Several years ago I decided that I would do my utmost to read a book a week, because I felt like I was getting out of the habit of reading new things and I thought that having a goal to aim for would help. The effort paid off, and it's something I've kept up (off and on) ever since -- it encourages me to read more widely, and it helps me to justify to myself the vast quantities of books that I buy.
2005's reading underperformed quite spectacularly due to (among other things) moving house. But 2006 will be better!
Notes to self: Look into cataloguing books with LibraryThing or Delicious Library; have a go at What Should I Read Next?
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Queen |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Doris Lessing, Memoirs of a Survivor |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Julie Burchill, Sugar Rush |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Keri Hulme, The Bone People |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | David Mamet / Lindsay Crouse, The Owl |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | John Gray, Heresies |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | Terry Eagleton, The Gatekeeper |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections |
| William Arden, The Mystery of the Shrinking House [Alfred Hitchcock: Three Investigators] | |
| M. V. Carey, The Mystery of the Flaming Footprints [Alfred Hitchcock: Three Investigators] | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Dorita F. Bruce, Dimsie Moves Up Again |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Anne Fine, Madame Doubtfire |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | |
| Apr 9 - 15 | |
| Apr 16 - 22 | Matthew Lewis, The Monk |
| Christopher Brookmyre, One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night | |
| Apr 23 - 29 | Michael Frayn, The Tin Men |
| Isabel Colegate, A Glimpse of Sion's Glory | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head |
| May 7 - May 13 | |
| May 14 - May 20 | |
| May 21 - 27 | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | Miles Kington, Moreover, too |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Iris Murdoch, The Sandcastle |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Anthony Burgess, The End of the World News |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Mary Cadogan, Chin up chest out, Jemima! |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Philippe Vasset, ScriptGenerator©®™ |
| Mrs Molesworth, Hoodie | |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | Betsy Byars, The Summer of the Swans |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | Jean Echenoz, Piano |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | Daniel Pennac, Reads Like A Novel |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| John Buchan, Greenmantle | |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | John Buchan, Mr Standfast |
| John Buchan, The Three Hostages | |
| John Buchan, The Island of Sheep | |
| Dorita Fairlie Bruce, Dimsie Goes to School | |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature |
| Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle | |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | Rumer Godden, The Diddakoi |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30; | Terry Eagleton, After Theory |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Angela Brazil, A Popular Schoolgirl |
| Agatha Christie, Towards Zero | |
| H.D., Bid Me To Live | |
| Elizabeth Goudge, Linnets and Valerians | |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Edmund Crispin, The Moving Toyshop |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Henry Hitchings, Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World |
| Anthony Bourdain, Typhoid Mary | |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Peter Ackroyd, The Great Fire of London |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 |