Books read – 2011

1. Family and kinship in East London – Michael Young and Peter Willmott
2. Night soldiers – Alan Furst
3. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
4. How to suppress women’s writing – Joanna Russ
5. The clothes on their backs – Linda Grant
6. Breaking the magic spell: radical theories of folk and fairy tales – Jack Zipes
7. Rothschild buildings: life in an East End tenement block 1887-1920 – Jerry White
8. The siege – Helen Dunmore
9. If the dead rise not –  Philip Kerr
10. Gone to soldiers – Marge Piercy
11. Beyond the fragments – Rowbotham, Wainwright and Segal
12. Accidents in the home – Tessa Hadley
13. Bilgewater – Jane Gardam
14. The beginnings of Spring – Penelope Fitzgerald
15. The betrayal – Helen Dunmore
16. The serial garden – Joan Aiken
17. East End Jewish radicals 1875-1914 – William J. Fishman
18. Homer and Langley – E.L. Doctorow
19. Delta wedding – Eudora Welty
20. Love’s shadow – Ada Leverson
21. Tenterhooks – Ada Leverson
22. Love at second sight – Ada Leverson
23. The enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim
24. Lolly Willowes – Sylvia Townsend Warner
25. South Riding – Winifred Holtby
26. Articles of resistance – Paul Foot
27. A tale of two cities – Charles Dickens
28. Field grey – Philip Kerr
29. Journey to nowhere – Eva Figes
30. A train of powder – Rebecca West
31. The end of the peace process – Edward Said
32. Woman’s estate – Juliet Mitchell
33. The devil’s candy – Julie Salomon
34. The young Rebecca: selected essays by Rebecca West, 1911-1917 – Rebecca West
35. My father’s keeper: children of Nazi leaders – Stephan and Norbert Lebert
36. Woman’s consciousness, man’s world – Sheila Rowbotham
37. Living dolls – Natasha Walter
38. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
39. The state in capitalist society – Ralph Miliband
40. The one from the other – Philip Kerr
41. Patriarchal attitudes – Eva Figes
42. Nothing sacred – Angela Carter
43. Love it or shove it – Julie Burchill
44. Hiroshima mon amour – Marguerite Duras
45. The trial of Henry Kissinger – Christopher Hitchens
46. The reprieve – Jean-Paul Sartre
47. The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
48. Expletives deleted – Angela Carter
49. A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain – Owen Hatherley
50. The man in the high castle – Philip K. Dick
51. Sweet Valley confidential – Francine Pascal
52. The word for world is forest – Ursula Le Guin
53. Ill fares the land – Tony Judt
54. In the culture society – Angela McRobbie
55. The Possessed – Elif Batuman
56. Fabrications: costume and the female body – ed. Jane Gaines and Charlotte Herzog
57. Unspeak – Steven Poole
58. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction – Walter Benjamin
59. Behind the lines – Michael Hofmann
60. Enchanted hunters: the power of stories in childhood – Maria Tatar
61. Great fortune – Olivia Manning
62. Everything is connected: the power of music – Daniel Barenboim
63. The spoilt city – Olivia Manning
64. The book of a thousand poems
65. The whispering mountain – Joan Aiken
66. The jewel garden – Sarah and Monty Don
67. My roots – Monty Don
68. Das dreißigste Jahr – Ingeborg Bachmann
69. A garden from a hundred packets of seed – James Fenton
70. Friends and heroes – Olivia Manning
71. London in the 19th century – Jerry White
72. Mozart’s journey to Prague – Eduard Mörike
73. The winter book – Tove Jansson
74. A death out of season – Emanuel Litvinoff
75. Skylark – Dezso Kosztolányi
76. Sämtliche Gedichte – Ingeborg Bachmann
77. Gardening mad – Monty Don
78. Game of thrones – George R.R. Martin
79. The dreaming suburb – R.F. Delderfield
80. Life in a cottage garden – Carol Klein
81. The power of women and the subversion of the community – Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa