what all did you read in 2012

i kept a list or else i forget like a wk after reading

jen egan - the keep; look at me
didion - the year of magical thinking; blue nights
delillo - teh angel esmerelda
capote & frank + elanor perry - trilogy
helen dewitt - lightning rods
ben marcus - the flame alphabet
michael lewis - the new new thing
houellebecq - the map & the territory
kevin moffett - interpretations of real life events
updike - bech: a book
ballard - the atrocity exhibition
john jerimiah sullivan - pulphead
tom perrotta - election
steven bach - final cut
richard ford - wildlife
fitzgerald - the great gatsby
biskind - easy riders, raging bulls
jess walter - beautiful ruins
james b stewart - disneywar
vonnegut - cat's cradle
tracy daugherty - hiding man: bio of barthleme
robert jay lifton - destroying the world to save it
keith richards bio
steve jobs bio
dfw bio
alex cox - x films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker
tom wolfe - i am charlotte simmons
eggers - a hologram for the king
p roth - the professor of desire
barthleme - the dead father
greg king - sharon tate and the manson murders
david harris - the league: the rise and fall of the nfl

Plenty of good stuff, but The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson and catching up with Geoff Dyer were high points.

I really can't remember, even tho 'not a lot' is one answer to this question. But it started with Daniel Deronda and has finished with Romola, and had a lot of Browning around spring time, so I hereby declare George Eliot my novelist and Robert Browning my poet of the year.

Resolution for next year - read more.

~ 25 SF paperbacks back in the summer was the highlight.

One not so obvious highlight was Bolano's Antwerp and several Henry James novels. The reading failure was László Krasznahorkai's Satantago for the ILB book club and not getting started on The Golden Bowl. Not the right week for either.

Re-read highlights were The Guermantes Way and Correction.

I will finish the year by reading The Criminal by Jim Thompson. Cracking, late 2nd hand find.

I ought to keep track of this. I know I really ought to. But I don't. My life is so much the poorer.

My porous memory recalls these books:

A History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Adams
Ten Days That Shook the World, John Reed
The Pale King, David Foster Wallace
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer
The Laxdaela Saga

...and some others I can't recall atm. I'd have to mine the WAYR threads to get at them.

i also kept a list:

China Mieville, Kraken
Ben Ehrenreich, Ether
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
Jennifer Egan, The Keep
Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
Margaret Atwood, I’m Starved for You
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Tom Bissell, Magic Hours
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
David Grann, The Lost City of Z
Margaret Atwood, Choke Collar
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
David Byrne, How Music Works
Michael Sheehan, Proposals for the Recovery of the Apparently Drowned (dope debut collection of stories on a small press, i hope people check it out)
Adam Levin, The Instructions (still reading)

didn't keep a list, but just off the top of my head:

remains of the day - ishiguro
the fault in our stars - john green
the doors - greil marcus
joy in the morning - wodehouse
concrete island - ballard
the inheritors - golding
lord of the flies - golding
cassandra at the wedding - dorothy baker
40 stories - chekhov
supposedly fun thing - DFW
decline and fall - gibbon (still reading, like 200 pages in)
bernice bobs her hair and other stories - FSF
lincoln - gore vidal
the long secret - louise fitzhugh
lincoln: president-elect - harold holzer

all of you don't like foreign literature much,ah?

lol, I've spent most of the last 3 years reading Euro and South American lit!

every year i resolve to keep track and then i stop bothering

i never really noticed how amurrican centric my habits are. at least i read houellebecq & the keef bio hah

i am effectively blind to contemporary fiction of any nation. i know this is stupid of me, but i have little or no sympathy for the world i live in.

except foe the nation you live in?

huysmans - la bas
böll - end of a mission
lacarriere - the gnostics
queneau - the last days

if i didn't miss anything, it comes down to those: (*=recommended)

Grass - dog years
Coetzee - Summertime, waiting for the barbarians*
Conrad - Lord Jim*
Roth - Indignation
Heller - something happened*
Calvino - invisible cities,cosmocomics,american lessons*
Arenas - Singing from the Well*
Prouse - search of lost time vol. 4*
Duras - the war*
Saramago - cain
Dulat Abadi - the colonel
Villa matas - Dublinesque
Brnes - sense of an ending
O'cconor - everything that rises must converge*
Lidia Jorje - we shall fight the shadows
Delillo - Angel Esmeralda*
Turgenev - torrents is spring
Nabokov - Sebastian Knight+Pnin
Roth - ghost writer, counterlife*
Franzen - corrections
Bernhard - woodcutters*
Hofstader - godel,escher,bach*
Stendhal- the chatterhouse of parma*
Simenon - dirty snow
Saramago - gospel accoring to jesus*
Virginia Woolf - orlando*

Here's my file. I have a personal ratings scale that doesn't make much sense and which can be ignored.

fiction/genre
Clarke - 2001								3
Lem - Solaris (2011 Johnston trans.)					5
Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan						4
Niven - Ringworld							2
Pullman - The Subtle Knife (1997)					3
Chiang - Stories of your life and others (2002)				7
Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch				4
Dick - The Man in the High Castle					6
Dick - Valis								2
Christie - Sleeping Murder						3
Christie - The Hollow							1
Fleming - Casino Royale							1
Le Carré - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold				7
Follett - The Key to Rebecca						3
Carr [as Dickson] - The Judas Window					4
Carr - The Burning Court						5
Carr - Death Turns the Tables						3
Carr - The Blind Barber 						3
Carr - To Wake the Dead 						2
Berkeley - The Poisoned Chocolates Case					8
Berkeley - Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery			2
Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes				4
Bradbury - The Stories of Ray Bradbury					6
Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes				6
Haldeman - Forever Peace						6
Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids					2
Pohl - The Gateway Trip							2
King - Night Shift							6
Lethem - Amnesia Moon							3
Lethem - As She Climbed Across the Table				4
Robinson - Red Mars							3
Le Guin - The Dispossessed						6
Le Guin - The Farthest Shore (currently reading)
fiction/literary
Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty (2004)				6
O'Neill - Netherland (2008)						3
Grossman - The Magicians (2009)						5
Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich			3
Calvino - Invisible Cities						5
Chabon - Telegraph Avenue (2012)					4
Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49						3
nonfiction
Feynman - Six Easy Pieces						4
Reitman - Inside Scientology (2011)					5
Jay - Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women					7
Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information			5
Ross - The Rest is Noise (2007)						4
Fey - Bossypants audiobook (2011)					4
Gardner - My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles			-
Carter - The War for Late Night (2010)					2
Smith - The One: The Life and Music of James Brown (2012)		7
King - Danse Macabre							5
Ronson - The Psychopath Test (2012)					3
Weingarten - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back		3	
Lethem - Fear of Music (2012)						3
	
comics
Brabner & Pekar - Our Cancer Year (1994)				4
Abel - La Perdida	(2008)						2
Thompson - Habibi	(2011)						4
Tezuka - Dororo								3
Mizuki - NonNonBa							4
Tatsumi - Black Blizzard						3
Bechdel - Are You My Mother? (2012)					3

except foe the nation you live in?

i would hardly call anything I read this year 'contemporary' fiction, no matter what nation it came from.

Lots of Russell Hoban

"The Great Gatsby" - F Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
"Great Expectations" - Charles Dickens (re-read)
"Zombie Spaceship Wasteland" - Patton Oswalt
"Quicksand" - Nella Larsen
"Rabbit Run" - John Updike (re-read)
"Song Of Solomon"- Toni Morrison
"Jude The Obscure" - Thomas Hardy
"Alan Clarke"- Richard Kelly
"Apocalypse Culture"- Adam Parfrey
"Buddy Does Seattle (The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from "Hate" Comics, Vol. I, 1990-94)” – Peter Bagge
"The Ginger Man" - JP Donleavy
"Alan Clarke: the television series" - Dave Rolinson
"Try" - Dennis Cooper
"Days of Heaven" - Declan Lynch
"Howards End" - EM Forster
"Panther in the Basement" - Amos Oz
"Women In Love" - DH Lawrence
"British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit" - Samantha Lay
"Murder in Memoriam" - Didier Daeninckx
"An Unfinished Business" - Boualem Sansal
“Good Morning Midnight” – Jean Rhys

"Song Of Solomon"- Toni Morrison
"Jude The Obscure" - Thomas Hardy

forgot those two!

Didn't keep track of what I read this year, but thinking back on the year, I honestly think the book I enjoyed the most was Alice Echols' Hot Stuff.

OK, I went back and satisfied my curiosity about the books I've read this year, by mining the "what are you reading" threads. This is a much more complete listing:

A History of the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, by Henry Adams
Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed
The Pale King, by David Foster Wallace
Alice in Wonderland & Alice's Adventures Throught the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer
The Laxdaela Saga
The Man in the High Castle, Philip Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip Dick
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
From Heaven Lake, by Vikram Seth
The Periodic Kingdom, by P.W. Atkins
Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis
Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut
Call for the Dead, by John LeCarre
The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Mountain City, by Gregory Martin
Master of the Senate, by Robert Caro
The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius
The Ecstasy of Influence, by Jonathan Lethem
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
The Locusts Have No King, by Dawn Powell
The Ballad of Peckham Rye, by Muriel Spark
The Guide, by R.K. Narayan
Gun With Occasional Music, by J. Lethem
The End & The Expelled, 2 novellas by Samuel Beckett
The Proud Tower, by Barbara Tuchman
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, by DFW
Revelations, by Elaine Pagels
Temple of Texts, by William Gass
The Polysyllabic Spree, by Nick Hornby
Memento Mori, by Muriel Spark
Six Records of a Floating Life, by Shen Fu
Skywalker: Ups and Downs on the PCT, by Bill Walker
Everything and More, by David Foster Wallace
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (1818 version)
Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Burning Fence: A Western Memoir of Fatherhood, by Craig Lesley
Bouvard and Pecuchet, by Gustave Flaubert

From "what books are you looking forward to coming out in 2012?"

Geoffrey Hill, Collected Poems 1952–2012
Kyle Gann, biography of Robert Ashley

― alimosina, Thursday, 5 January 2012 02:24 (11 months ago) Permalink

Also waiting for Gene Wolfe's The Land Across, but don't have a date for it.

― alimosina, Thursday, 5 January 2012 16:51 (11 months ago) Permalink

The Hill and Wolfe haven't appeared yet. The Gann was published this month, so I got it in under the wire.

32 books for the year. Pretty pathetic.

Only if they were pathetic books. If it were all about how many pages you can boast of, then 'speed readers' would rule the roost and we'd most of us be sinking into a hole of abject shame.

I read more books (17-ish) than I usually do per year, and some of them were long! I feel pretty good about it. No idea how people read 50+ books in a year.

a book a month is p good imo

OK, feeling better now. The books were pretty solid, and I read attentively. I'm no Harriet Klausner.

No idea how people read 50+ books in a year.

I cheat.

50+ books in a year = an hour of reading a day maybe for a lot of people? not that unfeasible altho far far more than i read

my concentration is shit and i very seldom have time alone so my reading-for-fun has been v. sparse

This is the first year I've read around a book a week. It helps that I don't have a job.

i would probably read more books if i didnt spend so much time faffing about on t'internet tbh

i kept a sloppy and somewhat inaccurate list, it includes some stuff that i had read before but not all the stuff i reread because i changed my mind about the policy a couple of times. i feel like there are some fantasy novels missing but they probably werent that good

carpenter - hard rain falling
carr - a month in the country
cossery - proud beggars
edwards - the book of ebenezer le page
gautier - my fantoms
goodman - growing up absurd
hughes - in hazard
papadiamantis - the murderess
queneau - we always treat our women too well
salih - season of migration to the north
serge - conquered city
sheckley - store of the worlds collection
stafford - the mountain lion
tolstaya - the slynx
von rezzori - an ermine in czernopol, snows of yesteryear
williams - butcher's crossing

adan - the cardboard house
aira - varamo
austen - persuasian, sense x2, mansfield park
bolt - a man for all seasons
bolano - the third policeman, savage detectives
broch - the sleepwalkers
didion - blue nights, we tell ourselves stories in order to live, year of magical thinking
delilo - underworld
filloy - op oloop
fitzgerald - gatsby, tender is the night, flappers and philosophers, beautiful and damned
gide - the immoralist
heti - how should a person be?
mantel - wolf hall, bringing up the bodies
munro - dear life
musil - the man w/o qualities
orwell - road to wigan pier
st. auybn - the patrick melrose novels
sebald - vertigo
smith - nw
tilghman - the right-hand shore

abercrombie - red country
asprin (ed.) - thieves world collections 1-9
beaulieu - the winds of khalakovo, the straits of galahesh
bell - strange epiphanies
cronin - the twelve
harkaway - angelmaker
hurley - god's war, infidel
ligotti - dead dreamer
mieville - railsea
sanderson - the way of kings
stephenson - cryptonomicon, reamde
tregillis - the coldest war
weiss & hickman - darksword trilogy, dragonlance trilogy

dragonlance trilogy

lulz

bolano - the third policeman

need this

man, i gotta leave academia so i can read again.

i don't know what i read this year. thoreau (walden, journal), rilke (elegies, new poems), delillo, david simon, bernard williams, bit of hilary mantel, dickinson, herder, nietzsche, la rochefoucauld, la bruyere, harry frankfurt, lawrence buell ('the environmental imagination', v. impressive), charles taylor, bit of henry staten, bit of eli friedlander, bit of creeley, stanley cavell, stephen mulhall, scattering of books on environmental ethics and animal ethics and plain old ethics, bit of john holloway, celan, muir, sharon cameron, jane bennett, michael kochin, jessica berry, cheryl strayed, wcw, chris kraus, dogen, renard, petrarch, gary snyder, richard sennett, bit of philip kerr. reread some pynchon the other day.

little all the way through.

i think i read more stephen king than anything else this year and i'm not quite sure how to feel about that.

In order, best to worst:

1. The Power And The Glory - Graham Greene
2. Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
3. The Second World War - Antony Beevor
4. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro
5. The Angel Esmeralda - Don DeLillo
6. Mission To Paris - Alan Furst
7. My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes - Gary Imlach
8. Letting Go - Philip Roth
9. The Hillsborough Report
10. When She Was Good - Philip Roth
11. Crash - JG Ballard
12. The Stones - Philip Norman
13. Running Dog - Don DeLillo
14. With Their Backs To The World - Åsne Seierstad
15. Just Kids - Patti Smith
16. Londoners - Craig Taylor
17. Goalkeepers Are Different - Brian Glanville
18. Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
19. Englischer Fußball - Raphael Honigstein
20. The Orange Girl - Jostein Gaarder
21. The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach
22. The Names - Don DeLillo
23. Home Game - Michael Lewis
24. The State of the Art - Iain M Banks

The Power And The Glory scores a 10; Men Without Women probably does too. Everything down to no.7 I recommend unreservedly; everything down to no.16 if you have an interest in its subject. 17 to 21 are fine. 22 is an oddity, I'd stick to the Greek story in Esmerelda personally. 23 is superlightweight but would pass an hour. Only 24 is a proper stinker; it has two decent stories, but loses all goodwill for the rest wasting so much of my time.

I got a copy of that book free with PC Gamer in 1999 or so.

The Puttermesser Papers -- Cynthia Ozick
Jar of Fools --Jason Lutes
Moby-Dick -- Herman Melville
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- James Joyce
Leaving the Atocha Station -- Ben Lerner
Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America -- Gustavo Arellano
Washington Square -- Henry James
Demons -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why Read Moby-Dick? -- Nathaniel Philbrick
Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars --Ben Chappell
Frankenstein --Mary Shelley
The Theory of the Novel -- Lukacs
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies -- Molly Haskell *
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship -- Goethe
Cleveland -- Harvey Pekar
The Public Burning -- Robert Coover *
The Magic Christian -- Terry Southern
Remainder -- Tom McCarthy
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -- Anita Loos *
Atet, A.D. -- Nathaniel Mackey
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler -- Italo Calvino
The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon
Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov *
Mumbo Jumbo -- Ishmael Reed *
No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous -- Trav S. D.
Poem Strip -- Dino Buzzati
Persepolis -- Marjane Satrapi
Grifter's Game -- Lawrence Block
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said -- Philip K. Dick
On Photography -- Susan Sontag
Erasure -- Percival Everett *
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read --Pierre Bayard
Bluebeard --Kurt Vonnegut
Mother Night --Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos -- Kurt Vonnegut
Deadeye Dick -- Kurt Vonnegut
1984 -- George Orwell
Jailbird -- Kurt Vonnegut
The Man Who Was Thursday -- G.K. Chesterton
Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
Role Models -- John Waters
American Born Chinese -- Gene Luen Yang
The Marbled Swarm -- Dennis Cooper
Horror Hospital Unplugged -- Dennis Cooper
The Adderal Diaries -- Stephen Elliott
U & I -- Nicholson Baker

And a lot of Shakespeare plays. A few others too, but that is most of them.
I *ed some I particularly enjoyed.

missing a fair bit of stuff, but this was my top-of-the-head summary (with c&p from ilb).

this thread has made me start a document named 'reading 2013'. i have remembered that my 2012 list was in the back of a notebook, but i don't remember which notebook.

also woof i thought you lived on tumblr these days

I can't make up my mind – I think I'm still most at home on that blog for longer things. Tumblr feels like I should post little bits, reblog or put up pictures. (None of which I ever actually do.) I might try to integrate a bit when I give the main place a facelift.

Books I read in 2012 (compiled from the ILB archives):

William Vollmann - Imperial
F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise
Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians
Larry McMurtry - Crazy Horse
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Erich Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
Walt Whitman - Specimen Days
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Freeman Dyson - Disturbing the Universe

These are the only ones I can remember. I omitted a bunch of parenting books.

Let the Great World Spin - McCann
The Voyage Out - Woolf
Moby Dick - Melville

Just the best stuff:

Gil Scott-Heron – The Last Holiday
Owen Hatherley – Uncommon
Nora Ephron – Heartburn
Philip Roth - Nemesis
Philip Roth – The Counterlife
Budd Schulberg – What Makes Sammy Run?
Sarah Waters – Affinity
Aldous Huxley – Crome Yellow
LP Hartley – The Go-Between
Alan Warner – The Stars in the Bright Sky
Jerzy Kozinski – Being There
Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention of Morel
Sinclair Lewis – It Can’t Happen Here
Patrick Hamilton – The Slaves of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem – Fear of Music
Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Sebastian Junger – The Perfect Storm
Lynn Barber – An Education
Stanley Booth – The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
JM Coetzee – Elizabeth Costello
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
Georges Simenon – The Yellow Dog
Graham Swift – Last Orders
Julian Barnes – The Porcupine
Richard Ford – Independence Day
Michael Frayn – Headlong
Pete Townshend – Who I Am
Kurt Vonnegut – Mother Night
Hunter S Thompson – Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72
David Remnick – The Bridge
Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart
F Scott Fitzgerald – This Side of Paradise
James Fearnley – Here Comes Everybody
Edward St Aubyn - Mother's Milk
Sylvie Simmons - I'm Your Man

Forgotten quite a few, but here's the most memorable ones:

Ludwig Lewisohn - The Case of Mr Crump
Thomas Mann - Felix Krull, Death In Venice
Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie
Theodor Fontane - Effi Briest
Chekhov - An Anonymous Story (twice, or maybe I first read it 2011)
Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl
Balzac - Le Pere Goriot
DH Lawrence - The Three Novellas, The Sea & Sardinia
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte - Villette
Maupassant - Une Vie
Elizabeth Mary Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret
W Somerset Maugham - The Magician
Stefan Zweig - Chess, Journey Into The Past
Anthony Trollope - Miss MacKenzie
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter, Blithedale Romance, House of the Seven Gables
George Eillot - Daniel Deronda, Scenes of Clerical Life, Mill On The Floss, Silas Marner, Adam Bede
Tim Parks - Teach Us To Sit Still
Tim Lott - The Scent of Dried Roses
George Moore - Esther Waters
May Sinclair - The Life & Death of Harriet Frean
HDF Kitto - The Greeks
Andre Gide - The Immoralist
Alain de Botton - The Consolations of Philiosophy
Eilas Canetti - Kafka's Other Trial
Simon Reynolds - Retromania
Rob Young - Electric Eden
Andy Kershaw - No Off Swith
Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road

Books read a fair bit of but not finished: The Marble Faun, Moby Dick, Doctor Faustus, A Sentimental Education. Will certainly try the last 3 again.

Tell me about The Slaves of Solitude. I had thought Patrick Hamilton was somebody else; it's only looking him up just now that I realise I once read his play Rope.

lots of us read 'this side of paradise' last year!

Slaves of Solitude is excellent. A must-read I think. Funny, bleak, excellent on boredom and bores, and England, and despair and hope. And hope gets rather more of a look-in in SoS than most of his others.

(Which are also must-reads).

Another shout out for The Slaves of Solitude. One of my very favourite books - I think I've read it 4 or 5 times.

I much preferred it to Hangover Square, which I found too misanthropic and one-note. Deft characterisation, sharp comedy and unexpected warmth. "Excellent on boredom and bores" is otm.

Agreed on Slaves.

dragonlance trilogy

lulz

bolano - the third policeman

need this

fuck both you guys

Lamp otm. If you read for pleasure, then pleasure is where you find it. Prestige is a stupid reason to read books.

Didn't keep a list, so this is from a quick glance over unordered bookshelves:
Memento Mori, Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark
The Last Hundred Days - Patrick McGuinness
Post-Everything - Luke Haines
Tremor of Intent - Anthony Burgess
The Age of Revolution - Eric Hobsbawm
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
Passage to India - EM Forster
The Siege of Krishnapur - J G Farrell
Joy in the Morning - PG Wodehouse
This isn't the sort of thing that happens to someone like you - Jon McGregor
Oscar & Lucinda - Peter Carey
Angelica Lost & Found - Russel Hoban.

About a book a month, which is pretty good for me.

probably think of a couple as soon as I post but here goes

Brian Kellow – Pauline Kael/A Life In The Dark
Jim Newton – Eisenhower: The White House Years
Janet Reitman – Inside Scientology
Jan Willem Van der Wetting – Street Bird
Michael Connelly – The Drop
Michael Connelly - The Fifth Witness
VS Naipaul – The Mask of Africa
JG Ballard – Day of Creation
Jan Willem Van der Wetting – The Japanese Corpse
Dava Sobel: A More Perfect Heaven
Jo Nesbo: Headhunters
Carl T Bogus - Buckley: WFB and The Rise of the American Conservatism
James Ellroy - Blood’s A Rover
Julian Barnes – Sense of an Ending
Saul Bellow – The Dean’s December
Saul Bellow – Some Die of Heartbreak
Vladimir Nabakov – Bend Sinister
Saul Bellow – Collected Stories
Geoffrey Kabaservice – Rule & Ruin
Vladimir Nabakov – The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Henning Mankell – The Shadow Girls
Henning Mankell – Italian Shoes
Greil Marcus – The Doors
Will Hermes – Love Goes To Building On Fire
RJ Smith – James Brown: The One
Robert A Caro – The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power
Allan Bullock – Hitler: A Study In Tyranny
Mario Vargas Llosa – The Time of The Hero
John Le Carre – Tinker Tailor Soldier Soy
Mario Vargas Llosa – Conversation in the Cathedral
Mario Vargas Llosa – In Praise of the Stepmother
George V Higgins – The Digger’s Game
George V Higgins – Coogan’s Bluff
Martin Amis – Lionel Asbo
Ian MacEwan – Sweet Tooth
Salman Rushdie – Joseph Anton
Cynthia Carr – Fire in the Belly: the Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
Pete Townshend – Who I Am
Leanne Shapton – Swimming Studies
Shiva Naipaul – Love and Death in a Hot Country
Oliver Sacks – Hallucinations

Haha I meant Cogan's Trade by Geo V Higgins - Coogan's Bluff is a Clint Eastwood movie. Also read Nile Rodger's memoir, really one of the best rockstar reminiscences

two more I forgot:

Mario Vargas Llosa - The Green House
Dominic Sandbrook - Mad as Hell

Lamp otm. If you read for pleasure, then pleasure is where you find it. Prestige is a stupid reason to read books.

lamp reading dragonlance in 2012 is a bit like that david lodge novel where the english professor admits he never finished hamlet

shit, the annotated edition is out of print

the annotated dragonlance?!

what you don't have that one?

does it include the corrections from the variorum critical edition!?!

j have u read dragonlance this question is urgent and key