Monday, September 6, 2010

Books 2010

Here are the 88 books I read or listened to in 2010.

The ones I especially liked are marked with ***

  1. Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
  2. The Sister - Poppy Adams
  3. The Heretic's Daughter - Kathleen Kent, read by Mare Winningham ***
  4. Yes, my Darling Daughter - Margaret Leroy
  5. Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro, read by various
  6. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman, read by the author ***
  7. Birds of a Feather - Jacqueline Winspear, read by Kim Hicks ***
  8. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
  9. Touching Distance - Rebecca Abrams
  10. Postern of Fate - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
  11. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway, read by Gareth Armstrong ***
  12. An Incomplete Revenge, Jacqueline Winspear, read by Orlagh Cassidy ***
  13. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winnifred Watson, read by Frances McDormid ***
  14. Digging to America - Anne Tyler, read by Blair Brown
  15. Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
  16. Lulu in Marrakech - Diane Johnson, read by Justine Eyre
  17. The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
  18. The Island - Victoria Hislop
  19. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert, read by the author ***
  20. The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister, read by Cassandra Campbell
  21. A Carribean Mystery - Agatha Christie, read by Rosalind Ayres 
  22. The Black Tower - Louis Baynard, read by Simon Vance
  23. Peril at End House - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
  24. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, read by Martin Jarvis *** funny
  25. Among the Mad - Jacqueline Winspear, read by Orlagh Cassidy ***
  26. The Book of Tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern
  27. Appointment with Death - Agatha Christie, ready by Hugh Fraser
  28. The Devil's Company - David Liss, read by Simon Vance 
  29. The Aviary Gate - Katie Hickman, read by Josephine Bailey
  30. Lady Susan - Jane Austen, ready by cast
  31. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne, read by Simon Prebble
  32. The Postmistress - Sarah Blake
  33. Noah's Compass - Anne Tyler
  34. Why didn't they ask Evans? - Agatha Christie, read by Emilia Fox
  35. Behind the scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson ***
  36. Every Man Dies Alone - Hans Fallada *** Amazing!
  37. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson, read by Lincoln Hoppe *** odd but good?
  38. The Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
  39. The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paola Giordano
  40. Heaven is Small - ? 
  41. Brava, Valentina - Adriana Trigiani
  42. Messenger of Truth - Jacqueline Winspear ***
  43. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - Beth Hoffman, read by Jenna Lamia
  44. The Lady and the Poet - Maeve Haran
  45. Silent Scream - Lynda La Plante
  46. One, Two, Buckle my Shoe - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
  47. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson ***charming
  48. Above Suspicion - Lynda La Plante *** first Anna Travis novel
  49. Red Dahlia - Lynda La Plante ***
  50. The Mapping of Love & Death - Jacqueline Winspear ***
  51. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - ***addictive!
  52. The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson - ***action!
  53. The Girl who Kicked a Hornet's Nest ***satisfying end to trilogy
  54. Fever Dream - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  55. A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie, read by Rosalind Ayres
  56. The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova, read by cast ***
  57. Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear, read by Rita Barrington *** first in the series
  58. Taken by the Flood - Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser
  59. Stone's Fall - Iain Pears, read by Roy Dotrice, John Lee, Simon Vance ***
  60. The Tale of Halcyon Crane - Wendy Webb, read by Cassandra Campbell
  61. Jingo - Terry Pratchett, read by Tony Robinson
  62. Bloodroot - Amy Greene, read by a full cast ***
  63. The Unbearable Lightness of Scones - Alexander McCall Smith, read by David Rintoul
  64. The Wild Things - Dave Eggers, read by Dion Graham
  65. 26A - Diana Evans, read by Adjoa Andoh
  66. The Twentieth Wife - Indu Sundaresan, ready by Sneha Mathan
  67. 50 is the new Fifty - Suzanne Braun Levine
  68. Then we came to the end - Joshua Ferris, read by Deanna Hurst
  69. Chocolat - Joanne Harris, ready by Diana Bishop
  70. A very long engagement - Sebastien Japriot, read by Isabel Keating ***
  71. The return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell, ready by Grover Gardner 
  72. Mr Rosenblum dreams in English - Natasha Solomns
  73. Hecctor and the Search for Happiness - Francois Lelord
  74. An Irish Country Girl - Patrick Taylor, ready by Terry Donnelly
  75. Into the Blue - Robert Goddard, ready by Paul Shelley ***
  76. Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid ***
  77. Room - Emma Donaghue ****Extraordinary!
  78. The Woodcutter - Reginald Hill ***
  79. The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh, ready by Simon Vance
  80. The Long Kill - Reginald Hill ***
  81. Firewall - Henning Mankell
  82. Mind's Eye - Hakan Nesser
  83. Evil under the Sun - Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet
  84. Jasmyn - Alex Bell
  85. A Secret Kept - Tatiana de Rosnay, read by Simon Vance
  86. Dead Man's Folly - Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet
  87. Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie, read by John Moffat
  88. The Girl who Fell from the Sky - Heidi W Durrow (audio)

Books 2009

 Here's a list of books read in 2009. The ones I especially liked are marked with ***
  1. A Version of the Truth - Jennnifer Kaufman & Karen Mack
  2. Devil's Peak - Deon Meyer
  3. Little Bee - Chris Cleave ***
  4. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell (audio) ***
  5. Shoot the Moon - Billy Letts
  6. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke, read by Lynn Redgrave
  7. The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
  8. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman, read by the author ***
  9. A Darker Domain - Val McDermid ***
  10. What I did for Love - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  11. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley ***
  12. In the Woods - Tana French
  13. The Likeness - Tana French
  14. Additions - Toni Jordan ***
  15. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clark (audio) ***
  16. The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
  17. The Terrorist - John Updike, read by Christopher Lane ***
  18. The Poe Shadow by Mathhew Pearl (audio)
  19. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman (actual book) ***
  20. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, read by Sissy Spacek ***
  21. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (audio)
  22. Wyrd Sisters- Terry Pratchett, read by Tony Robinson *** hilarious*
  23. The Foreign Correspondent - Alan Furst, read by Alfred Molina
  24. The Good Mayor - Andrew Nicoll ***
  25. Bone by Bone - Carol O'Connell
  26. Cemetary Dance - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
  27. Dreamers of the Day - Mary Doria Russell, read by Ann Marie Lee ***
  28. The Tale of Despearux - Kate Di Camillo, read by Graeme Malcolm *** fun*
  29. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein ***
  30. The Lovers - John Connelly
  31. Valeria's Last Stand - Marc Fitten ***
  32. Love Walked In - Marisa de los Santos ***
  33. No, I don't want to Join a Book Club - Virginia Ironside, read by Sian Thomas ***
  34. Very Valentine - Adriana Trigiani, read by Cassandra Campbell
  35. Singing with the Top Down - Deborah Williamson ***
  36. The Magician's Assistant - Anne Patchett
  37. The Help - Kathry Stockett, read by 3 superb readers! ***
  38. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde, read by Simon Prebble *** Hilarious *
  39. This book will save your life - A.M. Homes (audio)
  40. Family Man - Elinor Lipman 
  41. Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe (audio)
  42. The Lace makers of Glenmara - Heather Barhieri
  43. The Meaning of Night - Michael Cox *** superb!
  44. The Glass of Time - Michael Cox, read by Josephine Bailey *** superb II
  45. The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ***amazing
  46. The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rundell, read by Rosalyn Landor ***
  47. Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
  48. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell, read by Anne Flosnick ***
  49. Something Missing - Matthew Dicks
  50. An Offer you Can't Refuse - Jill Mansell, read by Julie Maisey
  51. The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry, read by Alyssa Bresnahan
  52. The Tenderness of Wolves - Stef Penney ***
  53. Labor Day - Joyce Maynard ***
  54. The Boleyn Inheritance - Phillipa Gregory, ready by Emilia Fox
  55. After River - Donna Milner, read by Liza Ross ***
  56. Love Letters - Katie Fforde
  57. The Whiskey Rebels - David Liss
  58. The Art Thief - Noah Charney, read y Simon Vance *** loved his voices
  59. The Complaints - Ian Rankin
  60. Of Bees and Mist - Erick Setiawan ***
  61. A Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
  62. The Little Stranger - sarah Waters, read by Simon Vance ***
  63. The Serpent's Tale - Ariana Franklin
  64. An Unpardonable Crime - Andrew Taylor, read by Simon Vance
  65. The Gates - John Connelly
  66. The Day the Falls Stood Still 
  67. Brooklyn - Colm Toibin, read by Kirsten Potter
  68. The Seance - John Harwood
  69. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, read by Jonathan Davis ***
  70. Anybody out There? - Marian Keyes, read by Terry Donnelly
  71. Blindspot - Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore, read by John Lee & Cassandra Campbell