What I read last year

[johan]

Annie Caulfield: Show Me The Magic - Travels Round Benin by Taxi
Graham Joyce: The Stormwatcher
Joe Haldeman: All My Sins Remembered
Philip K. Dick: In Milton Lumky Territory
Erik Andersson: Bengt
Graham Joyce: Smoking Poppy
J. R. R. Tolkien De två tornen
Joe Haldeman: Worlds
Maureen F. McHugh: Mothers & Other Monsters
Annie Ryan: Witnesses Inside the Easter Rising
Graham Joyce: The Facts of Life
Joe Haldeman: Tool of the Trade
Poul Anderson: The Best of Poul Anderson
Jerome K. Jerome: Tre män i en båt
Kelly Link: Magic for Beginners
Graham Joyce: The Limits of Enchantment
Jo Walton: Tooth and Claw
Joe Haldeman: 1968
Geoff Ryman: The Warrior Who Carried Life
Jules Verne: Till jordens medelpunkt
Ken MacLeod: Learning the World
Joe Haldeman: None So Blind
Geoff Ryman: 253
Joe Haldeman: Forever Peace
Geoff Ryman: Lust
J. R. R. Tolkien: Konungens återkomst
Joe Haldeman: Forever Free
Geoff Ryman: Air
Joe Haldeman: Guardian
Joe Haldeman: Camouflage
Johanna Sinisalo: Not Before Sundown
Geoff Ryman: The King’s Last Song
Joe Haldeman: Old Twentieth
Ken MacLeod: The Execution Channel
Tony Elgenstierna: Kvinnor i nöd
Philip Pullman: The Ruby in the Smoke
Philip K. Dick: Mary and the Giant
Ellen Kushner: The Privilege of the Sword
James Morrow: Towing Jehovah
Harry Warner, Jr: All Our Yesterdays
Graham Joyce: TWOC
Steph Swainston: The Year of Our War
Magnus Hedlund: Ärligt talat
Peter Dickinson: The Weathermonger
Leena Krohn: Att förnimma dess närvaro
Arthur Phillips: Egyptologens gåta
Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time

Which ones did I like the best?

Show Me The Magic - Travels Round Benin by Taxi
The Stormwatcher
The Facts of Life
Air
Camouflage
Mary and the Giant
The Privilege of the Sword

Dick and Joyce, in other words.

Comments

[bara-fantasier.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of science fiction there, isn't it? Especially Philip K. Dick I recognise, my sister gave me a book with a collection of short stories by him ("We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" or something?) a couple of years ago. Have just read one of them though.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Yes, science fiction is my preferred reading category together with fantasy. The books I love the most are fantasy, but the average quality of fantasy is lower than that of SF, so I tend to read more SF than fantasy. Those two books by Dick are not SF, however, they are mainstream novels he wrote in the 50s that weren't published until after his death in 1982. And they're *really* good.

[jlms.livejournal.com]

It looks like you've included those you read to me (and possibly not all of those), but not the ones I read to you -- I can't see Svejk there for instance.

As a matter of fact, I don't think we've kept track of which books we've had as bedtime reading. I have a partial list in the back-up of my blog archives, but maybe we should try and do a concerted effort to make a list before it is too late.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Nope, I include all books we read to each other - so we can reconstruct them from my full list - but we never finished Svejk, so my conscience forbade me to include it.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

This is the list and the year we read each book:

Frans G. Bengtsson: Röde Orm, 2000
Tove Jansson: Kometen kommer, 2000
Tove Jansson: Sent i november, 2001
Tove Jansson: Muminpappans memoarer, 2001
Tove Jansson: Farlig midsommar, 2001
Tove Jansson: Trollkarlens hatt, 2001
Tove Jansson: Trollvinter, 2001
Tove Jansson: Det osynliga barnet, 2001
Tove Jansson: Pappan och havet, 2002
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten: Bock i örtagård, 2002
Eric Linklater: Det blåser på månen, 2002
Eva Ibbotson: Den stora spökräddningen, 2002
Nils-Olof Franzén: Agaton Sax klipper till, 2002
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten: Historier från Färs, 2003
Rudolf Raspe: Baron Münchhausens märkvärdiga äventyr, 2003
Stig Claesson: Vem älskar Yngve Frej?, 2003
L. Frank Baum: Trollkarlen från Oz, 2003
Nils Holmberg (transl): Tusen och en natt 1, 2003
Eva Ibbotson: Hemligheten på perrong 13, 2003
Nils Holmberg (transl): Tusen och en natt 2, 2003
Nils Holmberg (transl): Tusen och en natt 3, 2004
Irmelin Sandman Lilius: Enhörningen, 2004
Torgny Lindgren: Bat Seba, 2004
J. R. R. Tolkien: Ringens brödraskap, 2004
Håkan Nesser: Barins triangel, 2004
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten: Bombi Bitt och jag, 2005
Edith Unnerstad: Kastrullresan, 2005
Eric Lundqvist: Ingen tobak, inget halleluja, 2005
Kenneth Grahame: Det susar i säven, 2005
Erik Granström: Svavelvinter, 2005
Michael Ende: Momo eller kampen om tiden, 2005
Håkan Nesser: och Piccadilly Circus ligger inte i Kumla, 2005
J. R. R. Tolkien: De två tornen, 2006
Jerome K. Jerome: Tre män i en båt, 2006
Jules Verne: Till jordens medelpunkt, 2006
J. R. R. Tolkien: Konungens återkomst, 2006
Jaroslav Hasek: Den tappre soldaten Svejk, 2006