Books read 2011
Jan. 2nd, 2012 02:01 pmFiction and Biography
Mulk Raj Anand. Untouchable.
Iain M. Banks. Surface Detail.
Russell Brand. My Booky Wook.
- Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles.
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Douglas Coupland. Microserfs.
Neil Gaiman. American Gods.
Christopher Isherwood. Christopher And His Kind.
Gita Mehta. Raj.
James Hilton. Goodbye, Mr Chips.
John Le Carré. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Frederick Pohl. Alternating Currents.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Good Omens.
Theodore Sturgeon. Venus Plus X.
Alice Taylor. The Village.
Fay Weldon. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.
Tess Williams. Map of Power.
Jim Woodring. Congress of the Animals.
Stefan Zweig. Chess.
20 books - 18 authors - white guys 13 (72%), everybody else 5 (28%)
Non-fiction
Michael White and John Gribbin. Stephen Hawking: a life in science.
John Chadwick. The Decipherment of Linear B.
Fred Hoyle. The Nature of the Universe.
Barbara Watterson. The House of Horus: Ritual in an Ancient Egyptian Temple.
Riki Wilchins. Queer Theory, Gender Theory.
Tom Wolfe. The Painted Word.
6 books
( Books acquired 2011 )
Mulk Raj Anand. Untouchable.
Iain M. Banks. Surface Detail.
Russell Brand. My Booky Wook.
- Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal.
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles.
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Douglas Coupland. Microserfs.
Neil Gaiman. American Gods.
Christopher Isherwood. Christopher And His Kind.
Gita Mehta. Raj.
James Hilton. Goodbye, Mr Chips.
John Le Carré. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Frederick Pohl. Alternating Currents.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Good Omens.
Theodore Sturgeon. Venus Plus X.
Alice Taylor. The Village.
Fay Weldon. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.
Tess Williams. Map of Power.
Jim Woodring. Congress of the Animals.
Stefan Zweig. Chess.
20 books - 18 authors - white guys 13 (72%), everybody else 5 (28%)
Non-fiction
Michael White and John Gribbin. Stephen Hawking: a life in science.
John Chadwick. The Decipherment of Linear B.
Fred Hoyle. The Nature of the Universe.
Barbara Watterson. The House of Horus: Ritual in an Ancient Egyptian Temple.
Riki Wilchins. Queer Theory, Gender Theory.
Tom Wolfe. The Painted Word.
6 books
( Books acquired 2011 )