Books, Time, and Silence: For a Grey Thursday Afternoon

One of my very favourite scenes from Black Books. Manny singing Who Will Buy My Books Today

Black Books - Who Will Buy My Books Today? (Bill... by ToasterFaerie

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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Thursday 21 July 2011

For a Grey Thursday Afternoon

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