The year in books

[jethrien]

126 books in total this year. List below.



Books in parantheses were complete rereads. For the purposes of this list, I have not counted partial rereads, cookbooks, comic books, graphic novels, online-only materials or periodicals. (If and when I start reading e-books, they'll count for this. But novel-length fanfiction doesn't. It's semi-arbitrary, but it's my list.)

1.Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
2.(The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams)
3.The Joy of Work by Scott Adams
4.The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University by Kevin Roose
5.The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold
6.Longarm and the Arizona Assassin by Tabor Evans
7.Elantris by Brian Sanderson
8.Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show Vol. 1 ed. By Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert
9.Moon Flights by Elizabeth Moon
10.Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain by Scott Adams
11.Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
12.Inner Peace in a 9-to-5 World by Renata Somogyi
13.Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin
14.Lovelock by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd
15.How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science by Michael Shermer
16.The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons, and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliff
17.Fool’s Moon by Jim Butcher
18.Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
19.Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
20.Derby Dugan’s Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven
21.Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
22.Floating Dragon by Peter Straub
23.Crime and Puzzlement by Lawrence Treat and Leslie Cabarga
24.Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
25.20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
26.Soulless by Gail Carriger
27.Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
28.The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
29.The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke
30.Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
31.Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
32.The Peace War by Vernor Vinge
33.Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
34.Weaveworld by Clive Barker
35.The Gate House by Nelson DeMille
36.Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon
37.Death Masks by Jim Butcher
38.Emma by Jane Austen
39.The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
40.Misery by Stephen King
41.Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit by Mercedes Lackey
42.The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
43.Pavilion of Women by Pearl Buck
44.Shades of Gray by Jaspar Fforde
45.Provocative in Pearls by Madeline Hunter
46.The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book that Everyone Uses but No One Reads by Ammon Shea
47.I Scream, You Scream by Wendy Lyn Watson
48.Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934 by Bryan Burrough
49.Tonight and Always by Nora Roberts
50.A Matter of Choice by Nora Roberts
51.Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty by Karl Shaw
52.Endings and Beginnings by Nora Roberts
53.History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century by T. Ivan Berend
54.Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle
55.Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writer Can Afford to Ignore by Elizabeth Lyon
56.Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P. Gelardi
57.The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm
58.Viking Heat by Sandra Hill
59.Oxford History of Italy ed. by George Holmes
60.A Traveller’s History of Italy by Valerio Linter
61.A Traveller’s History of Venice by Peter Mentzel
62.The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig
63.Blackhawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden
64.Ants, Indians, and Little Dinosaurs: A Celebration of Man & Nature for the 75th Anniversary of Natural History Magazine ed. by Marston Bates, Archie Carr, J. Frank Dobie, and Joseph Wood Krutch
65.Cheap: The High Price of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
66.Star Trek : The Next Generation and X-Men: Planet X by Michael Jan Friedman
67.Star Wars: Tales from the New Republic ed. by Peter Schweighofer and Craig Carey
68.Changeless by Gail Carriger
69.Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
70.Academ’s Fury by Jim Butcher
71.A Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robilant
72.The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
73.Cursor’s Fury by Jim Butcher
74.Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century by T.C.W. Blanning
75.Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
76.Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
77.Except the Queen by Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder
78.The Help by Kathryn Stockett
79.White Knight by Jim Butcher
80.Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
81.Captain’s Fury by Jim Butcher
82.The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye
83.(No Plot? No Problem! A Low Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty)
84.Princep’s Fury by Jim Butcher
85.The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 by Geoffrey Wawro
86.First Lord’s Fury by Jim Butcher
87.Venice: The Doges’ Palace by Paolo Delorenzi
88.Fortune’s Fool by Mercedes Lackey
89.The Sandman: Book of Dreams ed. by Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer
90.Small Favor by Jim Butcher
91.Mean Streets by Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Simon R. Greene, and Thomas E. Sniegoski
92.Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg
93.Stories ed by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
94.Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
95.Blameless by Gail Carriger
96.The Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey
97.Little Bee by Chris Cleave
98.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
99.The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
100.A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
101.Federations ed. by John Joseph Adams
102.The Junkyards of Memory by Bob Rozakis
103.50 Jobs Worse Than Yours by Justin Racz
104.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
105.What Was I Thinking? 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories ed. by Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman
106.Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies ed. by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes
107.Don’t Look Down by Jennifer Cruisie and Bob Mayer
108.The Forbidden Rose by Joanna Bourne
109.Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Cruisie and Bob Mayer
110.Venetia by Georgette Hayer
111.The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn
112.Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment by David Bodanis
113.The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians by J.B. Bury
114.Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos by Donna Andrews
115.Sovay by Celia Rees
116.Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know—And What to Do About Them by Cynthia Shapiro
117.Too Many Women by Rex Stout
118.Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook
119.Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs
120.U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
121.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
122.Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett
123.The Best American Essays 2008 ed. by Adam Gopnik
124.The Search: The Birkenau Boys by Gerhard Durlacher
125.The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
126.Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Comments

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I liked parts of it quite a bit. But it's also kinda pretentious. And I really hate the last two pages, where he basically runs out of time, can't figure out how to end, and goes on a run-on rant that displays a rage he never really showed before and makes a lot of the playfulness of the previous writing feel false.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

I may pass on a second attempt, then. (Too much to read as it is.)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

If you didn't like it the first time, I doubt you'll like it the second. Read a book you're excited about.