Books you've read this year

[Atthis]

Well I certainly can’t remember all the books I’ve read this year, or even if I’ve read more or less than usual. I’ve never kept a record, but it’s a great idea. Maybe next year…. One thing I do know for sure is that I, too, have bought far more books than usual. It’s all because of this second-hand book stall open every Thursday at my uni! Well, that and being introduced to the Book Depository. Oh, and it doesn’t help that they keep releasing more and more Penguin Classic titles, which you can buy in Australia for less than half the price of most other books. I think I’ll have to make a pact with myself like Mervi. Less buying, more reading!

The ones I can remember reading this year:

•The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb
•The Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb
•The Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb
•The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
•Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
•Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other strange tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
•The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin
•The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
- Regeneration
- The Ghost Road
- The Eye in the Door
•Shutter Island by Denis Lehane
•The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
•The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
- Obernewtyn
- The Farseekers
- Ashling
- The Keeping Place
- The Stone Key

Of course most of the Hobb books were re-reads, and actually so were the first four Obernewtyn books. I’ve been following that series for 14 years now!

By the way, what’s Paperbackswap, Redchild? It sounds intriguing.