Reads of 2007
Great Expectations (started 2006) - Charles Dickens
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
Two Left Feet (some shorts) - P.G.Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (some shorts) - Arthur Conan Doyle
Around The World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murkami
How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
Underground - Haruki Murakami
Sisterhood Interrupted - Deborah Siegel
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
I especially enjoyed Atonement, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and The Rediscovery of Man.
I hated How To Be Good, which was entirely expected.
I failed to finish Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino.
In stats:
20% short story collections
13% non-fiction
7% female authors
20% pre-20th century
13% published in the last 5 years
I tried to come up with a sci-fi/fantasy percentage stat, before concluding that this could cause argument concerning at least 4 items on the list.
I am currently reading the Collected Short Stories of E.M.Forster and Anthony Trollope's The Warden. I bought The Warden in Oxfam because I wanted something to read while queuing for the changing rooms in the sales, having forgotten to bring the Forster with me. It has worked out rather well, because I'm enjoying it a lot.
Mostly what this list tells me is that I should read more books in 2008.
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
Two Left Feet (some shorts) - P.G.Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (some shorts) - Arthur Conan Doyle
Around The World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murkami
How To Be Good - Nick Hornby
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
Underground - Haruki Murakami
Sisterhood Interrupted - Deborah Siegel
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
I especially enjoyed Atonement, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and The Rediscovery of Man.
I hated How To Be Good, which was entirely expected.
I failed to finish Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino.
In stats:
20% short story collections
13% non-fiction
7% female authors
20% pre-20th century
13% published in the last 5 years
I tried to come up with a sci-fi/fantasy percentage stat, before concluding that this could cause argument concerning at least 4 items on the list.
I am currently reading the Collected Short Stories of E.M.Forster and Anthony Trollope's The Warden. I bought The Warden in Oxfam because I wanted something to read while queuing for the changing rooms in the sales, having forgotten to bring the Forster with me. It has worked out rather well, because I'm enjoying it a lot.
Mostly what this list tells me is that I should read more books in 2008.