What I read in 2010

Total = 137 books

January (10)

• Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
• At the Hall by Henrietta Soames
• The River King by Alice Hoffman
• A Vaudeville of Devils by Robert Girardi
• Torchon Lacemaking: A Manual of Techniques by Elizabeth Wade
• Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater
• Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones
• Menace in the Mulga edited by Peter Corris
• Nancy Tichborne’s Cats by Nancy Tichborne (paintings)
• Treasure Island According to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan

February (12)

• The Cybergypsies by Indra Sinha
• Folk Art Ceramics by Joyce Spencer
• blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
• Mood Mapping by Liz Miller (borrowed from FoL)
• Cat in a Flamingo Fedora by Carole Nelson Douglas
• The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl (library audio book)
• Rescuing the Spectacled Bear by Stephen Fry (library audio book)
• Total Recall by Sara Paretsky
• Vote for Duck by Doreen Cronin (children’s picture book, borrowed from a colleague)
• The Borrowers Aloft by Mary Norton
• Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (library book)
• A Land of Two Halves by Joe Bennett

March (11)

• Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin (children’s picture book, borrowed from a colleague)
• The Manuscript by Eva Zeller
• Blu’s Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• Procrastinate Later by Michael E Bernard
• Flat Earth News by Nick Davies (library audio book)
• Pretty Ballerina by John Wessel
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
• I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (library audio book)
• A Man with his Back to the East by Barbara Neil
• Opening Night by Ngaio Marsh (library audio book)

April (8)

• 50 Years of Silence by Jan Ruff-O’Herne (library audio book)
• The Oatmeal Ark by Rory Maclean
• Always the Sun by Neil Cross
• Foxspell by Gillian Rubinstein
• Forever Today by Deborah Wearing (library audio book)
• A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
• Transition by Iain Banks
• Living with the Dead by Kelly Armstrong (library audio book)

May (14)

• A Very Long Engagement by Sébastien Japrisot (borrowed from a colleague)
• Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre (library audio book)
• Thelwell’s Magnificat by Norman Thelwell (cartoons)
• A Cat’s Little Instruction Book by Leigh W Rutledge
• On Giant’s Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA by Melvyn Bragg
• Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden (library audio book)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (library audio book)
• How Long is a Piece of String? by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
• A Dickens of a Cat and Other Stories of the Cats We Love edited by Callie Smith Grant
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
• Sorceress by Celia Rees
• Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks (library audio book)
• The Jigsaw Maker by Adrienne Dines

June (10)

• The Irish Male at Home and Abroad by Joseph O’Connor
• The Antelope Wife by Louise Eldrich
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
• Children and Their Development by Robert V Kail
• The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
• Photo Finish by Ngaio Marsh (library audio book)
• The Sirens of Baghdad by Yasmina Khadra
• All Things Bright and Beautiful: Murder in the City of Light by Susan Mitchell
• Simon’s Cat by Simon Tolfield (cartoons)
• The Book of Weird Sex by Chris Gordon

July (8)

• Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead by Nick Drake (library audio book)
• Down the Yangtze by Paul Theroux
• Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Da
  wkins
• Victorian Workhouse: The Diary of Edith Lorrimer, England 1871 by Pamela Oldfield
• Why Don’t Spiders Stick to their Webs? by Robert Matthews
• The Tesla Legacy by Robert G Barrett (library audio book)
• I Am a Cat by Sōseki Natsume (trans. Aiko Itō and Graeme Wilson)
• Grace Notes by Bernard Mac Laverty

August (11)

• Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
• Z for Zachariah by Robert C O’Brien
• Saucer: The Conquest by Stephen Coonts (library audio book)
• Born Under a Million Shadows by Andrea Busfield
• Olivia’s Luck by Catherine Alliott (library audio book)
• Behold the Many by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• And What Do You Do? by Sarah Long (library audio book)
• Porno by Irvine Welsh
• Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach by David Adger
• The Linden Tree by Ellie Mathews (library audio book)
• In Your Dreams by Charlie Ross

September (7)

• Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden
• The Cat Who Blew the Whistle by Lilian Jackson Braun (library audio book)
• The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
• Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
• England, England by Julian Barnes
• The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen (library audio book)
• Tales of a Drama Queen by Lee Nichols

October (11)

• Affinity by Sarah Waters
• The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri (library audio book)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales by F Scott Fitzgerald (library audio book)
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Firebird by Mark Doty
• Aftermath by Gil Reavill
• Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
• Sabine’s Notebook by Nick Bantock
• Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
• Once a Jolly Swagperson: Politically Correct Tales for Our Times by Lawrence Held

November (16)

• Test Your Cat’s Psychic Powers by Missy Dizick (cartoons)
• Greenthieves by Alan Dean Foster
• The Cat Sanctuary by Patrick Gale
• An Affair With Africa by Alzada Carlisle Kistner (library audio book)
• No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
• Crossing Paths by Debbie Robson
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Maus I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)
• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (library audio book)
• Since You’ve Been Gone by Emma Heatherington
• The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock
• Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
• Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson (in The Callahan Chronicles – three books in one volume (library audio book))
• Life is So Complicated by Rosaleen McCarroll
• Time Travelers Strictly Cash by Spider Robinson (in The Callahan Chronicles – three books in one volume (library audio book))
• Callahan’s Secret by Spider Robinson (in The Callahan Chronicles – three books in one volume (library audio book))

December (19)

• Fire by Deborah Challinor
• Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield (library audio book)
• Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (library audio book)
• Ruthless Romans by Terry Deary
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs (graphic novel)
• Cornish Cats by Ian Heard (cartoons)
• Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
• Elaine’s Circle by Bob Katz (library audio book)
• Making History by Stephen Fry
• Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)
• The Aerodynamics of Pork by Patrick Gale
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Scott Rockwell (graphic novel, in The Discworld Graphic Novels)
• The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Scott Rockwell (graphic novel, in < i>The Discworld Graphic Novels)
• A Most Contagious Game by Catherine Aird
• Quaky Cat by Diana Noonan (children’s picture book)
• My Appetite for Destruction by Steven Adler
• Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

What I read in 2009 (150 books)
What I read in 2008 (154 books)
What I read in 2007 (123 books)
What I read in 2006 (140 books)
What I read in 2005 (168 books)

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