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Jan 11, 2008 8:45:21 AM Archived Entry: "Books bought, 2008"
I'm continuing to try to reduce the number of books I buy, but with little luck. Last year's list is here, for reference.
January
1. Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self - Claire Tomalin
2. Berlitz Arabic phrase book and dictionary
3. The Victorians - A.N. Wilson (from the bookstore near Putney station)
4. Indian Cooking - Savitri Chowdhary
5. Indian Cooking - Naomi Good
February
6. *The Prisoner and the Fugitive - Marcel Proust
7. *Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris
March8. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
9. Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10. Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies - Francis Wheen
11. Coram Boy - Jamila Gavin
12. Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia: the bizarre life of writer, actor, Soho dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross - Paul Willets
13. The Waves at Genji's Door: Japan Through Its Cinema - Joan Mellen
14. *Grave Surprise (Berkley Prime Crime Mysteries) Harris, Charlaine
15. *Shakespeare's Trollop Harris, Charlaine
16. *Shakespeare's Champion (Lily Bard Mysteries) Harris, Charlaine
17. *Dead to the World Harris, Charlaine
18. Something Rotten* (Thursday Next Novels) Fforde, Jasper
19. *Miracle and Other Christmas Stories Willis, Connie
20. Red Lightning - Varley, John
21. SuperHeroes - Varley, John
22. Master of Space & Time - Rucker, Rudy
23. Real Sicilian Cookery - Maria Concetta Arrigo
24. Cooking in Siciliy - Eufemia Azzolina Pupella
April
25. Candide - Voltaire (in French)
26. Tales of Toyland - Enid Blyton
27. Glasshouse - Charles Stross
28. Real Murders* (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries) - Charlaine Harris
29. A Bone to Pick* (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries) - Charlaine Harris
30. Shakespeare's Champion* (Lily Bard Mysteries) - Charlaine Harris
31. The Cambridge Companion to Proust (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Richard Bales
32. Second ACT Trouble: Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Big Musical Bombs - Steven Suskin
33.* The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse - Robert Rankin
34. *The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime - Jasper Fforde
35. *The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime -Jasper Fforde
May
36. Pinter in the Theatre - Ian Smith
37. Perfumes and Flavours of Liguria: The Real Ligurian Kitchen - Laura Rangoni
June
38. Sultry Climates: Travel and Sex since the Grand Tour - Ian Littlewood
39. When You Are Engulfed in Flames* - David Sedaris
40. Following Proust: Norman Churches, Cathedrals, and Paris Paintings - Susan Baker
July
41. The BFG - Roald Dahl
42. The Squirrel and the Pixie - Enid Blyton
43. The Tale of Samuel Whiskers - Beatrix Potter
44. Software Testing: An ISEB Foundation* - Brian Hambling
45. Time Regained* - Marcel Proust
46. Madame Bovary* - Gustave Flaubert
47. Spook Country* - William Gibson
48. Halting State* -Charles Stross
49. *Thursday Next: First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde
50. Promised Land* - Connie Willis
51. An Ice Cold Grave* - Charlaine Harris
52. Explore the Coast of Devon - Paul Wreyford
53. English Architecture at a Glance - Architectural Press
August
54. Remembrance of Things Past - the play adapted by Harold Pinter and Di Trevis
October
55. Bologna: A City to Discover
56. The Cuisine of Italy: All the Recipes - Demetra Giunti
November
57. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency* - Alexander McCall Smith
December
58. Shakespeare's Christmas* - Charlaine Harris
59. Budayeen Nights - George Alec Effinger
60. Proust In Love - William C. Carter
61. The Architecture of Happiness - Alain De Bottom
62. Dead as a Doornail* - Charlaine Harris
63. Shakespeare's Counselor* - Charlaine Harris
64. All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
65. Innamorata - Michael Manning
66. Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
"Only weak men fear able women" - Marion Boyars