Shane Richmond

Here’s the list of what I read this year:

January
Underworld by Don DeLillo

February
Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

March
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

April
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin

May
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov

June
Q by Luther Blissett
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

July
The Falls by Ian Rankin
How to Score by Ken Bray
The End of Faith by Sam Harris

August
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

September
Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos

October
White Jazz by James Ellroy
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre

November
The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre
Smiley’s People by John Le Carre

December
Tailgating, Sacks and Salary Caps by Mark Yost
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Complicity by Iain Banks

And a few quick stats:

• The books are listed in the month I finished them, not when I started them
• All of the books were written by men. Not sure what that means.
• Five of the books were non-fiction
• Six of the books were translations
• Two of the books were published this year, four in 2005, three in 2004, one in 2003, one in 2001 and one in 2000
• Five of the books were published in the 90s, one in the 80s, three in 70s, three in the 60s and one in the 1920s

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3. 26 Books 2010: August
4. 26 Books 2009: November

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