Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: )
Week:
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.
2009 was a good year for reading despite not only moving house but also getting married. I won't be doing either of those things again this year. :-)
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Jane Shaw, Bernese Adventure |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Mike Carey, The Naming of the Beasts |
| Charlie Brooker, The Hell of it All | |
| Julian Baggini, Complaint | |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Various authors, Ox-Tales: Earth |
| Various authors, Ox-Tales: Air | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Various authors, Ox-Tales: Fire |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Various authors, Ox-Tales: Water |
| Stephenie Meyer, Twilight | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | Kathleen Tynan, Agatha |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Pamela Cox, New Term at Malory Towers |
| Max Siegel, Barbara | |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress |
| Glyn Daniel, The Cambridge Murders | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Andrey Kurkov, Death and the Penguin |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Alan Garner, Thursbitch |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Susan Scarlett (Noel Streatfeild), Pirouette |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | Alan Garner, Strandloper |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen |
| David Nicholls, One Day | |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | Anne Digby, Boy Trouble at Trebizon |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | Stephenie Meyer, New Moon |
| May 7 - May 13 | Pamela Cox, Summer Term at Malory Towers |
| May 14 - May 20 | |
| May 21 - May 27 | Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | China Miéville, The City and the City |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö, Roseanna |
| Alice Thomas Ellis, The Clothes in the Wardrobe | |
| Charles Elliott, More Papers from the Potting Shed | |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Iris Murdoch, Something Special |
| Alan Ryan, Liberal Anxieties & Liberal Education | |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Olive Higgins Prouty, Now, Voyager |
| Patricia Duncker, The Deadly Space Between | |
| Thomas de Zengotita, Mediated: how the media shape your world | |
| Alexandre Dumas fils, La Dame aux Camélias | |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Sarah Waters, Affinity |
| Susan Hill, Howard's End is on the Landing | |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | Agatha Christie, While the Light Lasts |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | Daniel Davies, The Isle of Dogs |
| Alice Thomas Ellis, The Birds of the Air | |
| Alan Burgess, The Small Woman: Gladys Aylward | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | Michael Marland (ed.), Short Stories for Today |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | David Eagleman, Sum: Tales from the afterlives |
| Don DeLillo, White Noise | |
| Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit | |
| Robert Cormier, Fade | |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Gilbert Adair, A Mysterious Affair of Style |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | Jeanette Winterson, Tanglewreck |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse |
| Various authors, Best SF two : science fiction stories | |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | Christopher Brookmyre, All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | James Hilton, Good-bye, Mr. Chips |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Mary Warnock, Making Babies: is there a right to have children? |
| Penelope Farmer, Charlotte Sometimes | |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lot |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Christine Chaundler, A Disgrace to the Fourth |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | Peter Høeg, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow |
| Zoe Williams, Bring It On, Baby | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Daniel Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Michael Frayn, Towards the End of the Morning |
| Cory Doctorow, Little Brother | |
| Ianthe Brautigan, You Can't Catch Death: a daughter's memoir | |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Tanya Huff, Blood Price |