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posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 10:26am on 29/12/2003
100 books I've read in 2003
And this is an incomplete list...

    Fiction: new reads
  1. Yeats is dead - Roddy Doyle and others
  2. The Number 1 Lady's Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
  3. Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
  4. Morality for Beautiful girls - Alexander McCall Smith
  5. The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
  6. Portugese Irregular verbs - Alexander McCall Smith
  7. Of Time and Stars - Arthur C Clarke
  8. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fford
  9. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fford
  10. Changing Planes - Ursula K LeGuin
  11. Timescape - Gregory Benford
  12. Cities in Flight: They Shall Have Stars - James Blish
  13. Cities in Flight: A Life for the Stars - James Blish
  14. Cities in Flight: Earthman Come Home - James Blish
  15. Cities in Flight: The Triumph of Time - James Blish
  16. Marco's millions - William Sleator
  17. To Vanishing Point - Doreen Norman
  18. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
  19. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
  20. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Eoin Colfer
  21. The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
  22. The Carniverous Carnival - Lemony Snicket
  23. The Zero Stone - Andre Norton
  24. Telling the Sea - Pauline Fisk
  25. Midnight Blue - Pauline Fisk
  26. The Tears of the Salamander - Peter Dickinson
  27. Coram Boy - Jamilla Gavin
  28. Earthworks - Brian Aldiss
  29. The Whispering Mountain - Joan Aitken
  30. The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
  31. A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley
  32. Open Sesame - Tom Holt
  33. Here comes the Sun - Tom Holt
  34. Overtime - Tom Holt
  35. Wheelers - Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
  36. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
  37. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
  38. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
  39. The Wolves in the Walls - Neil Gaiman
  40. Escape from Kathmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson
  41. The Reefs of Earth - R A Lafferty
  42. Strange Doings - R A Lafferty
  43. The Subtle Knife - Philp Pullman
  44. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
  45. The Shadow in the North - Philip Pullman
  46. The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
  47. The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
  48. The Tin Princess - Philip Pullman
  49. The Shadow of Heaven - Bob Shaw
  50. Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody - Michael Gerber
  51. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling
  52. Kensuke's Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo
  53. A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny
  54. Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  55. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
  56. Endymion - Dan Simmons
  57. The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
  58. Black Jack - Leon Garfield
  59. The Athenian Murders - Jose Carlos Samosa
  60. The Slayers of Seth -- Paul Doherty
  61. Today We Choose Faces - Roger Zelazny
  62. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  63. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
  64. The Other Wind - Ursula K Le Guin
  65. Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon
  66. Holes - Louis Sachar
  67. Kil'n People - David Brin
  68. Funeral Games - Mary Renault
  69. Sabriel - Garth Nix
  70. Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
  71. Alexander Vol 1: Child of a Dream - Valerio Massimo Manfredi
  72. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
  73. Unlocking the Air and other stories - Ursula K LeGuin
  74. The Jade Woman - Jonathan Gash
  75. The Judas Pair - Jonathan Gash
  76. Wheelie in the Stars - Nicholas Fisk
  77. The Wind Singer - William Nicholson

    Fiction: notable re-reads
    I re-read all the time, these are just some notable books I found or bought or was given after not having seen them for years
  78. Gateway - Frederick Pohl
  79. Neutron Star - Larry Niven
  80. Interface - Neal Stephenson
  81. The Grail Tree - Jonathan Gash
  82. Pearl Hanger - Jonathan Gash
  83. The Very Last Gambado - Jonathan Gash
  84. Who's afraid of Beowolf - Tom Holt
  85. Flying Dutch - Tom Holt
  86. Expecting someone taller - Tom Holt
  87. Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison
  88. The House at World's End - Monica Dickens
  89. Summer at World's - Monica Dickens
  90. World's End in Winter - Monica Dickens
  91. Spring comes to World's End - Monica Dickens
  92. The Players Boy - Antonia Forest

    Non fiction
    You will notice that this is a much shorter list!
  93. Evolving the Alien - Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
  94. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins. Finally!
  95. Swearing - Geoffrey Hughes
  96. 101 Key Ideas in Linguistics - Richard Horsey
  97. Why people believe weird things - Michael Shermer
  98. Depression and How To Survive It - Anthony Clare and Spike Milligan
  99. The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage
  100. Eats, shoots and leaves - Lynne Truss

    Plus at the moment I'm reading
  101. Mischief - Chris Wilson
  102. Elementals: Water - Peter Dickinson and Robin Mckinley
Music:: Kitty: The Presidents of the USA
Mood:: 'pleased' pleased
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