Library Cataloguing Data

[shewhomust]

I keep a book diary - a physical, dead-tree diary (more explanation here); when I reach the end of a volume, I index it (entries in which I do that here)). The most recent notebook had more pages than most, I think; certainly it's taken me two and a half years to fill it. And the books I've read in that time are :

Jean d’Aillon:, Marseille, 1198
Margery Allingham: Traitor’s Purse
Brian Azzarello: 100 Bullets: First Shots, Last Call

Gabriel Bá / Fabio Moon: De:Tales
Iain Banks: Espedair Street
H. Mortimer Batten: Red Ruff: The Life Story of a Fox (Puffin 32)
Belinda Bauer: Blacklands
Pierre Bayard: Comment parler des livres qu’on n’a pas lus?
Peter S. Beagle: The Folk of the Air
Stan Beckensall: Unquiet Grave
Peter Bennet: The Glass Swarm
Hannah Berry: Britten & Brülightly
Ambrose Bierce / Gahan Wilson: The Devil’s Dictionary
Biscuit Prizewinners: The Possibility of Bears
Laurence Block: The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza
Chaz Brenchley: House of Doors / The Lost World / Dracula
Elinor M Brent-Dyer: Chalet School Fête
Raymond Briggs:Ug, Boy Genius of the Stone Age
John Brunner: Timescoop

Mike Carey / Peter Gross: The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
Sarah Caudwell: The Sybil in her Grave
Michael Chabon: Gentlemen of the Road / The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Susanna Clarke: The Ladies of Grace Adieu
Ann Cleeves: Blue Lightning / Killjoy / Silent Voices
Paulo Coelho:By the River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept / The Valkyries
Gillian Cross: Calling a Dead Man

David Stuart Davies, (ed.): Crime Scenes
Samuel R Delany: Babel-17
Peter Dickinson: A Box of Nothing / King and Joker / The Old English Peep Show / Perfect Gallows / Skeleton-in-Waiting / Some Deaths before Dying
Stella Duffy: Eating Cake
Lord Dunsany: The King of Elfland’s Daughter

Martin Edwards:Dancing for the Hangman
Warren Ellis / Stuart Immonen: Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. - I Kick Your Face
Wolf Erlbruch:Duck, Death and the Tulip
Christopher Evans: Aztec Century

Anne Fine: The Devil Walks / Eating Things on Sticks / Our Precious Lulu / Under a Silver Moon / Untitled [Mountfield 3]
G.D. Fisher: The Hut-Man’s Book (Puffin 58)
Ford Madox Ford: Selected Memories
Daniel Fox: Jade Man’s Skin / Hidden Cities
Matt Fraction / Gabriel Bá: Casanova Book One: Luxuria
JHG ‘Don’ Freeman / Norman Pett: The Misadventures of Jane

Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book / Sandman III - Dream Country / Sandman IV - Season of Mists / Sandman V - A Game of You / Sandman VI - Fables and Reflections
Rick Gekoski: Tolkien’s Gown
Margaret Gibbs: One Man Wallopem / One Man Wallopem to the Rescue
Keith Giffen: Doom Patrol: Brotherhood/ Doom Patrol: We who are about To Die
Kieron Gillen / Jamie McKelvie: Phonogram: Rule Britannia
Greer Gilman: Cloud & Ashes
John Gimlette: Theatre of Fish
Sarah Glidden: How to understand Israel in 60 Days or less
Jean-Pierre Gontran de Poncins: Kabloona

Maike Hanneck: Cuisiner islandais
Georgette Heyer: These Old Shades
Tony Hillerman: Skeleton Man
Corinne Hofmann, (trans. Peter Millar): The White Masai
Sian Hughes: The Beach Hut and other Stories
Andrew Hussey: Paris: the Secret History

Eva Ibbotson: Journey to the River Sea

Tove Jansson: The Summer Book
Jason: The Iron Wagon
Diana Wynne Jones: Cart and Cwidder / The Crown of Dalemark / Drowned Ammet / Enchanted Glass / The Spellcoats
Gwyneth Jones: Rainbow Bridge

Paul Kane / Marie O’Regan (editors): Hellbound Hearts
Phyllis Ann Karr: The Idylls of the Queen
Laurie R King: Night Work / Touchstone

Michael Lark / Dean Motter: Batman’s Nine Lives
Stieg Larsson (translated Reg Keeland): The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The Girl who Played with Fire / The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Valerie Laws:, The Rotting Spot
Halldor Laxness (translated Magnus Magnusson): The Fish Can Sing
Simone Lia: Fluffy
Eric Linklater: The Merry Muse
Elinor Lyon: The House in Hiding

Rose Macaulay: They Were Defeated
Margaret Mahy: Maddigan‘s Fantasia
Karen Maitland: The Gallows Curse
Jan Mark: The Electric Telepath / Heathrow Nights
Ngaio Marsh: Death in Ecstasy / The Nursing Home Murders / Vintage Murder
Michael Marshall: Bad Things
Edward Marston:The Queen’s Head
David Mazzuchelli:Asterios Polyp
V. L. McDermid: Common Murder
Ken McGoogan:Fatal Passage
Hillary McKay: Indigo’s Star / Caddy Ever After / Forever Rose
Medieval Murderers: King Arthur‘s Bones / The Sacred Stone
Pat Mills / Simon Bisley: Sláine: The Horned God
William Morris: Icelandic Journals
Peter Mortimer: Camp Shatila: A Writer’s Chronicle
Lesley Mountain: Dance of the Disappointed
Margaret Murphy: Darkness Falls

Sean O’Brien: Afterlife

Jeff Parker,/ Tom Fowler: Mysterius the Unfathomable
Terry Pratchett: Unseen Academicals / Nation / I Shall Wear Midnight
Mary Prior: Rhubarbaria

Sheila Quigley: The Road to Hell

Ian Rankin / Werther dell’Edera: Dark Entries
François Rivière / Serge Micheli: Voyage into the Deep
Graham Robb: The Discovery of France
Alistair Robinson: Stereograms of the Dead / South of Souter
Suze Rotolo: A Freewheelin’ Time
Eric Frank Russell: The Great Explosion / Wasp
Geoff Ryman (editor): When It Changed

Clifford D. Simak: They Walked Like Men
Janni Lee Simner: Thief Eyes
Jacqueline Simpson / Terry Pratchett: The Folklore of Discworld
Francesco Soletti: Guida all’Enoturismo Vicentina / A Guide to Vicenza Wine Tourism
Kari Sperring: Living with Ghosts
Simon Spurrier / Fraser Irving: The Simping Detective
Anita Stewart: The Lighthouse Cookbook
Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the Ninth

Bryan Talbot: Grandville
Marcus Tanner: The Raven King
Josephine Tey: The Franchise Affair
Johan Theorin: The Darkest Room
Kate Thompson: The New Policeman
Barbara Euphan Todd: Worzel Gummidge Again (Puffin 61)
Adrian Tomine: Scenes from an Impending Marriage
Geoffrey Trease: The Arpino Assignment / The Crown of Violet / The Hills of Varna

Fred Vargas: Coule la Seine
Brian K. Vaughan et al.: Ex Machina: I - VIII / X

Jo Walton: Half a Crown / Among Others
Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
Gerard Way / Gabriel Bá: The Umbrella Academy: Dallas
James White: Star Surgeon
T.H.White: Mistress Masham’s Repose
Ysabeau Wilce: Flora Segunda of Crackpot Hall
Bill Willingham et al.: Fables XII The Dark Ages /: XIII: The Great Fables Crossover / Fables XV: Rose Red
G. Willow Wilson / M.K. Perker: Air: Letters from Lost Countries
The Write Fantastic: Anniversaries

I was surprised at how long the list is, and then I did a quick count and was surprised all over again that this isn't because they're all comics (or children's books, or any other sort of quick reads): some of them are, but some of them are solid volumes which seemed to last forever while I ws reading them.

And another kind of Library Cataloguing Data: the book I have just finished reading includes in its cataloguing data the following subject categories: "1,. War Widows - Fiction... 4. Haunted Hospitals _ Fiction . 5. Horror tales." Does this imply that there's an actual category of haunted hospital fiction (and, even more alarming thought, a category of haunted hospital non-fiction)? It overlooks that, if you're going to categorise things like that, it's also a hospital romance (though fans of hospital romances would get some surprises) and a really excellent book.

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Is the Dickinson that alternate reality royalty series? I've only been able to get hold of two of those - you remind me I need to read the rest. Your list also makes me greedy to read a lot of the books on it. The vast majority of them are books I would read, given a chance and probably will read, given time (and some fo the others, of course, are ones I have already enjoyed).

Thank you for sharing the list!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

King and Joker and Skeleton-in-Waiting are the alternate royal family; as far as I know, there are just the two of them.

The Old English Peep Show is the US title of A Pride of Heroes; Perfect Gallows is another crime novel, and Some Deaths before Dying his last crime novel, he says.

A Box of Nothing is children's fiction - fantasy, I suppose, but set in the real world (on a council rubbish tip).

He is one of my favourite authors, which is why so many of them.

And I'm glad the list isn't entirely tedious.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

In that case I've read both and have one. I wish there had been more.

I know A Pride of Heroes, and I'm rather glad that Dickinson is not writing more crime novels. He writes them well, but he writes other novels better.

Dickinson is also one of my favourite writers (which is why I asked about those books - there are lots of other cool ones on your list) and one of my favourite books of all time is Emma Tupper's Diary. My copy is so very battered and read....

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I bet I know what book you just finished reading.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Heh. I bet you do.

I'd like to write more about it, but so much of what I love about it is so spoilerish...

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

The sequel is fabulous.