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:: Sunday, December 27, 2009 ::

Reading List 2009

It's that time again:

Stuart Maconie - Pies and Prejudice (hangover from last year)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr - Slaughterhouse Five (again)
Lewis Carol - Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Kurt Vonnegut Jr - Breakfast of Champions
Stuart Maconie - Cider with Roadies
Naomi Klein - Shock Doctrine
James R. Blandford - P.J. Harvey: Siren Rising
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear & Loathing in Las Vagas
Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson - The Gods That Failed
Philip K. Dick - Radio Free Albemuth
Stephen Morris - In Search of Bristol
Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
Frank Skinner - Frank Skinner on the Road: Love, Stand-up Comedy and the Queen of the Night
Geoff Manaugh - Bldgblog Book: Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, Landscape Futures
Sun-Tzu - The Art of War
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night
William S. Burroughs - Junky
David Edmonds & John Eidinow - Bobby Fischer Goes To War
Ralph Steadman - Doodaaa: The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge - A Triography
Gore Vidal - Myra Breckinridge
J.G. Ballard - Crash
Peter Cook - Tragically I Was an Only Twin (ed. William Cook)
Richard Beard - Becoming Drusilla: One Life, Two Friends, Three Genders

2008, 2007, 2006

Labels: Literature, Reading

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As usual, here's my end-of-year reading list, of all the books I read this year, in order:

The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
Secret Underground Bristol - Sally Watkins
The Crack in Space - Philip K Dick
Something Like Fire - Lyn Cook et al
Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson
Chocky - John Wyndham
Prelude to Space - Arthur C Clark
An Individual Note of Music Sound and Electronics - Daphne Oram
Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
Them: Adventures With Extremists - Jon Ronson
Clans of the Alphane Moon - Philip K Dick
Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine - Norbert Wiener
Now Wait For Last Year - Philip K Dick
A Computer Called Leo: Lyons Teashops and the World's First Office Computer – Georgina Ferry
The Sleeper Awakes – H.G. Wells
Microserfs – Douglas Coupland
Archispeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms – Tom Porter
Confessions of a Crap Artist – Philip K. Dick
No Logo – Naomi Klein
Extreme Ironing – Phil Shaw
Slaughter House Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K Dick
Solar Lottery - Philip K Dick
Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell
Martian Time Slip – Philip K Dick (in progress)
The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins (in progress)

Labels: Literature, Reading, Sci-Fi

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