2010

January
01. Marazan – Nevil Shute
02. Round The Bend – Nevil Shute
03. Pastoral – Nevil Shute
04. The Far Country – Nevil Shute
05. The Voyage of the Beagle – Charles Darwin*
06. So Disdained – Nevil Shute

February
07. The Crafty Art of Playmaking – Alan Ayckbourn*^
08. The Help – Kathryn Stockett^
09. Death and the Dancing Footman – Ngaio Marsh
10. Uncommon Danger – Eric Ambler
11. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler^
12. Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
13. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
14. Journey into Fear – Eric Ambler
15. The Jungle Books – Rudyard Kipling
15a. The Barbarous Coast – Ross Macdonald (re-read)

March
16. Epitaph for a Spy – Eric Ambler
17. The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits – Elizabeth Peters
18. Miss Ranskill Comes Home – Barbara Euphan Todd^
19. The Murders of Richard III – Elizabeth Peters
20. The Blue Hammer – Ross Macdonald
21. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
22. The Underground Man – Ross Macdonald
23. Enchanted Glass – Diana Wynne Jones
24. The Rising of the Moon – Gladys Mitchell
25. Pandora of Parrham Royal – Violet Needham
26. The Love Talker – Elizabeth Peters

April
27. Folly du Jour – Barbara Cleverly
28. The Image of the City – Kevin Lynch*^
29. The Instant Enemy – Ross Macdonald
30. Cart and Cwidder – Diana Wynne Jones
30a. Drowned Ammet – Diana Wynne Jones (re-read)
30b. The Spellcoats – Diana Wynne Jones (re-read)
30c. The Crown of Dalemark – Diana Wynne Jones (re-read)
31. The Case of the Gilded Fly – Edmund Crispin
32. Sleeping Beauty – Ross Macdonald
33. Nightingale Wood – Stella Gibbons
34. Plan for Chaos – John Wyndham

May
35. McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime – Misha Glenny*
36. A Legacy – Sybille Bedford^
37. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
38. The High Window – Raymond Chandler
39. The Lady in the Lake – Raymond Chandler
40. The Little Sister – Raymond Chandler

June
40a. Through the Wall – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
40b. The Clock Strikes Twelve – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
40c. Wicked Uncle – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
40d. Vintage Murder – Ngaio Marsh (re-read)
40e. The Mislaid Magician – Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer (re-read)
40f. Paladin of Souls – Lois McMaster Bujold (re-read)
41. The Country Child – Alison Uttley
41a. The Curse of Chalion – Lois McMaster Bujold (re-read)

July
41b. Latter End – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41c. Lonesome Road – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41d. Ladies’ Bane – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41e. Out of the Past – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41f. The Gazebo – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41g. Poison in the Pen – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41h. Miss Silver Intervenes – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41i. Death in a White Tie – Ngaio Marsh (re-read)
41j. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham (re-read)
41k. The Fingerprint – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41l. The Silent Pool – Patricia Wentworth (re-read)
41m. Have His Carcase – Dorothy L. Sayers (re-read)
42. Death at the Opera – Gladys Mitchell
43. Death and the Maiden – Gladys Mitchell
44. The Mystery of a Butcher’s Shop – Gladys Mitchell
44a. The Talisman Ring – Georgette Heyer (re-read)
45. Bitter Lemons of Cyprus – Lawrence Durrell*
46. Empire: How Britain shaped the modern world – Niall Ferguson*

August
47. Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
48. Living Dolls: The return of sexism – Natasha Walter*^
49. Prospero’s Cell – Lawrence Durrell*
49a. To Love And Be Wise – Josephine Tey (re-read)
50. The Black Rubber Dress – Lauren Henderson
51. Freeze My Margarita – Lauren Henderson
52. The Railway Detective – Edward Marston^
53. Reflections on a Marine Venus – Lawrence Durrell*
54. Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert Heinlein^
55. Diary of a Provincial Lady – E. M. Delafield^
56. The Provincial Lady Goes Further – E. M. Delafield
57. The Provincial Lady in America – E. M. Delafield
58. Unseen Academicals – Terry Pratchett
59. Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
60. The Provincial Lady in Wartime – E. M. Delafield

September
61. Divine by Mistake – P. C. Cast^
62. Memento Mori – Muriel Spark^
63. Trustee from the Toolroom – Nevil Shute
64. The State of the Art – Iain M. Banks (short stories)

October
65. The Jewel in the Crown – Paul Scott^
66. Hungry City* – Carolyn Steel^
67. Soulless – Gail Carriger^
68. A Civil Campaign – Lois McMaster Bujold
69. A Very British Coup – Chris Mullin^
70. Blood Music – Greg Bear
71. Haunted – Kelley Armstrong
72. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
73. The Blue Zone – Andrew Gross^

November
74. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis^
75. Billy Budd – Herman Melville^
76. Komarr – Lois McMaster Bujold
77. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
78. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad^
79. Banewreaker – Jacqueline Carey
80. Godslayer – Jacqueline Carey

December
81. Diplomatic Immunity – Lois McMaster Bujold
82. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – Philip Pullman
83. Pegasus – Robin McKinley
84. Atonement – Ian McEwan^
85. False Scent – Ngaio Marsh
86. Extraordinary Engines (short stories) – ed. Nick Gevers^
86a. Whose Body? – Dorothy L. Sayers (re-read)
87. The Man Who Knew Too Much (short stories) – G. K. Chesterton
88. Microserfs – Douglas Coupland^
89. The Problem of the Green Capsule – John Dickson Carr
90. The Sign of the Four – Arthur Conan Doyle

*Non-fiction. ^New author.

This entry will be updated as I read through the next few months…

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