Books: 2006

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Right, I am blatantly not going to read any more books this year so I thought I would do the traditional list now.

Demonology - Rick Moody
Generation Kill - Evan Wright
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Maze Of Death - Philip K Dick * (SF Site)
Learning The World - Ken MacLeod
Black Dust And Other Stories - Graham Joyce
Accelerando - Charles Stross
9Tail Fox - Jon Courtney Grimwood
Always The Sun - Neil Cross
Living Next-Door To The God Of Love - Justina Robson
BloodFever - Charlie Higson
The People's Act Of Love - James Meek
Eclipse - KA Bedford (NYRSF)
We Piece - Andrew Hueber
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
A Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve (Strange Horizons)
The City Of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
CloudWorld - David Cunningham
Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov
Polystom - Adam Roberts
The Penelopiad - Magaret Atwood
Newton's Wake - Ken McLeod
The Possibility Of An Island - Michelle Houellebecq
Coast - Matthew Branton
Things That Never Happen - M John Harrison
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Book Of Shadows - Don Patterson
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
Forty Stories - Donald Barthelme

* Re-read

I make that a shockingly meagre thirty books. This is probably the first year since the early Nineties I have read less than fifty novels. In terms of quality it wasn't a great year either. My top ten, in no particular order and excluding rereads:

Generation Kill - Evan Wright
Saturday - Ian McEwan
Always The Sun - Neil Cross
The People's Act Of Love - James Meek
A Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve
The Possibility Of An Island - Michelle Houellebecq
Things That Never Happen - M John Harrison
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester

And finally some stats:

Non-fiction: 3%
Short story collections: 13%
SF: 60%
YA: 13%
Books by women: 13%