Old English Rose Reads

2012 Reading

January

1. Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
2. The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
3. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
4. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
5. At Mrs Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor
6. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Corduroy by Adrian Bell
8. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett*
9. The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbitt
10. Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds
11. Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
12. The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
13. Dancing Girls by Margaret Atwood

February

1. Doomed Love by Virgil
2. Forbidden Fruit: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Heloise
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
4. The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love by Giovanni Boccaccio
5. Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests by Giacomo Casanova
6. Cures for Love by Stendhal
7. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
8. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
9. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
10. The Seducer’s Diary by Søren Kierkegaard
11. First Love by Ivan Turgenev
12. Lucy, or, The Delaware Dialogues by Babette Rosmond
13. Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield
14. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
15. Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
16. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
17. A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy

March

1. Breathless by Anne Swärd
2. Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor
3. The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
4. Moby Dick by Herman Melville Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
5. The Squire by Enid Bagnold
6. The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
8. The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones
9. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
10. The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller
11. The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
12. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe
13. Fables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
14. Soulless by Gail Carriger

April

1. The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
2. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
3. Escape to Provence by Maureen Emerson
4. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
5. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
6. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
7. Divergent by Veronic Roth
8. The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
9. Incarceron by Catherin Fisher
10. Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
11. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James

May

1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov