- A Proper Education for Girls – Elaine di Rollo (required course reading)
- This is Not About Me – Janice Galloway (required course reading)
- American Gods – Neil Gaiman (new discovery)
- Me Cheetah – James Lever (required course reading, not read it entirely but I will revisit…)
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale (recommended by David Miller – loved it)
- A Lie About My Father – John Burnside (required course reading)
- A Fraction of the Whole – Steve Toltz (recommended by Waterstones staff who is also on course – utterly fabby)
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (been on my to read pile for a thousand years)
- At My Mother’s Knee and Other Low Joints – Paul O’Grady (required course reading)
- The Broken World – Tim Etchells (recommended course reading – loved it)
- The Broken Window – Jeffery Deaver (random selection from my to read pile)
- Little Face – Sophie Hannah (Sam Kelly recommendation based on mentor session)
- The Private Patient – PD James (random selection from to read pile which now has snow on the top)
- The Way Home – George Pelecanos (new discovery)
- Cover Her Face – PD James (selection from ‘to-read’ pile which is suffering from climate damage and the snow is melting people, the snow is melting)
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy (new discovery – amazing)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers (colleague and course recommendation)
- The Devil’s Footprints – John Burnside (had to read autobiog for class – autobio’s not being my bag – and loved this so much)
- The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets – Sophie Hannah (short story collection)
- Post Office – Charles Bukowski (Christmas present from dearly far flung)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt (strong recommendation from friend who loved the movie)
- The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi (selection from ENORMOUS reading pile)
- The Testament of Gideon Mack – James Robertson (first book of the new writer in residence I have read – definitely not the last)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Steig Larsson (had to check out what all the fuss was)
- The Girl who Played with Fire – Steig Larsson (better than the first)
- The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Steig Larsson (I had to complete the loop)
- Brooklyn – Colm Toibin (3 for 2 addiction purchase)
- Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter (fellow student recommendation – loved it)
- Driftnet – Lyn Anderson (guest speaker about crime research on course)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie (audiobook)
- The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy (audiobook)
- The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly (audiobook)
- The Distant Echo – Val McDermid (audiobook)
- Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane (audiobook)
- 2666 – Roberto Bolaño (I am so in love with this book and this writing)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Steig Larsson (audiobook)
- The Girl who Played with Fire – Steig Larsson (audiobook)
- The Girl who Kicked the Hornets nest – Steig Larsson (audiobook)
- Under the Dome – Stephen King (first successful reading on pocket size Sony Reader)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz (loved, loved, loved)
- All four Twilight books. In one day. In my defence I was unwell in bed…oh go ahead and judge me! I will never be clean again
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie
- Of Love and other Demons – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Shakespeare – Bill Bryson (audio book)
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Meetings with Remarkable Men – G.I. Gurdjieff (ugh!)
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (research for writing project)
- The Queen of Whale Cay – Kate Summerscale
- The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick – Peter Lamont
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- What I Talk about When I Talk about Running – Haruki Murakami
- Today – David Miller
- The Accidental – Ali Smith (so good they should have named it The Accidental, The Accidental)
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- Drown – Junot Diaz
- Skellig – David Almond
- Dusty Answer – Rosamond Lehmann
- The Sea – John Banville – very enjoyable
- Hotel World – Ali Smith
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
- Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer (and I am going to re-read it immediately – superb)
- The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
- The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall
- A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
- The Blue Book – AL Kennedy
- Talking to the Dead – Barbara Weisberg
- Larry’s Party – Carol Shields
- The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
- A Summer of Drowning – John Burnside
- There but for the – Ali Smith
- The Panopticon – Jenni Fagan
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (loved the different ending from the movie)
- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins (audio book and bloody excellent)
- Remainder – Tom McCarthy (audio book)
- Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell (audio book)
- Before the Frost – Henning Mankell (audio book)
- Beyond Black – Hilary Mantel (audio book)
- Firewall – Henning Mankell (audio book)
- The Brooklyn Follies – Paul Auster (audio book)
- The Fifth Woman – Henning Mankell (audio book)
- The Fellowship of the Ring – Tolkien (audio book)
- The White Lioness – Henning Mankell (audio book)
- Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel (audio book)
- Monsieur Pain – Roberto Bolano
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (audio book)
- Fludd – Hilary Mantel (audio book)
- The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom (audio book)
- Bryant & May Off the Rails – Christopher Fowler (audio book)
- The Accidental – Ali Smith (audio book)
- The Private Patient – PD James (audio book)
- Glister – John Burnside
- The Cleaner of Chartres – Salley Vickers
- And the Land Lay Still – James Robertson – bloody brilliant
- Homer’s Odyssey (audio book)
- The Testament of Mary – Colm Tóibín
- A Brief History of Diaries – Alexandra Johnson
- A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
- The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- The Hundred Year Old Man – Jonas Jonasson
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
- The Shock of the Fall – Nathan Flier
- Never Mind – Edward St Aubyn
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
- The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
- The Stand – Stephen King (audiobook)
- Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey
- After Me Comes the Flood – Sarah Perry
- The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco (audiobook)
- Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (audiobook)
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood (audiobook) – forgot how much I love this book
- Four Patricia Cornwell audiobooks
- Three Ian Rankin audiobooks
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro audiobook
- My Year of Meats – Ruth Ozeki audiobook
- 1Q84 – Haruki Murakam audiobook
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook
- All John Connolly books in audio
- All PD James books in audio
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke audiobook
- The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
- The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
- Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King (again and again)

That should be “A Proper Education for Girls” by Elaine DiRollo