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

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2009: a year between the covers

52 weeks, 57 books

Young Hearts Crying: Richard Yates.
Michael Tolliver Lives: Armisted Maupin
My Father's Island: Johanna Angermeyer
Skinned Alive: Edmund White
The General in his Labyrinth: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Chameleon's Shadow: Minnette Walters
The Soccer War: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Richard Keynes
Engleby: Sebastian Faulks
Ghosts of Spain: Giles Tremlett
Case Histories: Kate Atkinson
Imperium: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran Foer
Street Without a Name: Kapka Kassabova
Shah of Shahs: Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Bridge: Geert Mak
The White Tiger: Aravind Adiga
The Northern Clemency: Philip Hensher
Istanbul: Orhan Pamuk
Kim: Rudyard Kipling
India - A Million Mutinies Now: V S Naipaul
Travels with Herodotus: Ryszard Kapuscinski
When You Are Engulfed in Flames: David Sedaris
The Age of the Warrier: Robert Fisk
The Believers: Zoe Heller
Flower Hunters: Mary Gibbin and John Gibbin
The River of Lost Footsteps - A Personal History of Burma: Thant Myint-U
Naked: David Sedaris
The Woods: Harlan Coben
Shadow of the Silk Road: Colin Thubron
The Beach House: Jane Green
The Coma: Alex Garland
Sea of Poppies: Amitav Ghosh
Austerlitz: W G Sebald
The Princess Bride: William Goldman
In Defence of Food: Michael Pollan
The Inheritance of Loss: Kiran Desai
In Patagonia: Bruce Chatwin
Portobello: Ruth Rendell
The Cloudspotters' Guide: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Zoology: Ben Dolnick
The Other Hand: Chris Cleave
The Secret Life of Words - How English Became English: Henry Hitchings
One Good Turn: Kate Atkinson
A Sky Full of Starlings: Stephen Moss
Tree Surgery for Beginners: Patrick Gale
Friendly Fire: Patrick Gale
Book of the Dead: Patricia Cornwell
The Lost Heart of Asia: Colin Thubron
Possible Side Effects: Augusten Burroughs
Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs - The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. : Jeremy Mercer
Star of the Sea: Joseph O'Connor
The Hills of Adonis: Colin Thubron
Until I Find You: John Irving
The Song of the Dodo: David Quammen
Bury Me Standing: Isabel Fonseca
Homage to Catalonia: George Orwell

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