The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
House of the Hanged - Mark Mills (is good but not as great as the others)
Snowdrops - A.D.Miller
Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
How I Paid for College - Marc Acito
Three Girls and their Brother - Theresa Rebeck
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (pre warning, this book is wierd and a hard slog to read, but ultimately worth it).
The Rivers of London (and the sequel, Moon Under Soho) - Ben Aaronovitch (like Harry Potter for adults if that's your thing)
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
The Book of Lost Things - John Connoly
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Catalouging my brain:

I get asked too often for book recommendations, and my memory for things like this is BAD. So I've decided to keep a list (will have to remember that I'm doing this too!).

The aim is to eventually post each time I finish a book, but first I want to catalogue as much as I can, so I'm going to start with the books I've ordered on Amazon:

1. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
2. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
3. Room - Emma Donoghue
4. The Slap- Christos Tsiolkas
5. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
6. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
7. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
8. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov (translation, Will Self)
9. Alices Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol
10. A Short Historyof Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
11. Small Island - Andrea Levy
12. Property - Valerie Martin
13. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
14. Mr Toppit - Charles Elton
15. Double Fault - Lionel Shriver
16. Home - Marilynne Robinson
17. The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials Trilogy) - Philip Pullman
18. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
19. My Friend Leonard - James Frey
20. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
21. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling

Other books I know I've read off the top of my head:

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
2. Middlesex
3. His Dark Materials Trilogy (x2 more)
4. Harry Potter (x 4 more)
5. Eat Pray Love
6. The Kite Runner
7. A Thousand Splending Suns
8. One Day
9. Generation X
10. JPod
11. Attonement
12. The Bone Collector
13. Silence of the Lambs
14. Red Dragon
15. memoirs of a geisha

Ornge Prize for Fiction books:

1. A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie More
2. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
3. The Road
4. When we were Bad
5. Half of a Yellow Sun
6. Digging to America
7. On Beauty
8. The History of Love
9. The Accidental
10. We Need to Talk about Kevin
11. purple hibiscus

Man booker prize

1. White Tiger
2. Vernon God Little
3. Life of Pi
4. Mr Pip

right... to be continued.