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Jan 10, 2011 10:35:39 PM Archived Entry: "Books read, 2011"
Last year I got through 44 books, which was just slightly less than the year before but which had a lot of solid, classic novels in it (11 not including the Mitford novels), including Vanity Fair, that took more time to read than some of the fluff I also downed. Big new star of the year was Nancy Mitford, author of seven of the novels I read. Charlaine Harris was tapped five times: for both authors, I just really wanted something enjoyable and was willing to pig out on their books in order to help up my frequently bleak moods. China Mieville and Kage Baker each had two books each; Stross almost did the same but I started his Wireless over the Christmas break and won't wind up finishing it until some time this year.
Meanwhile ... book club keeps me reading good stuff, such as this year's first book.
January
1. The Devil's Pool - George Sand
2. The Last Dragonslayer - Jasper Fforde
3. The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye - A. S. Byatt
February
4. Blackout - Connie Willis
5. The Beloved - Evelyn Waugh
6. The Snack Thief - Antonio Camillieri
7. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
8. Thirty-three Teeth - Colin Cotterill
9. Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
March
10. House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
11. Wigs on the Green - Nancy Mitford
12. Disco for the Departed - Colin Cotteril
13. Gods Behaving Badly
April
14. One of our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
15. Anarchy and Old Dogs - Colin Cotteril
16. Curse of the Pogo Stick - Colin Cotteril
May
17. The Masterpiece - Emile Zola
18. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
19. Night Train - Martin Amis
20. Excursion to Tindari - Andrea Camillieri
June
21. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
22. The Merry Misogynist - Colin Cotteril
23. Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
24. Unholy Ghosts - Stacia Kane
25. The Unvanquished - William Faulkner
July
26. My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
27. Pegasus - Patricia McKillip
28. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave - Colin Cotteril
29. Nine Princes in Amber - Roger Zelazny
August
30. Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
31. Kraken - China Mieville
32. The Key - Junichiro Tanizaki
September
33. Unholy Magic - Stacia Kane
34. Men at Arms - Evelyn Waugh
35. Officers and Gentlemen - Evelyn Waugh
October
36. City of Ghosts - Stacia Kane
37. Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
38. Bird of the River - Kage Baker
39. The Inimitable Jeeves - P G Wodehouse
November
40. The Guns of Avalon - Roger Zelazny
41. The Cold Commands - Richard Morgan
December
42. Rule 34 - Charles Stross
43. Twitterature
44. The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
45. The Devil You Know - Mike Carey
"Only weak men fear able women" - Marion Boyars