 | Yes Man by Danny Wallace
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 2008- 6th jan. reread in preparation for the film and fell in love with it all over again. laugh out loud funny and genuinely heartwarming at parts (especially the end)
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 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: With a New Introduction by Ian Rankin by James Hogg
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £1.31 6th jan - 25th jan. A chilling read criticising religion at a time when it was still ingrained into all life. Slow to get into but well worth the read.
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 | Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy used from: £0.01 26th jan - 8th feb. simply brilliant. now one of my favourite books. Shelley has a talent of getting you engrossed in the world even when the action is low.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.95 9th feb - 15th feb. Suprisingly good, i thought it was going to be two jane-austeney. Found it slow to start, but the mystery and gothic realism soon sucked me in!
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 | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 23rd feb - 27th feb. easy enough to get into but quite slow at the end, i found.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.20 24th feb - 15th mar. really slow at parts but very enjoyable in others, i have mixed feelings about this, but the writing is brilliant and the diary format is enjoyable.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (B&n Classics Hardcover) by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £3.39 15th mar - 19th mar. enjoyed it first time I read it but this time I found the social commentary tedious and struggled to get through the book. No-one can match Wilde's wit though.
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 | Lottery: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Perry L. Crandall by Patricia Wood
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £0.01 19th mar - 27th mar. really enjoyed this! about a guy bordering on mental disabilities (IQ=76) winning the lottery. Heartwarming but with a little more room for secondary character development.
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 | After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £4.11 / Used from: £2.33 30th mar - 7th apr. my first murakami but definately not my last. Elegantly written following interesting characters in the course of one night, taking on the perspective of night itself.
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 | Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Buy new: £5.06 / Used from: £0.01 8th apr - 22nd apr. rereading as i was bought the 3rd and 4th. As good a ever, sort of the young adult version of when the wind blows.
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 | Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever (Maximum Ride Childrens Edition) by James Patterson
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.91 22nd apr-28th apr. better than the first. It felt more mature and kept me gripped.
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 | Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride Childrens Edition) by James Patterson
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.17 29th apr - 16th may. Started off as the best but it went a little farfetched (more than the usual bird-kids plotlines) and there were a few smoking guns
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 | Maximum Ride: The Final Warning by James Patterson
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £0.01 19th may - 20th may. May have only taken me 2 days, but that doesn't mean I enjoyed it. It felt too preachy though dealing with important issues, but has lost the tone of the earlier books.
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 | The Dare (Quick Reads) by John Boyne
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 7th june - 8th june. Really enjoyed this, it was a gentle read and Boyne adopts the childs voice perfectly.
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £0.75 2nd july - 4th july. Read a book before this, but it wasn't on amazon. Was disappointed with this, it was a skeleton of a story compared to the film.
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 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 9th july - 24th july. Slow in parts but generally a good read. Not sure if I'd read it again though, it just didn't grab me like other books.
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 | Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £2.64 25th july - 2nd aug. First Picoult book this year so sped through it. This is the eleventh I've read, and while I really enjoyed it, it was a little predictable, very similar to My Sisters Keeper.
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 | A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 2nd aug - 6th aug. Witty and wise, and very well written. But it didn't really build towards anything, and the end was a little anticlimactic.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.94 7th aug - 15th aug. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
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 | Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £1.50 21st aug - 4th sept. Disappointing compared to the other Murakami, I felt it skipped too much over the plot and stopped about ten or twenty pages before the end.
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 | The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 5th sept - 16th sept. Powerful book and extremely well written, but I don't think it lived up to the hype it created.
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 | None of This Ever Really Happened by Peter Ferry
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.19 19th nov - 17th dec. Not had a chance to read because of Uni. Really struggled to get through this one, I just couldn't get myself interested, though the end was quite good.
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