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About My Library

"My Library" contains information on all the books I have read. Books which I own but are as yet unread are not included, but have their own collection. Recommendations are always welcome!

Top books for 2011:

The Woman in White; Snow Falling on Cedars; The Woman in Black; Into Thin Air; The Lost City of Z; The Awakening; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; The Lost World; The Slap

Top books for 2012:
Great Expectations; The Age of Innocence; The Secret River; Anna Karenina; North and South; Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum; Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail; The Buddha of Suburbia; Delhi: City of Djinns; The Talented Mr Ripley; Triumph of the City

Top books for 2013:
The Birthday Boys; The Emperor; Dirt Music; Burnt Shadows; The Group; Life After Life;

Top books for 2014:
A Place of Greater Safety; The Garden of Evening Mists; Homage to Catalonia; Of Human Bondage;

Top books for 2015:
Far From the Madding Crowd; Gone With the Wind; Americanah; The Narrow Road to the Deep North; The Goldfinch; A Fine Balance

Location

Edinburgh

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