.: 2009 :.

1. Changeling – Delia Sherman


2. Aporias – Jacques Derrida


3. Returning My Sister’s Face – Eugie Foster


4. A Song For Arbonne – Guy Gavriel Kay (reread)


5. Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michael


6. Ravens in the Library – SatyrPhil Brucato and Sandra Buskirk, eds.


7. Requiem for a Nun – William Faulkner


8. Hannah’s Garden – Midori Snyder


9. The Lost Letters of Acquitaine – Judith Koll Healey


10. Atonement – Ian McEwan


11. White is for Witching – Helen Oyeyemi


12. Sepulchre – Kate Mosse


13. Voyage of the Basset – James C Christensen


14. Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn – Robert Holdstock


15. The Hollowing – Robert Holdstock


16. Queen of Sorcery – David Eddings (reread)


17. Pawn of Prophecy – David Eddings (reread)


18. The Opposite House – Helen Oyeyemi (reread)


19. The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


20. Mainspring – Jay Lake


21. Melusine – Sarah Monette


22. The Snow Queen – Mercedes Lackey


23. The Black Raven – Katherine Kerr


24. Everything Good will Come – Sefi Atta


25. Ink and Steele – Elizabeth Bear


26. Monadology – G.W. Leibniz


27. Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds – Daniel Dennett


28. The Other Side of the Island – Allegra Goodman


29. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” – Richard P Feynman


30. An Introduction to the thought of Karl Popper – Roberta Corvi


31. The Forest of Hours – Kerstin Ekman


32. Blood and Iron – Elizabeth Bear


33. Plot - Ansell Dibell

.: 2008 :.

1. Beginnings, Middles, Ends – Nancy Kress


2. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman


3. The Innamorati – Midori Snyder


4. An Africa Popular Literature: A Study of Onitsha Market Pamphlets – Emmanuel Obiechina


5. So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ


6. The Inklings – Humphrey Carpenter


7. The Various Flavours of Coffee – Anthony Capella


8. Phenomenology of Perception – M. Merleau-Ponty


9. The Intentional Stance – Daniel C Dennett


10. Giants of the Frost – Kim Wilkins


11. Whitethorn Woods – Maeve Binchy


12. Kushiel’s Scion – Jacqueline Carey


13. The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson


14. Summers at Castle Auburn – Sharon Shinn


15. The Autumn Castle – Kim Wilkins


16. Song for Night – Chris Abani


17. The Weavers of Saramyr - Chris Wooding


18. Time and Narrative – Paul Ricoeur


19. Den of Wolves - Luke Devenish


20. The Philosopher’s Toolkit – Julian Baggini


21. The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien (annual reread)


22. The Jane Austen Cookbook – Maggie Black


23. Return of the Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver


24. Black Thorn, White Rose – Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (eds)


25. The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind - Stephen P. Stich and Ted A. Warfield (eds)


26. Rainbow Mars - Larry Niven


27. The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen – Barbara Lachman


28. The Simulacra – Phillip K. Dick


29. Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri


30. Something Borrowed – Paul Magrs


31. The Fencing Master - Arturo Perez-Reverie


32. The Invitation – Oriah Mountain Dreamer


33. The Philosophy of Time: Time before times – Roger McLure


34. Never the Bride – Paul Magrs


35. Foucault and Heidegger : critical encounters – Milchman and Rosenberg (eds)


36. What is Philosophy? – Deleuze and Guattari


37. Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction – George Graham


38. Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics – Peter Van Inwagen


39. Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga


40. The Rose Grower: A Novel of Love and the French Revolution – Michelle De Kretser


41. Sunshine – Robin Mckinley


42. Ontology – Dale Jacquette


43. The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood


44. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana – Umberto Eco


45. Grendel – John Gardner


46. Ombria in Shadow – Patricia A. McKillip


47. District and Circle – Seamus Heaney


48. City of Saints and Madmen – Jeff Vandermeer


49. The Palm-Wine Drinkard - Amos Tutuola


50. The Shape-changer’s Wife – Sharon Shinn


51. Something Rich and Strange – Patricia McKillip (reread)


52. Red Seas under Red Skies – Scott Lynch


53. Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World – John Searle


54. Philosophy of Mind (Foundations of Philosophy Series) – Dale Jacquette


55. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein


56. Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open The Writer’s Craft – Natalie Goldberg


57. Writing Down The Bones: Freeing the Writer Within – Natalie Goldberg (reread/skimming)


58. V for Vendetta – Alan Moore and David Lloyd


59. The Opposite House – Helen Oyeyemi


60. Juniper’s Whitening and Victimese – Helen Oyeyemi


61. The Rape of Shavi – Buchi Emecheta


62. The Icarus Girl – Helen Oyeyemi


63. Half of a Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


64. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


65. The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch


66. Protector of the Small: Page - Tamora Pierce


67. Protector of the Small: First Test - Tamora Pierce


68. The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett


69. The Color of Magic – Terry Pratchett


70. The Bride-Price – Buchi Emecheta


71. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell


72. Efuru – Flora Nwapa


73. Astonishing the Gods – Ben Okri


74. Yoruba Girl Dancing – Simi Bedford


75. Idu – Flora Nwapa


76. A Farm in Fairyland – Laurence Housman


77. Little Birds – Anais Nin


78. The Art of Fiction – John Gardner

.: 2007 :.

1. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza – Gloria Anzaldua


2. Tapping the Dream Tree – Charles De Lint


3. Here in Cold Hell – Tanith Lee


4. Sandman: Dream Country – Neil Gaiman


5. Shadowplay – Tad Williams


6. The Sandman: Endless Nights – Neil Gaiman


7. Sandman: The Dream Hunters – Neil Gaiman


8. Shadowmarch – Tad Williams


9. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 – Gavin Grant & Kelly Link (eds)


10. Reserved for The Cat – Mercedes Lackey


11. The Wizard of London – Mercedes Lackey


12. eastern standard tribe – Cory Doctorow


13. Fortune’s Fool – Mercedes Lackey


14. One Good Knight – Mercedes Lackey


15. The Sea Lady – Margaret Drabble


16. Cast A Bright Shadow – Tanith Lee


17. Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey


18. The Fairy Godmother – Mercedes Lackey


19. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present – Marvin Carlson


20. Ysabel – Guy Gavriel Kay


21. Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan


22. If On a Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino


23. Widdershins – Charles de Lint


24. In The Company of the Courtesan – Sarah Dunant


25. The Passion of Artemisia – Susan Vreeland


26. The Essential Plotinus – Plotinus, Elmer O’Brien


27. Foucault: A Critical Reader – David Couzers Hoy (ed)


28. Prolegomena to Philosophy – Jon Wheatley


29. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro


30. Being and Time – Martin Heidegger


31. The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles


32. Veil of Isis or Mysteries of the Druids – W. Winwood Reade


33. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling


34. On Becoming a Novelist – John Gardner


35. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje


36. Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (reread)


37. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (reread)


38. White as Snow – Tanith Lee


39. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within – Natalie Goldberg


40. Writing a Novel – Dorothy Bryant


41. Elantris – Brandon Sanderson


42. The Awakeners: Northshore & Southshore by Sherri S. Tepper


43. Interfictions by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, eds.


44. The Girl’s Guide to Witchcraft by Mindy Klasky


45. Bluebeard’s Egg by Margaret Atwood


46. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse


47. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart


48. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart


49. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant (reread)


50. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume


51. Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson


52. The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones


53. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff


54. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami


55. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami


56. Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson


57. Endgame by Samuel Beckett


58. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis