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2009 List - here

 

Well I didnt quite manage to reach my goal of 60 books in 2009 so that has to be my first goal for this year :lol:. Also I really want to get my TBR pile down a bit, especially as I realised recently that some books have been on it for over 7 years :).

 

So for 2010 I aim to:

 

Read 60 books in the year.

Read at least half of them from my current TBR pile (not incl library books).

 

Off to a good start so far :D

 

January

1. Skin - Mo Hayder (LIBRARY) 7/10

2. Halfhead - Stuart B. Macbride (LIBRARY) 4/10

3. Into the Fire - Linda Davies (TBR pile) 5/10

4. Blacklands - Belinda Bauer (LIBRARY) 10/10

 

 

February

5. Nick Hornby - Juliet, Naked (LIBRARY) 7/10

 

March

6. Liz Jensen - The Rapture (LIBRARY) 10/10

7. George Pelecanos - The Way Home (LIBRARY) 5/10

 

April

8. Val McDermid - Fever of the Bone (TBR pile) 8/10

9. Matthew Quick - The Silver Linings Play Book (LIBRARY) 6/10

10. Joseph Finder - Vanished (TBR pile) 7/10

 

May

11. Ian McEwan - The Cement Garden (TBR pile) 5/10

12. Stuart MacBride - Flesh House (TBR pile) 7/10

13. Stuart MacBride - Blind Eye (TBR pile) 7/10

 

 

June

 

14. Sean Black - Lock Down (TBR pile) 7/10

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and the second half of 2010:

 

 

July

 

15. Adrenaline - Jeff Abbott (TBR pile) 9/10

16. Fear the Worst - Linwood Barclay (TBR pile) 8/10

 

 

August

 

17. Blood and Ice - Robert Masello (TBR pile) 7/10

 

 

September

 

18. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop - Lewis Buzbee (TBR pile) 8/10

19. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (TBR pile) 8/10

20. Ancestor - Scott Sigler (TBR pile) 7/10

21. American Devil - Oliver Stark (TBR Pile) 9/10

 

 

October

 

22. The Left Hand of God - Paul Hoffman (TBR pile) 5/10

23. 61 Hours - Lee Child (TBR Pile) 8/10

24. Fallen - Lauren Kate (TBR Pile) 5/10

25. Sean Black - Deadlock (LIBRARY) 8/10

 

 

November

 

26. Peter Mandelson - The Third Man (LIBRARY) 10/10

27. Stephen Leather - Nightfall (LIBRARY) 9/10

 

 

December

 

28. Joseph Finder - Power Play (LIBRARY) 9/10

29. Simon Kernick - The Last 10 Seconds (LIBRARY) 9/10

30. Mo Hayder - Gone (LIBRARY)

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TBR Pile (I really want to get this down this year)

 

Kelley Armstrong - Haunted

Kelley Armstrong - Broken

Kelley Armstrong - Exit Strategy

Linwood Barclay - No Time for Goodbye

Elizabeth Berg - Talk before Sleep

Elizabeth Berg - Range of Motion

Elizabeth Berg - What we Keep

Mark Billingham - Blood Line

Sean Black - Deadlock (LIBRARY)

Faith Bleasdale - Deranged Marriage

Stephen Booth - Blind to the Bones

Stephen Booth - Blood on the Tongue

Stephen Booth - One Last Breath

Stephen Booth - The Dead Place

Mark Burnell - Gemini

Albert Camus - The Plague

Karen Chance - Claimed by Shadow

Susanne Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr Morrell

Pearl Cleage - What Looks Like Crazy on An Ordinary Day

Harlan Coben - Just One Look

Martina Cole - Maura's Game

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Barbara Erskine - Whispers in the Sand

Barbara Erskine - Child of the Phoenix

Barbara Erskine - Hiding from the Light

Sebastian Faulks - Human Traces

Helen Fielding - Olivia Joules

Vince Flynn - Separation of Power

Lisa Gardner - The Neighbour

Tess Gerritsen - Never Say Die

Matthew Glass - Ultimatum

Muriel Gray - The Trickster

Jane Green - Babyville

Jane Hamilton - A Map of the World

Laurell K. Hamilton - Cerulean Sins

Laurell K. Hamilton - Seduced by Moonlight

Laurell K. Hamilton - A Stroke of Midnight

Sophie Hannah - Hurting Distance

Robert Harris - Lustrum

Mo Hayder - Gone (LIBRARY)

Melinda Haynes -Mother of Pearl

Alice Hoffman - Here on Earth

Paul Hoffman - The Left Hand of God

Wendy Holdon - Simply Divine

Peter James - Dead Man's Footsteps

Peter James - Dead Tomorrow

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Paul Johnston - The Death List

Spencer Jordan - Journeys in the Dead Season

Laura Kasischke - Be Mine

Will Kingdom - Mean Spirit

Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna

Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone

Caroline Leavitt - Maternal Instinct

Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island

A. Manette Ansay - Vinegar Hill

A. Manette Ansay - Sister

Peter Mandelson - The Third Man (LIBRARY)

Hilary Mantel - An Experiment in Love

Michael Marshall - Blood of Angels

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Ian McEwan - Saturday

Ian McEwan - Enduring Love

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Mary McGarry Morris - A Hole in the Universe

Andy McNab - Liberation Day

Stephenie Meyer - The Host

Jacquelyn Mitchard - A Theory of Relativity

Jacquelyn Mitchard - Twelve Times Blessed

Jacquelyn Mitchard - Cage of Stars

Toni Morrison - Paradise

Kate Mosse - Labyrinth

David Nobbs - Going Gently

Maggie O'Farrell - After you'd Gone

Charlie Owen - Horse's Arse

Iain Pears - Stone's Fall

Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

Sheila Quigley - Bad Moon Rising

Anna Quindlen - One True Thing

Anna Quindlen - Blessings

Sheri Reynolds - The Rapture of Canaan

Peter Robinson - Caedmon's Song

M.J. Rose - The Delilah Complex

Christina Schwartz - Drowning Ruth

Gerald Seymour - The Journeyman Tailor

Tom Sharpe - Porterhouse Blue

Tom Sharpe - The Midden

Tom Sharpe - Grantshester Grind

Anita Shreve - The Pilot's Wife

Karin Slaughter - Genesis (LIBRARY)

Martin Cruz Smith - Wolves Eat Dogs

Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Oliver Stark - American Devil

J.Randy Taraborrelli - Michael Jackson: The Magic and The Madness

Jane & Mike Tomlinson - The Luxury of Time

Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole Cappuccino Years

Minette Walters - Acid Row

Minette Walters - Fox Evil

Minette Walters - Disordered Minds

Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather

Michael White - Equinox

Lucie Whitehouse - The Bed I Made

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Wish List from 2009

 

Kate Atkinson - Case Histories

Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn

Michael Blastland - Joe The Only Boy in the World

Kevin Brockmeier - The Brief History of the Dead

Sylvia Brownrigg - The Delivery Room

Clare Chambers - In A Good Light

Jonathan Coe - The House of Sleep

Thomas H. Cook - Red Leaves

Catrin Dafydd - Random Deaths & Custard

Matthew D'ancona - Going East

Jenny Downham - Before I Die

Michel Faber - Under the Skin

Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects

Elena Forbes - Die With Me

Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze

Anna Gavalda - Hunting and Gathering

Lisa Gardner - The Neighbour

Tess Gerritsen - Girl Missing

Lucretia Grindle - The Faces of Angels

Virginia Ironside - No! I Don�t Want to Join a Bookclub

Reina James - This Time of Dying

Susanna Jones - The Missing Person�s Guide to Love

Simon Kernick - A Good Day to Die

Simon Kernick - The Business of Dying

Andrey Kurkov - A Matter of Death and Life

Simon Lewis - Bad Traffic

David Maine - The Flood

Simon Mawer - The Glass Room

Daniel T. Max - The Family That Couldn't Sleep

Pierre Peju - The Girl From The Chartreuse

Ray Robinson - Electricity

Claire Seeber - Lullaby

Nigel Smith - I Think There's Something Wrong With Me

Jonathan Trigell - Boy A

Jonathan Tropper - Bush Falls

Jonathan Tropper - How to Talk to a Widower

Sarah Waters - The Little Stranger

Neil White - Fallen Idols

Angela Young - Speaking of Love

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  • 2 weeks later...

I love to see people discussing books on TV so am enjoying the new TV Book Club show but it does mean my TBR pile from the library is growing! Really enjoyed Blacklands though and looking forward to the others. I love getting recommendations that I maybe wouldn't have picked up otherwise.

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I purchased Blacklands today...is it easy to read?

 

Yes I read it in a couple of days. I did find some parts a bit difficult and I wanted to get through them quickly (dealing with the child murders) but I will definitely read any future books by the author.

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Well after doing so well for the last couple of years just using the library and not buying many new books I have rewarded myself with lots of new purchases recently :rolleyes:

 

I am just in a phase where I need to be in bookshops to stroke all the books, then buy the books so TBR pile has grown again. Sigh... I also need to get reading more as I am seriously behind target of 60 books for the year. :readingtwo:

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