Cornflower Blues 2009 - part 3 (the rest of the fiction)

    

    Here's where it gets really difficult - choosing just a few titles from the eighty-eight novels I've read to date this year. I'm going to eliminate re-reads to narrow the field slightly, and then because as I begin to write this I'm still swithering(!), I'll just list the books and give a link to their original posts.

Here are the top twenty:

 

and in no particular order, the top ten:

Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel; out in paperback soon (post)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (post)

Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (post)

Earth and Heaven by Sue Gee (post)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (post)

Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd (post)

Ask Alice by D. J. Taylor (post)

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (post)

The Outlander by Gil Adamson; due in paperback soon (post)

A Proper Education for Girls by Elaine di Rollo (post)