Book-a-week-2008...
I'll probably be on internet again before end of the year, but just in case:
1 Exit Right, the Unravelling of John Howard, Judith Brett (do the Quarterly Essays count as books? Nice start with the cheating, huh?) *
2 Earth Abides, George Stewart
3 Childhood's end, Arthur C Clarke.
4 They Shall Have Stars, James Blish
5 A Life For The Stars, James Blish
6 Earthman, Come Home, James Blish
7 The Triumph of Time, James Blish
8 The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker
9 Writings on an Ethical Life, Peter Singer
10 Ammonite, Nicola Griffith
11 Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
# there've been a couple of others - a Catherine Asaro? Some light SF. Others from City Lib?
12 Ah! The old school post-apocalyptic one! Hm, what was it called?
13 Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn
14 Grass for his Pillow, Lian Hearn
15 Brilliance of the Moon, Lian Hearn
16 Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz
17 Deryni Checkmate, Katherine Kurtz
18 Limits, Larry Niven
19 Another anthol... what was it? Asimov? In Solomons... Meteors?
20 Academ's Fury, Jim Butcher
21 Captain's Fury, Butcher
22 Cursor's Fury, Butcher
23 Midnighters, Scott Westerfeld
24 White Night, Butcher
25 Paths of the Dead, Brust
26 Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton
27 Alpha, Catherine Asaro
28 Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
29 Growing Up Asian in Australia, Alice Pung
30 Dzur, Steven Brust
31 Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper
32 Greenwitch, Susan Cooper
33 The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
34 The Grey King, Susan Cooper
35 Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper
36 Environmental Philosophy: Reason Nature and Human Concern, Christopher Belshaw - took me ages to finish this - not as interesting as you'd think. Bit fuzzy.
37 Cloud witness, Sayers
38 Unnatural death, Sayers
39 The Social Contract, Rousseau
40 Parable of the Talents, Octavia E Butler
41 1602, Neil Gaiman *
42 Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
43 Singularity Sky, Charlie Stross
44 Transmetropolitan - the new scum, Warren Ellis *
45 A Calculus of Angels, J Gregory Keyes
46 Bellwether, Connie Willis
47 Best Australian Short SF Vol 2, Congreve and Marqu...
48 Breath, Tim Winton
49 Night Sky Mine, Melissa Scott
50 The Last Days, Westerfeld
51 Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K Hamilton *
52 Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (ok, not quite finished, actually still a third to go, but I can probably manage that in the next week...)
* Totally cheated with the Quarterly Essay and THREE graphic novels filling out the ranks...although I think I did miss a couple of light SF novels in there somewhere...
1 Exit Right, the Unravelling of John Howard, Judith Brett (do the Quarterly Essays count as books? Nice start with the cheating, huh?) *
2 Earth Abides, George Stewart
3 Childhood's end, Arthur C Clarke.
4 They Shall Have Stars, James Blish
5 A Life For The Stars, James Blish
6 Earthman, Come Home, James Blish
7 The Triumph of Time, James Blish
8 The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker
9 Writings on an Ethical Life, Peter Singer
10 Ammonite, Nicola Griffith
11 Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
# there've been a couple of others - a Catherine Asaro? Some light SF. Others from City Lib?
12 Ah! The old school post-apocalyptic one! Hm, what was it called?
13 Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn
14 Grass for his Pillow, Lian Hearn
15 Brilliance of the Moon, Lian Hearn
16 Deryni Rising, Katherine Kurtz
17 Deryni Checkmate, Katherine Kurtz
18 Limits, Larry Niven
19 Another anthol... what was it? Asimov? In Solomons... Meteors?
20 Academ's Fury, Jim Butcher
21 Captain's Fury, Butcher
22 Cursor's Fury, Butcher
23 Midnighters, Scott Westerfeld
24 White Night, Butcher
25 Paths of the Dead, Brust
26 Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton
27 Alpha, Catherine Asaro
28 Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
29 Growing Up Asian in Australia, Alice Pung
30 Dzur, Steven Brust
31 Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper
32 Greenwitch, Susan Cooper
33 The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
34 The Grey King, Susan Cooper
35 Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper
36 Environmental Philosophy: Reason Nature and Human Concern, Christopher Belshaw - took me ages to finish this - not as interesting as you'd think. Bit fuzzy.
37 Cloud witness, Sayers
38 Unnatural death, Sayers
39 The Social Contract, Rousseau
40 Parable of the Talents, Octavia E Butler
41 1602, Neil Gaiman *
42 Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
43 Singularity Sky, Charlie Stross
44 Transmetropolitan - the new scum, Warren Ellis *
45 A Calculus of Angels, J Gregory Keyes
46 Bellwether, Connie Willis
47 Best Australian Short SF Vol 2, Congreve and Marqu...
48 Breath, Tim Winton
49 Night Sky Mine, Melissa Scott
50 The Last Days, Westerfeld
51 Guilty Pleasures, Laurell K Hamilton *
52 Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (ok, not quite finished, actually still a third to go, but I can probably manage that in the next week...)
* Totally cheated with the Quarterly Essay and THREE graphic novels filling out the ranks...although I think I did miss a couple of light SF novels in there somewhere...