booklist 2004

The idea is not only to read as much as possible but to record exactly what I read to reveal any patterns. How much fantasy do I really read? How much fiction and non-fiction?
Books in this instance include graphic novels and anything else over 100 pages.

1. Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles - Alison Inches
   
2. A Perfect Harmony - Roger Caras
   
3. Death Sentence - Don Watson
   
4. The Mother Trip - Ariel Gore
   
5. The Treehouse Book - Peter + Judy Nelson with David Larkin
   
6. Love and Clutter - Mirka Mora
   
7. *The Folk of the Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
   
8. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
   
9. *Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street - Eve Burnett
   
10. *The BFG - Roald Dahl
    
11. Books of Magic - Neil Gaiman
    
12. *The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton
    
13. *Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
    
14. Eats, Shoots and Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Lynne Truss
    
15. *Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    
16. *Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
    
17. Adventures in a TV Nation - Michael Moore and Kathleen Glynn
    
18. Australian Childhood: An Anthology - Gwyn Dowe and June Factor (eds)
    
19. Breast, Bottle, Bowl: The Best Fed Baby Book - Anne Hillis and Penelope Stone
    
20. What to Feed Your Baby - Sara Lewis
    
21. Legends - Robert Silverberg (ed)
    
22. Two Weeks with the Queen - Morris Gleitzman
    
23. Ender's World - Orson Scott Card
    
24. The End of Equality; Work, Babies and Women's Choices in 21st Century Australia - Anne Summers
    
25. Stitch 'n Bitch : The Knitter's Handbook - Debbie Stoller
    
26. The Tin Princess - Philip Pullman
    
27. You and Your Only Child - Patricia Nachman with Andrea Thompson
    
28. The Broken Bridge - Philip Pullman
    
29. Mrs Cook - Marele Day
    
30. Reinventing Comics - Scott McCloud
    
31. On Writing - Stephen King
    
32. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale - James B. South (ed.)
    
33. 1066 and all That - W. C. Sellar, R. J. Reatman, Frank Muir
    
34. The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
    
35. Perfume - Philip Suskind
    
36. A Good House is Never Done - John Wheatman
    
37. World of Knitted Toys - Kath Dalmeny
    
38. Legends II - Robert Silverberg (ed.)
    
39. Lenore: Noogies - Roman Dirge
    
40. Getting Things Done - David Allen
    
41. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
    
42. It's My Party and I'll Knit if I Want to - Sharon Aris
    
43. Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
    (may have missed a few here - got distracted)
    
44. Cotton Knits for all seasons - Debbie Bliss
    
45. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke (OK, not finished, but I'm counting it anyway)
    
46. Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
    
47. Lenore: Wedgies - Roman Dirge
48. Knitting For Anarchists - Anna Zilboorg

*Yes, I have read these books before. Possibly more than once.

Seeing as that list is not terribly long yet, here is one of some of the Books We Own That I Haven't Read Yet. (And actually want to. There is a mound of bad fantasy novels on our shelves that date from Richard's teenage years that I have no interest in reading, ever.) I hope at least some of these books migrate to the other list this year.

Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder - David G. Hartwell (ed.)
Collection of James Herriot "Vet" novels
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
The Difference Engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Virtual Light - William Gibson
Idoru - William Gibson
All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson
Oyster - Janette Turner Hospital
A Time of Exile - Katharine Kerr
The Second Angel - Philip Kerr
The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
Magical Realist Fiction - David Young and Keith Hollman (eds)
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
Two Weeks with the Queen - Morris Gleitzman
Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll
Techgnosis - Erik Davis
Trigger Happy - Stephen Poole
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
The School Bag - Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes (eds)
Displaced Fictions - Heather Scutter
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
The Dancing Wu Li Masters - Gary Zukav
Aspects of the Novel - E. M. Forster
The Scar - China Mieville
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Sin and Syntax - Constance Hale
Wild Animus - Rich Shapero