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We have read the following books : Ratings : 0 = VERY BAD to 10 = VERY GOOD
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Meeting
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Title
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Author
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Suggested By
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MIN Vote
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MAX Vote
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Average Rating
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JULY 2010
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The Other Side of You
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Salley Vickers
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Jenny K
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4
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7.5
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5.2
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JUN 2010
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Deaf Sentence
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David Lodge
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Rhona
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6
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9
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8.75
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MAY 2010
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Beethoven was 1/16th Black
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Nadine Gordimer
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Lene
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3
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8
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5.5
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APR 2010
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The Little Stranger
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Sarah Waters
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Elizabeth
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6
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9.75
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7.6
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MAR 2010
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How to be Lost
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Amanda Eyre Ward
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Cathy
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4
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9.5
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7
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FEB 2010
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A Spell of Winter
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Helen Dunmore
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Andrea
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4
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9
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6.25
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JAN 2010
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The Great Lover
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Jill Dawson
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Irene
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1
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7
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4.4
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DEC 2009
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poems about animals as a theme
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various
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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n/a
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NOV 2009
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‘The Surgeon of Crowthorne’
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by Simon Winchester
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Yvonne
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6
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8
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7.4
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NOV 2009
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‘The Road’
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by Cormac McCarthy
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Jennie
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6
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10
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8.5
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SEP 2009
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‘March’
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by Geraldine Brooks
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Penny
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0
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8
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4.5
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AUG 2009
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“A Spot of Bother”
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by Mark Haddon
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Nathaniel
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3.5
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8.5
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5.5
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JULY 2009
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“An Equal Music”
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by Vikram Seth
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Irene O
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4
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9
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6.9
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JUN 2009
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“The Behaviour of Moths”
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Poppy Adams
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Ali
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5
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8.5
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6.8
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MAY 2009
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“The White Tiger”
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Aravind Adiga
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Marion
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5
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10
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7.3
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APR 2009
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'What Was Lost'
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Catherine O'Flynn
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John
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5
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9
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7
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MAR 2009
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“My Cleaner”
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Maggie Gee
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Yvonne
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7
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9
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7.9
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FEB 2009
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Mister Pip
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Lloyd Jones
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Jennie
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6
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9.75
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8
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FEB 2009
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The Road Home
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Rose Tremain
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Jennie
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9
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10
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9.3
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JAN 2009
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The Falls
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Ian Rankin
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Irene
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4
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5
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4.5
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JAN 2009
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The Rain Before It Falls
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by Jonathon Coe
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Irene
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4
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8
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6.5
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DEC 2008
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‘The Photograph’
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by Penelope Lively
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Myrtha
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6
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8
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7.5
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NOV 2008
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“Arthur and George”
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by Julian Barnes
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Penny
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5
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9
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7.3
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OCT 2008
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The Welsh Girl
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Peter Ho Davies
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Marjorie
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4
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9
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6.7
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SEP 2008
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Period Piece : A Cambridge Childhood
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Gwen Raverat
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Ali
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6
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8
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6.5
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AUG 2008
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Human Traces
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Sebastian Faulks
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Marion
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4
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9
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6.9
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JUL 2008
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Disgrace
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J.M.Coetzee
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4
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8
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6.8
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JUN 2008
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The Unknown Terrorist
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Richard Flanaghan
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Yvonne
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5
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10
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7.5
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MAY 2008
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Chimamanda Ngozi Acichie
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5
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8
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7.3
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APR 2008
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The Darkness of Wallis Simpson
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Rose Tremain
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Jennie
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4
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9
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6.5
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MAR 2008
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His ‘n’ Hers
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Mike Gayle
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Irene
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1
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8
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5.8
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FEB 2008
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The Janissary Tree
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Jason Goodwin
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Myrtha
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2
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8
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4.9
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JAN 2008
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The Sea
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John Banville
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4
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10
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6.9
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DEC 2007
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One Good Turn
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Kate Atkinson
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0
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8
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5.3
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NOV 2007
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Pompeii
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Robert Harris
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Penny
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?
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?
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7.3
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OCT 2007
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Cockeyed
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Ryan Knighton
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Marion
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5
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8
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7
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SEP 2007
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Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
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Peter Hoeg
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John
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7
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10
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8
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SEP 2007
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The Accidental
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Ali Smith
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4
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7
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6.8
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AUG 2007
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Double Vision
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Pat Barker
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5
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8
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7.2
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AUG 2007
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Case Histories
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Kate Atkinson
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6
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9
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8
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JUL 2007
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Cloud Atlas (read by Marion)
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David Mitchell
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Marion
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9
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9
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9
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JUL 2007
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White Ghost Girls
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Alice Greenway
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6
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8
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7
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JUN 2007
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The People’s Act of Love
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James Meek
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3
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8
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5.4
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MAY 2007
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Hotel Du Lac
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Anita Brookner
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Andrea
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5
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9
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6.25
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APR 2007
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Night Watch
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Sarah Waters
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4
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7
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5.9
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MAR 2007
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Waterland
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Graham Swift
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5
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8
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6.5
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FEB 2007
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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4
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7
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5.3
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JAN 2007
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The ninth life of Louis Drax
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Liz Jensen
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2
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9
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7
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NOV 2006
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The Glittering Prizes
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Fredrick Raphael
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5
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7
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6
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OCT 2006
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Diary of an Ordinary Woman
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Margaret Forster
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2
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7
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5.1
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SEPT 2006
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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John Le Carre
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5
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9
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6.6
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SEPT 2006
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Bad Blood
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Lorna Sage
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0
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8
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6
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JULY 2006
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The Story of Lucy Gault
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William Trevor
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4
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8
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6.9
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JUNE 2006
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Mark Haddon
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8
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8
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8
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MAY/2006
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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Dai Sijie
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5
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7
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6.3
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MAR/2006
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The Jane Austen Book Club
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Karen Joy Fowler
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0
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8
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4.4
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FEB/2006
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Street Dreams
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Faye Kellerman
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4
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8
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5.4
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JAN/2006
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Chocolat
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Joanne Harris
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2
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8
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5.6
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NOV/2005
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Master & Commander
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Patrick O’Brian
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1
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9
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5
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OCT/2005
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Dirt Music
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Tim Winton
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7
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SEP/2005
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The Little Friend
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Donna Tartt
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AUG/2005
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The Bookseller of Kabul
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Asne Seierstad
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JUL/2005
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Billie Morgan
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Joolz Denby
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JUN/2005
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian
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Marina Lewycka
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MAY/2005
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A Passage to Africa
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George Alaghia
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APR/2005
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Toast:The Story of a Boy’s Hunger
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Nigel Slater
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MAR/2005
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Brick Lane
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Monica Ali
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Neither Here Nor There
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Bill Bryson
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A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
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Chris Stewart
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On Green Dolphin Street
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Sebastian Faulks
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No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
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Alexander McCall Smith
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Frankie & Stankie
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Barbara Trapido
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Unless
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Carol Shields
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Close Range
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Annie Proulx
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Lovely Bones
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Alice Sebold
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Middlemarch
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George Elliot
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