The Indiscriminate Reader (not alphabetically filed)
I have a happy new year period! But also a hot water bottle and painkillers. Did I say today was going to be a productive day? Haha. I'm sure I didn't. You must be imagining things.
Anyway.
Read in 2008 (non-comprehensive list, I fear, because I have a sieve-memory -- this is just what immediately comes to mind. next year I'm writing it down as I go, damn it):
George R R Martin
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
J G Ballard
The Voices of Time
The Unlimited Dream Company
Roger Zelazny
The Chronicles of Amber
Jim Butcher
Storm Front
Fool Moon
Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Naomi Novik
Temeraire
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War
Empire of Ivory
Victory of Eagles
Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase
After the Quake
The Elephant Vanishes
Richard Morgan
Altered Carbon
William Gibson
Spook Country
Books begun in 2008 which NEED to be finished in 2009 (most unfinished for reasons of library reservation queues, some only just started):
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Terry Pratchett
Nation
Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Warrior's Apprentice
Richard Morgan
Broken Angels
To Read in 2009:
Joe Haldeman
The Forever War
Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Connie Willis
To Say Nothing Of The Dog
Alan Bennet
The Uncommon Reader
Bernard Schlink
The Reader
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Sputnik Sweetheart
Norwegian Wood
Paul McAuley
Fairyland
Iain (M) Banks
Whit
Look to Windward
Consider Phlebas
Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
William Goldman
The Princess Bride
Fritz Leiber
Lankhmar (handy omnibus edition containing most of the stories)
Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Jim Butcher
Grave Peril
John M. Ford
The Dragon Waiting
...and there is a lot more BUT I AM GOING TO STOP NOW, before I scare myself. I write this down largely as an attempt to remind myself what I'm meant to be reading, since I own a lot of the above books and just haven't got around to them yet but tend to GO OUT AND BUY MORE BOOKS WHENEVER I HAVE MONEY ANYWAY.
Anyway.
Read in 2008 (non-comprehensive list, I fear, because I have a sieve-memory -- this is just what immediately comes to mind. next year I'm writing it down as I go, damn it):
George R R Martin
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination
J G Ballard
The Voices of Time
The Unlimited Dream Company
Roger Zelazny
The Chronicles of Amber
Jim Butcher
Storm Front
Fool Moon
Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Naomi Novik
Temeraire
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War
Empire of Ivory
Victory of Eagles
Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase
After the Quake
The Elephant Vanishes
Richard Morgan
Altered Carbon
William Gibson
Spook Country
Books begun in 2008 which NEED to be finished in 2009 (most unfinished for reasons of library reservation queues, some only just started):
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Terry Pratchett
Nation
Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Lois McMaster Bujold
The Warrior's Apprentice
Richard Morgan
Broken Angels
To Read in 2009:
Joe Haldeman
The Forever War
Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Connie Willis
To Say Nothing Of The Dog
Alan Bennet
The Uncommon Reader
Bernard Schlink
The Reader
Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Sputnik Sweetheart
Norwegian Wood
Paul McAuley
Fairyland
Iain (M) Banks
Whit
Look to Windward
Consider Phlebas
Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
William Goldman
The Princess Bride
Fritz Leiber
Lankhmar (handy omnibus edition containing most of the stories)
Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind
Jim Butcher
Grave Peril
John M. Ford
The Dragon Waiting
...and there is a lot more BUT I AM GOING TO STOP NOW, before I scare myself. I write this down largely as an attempt to remind myself what I'm meant to be reading, since I own a lot of the above books and just haven't got around to them yet but tend to GO OUT AND BUY MORE BOOKS WHENEVER I HAVE MONEY ANYWAY.