Tuesday, 3 January 2012

One hundred not out

In summary, here's the full century of 2011's books:

January:
1. Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth – Ed Howker and Shiv Malik
2. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
3. The Broken Bridge – Philip Pullman
4. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
5. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
6. America Unchained – Dave Gorman
7. The Rats and the Ruling Sea – Robert V.S. Redick
8. The Oxford Murders – Guillermo Martínez
9. The Big Over Easy – Jasper Fforde

February:
10. The Red Wolf Conspiracy – Robert V.S. Redick
11. The Ascent of Rum Doodle – W.E. Bowman
12. Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
13. Room – Emma Donoghue
14. The Fourth Bear – Jasper Fforde
15. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
16. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

March:
17. Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age – Bohumil Hrabal
18. Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
19. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo – J.R.R. Tolkien
20. What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America – Thomas Frank
21. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
22. The City and they City – China Miéville
23. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West – Cormac McCarthy
24. What Maisie Knew – Henry James

April:
25. Dear Me – Peter Ustinov
26. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
27. The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman – Bruce Robinson
28. Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
29. Caribou Island – David Vann
30. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon

May:
31. Brick Lane – Monica Ali
32. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
33. Cup of Gold – John Steinbeck
34. The Easter Parade – Richard Yates
35. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
36. Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde
37. The Chrysalids – John Wyndham
38. The Private Eye Annual 2010 – Ian Hislop (ed.)
39. Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
40. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

June:
41. Riders of the Purple Sage – Zane Grey
42. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
43. Ill Fares the Land – Tony Judt
44. Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively
45. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
46. Fup – Jim Dodge
47. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
48. Domes of Fire – David Eddings
49. Emma – Jane Austen
50. We Need to Talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver

July:
51. The Underground City – Jules Verne
52. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
53. The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred – Carl-Johan Vallgren
54. The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
55. A Dance with Dragons – George R.R. Martin
56. The Blasphemer – Nigel Farndale
57. They Came Like Swallows – William Maxwell
58. The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life – Ryszard Kapuściński
59. Beloved – Toni Morrison

August:
60. Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
61. White Noise – Don DeLillo
62. If on a winter’s night a traveller – Italo Calvino
63. The Order of the Stick: Snips, Snails and Dragon’s Tails – Rich Burlew
64. Affluenza – Oliver James
65. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
66. Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
67. The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields

September:
68. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt – Nick Hornby
69. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
70. The Beetle – Richard Marsh
71. Maigret and the Idle Burglar – Georges Simenon
72. Lankhmar – Fritz Leiber
73. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
74. Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
75. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen

October:
76. The Silver Blade – Sally Gardner
77. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr
78. Arrowsmith – Sinclair Lewis
79. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House – Kate Summerscale
80. Ironweed – William Kennedy
81. The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
82. Twenty Years After – Alexandre Dumas
83. Case Histories – Kate Atkinson
84. The Bride’s Farewell – Meg Rosoff
85. Last Bus to Woodstock – Colin Dexter

November:
86. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
87. The Good Fairies of New York – Martin Millar
88. A Week in December – Sebastian Faulks
89. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
90. Cult Fiction – Ardie Collins

December:
91. The Host – Stephenie Meyer
92. The Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith
93. Moonfleet – J. Meade Falkner
94. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver
95. A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
96. A Room With A View – E.M. Forster
97. The Princess Bride – William Goldman
98. Chronicles of Amber – Roger Zelazny
99. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
100. Matilda – Roald Dahl

2 comments:

  1. I also tried to do this this year....I read 99!!! I ran out of time on New Years Eve!! Congratulations!!

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