Books, Time, and Silence: A Very Merry Christmas

Friday 25 December 2009

A Very Merry Christmas

It's the final day of the Books, Time, and Silence 10 Days of Christmas

I'm tired of writing blog entries now, so here are some of the books I received for Christmas that I will be reading over the next few weeks.

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Books read in 2013

1 - Absolution - Patrick Flannery

2 - The Unwritten vol 5: On to Genesis - Mike Carey

3 - The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordon

4 - Gone to the Forest - Katie Kitamura

5 - The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordon

6 - The Blind Man's Garden - Nadeem Aslam

7 - Genie and Paul - Natasha Soobramanien
8 - Stasiland - Anna Funder
9 - The Mussel Feast - Birgit Venderbeke
10 - Black Vodka - Deborah Levy
11 - Dotter of Her Father's Eye - Bryan and Mary Talbot
12 - How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
13 - A Light Song of Light - Kei Miller
14 - This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You - Jon McGregor
15 - The Polish Boxer - Eduardo Halfon
16 - Beside the Sea - Veronique Olmi
17 - The Beautiful Indifference - Sarah Hall
18 - Bundu - Chris Barnard
19 - The Fall of the Stone City - Ismail Kadare
20 - All the Birds, Singing - Evie Wyld
21 - The Engagement - Chloe Hooper
22 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
23 - The Carhullan Army - Sarah Hall
24 - Quesadillas - Juan Pablo Villalobos (trans by Rosalind Harvey)
25 - The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut
26 - Gob's Grief - Chris Adrian
27 - Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami
28 - Hawthorn and Child - Keith Ridgway
29 - The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words (Vol. 6) - Mike Carey
30 - The Unwritten: The Wound (Vol.7) - Mike Carey
31 - More Than This - Patrick Ness
32 - Chick - Hannah Lowe
33 - All Dogs Are Blue - Rodrigo de Souza Leao

34 - Quesadillas - Juan Pablo Villalobos (trans by Rosalind Harvey)

35 - Dark Eden - Chris Beckett

36 - The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
37 - The President's Hat - Antoine Lauraine
38 - A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
39 - Harvest - Jim Crace
40 - The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
41 - The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
42 - The Guard - Peter Terrin (translated by David Colmer)
43 - Double Negative - Ivan Vladislavic
44 - Fallen Land - Patrick Flanery
45 - Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
46 - Bevel - William Letford
47 - Stag's Leap - Sharon Olds
48 - Tenth of December - George Saunders
49 - The Wild Flowers of Baltimore - Rob Roensch
50 - The Colour of Milk - Nell Leyshon
51 - The Streets - Anthony Quinn
52 - Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner

Books read in 2012

1 - Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2 - Black Juice by Margo Lanegan
3 - This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Should Happen To Someone Like You by Jon McGregor
4 - Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (Translated by Rosalind Harvey)
5 - The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
6 - No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
7 - A Light Song of Light by Kei Miller
8 - All That I Am by Anna Funder
9 - Carry On, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
10 - Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
11 - Saraswati Park by Anjali Jospeh
12 - Stop What You're Doing and Read This
13 - Wintergirls - Laurie Halse Anderson
14 - Walden and Other Writings - David Henry Thoreau
15 - The Great Hunt (Book Two of The Wheel of Time) - Robert Jordan
16 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
17 - Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
18 - The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
19 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
20 - Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (Translated by Rosalind Harvey)
21 - True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
22 - The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon
23 - Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
24 - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
25 - The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall
26 - The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
27 - Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
28 - Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
29 - Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
30 - Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
31 - The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity - Mike Carey and Peter Gross
32 - The Unwritten: Inside Man - Mike Carey and Peter Gross
33 - The Unwritten: Dead Man's Knock - Mike Carey and Peter Gross
34 - This is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz
35 - The Seldom Seen - Sarah Ridgard
36 - The Unwritten: Leviathan - Mike Carey and Peter Gross
37 - At The Yeoman's House - Ronald Blythe
38 - The Last Hunters: The Crab Fishermen of Cromer - Candy Whittome
39 - Ninepins - Rosy Thornton
40 - The Mountains of Norfolk - Kevin Crossley-Holland
41 - Strangers: A History of Norwich's Incomers - Frank Meeres
42 - Tidelines - Ian Collins
43 - The Peddlars Way and Norfolk Coast Path - Bruce and Mike Robinson
44 - Londoners: The Days And Nights of London Now - Craig Taylor
45 - The Murder of Halland - Pia Jull
46 - Beside the Sea - Veronique Olmi
47 - Open Door - Iosi Harvilio
48 - Pelt - Sarah Jackson
49 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
50 - Not So Perfect - Nik Perring
51 - Lightning Rods - Helen deWitt
52 - Care of Wooden Floors - Will Wiles

Books read in 2011

1 - Captain Starlight's Apprentice - Kathryn Heyman
2 - Rain - Don Paterson
3 - Love and Garbage - Ivan Klima
4 - Seeing Stars - Simon Armitage
5 - The Last Weekend - Blake Morrison
6 - The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
7 - The Meanest Flower - Mimi Khalvati
8 - In The Country of Men - Hisham Matar
9 - The Mango Orchard - Robin Bayley
10 - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett
11 - Ghost Light - Joseph O'Connor
12 - The Longshot - Katie Kitamura
13 - The Good Angel of Death - Andrey Kurkov
14 - Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
15 - Luka and the Fire of Life - Salman Rushdie
16 - The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
17 - The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
18 - A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness (and Siobhan Dowd)
19 - Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis - Wendy Cope
20 - The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
21 - Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
22 - The Absolutist - John Boyne
23 - Tree of Codes - Jonathan Safran Foer
24 - Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
25 - The Waste Land and Other Works - TS Eliot
26 - Something Happened - Joseph Heller
27 - The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
28 - The Godless Boys - Naomi Wood
29 - The Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
30 - The Great Night - Chris Adrian
31 - Ignorance - Milan Kundera
32 - The Cinder Path - Andrew Motion
33 - House of Holes - Nicholson Baker
34 - The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
35 - Monsieur Linh and His Child - Philipe Claudel
36 - The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
37 - All That I Am - Anna Funder
38 - 1Q84 (Book One and Book Two) - Haruki Murakami
39 - 1Q84 (Book Three) - Haruki Murakami
40 - The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
41 - The Rings of Saturn - WG Sebald
42 - Ours Are the Streets - Sunjeev Sahota
43 - Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
44 - Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson
45 - Of Mutability - Jo Shapcott
46 - Fiere - Jackie Kay
47 - Open City - Teju Cole
48 - Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels

Books read in 2010

1 - Three Men in a Boat - Jerome. K. Jerome
2 - The Widow's Tale - Mick Jackson
3 - The Spare Room - Helen Garner
4 - Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
5 - Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
6 - The Lives of Animals - J.M. Coetzee
7 - The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
8 - Legend of a Suicide - David Vann
9 - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
10 - The Unburied - Charles Palliser
11 - Everything Beautiful - Simmone Howell
12 - Even the Dogs - Jon McGregor
13 - Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
14 - Tail of the Blue Bird - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
15 - The Lessons - Naomi Alderman
16 - Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
17 - Ellipsis - Nikki Dudley
18 - The Tall Man - Chloe Hooper
19 - Beatrice and Virgil - Yann Martel
20 - Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam
21 - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld
22 - Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge
23 - A Child's Book of True Crime - Chloe Hooper
24 - Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
25 - Moominsummer Madness - Tove Janssen
26 - We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
27 - The Betrayal - Helen Dunmore
28 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
29 - The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
30 - In A Strange Room - Damon Galgut
31 - Room - Emma Donoghue
32 - Matilda - Roald Dahl
33 - The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (unfinished)
34 - Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
35 - The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
36 - Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
37 - The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

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Friday 25 December 2009

A Very Merry Christmas

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