2011 Reading List

[kay_brooke]

Not sure why I bother to do this every year since I never manage to get through even a tiny fraction of the books on the list, but here is my reading list for 2011.

Comments

[ringwraith10]

Maybe I should make a reading list this year... My habit is usually to finish a book, then find another one on my shelf that strikes my interest at that moment. I usually keep a shelf of to-read books for that purpose.

[kay_brooke]

I've worked through most of my to-read pile (I haven't bought new books in forever). I need to figure out where the local library is around here.

[outintherain]

This is an absolutely brilliant list - some of my favourite books and authors here!!

In what it hopefully a useful and not condescending/unhelpful way - I'd recommend bumping The Windup Girl to the back of the priority list... I was given a copy to review and I just found it impenetrable... considering that I was being paid £20 to finish it and write 300 words about the experience, that's saying a lot! :S

[kay_brooke]

Ooh, then I'm looking forward to digging into this list!

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. Maybe I'll just see if I can find it at the library instead of buying it?

[outintherain]

Yeah definitely - I wouldn't spend money on it!

It could honestly just be me - I know it's had rave reviews - but given that I generally adore sci-fi, dystopian futures and steampunk/biopunk/whatever this is calling itself; I'm surprised by how fervently I disliked it!

[crowinator]

I never get through much of my to-read pile either, particularly because I am always adding to it as I go. But you read a great bunch of books (many of which are on my to-read pile, actually), and several were major door-stoppers, so I'm definitely impressed!