CaterinaAnna's Clearing House

Rather later than usual, here's my 2011 list. As ever:

• (R) (in any colour) indicates a re-read;
• These books are linked to their JEs on BookCrossing;
• These books were lent to me by non-bookcrossers;
• At the time of posting I still had copies of these;

          and a new category, because I gave in at last,

• These books are on Kindle.

1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
2. The Road Home - Rose Tremain
3. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
4. Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
5. Fludd - Hilary Mantel
6. Close Relations - Deborah Moggach
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
8. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
10. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
11. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
12. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
13. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
14. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Schooling - Heather McGowan
16. F in Exams - Richard Benson
17. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
18. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend
19. The Terracotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
20. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
21. Stone's Fall - Iain Pears
22. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
23. Gallery Girl - Wendy Holden
24. Whisky Galore - Compton McKenzie
25. Snoop - Sam Gosling
26. One of our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
27. Being Emily - Anne Donovan
28. Metamorphoses - Franz Kafka
29. Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg
30. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai (R)
31. The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston
32. Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man - Claire Tomalin
33. Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
34. The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton
35. They F*** You Up - Oliver James
36. He's Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
37. The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte
38. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
39. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
40. How I Paid for College - Mark Acito
41. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
42. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
43. The Outcast - Sadie Jones
44. Fatherland - Robert Harris
45. The Flood - David Maine
46. Zoology - Ben Dolnick
47. I'll Take You There - Joyce Carol Oates
48. Twitchiker - Paul Smith
49. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
50. The Optimist - Lawrence Shorter
51. The Sea House - Esther Freud
52. The Crimson Rooms - Katharine McMahon
53. The Merrybegot - Julie Hearn
54. The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
55. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
56. The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee
57. Love All - Elizabeth Jane Howard
58. The Queen's Sorrow - Suzannah Dunn
59. The Madonna of the Seven Hills - Jean Plaidy
60. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
61. The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory
62. Masai Dreaming - Justin Cartwright
63. Agent Zig-zag - Ben Cartwright
64. Alexandria - Lindsey Davies
65. If he Lived - Jon Stephen Fink
66. Heligoland - Shena Mackay
67. Rest Upon the Wind - Gill Twissel
68. The Cuckoo's Parting Cry - Anthea Halliwell
69. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
70. It's Called a Break-up 'cos it's Broken - Greg Behrendt
71. A Greek God at the Ladies' Club - Jenna McKnight
72. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graeme
73. Counselling for Toads - Robert de Board
74. Echo Park - Michael Connolly
75. Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
76. The History Boys - Alan Bennett
77. Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
78. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
79. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth (R)
80. The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gattis
81. The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
82. You Must be Sisters - Deborah Moggach
83. Primo Time - Anthony Sher
84. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
85. Twilight - Stephanie Myers
86. New Moon - Stephanie Myers
87. Eclipse - Stephanie Myers
88. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Myers
89. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
90. Howard's End is on the Landing - Susan Hill
91. The Age of Absurdity - Michael Foley
92. So You Think You're Human - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
93. Christian Martyrs for a Muslim People - Martin McGee
94. Leaving the World - Douglas Kennedy
95. Jihad vs McWorld - Benjamin R Barber
96. Almost Heaven - Julia Quinn
97. Want to Know a Secret? - Sue Moorcroft
98. Love and Freedom - Sue Moorcroft
99. Getting Away With It - Julie Cohen
100. The Secret Diary of Miss Miranda Cheever - Julia Quinn
101. How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
102. Beauty - Robin McKinley
103. Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man - Claudia Carrol
104. If This is Heaven, I Want My Money Back - Claudia Carrol
105. The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe
106. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
107. Sovereign - CJ Samson
108. The Man Who Disappeared - Claire Morral
109. The Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
110. Stig of the Dump - Clive King (R)
111. Crawling at night - Nani Power
112. Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy (R)
113. House of Silence - Linda Gillard
114. Swimmer - Bill Broady
115. Fredrica - Georgette Heyer
116. Revelation - CJ Samson
117. Running a Writers' Circle - Simon Whaley
118. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
119. La Mechanique du Diable - Philip Pullman
120. The Confessions of Katherine Howard - Susanna Dunn
121. At Home - Bill Bryson
122. Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
123. The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer
124. Equations of Life - Simon Mordon
125. Friday's Child - Georgette Heyer
126. A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
127. Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne
128. Heartstone - CJ Samson
129. The Angel in the House - Kate O'Riordan
130. In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
131. Summer - Edith Wharton
132. The Defrosting of Charlotte Small - Anabelle Giles
133. Half Magic - Edward Eager (R)
134. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincey
135. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (R)
136. Untying the Knot - Linda Gillard
137. How to Survive in a Science Fiction Universe - Charles Yu
138. The Skeleton in the Closet - MC Beaton
139. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
140. A Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
141. The Ambitious Stepmother - Fidelis Morgan
142. The Inimitable Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
143. Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
144. One Last Breath - Stephen Booth
145. The Dead Place - Stephen Booth
146. There Goes the Bride - MC Beaton
147. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
148. The Murder Room - PD James
149. To the Moon and back = Jill Mansell
150. I Heart Hollywood - Lindsey Kelk
151. Is Heathcliff a Murderer? - John Sutherland
152. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
153. The Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid
154. The Best British Mysteries 2005 - Maxim Jakubowski (ed)
155. Agnes Grey - Charlotte Bronte
156. Cotillon - Georgette Heyer
157. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
158. Marrying Up - Wendy Holden
159. A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy (R)
160. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk-Kidd
161. The Truth About Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell
162. Through the Language Glass - Guy Deutscher
163. In the Midst of Death - Lawrence Block
164. Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson
165. On the Cutting Edge - Lawrence Block
166. One Day - David Nicholls
167. The Whisperer - Donato Carrisi
168. Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
169. Wish You Were Here - Nigel Webb
170. Jane Austen: The World of her Novels - Deirdre Le Faye
171. Juliet Naked - Nick Hornby
172. Willing Slaves - Madeline Bunting
173. The Strange Cae of Origami Yoda - Tom Angleberger
174. The Song of the Quarkbeast - Jasper Fforde
175. The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (R)
176. Meet Molly - Valerie Tripp
177. Happy Birthday Addy - Corrine Porter
178. Felicity Learns a Lesson - Valerie Tripp
179. Meet Samantha - Susan S Adler
180. Hasty Death - MC Beaton
181. The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
182. The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
183. The Secret Shoppers' Revenge - Kate Harrison
184. A Desirable Residence - Madeline Wickham
185. Comfort and Joy - India Knight
186. The Selfish Capitalist - Oliver James
187. Supersense - Bruce Hood
188. The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
189. Crossing the Paradise Line - Annabelle Giles
190. Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson
191. The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
192. Christmas Cookie Murder - Leslie Meier
193. Resistance - Anita Shreve
194. The Summons - John Grisham
195. The Whole Day Through - Patrick Gale

(R) (in any colour) indicates a re-read
These books are linked to their JEs on BookCrossing.
These books were lent to me.

1. Swimming Lessons - Rohinton Mistry
2. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
3. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
4. A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry
5. Science and Poetry - Mary Midgely
6. The Fatal Englishman - Sebastian Faulks 5261626
7. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
8. Murder is Binding - Lorna Barrett
9. Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
10. The Other Queen - Phillipa Gregory
11. Dear Fatty - Dawn French
12. The Collector - John Fowles
13. The Meaning of Things - AC Grayling
14. Travels With My Aunt - Graham Greene (R?)
15. 101 Things To Do Before You Diet - Mimi Spencer
16. Thunks - Ian Gilbert
17. Herzog - Saul Bellow
18. Affluenza - Oliver James
19. So He Takes the Dog - Jonathan Buckley
20. Burmese Days - George Orwell
21. Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella
22. Faro's Daughter - Georgette Heyer
23. Carry me Down - MJ Hyland
24. The Memory Stones - Kate O'Riordan
25. March - Geraldine Brooks
26. Men by Women
27. One Virgin Too Many - Lindsey Davies
28. Alice Again - Judi Curtin
29. American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
30. What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
31. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
32. Busy Woman Seeks Wife - Annie Saunders
33. If I Were You - Julia Llewellyn
34. Mr Knigtley's Diary - Amanda Grange
35. And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Blake Morrison
36. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
37. J K Rowling - Sean Smith
37. Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
38. A Bad Bride's Tale - Polly Williams
39. The Emigrants - W G Sebald
40. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict - Laurie Viera Rigler
41. Leading Man - Katie Fforde
42. The Oxford Anthology of Food - Brigid Allen (ed)
43. The Chymical Wedding - Lindsay Clarke
44. The Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
45. Reading in Bed - Sue Gee
46. Past Imperfect - Julian Fellowes
47. Charleston - John Jakes
48. The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
49. The Golden Bowl - Henry James
50. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
51. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
52. The English Harem - Anthony McCarten
53. The Siege of Krishnapur - J G Farrell
54. Wedding Season - Katie Fforde
55. Disgrace - J M Coetzee
56. Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
57. Natural Flights of the Human Mind - Clare Morrall
58. The Civilisation of the Olive Tree - Various
59. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
60. The Seal Wife - Kathryn Harrison
61. Restless - William Boyd
62. Every Good Girl - Judy Astley
63. Blast from the Past - Ben Elton
64. Petite Anglaise - Catherine Sanderson
65. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargos Llosa
66. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
67. Worst Fears - Fay Weldon
68. The Blind Side of the Heart - Julia Franck
69. Broken Glass - Alain Mabanckou
70. Brodeck’s Report - Philippe Claudel
71. Not That Sort of Girl - Mary Wesley
72. Handsome Men Are Slightly Sunburnt - Frank Ronan
73. A Book for the Seriously Stressed - Geoff Thompson
74. An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain - John O'Farrell
75. The Tudor Wife - Emily Purdy
76. The Dark Side of Love - Rafik Schami
77. Daughters of Britannia - Katie Hickman
78. Paper Lanterns - Christine Coleman
79. The White Queen - Philippa Gregory
80. Sacred hearts - Sarah Dunant
81. The Sot-weed Factor - John Barth
82. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde (R)
83. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
84. A History of the World in Six Glasses - Tom Standage
85. The Seduction of Sara - Joanna Mansell
86. The House of Blue Mangoes - David Davidar
87. Shopping - Gavin Kramer
88. Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
89. Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd
90. The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
91. The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
92. Villette - Charlotte Bronte
93. The Rival Queens - Fidelis Morgan
94. The Saffron Kitchen - Yasmin Crowther
95. My Single Friend - Jane Costello
96. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
97. Thyme Out - Katie Fforde
98. Talking it Over - Julian Barnes
99. Quarantine - Jim Crace
100. All that Mullarkey - Sue Moorcroft
101. Dark Fire - C J Sansom (BCID playing up)
102. The Ghost - Robert Harris
103. The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
104. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
105. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
106. Sleeping Around - Catherine Townsend
107. Lion Boy - Zizou Corder
108. The Tudor Rose - Margaret Campbell Barnes
109. The Rings of Saturn - W G Sebald
110. A World of Love - Elizabeth Bowen
111. The Twins at St. Clare's - Enid Blyton
112. Summer Term at St.Clare's - Enid Blyton
113. Claudine at St.Clare's - Enid Blyton
114. The Polyglots - William Gerhardie
115. e - Matt Beaumont
116. Bulletproof Suzy - Ian Brotherhood
117. Mr. Rosenblum's List - Natasha Solomons
118. Superfreakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
119. Take a Chance on Me - Jill Mansell
120. Starting Over - Sue Moorcroft
121. Teacher's Dead - Benjamin Zephaniah
122. Speaking My Truth - Katey Nixon
123. Deadly Sensitive - James Nash & Char March
124. Laughter Lines - Les Baynton
125. The Algebraist - Iain M Banks
126. Slumdog Millionaire - Vikas Swarup (R)
127. The Railway Detective - Edward Marston
128. The Crow Road - Iain Banks
129. Scarlet and Black - Stendhal
130. Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
131. Elegant Solutions - Phillip Ball
132. The Canterbury Tales (RSC) - Geoffrey Chaucer and Mike Poulton
133. Comic and Bawdy Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer and Malcolm Andrew
134. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: And Six More - Roald Dahl
135. The Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work - Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
136. Meltdown - Ben Elton
137. Sacred Hearts - Sarah Dunant (R)
138. Imperium - Robert Harris
139. Borges and the Eternal Orang-utans - Luis Fernando Verissimo
140. Lustrum - Robert Harris
141. Cover the Butter - Carrie Kabak
142. Stags and Hens - Willy Russell
143. Blood Brothers - Willy Russell
144. Educating Rita - Willy Russell
145. Don Quixote (Book 1) - Cervantes
146. The House of the Spirits - Isabelle Allende (R)
147. Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith
148. Restoring Grace - Katie Fforde
149. Among the Mad - Jaqueline Winspear
150. Arabella - Georgette Heyer
151. Bath Tangle - Georgette Heyer
152. The Nonesuch - Georgette Heyer
153. Bookmarked for Death - Lorna Barrett
154. They Used to Play on Grass - Gordon Williams and Terry Venables
155. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks (R)
156. The Jesus Dynasty - James D Tabor
157. The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer
158. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
159. The Speed of Light - Javier Cercas
160. Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood
161. The Excursion Train - Edward Marston
162. Stonehenge - Bernard Cornwell
163. An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - John O'Farrell
164. C - John Diamond
165. Things We Knew Were True - Nicci Gerrard
166. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field - ?
167. Kowloon Tong - Paul Theroux
168. Solar - Ian McEwan
169. Fire Horses - Mark Liam Piggot
170. The Pedant's Return - Andrea Barham
171. A Casual Brutality - Neil Bisoondath
172. The Cosmic Follies - Simon Louvish
173. Dancing Backwards - Salley Vickers
174. The Westminster Poisoner - Susan Gregory
175. The Rules of Engagement - Anita Brookner
176. Bluestockings - Jane Robinson
177. The Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
178. The Book of Lost Books - Stuart Kelly
179. Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
180. Slow Man - J M Coetzee
181. The Clumsiest People in Europe - Favell Lee Mortimer & Todd Pruzan
182. Strictly Shimmer - Amanda Roberts
183. The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marian Keyes

It's my dinner party and so I've invited:
Stephen Fry  (one has to have at least one National Treasure);
Jasper Fforde (Katie's equally good company I know, but I've not read all of her books);
Victoria Coren (because I'd rather learn to play poker than have a critique of the meal);
Jane Austen (I thought about asking Lizzy Bennett, but decided that her creator had a greater awareness of the world, sorry Jasper);
Jeremy Paxman (just to see him relax)
and you, of course.

Would you join us?
Is there anyone else you would like to bring along?

The dead and people of dubious reality are welcome.

Total books read: 228
     Fiction: 173 (158 novels, 7 short-ish children's books, 8 collections of short stories)
     Poetry collections: 5
     Non-Fiction: 50 (Probably my highest proportion for many years - and it doesn't count textbooks, even those I've read cover to cover)

Audiobooks listened to: 5 (all fiction)

The Top Ten
This is difficult because this year I've enjoyed discovering Stephanie Plum, re-read some greats and had plenty of fun reading chick lit - even if some of it is disguised as historical fiction, biography or journalism. Lots of those got rated 8 (very good: would like to read again one day), but I think I've been a bit more critical with my 9s (great: just one thing makes it not a 10) and 10s (excellent: will stay with me for a long time) this year. Even so, they still make up over 10% of the total, so culling this list to 10 has been tricky and I'd probably make different decisions this evening (hence the mood - there being no  'indecisive'  on the list).

Anyway, in no order:

• Comme un Roman - Daniel Pennac
• The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
• Buddha Da - Anne Donovan
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
• Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
• Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
• Silk - Alessandro Baricco
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Burrows
• Jane Austen - Claire Tomalin
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

These books are linked to their Journal Entries on www.bookcrossing.com
(or will be, when I've caught up)
These books were lent to me but are not registered on Bookcrossing.
These books are mine own (or at least were on the date of this post)
Lots of them are slated for Bookcrossing and they have/will probably eventually have reviews on www.goodreads.com/
(R) (in any colour) indicates a re-read.

Paper Books

1. The Harmony Silk Factory - Tash Aw
2. Silas Marner - George Eliot
3. The Painter - Will Davenport
4. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
5. Lucia's Progress - E. F. Benson
6. Trouble for Lucia - E. F. Benson
7. Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
8. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
9. The Star's Tennis Balls - Stephen Fry
10. Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
11. A Night Out with Robert Burns - Andrew O'Hagan (ed)
12. Ghostheart - Roger John Ellory
13. Dance, Dance, Dance - Haruki Murakami
14. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
15. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
16. Silk - Alessandro Baricco
17. The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
18. Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye - MC Beaton
19. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey (R)
20. Miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith
21. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith
22. The Seven Storey Mountain - Thomas Merton
23. The Rainbow Singer - Simon Kerr
24. The Monk - Matthew Lewis
25. The Arizona Game - Georgina Hammick
26. Switch Bitch - Roald Dahl
27. The Writing Life - Annie Dillard
28. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
29. The Chinese Jar Mystery - John S Strange
30. Arranged Marriage - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
31. Town of Fools - Nahla Nainar
32. Moonrise, Sunset - Gopal Baratham
33. The Floating Brothel - Sian Rees
34. Wicked Women - Fay Weldon
35. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paul Coelho
36. Where Did It All Go Right? - Andrew Collins
37. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death - MC Beaton
38. Nathaniel's Nutmeg - Giles Milton
39. The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
40. The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh
41. A Bit of a Do - David Nobbs
42. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
43. An Imaginative Experience - Mary Wesley
44. Krakatoa - Simon Winchester
45. The Map that Changed the World - Simon Winchester
46. Living Dangerously - Katie fforde
47. Italian for Beginners - A Wilkes & J Shackell
48. Wild Animus - Rich Shapero
49. My Uncle Oswald - Roald Dahl
50. The Mating Season - PG Wodehouse
51. Histories - Herodotus
52. I Did a Bad Thing - Linda Green
53. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale
54. Leonardo and the Flying Boy - Laurence Anholt
55. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
56. The New Adventures of Mother Goose - Bruce Lansky
57. This Charming Man - Marian Keyes
58. Unimagined - Imran Ahmad
59. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
60. The Once & Future King - TH White
61. Underground London - Stephen Smith
62. Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir
63. The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
64. Dead Air - Iain Banks
65. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
66. A Song of Stone - Iain Banks
67. The Noticeably Stouter QI Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
68. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
69. Young Austerlitz - WG Sebald
70. One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
71. Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich
72. The Hindi-BindiClub - Monica Pradhan
73. Three to Get Deadly - Janet Evanovich
74. Four to Score - Janet Evanovich
75. Remember Me - Sophie Kinsella
76. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet - Colleen McCullough
77. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
78. Bad Faith - Gillian Phillip
79. The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
80. In Bed With ... Various Authors
81. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
82. Icarus - Russell Andrews
83. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
84. High Five - Janet Evanovich
85. Hot Six - Janet Evanovich
86. Seven Up - Janet Evanovich
87. Hard Eight - Janet Evanovich
88. To the Nines - Janet Evanovich
89. The Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
90. The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
91. The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien
92. Nothing But Blue Skies - Tom Holt
93. Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Maconie
94. The Falls - Joyce Carol Oates
95. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta - Mario Vargas Llosa
96. Five Children and It - E Nesbit (R)
97. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
98. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
99. The Colour - Rose Tremain
100. Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd
101. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
102. The Thin Man - Dashiel Hammet
103. The Geographer's Library - Jon Fasman
104. The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
105. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
106. 1066 and all that - WC Sellar & RJ Yeatman
107. Comme un Roman - Daniel Pennac
108. Marsha Mellow and Me - Maria Beaumont
109. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (R)
110. Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker (R)
111. She May Not Leave - Fay Weldon
112. Some Lie and Some Die - Ruth Rendell
113. Hey Yea Right Get a Life - Helen Simpson
114. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Burrows
115. Eagle Strike - Anthony Horowitz
116. Espedair Street - Iain Banks (R)
117. A Virago Keepsake - Various Authors
118. Scorpia - Anthony Horowitz
119. Ark Angel - Anthony Horowitz
120. Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz
121. Thirteen - Sebastian Beaumont
122. Neptune's Daughter - Beryl Kingston
123. Buddha Da - Anne Donovan
124. Did the Earth Move? - Carmen Reid
125. Second Chance - Jane Green
126. Naive.Super - Erlend Loe
127. The Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney
128. Janus - Stephen Wade
129. Telling it Like it Isn't - Scott Adams
130. Morven Caller - Alan Warner
131. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
132. A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin
133. Fellow Travellers - Christine Coleman
134. Wannabe a Writer - Jane Wenham-Jones
135. Hopscotch & Handbags - Lucy Mangan
136. My Family and Other Disasters - Lucy Mangan
137. No Laughing Matter - Angus Wilson
138. White Boots - Noel Streatfield (R)
139. Curtain Up - Noel Streatfield (R)
140. White Fang - Jack London
141. The Call of the Wild - Jack London
142. Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse (R)
143. The Pedant's Revolt - Andrea Barham
144. Larry's Party - Carol Shields
145. The Bridge of San Louis Rey - Thornton Wilder
146. Shopaholic Abroad - Sophie Kinsella
147. Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher
148. Rumour Has It - Jill Mansell
149. A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
150. Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing - John Harrison
151. Mick: The Real Michael Collins - Peter Hart 282
152. Everyday God - George Guiver
153. Less Stress, More Success - Christian Worth
154. On Making Choices - Margaret Silf
155. Filthy Rich - Wendy Holden
156. Beautiful People - Wendy Holden
157. The Accidental Time Traveller - Sharon Griffiths
158. Widow on the World - Pamela Fudge
159. Operation Gadgetman - Malorie Blackman
160. Size 10 is Not Fat - Meg Cabot
161. Size 12 is Not Fat Either - Meg Cabot
162. The Biographer's Tale - AS Byatt Also 109-4433646
163. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
164. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
165. The Nightwatch - Sarah Waters
166. A Quiet Belief in Angels - RJ Ellory
167. Leaning Towards Infinity - Sue Woolfe 376
168. The Music of the Primes - Marcus du Sautoy
169. The Cat Who had 60 Whiskers - Lilian Jackson Braun
170. 1984 - George Orwell (R)
171. Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
172. The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
173. Popcorn - Ben Elton
174. Dissolution - CJ Sansom
175. Complicity - Iain Banks
176. A Factory of Cunning - Phillipa Stockley 213
177. Carry On Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
178. Thank You Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
179. What Maisie Knew - Henry James
180. Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
181. Beatrix Potter - Linda Lear
182. Zorro - Isabelle Allende
183. The Bone People - Keri Hulme
184. Fish Who Answer the Telephone - Brian Lake and Russell Ash
185. And Another Thing - Jeremy Clarkson
186. Court Lady and Country Wife - Lita Rose Betcherman
187. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
188. Genius - James Gleick
189. Paradise Postponed - John Mortimer
190. The Beauty Myth - Naomi Woolf
191. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
192. The Boleyn Inheritance - Phillipa Gregory
193. Mad About the Boy - Maggie Alderson
194. Going Home - Harriet Evans
195. The Matchbreaker - Chris Manby
196. Living With the Laird - Belinda Rathbone
197. The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
198. Aristocrats - Stella Tillyard
199. Old School Ties - Kate Harrison
200. Perfect Strangers - Robyn Susman
201. The Insider - Piers Morgan
202. The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Mrs Gaskell
203. Mr Darcy's Diary - Amanda Grange
204. Lydia Bennet's Story - Jane Odine
205. Regency Buck - Georgette Heyer
206. How Not to Write a Novel - Sandra Newman & Howard Mittlemark
207. How to make a Tornado - New Scientist
208. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
209. The Pilgrimage - Paul Coelho
210. Me Cheetah - James Lever
211. Serious Concerns - Wendy Cope
212. The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
213. Jane Austen - Claire Tomalin
214. Another Roadside Attraction - Tim Robbins
215. The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace - Margaret Wertheim
216. The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Edgar Allen Poe
217. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
218. Full Moon - Jim Butcher
219. Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
220. Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
221. Death Masks - Jim Butcher
222. Blood Rites - Jim Butcher
223. The Gift - Cecelia Ahern
224. Gangsta Rap - Benjamin Zephaniah
225. The Strange Death of Tory England - Geoffrey Wheatcroft
226. What Does a Martian Look Like? - Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart
227. In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
228. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

Audio Books

1. The Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase - Douglas Adams
2. The Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy: Secondary Phase - Douglas Adams
3. The Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase - Douglas Adams
4. The Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase - Douglas Adams
5. The Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy: Quintessential Phase - Douglas Adams

SIX!!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist coming out of silence to say I think that's very sad.

( But then I would, wouldn't I? )

These books are linked to their Journal Entries on www.bookcrossing.com
These books were lent to me but are not registered on Bookcrossing.
These books are mine own (or at least were on the date of this post).
(R) (in any colour) indicates a re-read.

Paper Books
1. The Last Station - Jay Parini
2. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (R)
3. Ready or Not - Chris Manby
4. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
5. Charlotte's Web - EB White (R?)
6. Watership Down - Richard Adams (R)
7. Sexing the Brain - Lesley Rogers
8. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (R)
9. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
10. Blood, Sweat & Tea - Tom Reynolds
11. The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
12. Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland
13. Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
14. Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! - Fannie Flagg
15. Regeneration - Pat Barker (R)
16. The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker (R)
17. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker (R)
18. Love's Work - Gillian Rose
19. Bed Rest - Sarah Bilston
20. Lyra's Oxford - Phillip Pullman
21. The Time Machine - HG Wells (R)
22. The War of the Worlds - HG Wells (R)
23. Hannibal - Ross Leckie
24. The Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
25. Anybody Out There - Marian Keyes
26. A House for Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul (R)
27. The Angry Island - AA Gill
28. Rubbish - Richard Girling
29. Deep Thoughts - Jack Handey
30. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
31. Animals in Translation - Temple Grandin
32. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
33. The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris
34. The Bewitching of Anne Gunter - James Sharpe
35. Snow White & the Seven Samurai - Tom Holt
36. Le Prophete - Kahil Gibran
37. Number Freaking - Gary Rimmer
38. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett (R)
39. Tokyo Cancelled - Rana Dasgupta
40. The Liar - Stephen Fry
41. Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac 2002 - Graeme Garden (ed)
42. The Rough Guide to iPods, iTunes & Music Online - Peter Buckley & Duncan Clark
43. Warning - Jenny Joseph
44. How to Dress for Every Occasion - The Pope
45. Writing About Literature - Janet E Gardner
46. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
47. All Mary - Gwynedd Rae
48. 12 Books that Changed the World - Melvyn Bragg
49. The Letters of Oscar Wendlow
50. The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
51. How I Live Now - Meg Rossoff
52. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
53. The Devil and Miss Prym - Paul Coelho
54. The School Inspector Calls - Gervase Phinn
55. Seven Sunny Days - Chris Manby
56. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
57. The Short Life & Long Times of Mrs Beeton - Kathryn Hughes
58. Point Blanc - Anthony Horowitz
59. Skeleton Key - Anthony Horowitz
60. Londonstani - Gautam Malkani
61. Paroles - Jaques Prevert
62. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
63. On the Pulse of Morning - Maya Angelou
64. The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
65. The Yellow Wallpaper & other Stories - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
66. One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
67. Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
68. Me & Mr Darcy - Alexandra Potter
69. Out of Africa - Karen Blixen (R)
70. First Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton (R)
71. Second Form at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton (R)
72. Third Year at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton (R)
73. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton (R)
74. In the Fifth at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton (R)
75. Last Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton (R)
76. The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
77. Open House - Jill Mansell
78. 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
79. You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps - Tom Holt
80. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
81. Teacher Trouble - Alexander McCall Smith
82. Revolting Rhymes - Roald Dhal
83. Sullivan's Island - Dorothea Benton Frank
84. Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
85. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
86. Howards End - E.M. Forster
87. Lurve is a Many Trousered Thing - Louise Rennison
88. The Master - Colm Toibin
89. Summer Will Show - Sylvia Townsend Warner
90. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
91. The Princess Diaries: Take Two - Meg Cabot
92. The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky - Meg Cabot
93. The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth - Meg Cabot
94. The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five Five - Meg Cabot
95. The Princess Diaries: Sixsational - Meg Cabot
96. The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven - Meg Cabot
97. The Princess Diaries: After Eight - Meg Cabot
98. The Princess Diaries: To the Nines - Meg Cabot
99. The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
100. The Honeywood File - HB Creswell
101. Aberystwyth Mon Amour - Malcolm Pryce
102. The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
103. Stupid Cupid - Arabella Weir
104. No Plot, No Problem - Chris Baty
105. The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfield
106. Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
107. Evelina - Frances Burney
108. Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewart
109. Empire of the Sun - J.G. Ballard
110. How to be a People Person - Marianna Csoti
111. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast - Lewis Wolpert
112. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett (R)
113. The Stand - Stephen King (R)
114. Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett (R)
115. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham - M.C. Beaton
116. Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadde - M.C. Beaton
117. First Love - Joyce Carol Oates
118. The Impressionist - Hari Kunzru
119. The Bronte Project - Jennifer Vandever
120. Elissa's Castle - Juliet Greenwood
121. Married to a Bedouin - Jennifer Marguerite Van Geldermalsen
122. Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
123. The Savage Garden - Mark Mills
124. The People's Act of Love - James Meek
125. The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith
126. Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
127. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett (R)
128. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett (R)
129. A Prize for Sister Catherine - Kathleen Rowntree
130. The Apple - Michael Faber
131. Adam Bede - George Eliot
132. Stargazing - Linda Gillard
133. Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam - MC Beaton
134. Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell - MC Beaton
135. Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came- MC Beaton
136. Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate - MC Beaton
137. Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House - MC Beaton
138. All the Fishes Come Home to Roost - Rachel Manija-Brown
139. Surrealist Art - Sarane Alexandrian
140. The Rise & Fall of the Queen of Suburbia - Sarah May
141. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
142. Literary Lust - Stella Hyde
143. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
144. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
145. A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
146. A Body in the Bath House - Lindsey Davis
147. Slippery when Wet - Martin Goodman
148. Ye Gods! - Tom Holt
149. An Old-Fashioned Arrangement - Susie Vereker
150. Love Over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith
151. The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
152. The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
153. Living Life the 80/20 Way - Richard Koch
154. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
155. Psalm at Journey's End - Erik Hansen
156. Theft - Peter Carey
157. Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
158. The Young Pretenders - Edith Henrietta Fowler
159. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseni
160. The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
161. The Island of the Colour Blind - Oliver Sacks
162. Being an Actor - Simon Callow
163. Sputnik Caledonia - Andrew Crumney
164. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
165. Cousin Kate - Georgette Heyer
166. The Portrait - Iain Pears
167. Black Sheep - Georgette Heyer
168. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
169. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
170. Ease - Patrick Gale
171. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
172. False Colours - Georgette Heyer
173. Paradise News - David Lodge
174. Venetia - Georgette Heyer
175. Don'ts for Husbands - Blanche Ebutt
176. Don'ts for Dancers - Karsinova
177. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J K Rowling
178. Love and Longing in Bombay - Vikram Chandra
179. The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
180. T is for Tresspass - Sue Grafton
181. Rabbit-Proof Fence - Doris Pilkington
182. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
183. Uphill all the Way - Sue Moorctoft
184. Gang of Four - Liz Byrski
185. Kiss Me Softly Amy Turtle - Paul McDonald
186. Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance - MC Beaton
187. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
188. Down Under - Bill Bryson
189. Making Money - Terry Pratchett
190. Read Me & Laugh - Gaby Morgan

Audiobooks
1. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (R)
2. Frankenstein - Mary Shelly (R)
3. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen (R)
4. The Girl who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall Smith
5. Heavenly Dates - Alexander McCall Smith
6. Lifelines 2 - Poets for Oxfam (x 2 or 3)
7. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
8. The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett

Ongoing
The Ode Less Travelled - Stephen Fry
L'affaire Jane Eyre - Jasper Fforde
The Harmony Silk Factory - Tash Aw

Books read this year 190;
of which non-fiction 35,
and poetry 5.
Audio books listened to 8.
 
Quite a few re-reads amongst them as I made a determined effort to reduce Mount Toobie Read which was full of books that had been on my wishlist because I wanted to read them again one day and didn't have a copy.
 
Top 10 of new-to-me books, in no particular order:

• My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
• Londonstani - Gautam Makani
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
• Adam Bede - George Eliot
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• Theft - Peter Carey
• The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
• A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
• The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
• Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor

 
A bit harder than last year: after all not only did Linda Gillard's Stargazing not make it, neither did A Thousand Splendid Suns! The ones that are on the list all have twists or bits that will make them stick for some time methinks, but there were plenty of other 9s and 10s this year.

Discovery of the year is Georgette Heyer - thank you lindyb28  if you're lurking - fun, but not quite enough to make the top ten.

but what I have been doing has been by hand, and I haven't posted my total every day hence the wierdness of this graph:


Nonetheless, I am behind, so after lunch a concerted effort to catch up methinks.

Of course, that also means I haven't been online much at all, so:

• belated happy birthdays to elhamisabel, novemberbug, Paula-in-Singapore, AlisonB (join up you two, then you'll know what I'm up to) and anyone else I've carelessly missed out
• belated getwells to heaven_ali, and anyone else who has been feeling under the weather physically or mentally
• apologies to anyone I ask stupid questions of over the next few days.

I will be lurking a little more this week as I am not in work ... and no, I booked the time off months ago, so it's nothing to do with NaNo, honest!

Yes, I'm behind, but I've not been as negligent as the chart above would suggest.

• I hit 15k on Monday and, in spite of saying I would reward myself with a trip to the pub, I chose to watch the programme about how to do cryptic crosswords instead.
• Tuesday ... well Tuesday nights are booked with the Clarence quiz, but I did a little by hand in my old diary while waiting for the start and in the gaps.
• Wednesday I had a migrane.
• Thursday was a busy day, but again I wrote a little in my ex-diary.
• By the time I arrived in Cardiff on Friday I was shattered, but I did type up the bits I'd done by hand and add a little more.
• Yesterday I hit this posted total, but have only gone online today to tell them.

It's not easy to write chez spike1972 , even though I don't have to keep getting up to make my own coffee and his setee is far more comfortable than mine. In fact, that is probably the problem ....