Last year I resolved to read two out of The Brothers Karamazov, Catcher in the Rye, In Search of Lost Time, Mrs Dalloway, Things Fall Apart and The Tin Drum and to finish both Don Quixote and Little Women. Well, I managed three from the top and one from the bottom. I am impressed with
‘s efforts on Proust; I resolve therefore either to read In Search of Lost Time, or else finish Don Quixote and read Catcher in the Rye and The Tin Drum.
Last year I resolved to read five out of A Clockwork Orange, The Space Merchants, A Princess of Mars, Tau Zero, Grey Lensman, Again, Dangerous Visions, The Female Man, Last and First Men, Deathbird, and DhalgrenThe Einstein Intersection, Rite of Passage, A Time of Changes, The Falling Woman, The Healer’s War, Stations of the Tide, and The Terminal Experiment – in fact I read them all.
Last year I resolved to read four more of the Time list of 25 must-read comics. I read only one and didn’t enjoy it. I resolve to read another two this year but also to find another list.
Last year I resolved to read a third of the books on my unread list. I came close but didn’t quite manage it (41 out of 135). I shall aim to read another third this year (my unread list is now up to 143). The unread books, in order of Librarything popularity (the ones in italics are only in my catalogue and nobody else’s), are:
The Art of War, Tzu, SunSourcery, Pratchett, TerryBlindness, Saramago, JoseGilead, Robinson, Marilynne
Quidditch through the ages, Rowling, J. K.The Mill on the Floss, Eliot, GeorgeWild Swans, Chang, JungThe Kalahari typing school for men, McCall Smith, AlexanderDhalgren, Delany, Samuel R.The full cupboard of life, McCall Smith, Alexander
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence, T. E.
The Prince of Tides, Conroy, Pat
Summerland, Chabon, MichaelOscar and Lucinda, Carey, PeterIn the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Smith, Alexander McCallSailing to Sarantium, Kay, Guy Gavriel
The pilgrim’s regress, Lewis, C. S
The Conquest of Gaul, Caesar, Julius
Abarat, Barker, CliveMcSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, The Book of Imaginary Beings, Borges, Jorge Luis
Harpist in the Wind, McKillip, Patricia A
Expiration Date, Powers, Tim
Postwar, Judt, Tony
The Duke And I, Quinn, Julia
Vellum, Duncan, Hal
The Atrocity Archives, Stross, Charles
The English, Paxman, Jeremy
The Road from Coorain, Conway, Jill Ker
The Owl Service, Garner, Alan
The Faded Sun Trilogy, Cherryh, C. J.
No great mischief, MacLeod, Alistair
The embarrassment of riches, Schama, Simon
The Ill-Made Mute, Dart-Thornton, Cecilia
The go-between, Hartley, L. P.
Resurrection, Tolstoy, LeoEarth is Room Enough, Asimov, IsaacTo Engineer Is Human, Petroski, Henry
The Cornelius Quartet, Moorcock, MichaelCity of Illusions, Le Guin, Ursula K.Peace, Wolfe, Gene
Teranesia, Egan, GregThe Happy Prince and Other Tales, Wilde, Oscar
Music & silence, Tremain, Rose
Great War Breakthroughs, Turtledove, HarrySpin State, Moriarty, Chris
Rocks of Ages, Gould, Stephen Jay
The seeds of time, Wyndham, JohnLast and first men, Stapledon, OlafIn Search of the Dark Ages, Wood, Michael
Between the Woods and the Water, Fermor, Patrick LeighThe Age of Kali, Dalrymple, William
Red Branch, Llywelyn, Morgan
The Child Garden, Ryman, Geoff
Misspent Youth, Hamilton, Peter F.
The Golden Transcendence, Wright, John C.
The Phoenix Exultant, Wright, John C.
Trillion year spree, Aldiss, Brian WilsonThree to see the king, Mills, MagnusVariable Star, Heinlein, Robert A.The Medieval Cookbook, Black, Maggie
Appleseed, Clute, John
Back Home, Magorian, Michelle
Daughters of Britannia, Hickman, Katie
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-Second Annual Collection,
National Lampoon’s Doon, Weiner, EllisWilt In Nowhere, Sharpe, TomWhite Crow, Gentle, MaryNo Present Like Time, Swainston, Steph
Cities of salt, Munif, Abd al-Rahman
Jennie, Gallico, Paul
The Devil’s Highway, Urrea, Luis AlbertoBlind Voices, Reamy, TomDoctor Who-Caves of Androzani, Dicks, Terrance
The Shore of Women, Sargent, PamelaThe Mabinogion, Gantz, Jeffrey
Seasons of Plenty, Greenland, ColinThe Druid King, Spinrad, NormanDoctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders, Dicks, TerranceDoctor Who-The Aztecs, Lucarotti, JohnDoctor Who and the Leisure Hive, Fisher, David
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century, Leonard, MarkDoctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters, Dicks, TerranceWhat Ifs? Of American History, Visions of Wonder, Hartwell, David G.Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin, Dicks, TerranceThe Search for Roots, Levi, Primo
The Wizard Knight, Wolfe, Gene
Earth Logic, Marks, Laurie J.
The Space Opera Renaissance, Hartwell, David G.The epic of Gilgamesh, George, A. R
Sunrise Alley, Asaro, Catherine
Fortunata and Jacinta, Galdos, Benito PerezMaster of Earth and Water, Paxson, Diana L.
Forbidden Acts, Collins, Nancy A.
Peter Abelard, Waddell, Helen
Wandering Stars, 800 Years of Womens Letters, Kenyon, Olga
Sacred Visions, Greeley, Andrew M.The Way to Babylon, Kearney, PaulGeorge and Sam, Moore, CharlotteMother of Plenty, Greenland, Colin
Astra and Flondrix, Cullen, SeamusOnce in a Blue Moon, Mills, Magnus“Interzone”: Anthology: 5th, The Secret Visitors, White, JamesThe Stories of Hans Christian Andersen, Analog 6, Campbell, John W (editor)
The Discovery of the Germ, Waller, John
The Mind of Mr. Soames, Maine, Charles Eric
Shadowkings, Cobley, MichaelThe Nobel Prize, Feldman, BurtonThe Stories of Elizabeth Spencer, Spencer, Elizabeth
Hotel Rwanda,
England’s Troubles, Scott, Jonathan
Radical Islams Rules, Marshall, PaulAfter Dinner Speaking, Boom, FawcettThe True Knowledge of Ken MacLeod,
Kosova Express, Pettifer, James
The Enchanted Isles, Flynn, K.C.Military Operations Macedonia, Falls, Captain Cyril
The Prisoner of Chillon, Kelly, James Patrick
Endgame in Ireland, Mallie, EamonnIslam in Azerbaijan, Yunusov, Arif
Science Fiction and Postmodern Fiction, Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara
Dreams of the Compass Rose [Extended Excerpt], Nazarian, VeraAthens-Skopje: An Uneasy Symbiosis, Kofos, Evangelos
Μακεδονία (Macedonia): A Greek Name in Modern Usage,
Democratisation in Southeast Europe: An Introduction to Election Issues, Pavlovic, Dusan
The Bessarabian Question in Communist Historiography, Meurs, Wim P. Van
Liberal Democracy and Globalisation, Watson, Graham
Irish tales of terror, McGarry, Jim
Laserlicht, Teng, Tais
Thunderbirds Bumper Storybook: “The Uninvited”, “Brink of Disaster”, “Sun Probe”, “Atlantic Inferno”, Morris, DaveTalkback: The Unofficial and Unauthorised “Doctor Who” Interview Book: Sixties v. 1, The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might, Endgame in the Balkans: Regime Change, European Style, Pond, Elizabeth
Half-life of a Zealot, Hunt, SwaneeFrom Behind a Closed Door: Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising, Barton, Brian