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This is a communal blog for Belper Book Chatters to talk about the books they are reading that are not part of our set reading schedule. Please feel free to add a new post!
This is a communal blog for Belper Book Chatters to talk about the books they are reading that are not part of our set reading schedule. Please feel free to add a new post!
Belper Book Chat ‘Book of the The Year 2011′
Here follows a summary of the results of the members vote from the Christmas party
And the winner is….
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry 16 points altogether (18+ and 2-)
and hopefully not just because it was the only book that people could remember reading!
2nd Anna of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 11 points (11+ 0-)
3rd The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Jonathan Coe10 points (10+ 1-)
= Runners Up
The Children’s Book AS Byatt 8 points (10+2-)
A Year of Wonders 8 points (10+ 2-)
Sister Rosalind Lupton 8 points (8+ 0-)
and the rest in descending order…
Any title by PG Wodehouse 0 points (3+3-)
The Gathering Anne Enright 0 points (2+2-)
Darwin ; A Life in Poems Ruth Padel 3 points (9+6-)
A Freewheelin Time Suze Rutolo -7 points(2+9-)
The Nemesis List RJ Frith -13 points (0+13-)