In celebration of the National Year of Reading we’ll be revisiting some great works of fiction during 2012; old favourites and some recent bestsellers. There is certainly a diverse list of books noted below (including one non-fiction) and thankyou to everyone who contributed suggestions. Now we have to decide which books to choose for review/discussion. As we’re already in February and I hope to tackle one book a month my pick is Atonement by Ian McEwan. I already had it on my shelf and am part way through it. So from the list below we have to select ten titles. Let me know if I’ve left any novels out I received quite a few emails.

Atonement – Ian McEwan        Nicole’s pick   

1. A Fortunate Life – A B Facy                                                                                            

2. The Power Of One – Bryce Courtney          

3. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

4. People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks       

5. Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson & David O Relin       

6. Jasper Jones – Craig Silvey              

7.  The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer

8.  Black Heels to Tractor Wheels – Ree Drummond

9. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Attwood

10. Freedom – J Franzen

11. Life of Pi – Yann Martel    

12. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louise de Bernieres  

13. Those Faraday Girls – Monica McInerney             

14. Heritage – Judy Nunn        

15. Dirt Music – Tim Winton   

16. Land of Dreams – Peter Yeldham

17. Maralinga – Judy Nunn

18. Morgan’s Run – Colleen McCullough 

19. Promises – Cathryn Hein

As there are so many to choose from can I suggest that you select your Top 5 books only at this stage. Once the initial five are chosen based on total votes we can then go back and revisit the list. To select your favourite five books you can either leave a comment on my website or just type in the author’s surname OR title on my facebook page. Enjoy.