Books read in 2010

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1. Georgette Heyer, The Foundling.
2. Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley, In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor. I wish he would write the final volume of A Time of Gifts, but I don't suppose he will ever...
3. Mike Parker, Map Addict.
4. Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island R.
5. John Lucarotti, Doctor Who: Marco Polo R.
6. Susan Howatch, Glittering Images R.
7. Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades.
8. Georgette Heyer, The Devil's Cub/
9. Michael Sadgrove, Wisdom and Ministry.
10. CS Lewis, Letters to Malcolm. R.
11. Susan Howatch, Glamorous Powers. R.
12. Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand.
13. Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. R.
14. Phillip J Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics.
15. Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Rd
16. Ben Quash and Michael Ward (ed.), Heresies and How To Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe.
17. Steven Croft and Stephen Cottrell, Travelling Well.
18. Stephen Cottrell et al, Youth Emmaus.
19. James Gleick, Chaos. Excellent pop science - clear, well written, and intriguing.
20. Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage. R.
21. Lucy Winckett, Our Sound is Our Wound.
22. Eamon Duffy, Saints and Sinners: A history of the Papacy.
23. Len Deighton's Action Cookbook. A fascinating period piece (with some very helpful tips...)
24. Kalliostos Ware, The Orthodox Way.
25. Margaret Irwin, The Bride.
26. Alastair McGrath, Theology: The Basics. (A bit too basic, frankly).
27. O. Douglas, Eliza for Common.
28. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi.
29. Michael Arditti, Easter.
30. Arthur Ransome, Racundra's First Cruise.
31. George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Redskins.
32. Matthew Engel, Eleven Minutes Late.
33. Dora Heldt, Urlaub mit Papa. R.
34. Patrick O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral.
35. Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen.
36. Elisabeth von Arnim, In The Mountains.
37. Dora Heldt, Tante Inge haut ab.
38. Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood.
39. Stuart Maconie, Adventures on the High Teas. Amusing, and interesting in parts, but slapdash (Tolkien did not study mediaeval history - you can't do it at Oxford in any case, because it's either Ancient or Modern - and he didn't get a first; there is no murder in Gaudy Night, and referring to Harriet as "Lord Peter Wimsey's squeeze" getting involved in "proto-feminist shenanigans" at a "girls' college" suggest you've missed several points. Or only looked it up on Wikipedia.)
40. O Douglas, The Proper Place.
41. Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors.
42. Alexander McCall Smith, Teatime for the Traditionally Built.
43. Alexander McCall Smith, The Double Comfort Safari Club.
44. William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal.
45. O Douglas, Pink Sugar.
46. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm. R.
47. Frank Goddard, The Great North Road.
48. Lois McMaster Bujold, Beguilement. R.
49. Marion Lochhead, Saint Mungo's Bairns.
50. Lois McMaster Bujold, Legacy. R.
51. Lois McMaster Bujold, Passage. R.
52. Georgette Heyer, Pistols for Two.
53. Georgette Heyer, April Lady.
54. John Shelton Reed, Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism. Fascinating stuff, though with some strange omissions.
55. John Drane, The McDonaldization of the Church. Not at all convinced by this; or at least I agree with him about what the church should be doing - but disagree strongly as to how. And his ideas about Star Trek are rubbish...
56. Thérèse of Lisieux, Autobiography of a Saint (title used for this translation by Mgr Knox; more usually called The Story of a Soul).
57. Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch.
58. J.I.M. Stewart, Young Patullo. (the second, it turns out, of a quintet of novels about Oxford, by an author better known under his assumed name of Michael Innes. Judging from this enjoyable story about a Scot at Christ Church - and one character who is obviously loosely based on Tolkien - the others would be worth tracking down).
59. Michael Frayn, Spies.
60. John le Carrre,Smiley's People.
61. Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington. R.
62. Jim Butcher, Changes. R.
63. Josephine Elder, Lady of Letters.
64. Simon Hughes, A Lot of Hard Yakka.
65. Susan Howatch, A Question of Integrity. R.
66. Michael Ramsey, The Resurrection of Christ.
67. Georgette Heyer, Bath Tangle.
68. Max Brooks and Ibrahim Roberson, The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks. The things one reads because they're lying about in bookshops...
69. Dee Brown, The Galvanized Yankees.
70. Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow.
71. Michael Innes, Appleby Plays Chicken
72. Michael Innes, Death in the President's Lodgings.
73. Michael Innes, Appleby's End.
74. Georgette Heyer, Frederica.
75. John le Carre, The Constant Gardener.
76. Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle.
77. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale. R.
78. Phillip Reeve, Larklight. R.
79. Clive James, Glued to the Box.
80. A.A. Milne, The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, trans. James Robertson.
81. Austin Farrer, Saving Belief.
82. Clive James, The Crystal Bucket.
83. Hermann Kant, Die Aula. R.
84. LM Bujold, The Curse of Chalion. R.
85. Iris Murdoch, The Flight from the Enchanter.
86. Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn.
87. Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life.
88. Natasha Solomons, Mr Rosenblum's List.
89. Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Never, ever, again.
90. Shappi Khorsandi, A Beginner's Guide to Acting English. This sounds oddly like "Mr Rosenblum's List" in concept, but is in fact the - funny and moving - childhood memoir of an Iranian whose family came to England as ex-pats and stayed as refugees. Then she grew up to be a comedian. A really good book.
91. Elizabeth David, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine.
92. LM Bujold, Paladin of Souls. R.
93. Lucy Mangan, My Family and Other Disasters. R.
94. Lindsey Davis, Nemesis.
95. Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar. I suspect Theroux is a bit of a pill personally, but he's very amusing.
96. Jason Goodwin, Von Danzig bis nach Istanbul.
97. Lindsey Davis, Scandal Takes a Holiday. R.
98. Lindsey Davies, See Delphi and Die. R.
99. Lindsey Davies, Saturnalia. R.
100. Lindsey Davies, Alexandria. R.
101. Lindsey Davies, Last Act in Palmyra R.
102. Lindsey Davies, Time to Depart . R
103. Lindsey Davies, A Dying Light in Corduba. R.
104. Lindsey Davies, Three Hands in the Fountain. R.
105. Lindsey Davies, Two for the Lions. R.
106. Lindsey Davies, One Virgin Too Many. R.
107. John Bell, Ten Things They Never Told Me About Jesus.
108. Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight.
109. JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings. R.
110. Lucy Mangan, The Reluctant Bride.
111. Paul Torday, The Girl on the Landing.
112. P.G. Wodehouse, Summer Lightning. R.
113. P.G. Wodehouse, Heavy Weather. R.
114. Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War. R.
115. Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate. R.
116. David Dimbelby, How We Built Britain.
117. Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
118. Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love.
119. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Those Happy Golden Years.
120. Madeline l'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
121. Bill Bryson, Made in America. R.
122. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods. R.
123. Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Company.
124. Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Sword.
125. Sam Willis, Fighting Temeraire.
126. PG Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves.
127. Penelope Fitzgerald, At Freddies.
128. Stephen Sykes, Frederich Schleiermacher.
129. Lois McMaster Bujold, Cryoburn.