2008 Reading

[faustus]

68 - I ask for two books which I haven't written up to be taken into consideration, one on the Stour Valley Walk and another on William Gibson, to be reviewed. Also The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction and Science Fiction: 50 Key Figures about three times each, in manuscript.

For convenience, sorted by broad categories.

Fiction

Children's/YA
XI: David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
XV: Daniel Handler, writing as Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital, London: Egmont (2003)
XVI: Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants (2008))
XVII: Thomas M. Disch, The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances (1986)

Comedy
XV: Nino Culotta, They're a Weird Mob (1957)

Crime
I: Reginald Hill, The Death of Dalziel (2007)
III: John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (1999)
IV Peter Robinson, Gallows View (1987)
V Peter Robinson, A Necessary End (1989)
VI Peter Robinson, The Hanging Valley (1989)
VII Peter Robinson, Past Reason Hated (1992) (or 1991?)
VIII: Peter Robinson, Wednesday's Child (1992?)
IX: Peter Robinson, Dry Bones That Dream (1994?)
X: Peter Robinson, In A Dry Season
XII: Peter Robinson, Playing With Fire (2004)
XIII: Peter Robinson, Strange Affair
XIV: Peter Robinson, Caedmon's Song (1990)
XVIII: Ian Rankin, Knots and Crosses
XIX: Ian Rankin, Hide & Seek
XX: Ian Rankin, Tooth & Claw
XXIII: Val McDermid, The Grave Tattoo
XXIV: Ian Rankin, Strip Jack (1992)
XXVI: Ian Rankin, The Black Book (1993)
XXXII: Ian Rankin, Let it Bleed
XXXIV: Ian Rankin, Black and Blue (1997)
XXXVIII: Ian Rankin, The Hanging Garden (1998)
XXXIX: Allan Guthrie, Two-Way Split (2004)
XLI: Val McDermid, Beneath the Bleeding (2007)
XLIII: John Connolly, Dark Hollow (2000)
XLVI: John Connolly, The Killing Kind (2001)
IL: Ian Rankin, Dead Souls (1999)
L: Peter Robinson, A Dedicated Man (1988)
LI: Peter Robinson, Innocent Graves (1996)
LIII: Peter Robinson, Piece of My Heart (2006)
LIV: Ian Rankin, Set in Darkness (2000)
LV: Ian Rankin, The Falls (2001)
LVI: Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men (2002)
LVIII: Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood (2003)
LIX: Ian Rankin, Fleshmarket Close (2004)
LX: Leigh Brackett, The Tiger Among Us (1957)
LXIV:Ian Rankin, The Naming of the Dead (2006)
LXV: Ian Rankin, Exit Lines (2007)

Literary
XXVIII: Philip K. Dick, Voices from the Street (2007)
XL: Alan Garner, Thursbitch (2003)
LXI: Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

Sf/Fantasy
XXI: Ursula Le Guin, The New Atlantis/Kim Stanley Robinson, The Blind Geometer
XXVII Philip K. Dick, The Cosmic Puppets
XXXI: Nancy Springer, The White Hart (1979)
XXXIII: John Peel, Doctor Who: The Chase
XXXV: Thomas M. Disch, On Wings of Song (1979)
XXXVI: Elizabeth A. Lynn, A Different Light (1978)
XXXVII: Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist (2004)
LII: Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979/1988)
LXII: Walter Tevis, The Man who Fell to Earth (1963)
LXIII: Leigh Brackett, The Ginger Star (1974)
LXV: Sally Miller Gearheart, The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women (1979)

Western
II: Ron Hansen, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (1981)

Non-Fiction

Art
LVII: Ben Nicholson (2008)
LXVI: Wendy Loncaster (and Malcolm Shields), Above All, the Sky: Walter Goodin (2008)

Film
XXII: Christine Cornea, Science Fiction Cinema
XXIX: Brian J. Robb, Counterfeit Worlds: Philip K. Dick on Film (2006)
XXX: Jason Vest, Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies (2007)

Theory
XLVII: Jean Baudrillard, The Uncollected Baudrillard (2001)

Walking
XLII: The Elham Valley Way
XLVIII: The Saxon Shore Way (2006)