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Books read in 2008

…and the books that I read last year. Another year where I’ve not felt that I’ve found enough time to read, particularly in the summer months. I’ll do better this year!

  1. The Aesthetics of Music Roger Scruton (1997)
  2. The Bad Quarto Jill Paton Walsh (2007)
  3. Exit Music Ian Rankin (2007)
  4. Counterknowledge Damian Thompson (2008)
  5. Making Money Terry Pratchett (2007)
  6. So You're Going To Wear The Kilt! J. Charles Thompson (1989)
  7. Bollocks to Alton Towers - Uncommonly British Days Out Robin Halstead - Jason Hazeley - Alex Morris - Joel Morris (2005)
  8. Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round - An Introduction to The Ring of the Nibelung M. Owen Lee (1994)
  9. How to Sail John Fisher (1959)
  10. Eat, Shoots & Leaves - The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne Truss (2003)
  11. 80 Years of Cryptic Crosswords Val Gilbert (2004)
  12. The Ode Less Travelled - Unlocking the Poet Within Stephen Fry (2005)
  13. Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down Nicey and Wifey (2004)
  14. Minority Report - (short story collection) Philip K. Dick (2002)
  15. Paycheck - (short story collection) Philip K. Dick (2003)
  16. Buying the Best Hugo Arnold (2000)
  17. Scared to Death - From BSE to Global Warming - How Scares Are Costing Us the Earth Christopher Booker - Richard North (2007)
  18. Songs of Innocence & of Experience William Blake (1794)
  19. Rupert - A Bear's Life George Perry - with Alfred Bestall (1985)
  20. The Rupert Annual No. 72 John Harrold (2007)
  21. The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring Bernard Shaw (1922)
  22. The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce (1911)
  23. A is for Ox - A short history of the alphabet Lyn Davies (2004)
  24. A Short History of Time Leofranc Holford-Strevens (2005)
  25. What are the Seven Wonders of the World? - And 60 Other Great Cultural Questions Peter D'Epiro - Mary Desmond Pinkowish (2005)
  26. Objective-C Pocket Reference Andrew M. Duncan (2003)
  27. Jon Pertwee - The Biography Bernard Bale (2000)
  28. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl (1964)
  29. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Roald Dahl (1973)
  30. Devil May Care Sebastian Faulks (2008)
  31. The BFG Roald Dahl (1982)
  32. The Compleet Molesworth Geoffrey Willans - Ronald Searle (1959)
  33. The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers (1903)
  34. Live and Let Die Ian Fleming (1954)
  35. Stories John Buchan ()
  36. British Summertime Paul Cornell (2002)
  37. Master & Commander Patrick O'Brian (1970)
  38. Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde Roger Scruton (2004)
  39. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer Philip K. Dick (1982)