My books of 2009
Posted 6 January 10 in Thoughts
I can’t remember enough of the year in an organised enough way to make a sensible post out of it so thought I’d just focus on something that has come into it’s own this year. I read rather a lot of books this year. There’s no way I would have been able to keep track of them all without the very clever anobii website
I’ve tried various book tracking sites but anobii has a nice combination of features and usability that works for me. Honourable mention goes to the nicely designed Readernaut.
I’ve really enjoyed making the time and have uncovered some cracking books. Most surprising was the excellent Alan Bennett book that I picked up from the Library whilst looking for Scottish authors to dovetail with the family’s summer trip to Scotland. I also enjoyed my pretty random (and very cheap) way of picking up books from charity shops as a way of making it easier to decide what to read. 13 of this years books were bought this way.
Fiction Books
- Arthur and George By Julian Barnes
- Sam the Sudden By Pelham G. Wodehouse
- White Teeth By Zadie Smith
- The Sopranos By Alan Warner
- Filth By Irvine Welsh
- Knots and Crosses By Ian Rankin
- The uncommon reader By Alan Bennett
- The Colour of Magic: Discworld, Book 1 By Terry Pratchett
- Quick Service By Pelham G. Wodehouse
- A Study in Scarlet: (Classic Crime) By Arthur Conan Doyle
- Charlotte Gray By Sebastian Faulks
- The Fight: (Penguin Modern Classics) By Norman Mailer
- The Corrections By Jonathan Franzen
- The Damned Utd By David Peace
- The Jeeves Omnibus 1: Thank You, Jeeves; The Code of the Woosters; The Inimitable Jeeves By Pelham G. Wodehouse
- The Crying of Lot 49: (Picador Books) By Thomas Pynchon
- Money: (Penguin Modern Classics) By Martin Amis
Art and Design Books
- Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative By Will Eisner
- Language of Things By Deyan Sudjic
- Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography By Emily King
- Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design (AVA Academia) By Ian Noble, Russell Bestley
- From Lascaux to Brooklyn By Paul Rand
- Play Pen: New Children’s Book Illustration By Martin Salisbury
- Hot Shots By Kevin Meredith
- The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora By Irwin Chusid, Jim Flora
- Then is Now: Sampling from the Past for Today’s Graphics (A Handbook for Contemporary Design) By Cheryl Dangel Cullen
- The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora By Irwin Chusid, Barbara Economon
Non-fiction
- Once More, with Feeling By Victoria Coren, Charlie Skelton
- Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews By A. A. Gill
- The Rough Guide to Scotland, 7th Edition: (Rough Guide Travel Guides) By Rob Humphreys, Donald Reid
- Previous Convictions: Assignments From Here and There: Assignments from Here and There By A.A. Gill
Biographies
- Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram By Iain M. Banks
- Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith By Mark E. Smith
Military History
- Stalingrad By Antony Beevor
- Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man By Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Graphic Novel
- Watchmen By Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Mythology
- Axe-age, Wolf-age: A Selection from the Norse Myths By Kevin Crossley-Holland
Technical books
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Git By Travis Swicegood