Books read

Here’s a list of every book I’ve read over the last few years, in chronological order, including fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, etc. A bold entry represents top marks. Target is 40 for the year… not very likely.

Every new book I read will be added to the list!

Books read in 2016

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Books read in 2015

1. The Great Zoo of China (Matthew Reily) – Fiction

2. The Martian (Andy Weir) – Science Fiction 

3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz) – Fiction

4. The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion) – Fiction

5. Starlight (Mark Millar) – Graphic Novel

6. Outcast (Robert Kirkman) – Graphic Novel

7. Trees (Warren Ellis) – Graphic Novel

8. Tower Lord (Anthony Ryan) – Fantasy

9. Love Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals (Jesse Armstrong) – Fiction

10. Jupiter’s Legacy (Mark Millar) – Graphic Novel

11. The Water Knife (Paolo Bacigalupi) – Science Fiction

12. Boo (Neil Smith) – Fiction

13. MPH (Mark Millar) – Graphic Novel

14. The Just City (Jo Walton) – Fiction

15. Uprooted (Naomi Novik) – Fantasy

16. The Honours (Tim Clare) – Fantasy

17. Armada (Ernest Cline) – Science Fiction

18. Queen of Fire (Anthony Ryan) – Fantasy

19. The Wicked + The Divine (Kieron Gillen) – Graphic Novel

20. The Book of Speculation (Erika Swyler) – Fiction

21. Soccernomics (Simon Kuper) – Non Fiction / Sports

22. The Library at Mount Char (Scott Hawkins) – Fantasy

23. The Bone Clocks (David Mitchell) – Fiction

24. Sleeping Giants (Sylvaine Neuvel) – Science Fiction

25. Sorcerer to the Crown (Zen Cho) – Science Fiction

26. Slade House (David Mitchell) – Fiction

27. Fantasy Life (Matthew Berry) – Non Fiction / Sports

28. The House of Shattered Wings (Aliette de Bodard) – Fantasy

29. Private Eye (Brian K Vaughan) – Graphic Novel

30. The Children’s Home ( Charles Lambert) – Fantasy

31. The Grace of Kings (Ken Liu) – Fantasy

32. Pro (Garth Ennis) – Graphic Novel

 

Books read in 2014

1. Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (Cullen Ben) – Graphic Novel

2. The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) – Fiction

3. The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) – Fiction

4. The Quick (Lauren Owen) – Fantasy

5. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (Claire North) – Science Fiction

6. Sex Criminals (Matt Fraction) – Graphic Novel

7. The Oversight (Charlie Fletcher) – Fantasy

8. Half a King (Joe Abercrombie) – Fantasy

9. The Three (Sarah Lotz) Science Fiction

10. The Girl With All the Gifts (Mike Carey) – Science Fiction

11. Batman – The Court of Owls (Scott Snyder) – Graphic Novel

12. Batman – The Night of Owls (Scott Snyder) – Graphic Novel

13. The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith) – Fiction

14. The Table of Less-Valued Knights (Marie Phillips) – Fiction

15. Batman – Zero Year (Scott Snyder) – Graphic Novel

16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Michael Chabon) – Fiction

17. The Magician’s Land (Lev Grossman) – Fantasy

18. Half Bad (Sally Green) – Fantasy

19. Lock In (John Scalzi) – Science Fiction

20. Lockwood & Co (Jonathan Stroud) – Fantasy

21. The Secret Service (Mark Millar) – Graphic Novel

22. Touch (Claire North) – Science Fiction

23. Blood Song (Anthony Ryan) – Fantasy

24. Seconds (Bryan Lee O’Malley) – Graphic Novel

25. Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel) – Science Fiction

26. Terra (Mitch Benn) – Science Fiction

Books read in 2013

1. The Twelve (Justin Cronin) – Horror

2. Sandman Slim (Richard Kadrey) – Fantasy

3. Redshirts (John Scalzi) – Science Fiction

4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Rachel Joyce) – Fiction

5. Under the Dome (Stephen King) – Science Fiction

6. Warm Bodies (Isaac Marion) – Horror

7. London Falling (Paul Cornell) – Fantasy

8. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green) – Fiction

9. Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill) – Horror

10. The Daylight War (Peter V Brett) – Fantasy

11. The Wind Through the Keyhole (Stephen King) – Fantasy

12. The Demonologist (Andrew Pyper) – Horror

13. Of Bees and Mist (Erik Setiawan) – Fantasy

14. The Wolf of Wall Street (Jordan Belfort) – Non-fiction

15. Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn) – Fiction

16. The Golem and the Jinni (Helene Wecker) – Fantasy

17. The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Tad Williams) – Fantasy

18. Too Big to Fail (Andrew Ross Sorkin) – Non-fiction

19. Inferno (Dan Brown) – Fiction

20. The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman) – Fantasy

21. The Shining Girls (Lauren Beukes) – Fiction

22. Dream and Shadows (Robert C Gargill) – Fantasy

23. The Mirage (Matt Ruff) – Fiction

24. Broken Homes (Ben Aaronovitch) – Fantasy

25. Lexicon (Max Barry) – Science Fiction

26. Jennifer Government (Max Barry) – Science Fiction

27. Bad Monkeys (Matt Ruff) – Science Fiction

28. The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver) – Non-fiction

29. Wool (Hugh Howey) – Science Fiction

30. The Rithmatist (Brandon Sanderson) – Fantasy

31. Steelheart (Brandon Sanderson) – Science Fiction

32. The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith) – Fiction

33. Robopocalypse (Daniel Wilson) – Science Fiction

34. The Republic of Thieves (Scott Lynch) – Fantasy

35. Batman – Death of the Family (Scott Snyder) – Graphic Novel

36. Brilliance (Marcus Sakey) – Science Fiction

37. Bedlam (Christopher Brookmyre) – Science Fiction

38. Vicious (V.E. Schwab) – Science Fiction

Books read in 2012

1. The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi) – Science Fiction

2. Logicomix (Apostolos Doxiadis) – Graphic Novel

3. Batman – The Black Mirror (Scott Snyder) – Graphic Novel

4. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury) – Fantasy

5. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell) – Fiction

6. Batman – Heart of Hush (Paul Dini) – Graphic Novel

7. The Tiger’s Wife (Tea Obreht) – Fiction

8. The Extra 2% (Johan Keri) – Non-Fiction

9. Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs) – Fiction

10. 11/22/63 (Stephen King) – Science Fiction

11. A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan) – Fiction

12. The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach) – Fiction

13. Doomsday Book (Connie Willis) – Science Fiction

14. Ape House (Sara Gruen) – Fiction

15. Among Others (Jo Walton) – Science Fiction

16. Horns (Joe Hill) – Horror

17. The Damned United (David Peace) – Fiction

18. Crossed (Warren Ellis) – Graphic Novel

19. Superior (Mark Millar) – Graphic Novel

20. Reamde (Neal Stephenson) – Science Fiction

21. Whispers Under Ground (Ben Aaronovitch) – Fantasy

22. The Girl who Circumnavigated Fantasyland in a Ship of her Own Making (Catherynne Valente) – Fantasy

23. The Man who Laughs (Ed Brubaker) – Graphic Novel

24. The Rook (Daniel O’Malley) – Fantasy

25. The Fallen Blade (John Courtenay Grimwood) – Fantasy

26. The Alloy of Law (Brandon Sanderson) – Fantasy

27. Batman – Gotham By Gaslight (Bryan Augustyn) – Graphic Novel

28. Batman – Thrillkiller (Howard Chaykin) – Graphic Novel

29. Batman – Master of the Future (Bryan Augustyn) – Graphic Novel

30. Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantell) – Fiction

31. The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker) – Science Fiction

32. The Casual Vacancy (J.K. Rowling) – Fiction

33. Bring Up the Bodies (Hillary Mantell) – Fiction

34. Red Country (Joe Abercrombie) – Fantasy

35. Dominion (C.J. Sansom) – Fiction

36. Days of Blood and Starlight (Laini Taylor) – Fantasy

37. The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Jonas Jonasson) – Fiction