. The Long Passage – Malcolm Saville
60. Finn Family Moomintroll – Tove Jansson
61. Untimely Death – Cyril Hare
62. Minnow on the Say – Philippa Pearce
63. The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford^
64. The City of Ladies* – Christine de Pisan^ (Penguin Great Ideas series)
65. Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
66. The Blessing – Nancy Mitford
66. Look to Windward – Iain M. Banks (re-read)

August
67. Churchill’s Wizards* – Nicholas Rankin^
67. Ordeal by Innocence – Agatha Christie (re-read).
68. The Red House Mystery – A. A. Milne
69. My sister, my love – Joyce Carol Oates
70. Revelation – C. J. Sansom
71. Skullduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire – Derek Landy
72. Bride Leads the Chalet School – Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
72. Changes for the Chalet School – Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (re-read)
73. Caravan to Vaccares – Alistair Maclean
74. The League of the Smallest – Clare Mallory
74. Excitements at the Chalet School – Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (re-read)
75. The Satan Bug – Alistair Maclean
76. House of the Paladin – Violet Needham^
77. The Buckinghams at Ravenswyke – Malcolm Saville
78. The Neglected Mountain – Malcolm Saville
79. Santorini – Alistair Maclean

September
79. Trouble with Lichen – John Wyndham (re-read)
79. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (re-read)
80. Carpe Jugulum – Terry Pratchett
81. The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
82. Wolves Eat Dogs – Martin Cruz Smith
83. Grass – Sheri S. Tepper^
84. Goblin Island – Elsie J. Oxenham

October
85. The Girls of the Hamlet Club – Elsie J. Oxenham
85. The Abbey Girls – Elsie J. Oxenham (re-read)
86. The Girls of the Abbey School – Elsie J. Oxenham
86. The Abbey Girls Go Back to School – Elsie J. Oxenham (re-read)
87. A Book of Silence* – Sara Maitland

November
88. Graceling – Kristin Cashore^
89. Kim – Rudyard Kipling
90. The Mask of Dimitrios – Eric Ambler^
91. The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson^
92. Rainbow Six – Tom Clancy
93. Wartime: Britain 1939-1945* – Juliet Gardiner^

December
94. The Ascent of Money* – Niall Ferguson^
95. Greatheart – Ethel M. Dell^
96. The Way of an Eagle – Ethel May Dell
97. Restoree – Anne McCaffrey
98. Swan Song – Edmund Crispin
99. Buried for Pleasure – Edmund Crispin
100. Superfreakonomics* – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
100. Venetia – Georgette Heyer (re-read)
101. A Schoolgirl Princess – Arthur Wyatt^

*Non-fiction;  ^new author

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