Recent Book Activity

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MY LATEST READS:


RESERVED:

None

TO BE READ:

19/01/2008 - The Tale of the Heike - tr. Helen Craig McCullough
17/10/2009 - The Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
19/03/2011 - The Virgin in the Garden - A. S. Byatt
19/03/2011 - Dissolution - C. J. Sansom
14/09/2011 - Best SF stories from new worlds 5 - Michael Moorcock
24/09/2011 - Exultant - Stephen Baxter
24/09/2011 - Time Out of Joint - Philip K. Dick
24/09/2011 - On Aggression - Konrad Lorenz
24/09/2011 - The Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar
24/09/2011 - The Nutmeg of Consolation - Patrick O'Brian
24/09/2011 - The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still - Malcolm Pryce
24/09/2011 - Arktiske Norge - Bjørn Rasch-Tellefsen
24/09/2011 - The Hidden Family - Charles Stross
24/09/2011 - Joyous Invasions - Theodore Sturgeon
24/09/2011 - The Unknown Mayhew - ed. E P Thompson & Eileen Yeo
24/09/2011 - The Golden Globe - John Varley
15/10/2011 - Ivy - Julie Hearn

BOOKS READ IN 2012:

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TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2011:

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Against a Dark Background - Iain M. Banks
Startide Rising - David Brin
Puppies of Terra - Thomas M. Disch
End of the World Blues - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Popes and Phantoms - John Whitbourn
The City & The City - China Mieville
Linden Hills - Gloria Naylor
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
From Aberystwyth With Love - Malcolm Pryce
The White Hotel - D. M. Thomas

TOP 3 NON-FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2011:

Memory of Fire: Genesis - Eduardo Galeano
The Lunar Men - Jenny Uglow
59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot - Richard Wiseman

TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2010:

Island of the Sequinned Love Nun - Christopher Moore
Virtual Light - William Gibson
A Madness of Angels - Kate Griffin
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds
My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon
Meltdown - Ben Elton
Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
The Sirian Experiments - Doris Lessing

TOP 3 NON-FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2010:

Due to lack of interest tomorrow has been canceled - Irene Kampen
Alfred the Great - tr. Simon Keynes & Michael Lapidge
Salt: A World History

TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2009:

Inversions - Iain M. Banks
Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
War With the Newts - Karel Capek
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
9tail Fox - Jon Courtenay Grimwood
City of Baraboo - Barry B. Longyear
The Mourning Vessels - Peter Luther
River of Gods - Ian McDonald
The Crash of Hennington - Patrick Ness
A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler

TOP 3 NON-FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2009:

Ulysses Found - Ernle Bradford
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World - Mark Kurlansky
Sky Burial - Xinran

TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2008:

Hawkfall - George Mackay Brown
Blind Faith - Ben Elton
Drinking Midnight Wine - Simon R. Green
The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
Dark Covenant - Peter Luther
Explorers of the New Century - Magnus Mills
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
Roman Blood - Steven Saylor
Losing Nelson - Barry Unsworth

TOP 3 NON-FICTION BOOKS READ IN 2008:

The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Haruki Murakami
The Good Women of China - Xinran

TOP 10 BOOKS READ IN 2007:

Q - Luther Blissett
What's Bred in the Bone (The Cornish Trilogy) - Robertson Davies
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Fat White Vampire Blues - Andrew Fox
The Anything Box - Zenna Henderson
Ark Baby - Liz Jensen
Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
Mother London - Michael Moorcock
Trajectories - Julian Rathbone


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