 | Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.80 Set in rural Suffolk, a tale of family madness, love and American country music. This one really catches at your heart.
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 | The Seven Dials Mystery (The Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy used from: £0.01 A classic in every way. Very much of its time!
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 | Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Buy used from: £2.05 A very quirky novel, very rambling with a wonderful comment on modern American life. Brilliant pictures add to the quirky narrative. Very much shades of Tartt's Secret History.
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 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 A brilliant tale of what happens when Prime Ministers get a bit between their teeth: the Iraq sequences here are very moving.
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 | The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 A stunning detective story set in New York at the time of a visit to that great city by Freud. Incredible descriptions of skyscrapers being built and the 1900s in general. A clever take on Hamlet!
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 | The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Dark and macabre in every way. Drugs and sex abound. This is not for the faint-hearted!
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £3.15 / Used from: £1.20 THE outstanding read of the year for me. Stunning in every way. A captivating narrative, slightly flawed by a weak ending though...
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 | Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Atwood is a master (mistress?) of the written word and if you like historical fiction, this is a must. Makes you want to strike out for Old Canada straight away.
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 | Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.10 Cracker of a novel set in the Pacific in the 1990s. Mister Pip reworks Dickens novel Great Expectations for the Commonwealth. Shame no Booker for this one.
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![Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [Adult Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZGMY0glwL._SL75_.jpg) | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [Adult Edition] by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: £10.15 / Used from: £3.00 Read it so quick that all I can really remember is them camping by the River Wye (did this in 2007 too) and the ending...which I shan't spoil.
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 | David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.63 Superb if incredibly lengthy. He has SUCH a way with characters; you just don't forget them. Just the mention of names like Micawber and Murdstone bring it all back to you!
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Stunning...my second best read of the year. Great beautiful writing about the 1930s. Chapter 9 is simply mind boggling in the way it draws you in from the first Fauvist image
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 | Letter from America (Penguin Celebrations) by Alistair Cooke
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.03 Took these to the Sahara Desert and every on of these 'letters' gave me a slightly better picture of Americans and the American Way. Loved the 'Letter' on Robert Frost's death in 1963
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £0.01 Finally got round to reading this as the film came out. Compelling and powerful, from the gypsy boats of Oxford all the way to Bolvanger. Verging on Sci-Fi, this is SO much more than a child's book!
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