A mildly celebratory note
Final total for the 2006 reading challenge: 63 books.
A complete list of titles broken down by genre follows below the fold. Reviews for the last two will be written up when I have the time and the inclination. But soon, anyway.
A slap on the back for me and it’s time to move on to the 2007 openers – likely to be Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and a crime anthology edited by Sara Paretsky called Women On The Case. Oh, and also her recent book Blacklist although I agree with everyone who has complained about the ridiculously small type…
Anyway. Here they are.
Read in 2006 – Books by genre (63)
* = standout books
Thrillers (8)
The da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – re-read (Jan)
The Sixth Lamentation – William Brodrick (Feb) *
Live Bait – PJ Tracy (March)
Dead Run – PJ Tracy (March) *
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol – Graham Greene (March)
Holy Smoke – Tonino Benacquista (April)
The Rainmaker – John Grisham (June)
At Risk – Stella Rimington (August)
Crime/Noir/Roman Policier (20)
Dead Lagoon – Michael Dibdin (Jan) *
Cosi fan Tutti – Michael Dibdin (Feb)
Scandal Takes a Holiday – Lindsey Davis (March)
A Long Finish by Michael Dibdin (March)
Death Knock – Frederic Lindsay (April) *
Blood Rain – Michael Dibdin (April)
Have Mercy On Us All – Fred Vargas (May) *
Missing – Karin Alvtegen (May) *
And Then You Die – Michael Dibdin (May)
B is for Burglar – Sue Grafton (June)
Interface – Joe Gores (June) *
A is for Alibi – Sue Grafton (June)
C is for Corpse – Sue Grafton (August)
A Trouble of Fools – Linda Barnes (August)
The Lighthouse – PD James (September)
Medusa – Michael Dibdin (September)
See Delphi and Die – Lindsey Davis (September)
Fire Sale – Sara Paretsky (December)
Total Recall – Sara Paretsky (December) *
Judith Cutler – The Food Detective (December)
Non-fiction (16)
Everest South West Face – Chris Bonington (Jan)
Success in Politics: a comparative study – Neil McNaughton (Jan)
Touching the Void – Joe Simpson (Feb) *
Holding the Key: my year as a guard in Sing-Sing – Ted Conover (April) *
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris (April)
You Can’t Tell The People – Georgina Bruni (May)
The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli (June)
Not Abba: the real story of the 1970s – Dave Haslam (August)
Prescription for Murder: The true story of mass murderer Dr Harold Frederick Shipman – Brian Whittle and Jean Ritchie (October)
The Call of the Weird – Louis Theroux (November) *
Untold Stories – Alan Bennett (November) *
Dead Reckoning: the new science of catching killers – Dr Michael Baden and Marion Roach (November)
England’s Lost Eden: adventures in a Victorian utopia – Philip Hoare (November)
My Roots – Monty Don (November)
The Corfu Trilogy – Gerald Durrell (December)
Writing Home – Alan Bennett (December)
Graphic Novels (2)
V for Vendetta – Alan Moore (Feb) *
Tomorrow Stories (Books 1 and 2) – Alan Moore (May and August)
Literature (2)
The Professor – Charlotte Bronte (June)
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes (July and October)
Contemporary/Literary Fiction (4)
Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (March) *
Rule Britannia – Daphne du Maurier (October) *
Eleanor Rigby – Douglas Coupland (October)
Dave Eggers – Why We Are Hungry (December)
Horror (1)
Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice (April) *
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Far-Fetched Fiction (8)
The Whole and Entire Hitch-Hiker’s Quintrilogy –Douglas Adams – re-read (May)
The King of Elfland’s Daughter – Lord Dunsany (July) *
The Greatest Show Off Earth – Robert Rankin (August)
Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman – re-read (August)
Trouble with Lichen – John Wyndham (September)
The Antipope – Robert Rankin (September)
The Chrysalids – John Wyndham (September) *
Monstrous Regiment – Terry Pratchett (September)
Children’s (2)
The Eagle of the Ninth – Rosemary Sutcliff (September) *
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – re-read (October)