Books Read in 2010
The Complaints - Ian Rankin (f)
Decline of the English Murder - George Orwell (r)
Lustrum - Robert Harris (f)
Full Dark House - Christopher Fowler (f)
The Water Room - Christopher Fowler (f)
The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London - Leo Hollis (r)
The Secret Life of Houdini - William Kalush & Larry Ratso Sloman (r)
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill (f)
The Duchesses - Andrew Roden (r)
Venetian Masks and the Commedia Dell'Arte - Peter Eustace (r)
Tudor and Stuart Gardens - Anne Jennings (r)
Hoyle's Book of Games - Edmond Hoyle & Lawrence Dawson (r)
New Practical Observations in Surgery - Hugh Ryder (r)
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife - Georges Simenon (f)
Hollar's Map of London - Peter Barber (r)
Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell (f)
Liberty Bar - Georges Simenon (f)
The Madman of Bergerac - Georges Simenon (f)
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar - Georges Simenon (f)
Avilion - Robert Holdstock (f)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (f)
The Sailors' Rendezvous - Georges Simenon (f)
Sniper One - Dan Mills (r)
The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson (f)
Great and Glorious Days: Marlborough's Battles 1704-09 - James Falkner (r)
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - Georges Simenon (f)
Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood (f)
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (f)
Marlborough's Sieges - James Falkner (r)
The Secret History - Donna Tartt (f)
The Cuckoo's Egg - Cliff Stoll (r)
The Art of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough - David Chandler (r)
The Spanish Main, 1493-1800 - Rene Chartrand & Donato Spedaliere (r)
The Salt Smugglers - Gerard de Nerval (f)
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein (f)
Revolutionary Medicine - C. Keith Wilbur (r)
Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay's Trivia (1716) - C. Brant and S.E. Whyman (eds) (r)
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Høeg (f)
The British Seaman, 1200-1860: A Social Survey - Christopher Lloyd (r)
Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany (f)
The American War of Independence, 1775-1783 - various (r)
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories - Lord Dunsany (f)
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (f)
The Human Factor - Graham Greene (f)
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula le Guin (f)
Seventy-Seven Clocks - Christopher Fowler (f)
Martyrs and Mystics - Ed Glinert (r)
Firewall - Henning Mankell (f)
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration - Jenny Uglow (r)
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (f)
The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman (f)
The Shadow in the North - Philip Pullman (f)
The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman (f)
The Tin Princess - Philip Pullman (f)
The Development of Surgery - John Gibson (r)
Hops and Glory - Pete Brown (r)
Ten-Second Staircase - Christopher Fowler (f)
Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper (f)
Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson (r)
Pyrotechnia, or A Discourse of Artificiall Fire-Workes for Pleasure - John Babington (r)
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper (f)
Greenwitch - Susan Cooper (f)
The Evolution of Modern Medicine - William Osler (r)
Seeing Things - Oliver Postgate (r)
The Grey King - Susan Cooper (f)
Lobcocks and Fartleberries: 18th Century Insults - Francis Grose (r)
The Smuggler - No Gentleman: Smuggling with Violence around Christchurch and Poole Bays - Michael Hodges (r)
Smuggling: A History, 1700-1970 - David Phillipson (r)
Silver on the Tree - Susan Cooper (f)
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer (r)
Winston Churchill's Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (research) - Stuart Macrae (r)
I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett (f)
The Small Hand - Susan Hill (f)
(f) - fiction
(r) - reference/non-fiction/biography/essays
Titles in italics have been re-read.