52 Book Challenge: The 2011 books
Total books read: 54, as listed in full in this post. Now all I need to do is to blog about half of them…
Children’s (1)
- Five on Finniston Farm by Enid Blyton
Classic fiction (1)
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Crime (18)
- Saturnalia by Lindsey Davis
- The King’s Evil by Edward Marston
- Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
- The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
- Heartstone by CJ Sansom
- The Iron Horse by Edward Marston
- The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith
- Tea Time for the Traditionally-Built by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
- Sovereign by CJ Sansom
- Revelation by CJ Sansom
- Heartstone by CJ Sansom
- The White Lioness by Henning Mankell
- The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
- Dark Fire by CJ Sansom
- Dissolution by CJ Sansom
- Hardball by Sara Paretsky
Graphic novels (3)
- Nevermore – A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories, edited by Dan Whitehead
- Crime and Punishment: a graphic novel by Alain Kourkos and David Zane Mairowitz
- The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore et al
General fiction (2)
- The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith
- Flanagan’s Run by Tom McNab
Historical novels (1)
- Rebels and Traitors – Lindsey Davis
Humour (1)
- The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
Non-fiction (19)
- Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club by Robin Ince
- Tai chi for health and vitality : a comprehensive guide to the short yang form by Robert Parry
- Information is Beautiful by David McCandless
- The Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins
- The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing ed. Richard Dawkins
- The Histories by Herodotus
- Probability Demystified by Allan Bluman
- True Blue: Strange tales from a Tory nation by Chris Horrie and David Matthews
- Springwatch and Autumnwatch by Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King
- The Pilgrimage of Grace by Geoffrey Moorhouse
- Daphne du Maurier by Margaret Forster
- The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
- A Book of Dartmoor by the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould
- Marathon Running for Mortals by John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield
- The Strictly Come Dancing Annual 2012 by Alison Maloney
- The Complete Classic Pilates Method by Miranda Bass, Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson
- Getting Started with Arduino by Massimo Banzi
- Food for Free by Richard Mabey
Short story anthologies and novellas (2)
- With A Little Help by Cory Doctorow
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
Speculative fiction (2)
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
- Grey by John Armstrong (audiobook)
Supernatural fiction and horror (3)
- Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman
- The Remains of an Altar by Phil Rickman
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova