Reading

Reading 2006
Reading 2007

The definitive list of books I have read in 2009. As usual, links are to posts where I have discussed the book in question, either here or elsewhere online.

1. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
2. Change your Life with NLP by Lindsey Agness
3. Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
4. Clarissa Oakes by Patrick O’Brien
5. Father Brown – Selected Stories by GK Chesterton
6. The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
7. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
8. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
9. Fat in the middle by Marilyn Glenville
10. Blood Detective by Dan Waddell
11. In search of the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
12. Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling
13. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
14. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
15. Somme Mud by EP Lynch
16. The Rose Labyrinth by Titania Hardie
17. Fat Chance by Lyndsey Russell
18. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
19. The Sacred Cut by David Hewson
20. Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor
21. Are we Rome? by Cullen Murphy
22. The Elements of Murder by John Emsley
23. Why Shoot a Butler by Georgette Heyer
24. The Brutal Art by Jesse Kellerman
25. The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
26. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
27. A Short History of Ireland by Sean McMahon
28. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
29. Testament by Alis Hawkins
30. The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
31. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
32. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennet
33. The Last Rose of Kashmir by Barbara Cleverly
34. The Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
35. Castleton Caves by Trevor Ford
36. 50 Walks in the Peak District by John Morrison et al
37. The Burren and the Aran Islands by Tony Kirby
38. 50 Walks in Edinburgh and Eastern Scotland by Rebecca Ford
39. 25 Walks in the Scottish Borders by Peter Jackson
40. The Scottish World by Billy Kay
41. Revelation by CJ Sanson
42. The Way of all Flesh by Samuel Butler
43. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
44. Scottish Woodland History by TC Smout
45. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
46. The Triumph of the Political Class by Peter Oborne
47. The Motivated Mind by Dr Raj Persaud
48. The Unbelievers by Alistair Sim
49. Darwin’s Lost World by Martin Brasier
50. Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

updated 12th September

Reading 2008
1. PS I scored the bridesmaids! by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
2. The God delusion by Richard Dawkins
3. Collapse by Jared Diamond
4. Alibi by Joseph Kanon
5. A Literature of their own by Elaine Showalter
6. A natural history of the senses by Diane Ackerman
7. The Sword in the Stone by TH White
8. The Queen of air and darkness by TH White
9. The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
10. The wounded name by DK Broster
11. Jimmy the Hand (Legends of the Riftwar series) by Raymond E Feist & Steve Stirling
12. Lost Temple by Tom Harper
13. Sword of God by Chris Kuzneski
14. Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
15. The Butcher of Smithfield by Susanna Gregory
16. Death on the Holy Mountain by David Dickinson
17. Last Train to Kazan by Stephen Miller
18. The Sun King Rises by Yves Jego and Denis Lepee
19. All Quiet on the Home Front by Richard van Emden
20. The Norman Invasion of Ireland by Richard Roche
21. Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries
22. Children of Freedom by Marc Levy
23. Next of Kin by John Boyne
24. Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer
25. Tropical Tangle by Louise Gerard
26. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet
28. The House with Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
29. The Map of Love by Adhaf Soueif
30. Taste by Kate Colquhoun
31. A Shot Rolling Ship by David Donachie
32. The Chatelet Apprentice by Jean-Francois Parot
33. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
34. Never let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
35. The Road to Independence? By Murray Pittock
36. Britain BC by Francis Pryor
37. Free Expression is no Offence ed Lisa Appignanesi
38. The Garden of Evil by David Hewson
39. Purity of Blood by Arturo Perez Reverte
40. Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
41. The Season of the Beast by Andrea Japp
42. The Eliza Tales by Barry Pain
43. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
44. 1610 by Mary Gentle
45. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
46. The Great War of Words by Peter Buitenhuis
47. The Dante Trap by Arnaud Delalande
48. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
49. Imprimateur by Rita Monaldi and Francesco Sorti
50. The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
51. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
52. Cotillion by Georgette Heyer