Shane Richmond

I’m pleased with what I read this year. I’m 200 pages from the end of what would have been book 43 but I ran out of time. It’ll be a rollover.

January
The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
Ratking by Michael Dibdin
Carte Blanche by Carlo Lucarelli
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

February
Net, Blogs and Rock ‘n’ Roll by David Jennings
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

March
The Damned Season by Carlo Lucarelli
The Man Who Went Up In Smoke by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

April
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson

May
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas
How Fiction Works by James Wood
Almost Blue by Carlo Lucarelli
The Man on the Balcony by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

June
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

July
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, edited by Dave Eggers
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

August
Night Work by Thomas Glavinic
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

September
The Fire Engine That Disappeared by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

October
The Broken World by Tim Etchells
Murder at the Savoy by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

November
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
March Violets by Philip Kerr
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

December
The Abominable Man by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

A few stats:

• Four of the books were written by women, though seven were co-written by a woman
• Four of the books were non-fiction
• Eighteen of the books were translations
• Eight of the books were published before 1944, including two that before 1900
• Five of the books were published in 2008

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