Books Read in 2010

Friday December 31, 2010 in books read 2010 |

Happy New Year!

  1. Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill 4/5
  2. Amulet by Roberto Bolano 2/5
  3. Dead Men’s Boots by Mike Carey (Felix Castor: The Halfway Mark) 2/5
  4. Legend of a Suicide by David Vann 1/5
  5. Must You Go? by Antonia Fraser (Must You Go?) 4/5
  6. The Smoking Diaries by Simon Gray 5/5
  7. The Ghost by Robert Harris 1/5
  8. The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris 5/5 (The Unnamed)
  9. The Year of the Jouncer by Simon Gray 4/5
  10. Monkey Planet by Pierre Boulle (Monkey Planet) 4/5
  11. Solar by Ian McEwan 3/5
  12. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (Martian Rock) 5/5
  13. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury 4/5
  14. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury 4/5
  15. The Cranes That Build the Cranes by Jeremy Dyson (A Double Dyson) 5/5
  16. The Last Cigarette by Simon Gray 2/5
  17. What Happens Now by Jeremy Dyson (A Double Dyson) 5/5
  18. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman (An Irregular Head) 5/5
  19. The City and the City by China MiƩville (City Limits) 5/5
  20. The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe (The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim) 5/5
  21. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 4/5
  22. Stories ed. Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio 3/5 (Stories)
  23. Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas 2/5
  24. Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography by John Fisher 5/5
  25. Spike and Co by Graham McCann 5/5
  26. Bounder! The Biography of Terry-Thomas by Graham McCann 5/5
  27. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 2/5
  28. C by Tom McCarthy 4/5
  29. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon 5/5
  30. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 2/5
  31. The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw 1/5
  32. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers by Roger Lewis 4/5
  33. The Small Hand by Susan Hill (The Small Hand) 4/5
  34. Room by Emma Donoghue 1/5
  35. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (kind of…) ?/?
  36. Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (Endless Night) 5/5
  37. Life by Keith Richards (Life as we Know it) 4/5
  38. Under the Dome by Stephen King (Under the Dome 1) 3/5
  39. The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by Paul Torday 4/5
  40. The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 3/5

Really like the score system there look to be some really good 5/5 reads in there and trust your judgment so will be adding those to the tbr pile. Happy new year!

Simon    Friday December 31, 2010   

Happy new year sir!

The Book Tower    Saturday January 1, 2011   

Happy new year to you Stephen hope 2011 is a great one for you

simon    Tuesday January 4, 2011   

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