Books I read in 2004

Oops I forgot:

43. Dubliners
44. To Kill A Mockingbird
45. Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

My first 50 are here.
I stopped keeping track after that, though I meant to at least write them down. That's my thought for this year, just write them down, with maybe a thumbs up/down, without a number in mind.

No authors listed, because I'm lazy:

Thank You for Not Reading
Distant Shore
Sgt. Rock
Killing the Buddha
Desperate Characters
Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
The Mommy Myth
As She Climbed Across the Table
Inamorata
The Epicure's Lament
Billy & Girl
The Bride Stripped Bare
What Makes a Man
Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
The Dante Club
Everything You Need
It's a Bird
Good Grief
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free
Alias (volumes 1-4)
100 Bullets (volumes 1 -5)
Lovecraft
Fables 1-3
Louis Riel
The Doctor's Wife
An Almost Perfect Moment
Epilepsy
Wrath of Angels
The Winshaw Legacy
What's the Matter with Kansas
Clyde Fans
Kavalier & Clay
Last Chance to Eat
The Golden Compass
Akira
The Abortion Myth
The Big Chill
Plot Against America
Too Weird for Ziggy
Trash Sex Magic
An Unfinished Season
Remember Me
Die Softly
Get Your War On 2
American Elf
Carnet de Voyage
Unlikely
Clumsy
Tearjerker
Into the Wild
How to be Lost
Persepolis 2
The Subtle Knife
Rent Girl
The Beast Trilogy
SPX 2004
Doing Time
The Man Who Ate Everything
Green River Running Red
Safe Area Gorazde
The Jungle
Bighead
Palestine
American Jesus
Here and Nowhere Else
Bone
Bricks & Mortar
5,000 Days Like This One
Cutty, One Rock
Clearing Land
Daughter of the Saints
Birchwood
Against Love

currently almost halfway with Mason and Dixon

liked:
the plague - albert camus
awopbobaloobopalopbamboom - nik cohn
call me the breeze - pat mccabe
fast food nation - eric schlosser
the odyssey - homer (trans. TE Lawrence)
non fiction - chuck palahniuk
perfect sound forever: the story of pavement - bob jovanovich
down and out in london and paris - george orwell
inside the whale and other essays - george orwell
that was then, this is now - se hinton
mainlines, blood feasts and bad taste - lester bangs
death and the penguin - andrey turkov
american tabloid - james ellroy
wide sargasso sea- jean rhys

disliked:
the sweet forever - george pelecanos
mussolini: my part in his downfall - spike milligan

and 'the middle mind' - curtis white

75 books Jessa! Cool!

i don't presently have a ruler available. or an erection, for that matter.

The Thin Man
Holes
Quimby the Mouse
Goodbye, Columbus
Beloved
The Liar
The Bogie Man
The First World War
The Sparrow
The Enchanted Castle
The Book of the New Sun
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Urth of the New Sun
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The League of Extraordinairy Gentlemen 2
American Pastoral
Baudolino
Unless
Madame Bovary
Flaubert's Parrot
Everything is Illuminated
Wonderland Avenue
Underground
The Ghost Writer
Zuckerman Unbound
The Anatomy Lesson
The Prague Orgy
The Corrections
Appleseed
Master Georgie
The Day of Creation
Tomorrow Stories (Book 2)
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Slippery Slope
In the Lake of the Woods
Stories of Your Life and Others
Changing Planes
Tom Strong (Book 3)
As She Climbed Across the Table
Terra Obscura
Be My Enemy
Komarr
The Restraint of Beasts
Shards of Honour
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Mezzanine
All the Names
Borders of Infinity
Barrayar
Cetaganda
Memory
Death and the Penguin
The Prince
A Civil Campaign
The Birthday of the World and other stories
Right Ho, Jeeves
The Elephant Vanishes
Yellow Dog
Ilium
In Search of Lost Time
Raw Spirit
Prince Caspian
The Silver Chair
The Code of the Woosters
The Horse and His Boy
Empire Falls
Pattern Recognition
The Siege of Krishnapur
The Rotters' Club
Mirror Dance
Falling Free
Diplomatic Immunity
Ethan of Athos
Libra
Family Matters
Sabbath's Theatre
Number9dream
The Naked and the Dead
Lux the Poet
The Fermata
As I Lay Dying
Ghostwritten
Beyond Belief
Post Office
The Grim Grotto
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (3)
Only Forward
The Counterlife
The Telling
Jennifer Government
The Star Fraction
I Capture the Castle
Light
Lolita
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Three to See The King
Palestine
Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation
Crime and Punishment
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
Much Obliged, Jeeves
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Our Gang
In Cold Blood
Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Cold Comfort Farm
Headlong
Ask the Dust
Border Crossing
The King Canute Crowd
Nemesis the Warlock: Death to All Aliens
Jane Eyre
The Chronoliths

How many have i forgotten?

46. The Misfits by Colin Wilson

I see (where) Ray's list includes In Search Of Lost Time.

I think I had better quit this thread while I'm behind.

116 books Ray :-O what do you do?

He reads and also reads but still he gets time to read and despite all this he somehow reads.
What do you think he does?

A lot of good…
The Whole Story and Other Stories – Ali Smith
Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier – ed. Boris Fishman
The Red Passport – Katherine Shonk
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
The Slynx – Tatyana Tolstaya
Colossus of New York – Colson Whitehead
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Old School – Tobias Wolff
The Dogs of Riga – Henning Mankell
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Where You’re At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet – Patrick Neate
Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynn Truss
Româniòð – Dace Rukðâne
The Winter Queen – Boris Akunin
What A Carve Up! or The Winshaw Legacy – Jonathan Coe
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
McSweeney’s 13 – ed. Chris Ware
Man and Wife – Tony Parsons
Brass – Helen Walsh
Cold Water – Gwendoline Riley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Tender Is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald (half)
If on a winter’s night a traveler – Italo Calvino
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Pastoralia – George Saunders
Sick Notes – Gwendoline Riley
A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
Dance, Dance, Dance – Haruki Murakami
Snow – Orhan Pamuk (half)
Stum Stum – Andra Neiburga
A School for Fools – Sasha Sokolov (half)
The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
Murder on the Leviathan – Boris Akunin
Death and the Penguin – Andrey Kurkov
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
…and some short stories by Flannery O’Connor

And some not so good…
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Rule of Four – Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason

Yes, I quit, all right.

Fred is dumb
Fred is dumb
Fred is so dumb :p
I find him so dumb!

Lads, the lists are only any good if we know which ones you liked and which ones you didn't. This means you, Robo Ray.

Didn't like:
Peter Carey - My Life as a Fake
Donald Antrim - The Verificationist
Someone whose name I've forgotten - Speranza (a biography of Lady Wilde)
Cecilia Ahern - PS I Love You
Charles Johnson - The Middle Passage
Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
Bill Bryson - Mother Tongue
Tom Holt - Overtime

Guiltily liked:
Ben Elton - Popcorn
Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

Liked:
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Maeve Brennan - The Visitor
Anne Tyler - Earthly Possessions
Robert Harris - Pompeii
Simon Winchester - Krakatoa
Brian Cathcart - The Fly in the Cathedral
Anne Tyler - Morgan's Passing
Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair
Glyn Williams - Voyages of Delusion (The Search for the Northwest Passage in the Age of Enlightenment)
Damien Owens - Matthew's Mark
Roddy Doyle - Rory and Ita
Deborah Moggach - Smile
Deborah Moggach - A Quiet Drink
Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds
James Lee Burke - Purple Cane Road
Barry Unsworth - Losing Nelson
Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Michael Pye - The Drowning Room

Really Liked:
Patrick O'Brian - Blue at the Mizzen
Al Franken - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Lorna Sage - Bad Blood
Roy Porter - Enlightenment
Peter Quinn - Banished Children of Eve
Simon Worrall - The Poet and the Murderer
DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
Douglas Coupland - Hey, Nostradamus
Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed
Geoff Dyer - The Colour of Memory
Mary Renault - Fire from Heaven
Mary Renault - The Persian Boy
Jamie O'Neill - At Swim, Two Boys
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Redmond O'Hanlon - Trawler
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude
Darren King - Jim Giraffe

I've started so I'll finish (eventually, some day):
RF Foster - Modern Ireland
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

I've started and won't finish:
Bob Dylan - Chronicles, Volume One

The impressive thing (for me) about that list is not that I did manage to read fifty books, but that so many of them were good and worth reading, and that I was able to buy almost all of them out of my own shop. Hooray!

Not so good:
Among the Gently Mad
City Life
Watson's Apology
The Diaries of Adrian Mole
The Tulip
Angels and Demons
The End of Privacy

Good enough:
They Hanged My Saintly Billy
Omens of the Millennium
Beyond Belief
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Brick Lane
Beard on Food
Flatland
Devil in the White City
An Awfully Big Adventure
The Bottle Factory Outing
Marlon Brando (Penguin Lives)
The Spiral Staircase
Small Things Considered
God's Secretaries
Bringing Down the House
The Dressmaker
Young Adolf
Carry On, Jeeves
The Catsitters

Brain candy:
Kalahari Typing School for Men
Night Watch
Small Gods
Thief of Time
Mort
Lords and Ladies
Lost in a Good Book
Guards! Guards!
Emperor: The Gates of Rome
Jello: A Biography

So good:
Kafka Was the Rage - Anatole Broyard
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
The Book of J - Harold Bloom
Intoxicated by My Illness - Anatole Broyard
Angels on Toast - Dawn Powell
The Wicked Pavilion - Dawn Powell
The Golden Spur - Dawn Powell
Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
Murther & Walking Spirits - Robertson Davies
The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lighthousekeeping - Jeannette Winterson
The City and the Pillar - Gore Vidal
Continent - Jim Crace
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Sijie Dai
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford
A History of God - Karen Armstrong
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies - Ian Buruma
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Dreaming War - Gore Vidal
Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight - Alexandra Fuller
A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel
Creation - Gore Vidal

Short reviews of most are here.

zedex I'm glad I could influence you.

Read and Finished:

Love All The People
The Labyrinth Makers
Fatherland
Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction
ASOUE: The Reptile Room
Of Mice and Men
Slaughterhouse Five
Fast Food Nation
The Star Fraction
Stalingrad
Master and Commander
The Da Vinci Code
The Bible: A Very Short Introduction

I started but did not finish:

Underworld
Pattern Recognition

I think I'll step away from any ruler antics.

My secret reading-a-lot skills include being a fast reader, spending at least an hour a day on the bus, watching very little TV, and doing all my Internet stuff at work. There are reviews of some of last year's books here http://oldrottenhat.typepad.com/oldrottenhat/2004/12/index.html , the quick categories are

Good
(everything except)

Bad
The Liar; The Sparrow; Baudolino; Appleseed; Light

'Interesting' (which usually means good, but sometimes in a 'I doubt I'll ever re-read it, or read anything else by that author' way)
The Thin Man; Beloved; Madame Bovary; The Prince; As I Lay Dying; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (3); Jane Eyre

No strong feelings
Flaubert's Parrot; Wonderland Avenue; Master Georgie; In the Lake of the Woods; As She Climbed Across the Table; Terra Obscura; Be My Enemy; All the Names; Death and the Penguin; Raw Spirit; Prince Caspian; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; Libra; Beyond Belief; Post Office; Ask the Dust; The Grim Grotto

I didn't keep a record. Of this or anything else.

The lists by the likes of Accentmonkey flabbergast me still. That is: I cannot believe how much you folk read.

Also, she has now decided that she liked AS2B!

I never said I didn't like it. I just think it's over-rated, is all.

Also, AS2B makes it look scarily like some kind of internetworking protocol.

I couldn't even figure out what it was until just now.

ha, i knew my list was going to be useful some time:

Feersum Endjinn
Virtual Light
Idoru
All Tomorrow's Parties
Do Androids Dream...?
Absolution Gap
Martian Chronicles
Altered Carbon
Consider Phlebus
Diamond Dogs & Turquoise Days
Utopia
Ender's Game
I Robot
The Rest Of The Robots
Masters Of Doom (the history of Id Software)

spot the theme...

(didn't really enjoy either of the Banks' or Altered Carbon)

fred

ur glad?
im glad you proved it!

shutup zedex

gutless loser

Palomar, by Gilbert Hernandez
Roughing It, by Mark Twain
The Big Con, by David W. Mauer
Live from New York, by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
Dear Mr. President, by Gave Hudson
True History of the Ned Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, by Oliver Sacks
The Contortionist's Handbook, by Craig Clevenger
The Biggest Game in Town, by A. Alvarez
The Professor & the Madman, by Simon Winchester
The Book of Illusions, by Paul Auster
Of Love and Other Demons, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On the Yard, by Malcolm Braly
Kiss Me, Judas, by Will Christopher Baer
Empires of Light, by Jill Jonnes
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Word Freak, by Stefan Fatsis
Mysteries of Pittsburgh, by Michael Chabon
Mysteries, by Knut Hamsun
Dear Bunny, Dear Voldya, the Nabokov-Wilson Letters, ed. Simon Karlinsky
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
Timoleon Vieta Come Home, by Dan Rhodes
Transparent Things, by Vladimir Nabokov
The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster
The Poet, by Michael Connelly
Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Burning Chrome, by Wm. Gibson
The Wapshot Chronicle, by John Cheever
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, by Lawrence Weschler
Not Even Wrong, by Paul Collins
Maigret in Holland, by Georges Simenon
Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosly
How to be Alone, by Jonathan Franzen
The Wapshot Scandal, by John Cheever
Fury, by Salman Rushdie
Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre
The Underground Man, by Russ MacDonald
Cash, by Johnny Cash
The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
The Coast of Chicago, by Stuart Dybek
The Secret Goldfish, by David Means
Chronicles, Vol. 1, by Bob Dylan
Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
Oaxaca Journal, by Oliver Sacks
No Plot? No Problem, by Chris Baty
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Hip: The History, by John Leland
Sixpence House, by Paul Collins

haha zedex

HAHA fred

My list, only the ones I felt were worth finishing. Noteworthy books are marked. Bear in mind my wife and I had our first baby in May, and I managed to train for and finish the Seattle (half)Marathon in November. So there.
Nonfiction:
*Imagining Numbers -- Barry Mazur
What Counts -- Brain Butterworth
The Meaning of Everything -- Simon Winchester
Postively 5th St. -- James McManus
the Elegant Universe -- Brian Green
Scribbling the Cat -- Alexandra Fuller
*Annals of the Former World -- John McPhee
Roadside Geology of Washington
Metaphors We Live By -- George Lakoff
Limits of Interpretation -- Umberto Eco
The Code Book -- Simon Singh
Plague -- Cynthia Orentz

Fiction:
the Hobbit
Lucky Jim -- Kingsly Amis
Mr. Midshipman Easy -- Francis Marryat
The Narrow Corner -- W.S. Maugham
The Thought Gang -- Tibor Fischer
*The Razor's Edge -- W.S. Maugham
Thinks -- David Lodge
Broken Angels -- Richard K Morgan
Three Men In a Boat -- Jerome K Jerome
Girls -- Nic Kelman
Quicksilver -- Neil Stephenson
*Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell
All in all a good year. reading Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell now.

Finished:
Ordinary People, Judith Guest
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lovely
The Long Goodbye
The High Window
The Little Sister
The Essential Earthman, Henry Mitchell
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Love in the Asylum, Lisa Carey
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford

Dabbled:
The Complete Works of Saki
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler, ed. Frank McShane
Collected Stories of Somerset Maugham
One Man's Garden, Henry Mitchell
Henry Mitchell on Gardening
William Faulkner: His Life and Work, David Minter

Abandoned:
Treason's Harbor, Patrick O'Brian
The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. Conan Doyle
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Light in August, William Faulkner (too grim at the time-will go back to this year)