Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Books Read in 2007

F = Fiction
NF = Non-Fiction
B = Biography
P = Poetry
PL = Play
GN = Graphic Novel


1) Patrick O'Brian - Treason's Harbour (F)

2) Alaa Al Aswany - The Yacoubian Building (F)

3) Patrick O'Brian - The Far Side of the World (F)

4) Steven Brust - Brokedown Palace (F)

5) Jim Butcher - Storm Front (F)

6) Jim Butcher - Fool Moon (F)

7) Patrick O'Brian - The Reverse of the Medal (F)

8) Mark Kurlansky - The Big Oyster: History on the Halfshell (NF)

9) Terry Pratchett - Strata (F)

10) Patrick O'Brian - The Letter of Marque (F)

11) Patrick O'Brian - The Thirteen-Gun Salute (F)

12) Patrick O'Brian - The Nutmeg of Consolation (F)

13) Patrick O'Brian - The Truelove (F)

14) Patrick O'Brian - The Wine-Dark Sea (F)

15) Patrick O'Brian - The Commodore (F)

16) Patrick O'Brian - The Yellow Admiral (F)

17) James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (F)

18) Rex Stout - Curtains for Three (F) (reread)

19) Dick Francis - Slay Ride (F)

20) Dick Francis - High Stakes (F)

21) Dick Francis - The Edge (F)

22) Dick Francis - Bonecrack (F)

23) Orhan Pamuk - Snow (F)

24) Jim Butcher - Grave Peril (F)

25) Jim Butcher - Summer Knight (F)

26) Alexandre Dumas trans. Andrew Brown - Captain Pamphile (F)

27) Jim Butcher - Death Masks (F)

28) Jim Butcher - Blood Rites (F)

29) Dick Francis - To the Hilt (F)

30) E.M. Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread (F)

31) E. OE. Somerville & Martin Ross - The Irish R.M. (F)

32) Dick Francis - Dead Cert (F)

33) Conor McPherson - Four Plays (PL)

34) Jamie Delano et al. - Hellblazer: The Devil You Know (GN)

35) Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America (NF)

36) William Shakespeare - The Life & Death of King Richard the Second (PL)

37) Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat (F)

38) Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge (F)

39) Emile Zola - Therese Raquin (F)

40) Dick Francis - Trial Run (F)

41) Glen Cook - The Silver Spike (F)

42) Warren Ellis et al. - Hellblazer: Haunted (GN)

43) Warren Ellis et al. - Hellblazer: Setting Sun (GN)

44) Jim Butcher - The Furies of Calderon (F)

45) Jim Butcher - Academ's Fury (F)

46) Upton Sinclair - World's Fury (F)

47) Graham Greene - The Third Man (F)

48) Ian Sansom - The Case of the Missing Books: A Mobile Library Mystery (F)

49) George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London (F)

50) Clifford D. Simak - The Goblin Reservation (F)

51) Sarah Vowell - Take the Cannoli (NF)

52) I.J. Parker - Black Arrow (F)

53) Boris Akunin - Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog (F)

54) Lawrence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (F)

55) Edgar Rice Burroughs - A Princess of Mars (F)

56) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (F)

57) Sholom Aleichem, trans. Curt Leviant - Happy New Year! and Other Stories (F)

58) Saul Bellow - Dangling Man (F)

59) Michael Chabon - The Final Solution (F)

60) Stuart Kelly - The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read (NF)

61) Harvey Pekar - American Splendor: The Life and times of Harvey Pekar (GN/B)

62) Maurice LeBlanc - Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief (F)

63) Liz Williams - Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel (F)

64) Mike Carey et al. - Hellblazer: Reasons To Be Cheerful (GN)

65) Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie - Lost Girls (GN)

66) Mike Mignola & John Byrne - Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (GN)

67) Don Marquis - The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel (F/P)

68) Wole Soyinka - Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (P)

69) James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small (B) (reread)

70) Leonard Cohen - Let Us Compare Mythologies (P)

71) Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds (F)

72) James Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful (B) (reread)

73) James Herriot - All Things Wise and Wonderful (B)

74) Cauvery Madhavan - Paddy Indian (F)

75) James Herriot - The Lord God made Them All (B)

76) Dick Francis - The Danger (F)

77) Guy Delisle - Shenzen: A Travelogue from China (GN) (reread)

78) Guy Delisle - Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (GN) (reread)

79) Dick Francis - Longshot (F)

80) Dick Francis - For Kicks (F)

81) Terry Pratchett - Making Money (F)

82) Joyce Cary - Herself Surprised (F)

83) Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories (NF)

84) Dick Francis - Driving Force (F)

85) Sam Shepard - Seven Plays (PL) (partial)

86) John Le Carre - Our Game (F)

87) Ha Jin - The Crazed (F)

88) I.J. Parker - Island of Exiles (F)

89) Patrick O'Brian - The Hundred Days (F)

90) Parick O'Brian - Blue at the Mizzen (F)

91) Brian Azzarello et al. - Hellblazer: Hard Time (GN)

92) Brian Azzarello et al. - Hellblazer: Good Intentions (GN)

93) Brian Azzarello et al. - Hellblazer: Freezes Over (GN)

94) Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar (F) (reread)

95) Herman Hesse trans. Sherab Chodzin Kohn - Siddartha (F)

96) Rex Stout - The Father Hunt (F) (reread)

97) Joseph Heller - Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man (F)

98) Ryunosuke Akutagawa trans. Jay Rubin - Rashomon and 17 Other Stories (F)

99) Rex Stout - Gambit (F) (reread)

100) Rex Stout - Where There's A Will (F) (reread)

101) Rex Stout - Three Men Out (F) (reread)

102) Rex Stout - Might As Well Be Dead (F) (reread)

103) Rex Stout - Black Orchids (F) (reread)

104) Rex Stout - The League of Frightened Men (F) (reread)

105) Rex Stout - Murder by the Book (F) (reread)

106) Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (F)

107) Rex Stout - Fer-de-Lance (F) (reread)

108) Anton Chekhov trans. Laurence Senelick - Three Sisters (PL)

109) Rex Stout - The Red Box (F) (reread)

110) Glen Cook - Cold Copper Tears (F) (reread)

111) Glen Cook - Red Iron Nights (F) (reread)

112) Rex Stout - If Death Ever Slept (F) (reread)

113) John Mandeville, trans. C.W.R.D. Moseley - The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (NF)

114) Flann O'Brien, trans. Patrick C. Power - The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life (F)

115) Rex Stout - Tri for Blunt Instruments (F) (reread)

116) Rex Stout - Death Times Three (F) (reread)

117) Glen Cook - Sweet Silver Blues (F) (reread)

118) Apuleius, trans. P.G. Walsh - The Golden Ass (F)

119) Jim Butcher - Cursor's FUry (F)

120) Glen Cook - Bitter Gold Hearts (F) (reread)

121) Glen Cook - Old Tin Sorrows (F) (reread)

122) David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (B)

123) Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (F)

124) Glen Cook - Dread Brass Shadows (F) (reread)

125) Haruki Murakami, trans. Alfred Birnbaum - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (F)

126) Cormac McCarthy - The Road (F)

127) Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories (F)

128) Larry Gonick & Christine DeVault - The Cartoon Guide to Sex (GN)

Monday, January 1, 2007

Books Read in 2006

F = Fiction
NF = Non-Fiction
B = Biography
P = Poetry
PL = Play
GN = Graphic Novel


1) Bill Maher - When You Ride ALONE You Ride with bin Laden: What the Government SHOULD Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism. (NF)

2) Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. M.D. Herter Norton - Letters to a Young Poet. (NF)

3) Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses (F)

4) Kaoru Kurimoto, trans. Alexander O. Smith and Elye J. Alexander - The Guin Saga, Book Two: Warrior in the Wilderness (F)

5) Dick Francis - Rat Race (F)

6) Will Eisner - Last Day in Vietnam: A Memory (GN)

7) Anthony Bourdain - The Bobby Gold Stories (F)

8) Al Franken - The Truth: with jokes (NF)

9) Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming - Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl? (GN)

10) M. John Harrison - The Pastel City (F)

11) M. John Harrison - A Storm of Wings (F)

12) J.W.von Goethe, trans. Thomas James Arnold - The Story of Reynard the Fox (P)

13) Ben Edlund - The Tick: The Naked City (GN) (reread)

14) Sue Grafton - 'A' Is For Alibi (F)

15) Alfred Kazin - A Walker In The City (B)

16) Dick Francis - 10lb. Penalty (F)

17) John Maddox Roberts - SPQR: The Tribune's Curse (F)

18) Dante Alighieri, trans. Mark Musa - The Divine Comedy, Volume 1: Inferno (P)

19) John Maddox Roberts - SPQR: The River God's Vengeance (F)

20) Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys (F)

21) Flann O'Brien - Stories and Plays (F and PL)

22) Petronius Arbiter, trans. falsely ascribed to Oscar Wilde - The Satyricon (F)

23) Sarah Vowell - The Partly Cloudy Patriot (NF)

24) George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (F)

25) Zbigniew Herbert trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott - Selected Poems (P)

26) Flann O'Brien - The Hard Life (F)

27) Bram Stoker - Dracula (F)

28) P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Tie That Binds (F)

29) Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (F)

30) Alan Alda - Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (B)

31) Ian Fleming - For Your Eyes Only (F)

32) Sarah Vowell - Assasination Vacation (NF)

33) Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin - The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece (NF)

34) Eamon Grennan - Still Life with Waterfall (P)

35) Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (F)

36) Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (B)

37) Terry Pratchett - The Unadulterated Cat (F)

38) Gustav Meyrink - The Golem (F)

39) Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code (F)

40) Boris Akunin - Murder on the Leviathan (F)

41) Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (PL)

42) Yamamoto Tsunetomo, trans. William Scott Wilson - The Hagakure (NF)

43) Frank Miller - The Big Fat Kill (GN)

44) Sholom Aleichem trans. Julius and Frances Butwin - The Old Country (F)

45) Dick Francis - Straight (F)

46) Aeschylus trans. Peter Meineck - Oresteia (PL)

47) Garth Ennis and John Higgins - Hellblazer: Son of Man (GN)

48) Russell Shorto - The Island at the Center of the World (NF)

49) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Preacher: Gone to Texas (GN)

50) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Preacher: Proud Americans (GN)

51) Michael Cunningham - Specimen Days (F)

52) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Preacher: Dixie Fried (GN)

53) Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (F)

54) Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman (F)

55) Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik - Penny Arcade: Attack of the Bacon Robots! (GN)

56) Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks (F) (reread)

57) Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano (F)

58) Dave Barry - Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway (H)

59) Boris Akunin - The Turkish Gambit (F)

60) Dante Alighieri, trans. Mark Musa - The Divine Comedy, Volume 2: Purgatorio (P)

61) ed. and trans. Moss Roberts - Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies (F)

62) I.J. Parker - Rashomon Gate (F)

63) Lenny Bruce - How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (B)

64) Boris Akunin - The Death of Achilles (F)

65) Marilyn Johnson - The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (NF)

66) George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (PL)

67) David Sedaris - Naked (B)

68) W. Somerset Maugham - Cakes and Ale (F)

69) Sofka Zinovieff - Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens (NF)

70) Rene Descartes, trans. Donald A. Cross - Meditations on First Philosophy (NF)

71) Ha Jin - War Trash (F)

72) Paul Auster - City of Glass (F)

73) Colette, trans. Enid McLeod - The Vagabond (F)

74) Robert Sullivan - The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of a City (NF)

75) Ian Fleming - Moonraker (F)

76) Charles MacLean - MacLean's Miscellany of Whisky (NF)

77) Ian Fleming - Thunderball (F)

78) Steven Brust - Dzur (F)

79) Fred Saberhagen - The Book of Swords Vol. 1 (F)

80) Fred Saberhagen - The Book of Swords Vol. 2 (F)

81) Fred Saberhagen - The Book of Swords Vol. 3 (F)

82) Bill Buford - Heat (An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany) (NF)

83) Neil Gaiman - Stardust (F)

84) Sholem Aleichem, Trans. Hillel Halkin - Tevye The Dairyman and the Railroad Stories (F)

85) O.Henry - The Best Short Stories of O.Henry (F)

86) John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces (F)

87) E.B. White - Here is New York (NF)

88) Martin Millar - The Good Fairies of New York (F)

89) Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith (F)

90) James Joyce - Dubliners (F)

91) Vassar College - Albert Einstein: Life and Letters, 1905-1955 (NF)

92) Dick Francis - Wild Horses (F)

93) Guy Delisle - Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (GN)

94) Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent (F) (reread)

95) Terry Pratchett - Small Gods (F) (reread)

96) C.S. Forester - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (F)

97) C.S. Forester - Lieutenant Hornblower (F)

98) C.S. Forester - Hornblower and the Hotspur (F)

99) C.S. Forester - Hornblower and the Atropos (F)

100) C.S. Forester - Beat to Quarters (F)

101) C.S. Forester - Ship of the Line (F)

102) C.S. Forester - Flying Colours (F)

103) C.S. Forester - Commodore Hornblower (F)

104) C.S. Forester - Lord Hornblower (F)

105) Guy Delisle - Shenzen: A Travelogue From China (GN)

106) C.S. Forester - Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (F)

107) C.S. Forester - Hornblower During the Crisis (F)

108) Patrick O'Brian - Master & Commander (F)

109) Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain (F)

110) Patrick O'Brian - H.M.S. Surprise (F)

111) Eric Hobsbawm - The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (NF)

112) Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command (F)

113) Patrick O'Brian - Desolation Island (F)

114) Patrick O'Brian - The Fortune of War (F)

115) Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate (F)

116) Patrick O'Brian - The Ionian Mission (F)

117) Alec Guinness - My Name Escapes Me (B)

118) Adam Zagajewski, asstd. trans. - Without End (P)

Sunday, January 1, 2006

Books Read in 2005

F = Fiction
NF = Non-Fiction
B = Biography
P = Poetry
PL = Play
GN = Graphic Novel


1) Neal Stephenson - The System of the World (Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) (F)

2) Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks (F)

3) P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Morning (F)

4) Da Chen - Sounds of the River (B)

5) Nick Hornby - How to be Good (F)

6) Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (reread) (F)

7) David Gemmell - Morningstar (F)

8) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Preludes And Nocturnes (reread)
(GN)
9) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Doll's House (reread) (GN)

10) Garth Ennis - Preacher: Until The End of the World (GN)

11) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Dream Country (reread) (GN)

12) Algis J. Budrys - Michaelmas (F)

13) Jamie Delano et al. - Hellblazer: Original Sin (GN)

14) David Eddings - Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad, book 1 (reread) (F)

15) David Eddings - Queen of Sorcery: The Belgariad, book 2 (reread) (F)

16) David Eddings - Magician's Gambit: The Belgariad, book 3 (reread) (F)

17) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Season of Mists (reread) (GN)

18) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: A Game of You (reread) (GN)

19) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Fables & Reflections (reread) (GN)

20) David Eddings - Castle of Wizardy: The Belgariad, book 4 (reread) (F)

21) David Eddings - Enchanters' End Game: The Belgariad, book 5 (reread) (F)

22) Garth Ennis et al. - Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits (GN)

23) Rex Stout - Trio for Blunt Instruments (F)

24) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway (GN)

25) Garth Ennis et al. - Preacher: Ancient History (GN)

26) David Eddings - Guardians of the West: The Mallorean, book 1 (reread) (F)

27) William Logan - Macbeth in Venice (P)

28) Tom Stoppard - The Invention of Love (PL)

29) David Eddings - The King of The Murgos: The Mallorean, book 2 (reread) (F)

30) Isabel Fonseca - Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (NF)

31) David Eddings - Demon Lord of Karanda: The Mallorean, book 3 (reread) (F)

32) T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land and Other Poems (P)

33) Jamie Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis et al. - Hellblazer: Rare Cuts (GN)

34) David Eddings - Sorceress of Darshiva: The Mallorean, book 4 (reread) (F)

35) Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (GN) (B)

36) Umberto Eco, trans. William Weaver - Serendipities: Language & Lunacy (NF)

37) David Eddings - The Seeress of Kell: The Mallorean, book 5 (reread) (F)

38) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Brief Lives (reread) (GN)

39) Alan Moore - Saga of the Swamp Thing (GN)

40) Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon - Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing (GN)

41) Sophocles, trans. Rachel Kitzinger & Eamon Grennan - Oedipus at Colonus (PL)

42) Art Spiegelman - In the Shadow of No Towers (GN)

43) Frank Miller - Sin City: The Hard Goodbye (GN)

44) Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year (F)

45) Glen Cook - The Black Company (F)

46) Dick Francis - Odds Against (F)

47) Dick Francis - Whip Hand (F)

48) Dick Francis - Come to Grief (F)

49) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Children and Monsters (GN)

50) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: A Dalliance with the Damned (GN)

51) Neil Gaiman et al. - The Books of Magic (GN)

52) Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment (reread) (F)

53) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: The Divine Comedy (GN)

54) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Inferno (GN)

55) Glen Cook - Shadows Linger (F)

56) B. H. Liddell Hart - Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon (B)

57) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Hellblazer: Tainted Love (GN)

58) P. G. Wodehouse - How Right You Are, Jeeves (F)

59) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence (GN)

60) Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair (F)

61) Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon et al. - Hellblazer: Damnation's Flame (GN)

62) Robert Pinsky - Jersey Rain (P)

63) John Stewart- Naked Pictures of Famous People (F)

64) Richard Hooker - MASH (F)

65) Neal Gaiman - Sandman: The World's End (GN)

66) Dick Francis - Reflex (F)

67) E. M. Forster - A Room With A View (F)

68) Dave Sim - Cerebus (GN)

69) Anthony Hecht - The Darkness and the Light (P)

70) Dick Francis - Forfeit (F)

71) Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (NF)

72) Alan Moore and David Lloyd - V for Vendetta (GN)

73) R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski - The R. Crumb Handbook (GN/B)

74) Paul Cartledge - The Spartans (NF)

75) David Gemmell - The Swords of Night and Day (F)

76) Oscar Wilde - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (P)

77) Rex Stout - Murder By the Book (F)

78) Jack Keruoac - On the Road (F)

79) Will Eisner - Invisible People (GN)

80) Glen Cook - Whispering Nickel Idols (F)

81) Rex Stout - Red Threads (F)

82) Mickey Spillane - I, The Jury (F)

83) Robert Kirkman & Cory Walker - Invincible: Family Matters (GN)

84) Arthur Gelb - City Room (B)

85) Dick Francis - Risk (F)

86) Alan Moore - The Swamp Thing: Love and Death (GN)

87) Alexandre Dumas trans. Robin Buss - The Black Tulip (F)

88) Lewis Black - Nothing's Sacred (NF)

89) Wislawa Szymborska trans. Clare Cavanagh - Nonrequired Reading (NF)

90) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell (GN)

91) Joyce Johnson - Minor Characters (B)

92) Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt (F)

93) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Conflict of Honors (F)

94) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Agent of Change (F)

95) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Carpe Diem (F)

96) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Plan B (F)

97) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - I Dare (F)

98) Nick Hornby - The Polysyllabic Spree (NF)

99) Dick Francis - Blood Sport (F)

100) Lawrence Robinson - The Accidental Connoisseur (NF)

101) David Sedaris - Barrel Fever (F)

102) Ian Fleming - Doctor No (F)

103) Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (F)

104) Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (F)

105) Trans. Barbara Stoler Miller - The Bhagavad-Gita (P)

106) Dick Francis - Knockdown (F)

107) Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems (P)

108) Rick Gekoski - Nabakov's Butterfly (NF)

109) Dick Francis - Flying Finish (F)

110) Robert Sullivan - Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (NF)

111) J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (F)

112) Ian Fleming - Diamonds Are Forever (F)

113) Joseph Heller - Picture This (F)

114) Jeff Smith - Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (GN)

115) Lewis Lapham - 30 Satires (NF)

116) Carl Reiner - My Anecdotal Life (B)

117) Ross King - Ex Libris (F)

118) Ian Fleming - From Russia With Love (F)

119) Rex Stout - Before Midnight (F) (reread)

120) I.J. Parker - The Dragon Scroll (F)

121) Dick Francis - Nerve (F)

122) Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely - WE3 (GN)

123) Rex Stout - Death of a Dude (F) (reread)

124) Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die (F)

125) Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That (B)

126) Raphael Sabatini - Scaramouche (F)

127) H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines (F)

128) Marquis de Sade - The Crimes of Love (F)

129) Mickey Spillane - My Gun is Quick (F)

130) Will Eisner - The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (GN) (NF)

131) Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel (F)

132) Marco Polo - The Travels of Marco Polo (NF)

133) Terry Pratchett - Thud! (F)

134) Jon Stewart et al. - America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy (NF)

135) Isaac Asimov - The Return of the Black Widowers (F)

136) Glen Cook - The White Rose (F)

137) Charles MacLean - Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History (NF)

138) Art Spiegelman - Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History (GN)(B)

139) Art Spiegelman - Maus: A Survivor's Tale, And Here My Troubles Began (GN)(B)

140) John Ruskin - Unto This Last, and Other Writings (NF)

141) Lenny Bruce - The Essential Lenny Bruce (NF)

142) Arturo Perez-Reverte, trans. Margaret Jull Costa - The Fencing Master (F)

143) Inga Saffron - Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy (NF)

144) George Plimpton - The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair and Other Excursions and Observations (NF)

145) Boris Akunin, trans. Andrew Bromfield - The Winter Queen (F)

146) Ian Fleming - Goldfinger (F)

147) Frank Miller - Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (GN)

148) Sara Bader - Strange Red Cow: and other curious classified ads from the past (NF)

149) David Sedaris - Holidays On Ice (F and NF)

150) Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell - The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (P)

151) Zbigniew Herbert - THe King of the Ants: Mythological Essays (NF)

152) Mark Kurlansky - The Basque History of the World (NF)

153) R.A. Lafferty - Nine Hundred Grandmothers (F)

154) Michael Chabon et al. - The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, vol. 2 (GN)

155) Euripides, trans. Richmond Lattimore et al. - Euripides III, Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, and Ion (PL)

156) Mickey Spillane - Vengeance is Mine! (F)

157) Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch (NF)