Books Read 2009

1. Silas Marner – George Eliot
2. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld – Patricia McKillip
3. Walking on Glass – Iain Banks
4. Burmese Days – George Orwell
5. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
6. Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
7. Victory of Eagles – Naomi Novik
8. Food and Nutrition: Customs and Culture – Paul Fieldhouse
9. The Vendetta – Honore de Balzac
10. In the Ditch – Buchi Emecheta
11. Second-Class Citizen – Buchi Emecheta
12. Sarrasine – Honore de Balzac
13. A Passion in the Desert – Honore de Balzac
14. A Clergyman's Daughter – George Orwell
15. Pride Against Prejudice: A Personal Politics of Disability – Jenny Morris
16. White Boots – Noel Streatfeild
17. The Icarus Girl – Helen Oyeyemi
18. The Secret of Chimneys – Agatha Christie
19. The Street – Ann Petry
20. The Modern World – Steph Swainston
21. Romola – George Eliot
22. Baby-Led Weaning – Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett
23. Talk to the Snail – Stephen Clarke
24. The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
25. Gabriel's Story – David Anthony Durham
26. Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
27. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
28. Continent – Jim Crace
29. First Love, Last Rites – Ian McEwan
30. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
31. The Ministry of Pain – Dubravka Ugresic
32. Leaf Storm – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. Cliffs of Fall – Shirley Hazzard
34. Only Half of Me – Rageh Omaar
35. The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
36. The Portable Rabelais – Francois Rabelais (tr. Samuel Putnam)
37. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favourite Books – ed. J Peder Zane
38. Some Tame Gazelle – Barbara Pym
39. Weep Not, Child – Ngugi wa Thiong'o
40. Bury My Heart at WH Smith's – Brian Aldiss
41. Dubliners – James Joyce
42. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – Amanda Foreman
43. Lord of Scoundrels – Loretta Chase
44. How to Write a Novel – John Braine
45. Excellent Women – Barbara Pym
46. Bloodchild & other stories – Octavia E Butler
47. Every Light in the House Burnin' – Andrea Levy
48. The Thief's Gamble – Juliet E McKenna
49. Good Behaviour – Molly Keane
50. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
51. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
52. The Paris Review Interviews, vol 1
53. The Paris Review Interviews, vol 2
54. Not Quite A Lady – Loretta Chase
55. People in Glass Houses – Shirley Hazzard
56. The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
57. Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
58. The Gift of Stones – Jim Crace
59. Paris on a Plate: A Gastronomic Diary – Stephen Downes
60. Affinity – Sarah Waters
61. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
62. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
63. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
64. The Fat Man in History – Peter Carey
65. The Robber Bridegroom – Eudora Welty
66. The Convenient Marriage – Georgette Heyer
67. Simply Perfect – Mary Balogh
68. Jane and Prudence – Barbara Pym
69. Almayer's Folly – Joseph Conrad
70. The Touchstone – Edith Wharton
71. In Between the Sheets – Ian McEwan
72. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think – Brian Wansink
73. The Spymaster's Lady – Joanna Bourne
74. Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life – Fintan O'Toole
75. The Taming of the Shrew (New Cambridge edition) – William Shakespeare, ed Ann Thompson
76. Henry VI Part I (Arden edition) – William Shakespeare, ed Edward Burns
77. A Natural History of Latin – Tore Janson
78. The Normans and their Myth – RHC Davis
79. Poison Study – Maria V Snyder
80. Magic Study – Maria V Snyder
81. Fire Study – Maria V Snyder

Books Read 2008

1. The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie
2. The Tain – tr. Thomas Kinsella
3. Northern Lights – Philip Pullman
4. The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
5. The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman
6. The Murder on the Links – Agatha Christie
7. Lyra's Oxford – Philip Pullman
8. Luck in the Shadows – Lynn Flewelling
9. Stalking Darkness – Lynn Flewelling
10. Falling Free – Lois McMaster Bujold
11. Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold
12. Barrayar – Lois McMaster Bujold
13. Cotillion – Georgette Heyer
14. The Warrior's Apprentice – Lois McMaster Bujold
15. The Vor Game – Lois McMaster Bujold
16. Cetaganda – Lois McMaster Bujold
17. Ethan of Athos – Lois McMaster Bujold
18. Borders of Infinity – Lois McMaster Bujold
19. Brothers in Arms – Lois McMaster Bujold
20. Mirror Dance – Lois McMaster Bujold
21. Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold
22. Komarr – Lois McMaster Bujold
23. Intellectual Impostures – Jean Bricmont & Alan Sokal
24. A Civil Campaign – Lois McMaster Bujold
25. The Theory & Practice of Gamesmanship; or, The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating – Stephen Potter
26. Margaret Thatcher, Vol 1: The Grocer's Daughter – John Campbell
27. Master & Commander – Patrick O'Brian
28. Chart Throb – Ben Elton
29. The Year of Our War – Steph Swainston
30. These Old Shades – Georgette Heyer
31. Reading Comics – Douglas Wolk
32. Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
33. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
34. Vox – Nicholson Baker
35. In the Garden of Iden – Kage Baker
36. Eugenie Grandet – Honore de Balzac
37. The Professor – Charlotte Bronte
38. On Writing – Stephen King
39. The Jewels of Aptor – Samuel R Delany
40. My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Holland – Sean Condon
41. How Novels Work – John Mullan
42. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
43. Heat – Bill Buford
44. Temeraire – Naomi Novik
45. Throne of Jade – Naomi Novik
46. The Hounds of the Morrigan – Pat O'Shea
47. Wideacre – Philippa Gregory
48. The Family Trade – Charles Stross
49. The Hidden Family – Charles Stross
50. Poirot Investigates – Agatha Christie
51. Brass – Helen Walsh
52. Cold Water – Gwendoline Riley
53. The Dying of Delight – Clare Sudbery
54. A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers – Hugh Kenner
55. 1916: The Easter Rising – Tim Pat Coogan
56. Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion – Charles Townshend
57. Empire in Black and Gold – Adrian Tchaikovsky
58. No Present Like Time – Steph Swainston
59. Black Powder War – Naomi Novik
60. Red Seas Under Red Skies – Scott Lynch
61. Ghostwritten – David Mitchell
62. Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
63. Woman in the Dunes – Kobo Abe
64. Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
65. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
66. Empire of Ivory – Naomi Novik
67. The Grand Sophy – Georgette Heyer
68. Desperate Remedies – Thomas Hardy
69. Under the Greenwood Tree – Thomas Hardy
70. Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement – I A Richards
71. A Pair of Blue Eyes – Thomas Hardy
72. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
73. The Lifted Veil – George Eliot
74. Brother Jacob – George Eliot
75. Piano Notes – Charles Rosen
76. Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell
77. Daisy Miller – Henry James