A record of the books I’ve read in 2013. Read:
- The Right Way to Do Wrong: A Unique Selection of Writings by History’s Greatest Escape Artist, by Harry Houdini [nf, pbk]
- The Shining Girls, by Lauren Beukes [f, pbk, arc]
- The Teleportation Accident, by Ned Beauman [f, pbk, arc]
- Racing Through The Dark: The Fall And Rise Of David Millar, by David Millar [nf, pbk]
- Railsea, by China Mieville [f, e]
- London Falling, by Paul Cornell [f, pbk, arc]
- Angelmaker, by Nick Harkaway [f, e]
- Fade to Black, by Francis Knight [f, pbk, arc]
- From Russia with Love, by Ian Fleming [f, e]
- Hokkaido Highway Blues, by Will Ferguson [nf, pbk]
- Red Army Faction Blues, by Ada Wilson [f, pbk]
- The Girl with the Pearl Earring, by Tracey Chevalier [f, pbk]
- Poison, by Sarah Pinborough [f, hbk]
- The Fire Witness, by Lars Kepler [f, pbk, arc]
- Lexicon, by Max Barry [f, pbk, arc]
- World War Z, by Max Brooks[f, e]
- Game of Thrones [book 1], by George R.R. Martin [f, e]
- My Criminal World, by Henry Sutton [f, pbk]
- The Machine, by James Smythe [f, pbk]
- City of Blood, by MD Villiers [f, pbk]
- Bigger Deal, by Antony Holden [nf, pbk]
- The Jennifer Morgue, by Charles Stross [f, pbk]
- The Last Banquet, by Jonathan Grimwood [f, hbk]
- Solo, by William Boyd [f, hbk]
- The Republic of Thieves, by Scott Lynch [f, e]
- Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan [f, e]
Currently reading:
- Moon’s Artifice, by Tom Lloyd [f, pbk]
- The Palace Job, by Patrick Weekes [f, e]
Didn’t finish:
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson[f, pbk] (Not often I don’t finish a book that I’ve started, but really didn’t get on with this one.)
Key: f – fiction nf – non-fiction hn – hardback pbk – paperback e – ebook (probably read on Kindle) arc – review copy
Nice. I’ve just finished Peter F Hamilton’s Great North Road. Safe House is next up for me, I think.