List of the 54 books I had marked as unread on 31 December 2006, which I did not already own at the end of 2005 (which were accounted for previously), in the order that I read them; with links to my write-ups, size according to how much I liked them and struck through if I couldn’t finish them.
Sourcery, Terry Pratchett
The Secret Visitors, James White
To Engineer Is Human, Henry Petroski
From Behind a Closed Door: Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising, Brian Barton
Variable Star, Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson
Endgame in the Balkans: Regime Change, European Style, Elizabeth Pond
The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges
Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters, Terrance Dicks
Military Operations Macedonia, Captain Cyril Falls
Doctor Who – The Aztecs, John Lucarotti
No Present Like Time, Steph Swainston
George and Sam, Charlotte Moore
McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, ed. Michael Chabon
The Medieval Cookbook, Maggie Black
The Mind of Mr. Soames, Charles Eric Maine
The Nobel Prize, Burton Feldman
Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A McKillip
Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin, Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who – Caves of Androzani, Terrance Dicks
Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive, David Fisher
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders, Terrance Dicks
Earth is Room Enough, Isaac Asimov
City of Illusions, Ursula K. Le Guin
Talkback: The Unofficial and Unauthorised “Doctor Who” Interview Book: Sixties v. 1, ed. Stephen James Walker
Between the Woods and the Water, Patrick Leigh Fermor
2008
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence
National Lampoon’s Doon, Ellis Weiner
The Atrocity Archives, Charles Stross
Interzone 5th Anthology, eds. John Clute, Lee Montgomerie & David Pringle
Summerland, Michael Chabon
The Owl Service, Alan Garner
The Superpower Myth, Nancy Soderberg
Vellum, Hal Duncan
Abarat, Clive Barker
The seeds of time, John Wyndham
The Child Garden, Geoff Ryman
Liberal Democracy and Globalisation, ed. Graham Watson
Peter Abelard, Helen Waddell
Expiration Date, Tim Powers
Daughters of Britannia, Katie Hickman
2009
Back Home, Michelle Magorian
The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-Second Annual Collection, ed Gardner Dozois
2010
Irish tales of terror, ed. Jim McGarry
Radical Islams Rules, ed. Paul Marshall
Forbidden Acts, ed. Nancy A. Collins
Seasons of Plenty, Colin Greenland
Half-life of a Zealot, Swanee Hunt
Mother of Plenty, Colin Greenland
The Wizard Knight, Gene Wolfe
Visions of Wonder, ed. David G. Hartwell and Milton T. Wolf
Earth Logic, Laurie J. Marks
Thunderbirds Bumper Storybook, Dave Morris
Analog 6, ed. John W. Campbell
The Space Opera Renaissance, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
There are 16 books on the shelves acquired in 2007 and still marked as unread:
It’s a splendid piece of music indeed. I hadn’t heard it before we (the University of Warwick Chorus) performed it a few years ago, and I really enjoyed it – the opening verses are really quite inspiring, as is the penultimate section “for we are afar with the dawning”. On either the day of the concert, or sometime that week, I left the house in the morning to cycle onto campus, and it was a wonderfully crisp autumn day with a clear blue sky and bright sun, and the line “from out of the infinite morning” kept running through my head.
We’re doing The Dream of Gerontius this term, which I don’t know but am looking forward to.