Books I Read in 2008

(symptom: being excessively engaged in tasks that require exquisite attention to detail, such as list-making)

Summary

85 books by 51 different authors (having read 13 by Ursula K. Le Guin, 10 by Stephen King, 4 by J. Gregory Keyes, 3 each by Robert Littell and Jonathan Lethem, and 2 each by David Malouf, Richard K. Morgan, Cormac McCarthy, Alistair MacLeod, David Liss, and Stephen Leather), a year in which the books I read were written by authors born in the United Kingdom and its current and former colonies, with the exception of one Italian and one Lebanese.

Genres

Essays, 1%

Action & adventure, 1%

Nonfiction, 2%

Young adult, 4%

Horror, 4%

Humor, 5%

Alternate history, 5%

Romance, 6%

Historical, 9%

Short stories, 9%

Thriller / suspense, 14%

General & literary fiction, 15%

Scifi, 20%

Mystery & detective, 21%

Fantasy, 26%

(total greater than 100 due to some books fitting multiple categories)

54 out of the 85 (64%) won a major award or were named to a Best Of list in the year of their publication

My Ratings (out of 10)

9 or 10, 8%

7 or 8, 41%

5 or 6, 44%

4 or less, 7%

Top 10 Reads of 2008

1. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (2006 - post-apocalyptic epic)
2. Tales from Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin (2001 - fantasy short stories)
3. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974 - utopian scifi)
4. A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968 - bildungsroman fantasy)
5. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes (1966 - scifi)
6. The Girls, by Lori Lansens (2005 - literary bildungsroman)
7. Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King (1997 - romantic fantasy)
8. The Great World, by David Malouf (1990 - historical literary fiction)
9. The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers (2006 - contemporary literary fiction)
10. The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem (2003 - bildungsroman with superheroes)

Least Favorite Books of 2008

1. Sarah's Psalm, by Florence Ladd (1996 - romance)
2. The Compass Rose, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1982 - short stories)
3. Market Forces, by Richard K. Morgan (2004 - scifi)
4. The Traveling Vampire Show, by Richard Laymon (2000 - horrific bildungsroman)
5. Paying the Piper, by Sharyn McCrumb (1988 - mystery & detective)
6. Miniatures, by Norah Labiner (2003 - fictional biography)
7. Big Time, by Fritz Leiber (1958 - scifi)
8. Solomon's Knife, by Victor Koman (1990 - medical mystery)
9. The Beast of Heaven, by Victor Kelleher (1995 - post-apocalyptic scifi)
10. Allegro Postillions, by Jonathan Keates (1983 - short stories)

The Chronological List

January

Newton’s Cannon, by J. Gregory Keyes

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

The Waste Lands, by Stephen King

The Traveling Vampire Show, by Richard Laymon

The Bottoms, by Joe R. Lansdale

Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri

February

The Delinquent Virgin, by Laura Kalpakian

The Stillborn God, by Mark Lilla

Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King

Hard Landing, by Stephen Leather

Grave Endings, by Rochelle Krich

March

The Dark Tower, by Stephen King

Solomon’s Knife, by Victor Koman

Allegro Postillions, by Jonathan Keates

Empire of Unreason, by J. Gregory Keyes

The Dead Circus, by John Kaye

A Calculus of Angels, by J. Gregory Keyes

Song of Susannah, by Stephen King

Firelings, by Carol Kendall

Simply Magic, by Kathleen Kane

Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King

The Reckoning, by Jeff Long

April

The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde

Seven Up, by Janet Evanovich

Ruby Dice, by Catherine Asaro

Black House, by Stephen King & Peter Straub

No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy

The Shadows of God, by J. Gregory Keyes

Cleopatra’s Nose, by Judith Thurman

Lingala Code, by Warren Kiefer

May

Grendel, by John Gardner

The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Beast of Heaven, by Victor Kelleher

Lisey’s Story, by Stephen King

Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury

From a Buick 8, by Stephen King

Desperation, by Stephen King

June

The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Lost Girl, by D. H. Lawrence

The Diagnosis, by Alan P. Lightman

The Mist, by Stephen King

The Other Wind, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin

July

Blood Red Roses, by Margaret Lawrence

Miniatures, by Norah Labiner

Legends, by Richard Littell

The Debt to Pleasure, by John Lanchester

The Amateur, by Robert Littell

The Company, by Robert Littell

Almost Blue, by Carlo Lucarelli

Sarah’s Psalm, by Florence Ladd

August

The Telling, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Mr. Spaceman, by Robert Olen Butler

Tales from Bective Bridge, by Mary Lavin

The Man Who Loved Morlocks, by David Lake

The Beginning Place, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Always Coming Home, by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber

Tango One, by Stephen Leather

The Girls, by Lori Lansens

September

Gods Behaving Badly, by Marie Phillips

Gun, With Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem

Home from the Vinyl Cafe, by Stuart McLean

Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem

Hurricane Punch, by Tim Dorsey

The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers

October

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J. K. Rowling

Island, by Alistair MacLeod

Changing Planes, by Ursula K. Le Guin 

Compass Rose, by Ursula K. Le Guin 

A Spectacle of Corruption, by David Liss

Tales from Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin 

A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss

November

Broken Angels, by Richard K. Morgan

The Great World, by David Malouf

Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan

No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod

December

Paying the Piper, by Sharyn McCrumb

Remembering Babylon, by David Malouf

Market Forces, by Richard K. Morgan

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

Books I Read in 2007

(symptom: being excessively engaged in tasks that require exquisite attention to detail, such as list-making)

Summary 

84 books by 61 different authors (having read 10 by Kage Baker, 7 by Stephen King, 5 by Graham Joyce, 3 by Catherine Asaro, and 2 each by Charles Stross and Ha Jin) from 14 different countries (including Chile, Sudan, Russia, Japan, and Nigeria).

Genres

Horror, <1%

Alternate history, <1%

Humor, <1%

Fantasy, <1%

Thriller/suspense, <1%
Action & adventure, <1%

Short stories, 1%
Mystery & detective, 15%
Romance, 19%
Historical, 20%
General & literary fiction, 20%

SciFi, 31%

(total greater than 100 due to some books fitting multiple categories)

52 of the 84 (62%) won a major award or were named to a Best Of list in their year of publication

My Ratings (out of 10)

9 or 10, 8%

7 or 8, 40%

5 or 6, 40%

4 or less, 12%

Top 10 Reads of 2007

1. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006 - historical fiction)
2. Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood (2003 - scifi)
3. The Dream Life of Suhkanov, by Olga Grushin (2005 - contemporary / historical fiction)
4. Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson (1990 - historical fiction)
5. True Crime, by Andrew Klavan (1995 - mystery & detective)
6. The Dead Fish Museum, by Charles D'Ambrosio (2006 - short stories)
7. Hearts in Atlantis, by Stephen King (1999 - short stories)
8. The Graveyard Game, by Kage Baker (2005 - scifi)
9. Primary Inversion, by Catherine Asaro (1995 - romantic action / adventure scifi)
10. Fledgling, by Octavia E. Butler (2005 - horror fantasy scifi)

Least Favorite Books of 2007

1. Appleseed, by John Clute (2003 - scifi)
2. COSM, by Gregory Benford (1998 - scifi)
3. Accelerondo, by Charles Stross (2005 - scifi)
4. Finity, by John Barnes (1999 - scifi alternate history)
5. In the Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker (1997 - historical scifi)
6. Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski (2006 - experimental contemporary fiction)
7. Manifold: Time, by Stephen Baxter (1999 - scifi)
8. Flykiller, by J. Robert Jaynes (2002 - historical mystery & detective)
9. Indigo, by Graham Joyce (2000 - horror mystery & detective)
10. Psychohistorical Crisis, by Donald Kingsbury (2002 - scifi)

The Chronological List

January

The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst

Arthur and George, by Julian Barnes

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro

February

Dead Fish Museum, by Charles D'Ambrosio

COSM, by Gregory Benford

March

The Keep, by Jennifer Egan

Finity, by John Barnes

Brookland, by Emily Barton

Into the Garden of Iden, by Kage Baker

Only Revolutions, by Mark Z. Danielewski

One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson

April

Old Filth, by Jane Gardam

The Graveyard Game, by Kage Baker

Mendoza in Hollywood, by Kage Baker

The Translator, by Leila Aboulela

Skinner’s Drift, by Lisa Fugard

Sky Coyote, by Kage Baker

Twilight of the Superheroes, by Deborah Eisenberg

Time, by Stephen Baxter

Waiting, by Ha Jin

The Boat of a Million Years, by Poul Anderson

May

The Tooth Fairy, by Graham Joyce

The Stories of Mary Gordon, by Mary Gordon

Requiem, by Graham Joyce

Gods and Pawns, by Kage Baker

The Possibility of an Island, by Michel Houellebecq

The Life of the World to Come, by Kage Baker

Intuition, by Allegra Goodman                  

The Machine’s Child, by Kage Baker

Golden Country, by Jennifer Gilmore

The Children of the Company, by Kage Baker

The Lay of the Land, by Richard Ford

June

Half-broken Things, by Morag Joss

Flykiller, by J. Robert Janes

Beasts of No Nation, by Uzodinma Iweala

Psychohistorical Crisis, by Donald Kingsbury

The Limits of Enchantment, by Graham Joyce

War Trash, by Ha Jin

Facts of Life, by Graham Joyce

Dream Live of Sukhanov, by Olga Grushin

July

Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, by Amy Hempel

Last Evenings on Earth, by Roberto Bolano

Indigo, by Graham Joyce

Dante's Equation, by Jane Jensen

It, by Stephen King

The Dissident, by Nell Freudenberger

The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai

Fledgling, by Octavia E. Butler

The Known World, by Edward P. Jones

August

Accelerando, by Charles Stross

Insomnia, by Stephen King

Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson

The Uses of Enchantment, by Heidi Julavits

Forgetfulness, by Ward Just

Needful Things, by Stephen King

Pu-239 and other Russian Fantasies, by Ken Kalfus

September

Hearts in Atlantis, by Stephen King

Alibi:  A Novel, by Joseph Kanon

Bag of Bones, by Stephen King

October

The Final Key, by Catherine Asaro

Appleseed, by John Clute

Schism, by Catherine Asaro

The Dark Tower:  The Gunslinger, by Stephen King

British Summertime, by Paul Cornell

The Madman’s Tale, by John Katzenbach

Primary Inversion, by Catherine Asaro

November

The Fourth Bear, by Jasper Fforde

Glasshouse, by Charles Stross

Merde Happens, by Stephen Clarke

Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock

The Extra Large Medium, by Helen Slavin

The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King

Christ the Lord:  Out of Egypt, by Anne Rice

Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

The Sons of Heaven, by Kage Baker

Black Projects, White Knights, by Kage Baker

December

Transmission, by Hari Kunzru

True Crime, by Andrew Klavan

Roscoe, by William Kennedy

Blue Edge of Midnight, by Jonathon King

How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman

Bettany’s Book, by Thomas Keneally

Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay

Books I Read in 2006

(symptom: being excessively engaged in tasks that require exquisite attention to detail, such as list-making)

Summary

76 books by 68 different authors (having read 3 by Reginald Hill and Lian Hearn, and 2 each by William Gibson, Steve Hamilton, Barry Hughart, and Nalo Hopkinson).  With only 2 exceptions (Iceland and Denmark), the books I read this year were written by people from the United Kingdom and its past and present colonies.  

Genres

Short stories, 1%
Western, 1%
Young adult, 3%
Horror, 4%
Nonfiction, 4%
Thriller/suspense, 11%
Humor, 12%
Action & adventure, 12%
SciFi, 12%
Romance, 14%
Fantasy, 16%
Historical, 20% 
General & literary fiction, 20% 
Mystery & detective, 32%
(total greater than 100 due to some books fitting multiple categories)

46 of the 76 (61%) won a major award or were named to a Best Of list in their year of publication

My Ratings (out of 10)

9 or 10, 4%

7 or 8, 29%

5 or 6, 41%

4 or less, 26%

Top 10 Reads of 2005

1. Replay, by Ken Grimwood (1987 - science fiction)
2. Cognitive Therapy of Depression, by Aaron T. Beck (1987 - nonfiction)
3. Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill (2005 - literary fiction)
4. Scar Tissue, by Michael Ignatieff (1994 - literary fiction)
5. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, by Peter Hoeg (2000 - mystery & detective)

And the following tied for 6th:

• The March, by E. L. Doctorow (2005 - historical fiction)
• A Star Called Henry, by Roddy Doyle (1999 - literary/ historical fiction)
• Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (2003 - mystery & detective/ speculative fiction)
• A Good Scent from Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler (1992 - short stories)
• The Salt Roads, by Nalo Hopkinson (2004 - fantasy)
• Serenity House, by Christopher Hope (1992 - literary fiction)
• Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess (1980 - literary fiction)
• All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy (1992 - action/ adventure/ romance with cowboys)
• The Three Junes, by Julia Glass (2002 - literary fiction)

(I truly couldn't bring myself to pick just 10.)

Least Favorite Books of 2005

1. Shot in the Heart, by Mikal Gilmore (1995 - autobiography)
2. The Christ Clone Trilogy:  In His Image; Birth of an Age; Acts of God, by James BeauSeigneur (1998 - Christian science fiction)
3. The Second Coming, by John Dalmas (2004 - Christian science fiction)
4. What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal, by Zoe Heller (2004 - humor/ literary fiction)
5. Trace, by Patrician Cornwell (2004 - general fiction with forensic science)
6. Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson (2000 - science fiction)
7. Trick of the Eye, by Jane Stanton Hitchcock (1992 - mystery & detective)
8. Slow River, by Nicola Griffith (1995 - science fiction)
9. Cell, by Stephen King (2006 - horror)
10. Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam (1995 - humor/ literary fiction)

The Chronological List

January

Cognitive Therapy of Depression, by Aaron T. Beck

Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, by Judith S. Beck

In the Ruins, by Kate Elliott

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel

Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman

Queen of the Tambourine, by Jane Gardam

All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

Poor Things, by Alasdair Gray

Shot in the Heart, by Mikal Gilmore

Virtual Light, by William Gibson

February

Preston Falls, by David Gates

A Cold Day in Paradise, by Steve Hamilton

The Ordinary Seaman, by Francisco Goldman

Flesh & Blood, by John Harvey

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal, by Zoe Heller

The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett

Codex, by Lev Grossman

Native Tongue, by Carl Hiaasen

The Love of Stones, by Tobias Hill

March

Replay, by Ken Grimwood

A Star Called Henry, by Roddy Doyle

Slow River, by Nicola Griffith

The Ghost Writer, by John Harwood

Tropic of Night, by Michael Grubert

Deep Sleep, by Francis Fyfield

Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill

Kingdom of Shadows, by Alan Furst

April

Seduction of Water, by Carol Goodman

Three Junes, by Julia Glass

Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson

Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson

North of Nowhere, by Steve Hamilton

May

The Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard

Trace, by Patricia Cornwell

The Christ Clone Trilogy:  In His Image; Birth of an Age; Acts of God, by James BeauSeigneur

The Second Coming, by John Dalmas

June

Under the Frog, by Tibor Fischer

Nowhere Man, by Aleksandar Hemon

Bones and Silence, by Reginald Hill

Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn

Cell, by Stephen King

Letter from Home, by Carole G. Hart

July

A Good Scent from Strange Mountain: Stories, by Robert Olen Butler

Grass for His Pillow, by Lian Hearn

The March, by E. L. Doctorow

March, by Geraldine Brooks

Brilliance of the Moon, by Lian Hearn

Black Fly Season, by Giles Blunt

August

Camouflage, by John Haldeman

The Sea, by John Banville

Feed, by M. T. Anderson

Hannibal, Thomas Harris

The Havanna Room, by Colin Harrison

On Beulah Height, by Reginald Hill

Trick of the Eye, by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

September

Abarat, by Clive Barker

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, by Peter Hoeg

Tidewater Blood, by William Hoffman

Prince of Thieves, by Chuck Hogan

Good Morning, Midnight, by Reginald Hill

The Folding Star, by Alan Hollingworth

Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock

Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson

October

Serenity House, by Christopher Hope

Voyage from Yesteryear, by James P. Hogan

Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was, by Barry Hughart

Hot Springs, by Stephen Hunter

Silence of the Grave, by Arnaldur Indridason

Scar Tissue, by Michael Ignatieff

The Underground Man, by Mick Jackson

Eight Skilled Gentlemen, by Barry Hughart

An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Salt Roads, by Nalo Hopkinson

November

Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess

Next, by Michael Crichton

December

A Taste for Death, by P. D. James

Money: A Suicide Note, by Martin Amis

Books I Read in 2005

(symptom: being excessively engaged in tasks that require exquisite attention to detail, such as list-making)

Summary

122 books by 84 different authors (having read 15 by Lois McMaster Bujold, 6 by Michael Connelly, 5 by Kate Elliott; 4 each by Orson Scott Card and Colin Dexter; 3 by Janet Evanovich; and 2 each by Rosemary Aubert, Catherine Asaro, Antonia S. Byatt, Octavia E. Butler, Jim Crace, Roddy Doyle, Michael Dibdin, and Sarah Dunant) from around the world (including Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Germany, South Africa, and India).

Genres

Short stories, <1%

Horror, <2%
Young adult, 3%

Alternate history, 5%

Humor, 8%

Fantasy, 11%

Thriller/suspense, 11%
Action & adventure, 13%

Historical, 16%
Romance, 17%

SciFi, 22%
General & literary fiction, 24%
Mystery & detective, 39%

(total greater than 100 due to some books fitting multiple categories)
NOTE:  NO non-fiction. I certainly wasn't counting textbooks at this time.

77 of the 122 (63%) won a major award or were named to a Best Of list in their year of publication

Given that, you'd think my ratings would be skewed toward the top of the curve. But no...

My Ratings (out of 10)
9 or 10, 9%
7 or 8, 26%
5 or 6, 37%
4 or less, 28%

Top 10 Reads of 2005

1. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, by Sebastian Faulks (1993 - romantic historical fiction)
2. The Warrior's Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold (1986 - scifi action/ adventure)
3. The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (2001 - general & literary fiction)
4. Possession: A Romance, by Antonia S. Byatt (1990 - romantic historical fiction)
5. Dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears (2002 - historical fiction with mystery)
6. Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold (1996 - scifi romantic comedy)
7. Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold (1994 - scifi action/ adventure)
8. A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold (1999 - scifi romantic comedy)
9. Holes, by Louis Sachar (1998 - young adult mystery & adventure story)
10. Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold (2003 - romantic fantasy)

Least Favorite Books of 2005

1. Flight, by Jan Burke (2001 - mystery & detective)
2. Murther and Walking Spirits, by Robertson Davies (1991 - fantasy)
3. Lord of the Silent, by Elizabeth Peters (2001 - historical mystery)
4. Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith (2000 - mystery & detective)
5. The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek (1983 - general & literary fiction)
6. Underworld, by Don DeLillo (1997 - historical fiction)
7. Firestorm, by Nevada Barr (1996 - mystery & detective)
8. Synners, by Pat Cadigan (1991 - scifi)
9. Two for the Dough, by Janet Evanovich (1996 - romantic comedy & mystery)
10. The Stars Are Also Fire, by Poul Anderson (1994 - scifi)

(when reading a full 50% as many books in any previous year, it is difficult to select only the very best and the very worst of the year)

The Chronological List

January

The Feast of Stephen, by Rosemary Aubert

Red Mass, by Rosemary Aubert

The Winter Queen, by Boris Akunin

Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith

The Murder Room, by P. D. James

The Butcher Boy, by Patrick McCabe

Firestorm, by Nevada Barr

The Spoilt Kill, by Mary Kelly

Brick Lane, by Monica Ali

Flight, by Jane Burke

Sunset Limited, by James Lee Burke

Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke

The Moon's Shadow, by Catherine Asaro

Possession: A Romance, by Antonia S. Byatt

February

Skyfall, by Catherine Asaro

Wild Seed, by Octavia E. Butler

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card

Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card

Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card

March

Patternmaster, by Octavia E. Butler

American Woman, by Susan Choi

Synners, by Pat Cadigan

April

Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Lovely Bones, by Alive Sebold

Shards of Honor, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Barrayar, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler

The Warrior's Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold

May

Lord of the Silent, by Elizabeth Peters

Cetaganda, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Ethan of Athos, by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Postman, by David Brin

A Whistling Woman, by A. S. Byatt

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie

Mr. White Confession, by Robert Clark

Brothers in Arms, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Life and Times of Michael K, by J. M. Coetzee

Bucket Nut, by Liza Cody

The Last Coyote, by Michael Connelly

Being Dead, by Jim Crace

Tell No One, by Harlan Coben

June

The Hours, by Michael Cunningham

Memory, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Fred and Edie, by Jill Dawson

Two for the Lions, by Lindsey Davis

Reading in the Dark, by Seamus Deane

Forests of the Heart, by Charles de Lint

Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold

Fasting, Feasting, by Anita Desai

The Stars Are Also Fire, by Poul Anderson

The Final Country, by James Crumley

Underworld, by  Don DeLillo

Bone Dance, by Martha Brooks

The Sirius Crossing, by John Creed

Last Bus to Woodstock, by Colin Dexter

The Wench Is Dead, by Colin Dexter

The Jewel that Was Ours, by Colin Dexter

July

The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt

How German Is It = Wie Deutsch Ist Es, by Walter Abish

The Delicate Storm, by Giles Blunt

A Civil Campaign, by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Eighth Day, by John Case

The Poet, by Michael Connelly

Genesis, by Jim Crace

The Night of the Triffids, by Simon Clark

The Damescened Blade, by Barbara Cleverly

Murtherr and Walking Spirits, by Robertson Davies

Dead of Jericho, by Colin Dexter

Trunk Music, by Michael Connelly

The Van, by Roddy Doyle

Dragon and the George, by Gordon R. Dickson

Garden of Beasts, by Jeffrey Deaver

August

Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier

Dead Lagoon, by Michael Dibdin

Diplomatic Immunity, by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Way Through the Woods, by Colin Dexter

Dancing After Hours, by Andre Dubus

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J. K. Rowling

Resurrection Day, by Brendan DuBois

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle

Fatlands, by Sarah Dunant

The Black Ice, by Michael Connelly

The Siege, by Helen Dunmore

Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold

September

Medusa, by Michael Dibdin

The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek

Midnight Sun, by Ramsey Campbell

City of Bones, by Michael Connelly

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant

The Hallowed Hunt, by Lois McMaster Bujold

October

The Chymical Wedding, by Lindsay Clarke

King's Dragon, by Kate Elliott

Deception Pass, by Earl Emerson

Prince of Dogs, by Kate Elliott

November

The Narrows, by Michael Connelly

Popcorn, by Ben Elton

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke

The Burning Stone, by Kate Elliott

What Are You Like?, by Anne Enright

Two for the Dough, by Janet Evanovich

Dream of Scipio, by Iaian Pears

Child of Flame, by Kate Elliott

Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde

December

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War, by Sebastian Faulks

Small Boat of Great Sorrows, by Dan Fesperman

Three to Get Deadly, by Janet Evanovich

The Gathering Storm, by Kate Elliott

The Jane Austin Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler

Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned, by Kinky Friedman

Independence Day, by Richard Ford

Headlong, by Michael Frayn

High Five, by Janet Evanovich

A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines

Full Dark House, by Christopher Fowler

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen

In the Country of the Blind, by Michael Flynn

Making History, by Stephen Fry