Tuesday 11 September 2012

Books read up to August 2011


  1. Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian
  2. Love and Freindship and other early works by Jane Austen
  3. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
  4. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
  5. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
  6. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
  7. Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
  8. The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine
  9. Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost
  10. Camille/La Dame aux Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils
  11. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris
  12. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
  13. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
  14. From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
  15. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
  16. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  17. Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine
  18. Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine
  19. Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine
  20. Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine
  21. Fade Out by Rachel Caine
  22. Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine
  23. The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter
  24. Checkout Girl by Tazeen Ahmad
  25. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  26. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  27. The End of Alice by AM Homes
  28. The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham
  29. The Sexual Life of Catherine M by Catherine Millet
  30. The Fermata by Nicholson Baker
  31. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  32. Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer
  33. The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison
  34. Changeover by Diana Wynne Jones
  35. Wilkins' Tooth by Diana Wynne Jones
  36. The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones
  37. Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones
  38. Cart and Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones
  39. Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
  40. Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones
  41. Frost in May by Antonia White
  42. How Fiction Works by James Woods
  43. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
  44. Selections from The Left Bank by Jean Rhys
  45. Quartet by Jean Rhys
  46. Kiss Chase by Fiona Walker
  47. After Leaving Mr McKenzie by Jean Rhys
  48. Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
  49. Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys
And there I finally sickened of Goodreads and logging what I was reading, and giving everything 3, 4 or 5 stars even though some of it was the utterest crap but had kept me turning the pages. 

But I still have the impulse to log what I'm reading, so I've started a tumblr where all I need do is post the name and cover of the book I've just finished, then I can always add a review (or thoughts) here or there if I feel I want to.

Books Read 2010


  1. Henry VI Part II (Arden edition) – William Shakespeare, ed Ronald Knowles
  2. Henry VI Part III (Arden edition) – William Shakespeare, ed John D Cox & Eric Rasmussen
  3. Swordspoint – Ellen Kushner
  4. A Memoir – Tim Pat Coogan
  5. Titus Andronicus (Arden edition) – William Shakespeare, ed Jonathan Bate
  6. King Edward III (New Cambridge edition) – William Shakespeare, ed Giorgio Melchiori
  7. Shakespeare in Performance: The Henry VI Plays – Stuart Hampton-Reeves & Carol Chillington Rutter
  8. Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare's Women Today – Carol Chillington Rutter & Faith Evans
  9. Richard III (Oxford edition) – William Shakespeare, ed John Jowett
  10. Frederica – Georgette Heyer
  11. The Evening of the Holiday – Shirley Hazzard
  12. The White Castle – Orhan Pamuk
  13. Enchanted Glass – Diana Wynne Jones
  14. Actors on Shakespeare: Henry VI Part I – David Oyelowo
  15. Venus and Adonis – William Shakespeare
  16. The Rape of Lucrece – William Shakespeare
  17. Claymore vol 1 – Norihiro Yagi
  18. Fullmetal Alchemist vol 1 – Hiromu Arakawa
  19. 20th Century Boys vol 1 – Naoki Urasawa
  20. The Demon's Lexicon – Sarah Rees Brennan
  21. The Comedy of Errors (Oxford edition) – William Shakespeare, ed Charles Whitworth
  22. Year of the King – Antony Sher
  23. Love's Labour's Lost (Arden edition) – William Shakespeare, ed H R Woudhuysen
  24. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – NK Jemisin
  25. Kushiel's Dart – Jacqueline Carey
  26. At the Bottom of the River – Jamaica Kincaid
  27. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages – Kato Lomb
  28. The Pendragon Legend – Antal Szerb
  29. A Civil Contract – Georgette Heyer
  30. Soulless – Gail Carriger
  31. Ash – Malinda Lo
  32. Claymore vol 2 – Norihiro Yagi
  33. Claymore vol 3 – Norihiro Yagi
  34. Fullmetal Alchemist vol 2 – Hiromu Arakawa
  35. African Psycho – Alain Mabanckou
  36. The Time of the Dark – Barbara Hambly
  37. The Walls of Air – Barbara Hambly
  38. The Bay of Noon – Shirley Hazzard
  39. The Armies of Daylight – Barbara Hambly
  40. Stories vol 1 (Everyman) – Anton Chekhov
  41. Private Arrangements – Sherry Thomas
  42. Howl's Moving Castle – Diana Wynne Jones
  43. Changeless – Gail Carriger
  44. Skyscraper – Faith Baldwin
  45. In the Garden of Iden – Kage Baker
  46. Sky Coyote – Kage Baker
  47. Doppelganger – Marie Brennan
  48. Mendoza in Hollywood – Kage Baker
  49. The Graveyard Game – Kage Baker
  50. Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers – Kage Baker
  51. The Life of the World to Come – Kage Baker
  52. The Children of the Company – Kage Baker
  53. The Machine's Child – Kage Baker
  54. Lara – Bernardine Evaristo
  55. Gods and Pawns – Kage Baker
  56. The Sons of Heaven – Kage Baker
  57. The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold
  58. Castle in the Air – Diana Wynne Jones
  59. Ship of Fools – Fintan O'Toole
  60. Witch – Marie Brennan
  61. Tickling the English – Dara O Briain
  62. More Pricks Than Kicks – Samuel Beckett
  63. The Scar – China Mieville
  64. A Shadow in Summer – Daniel Abraham
  65. Alice Adams – Booth Tarkington
  66. Booklife – Jeff VanderMeer
  67. The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot – Charles Baxter
  68. Alanna: The First Adventure – Tamora Pierce
  69. In the Hand of the Goddess – Tamora Pierce
  70. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man – Tamora Pierce
  71. Lioness Rampant – Tamora Pierce
  72. Wild Magic – Tamora Pierce
  73. Wolf-Speaker – Tamora Pierce
  74. The Emperor Mage – Tamora Pierce
  75. Realms of the Gods – Tamora Pierce
  76. The Unstrung Harp – Edward Gorey
  77. Whose Body? – Dorothy L Sayers
  78. Clouds of Witness – Dorothy L Sayers
  79. Unnatural Death – Dorothy L Sayers
  80. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club – Dorothy L Sayers
  81. Teaching Black Literature – Suzanne Scafe
  82. Lord Peter Views the Body – Dorothy L Sayers
  83. Strong Poison – Dorothy L Sayers
  84. Blameless – Gail Carriger
  85. The Man in the Brown Suit – Agatha Christie
  86. The Documents in the Case – Dorothy L Sayers
  87. The Spirit Thief – Rachel Aaron
  88. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
  89. The Poison Throne – Celine Kiernan
  90. The Crowded Shadows – Celine Kiernan
  91. The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell
  92. Five Red Herrings – Dorothy L Sayers
  93. The Big Four – Agatha Christie
  94. Have His Carcase – Dorothy L Sayers
  95. The Rebel Prince – Celine Kiernan
  96. Vanity Fair - WM Thackeray