backtracking: 2010

52 weeks, 57 books

Chile - Travels in a Thin Country: Sara Wheeler
Nine Lives - In Search of the Sacred in Modern India: William Dalrymple
Another Day of Life: Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Last Mughal: William Dalrymple
The Emperor: Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Aerodynamics of Pork: Patrick Gale
The Balkans, 1804-1999: Mish Glenny
In an Antique Land: Amitav Ghosh
Leviathan: Philip Hoare
Along the Enchanted Way: William Blacker
The Other: Ryszard Kapuscinski
English Passengers: Matthew Kneale
Vagabonding: Rolf Potts
The Gypsies: Angus Fraser
The Whisperers: Orlando Figes
How I Live Now: Meg Rosoff
Sum: David Eagleman
Catfish and Mandala: Andrew X Pham
Blue River and Black Sea: Andrew Eames
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice: Evie Wyld
Map Addict: Mike Parker
The Wild Places: Robert Macfarlane
Cleopatra's Wedding Present - Travels Through Syria: Robert Trevor Moss
The Street Philosopher and The Holy Fool - A Syrian Journey: Marius Kociejowski
Mirror to Damascus: Colin Thubron
Going as Far as I Can: Duncan Fallowell
The Peregrine: J A Baker
Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh
Never Let Me Go: Kazuo Ishiguro
About This Life: Barry Lopez
From the Holy Mountain: William Dalrymple
In Xanadu: William Dalrymple
Journey into Cyprus: Colin Thubron
Rough Music: Patrick Gale
Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe
On the Road to Kandahar: Jason Burke
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Lawrence Durrell
Byzantium - The Early Centuries: John Julius Norwich
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Will Ferguson
Byzantium - The Apogee: John Julius Norwich
Let Our Fame Be Great - Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus: Oliver Bullogh
Notes From an Exhibition: Patrick Gale
Byzantium - The Decline and Fall: John Julius Norwich
Mr Norris Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood
The Whole Day Through: Patrick Gale
Last Night in Twisted River: John Irving
The Year of the Flood: Margaret Atwood
Freedom: Jonathan Frantzen
The Flaneur: Edmund White
The Book Thief: Markus Zusak
Zeitoun: Dave Eggers
Lords of the Horizons - A History of the Ottoman Empire: Jason Goodwin
Salonica - City of Ghosts: Mark Mazower
The Corrections: Jonathan Frantzen
Between the Assassinations: Aravind Adiga
What am I Doing Here: Bruce Chatwin
Crossing to Safety: Wallace Stegner