31 December 2012

Books read 2012

Skins

When I got my Kindle in December last year I started making a list of the books I was reading. When I was getting close to the anniversary of getting my Kindle, the 17th December, I tried to reach 100 books, but when the 17th arrived I was only at 90, so I extended the deadline to Christmas Day. I got to 99, but realised just now I'd forgotten to put one on the list so it's 100 after all. And now I'm starting a new list!

 I most enjoyed Popco, Florence and Giles, Room, The Night Circus, The Book of Human Skin, Wonder, Anthem, The Lifecycle of Software Objects, The Little Prince (which believe it or not I'd never read), the Lian Hearn Tales of the Otori trilogy, the Ketty Jay books by Chris Wooding, The Thief Lord, and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight (which I particularly remember because it got me through a few boring hours waiting around at Heathrow at 3am!).

1. Popco - Scarlett Thomas
2. The Last Weekend - Blake Morrison
3. No Logo - Naomi Klein
4. Florence and Giles - John Harding
5. Supersense - Bruce Hood
6. The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
7. Chic on a Shoestring (not kindle)
8. Radioactivity (not kindle) - Lauren Redniss
9. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
10. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
11. The Apostate (article) - Lawrence Wright
12. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - Yasutaka Tsutsui
13. The Etymologicon - Mark Forsyth
14. Room - Emma Donoghue
15. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences - Mark Twain
16. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
17. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
18. Before I go to Sleep - SJ Watson
19. Flatland - Edwin A Abbot
20. God is not Great - Christopher Hitchens
21. Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick
22. The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan
23. The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
24. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
25. The Novice - Trudi Canavan
26. The High Lord - Trudi Canavan
27. Across the Nightingale Floor (reread) - Lian Hearn
28. Grass for his Pillow - Lian Hearn
29. Brilliance of the Moon - Lian Hearn
30. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
31. Apartment 16 - Adam Nevill
32. The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
33. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
34. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
35. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
36. The Magical Maze - Ian Stewart
37. The Sealed Letter - Emma Donoghue
38. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
39. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Sitterfield
40. Player One - Douglas Coupland
41. 50 Shades of Grey - E L James
42. 50 Shades Darker - E L James
43. 50 Shades Freed - E L James
44. One Day - David Nicholls
45. The Magicians - Lev Grossman
46. Free Will - Sam Harris
47. The Believing Brain - Michael Shermer
48. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
49. The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker
50. The Lifecycle of Software Objects - Ted Chiang
51. Ghost Rider - Neil Peart
52. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
53. The Call of Cthulhu - H P Lovecraft
54. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
55. Pretties - Scott Westerfeld
56. Gillespie and I (not kindle) - Jane Harris
57. Dismantled / Girl in the Woods - Jennifer McMahon
58. What I Was - Meg Rosoff
59. A Book of Silence - Sara Maitland
60. Mechanique - Genevieve Valentine
61. Specials - Scott Westerfeld
62. Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue
63. A Japanese Boy - Shigemi Shiukichi
64. Extras - Scott Westerfeld
65. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E Smith
66. Horrible Histories - Incredible Incas - Terry Deary
67. An Idiot Abroad - Karl Pilkington
68. Bright Young Things - Scarlett Thomas
69. Book of Human Skin - Michelle Lovric
70. The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
71. Timeless - Gail Carriger
72. All My Friends Are Superheroes - Andrew Kaufman
73. Anthem - Ayn Rand
74. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
75. Paper Towns - John Green
76. River King - Alice Hoffman
77. Wonder - R J Palacio
78. Falling While Sitting Down - Joshua Fields Milburn
79. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
80. Retribution Falls - Chris Wooding
81. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
82. Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks
83. The Black Lung Captain - Chris Wooding
84. The Shape of Water - Andrea Camilleri
85. The Terra-Cotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
86. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
87. The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
88. The Reptile Room - Lemony Snicket
89. The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
90. The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
91. The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
92. The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri
93. Lyttleton's Britain - Iain Pattinson
94. The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
95. The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
96. The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
97. The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
98. The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicke
99. The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
100. Heaven's Net is Wide - Lian Hearn

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