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What it says. Reviews of science books, both non-fiction and fiction.

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2008 so far (06-Jul-08)

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Bookpile (10-Jun-08)

  • Making Money, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Book Of Dave, by Will Self
  • Deerskin, by Robin McKinley
  • The Amber Spyglass, by Phillip Pullman (reread to kids)
  • Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, by Philip Ball (stuck in the middle somewhere)
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2007 (31-Dec-07)

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2006 (31-Dec-06)

  • Cell, by Stephen King
  • Thud!, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Wake, by Neil Gaiman
  • The End, by Lemony Snicket
  • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume II, by Alan Moore
  • The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
  • Stiff, by Mary Roach (reread)
  • The Ancestor's Tale, by Richard Dawkins(reread)
  • Down Under, by Bill Bryson (reread)
  • American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (reread)
  • Freakonomics, by Steven D.Levitt and Stephen J.Dubner
  • Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
  • Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman (reread)
  • The Kalahari Typing School For Men, by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Collapse, by Jared Diamond
  • Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Tomorrow Now, by Bruce Sterling
  • Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Someone Comes To Town Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow
  • Morality For Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
  • Tears Of The Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Hat Full Of Sky, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Pompeii, by Robert Harris (reread)
  • The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
  • Eastern Standard Tribe, by Cory Doctorow
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2005 (31-Dec-05)

  • Stiff, by Mary Roach
  • Trace, by Patricia Cornwell
  • Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
  • Fleshmarket Close, by Ian Rankin
  • Mutants, by Armand Leroi
  • Holes, by Louis Sachar
  • The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson
  • The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
  • Consilience, by E.O.Wilson
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, by Susannah Clarke
  • The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
  • The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson
  • The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, by Gideon Defoe
  • The Kindly Ones, by Neal Stephenson
  • The Ancestors' Tale, by Richard Dawkins
  • Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • A Hat Full Of Sky, by Terry Pratchett
  • Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, by Joanne K. Rowling
  • Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
  • Uncle Tungsten, by Oliver Sacks (reread)
  • On Writing, by Stephen King (reread)
  • From A Buick 8, by Stephen King (reread)
  • Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow
  • Idoru, by William Gibson
  • Why We Believe, by Michael Shermer
  • The Intuitionist, by Colson Whitehead
  • Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
  • The Algebraist, by Iain M.Banks
  • Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
  • Pompeii, by Robert Harris
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by Joanne K. Rowling (reread to kids)
  • Freedom Of Expression®, by Kembrew McLeod
  • The Bootstrapper's Bible, by Seth Godin
  • The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Unequalled Self, by Claire Tomalin
  • Millennium People, by J.G.Ballard
  • The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
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Most geeky novels (18-Nov-05)

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/top_20_geek_novels_the_results.html(There's more…)
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Oryx And Crake (02-Feb-05)

cover of Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood

I had a feeling I was going to be impressed by this book, more or less in spite of myself. But this was only a little true.

Oryx and Crake was a satisfactory piece of science fiction that has been cynically marketed as a highbrow literary work. The science is above the mean for highbrow lit but a little light for sf. The action takes place shortly after an event that has destroyed civilization and most of humanity, leaving one man to lurch through an interestingly weird world populated by roaming genetically engineered organisms in a climate wrecked by our ozone-shattering, carbon dioxide-barfing lifestyle. It's not giving anything away to say that the protagonist was complicit in bringing about the collapse of civilization through his relationship with two other characters, Oryx and Crake. It's not his fault though: he is a product of his nastily and unsubtly described times (about 20-40 years from now). From almost page one, the author signals that the apocalypse has been brought about by science unfettered by human considerations.

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2004 (31-Dec-04)

  • The Hippopotamus, by Stephen Fry (reread)
  • The Truth, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • The Grim Grotto, by Lemony Snicket
  • Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • A Devil's Chaplain, by Richard Dawkins
  • The Blank Slate, by Stephen Pinker (reread)
  • Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett
  • Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
  • American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (reread)
  • Blow Fly, by Patricia Cornwell
  • A Question of Blood, by Iain Rankin
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by Joanne K. Rowling (reread to kids)
  • Yellow Dog, by Martin Amis
  • The Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams
  • Worlds' End, by Neil Gaiman
  • Brief Lives, by Neil Gaiman
  • Griffin and Sabine, by Nick Bantock
  • Brief Lives, by Neil Gaiman
  • The Separation, by Christopher Priest
  • The Information, by Martin Amis
  • So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, by Douglas Adams (reread)
  • The Businessman: A Tale of Terror, by Thomas M.Disch
  • The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, by Thomas M.Disch (reread)
  • Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams (reread)
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams (reread)
  • The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (reread)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by Joanne K. Rowling (reread to kids)
  • Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
  • Look To Windward, by Iain M.Banks (reread)
  • The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett
  • A Short History Of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by Joanne K. Rowling (reread)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon
  • Light, by M.John Harrison
  • The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde
  • Designing with Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman
  • The Weirdstone of Brysingamen, by Alan Garner
  • The Old Devils, by Kingsley Amis
  • Bravemouth, by Pamela Stephenson
  • Stupid White Men, by Michael Moore
  • Life Of Pi, by Yann Martel
  • 253, by Geoff Ryman (reread of WWW version)
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Marcel Proust, psychologist in the Darwinian style (07-Dec-04)

Cover of How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain De Botton

Marcel Proust, Parisian novelist of the early twentieth century, was an unknowing evolutionary psychologist adherent to the modern neo-Darwinian synthesis. No, really. That's my conclusion from reading Alain De Botton's friendly little book How Proust Can Change Your Life. De Botton may not have intended this summation; his is a remarkable, witty and not altogether fanciful take on Proust that points out with great and amusing ease much that is wise about the master and his literary output. Darwin doesn't get a mention, naturally. But I was rereading Stephen Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial Of Human Nature at the same time and my doxastic hungers have forced these two writers together. The result: I declare Proust to be an intellectual ancestor of modern evolutionary psychology or, at worst, an independent co-discoverer born seventy years too soon.

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A Life In Science (06-Oct-04)

cover of A Life In Science by Sydney Brenner

Before picking this book up I knew of Sydney Brenner but I wasn't aware of his level of involvement in so many cool things in the early days of molecular biology. I knew he was a phage guy, that he worked with Crick and that he got a Nobel in 2002 but that was all. It turns out he was closely involved in all the important early work in molecular genetics from within days of the DNA structure being solved. He published a simple mathematical analysis in which he showed that the large set of theories for the coding of information on DNA involving overlapping nucleotide groups couldn't be right, destroying overnight theories that had addled and distracted the big brains of early molecular biology for years. He later proved the existence of the long-suspected intermediary between DNA and proteins and simultaneously showed that the messenger was RNA. And he was the one who chose the nematode C.elegans as the model system for developmental genetics.

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A Short History Of Nearly Everything (12-Jun-04)

cover of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

This was great. Bryson is always readable thanks to his knack of picking the perfect adverb and his inability to tell a boring anecdote.

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Booklist (06-Mar-04)

Currently on the go:

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2003 (31-Dec-03)

  • Being Dead, by Jim Crace (reread)
  • The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket
  • A Walk In The Woods, by Bill Bryson (reread)
  • The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume I, by Alan Moore
  • The Complete Maus, by Art Speigelman
  • Notes From A Big Country, by Bill Bryson (reread)
  • Notes From A Small Island, by Bill Bryson (reread)
  • I Stole Your Cheese, by Darrell Bristow-Bovey
  • Engine City, by Ken Macleod
  • The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Ending Up, by Kingsley Amis
  • Other People, by Martin Amis
  • Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Outsider, by Albert Camus (reread)
  • The Years Of Rice And Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Time's Arrow, by Martin Amis (reread)
  • The Blank Slate, by Stephen Pinker
  • Fables And Reflections, by Neil Gaiman
  • A Game Of You, by Neil Gaiman
  • Season Of Mists, by Neil Gaiman
  • One Good Turn, by Witold Rybczynski
  • The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis (reread)
  • The Prestige, by Christopher Priest (reread)
  • The War Of The Worlds, by H.G.Wells
  • Engines Of Creation, by K.Eric Drexler
  • From A Buick 8, by Stephen King
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan
  • The Turn Of The Screw, by Henry James
  • Animal Farm, by George Orwell (reread) (NB: back in copyright in some jurisdictions; check your local laws)
  • The Hacker Crackdown, by Bruce Sterling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by Joanne K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by Joanne K. Rowling (reread)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by Joanne Rowling (reread)
  • The Science Of Diskworld II - The Globe, by Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart
  • Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan (reread)
  • Contest, by Matthew Reilly
  • The Code Book, by Simon Singh (reread)
  • The Cuckoo's Egg, by Clifford Stoll (reread)
  • Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Longitude, by Dava Sobel(reread)
  • The Science Of Discworld, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen (reread)
  • Thief Of Time, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Unweaving The Rainbow, by Richard Dawkins (reread)
  • Uncle Tungsten, by Oliver Sacks
  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea, by Daniel C. Dennett (reread)
  • Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (reread)
  • The Carnivorous Carnival, by Lemony Snicket
  • Dark Light, by Ken Macleod
  • Experience, by Martin Amis
  • The Truth, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • The Restraint of Beasts, by Magnus Mills (reread)
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2002 (31-Dec-02)

  • Seven Tenths, by James Hamilton-Patterson (reread)
  • Lost In A Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
  • Dream Country, by Neil Gaiman
  • The Dolls House, by Neil Gaiman
  • Cosmonaut Keep, by Ken Macleod
  • The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
  • Resurrection Men, by Ian Rankin
  • Girlfriend In A Coma, by Douglas Coupland (reread)
  • Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
  • The Stuff Our Dreams Are Made Of, by Thomas M.Disch (reread)
  • Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • On Blue's Waters, by Gene Wolfe
  • The Evolution Man, by Roy Lewis
  • Hide And Seek, by Ian Rankin
  • Billy, by Pamela Stephenson
  • Preludes And Nocturnes, by Neil Gaiman
  • From Hell, by Alan Moore
  • Knots And Crosses, by Ian Rankin
  • Thinks..., by David Lodge
  • Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
  • Dead Famous, by Ben Elton
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King (reread)
  • Atonement, by Ian McEwan
  • The Unauthorised Version, by Robin Lane Fox (reread)
  • The Hanging Garden, by Ian Rankin (reread)
  • The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett
  • Thief Of Time, by Terry Pratchett
  • Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Smoke And Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman
  • 334, by Thomas Disch
  • Radio Free Albemuth, by Philip K.Dick (reread)
  • The Beach, by Alex Garland
  • American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
  • Spanking Watson, by Kinky Friedman
  • The Spike Milligan Letters Volume 2, by Norma Farnes (reread)
  • Goodbye Soldier, by Spike Milligan (reread)
  • Where Have All The Bullets Gone, by Spike Milligan (reread)
  • Mussolini His Part In My Downfall, by Spike Milligan (reread)
  • "Rommel?""Gunner Who?", by Spike Milligan (reread)
  • Monty His Part In My Victory, by Spike Milligan (reread)
  • Hitler My Part In His Downfall, by Spike Milligan (reread)
  • Once Were Warriors, by Alan Duff
  • Eric, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Black And Blue, by Ian Rankin (reread)
  • The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Set In Darkness, by Ian Rankin
  • Dead Souls, by Ian Rankin
  • A Transatlantic Tunnel Hurrah!, by Harry Harrison (reread)
  • McCarthy's Bar, by Pete McCarthy
  • The Falls, by Ian Rankin
  • Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
  • The Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, by Joanne K. Rowling (reread)
  • Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, by Helen Fielding
  • Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland
  • Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
  • Bridget Jones's Dairy, by Helen Fielding
  • The Hostile Hospital, by Lemony Snicket
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2001 (31-Dec-01)

  • On Writing, by Stephen King
  • The Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman
  • The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman (reread)
  • The Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman (reread)
  • Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Lords And Ladies, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • The Vile Village, by Lemony Snicket
  • Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
  • The Truth, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Ersatz Elevator, by Lemony Snicket
  • The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket
  • The Wide Window, by Lemony Snicket
  • The Reptile Room, by Lemony Snicket
  • The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket
  • The Miserable Mill, by Lemony Snicket
  • Down Under, by Bill Bryson
  • The Last Precinct, by Patricia Cornwell
  • Look To Windward, by Iain M.Banks
  • Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmann, by Richard Feynmann
  • Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom
  • The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy - The Original Radio Scripts, by Douglas Adams (edited by Geoffrey Perkins)
  • Use Of Weapons, by Iain M.Banks (reread)
  • How The Mind Works, by Stephen Pinker (reread)
  • Master And Commander, by Patrick O'Brien
  • The Brethren, by John Grisham
  • To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (reread from childhood)
  • Rogue Moon, by Algis Budrys
  • Grasshopper, by Barbara Vine
  • Man And Boy, by Tony Parsons
  • The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer
  • The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, by Thomas M.Disch
  • 200% Of Nothing, by A.K.Dewdney
  • The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
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2000 (31-Dec-00)

  • Distraction, by Bruce Sterling
  • The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett
  • A Walk In The Woods, by Bill Bryson (reread)
  • Darwin's Radio, by Greg Bear
  • Survivor, by Chuck Paluhniuk
  • The Valley Of Fear, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman
  • Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman
  • Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
  • The Ground Beneath Her Feet, by Salman Rushdie
  • Inconceivable, by Ben Elton
  • The Code Book, by Simon Singh (free accompanying CD-ROM)
  • His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, by Joanne K. Rowling
  • Excession, by Iain M.Banks (reread)
  • Deadeye Dick, by Kurt Vonnegut (reread)
  • The Business, by Iain Banks
  • King Solomon's Carpet, by Barbara Vine
  • Hannibal, by Thomas Harris
  • The Sky Road, by Ken MacLeod
  • Being Dead, by Jim Crace
  • The Science Of Diskworld, by Terry Pratchett et al.
  • Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, by Joanne K. Rowling
  • 253 (print remix), by Geoff Ryman (reread)
  • Point Of Origin, by Patricia Cornwell
  • Unnatural Exposure, by Patricia Cornwell
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King
  • Pasquale's Angel, by Paul J. McAuley
  • Dead Souls, by Ian Rankin
  • Behold The Man, by Michael Moorcock
  • The English, by Jeremy Paxman
  • Camp Concentration, by Thomas M.Disch
  • Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
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1999 (31-Dec-99)

  • The Green Man, by Kingsley Amis
  • The Return Of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Taking Lives, by Michael Pye
  • The Extremes, by Christopher Priest
  • Archangel, by Robert Harris
  • Unweaving The Rainbow, by Richard Dawkins
  • I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
  • Widow For One Year, by John Irving
  • Notes From A Big Country, by Bill Bryson
  • The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter
  • The Restraint Of Beasts, by Magnus Mills
  • Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, by Joanne K. Rowling
  • The Green Mile, by Stephen King
  • Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, by Joanne K. Rowling
  • Flanders, by Patricia Anthony
  • The Cassini Division, by Ken MacLeod
  • Genetic Engineering Food And The Environment, by Luke Anderson
  • Blast From The Past, by Ben Elton
  • The Hanging Garden, by Ian Rankin
  • The Invisible Man, by H.G.Wells (reread)
  • Bag Of Bones, by Stephen King
  • The Hound Of The Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, by Barbara Vine
  • The Arabian Nightmare, by Robert Irwin
  • The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Angry White Pyjamas, by Robert Twigger
  • Inversions, by Iain M.Banks (reread)
  • The Affirmation, by Christopher Priest
  • The Wisdom Of Father Brown, by G.K.Chesterton
  • The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Sign Of The Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • The Best Of Harry Harrison (reread)
  • Trying To Save Piggy Sneed, by John Irving (reread)
  • Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
  • The Fifth Head Of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
  • Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges (reread)
  • The Urth Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe (reread)
  • How The Mind Works, by Stephen Pinker
  • Children Of God, by Mary Doria Russell
  • Enigma, by Robert Harris
  • The Stone Canal, by Ken MacLeod
  • Heart Of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
  • Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr (reread)
  • Fatherland, by Robert Harris
  • Girlfriend In A Coma, by Douglas Coupland
  • Inversions, by Iain M.Banks
  • The Star Fraction, by Ken MacLeod
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1998 (31-Dec-98)

  • Nymphomation, by Jeff Noon
  • The Citadel Of The Autarch, by Gene Wolfe (reread)
  • The Sword Of The Lictor, by Gene Wolfe (reread)
  • The Claw Of The Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe (reread)
  • The Shadow Of The Torturer, by Gene Wolfe (reread)
  • Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Jingo, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Eric, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Hippopotamus, by Stephen Fry (reread)
  • Deja Dead, by Kathy Reichs
  • 1984, by George Orwell (reread) (NB: back in copyright in some jurisdictions; check your local laws)
  • Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
  • The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
  • Neither Here Nor There, by Bill Bryson
  • An Instance Of The Fingerpost, by Iain Pears
  • A Walk In The Woods, by Bill Bryson
  • A Song Of Stone, by Iain Banks
  • The Shining, by Stephen King
  • Diaspora, by Greg Egan
  • The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
  • Complicity, by Iain Banks (reread)
  • Black And Blue, by Ian Rankin
  • The Glamour, by Christopher Priest (reread)
  • Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos (reread)
  • The Reproductive System, by John Sladek
  • Notes On A Small Island, by Bill Bryson (reread)
  • Fifty Dead Men Walking, by Martin McGartland
  • The Day Of The Triffids, by John Wyndham
  • Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan
  • Consider Her Ways And Others, by John Wyndham
  • Night Shift, by Stephen King
  • Chocky, by John Wyndham
  • Trouble With Lichen, by John Wyndham
  • The Kraken Wakes, by John Wyndham
  • The Adversary, by Julian May
  • The Non-born King, by Julian May
  • The Golden Torc, by Julian May
  • The Many-Colored Land, by Julian May
  • Ringworld, by Larry Niven
  • The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
  • The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett
  • Distress, by Greg Egan
  • The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy
  • Dolores Claiborne, by Stephen King (reread)
  • Writing For Pleasure And Profit, by Michael Legat
  • An Author's Guide To Publishing, by Michael Legat
  • Longitude, by Dava Sobel
  • The Novelist's Guide, by Margret Geraghty
  • Night Frost, by R.D.Wingfield
  • The Invisible Man, by H.G.Wells
  • Permutation City, by Greg Egan
  • 253 (the Print Remix), by Geoff Ryman (reread of WWW version)
  • L.A. Confidential, by James Ellroy
  • The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K.Chesterton
  • Pollen, by Jeff Noon
  • Gun With Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem
  • Happy Policeman, by Patricia Anthony
  • Brother Termite, by Patricia Anthony
  • The Strange Case Of Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Espedair Street, by Iain Banks
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1997 (31-Dec-97)

  • Automated Alice, by Jeff Noon
  • The Sirens Of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  • Various bits of The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Making History, by Stephen Fry
  • The Suburban Book Of The Dead (Armageddon III: The Remake), by Robert Rankin
  • They Came And Ate Us (Armageddon II: The B-Movie), by Robert Rankin
  • Armageddon The Musical, by Robert Rankin
  • Feersum Endjinn, by Iain M.Banks (reread)
  • '48, by James Herbert
  • Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
  • Needful Things, by Stephen King
  • Skeleton Crew, by Stephen King
  • Feet Of Clay, by Terry Pratchett (reread)
  • Disturbia, by Christopher Fowler
  • Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
  • 253, by Geoff Ryman
  • Soldier Of Arete, by Gene Wolfe
  • The Regulators, by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
  • Body Of Evidence, by Patricia Cornwell
  • Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z.Brite
  • Insomnia, by Stephen King
  • Abandonati, by Gary Kilworth
  • Desperation, by Stephen King
  • Pavane, by Keith Roberts
  • The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, by Roddy Doyle
  • Prince Caspian, by C.S.Lewis (reread from childhood)
  • Molecular Studies On Plant CYP Enzymes, by Steven Zachary Hanley
  • The Horse And His Boy, by C.S.Lewis (reread from childhood)
  • The Solitaire Mystery, by Jostein Gaarder
  • The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis (reread from childhood)
  • The Magician's Nephew, by C.S.Lewis (reread from childhood)
  • The Van, by Roddy Doyle
  • Exodus From The Long Sun, by Gene Wolfe
  • Popcorn, by Ben Elton
  • Dolores Claiborne, by Stephen King
  • Excession, by Iain M.Banks
  • Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Vurt, by Jeff Noon
  • 'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King
  • Carrie, by Stephen King
  • Fungus The Bogeyman, by Raymond Briggs
  • Rose Madder, by Stephen King
  • The Iliad, by Homer (translated by Martin Hammond) (Samuel Butler's translation)
  • The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie
  • The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan
  • The Body Farm, by Patricia Cornwell
  • Cruel And Unusual, by Patricia Cornwell
  • All That Remains, by Patricia Cornwell
  • Post Mortem, by Patricia Cornwell
  • The Unauthorized Version, by Robin Lane Fox
  • The Inheritors, by William Golding
  • If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, by Italo Calvino
  • The Hobbit, by J.R.R.Tolkien (reread)
  • The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham (reread)
  • Feet Of Clay, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea, by Daniel C. Dennett
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1996 (31-Dec-96)

  • Wild Swans, by Jung Chang (reread)
  • Notes On A Small Island, by Bill Bryson
  • A Son Of The Circus, by John Irving
  • The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker
  • The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
  • Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson (reread)
  • Immediate Action, by Andy McNab
  • Last Chance To See..., by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwadine
  • Sleepers, by Lorenzo Carcaterro
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover According To Spike Milligan
  • Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett
  • The Island Of The Day Before, by Umberto Eco
  • Earth, by David Brin
  • Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos
  • Eight Little Piggies, by Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Periodic Kingdom, by Peter Atkins
  • Plague's Progress, by Arno Karlen
  • Timewalkers, by Clive Gamble
  • Whit, by Iain Banks
  • Memnoch The Devil, by Anne Rice
  • Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaardner
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