What Have You Read This Year?

[Kira's Mom]

I've been so busy I actually haven't had time to read in the last month. So I'm going to start 2009 with Brideshead Revisited, which I started and put away a month ago (hangs head in shame) and Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey (which has to go back to the library next Monday).

My goal for 2009 will be 60 books. I don't think I'll be able to read 80 again, unless I count cooking and craft books!

 

[Maestro]

I did 50 in 08. 60 in 09 is a reasonable goal.

 

[judge alba]

must admit i'm more of a audio book fan myself got a lot of trek ones and just started listening to my shelock holmes ones too.
reading wise would be a lot of judge dredd graphic novels oh and the trail of captain kirk graphic novel

 

[Loupjo]

Some of the better books I have read this year:

George RR Martin - A song of ice and fire books (well, the ones that have been published so fa) - Amazing books, have already gained a place in my favourite books of all times and I finished the year by re-reading the series.

Prince of Nothing part I by Scott Bakker - Very good too. Am looking forward to reading the remaining books.

Last two books of Star Wars Legacy of the Force

March by Geraldine Brooks

To Kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee

Tenant of wildfell hall - Agnes Brontë

Anna Karenina - Tolstoj

Pride and prejudice - jane austen

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Crime and Punishment - Dostoesky

On va où papa - Jean-Louis Fournier

The Wind in the willows - Kenneth Graham

First three books of the wheel of time series (eye of the world, the great hunt and the dragon reborn) by Robert Jordan

And then there were books in the non-fiction category. Mostly as most years lots of law books and other legal texts. Some were actually interesting

Oh yes and jesus of nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI

 

[trampledamage]

Mostly the only thing I manage to read these days is my weekly Maclean's magazine. I rarely read anything new because I love thrillers and mysteries and with two kids I find it difficult to read anything I can't put down straight away (and that isn't going to tempt me too much to stay up late finishing it!)

Also, I can't remember what I read earlier in the year. But I have just re-read the two Nursery Crime books by Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear. They are awesome!

The premise is that nursery rhyme characters exist in real life living ordinary lives (except when circumstances combine to create the starting point for their rhyme, at which point they can't help themselves but follow the story in their rhyme). The NCD (Nursery Crime Division) was set up by DCI Jack Horner as a department devoted to dealing with crime involving the nursery rhyme characters since it tends to get weird very quickly.

Anyway, Fforde's a much better writer than I am, and he makes it work and the novels work as proper crime thrillers in their own right as well as being hilariously funny.

Highly recommended!

 

[S. Gomez]

^I've been meaning to pick up his books. I should make a point of doing it this year.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I've got a list written down at home, but i'm not certain right now. I know there's 50 or 60 odd on the list. Including the entire New Frontier series, 3 Dexter books, the Twilight series, the first 5 of the Nightside series.

 

[TrekNut87]

Read:
Term Limits: Vince Flynn

Currently Reading:
The Camel Club: David Baldacci
Split Second: David Baldacci

I'm desparately hoping to increase my reading amount in 2009.