- sf, in order of entry onto my LibraryThing catalogue (The Wizard Knight, Visions of Wonder).
- Thunderbirds Bumper Storybook by Dave Morris
- Analog 6 ed. John W. Campbell
- Earth Logic by Laurie J. Marks
- The Space Opera Renaissance, ed. David G. Hartwell
- Irish Tales of Terror, ed. Peter Haining
- sf, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole (Faust, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents).
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
- The Book of Lost Tales 1 by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
- Kushiel’s Justice by Jacqueline Carey
- sf, as owned by me before start of this year and previously read by my livejournal f-list (Diaspora, A Wizard Abroad).
- Ten Thousand Light Years From Home, by James Tiptree Jr
- The Sharing Knife by Lois Mcmaster Bujold
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
- Powers by Ursula Le Guin
- Ha’penny by Jo Walton
- fiction other than sf, in order of entry onto my LibraryThing catalogue (A Town Like Alice, The Shell Seekers, The Sun Also Rises).
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
- The Onion’s Our Dumb World: 73rd Edition: Atlas of the Planet Earth by The Onion
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- fiction other than sf, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, The Dubliners).
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- fiction other than sf, as owned by me before start of this year and previously read by my livejournal f-list (Oliver Twist, The Dubliners, Silas Marner, A Farewell To Arms).
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- non-fiction, in order of entry onto my LibraryThing catalogue (Faith in Europe?).
- The Great Tradition by F.R. Leavis
- The Case for Global Democracy by Graham Watson
- The Space Race by Deborah Cadbury
- Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass
- Toujours Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinod
- non-fiction, in order of popularity on LibraryThing as a whole (The Stuff of Thought, The Bookseller of Kabul, The Great Transformation).
- Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
- Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
- Race of a Lifetime by Mark Halperin
- Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
- The Bible: The Biography by Karen Armstrong
- non-fiction, as owned by me before start of this year and previously read by my livejournal f-list (Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia).
- The IRA: A History by Tim Pat Coogan
- Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie
- Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton
- Rebus’s Scotland: A Personal Journey by Ian Rankin
- The Great Tradition by F.R. Leavis
- books I have already read but haven’t reviewed on-line, ranked by LT popularity (Northern Lights, Frankenstein).
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Hugo-award winning novels which I haven’t previously reviewed on-line, in order of winning the award (A Fire Upon The Deep, Green Mars, Blue Mars).
- Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis
Switch to Nebula winning novels which I haven’t previously reviewed on-line, in order of winning the award
- Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
- Timescape by Gregory Benford
- unread New Adventures of Doctor Who in order (Highest Science, The Pit)
- Deceit by Peter Darvill-Evans
- Lucifer Rising by Jim Mortimore
- White Darkness by David A. McIntee
- Shadowmind by Christopher Bulis
- Birthright by Nigel Robinson
- unread Eighth Doctor Adventures in order (Longest Day, Legacy of the Daleks, Dreamstone Moon)
- Seeing I by Jonathan Blum
- Placebo Effect by Gary Russell
- Vanderdeken’s Children by Christopher Bulis
- The Scarlet Empress by Paul Magrs
- The Janus Conjunction by Trevor Baxendale
- other unread New Who books, in order of LibraryThing popularity (list description changed – see list v) (Wishing Well, Martha in the Mirror, The Story of Martha).
- The Many Hands by Dale Smith
- Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter by Russell T. Davies
- Revenge of the Judoon by Terrance Dicks
- Doctor Who: Aliens And Enemies by Justin Richards
- Judgement Of The Judoon by Colin Brake
- Ian Rankin’s Rebus books, in internal chronological order (Dead Souls, Set in Darkness).
- The Falls
- Resurrection Men
- A Question of Blood
- Fleshmarket Close
- The Naming of the Dead
- books by writers of colour, in order of entry into LibraryThing (Soul Mountain, With The Light… #2, Ake: The Years of Childhood).
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- With the Light… Raising an Autistic Child v. 3) by Keiko Tobe
- The Mahabharata
- RG Veda Volume 3 by Clamp
- The Essential Rumi
- books on the shelves at end 2005, otherwise not accounted for, going backwards in LT entry order (Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander).
- For Noble Purposes: The Autobiography of Richard Porter, Surgeon and Evangelist by William Porter
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
- Brave New Kosovo: A World of Transformation and Imagination by Dirk-Jan Visser
- The Alexiad by Anna Comnena
- books acquired since end 2005, otherwise not accounted for, in LT entry order (Unfinest Hour).
- The Cyprus question and the EU : the challenge and the promise by Andreas Theophanous
- Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflict
- The Garden Designer by Robin Williams
- Science and the Garden
- The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
- books by women, in reverse order of acquisition (obviously this gets revised every time I acquire a book by a female writer) (The King’s Dragon, Fallen Gods)
- Blue Box by Kate Orman
- Dear Old Dead by Jane Haddam
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
- The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett
- A Crocodile in the Fernery: An A-Z of Animals in the Garden by Twigs Way
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s History of Middle-Earth (not started yet)
- The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1
- The Book of Lost Tales, Part 2
- The Lays of Beleriand
- The Shaping of Middle-Earth
- The Lost Road and Other Writings
- Books relating to sixteenth century Ireland, in order of acquisition (A Viceroy’s Vindication? Sir Henry Sidney’s Memoir of Service in Ireland, 1556-78, Mistress Blanche: Queen Elizabeth I’s Confidante):
- Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603: English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule by Steven G. Ellis
- Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford
- Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History by Lytton Strachey
- Elizabeth I by C. Haigh
- Elizabeth’s Irish Wars by Cyril Falls
- Spenser’s The Faerie Queen – A Selection of Critical Essays ed. by Peter C. Bayley
- Old Who books not otherwise accounted for, in order of LT popularity (split off from list n) (Festival of Death)
- The Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton
- System Shock by Justin Richards
- Matrix by Robert Perry
- Short Trips
- Short Trips and Side Steps
Plus, as ever, whatever takes my fancy when I glance at the shelves.
I believe it was hated by a number of people with autism, and parents of same. Is it a fictional condition? Then why the autism in the title? I think some objected because they saw it as an exploitation of autism to garner sympathy/votes/whatever.
I was annoyed by the bad science. Glass doesn’t flow. And it’s a science fiction award, for gods sakes. And if I had to give up glass flowing so should everyone else!
And frankly, aside from Homecoming, everything else was so much better.