The Indiscriminate Reader (not alphabetically filed)

[firstlight]

I have a happy new year period! But also a hot water bottle and painkillers. Did I say today was going to be a productive day? Haha. I'm sure I didn't. You must be imagining things.

Anyway.


Read in 2008 (non-comprehensive list, I fear, because I have a sieve-memory -- this is just what immediately comes to mind. next year I'm writing it down as I go, damn it):

George R R Martin
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows

Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination

J G Ballard
The Voices of Time
The Unlimited Dream Company

Roger Zelazny
The Chronicles of Amber

Jim Butcher
Storm Front
Fool Moon

Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot

Naomi Novik
Temeraire
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War
Empire of Ivory
Victory of Eagles

Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase
After the Quake
The Elephant Vanishes

Richard Morgan
Altered Carbon

William Gibson
Spook Country


Books begun in 2008 which NEED to be finished in 2009 (most unfinished for reasons of library reservation queues, some only just started):

Markus Zusak
The Book Thief

Terry Pratchett
Nation

Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora

Lois McMaster Bujold
The Warrior's Apprentice

Richard Morgan
Broken Angels


To Read in 2009:

Joe Haldeman
The Forever War

Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book

Connie Willis
To Say Nothing Of The Dog

Alan Bennet
The Uncommon Reader

Bernard Schlink
The Reader

Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Sputnik Sweetheart
Norwegian Wood

Paul McAuley
Fairyland

Iain (M) Banks
Whit
Look to Windward
Consider Phlebas

Salman Rushdie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories

William Goldman
The Princess Bride

Fritz Leiber
Lankhmar (handy omnibus edition containing most of the stories)

Roger Zelazny
Lord of Light

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Shadow of the Wind

Jim Butcher
Grave Peril

John M. Ford
The Dragon Waiting

...and there is a lot more BUT I AM GOING TO STOP NOW, before I scare myself. I write this down largely as an attempt to remind myself what I'm meant to be reading, since I own a lot of the above books and just haven't got around to them yet but tend to GO OUT AND BUY MORE BOOKS WHENEVER I HAVE MONEY ANYWAY.

Comments

[hoshi-li.livejournal.com]

Thumbs up for The Shadow of the Wind and The Lies of Locke Lamora! I think two other books have been added to the series as well :D. How is The Book Thief? I've bought it and tried to get into it a few times, but really haven't succeeded so far. :x

Have a smashing new year!

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and believe me, I'm tempted to run out and buy THEM too, despite only being around half way through the first one. Just a little in love with the whole thing. *coughs*

I enjoyed what I read of The Book Thief, but I can't comment on it too much -- I read the beginning of it a while ago, had to return it, haven't been able to get hold of it again since. I'll probably have to start from the beginning again when I re-acquire it. XD

And you. :D

[jetsam]

Locke Lamora is on my list too. I've finished Nation and it's good ^_^

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty far into Locke Lamora but I'm going to have to buy it since the library took their copy back and other people want it for the next While. >_> It's REALLY good, though.

I'm really enjoying Nation too. I've read lots of that one as well. :)

[annotated_em]

Nation is fabulous! I just finished reading it the other day. *delighted*

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I like how /all/ of Novik's books are on the read list