The Bookworm: We're cloning nine-year-olds

1. At Home (Bill Bryson)

2. Beasts in my Belfry (Gerald Durrell)

3. The Tale of Oat Cake Crag (Susan Albert)

4. A Darkly Hidden Truth (Donna Fletcher)

5. Eat Well, Spend Less (Susan Flowers)

6. Anna of the Five Towns (Arnold Bennett)

7. Ghosts of Spain (Giles Tremlett)

8. The Help (Kathryn Stockett)

9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)

10. Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)

11. Jilted Generation (Ed Howker & Shiv Malik)

12. Knitting Around the World (Lela Nargi)

13. Letters from the Trenches (Bill Lamin)

14. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Deborah Moggach)

15. Not Fade Away (John Gribbin)

16. Bucks, Beds and Bricks (Jean Blane Flannery

17. Our Man in Orlando (Hugh Hunter)

18. Cockney Girl (Gilda Moss Haber)

Books Read Last Year

The Forever Young Diet and Lifestyle (James and Joan O'Keefe)
The Tale of Applebeck Orchard (Susan Witteg Albert)
Room (Emma Donoghue)
The Bell (Iris Murdoch)
Talking to Zeus (Jane Shaw)
Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Helen Simonson)
When the Lights Went Out (Andy Beckett)
The Tale of Briar Bank (Susan Witteg Albert)
South Riding (Winifred Holtby)
Free Range Kids (Lenore Skenazy)
The Secret Diary of a New Mum Age 43 1/4 (Ceri Rosen)
The King's Speech (Mark Logue and Peter Conradi)
The Tale of Hawthorn House (Susan Witteg Albert)
Memories Before and After the Sound of Music (Agathe von Trapp)
The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood (Susan Witteg Albert)