Life is short, and books are many

[shewhomust]

I keep a book diary - an actual, paper, diary: I record what I have been reading in a spiral-bound notebook. When I reach the end of a volume, I index it, for future reference, and I also post that index here. Previous years, and more explanations, here.

For the benefit of those playing along at home: not all diary entries, by a long way, make book posts in this LJ; but pretty well all book posts in this LJ will eventually make diary entries. There is a time-lag, which varies in length but it currently much longer than it should be.

Ben Aaronovitch: Rivers of London / Moon over Soho / Whispers Underground
Joan Aiken: Hate Begins at Home
Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge
Kathi Appelt: Keeper
Rosemary Auchmuty: A World of Girls
Brian Azzarello / Cliff Chiang: Wonder Woman 2: Guts / Wonder Woman 3: Iron

Jeremy Bastian: Cursed Pirate Girl
Andrew Beahrs: Twain's Feast
M. C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?
Brian Michael Bendis All-New X-Men I: Yesterday's X-Men / II: Here to Stay / III: Out of Their Depth
Hannah Berry: Adamtine
Frances Brody: Murder on a Summer's Day
Tom & Nimue Brown: Hopeless, Maine: Personal Demons
Ed Brubaker / Darwyn Cooke: Catwoman: I Trail of the Catwoman

Ben Cassidy: Danny Boy
Sarah Caudwell: The Sirens Sang of Murder
Ian Churchill: Marineman: A Matter of Life and Depth
Ann Cleeves: Harbour Street / Raven Black

Rob Davis / Woodrow Phoenix (editors): Nelson
Peter Dickinson: Earth and Air / In the Palace of the Khans /Touch and Go
Glyn Dillon: The Nao of Brown

Garth Ennis/ Goran Parlov: Fury: My War Gone By

Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl
Ian Forbes: Secret Worlds: Spar Boxes of the North Pennines
Christopher Fowler: Bryant & May and the Invisible Code
Kate Fox: Fox Populi
Matt Fraction / Javier Pulido: Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon

Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book / The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman / Dave McKean: Black Orchid / Violent Cases
David Garnett: Lady into Fox
Steve Gerber: Superman: Phantom Zone
Kieron Gillen / Jamie McKelvie: Phonogram: The Singles Club
Greer Gilman: Cry Murder! In a Small Voice
Catherine Graham: Things I Will Put in my Mother's Pocket

Mari Hannah: The Murder Wall
Robert Heinlein: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Susan Hill: Howards' End is on the Landing
Dennis Hopeless: Avengers' Arena: Murder World I / II / III

P. D. James: Original Sin
Michael Jecks: Act of Vengeance
Diana Wynne Jones: Charmed Life
Anne Joseph, (editor): The Sea of Azov

Laurie R. King: The Game / Garment of Shadows / Pirate King
T. Kingfisher: Nine Goblins
Rudyard Kipling: Kim

Margo Lanagan: Yellow Cake
Pierre Lemaître, (tr. Frank Wynne): Alex
Jeff Lemire: Underwater Welder
Simon Loftus: Puligny-Montrachet: Journal of a Village in Burgundy
Elinor Lyon: Strangers at the Door

Peter May: The Blackhouse / The Lewis Man / The Chessmen
Laton McCartney: Across the Great Divide
Carson McCullers: The Member of the Wedding
Ken McGoogan: Lady Franklin's Revenge
Frances McNeil: Somewhere Behind the Morning
Alan Moore / Steve Parkhouse: The Bojeffries Saga
Alan Moore / Antony Johnston / Facundo Percio: Fashion Beast
Alan Moore / Kevin O'Neill: Nemo: The Roses of Berlin
Simon Morden: Equations of Life / Theories of Flight / Degrees of Freedom /The Lost Art
Grant Morrison/ Sean Murphy: Joe the Barbarian
Grant Morrison / Darick Robertson: Happy!
Donald S. Murray / Douglas Robertson: The Guga Stone

National Short Story Prize

Elsie J. Oxenham: The Abbey Girls in Town / Biddy's Secret / Maid of the Abbey / Stowaways at the Abbey

Lance Parkin: Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore
Terry Pratchett: Raising Steam

Philis Irene Radford, (editor): Gears and Levers II
John Rae: Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847
Sara Ryan / Carla Speed McNeil: Bad Houses

Mike Shevdon: Sixty-One Nails
Michael Marshall Smith: Cat Stories

Bryan Talbot: Bryan Talbot's Brainstorm
Colin Thubron: In Siberia
P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins / Mary Poppins Comes Back / Mary Poppins Opens the Door / Mary Poppins in the Park / Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door

Brian K. Vaughan / Fiona Staples: Saga: Vol 1 / Vol 2 / Saga: Vol 3
Ursula Vernon: Digger
Andrew Viner: Venn that Tune

Jo Walton: The King's Name / The King's Peace / The Prize in the Game
Liz Williams: The Iron Khan
Liz Williams / Trevor Jones : Diary of a Witchcraft Shop II
Bill Willingham: Fables: Werewolves of the Heartlands / Fables: Snow White
G. Willow Wilson / M.K. Perker: Air: A History of the Future
Joff Winterhart: Days of the Bagnold Summer

Links to LJ posts.

One last note: previous lists have included a handful of books which I have been privileged to read pre-publication. Mostly, by the time I come to post this index, the books in question have been published, so this is not obvious, and I'm happy just to list them. I have deleted from this instalment a couple of books which remain unpublished, one way and another, at present.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I do use LJ/DW to keep just such an list!

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I've always had a soft spot for Ginda Bojeffries, the daughter of the family. How could you not love someone who yells at the unwary stranger who has addressed her as 'young lady': "I am NOT a 'young lady'! I am a PERSON! - I have thoughts and feelings TOO, you know! - You find the idea of a female who can cause nuclear explosions by squinting up one eye threatening to your manhood, DON'T you?" and ends up slamming the door in his face with a cry of "And don't come back until you're PROPERLY EVOLVED!"

Now you've reminded me I still never met Ginda except by your hand and the hovering ones of LJ, Gobbledygook and those spy geeks looking in the door of one's private sites such as the bathroom as a friend only the other day reported about a very vulgar person we both feel happy to not say 'overbearing' about because that would be widely&wildly underestimating her character and yet I haven't even knocked on her (Ginda's) door just to see what happens; as does indeed said mutual aquaintance avoid doing to get a better peep of other people's supposedly private lives, including their bathroom activities(she had come to live there, at my friend's place and ask for money while at it, now why does this sound so familiar;)

Anyway, thank you so much for the list for I am a list person albeit not 'listig' in that bloodthirsty Mordor sense nor do I wish to enter other people's bathrooms unless one must, having no other choice at visiting but I learnt to do the 'Knock, knock' thing first at, I think, the age of three or so.
Never mind Mollberg, it just needed to be said Ginda Style!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And I do enjoy reading your list. What strange creatures we are...