half-real worlds of paper and ink

December
The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Thud! by Terry Pratchett


November
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene


October
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves


September
. . . No books finished. (Maybe I was swapped with a pod person and no one noticed.)


August
Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
Deep Fathom by James Rollins
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Voices of a Distant Star by Mizu Sahara (manga)


June and July
No books finished! (Seriously, what.)


May
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson


April
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor


March
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson
All Clear by Connie Willis


February
No books finished!


January
Blackout by Connie Willis
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

December
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

November
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Back Home by Michelle Magorian
Coraline & Other Stories by Neil Gaiman
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones
1515 by Faisal Tehrani
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

October
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Changeling Sea by Patricia A McKillip

September
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

August
Red Shift by Alan Garner
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

July
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Crooked House by Agatha Christie*
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E Lockhart

June
No books finished! :(

May
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

April
Z for Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien
Lord Sunday by Garth Nix
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

March
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn*
Star Wars: Specter of the Past by Timothy Zahn*
Star Wars: Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly*
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Ragwitch by Garth Nix
I, Claudius by Robert Graves

February
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising by Timothy Zahn*
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

January
The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Volume 6: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster



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* denotes a reread

December
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


November
. . . No books finished. EPIC FAIL.


October
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Mat Som by Lat
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Predator's Gold by Philip Reeve


September
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Asbjørnsen


August
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon


July
The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
East by Edith Pattou
Possession: A Romance by AS Byatt


June
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
number9dream by David Mitchell


May
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly


April
The Giver by Lois Lowry
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett


March
The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
Starcross by Philip Reeve
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Winter Rose by Patricia A McKillip
The Sandman Volume 10: The Wake by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Volume 9: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett
The Sandman Volume 8: Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Volume 7: Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Sunshine by Robin McKinley


February
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall


January
Spellbound by Christopher Pike
Gimme a Kiss by Christopher Pike
See You Later by Christopher Pike
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle