Simply Messing About In Books
In 2008 I read 54 books. In 2009 I aimed to read 60, but I also started making notes as I write, and was amazed how much that slowed me down (as well as how much I got out of it). I only managed 33, although in my defense some were big buggers like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Mists of Avalon, the Gormenghast trilogy...
In 2010 I'm aiming for 40, and my provisional* list is here:
1 Nikita Lalwani ~ Gifted
2 Christopher Hibbert ~ The Great Mutiny
3 Frank Tallis ~ Darkness Rising
4 G.W. Dahlquist ~ The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
5 Joyce Grenfell ~ In Pleasant Places
6 Ursula Le Guin ~ The Earthsea Quartet
7 Mohsin Hamid ~ The Reluctant Fundamentalist
8 David Ewing Duncan ~ The Calendar
9 Terry Pratchett ~ Unseen Academicals
10 Mary Shelley ~ Frankenstein
11 Dava Sobel ~ Galileo's Daughter
12 Ariana Franklin ~ Relics Of The Dead
13 Margaret Atwood ~ Oryx & Crake
14 Sidney Smith ~ Collected Letters
15 Louis Sachar ~ Holes
16 Sinclair Lewis ~ Main Street
17 Katie Hickman ~ Daughters of Britannia
18 Mary Stewart ~ Thornyhold
19 Joseph O'Neill ~ Netherland
20 Michael Bracewell ~ England is Mine
21 C J Sansom ~ Dissolution
22 Geraldine Brooks ~ Year of Wonders
23 Maya Angelou ~ Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
24 Eleanor Updale ~ Montmorency on the Rocks
25 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ~ Purple Hibiscus
26 F Marion Crawford ~ Gleanings From Venetian History
27 George RR Martin ~ A Game of Thrones
26 Mikhail Bulgakov ~ The Master & Margarita
27 Frances Osborne ~ The Bolter
28 Fred Vargas ~ The Three Evangelists
29 Christopher Moore ~ Island of the Sequined Love Nun
30 Charlie Connelly ~ Attention All Shipping
31 John Connolly ~ The Book of Lost Things
32 Elizabeth Gaskell ~ North & South
33 Maya Angelou ~ The Heart of a Woman
34 Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ The Firebrand
35 Anita Brookner ~ Hotel du Lac
36 Hilaire Beloc ~ Selected Essays
37 John Dickson Carr ~ The Six of Swords
38 George Mann ~ The Affinity Bridge
39 Pat O'Shea ~ Hounds of the Morrigan
40 Jeffrey Eugenides ~ Middlesex
*NB I reserve the right to change things up a bit due to birthday presents/getting bored/stuff that just looks really awesome.
In 2010 I'm aiming for 40, and my provisional* list is here:
1 Nikita Lalwani ~ Gifted
2 Christopher Hibbert ~ The Great Mutiny
3 Frank Tallis ~ Darkness Rising
4 G.W. Dahlquist ~ The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
5 Joyce Grenfell ~ In Pleasant Places
6 Ursula Le Guin ~ The Earthsea Quartet
7 Mohsin Hamid ~ The Reluctant Fundamentalist
8 David Ewing Duncan ~ The Calendar
9 Terry Pratchett ~ Unseen Academicals
10 Mary Shelley ~ Frankenstein
11 Dava Sobel ~ Galileo's Daughter
12 Ariana Franklin ~ Relics Of The Dead
13 Margaret Atwood ~ Oryx & Crake
14 Sidney Smith ~ Collected Letters
15 Louis Sachar ~ Holes
16 Sinclair Lewis ~ Main Street
17 Katie Hickman ~ Daughters of Britannia
18 Mary Stewart ~ Thornyhold
19 Joseph O'Neill ~ Netherland
20 Michael Bracewell ~ England is Mine
21 C J Sansom ~ Dissolution
22 Geraldine Brooks ~ Year of Wonders
23 Maya Angelou ~ Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
24 Eleanor Updale ~ Montmorency on the Rocks
25 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ~ Purple Hibiscus
26 F Marion Crawford ~ Gleanings From Venetian History
27 George RR Martin ~ A Game of Thrones
26 Mikhail Bulgakov ~ The Master & Margarita
27 Frances Osborne ~ The Bolter
28 Fred Vargas ~ The Three Evangelists
29 Christopher Moore ~ Island of the Sequined Love Nun
30 Charlie Connelly ~ Attention All Shipping
31 John Connolly ~ The Book of Lost Things
32 Elizabeth Gaskell ~ North & South
33 Maya Angelou ~ The Heart of a Woman
34 Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ The Firebrand
35 Anita Brookner ~ Hotel du Lac
36 Hilaire Beloc ~ Selected Essays
37 John Dickson Carr ~ The Six of Swords
38 George Mann ~ The Affinity Bridge
39 Pat O'Shea ~ Hounds of the Morrigan
40 Jeffrey Eugenides ~ Middlesex
*NB I reserve the right to change things up a bit due to birthday presents/getting bored/stuff that just looks really awesome.