Books read in 2012
Damnation Street – Andrew Klavan
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
The Unit – Ninni Holmqvist
The Death Trip – Marion Stein
Jamrach’s Menagerie – Carol Birch
Genus – Jonathan Trigell
The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
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Books read in 2011
Most recent first:
A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
The Good, The Bad, and The Multiplex – Mark Kermode
Half Blood Blues – Esi Edugyan
Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell
Weymouth Sands – John Cowper Powys
Drive – James Sallis
The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
The Colossus of Maroussi – Henry Miller
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Maiden Castle – John Cowper Powys
Wolf Solent – John Cowper Powys
Tony & Susan – Austin Wright
The Boys From Brazil – Ira Levin
At The Chime of a City Clock – D.J.Taylor
The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin
Chasm City – Alastair Reynolds
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Born Free – Laura Hird
Into the Darkest Corner – Elizabeth Haynes
Heartsick – Chelsea Cain
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
A Kiss Before Dying – Ira Levin
Whatever You Love – Louise Doughty
Shadow of the Serpent – David Ashton
One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
Some Rain Must Fall – Michel Faber
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Warsaw Anagrams – Richard Zimler
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder – Henry Miller
The Fire Gospel – Michel Faber
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) – Judy Parkinson
Daddy’s Home – A.K.Alexander
Room – Emma Donoghue
The Ladies of Grace Adieu – Susanna Clarke
The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber
Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds
A Drink Before the War – Dennis Lehane
Transition – Iain Banks
The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris
Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
Della Says: OMG! – Keris Stainton
When Darkness Falls – James Grippando
White Fang – Jack London
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Hanging Shed – Gordon Ferris
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps – Michel Faber
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantell
The Silent State – Heather Brooke
Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
The Apple – Michel Faber
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson
Eleven on Top – Janet Evanovich
The Exception – Christian Jungersen
A Fair Maiden – Joyce Carol Oates
Man Crazy – Joyce Carol Oates
The Passage – Justin Cronin
The Stars’ Tennis Balls – Stephen Fry
The Snowman – Jo Nesbo
We Are All Made of Glue – Marina Lewycka
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky (translation Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)
Rape: A Love Story – Joyce Carol Oates
Leviathan – Paul Auster
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Books I’ve read in 2010
Invisible – Paul Auster
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
Live and Let Die – Ian Fleming
The Fire Gospel – Michel Faber
The Men Who Stare at Goats – Jon Ronson
One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
Lights Out – Jason Starr
The Yellow House – Martin Gayford
The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson
Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear – Dan Gardner
The Courage Consort – Michel Faber
Necronomicon – The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
Insomnia – Stephen King
Napoleon’s Haemorrhoids – Phil Mason
The Book of Murder – Guillermo Martinez
Pretty Monsters – Kelly Link
Why Does E=MC2? – Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane
Some Rain Must Fall – Michel Faber
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps - Michel Faber
King of Swords – Nick Stone
A Glastonbury Romance – John Cowper Powys
Breakheart Hill – Thomas H. Cook
Black Water Rising – Attica Locke
Our Tragic Universe – Scarlett Thomas
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters – G. W. Dahlquist
Swung – Ewan Morrison
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Pygmy – Chuck Palahniuk
Ubik – Philip K Dick
The Rapture – Liz Jensen
The Twisted Heart – Rebecca Gowers
The Lady in the Lake – Raymond Chandler
Alone in Berlin – Hans Fallada
The Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
Zombie – Joyce Carol Oates
The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest – Stieg Larsson
Nights of Villjamur – Mark Charan Newton
Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
The Dark Volume – G.W. Dahlquist
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Owl Killers – Karen Maitland
The Resurrectionist – James Bradley
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Lifeless – Mark Billingham
The Brooklyn Follies – Paul Auster
Confessions of a Conjuror – Derren Brown
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
The Overlook – Michael Connelly
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Books I’ve read in 2009:
With just a couple of exceptions – I won’t say which – I’ve enjoyed all of these, and there are some books here that I would say are masterpieces – ‘The Road’ and ‘Homicide’, certainly.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters – G.W. Dahlquist
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
House of Leaves — Mark Danielewski
The Gravedigger’s Daughter – Joyce Carol Oates
The End of Mr Y – Scarlett Thomas
Pop Co – Scarlett Thomas
Blindness – Jose Saramago
More Than it Hurts You – Darin Strauss
13 Things That Don’t Make Sense – Michael Brooks
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon
1974 – David Peace
1977 – David Peace
The Damned United – David Peace
1980 – David Peace
1983 – David Peace
GB84 – David Peace
The Museum of Dr Moses – Joyce Carol Oates
The Broken Shore – Peter Temple
The Dark Volume – G.W. Dahlquist
Buried – Mark Billingham
The Hunted – Elmore Leonard
Exit Wounds – Rutu Modan
The Hunter – Julia Leigh
Dawn of the Dumb – Charlie Brooker
L.A. Requiem – Robert Crais
The Cunning Man – Robertson Davies
Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
The Turnaround – George Pelacanos
Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
Handling the Undead – John Ajvide Lindqvist
2666 – Roberto Bolano
Man in the Dark – Paul Auster
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski
For Richer, For Poorer – Victoria Coren
The Corner – David Simon and Ed Burns
She – H. Rider Haggard
We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates
Alone – Lisa Gardner (utter tosh)
Shatter – Michael Robotham
A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Under The Dome – Stephen King
