purplerabbits: (reading)
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This year I read 103 books, totally 2323mm or over eight foot.
Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson
The Millhouse Cat, Marjorie-Ann Watts
Never Pick Up Hitchhikers, Ellis Peters
The Horn of Roland, Ellis Peters
Omnivore, Lyall Watson
East of Laughter, R.A. Lafferty
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Alexander McCall Smith
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Betrayal, Patricia Finney
Isaac Newton, James Gleick
This is not a novel, Jennifer Johnston
The Anodyne Necklace, Martha Grimes
Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra
Evil under the sun, Agatha Christie
Rainbow's End, Ellis Peters
Animal Man: Deus Ex Machina, Grant Morrison
The traveller returns, Patricia Wentworth
Dead as a dodo, Jane Langton
The face of a stranger, Anne Perry
A conspiracy of paper, David Liss
Collected Ghost Stories, M R James
A Devil's Chaplain, Richard Dawkins
A is for Ox, Lyn Davies
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C O'Brien
Smax, Alan Moore
Newton's Wake, Ken Macleod
Dictionary of accredited ideas, Flaubert
The Seventh Raven, Peter Dickinson
The Doorbell Rang, Rex Stout
Petrified, Barbara Nadel
The Dramaturges of Yan, John Brunner
The moving finger, Agatha Christie
The Mirror of Her Dreams, Stephen Donaldson
Creepy Susie, Angus Oblong
A Man Rides Through, Stephen Donaldson
The Gift, Peter Dickinson
Something Rotten, Jasper Fford
Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Young Unicorns, Madelaine L'Engle
The Confusion, Neal Stephenson
Our friends from Frolix 8, Philip K Dick
The Zenith Angle, Bruce Stirling
Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut
The Jagged Orbit, John Brunner
Flatter Land, Ian Stewart
Masterstroke, Tim Heald
The cat who smelled a rat, Lillian Jackson Braun
The Birds of Kielder
The Vesuvius Club, Mark Gatiss
The Firemaker, Peter May
The Stone Menagerie, Anne Fine
Thunder and Lightnings, Jan Mark
Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling
The Legend of Spud Murphy, Eoin Colfer
The Gas-fitters Ball, Phillip Pullman
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
The Burglar who Studied Spinoza, Lawrence Block
Step by Wicked Step, Anne Fine
In the beginning was the command line, Neal Stephenson
Tea from an Empty Cup, Pat Cadigan
The Atrocity Archive, Charles Stross
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerny
Hybrasil, Margaret Elphinstone
The Opal Deception, Eoin Colfer
In the company of cheerful ladies, Alexander McCall Smith
How to store Your Garden Produce, Piers Warren
Wolfsbane, Frederick Pohl and C M Kornbluth
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J K Rowling
The Burglar on the Prowl, Lawrence Block
The Orphiuchi Hotline, John Varley
Nova Scotia, Anthology
Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
Hello Land, Nick Walker
The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
Mr Foreigner, Matthew Kneale
Nothing but blue skies, Tom Holt
Memories, Lucy M Boston
Green for Danger, Christianna Brand
The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan
The Postman, David Brin
The System of the World, Neal Stephenson
Thud, Therry Pratchett
The Truth Behind A series of Unfortunate Events, Lois H Gresh
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Where's My Cow?, Terry Pratchet
The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket
The Portable Door, Tom Holt
The Twisted Root, Anne Perry
Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
Fifty Degrees Below, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Reproductive System, John Sladek
The Corpse on the Dike, Janwillem Van de Wetering
Endangered Species, Barbara Block
Vanity of Duluoz, Jack Kerouac
The Grace in Older Women, Jonathan Gash
Naked Brunch, Sparkle Hayter
The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fford
A Spectacle of Corruption, David Liss
Heads you lose, Christianna Brand
The Creature in the Case, Garth Nix
Slaves and Obsession, Anne Perry
The Time Machine, H G Wells

That contains a couple of graphic novels which I don't usually count, buit the other height in books guys seemed to be counting them so I did. I also re-read The Hobbit and Little Women and Good Wives.
Mood:: 'calm' calm
Music:: Koko, Goldfrapp
There are 5 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] decomposingsoul.livejournal.com at 07:04pm on 01/01/2006
Impressive! I have read nowhere near as many as that, but I've been reading a lot in French, which slows things down a bit.
 
posted by [identity profile] ajva.livejournal.com at 09:11pm on 01/01/2006
Wow! Well done!

*impressed*
 
posted by [identity profile] fizzyboot.livejournal.com at 01:28am on 02/01/2006
How did you remember which books you've read? Or did you note them down at the time?

I read relatively few books last year, particularly fiction. Probably about 40-50 all told.
 
posted by [identity profile] purplerabbits.livejournal.com at 03:38pm on 03/01/2006
Yes I do keep a list - I don't just remember them all in my head! This lot I actually kept in a spreadsheet so I could add up the heights, but that may have been overkill...
 
posted by [identity profile] tigermoth.livejournal.com at 12:04pm on 02/01/2006
Hi, see you include a de Wetering. One of the first sights on entering my living room is a wide swath of them. Do you, like me, just have to finish off the series once you start one book (well, if the alternative is housework ...) or do you (again, like me, but I'm a bit ashamed of it) read the books out of order in a series?

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