When magazines do them, it's an end-of-year roundup. When I do it, it's 'OCD'.
Here's a list of everything I read in 2016.
- Moab is My Washpot - Stephen Fry
- The Rough Guide to Iceland - Rough Guides
Before a trip with a friend. The many photos I took can be seen here.
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom - Nik Cohn
Git wrote it when he was 22.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
British as a Second Language - David Bennun
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
Pretty Honest - Sali Hughes
(Featuring a Mirror Factory-appropriate cover)
Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City - Paul Morley
We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach
Young Hearts Run Free: The Real Story of the 1970s - Dave Haslam
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The name Evelyn Waugh always reminds me of a friend asking the librarian of our school's library for recommendations. After suggesting Waugh, my friend replied: "I don't really like books about war."
Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
"...the only book you'll ever need about a haunted Scandinavian furniture superstore."
Lighter than my Shadow - Katie Green
The Night Manager - John le Carré
Unspeakable Things - Laurie Penny
They F*** You Up - Oliver James
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon.
Only book on this list I gave up on, I'm afraid.
Secrets of East Sussex - Sandy Hernu
Bizarre Brighton - Christopher Horlock
A Guide to the Buildings of Brighton - students and staff of the School of Architecture and Interior Design, Brighton Polytechnic
Four Children and It - Jacqueline Wilson
Candy Floss - Jacqueline Wilson
Mr Stink - David Walliams
The above three, checked out from Hove library's children's section, were inhaled over a period when I was very ill with food poisoning. I was about three weeks into a new job I hated. I decided if having food poisoning and reading books was preferable to my job, I'd better give it up. So I quit. I'm now currently happier and healthier temping for numerous departments. I enjoy the flexibility and variety. I also enjoy lying around reading books all day (minus the food poisoning).
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Understanding Human Nature - Alfred Adler
Live at the Brixton Academy - Simon Parkes
Lost in Music: A Pop Odyssey - Giles Smith
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys - Viv Albertine
As good as everyone said it was.
The Sleeper and the Spindle - Neil Gaiman
Naming Monsters - Hannah Eaton
The Humans - Matt Haig
Guide to Life - Steven Appleby
Beautiful You - Chuck Palahniuk
Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times - Matthew Sweeney
Confessions of a Crap Artist - Philip K. Dick
Plays - Harold Pinter
Strangeland - Tracey Emin
Rocks Stars Stole My Life - Mark Ellen
If You're Reading This I'm Already Dead - Andrew Nicoll
Hansel & Gretel - Neil Gaiman
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Overcoming Worry & Anxiety - Dr Jerry Kennard
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
The Tattoo Dictionary - Trent Aitken-Smith + Ashley Tyson
A Book for Her - Bridget Christie
Cancer Vixen: A True Story - Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Dublinesque - Enrique Vila-Matas
Musrum - Eric Thacker
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College Dublin - Bernard Meehan
Ireland - Lonely Planet people
Before a trip there with the guy who bought me No.38 and let me borrow No.51, and is the reason not as many books got read in the latter half of the year as in the former ;)
Understanding Autism for Dummies - Linda G. Rastelli and Stephen Shore
He Shot Me Down - a whole bunch of people
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld - Jamie Bartlett.
