2005's New Year's Resolutions included the vague but enthusiastic resolution to "Read more books". This means that at the very least I wanted to exceed last year's total of 113; I was actually aiming for 200.
What with moving house (at least, that's one excuse) I didn't get anywhere near 200, though I still averaged over a book a week. I did, however, succeed in my resolution to read more non-fiction, managing a grand total of 13 (or 14, if you count Mensonge) as against 2004's 11.
| Week | Book(s) read | |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Angela Carter, Sea-Cat and Dragon King | [DETAILS] |
| Stephen Poole, Trigger Happy | [DETAILS] | |
| Nicholson Baker, Vox | [DETAILS] | |
| Michael Cunningham, The Hours | [DETAILS] | |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings | [DETAILS] |
| Lauren Slater, Welcome to My Country: a therapist's memoir of madness | [DETAILS] | |
| T. S. Eliot, What Is A Classic? | [DETAILS] | |
| Dan Rhodes, Anthropology | [DETAILS] | |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Nicholson Baker, The Everlasting Story of Nory | [DETAILS] |
| Thomas de Quincey, Ann of Oxford Street [from "Confessions of an English Opium Eater"] | [DETAILS] | |
| Philibert Schogt, The Wild Numbers | [DETAILS] | |
| Mitch Albom, Five People You Meet In Heaven | [DETAILS] | |
| Iris Murdoch, The Italian Girl | [DETAILS] | |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | [DETAILS] |
| Herman Hesse, Narziss and Goldmund | [DETAILS] | |
| Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl | [DETAILS] | |
| Margaret Wertheim, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: a history of space from Dante to the Internet | [DETAILS] | |
| Marthe Blau, Submission | [DETAILS] | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why | [DETAILS] |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities | [DETAILS] |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh | [DETAILS] |
| Helen Zahavi, Dirty Weekend | [DETAILS] | |
| Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: the story of a childhood | [DETAILS] | |
| Dorothy Baker, Trio | [DETAILS] | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | Chuck Palahniuk, Choke | [DETAILS] |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons, Watchmen | [DETAILS] |
| Christopher Timothy, Vet Behind the Ears | [DETAILS] | |
| Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles | [DETAILS] | |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Nicholas Otty, Learner Teacher | [DETAILS] |
| Roald Dahl, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar | [DETAILS] | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Alan Sillitoe, The General | [DETAILS] |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice | [DETAILS] |
| Martin Amis, Time's Arrow | [DETAILS] | |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | ||
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | ||
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | Elena Lappin, The Nose | [DETAILS] |
| Gwen Edelman, War Story | [DETAILS] | |
| Adam Sweeting, Cover Versions: singing other people's songs | [DETAILS] | |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | Nick Hornby (ed.), Speaking With The Angel | [DETAILS] |
| Alessandro Boffa, You're An Animal, Viskovitz! | [DETAILS] | |
| Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept | [DETAILS] | |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | David Harel, Computers Ltd: What they really can't do | [DETAILS] |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude | [DETAILS] |
| May 7 - May 13 | Dr Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat | [DETAILS] |
| Daniel Handler, Watch Your Mouth | [DETAILS] | |
| May 14 - May 20 | Elsie J. Oxenham, The Abbey Girls | [DETAILS] |
| May 21 - May 27 | Roddy Lumsden & Stephen Troussé (eds.) The message: crossing the tracks between poetry and pop | [DETAILS] |
| Herman Hesse, Klingsor's Last Summer | [DETAILS] | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales | [DETAILS] |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | John Aizlewood (ed.), Love is the Drug: living as a pop fan | [DETAILS] |
| Veronica Stallwood, Oxford Double | [DETAILS] | |
| Will Self, Cock and Bull | [DETAILS] | |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Ian Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost | [DETAILS] |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Stephen King, Salem's Lot | [DETAILS] |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock | [DETAILS] |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl | [DETAILS] |
| Jul 9 - 15 | [DETAILS] | |
| Jul 16 - 22 | [DETAILS] | |
| Jul 23 - 29 | [DETAILS] | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | [DETAILS] | |
| Aug 6 - 12 | E. F. Benson, As We Were: A Victorian peep-show | [DETAILS] |
| Aug 13 - 19 | Jonathan Coe, The Rotter's Club | [DETAILS] |
| Sarah Waters, Fingersmith | [DETAILS] | |
| Aug 20 - 26 | Josephine Tey, Miss Pym Disposes | [DETAILS] |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | J. M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country | [DETAILS] |
| Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin | [DETAILS] | |
| Angela Brazil, Loyal to the School | [DETAILS] | |
| Angela Brazil, A Fourth Form Friendship | [DETAILS] | |
| Sep 3 - 9 | [DETAILS] | |
| Sep 10 - 16 | [DETAILS] | |
| Sep 17 - 23 | [DETAILS] | |
| Sep 24 - 30 | Terry Pratchett, Night Watch | [DETAILS] |
| Oct 1 - 7 | Terry Pratchett, The Truth | [DETAILS] |
| Oct 8 - 14 | Christopher Brookmyre, Be My Enemy | [DETAILS] |
| Oct 15 - 21 | [DETAILS] | |
| Oct 22 - 28 | Malcolm Bradbury, Mensonge | [DETAILS] |
| Leslie Charteris, X Esquire | [DETAILS] | |
| Leslie Charteris, The Bandit | [DETAILS] | |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | [DETAILS] | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday | [DETAILS] |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head | [DETAILS] |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Carl Hiaasen, Skintight | [DETAILS] |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | [DETAILS] | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | Nicholas Griffin, The House of Sight and Shadow | [DETAILS] |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Herman Hesse, Knulp | [DETAILS] |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Laurent Graff, Happy Days | [DETAILS] |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Margaret Atwood, Surfacing | [DETAILS] |