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Rachel Dwyer. What Do Hindus Believe?.
Vicki Mackenzie. Cave in the Snow.
Zadie Smith. White Teeth.

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My recommendations from the year's reading:

Ben Aaronovitch. Genius Loci. I can't believe how long to took me to get around to reading this. Ben writes one of the rarest kinds of Doctor Who-related stuff: honest-to-God SF. Plus it's as funny as hell.

Christine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France. I rarely read history; this was a terrific read.

Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read. Cheeky little book full of serious insights on writing, reading, and publishing.

Russell T. Davies. The Writer's Tale. Entertaining and enlightening - plus hopeful writers (and old hacks like me) get an invaluable glimpse of a master works.

Charles Dickens. Bleak House. My first ever Dickens! Now I see what all the fuss is about! I hope to give Our Mutual Friend a stab this year.

Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. Suddenly so much makes sense that never did before. (Don Watson's On Indignation was similarly enlightening. :)

Gita Mehta. Karma Cola. Knockout collection of anecdotes about clueless Westeners visiting India in the sixties, with no idea of what was waiting for them. I picked this up completely by chance in an op shop. I would read a shopping list written by this woman. Instead, though, I'll read her novel Raj.

Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note. So clever, so funny, so twisty.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Holy flaming cow. I'm still reeling from the final line. Cancer Ward is on the shelf for this year.

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Douglas Adams. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
Charles Dickens. Bleak House. AT LAST I HAVE DEFEATED YOU, NOVEL OF LONGNESS.
Bruce Kinloch. Sauce for the Mongoose.
William Poundstone. Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb.
Don Watson. On Indignation.


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Iain M. Banks. Matter.
Frank Close. The Void.
Neil Gaiman. Anansi Boys. (Thanks, [livejournal.com profile] shellshear!)
Gita Mehta. Karma Cola.
Clive Moore (ed). The Forgotten People: a history of the Australian South Sea Island community.
Oliver Sacks. The Island of the Colour-blind.

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Billie T. Chandler. Crafts and trades of Japan, with doll-and-flower arrangements.
Julian Clary. Murder Most Fab.

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Ben Aaronovitch. Genius Loci.
Charles Seife. Decoding the Universe: how the new science of information is explaining everything in the Cosmos, from our brains to Black Holes.

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Steven Hall. The Raw Shark Texts.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note 11 and 12.

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Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note vol 9 and 10.

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Phil Drabble. A Weasel in my Meatsafe.
Jody Gehrman. Tart.
Naduki Koujima. Great Place High School.
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Death Note, issues 1-6.
V.S. Ramachandran. A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, vol 8.

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Christine Pevitt Algrant. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France.
Pierre Bayard. How to talk about books you haven't read.
Kate Fox. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour.
Kiriko Nananan. Blue.
Francine Patterson and Eugene Linden. The Education of Koko.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
Diane Yapko. Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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Damien Keown. Buddhist Ethics: a Very Short Introduction.
Elizabeth Moon. Speed of Dark.
Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood.
Osamu Tezuka. Buddha, volumes 1 and 2.

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Books read
Trezza Azzopardi. The Hiding Place.
John Barrowman with Carole E. Barrowman. Anything Goes: The Autobiography.
Magnus Mills. All Quiet on the Orient Express.
Sara Nelson. So Many Books, So Little Time.
Byron E. Shafer (ed). Religion in Ancient Egypt.

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Books read
Patrick F. Houlihan. Wit and Humour in Ancient Egypt
Charles Siebert. Wickerby.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
John Williams. Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub.

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