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© 2010 Jason Delport
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Last January I declared 2009 the Year of the Book. I started out simply wanting to read more than I did in 2008 (25 books) but it ended up being a lot more than that. In the end I read a total of 55 books which came to approximately 18950 pages. An average of 52 pages per day.
Non-fiction highlights
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- The Music of the Primes by Marcus du Sautoy
- Big Bang by Simon Singh
- Quantum by Manjit Kumar
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial by Singh & Ernst
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Doxiadis & Papadimitriou
Literary fiction highlights
- Hunger - Knut Hamsum
- Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
- Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
- Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
- Leviathan - Paul Auster
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
- All Quiet on the Orient Express - Magnus Mills
- To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
- The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
- Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Motel Life - Willy Vlautin
Sci-fi / fantasy fiction highlights
- House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
- Pandora's Star - Peter F. Hamilton
- Judas Unchained - Peter F. Hamilton
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
- High-Rise - J. G. Ballard
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Wow Jason. awesome, and I love the topics/mix of topics; very nice... I need to make time for same.
ceo