Best Book
Jhumpa Lahiri (UK) Unaccustomed Earth
Marina Endicott (Canada) Good to a Fault
Mandla Langa (South Africa) The Lost Colours of the Chameleon
Christos Tsiolkas (Australia) The Slap
Best First Book
Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Joan Thomas (Canada) Reading by Lightning
Uwem Akpan (Nigeria) Say You’re One of Them
Mo Zhi Hong (New Zealand) The Year of the Shanghai Shark
Toni Jordan – Addition
Steve Tolz – A franction of the whole
Tim Winton – Breath
Claire Thomas – Fugitive blue
Louis Nowra – Ice
Sofie Laguna – One foot wrong
Ian Townsend –The devil’s eye
Murray Bail –The pages
Christos Tsiolkas –The slap
Richard Flanagan –Wanting
In April, The 1st Wednesday Reading Group had its first gathering. They discussed the book they had read and recommended those books to the others.
Shimmer by Basia Bonkownski
Breath by Tim Winton
Land girls by Angela Huth
Addition by Toni Jordan
Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books by Azar Nafisi
Rise and fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
Another city, not my own by Dominic Dunne
The spare room by Helen Garner
Second violin by John Lawton
Betrayed : a House of Night novel by P.C. Cast
By these ten bones by Clare B. Dunkle
Chosen : a house of night novel by P.C. Cast
City of ashes by Cassandra Clare
City of bones by Cassandra Clare
Companions of the night by Vivian Vande Velde
Demon in my view by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Marked by P.C. Cast
Masquerade : a Blue Bloods novel
by Melissa De la Cruz
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Vampire kisses by Ellen Schreiber
Vampire knight by Matsuri Hino
(cited from http://info.infosoup.org/lists/faith.asp?BooklistID=196)
Arvind Adiga
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Amit Chowdhury
Anita Desai
Kiran Desai
Chitra Banerjee Devkumari
EM Forster
Amitav Ghosh
Raj Kamal Jha
Sudha Kaul
Jhumpa Lahiri
Amulya Malladi
Rohinton Mistry
V.S Naipaul
Monica Pradhan
Gregory D. Roberts
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Paul scott
Vikas Swarup
Vikram Seth
Shashi Tharoor