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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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