Books I read in 2011

[vilakins]

I wrote pitifully little in 2011 but I read about 80 books. I can only list 69 of them here because almost all came from the library and my on-line reading history isn't complete (for the first time ever): several just say "no information available". I have no idea what's missing. The Patrick O'Brian books I own, the entire collection bought second-hand, and I just inserted those at intervals.

I've bolded the ones I liked best, but really, I enjoyed all of them but one which I stopped reading fairly early on and therefore deleted from the list. I doubt I'll read as many this year I now have a Proper Job, but it's a good trade-off.

Feel free to ask me about any. :-)

Cryoburn - Lois McMaster Bujold
Hereville [graphic novel] : how Mirka got her sword - Barry Deutsch
The professor's daughter [graphic novel] - Joann Sfar & Emmanuel Guibert
Klezmer Book one Tales of the wild East [graphic novel] - Joann Sfar
Ash - Malinda Lo
Nemesis - Lindsey Davis
I shall wear midnight - Terry Pratchett
Ovid - David Wishart
Germanicus - David Wishart
Stork raving mad - Donna Andrews
Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brian
The beekeeper's apprentice, or, On the segregation of the queen - Laurie R King
Click here for murder - Donna Andrews
The architecture of desire- Mary Gentle
Orthe : Chronicles of Carrick V - Mary Gentle
The Marlows and the traitor - Antonia Forest
Access denied - Donna Andrews
One of our Thursdays is missing - Jasper Fforde
Un Lun Dun - China Miéville
Kraken : an anatomy - China Miéville
The Fortune of War - Patrick O'Brian
The thuggery affair - Antonia Forest
A monstrous regiment of women - Laurie R King
Last rites - David Wishart
Dangerous notes - Gillian Bradshaw
Island of ghosts - Gillian Bradshaw
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders - John Mortimer
Agnes & the hitman - Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer
The beacon at Alexandria - Gillian Bradshaw
The wrong reflection - Gillian Bradshaw
The king's dragon - Una McCormack
The Surgeon's Mate - Patrick O'Brian
Render unto Caesar - Gillian Bradshaw
Don't look down - Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
Wild ride - Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
Cleopatra's heir - Gillian Bradshaw
Packing for Mars : the curious science of life in the void - Mary Roach
Night of the living Trekkies - Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall
The sand-reckoner - Gillian Bradshaw
Among others - Jo Walton
Embassytown - China Miéville
The Ionian Mission - Patrick O'Brian
A vote for murder - David Wishart
The river of shadows - Robert V S Redick
Dark north - Gillian Bradshaw
The way through the woods - Una McCormack
Delete all suspects - Donna Andrews
The real macaw - Donna Andrews
The wise man's fear - Patrick Rothfuss
One for the money - Janet Evanovich
First test - Tamora Pierce
Treason's Harbour - Patrick O'Brian
A letter of Mary - Laurie R King
The realms of the gods - Tamora Pierce
One for the money - Janet Evanovich
Page - Tamora Pierce
The adventures of Tintin [graphic novel] - Hérge
Matter - Iain M Banks
The moor - Laurie R King
Lady knight - Tamora Pierce
Justice Hall - Laurie R King
Squire - Tamora Pierce
Parthian shot - David Wishart
Two for the dough - Janet Evanovich
The Far Side of the World - Patrick O'Brian
Dogsbody - Diana Wynne Jones
The changeover - Margaret Mahy
Food for the fishes - David Wishart (in progress)

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I really should have noticed that typo.

I wish I'd stopped with 'Rats and Gargoyles'. 'The Architecture of Desire' soured me on the Crow's character, and though I enjoyed the alien society in the Golden Witchbreed books, I wasn't happy about where it went in the end either. I like C J Cherryh's Foreigner stories better. I plan to reread the ones I've read and catch up on the rest.

The Tiffany Aching books are great. They rank with the Witch and Watch books for me.

I'd like to read more of Una McCormack's books but that's all they have in our library. I'm going to see if Fishpond (our local version of Amazon) has some, especially the Cardassian one.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Like you I've only read Una's two Doctor Who books, in my case because her other books are based on shows that I'm not familiar with. I've not read any C J Cherryh. So many authors, so little time. :) (The main reason for that is my Internet addiction.)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Fishpond is a great name for a bookseller's.

[pebblerocker]

I'm starting at the start with the Foreigner series too, in between other things. I joined the readingtogether comm because someone was organising a read-through of the first book and hosting twice-weekly discussion posts on her journal; that was a lot of fun, though difficult to time things so that I'd read the right chapters, no more or less, when the discussion post came around. Would you be interested in group reads through the rest of the series? I think the others who participated might like to carry on, if I ask them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I would! That'd be great. My reading's slowed down a bit since I got a job, naturally enough, but I'd like to do that. [makes note to order next book] I've read three, but so long ago I don't mind rereading. :-)