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Xanthe
"Don't know that I know 48 people who would be interested in reading the same book that I might like, though."
I know! There are people commenting on the Guardian books blog saying much the same. But as you suggest, it means that the 'givers' will probably have to make contacts in their local communities to find strangers as well as friends to give the book to, and/or give them to colleagues who they wouldn't normally discuss books with.
Of the books on the list, I have read the following:
Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
Alan Bennett - A Life Like Other People's
John le Carré - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Carol Ann Duffy - The World's Wife
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag
Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
David Nicholls - One Day
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
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