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Books Read in 2012
- Other books read in first quarter of 2012
- Journey To Paradise - Dorothy Richardson
- Oberland - Dorothy Richardson
- To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh
- Interim - Dorothy Richardson
- The Moment Of Eclipse - Brian Aldiss
Books Read in 2011
- Also read in 2011
- Ice Trilogy - Vladimir Sorokin (tr Jamey Gambrell)
- Baga - Robert Pinget
- Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
- The Slynx - Tatyana Tolstaya (tr Jamey Gambrell)
- The Little Saint - Georges Simenon
- The Milkman In The Night - Andrey Kurkov
- The Zero Train - Yuri Buida
- Maigret Has Doubts - Georges Simenon
- The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Century: 1969 - Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
- Nirvana Bites - Debi Alper
- The Sunday Books - Mervyn Peake & Michael Moorcock
- Mahu or The Material - Robert Pinget
- Wild Nights - Emma Tennant
- Fremder - Russell Hoban
- The Ballad Of Halo Jones - Alan Moore & Ian Gibson
- Lint - Steve Aylett
- A Princess Of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Under A Canvas Sky - Clare Peake
- A Web Of Air - Philip Reeve
- Options - Robert Sheckley
- Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
- The Story Of The Amulet - E Nesbit
- Jack On The Box - Jack Trevor Story
- The Trouble With Trudy - Jack Trevor Story
- Kleinzeit - Russell Hoban
- Black God's Kiss - C L Moore
- Asylum Piece - Anna Kavan
- The Dragonfly Pool - Eva Ibbotson
- Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
- Running Wild - J G Ballard
- The Day Of Creation - J G Ballard
- The Complete Poems - T S Eliot
- Dubliners - James Joyce
- W H Auden Penguin Poets - W H Auden
- Modem Times 2.0 Plus... - Michael Moorcock
- Empire Of The Sun - J G Ballard
- The Lunatics Of Terra - John Sladek
- The Crock Of Gold - James Stephens
- The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
- Mercier and Camier - Samuel Beckett
Books Read in 2010
- Other books read in 2010
- I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett
- Two Women Of London - Emma Tennant
- The Doomsters - Ross Macdonald
- The Erasers - Alain Robbe-Grillet
- We Who Are About To... - Joanna Russ
- Kuldesak - Richard Cowper
- Room 13 - Edgar Wallace
- The Colour Of Rain - Emma Tennant
- Romatic Egotist - Brian Darwent
- Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse
- The Moving Target - Ross Macdonald
- Dance Your Way To Psychic Sex - Alice Turing
- The Bad Sister - Emma Tennant
- Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction - Jonathan Culler
- Visitants - Randolph Stow
- The Entropy Exhibition - Colin Greenland
- Albert Rides Again - Jack Trevor Story
- The Female Man - Joanna Russ
- The Thackery T. Labshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases - Vandermeer & Roberts [eds]
- Tank Girl - Hewlett & Martin
- Virginia Woolf - Hermione Lee
- Queen Of Stones - Emma Tennant
- Inverted World - Christopher Priest
- Report On Probability A - Brian Aldiss
- The Collected Stories - Katherine Mansfield
- Hotel De Dream - Emma Tennant
- A Tapestry Of Time - Richard Cowper
- Dying, In Other Words - Maggie Gee
- One Last Mad Embrace - Jack Trevor Story
- A Dream Of Kinship - Richard Cowper
- Clone - Richard Cowper
- The Wanderground - Sally Miller Gearheart
- The Road To Corlay - Richard Cowper
- Cryptozoic - Brian Aldiss
- Bunny Lake Is Missing - Evelyn Piper
- Green For Danger - Christianna Brand
- The Last Of The Country House Murders - Emma Tennant
- Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
- Hello America - J G Ballard
- Princess Diana's Revenge - Michael de Larrabeiti
- A User's Guide To The Millennium - J G Ballard
- Nine O'Clock Shadow - Jack Trevor Story
- Alice Fell - Emma Tennant
- The Unlimited Dream Company - J G Ballard
- The Hole - John Davey
- Vast Alchemies ~ The Life And Work Of Mervyn Peake - G Peter Winnington
- The Dark Light Years - Brian Aldiss
- The Crack - Emma Tennant
- Greenmantle - John Buchan
- The Time Machine & Other Stories - H G Wells
- High-Rise - J G Ballard
- Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
Books Read in 2009
- Suddenly It's Murder - Jack Trevor Story
- The Big Steal - Jack Trevor Story
- Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
- Concrete Island - J G Ballard
- Courier For Crime - Jack Trevor Story
- She Ain't Got No Body - Jack Trevor Story
- The Thirty-nine Steps - John Buchan
- Crash - J G Ballard
- Dewey - Vicki Myron (with Bret Witter)
- Collapse Of Stout Party - Jack Trevor Story
- The Defence Of The Realm - Christopher Andrew
- Violence In Quiet Places - Jack Trevor Story
- Across The Acheron - Monique Wittig
- Crime Stories & Other Writings - Dashiell Hammett
- Dishonourable Member - Jack Trevor Story
- The Crime Writer’s Guide To Police Practice And Procedure – Michael O’Byrne
- The Frightened People - Jack Trevor Story
- The Good Angel Of Death - Andrey Kurkov
- Crime Is My Business - W Howard Baker
- Omon Ra - Victor Pelevin
- House Of Many Ways - Diana Wynne Jones
- The Blonde And The Boodle - Jack Trevor Story
- Charlie Bone And The Red Knight - Jenny Nimmo
- Camp Concentration - Thomas M. Disch
- The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
- Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
- Invitation To A Murder! - Jack Trevor Story
- The Committed Men - M John Harrison
- Mother Of Plenty - Colin Greenland
- Seasons Of Plenty - Colin Greenland
- And Chaos Died - Joanna Russ
- Mothstorm - Philip Reeve
- The Salutation - Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Collected Stories - Raymond Chandler
- Alice In Sunderland - Bryan Talbot
- The Notebooks Of Raymond Chandler - Frank McShane [ed]
- Lost Stories - Dashiell Hammett
- The Ministry Of Fear - Graham Greene
- Knife - R J Anderson
- A Most Wanted Man - John le Carré
- The Anglo-Saxon Age - John Blair
- Alien Accounts - John Sladek
- A Journal Of The Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
- For A New Novel - Alain Robbe-Grillet
- The Old Men At The Zoo - Angus Wilson
- Billion-Dollar Brain - Len Deighton
- The Allingham Minibus - Margery Allingham
- Funeral In Berlin - Len Deighton
- R. U. R. and The Insect Play - Josef and Karel Čapek
- The Third Man - Graham Greene
- Horse Under Water - Len Deighton
- Sea-Kings Of Mars and Otherworldly Stories - Leigh Brackett
- The IPCRESS File - Len Deighton
- Intangibles Inc. and Other Stories - Brian Aldiss
- The Roaring Trumpet - L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt
- Mr Fortune's Maggot - Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban
- The Best Of Michael Moorcock - Michael Moorcock
- The President's Last Love - Andrey Kurkov
- The Machine In Shaft Ten - M John Harrison
- Take Back Plenty - Colin Greenland
- Cold Earth - Sarah Moss
- Pigeon Post - Arthur Ransome
- Visions Of The Cailleach - Sorita d'Este & David Rankine
- Babel-17 - Samuel R Delany
- Charlie Bone And The Shadow Of Badlock - Jenny Nimmo
- Barefoot In The Head - Brian Aldiss
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
- We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The Trouble With Harry - Jack Trevor Story
- Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve
- The Atrocity Exhibition - J G Ballard
- The Crystal World - J G Ballard
- At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
- Dungeon of Doom (Prince Jake) - Sue Mongredien and Mark Beech
- Morag's Flying Fortress - Jack Trevor Story
- Playback - Raymond Chandler
- The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
- One Man's Meat - Colin Watson
- Broomsticks Over Flaxborough - Colin Watson
- The Lady In The Lake - Raymond Chandler
- The High Window - Raymond Chandler
- Little Dog's Day - Jack Trevor Story
- King Arthur - Christopher Hibbert
- Man Pinches Bottom - Jack Trevor Story
- Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
- The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
- Nation - Terry Pratchett
- Earthworks - Brian Aldiss
- The Fifth Floor - Michael Harvey
- The Dark Lord Of Derkholm - Diana Wynne Jones
- The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler
- Keep The Giraffe Burning - John Sladek
- The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin
- An Ungodly Child - Rachel Green
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
- The Case Of The General's Thumb - Andrey Kurkov
- Night And Day - Virginia Woolf
- Hopjoy Was Here - Colin Watson
- Bump In The Night - Colin watson
- Coffin, Scarcely Used - Colin Watson
- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
- The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
- Passing For Human - Jody Scott
- Screwrape Lettuce - Jack Trevor Story
- Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Books Read in 2008
- Damp Squid - Jeremy Butterfield
- The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett
- Lyttelton's Britain - Iain Pattinson
- The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
- Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore
- Time Bites - Doris Lessing
- Mr Campion's Falcon - Youngman Carter
- Building A Bridge To The 18th Century - Neil Postman
- Jealousy - Alain Robbe-Grillet
- V For Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd
- How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
- The Adventures Of Alyx - Joanna Russ
- The Guérillères – Monique Wittig
- The Müller-Fokker Effect – John Sladek
- Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
- To Write Like A Woman - Joanna Russ
- The Reproductive System - John Sladek
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G K Chesterton
- The Outsider - Albert Camus
- Starcross - Philip Reeve
- Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
- Billion Year Spree - Brian Aldiss
- Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer
- The New Apocrypha - John Sladek
- Bugs - John Sladek
- A Matter Of Death And Life - Andrey Kurkov
- A Clockwork Apple - Belinda Webb
- Hitler Needs You - Jack Trevor Story
- What Good Are The Arts? - John Carey
- Mr Pye - Mervyn Peake
- Tik-Tok - John Sladek
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Traps Of Time - ed Michael Moorcock
- Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss
- The Drought - J. G. Ballard
- The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
- Stand On Zanzibar - John Brunner
- Our Man In Havana - Graham Greene
- Nova Swing - M John Harrison
- Making Money - Terry Pratchett
- The War Of Art - Steven Pressfield
- Roderick At Random - John Sladek
- Psychogeography - Merlin Coverley
- Heart of Empire - Bryan Talbot
- The Adventures of Luther Arkwright - Bryan Talbot
- Roderick - John Sladek
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Saturnalia - Lindsey Davis
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
- Penguin Lost - Andrey Kurkov
- The Caltraps Of Time - David I Masson
- The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe
- Ink In Her Blood - Richard Martin
- Coot Club - Arthur Ransome
- Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold - Malcolm Yorke
- The Fall of the Towers - Samuel R Delany
- Miracles of Life: An Autobiography - J G Ballard
- A Book Of Nonsense - Mervyn Peake
- The Cleft - Doris Lessing
- Finite And Infinite Games - James P Carse
- The Drowned World - J G Ballard
- The Rose - Charles L Harness
- Across The Dark Metropolis - Michael de Larrabeiti
- How To Suppress Women's Writing - Joanna Russ
- Wartime Britain 1939-1945 - Juliet Gardiner
- The Wind From Nowhere - J G Ballard
- Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Borribles Go For Broke - Michael de Larrabeiti
- Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
- The Borribles - Michael de Larrabeiti
- The Invisible Man - H G Wells
- Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
- Winter Holiday - Arthur Ransome
- Stand On Zanzibar - John Brunner
Books Read in 2007
- Peter Duck - Arthur Ransome
- Extra(ordinary) People - Joanna Russ
- Black Plumes - Margery Allingham
- Collision with Chronos - Barrington J Bayley
- I Sit In Hanger Lane - Jack Trevor Story
- The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd
- The Metatemporal Detective - Michael Moorcock
- Dancers in Mourning - Margery Allingham
- Bill, The Galactic Hero - Harry Harrison
- Company of Bandits - Jack Trevor Story
- Larklight - Philip Reeve
- The White Cottage Mystery - Margery Allingham
- The Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
- The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
- The Mind Readers - Margery Allingham
- The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
- The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
- Urban District Lover - Jack Trevor Story
- Something for Nothing - Jack Trevor Story
- Live Now, Pay Later - Jack Trevor Story
- Coroner's Pidgin - Margery Allingham
- Hide My Eyes - Margery Allingham
- Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf - Jenny Nimmo
- Endgame - Samuel Beckett
- Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
- The War in the Air - H G Wells
- New Worlds an Anthology - Michael Moorcock [ed]
- Swallowdale - Arthur Ransome
- The Comedy of Survival - Joseph W Meeker
- The Beckoning Lady - Margery Allingham
- Burning Your Boats - Angela Carter
- The Time Machine - H G Wells
- The War of the Worlds - H G Wells
- The Knights of the Limits - Barrington J Bayley
- The Empty Space - Peter Brook
- Just William - Richmal Crompton
- Molesworth - Willans & Searle
- The Adventures of Sherlock Homes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Murphy - Samuel Beckett
- A History Maker - Alasdair Gray
- The Clerkenwell Tales - Peter Ackroyd
- The First Men in the Moon - H G Wells
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
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Award
My thanks to Carenza
