Books 2012
Book List 2012
1) Cleopatra: A Life (Stacy Schiff), p.302.
2) Gifts (Ursula Le Guin), p.274.
3) America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Sarah Bradford), p.597.
4) Bluestockings (Jane Robinson), p.218.
5) Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert), p.346.
6) How to be a Woman (Caitlin Moran), p.309.
7) In Siberia (Colin Thubron), p.278.
8) The Real Queen of France: Athenais & Louis XIV (Lisa Hilton), p.392.
9) Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Ariel Levy), p.200.
10) The Settlers of Catan (Rebecca Gable), p.620.
11) Temeraire (Naomi Novik), p.352.
12) Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants (Alison Maloney), p.192.
13) Doctor Who The Missing Adventures: Evolution (John Peel), p.260.
14) The Gift of Fear: Survival signals that protect us from violence (Gavin de Becker), p.299.
15) The World According to Clarkson (Jeremy Clarkson), p.327.
16) The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women and Men Today (Kat Banyard), p.246.
17) The Secret Life of Bletchley Park (Sinclair McKay), p.322.
18) The World According to Clarkson Vol 4: How Hard Can It Be? (Jeremy Clarkson), p.332.
19) Graceling (Kristin Cashore), p.370.
20) Zoo City (Lauren Beukes), p.349.
21) Bergdorf Blondes (Plum Sykes), p.310.
22) Theater Shoes (Noel Streatfeild), p.281.
23) Fated (Benedict Jacka), p.322.
24) According to Queeney (Beryl Bainbridge), p.244.
25) The Bugatti Queen (Miranda Seymour), p.262.
26) Chile: Travels in a Thin Country (Sara Wheeler), p.302.
27) The Quantum Thief (Hannu Rajaniemi), p.330.
28) The Paris Wife (Paula McLain), p.385.
29) Rules of Civility (Amor Towles), p.324.
30) Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (Jennifer Worth), p.319.
31) The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi) p.505.
32) Lavinia (Ursula Le Guin) p.287.
33) Eating Air (Pauline Melville), p.476.
34) Ubik (Philip K Dick), p.208.
35) Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut) p.157.
36) Downbelow Station (CJ Cherryh) p.477.
37) Love Walked In (Marisa de los Santos) p.307.
38) Overclocked (Cory Doctorow) p.285.
39) Pompeii: The Living City (Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence) p.365.
40) Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch) p.390.
41) Persian Fire (Tom Holland) p.372.
42) The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (Stephen Fry) p.425.
43) Moon Over Soho (Ben Aaronovitch) p.373.
44) Rubicon (Tom Holland) p.389.
45) The Classical World (Robin Lane Fox) p.606.
46) The Mitford Girls (Mary S. Lovell) p.529.
47) Ragnarok (AS Byatt) p.154.
48) Drive On! A Social History of the Motor Car (LJK Setright) p.390.
49) Identity & Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Amartya Sen) p.186.
50) The Women Incendiaries (Edtih Thomas) p.244.
51) The Sun King (Nancy Mitford) p.242.
52) Empire (Niall Ferguson) p.381.
53) The Last Generation (Fred Pearce) p.366.
54) The Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (Caroline Weber) p.292.
55) Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Amanda Foreman) p.405.
56) Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb) p.480.
57) Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness (HP Lovecraft) p.552.
58) Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (Sara Wheeler) p.298.
59) Shooting History (Jon Snow) p.379.
60) Courtesans (Kate Hickman) p.336.
61) Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman) p.372.
62) H2O: A Biography of Water (Philip Ball) p.346.
63) The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (ed. Datlow & Windling) p.382.
64) The Social Animal (David Brooks) p.466.
65) The King Must Die (Mary Renault) p.353.
66) The Death of Ayrton Senna (Richard Williams) p.177.
67) The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller) p.352.
68) The Gold Coast (Kim Stanley Robinson) p.389.
69) Delusions of Gender (Cordelia Fine) p.239.
70) Whispers Underground (Ben Aaronovitch) p.418.
71) Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice) p.491.
72) Jerusalem (Simon Sebag Montefiore) p.628.
73) Blood and Feathers (Lou Morgan) p.364.
74) The Mechanic's Tale: Life in the Pit-lanes of Formula One (Steve Matchett) p.226.
75) Luck in the Shadows (Lynn Flewelling) p.479.
76) The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice) p.550.
77) Driven to Distraction (Jeremy Clarkson) p.466.
78) The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson) p.772.
79) The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) p.454.
80) How to Land an A330 Airbus (James May) p.239.
81) Band of Brothers (Stephen E. Ambrose) p.307.
82) Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins) p.455.
83) Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) p.472.
84) Transition (Iain Banks) p.404.
85) Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld) p.478.
86) The Penguin History of the USA (Hugh Brogan) p.694.
87) The New Doctor Who Advantures: Theatre of War (Justin Richards) p.316.
88) The Memory of Whiteness (Kim Stanley Robinson) p.351.
89) Unseen Academicals (Terry Pratchett) p.540.
90) A tale Etched in Blood and hard Black pencil (Christopher Brookmyre) p.339.
91) Fire (Kristin Cashore) p.356.
92) Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) p.529.
93) The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Antonia Fraser) p.430.
94) How I Live Now (Meg Rosoff) p.211.
95) Odd and the Frost Giants (Neil Gaiman) p.127.
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1) Cleopatra: A Life (Stacy Schiff), p.302.
2) Gifts (Ursula Le Guin), p.274.
3) America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Sarah Bradford), p.597.
4) Bluestockings (Jane Robinson), p.218.
5) Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert), p.346.
6) How to be a Woman (Caitlin Moran), p.309.
7) In Siberia (Colin Thubron), p.278.
8) The Real Queen of France: Athenais & Louis XIV (Lisa Hilton), p.392.
9) Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Ariel Levy), p.200.
10) The Settlers of Catan (Rebecca Gable), p.620.
11) Temeraire (Naomi Novik), p.352.
12) Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants (Alison Maloney), p.192.
13) Doctor Who The Missing Adventures: Evolution (John Peel), p.260.
14) The Gift of Fear: Survival signals that protect us from violence (Gavin de Becker), p.299.
15) The World According to Clarkson (Jeremy Clarkson), p.327.
16) The Equality Illusion: The Truth About Women and Men Today (Kat Banyard), p.246.
17) The Secret Life of Bletchley Park (Sinclair McKay), p.322.
18) The World According to Clarkson Vol 4: How Hard Can It Be? (Jeremy Clarkson), p.332.
19) Graceling (Kristin Cashore), p.370.
20) Zoo City (Lauren Beukes), p.349.
21) Bergdorf Blondes (Plum Sykes), p.310.
22) Theater Shoes (Noel Streatfeild), p.281.
23) Fated (Benedict Jacka), p.322.
24) According to Queeney (Beryl Bainbridge), p.244.
25) The Bugatti Queen (Miranda Seymour), p.262.
26) Chile: Travels in a Thin Country (Sara Wheeler), p.302.
27) The Quantum Thief (Hannu Rajaniemi), p.330.
28) The Paris Wife (Paula McLain), p.385.
29) Rules of Civility (Amor Towles), p.324.
30) Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (Jennifer Worth), p.319.
31) The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi) p.505.
32) Lavinia (Ursula Le Guin) p.287.
33) Eating Air (Pauline Melville), p.476.
34) Ubik (Philip K Dick), p.208.
35) Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut) p.157.
36) Downbelow Station (CJ Cherryh) p.477.
37) Love Walked In (Marisa de los Santos) p.307.
38) Overclocked (Cory Doctorow) p.285.
39) Pompeii: The Living City (Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence) p.365.
40) Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch) p.390.
41) Persian Fire (Tom Holland) p.372.
42) The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (Stephen Fry) p.425.
43) Moon Over Soho (Ben Aaronovitch) p.373.
44) Rubicon (Tom Holland) p.389.
45) The Classical World (Robin Lane Fox) p.606.
46) The Mitford Girls (Mary S. Lovell) p.529.
47) Ragnarok (AS Byatt) p.154.
48) Drive On! A Social History of the Motor Car (LJK Setright) p.390.
49) Identity & Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Amartya Sen) p.186.
50) The Women Incendiaries (Edtih Thomas) p.244.
51) The Sun King (Nancy Mitford) p.242.
52) Empire (Niall Ferguson) p.381.
53) The Last Generation (Fred Pearce) p.366.
54) The Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution (Caroline Weber) p.292.
55) Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Amanda Foreman) p.405.
56) Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb) p.480.
57) Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness (HP Lovecraft) p.552.
58) Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (Sara Wheeler) p.298.
59) Shooting History (Jon Snow) p.379.
60) Courtesans (Kate Hickman) p.336.
61) Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman) p.372.
62) H2O: A Biography of Water (Philip Ball) p.346.
63) The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (ed. Datlow & Windling) p.382.
64) The Social Animal (David Brooks) p.466.
65) The King Must Die (Mary Renault) p.353.
66) The Death of Ayrton Senna (Richard Williams) p.177.
67) The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller) p.352.
68) The Gold Coast (Kim Stanley Robinson) p.389.
69) Delusions of Gender (Cordelia Fine) p.239.
70) Whispers Underground (Ben Aaronovitch) p.418.
71) Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice) p.491.
72) Jerusalem (Simon Sebag Montefiore) p.628.
73) Blood and Feathers (Lou Morgan) p.364.
74) The Mechanic's Tale: Life in the Pit-lanes of Formula One (Steve Matchett) p.226.
75) Luck in the Shadows (Lynn Flewelling) p.479.
76) The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice) p.550.
77) Driven to Distraction (Jeremy Clarkson) p.466.
78) The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson) p.772.
79) The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins) p.454.
80) How to Land an A330 Airbus (James May) p.239.
81) Band of Brothers (Stephen E. Ambrose) p.307.
82) Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins) p.455.
83) Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins) p.472.
84) Transition (Iain Banks) p.404.
85) Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld) p.478.
86) The Penguin History of the USA (Hugh Brogan) p.694.
87) The New Doctor Who Advantures: Theatre of War (Justin Richards) p.316.
88) The Memory of Whiteness (Kim Stanley Robinson) p.351.
89) Unseen Academicals (Terry Pratchett) p.540.
90) A tale Etched in Blood and hard Black pencil (Christopher Brookmyre) p.339.
91) Fire (Kristin Cashore) p.356.
92) Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides) p.529.
93) The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Antonia Fraser) p.430.
94) How I Live Now (Meg Rosoff) p.211.
95) Odd and the Frost Giants (Neil Gaiman) p.127.
This entry was originally posted at DreamWidth. There are
comments there. Comments are welcome at either journal.