2011 Reads

What I've been reading this year, including authors and some Amazon links should you wish to join along.



January 2011 (10)

1. How to Quiet a Vampire: A Sotie (Borislav Pekic) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
2. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
3. A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Medieval Town (Anne Wroe) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
4. Instruments of Darkness (Robert Wilson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
5. The Silent and the Damned (Robert Wilson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
6. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (Russell Shorto) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
7. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (L Colley) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
8. Snark (David Denby) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
9. The Bell Ringers (Henry Porter) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
10. Ignorance of Blood (Robert Wilson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]

February (8)

1. A Conspiracy of Paper (David Liss) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
2. A Week at the Airport (Alain de Botton) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
3. The Lords of the North (Bernard Cornwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
4. Sword Song (Bernard Cornwell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
5. Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
6. The 6th Lamentation (William Broderick) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
7. The Odyssey (Simon Armitage) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
8. The Lexicographrer's Dilemma (Jack Lynch) [amazon.ca - not available] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]

March (8)

1. Claudius (Douglas Jackson) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
2. The Course of Honor (Lindsey Davis) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
3. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Ausen & Seth Grahame-Smith) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
4. For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History aka For all the Tea in China: Espionage, Empoire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink (Sarah Rose) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
5. The Meaning of Liff (Douglas Adams & John Lloyd) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
6. The Four Last Things (from Fallen Angel: The Roth Trilogy aka Requiem for an Angel: The Roth Trilogy) (Andrew Taylor) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
7. The Judgement of Strangers (from Fallen Angel: The Roth Trilogy aka Requiem for an Angel: The Roth Trilogy) (Andrew Taylor) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
8. The Odyssey aka Homer's Odyssey (Simon Armitage) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com]  [amazon.co.uk]

April (7)

1. The Office of the Dead (from Fallen Angel: The Roth Trilogy aka Requiem for an Angel: The Roth Trilogy) (Andrew Taylor) [amazon.ca][amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
2. The Spanish Game (Charles Cumming) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
3. Don't Look Back (Karin Fossum) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
4. The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (Sue Townsend) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
5. He Who Fears the Wolf (Karin Fossum) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
6. Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger)[amazon.ca][amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
7. The Horses of St Mark's (Charles Freeman)[amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]

May (10)

1. Under Enemy Colors aka Under Enemy Colours (Sean Thomas Russell) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
2. The Barred Window (Andrew Taylor) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com - audio] [amazon.co.uk]
3. The Widow Cliquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ran It (Tilar J Mazzeo) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
4. A Spy by Nature (Charles Cumming) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
5. Typhoon (Charles Cumming) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
6. Salt: A World History (Mark Kurlansky) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
7. Killing Rommel (Steven Pressfield) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
8. The Gates of Rome (first in the Emperor series) (Conn Iggulden) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
9. The Death of Kings (second in the Emperor series) (Conn Iggulden) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
10. Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]

June (8)

1. 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (Gavin Menzies) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
2. Bones of the Hills (third in the Conqueror aka Genghis series) (Conn Iggulden) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
3. Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory (Lisa Jardine) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk] 
4. Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing (Peter Silverton) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
5. When the Devil Holds the Candle (Karin Fossum) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
6. Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (from The Art of Living series) (Havi Carel) [amazon.ca][amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
7. Blackout (Connie Willis) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]
8. Theories of International Politics and Zombies (Daniel W Drezner) [amazon.ca] [amazon.com] [amazon.co.uk]

July to December (51)

1. Devil May Care (Sebastian Faulks) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
2. The Stonecutter (Camilla Lackberg) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
3. A Most Wanted Man (John Le Carré) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
4. The Anatomy of Ghosts (Andrew Taylor) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
5. The Devil of Nanking (Mo Hayder) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
6. Blood and Honey (Graham Hurley) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
7. Don't Look Back (Karin Fossum) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
8. Lonely Hearts (John Harvey) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
9. Lazy Bones (Mark Billingham) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
10. The Raven on the Water (Andrew Taylor) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
11. Angels Passing (Graham Hurley) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
12. Quietly in Their Sleep (Donna Leon) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
13. A Darker Domain (Val McDermid) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
14. Silence of the Grave (Arnaldur Idridason) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com]  [ Amazon.co.uk]
15. Prophesy (Peter James) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
16. Beneath the Bleeding  (Val McDermid)  [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
17. Blood Line (Mark Billingham) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
18. Betrayal (John Lescroart)  [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
19. Broken (Karin Fossum) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
20. World without End (Ken Follet) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
21. Willful Behaviour (Donna Leon) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
22. Fatal Remedies (Donna Leon) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
23. About Face (Donna Leon) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
24. All Clear (Connie Willis) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
25. Black Seconds (Karin Fossum) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
26. Lincoln's Dreams (Connie Willis) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
27. The Preacher (Camilla Lackberg) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
28. Borderland (Brian McGilloway) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
29. Lost River (Stephen Booth) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
30. Nemesis (Jo Nesbo) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
31. Hidden Child (Camilla Lackberg) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
32. Gone to Ground (John Harvey) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
33. In the Dark (Mark Billingham) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
34. Voices (Arnaldur Idridason) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com]  [ Amazon.co.uk]
35. Roma (Stephen Saylor) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
36. Roman Games (Bruce Macbain) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [ Amazon.co.uk]
37. Calling Out for You (Karin Fossum) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [ Amazon.co.uk]
38. The Alchemy of Paint: Art Science and Secrets from the Middle Ages (Spike Bucklow) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
39. Far Cry (John Harvey)  [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
40. A Spectacle of Corruption (David Liss) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
41. Scaredy Cat (Mark Billingham) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
42. Death Message (Mark Billingham) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
43. Raiders from the North (Alex Rutherford) (first in the Empire of the Mogul series) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
44. Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life (John Mortimer) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
45. Passage (Connie Willis) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
46. Nemesis (Lindsdey Davis) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
47. Human Traces (Sebastian Faulks) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
48. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Steve Hockensmith) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
49. The Hypnotist (Lars Kepler)  [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
50. The White Queen (Philippa Gregory) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
51. The Princes in the Tower (Elizabeth Jenkins) [Amazon.ca] [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk]
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Total for 2011= 101 books read