Last Year's Reads

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1. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke


2. Stamping Butterflies, Jon Courtenay Grimwood


3. The Warrior Who Carried Life, Geoff Ryman


4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami


5. The custodians, and other stories, Richard Cowper


6. Solitude, Anthony Storr


7. 9Tail Fox, Jon Courtenay Grimwood


8. The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis and Athos, Kari Maund


9. Coyote Frontier, Allen Steele


10. Granta 93: God's Own Countries, Ian Jack


11. The Ready Made Family, Antonia Forest


12. Medieval Ghost Stories: An Anthology of Miracles, Marvels and Prodigies


13. Appleseed, John Clute


14. Scardown, Elizabeth Bear


15. Brass Man, Neal Asher


16. Giant Lizards from Another Star: 1 (Boskone Book), Ken MacLeod


17. White Apples, Jonathan Carroll


18. Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, Russell Hoban


19. Imperial Spy, Mark Robson


20. Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear


21. On the Road Again: Where Travel Writing Went Next (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.)


22. The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Neal Asher


23. On, Adam Roberts


24. Avebury (Duckworth Archaeological Histories S.), Mark Gillings


25. You're Him, Aren't You?: An Autobiography, Paul Darrow


26. Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse, Ursula Moray Williams


27. Why Handel Waggled His Wig, Steven Isserlis


28. False Treason, Brian Martin Sanders


29. Loved Ones: 95 (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing S.), Ian Jack


30. Changeover, Diana Wynne Jones


31. Folk Tales of the British Isles, Kevin Crossley-Holland


32. A Is for Ox, Lyn Davies


33. Into the Darkness, Harry Turtledove


34. The Folio Book of Christmas Crime Stories


35. The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar


36. Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, Trevor Pinch


37. Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend, Daniel Donoghue


38. The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel, Mark Gatiss


39. Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes and more Ruthless Rhymes, Harry Graham


40. Nella Last's War: A Mother's Diary, 1939-45, Nella Last

I don't set a target, so the numbering is pretty irrelevant. The only real aim is to reduce the piles of unread books by the futon. I've not. But a few long-standing inhabitants--you know who you are (waves at Into the Darkness)--have finally departed. Some old friends were revisited (The Little Wooden Horse and Solitude, in particular). Two books made me laugh out loud repeatedly: thank you Mssrs Darrow and Pinch. And several disappointed.