January: 1. London: the Novel, by Edward Rutherfurd 2. Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson 3. A Very English Scandal, by John Preston 4. Imagined London, by Anna Quindlen 5. The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy 6. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote February 1. Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen 2. The Girls of Slender Means, by Muriel Spark 3. Patience, by John Coates 4. Into the Whirlwind, by Eugenia Ginzburg 5. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James 6. Few Eggs and No Oranges, by Vere Hodgson 7. Vittoria Cottage, by DE Stevenson March: 1. The Exiles Return, by Elizabeth de Waal 2. Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen 3. The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen 4. The Buccaneers, by Edith Wharton 5. The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen 6. White Teeth, by Zadie Smith April: 1. The Heat of the Day, by Elizabeth Bowen 2. The Two Mrs. Abbotts, by DE Stevenson 3. The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson May: 1. London War Notes, by Mollie Panter-Dow
January: 1. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair 2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum 3. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin 4. Liar: A Memoir, by Rob Roberge February: 1. The Forsyte Saga, by John Galsworthy 2. Girl in the Woods, by Aspen Matis 3. She Left Me the Gun, by Emma Brockes 4. Because of the Lockwoods, by Dorothy Whipple 5. The Chronology of Water, by Lidia Yuknavitch 6. To Show and to Tell, by Philip Lopate March: 1. Fierce Attachments, by Vivian Gornick 2. Too Brief a Treat, by Truman Capote 3. On the Move: a Life, by Oliver Sacks 4. The Go-Between, by LP Hartley 5. The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr 6. Giving Up the Ghost, by Hilary Mantel 7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou 8. The Great American Bus Ride, by Irma Kurtz 9. An Unquiet Mind, by Kay Radfield Jamison 10. A Widow's Story, by Joyce Carol Oates 11. So Sad Today, by Melissa Broder 12. The Liar's Club, by Mary Karr 13. An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard 14. So Sa