Target: 100+
Running total:
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.
In 2006 I said: 2005's reading underperformed quite spectacularly due to (among other things) moving house. But 2006 will be better!
Unfortunately I'd reckoned without 2006 involving, er, moving house. However, we have a 12-month contract at the new place, so this year I really shouldn't have any excuse for not getting back up to speed with the reading.
Notes to self: Look into Delicious Library; have a go at What Should I Read Next?
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | John Buchan, Memory Hold-The-Door |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, The King's Gift | |
| Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish | |
| Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls | |
| Jan 15 - Jan 18 | F. Anstey, A Bayard from Bengal |
| Jan 19 - Jan 25 | François Mauriac, The Nest of Vipers |
| Jan 26 - Feb 1 | Alf Mac Lochlainn, The Corpus in the Library |
| Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill | |
| Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy | |
| Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator | |
| Feb 2 - Feb 8 | Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch |
| Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village | |
| Feb 9 - Feb 15 | |
| Feb 16 - Feb 22 | Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum |
| Norton Juster: The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics | |
| Feb 23 - Mar 1 | John Brockman (ed.), What we believe but cannot prove: today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty |
| Federico Andahazi, The Anatomist | |
| Mar 2 - Mar 8 | Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Emperor |
| Jonathan Coe, 9th & 13th | |
| Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid | |
| Bella Bathurst, Special | |
| Mar 9 - Mar 15 | Don DeLillo, The Body Artist |
| Mar 16 - Mar 22 | |
| Mar 23 - Mar 29 | |
| Mar 30 - Apr 5 | Will Self, Grey Area |
| Karen Wallace, The Unrivalled Spangles | |
| Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar | |
| Apr 6 - Apr 12 | |
| Apr 13 - Apr 19 | |
| Apr 20 - Apr 26 | |
| Apr 27 - May 3 | Willard Price, My Own Life of Adventure |
| Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | |
| May 4 - May 10 | Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture |
| Christopher Brookmyre, A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil | |
| May 11 - May 17 | Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember |
| Ira Levin, The Boys From Brazil | |
| Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness | |
| May 18 - May 24 | Charlotte Yonge, The Little Duke |
| May 25 - May 31 | |
| June 1 - June 7 | |
| June 8 - June 14 | Midas Dekkers, The Way of All Flesh: A Celebration of Decay |
| June 15 - June 21 | |
| June 22 - June 28 | Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| June 29 - July 5 | Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea |
| David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan | |
| July 6 - July 12 | Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore |
| Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu | |
| July 13 - July 19 | Terry Eagleton, Saints and Scholars |
| July 20 - July 26 | J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind | |
| July 27 - 2 August | Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea |
| Charlie Higson, Double or Die | |
| 3 August - 9 August | Charlie Higson, Blood Fever |
| Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter | |
| 10 August - 16 August | Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother |
| Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys | |
| Graham Greene, The Third Man / The Fallen Idol | |
| Jane Solomon, Hotel 167 | |
| Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines | |
| 17 August - 23 August | Jacqueline Wilson, The Worry Website |
| Graham Greene, Twenty-One Stories | |
| 24 August - 30 August | Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts | |
| 31 August - 6 September | Iris Murdoch, Under the Net |
| 7 September - 13 September | |
| 14 September - 20 September | Philip Reeve, Infernal Devices |
| Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful | |
| Iris Murdoch, The Bell | |
| 21 September - 27 September | Ian Rankin, The Black Book |
| Brendan Behan, After the Wake | |
| 28 September - 4 October | Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams, Tunnels |
| Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital | |
| Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival | |
| Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope | |
| Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto | |
| 5 October - 11 October | Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril |
| Lemony Snicket, The End | |
| 12 October - 18 October | Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain |
| Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist | |
| 19 October - 25 October | |
| 26 October - 1 November | Mary Gentle, ASH: A Secret History |
| Alain-Fournier, Le Grand Meaulnes | |
| Herman Hesse, Wandering | |
| Leslie Charteris, The Saint in Miami | |
| 2 November - 8 November | Gabriel García Márquez, No One Writes to the Colonel |
| 9 November - 16 November | |
| 17 November - 23 November | Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker |
| 24 November - 30 November | Hellen Keller, My Key of Life |
| Mike Carey, The Devil You Know | |
| Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now | |
| 1 December - 7 December | |
| 8 December - 14 December | |
| 15 December - 21 December | |
| 22 December - 28 December | Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter |
| Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday | |
| Ruth Jolly & Adrienne Fitzpatrick (eds.), The Chalet School Christmas Story Book | |
| Neil Gaiman, Stardust |