A roundup of books read this year

Novels
Richard Powers: The Time Of Our Singing
Monica Ali: Brick Lane
Orhan Pamuk: My Name Is Red
Jose Saramago: The Cave
Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones
Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries; Larry's Party
Margaret Atwood: Oryx & Crake
Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart

Spain
Tariq Ali: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
Richard Fletcher: Moorish Spain
Michael Jacobs: Andalucia
Jason Webster: Duende
Chris Stewart: A Parrot In The Pepper Tree
Gerald Brenan: South From Granada

(Other books on Spain read previously:
VS Pritchett: The Spanish Temper
Camilo Jose Cela: Journey To The Alcarria
Norman Lewis: Voices of the Old Sea
Robert Hughes: Barcelona
Cees Nooteboom: Roads To Santiago
Michael Jacobs: Between Hopes & Memories - A Spanish Journey)

Cilauro, Gleisner & Steich: Jetlag Travel Guide to Molvania

Susan Sontag: On Photography
Roland Barthes: Camera Lucida