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Here is a list of all the books that i have read in the last 4 years. The list only goes back 4 years because that's when i started keeping track of the stuff that I was getting through.
The marking scheme will be in marks of (1-10) (1.1 - 9.9) - I hope that makes sense.
A word on ranking
I am a very harsh marker, I will very rarely give a book more than 8.5. Nothing will get a 10
For anyone who doesn't want to read the list of nearly 300 books here is a top ten¬
Anyway here is the list, in the order i wrote them down, sometimes i will read several books and then take note and forget what order they were in - which is why some author's have 3 or 4 titles in a row - also i lost the list twice, once in Australia (2011) and another time in London (2011) , so i had to make another one by memory. Most of them i could remember and some of the others were in my local libraries history. I reckon there are probably 6 or 7 that i cant remember reading. ¬
2010
The marking scheme will be in marks of (1-10) (1.1 - 9.9) - I hope that makes sense.
A word on ranking
I am a very harsh marker, I will very rarely give a book more than 8.5. Nothing will get a 10
For anyone who doesn't want to read the list of nearly 300 books here is a top ten¬
- Leo Tolstoy - war and peace 9.8
- J.M Coetzee - disgrace 9.8
- Cormac Mccarthy - all the pretty horses 9.7
- Simon Singh - fermats last thereom 9.7
- Hillary Mantel - bring up the bodies 9.6
- Johnathon Franzen - freedom 9.6
- J.R.R Tolkien - fellowship of the ring 9.5
- Cormac Mccarthy - the road 9.4
- Cormac Mccarthy - child of god 9.3
- Marios Vargos Lylosa - feast of the goat 9.2
Anyway here is the list, in the order i wrote them down, sometimes i will read several books and then take note and forget what order they were in - which is why some author's have 3 or 4 titles in a row - also i lost the list twice, once in Australia (2011) and another time in London (2011) , so i had to make another one by memory. Most of them i could remember and some of the others were in my local libraries history. I reckon there are probably 6 or 7 that i cant remember reading. ¬
2010
- Cormac Mccarthy - the orchard keeper - 8.1
- John Steinbeck - of mice and men - 8.8
- John Steinbeck - tortilla flat - 7.8
- Cormac Mccarthy - outer dark - 8.6
- Cormac Mccarthy - child of god - 9.3
- Nadine Gordimer - julys people - 7.9
- Nadine Gordimer - get a life - 8.5
- Nadine Gordimer - beethovan was 1/16th black - 7.9
- J.M Coetzee - youth - 7.4
- J.M Coetzee - disgrace - 9.8
- J.m Coetzee - slowman - 8.5
- William Faulkner - the sound and the fury - 8.1
- William Faulkner - Requim for a nun - 7.8
- William Faulkner - as i lay dying - 8.5
- John Steinbeck - pearl - 8.0
- D.B.C Pierre - vernon god little - 8.6
- Ger Donovan - Schopenhauer's telescope - 8.9
- Ger Donavan - Julius winsome - 8.8
- Voltaire - candide - 7.3
- George Orwell - down and out in paris and london - 8.0
- George Orwell - animal farm - 8.3
- George Orwell 1984 - 8.6
- J.M. Coetzee - diary of a bad year - 8.1
- J.M Coetzee - life and times of michael kay - 8.5
- J.M Coetzee - waiting for the barbarians - 8.6
- Cormac Mccarthy - sutree - 8.8
- Cormac Mccarthy - blood meridian - 8.9
- Cormac Mccarthy - all the petty horses - 9.7
- Leo Tolstoy - war and peace - 9.8
- Leo Tolstoy - anna karinina - 8.5
- Fyodor Dostoyesky - crime and punishment - 8.3
- Cormac Mccarthy - the boarder - 8.2
- Cormac Mccarthy - cities of the plane - 9.0
- Cormac Mccarthy - no country for old men - 8.5
- Cormac Mccarthy - the road - 9.4
- Leo Tolstoy - the cossacks - 7.4
- Leo Tolstoy - the death of ivan illyich - 8.4
- (unknown author - library book) - the tarp - 3.5
- Tom Mccarthy - remainder - 6.8
- Pat Harding - tinkers - 7.5
- Brandon Sanderson - the way of kings - 8.5
- John Glynn - the seven days of peter crumb - 6.9
- J.R.R Tolkien (re-read) - the lord of the rings - 9.5
- J.R.R Tolkien (re-read) - the two towers - 8.7
- G.R.R Martin - a game of thrones - 8.6
- G.R.R Martin - a clash of kings - 8.5
- G.R.R Martin - a storm of swords - 8.9
- G.R.R Martin - a feast for crows - 8.1
- Ian M. Banks - the wasp factory - 8.0
- Ian M Banks - the bridge - 7.7
- Ian M Banks - look to winward - 7.8
- Margereth Athwood - the flood - 7.9
- Margereth Athwood - oryx and crake - 8.7
- Margereth Athood - surfacing - 7.6
- Donna Tart - the secret history - 7.7
- Margereth Athwood - the penelopoid - 6.9
- Margereth Athwood - the blind assasin - 8.5
- G.R.R Martin - the dying of the light - 8.0
- G.R.R Martin - the hedge night - 8.1
- G.R.R Martin - sandkings - 8.0
- Michael Cunningham - the hours - 7.6
- Margereth Athwood - short stories - 7.3
- R.L Stevenson - dr jekyl and mr hide - 7.0
- Thornton Wilder - bridge over san louis ray - 7.0
- Ernst Hemingway - the old man and the sea - 8.8
- Ernst Hemingway - a farewell to arms - 7.5
- Ernst Hemingway - for whom the bell tolls - 7.4
- John Banville - the sea - 7.9
- John Banville - the book of evidence - 7.0
- F.S Fitzgerald - the great gatsby - 8.0
- F.S Fitzgerald - this side of paradise - 7.9
- Howard Jacobson - the finkler question - 6.9
- Emma Donoghue - room - 8.8
- Malcom Gladwell - the tipping point - 8.4
- Malcom Gladwell - outlier - 8.9
- Malcom Gladwell - blink - 7.9
- Noam Chomsky - imperial ambitions - 8.9
- Noam Chomsky - failed states - 8.0
- Noam Chonsky - media control - 7.4
- Noam Chomsky - on education - 7.8
- Adam Carey - taking the risk out of democracy - 8.4
- Misha Glnny - dark market - 7.7
- Stephen Hawking - a breif history of time - 8.9
- Stephen Hawking - the universe in a nutshell - 7.7
- J.D Salinger - catcher in the rye - 8.8
- Jack Kerouc - on the road - 5.7
- Robert jordan - the eye of the world (re-read) - 9.0
- Robert Jordan - the great hunt - (re-read) - 8.6
- Robert Jordan - the dragon reborn (re-read) - 8.1
- Robert Jordan - a new spring - 7.9
- Audoix Huxley - a brave new world - 8.9
- Isac Assimov - foundation - 7.8
- Isac Assimov - foundation and empire - 7.6
- Peter Carey - theft - 7.5
- Vladamir Nabakov - Glory - 8.4
- Doris Lessing - shikasta 7.8
- Doris Lessing - marriages between zones 2 and 3 - 6.6
- Doris Lessing - the survivor - 7.9
- Doris Lessing - ben in the world - 7.9 End Of 2010
- Doris Lessing - the 5th child - 7.9 2011
- Doris Lessing - the grass is singing 8.9
- Daniel Keyes - flowers for algernon 8.1
- Raymond Carver - what we talk about when we talk about love - 7.9
- Patrick Kellerman - how late the night, how late - 7.1
- B.M Turner - the march of folly 8.0
- Orham pamuk - Snow 8.2
- Charles Baurdelaire - collected poems 7.0
- Gao Xingjin - soul mountain - 7.0
- Orham Pamuk - my name is red - 7.1
- Herta Muller - in the land of green plumbs - 6.9
- Gunter Grass - the tin drum - 7.2
- Peter Schneider - the wall jumper - 6.9
- J.R.R Tolkien - tom bombadil and other stories - 7,7
- Fredreich Forsyth - the day of the jackle - 7.1
- James Joyce - the dubliners - 7.2
- James joyce - ulysses (not finished- tried on 3 different occasions) 7.0
- Michael Cunningham - a home at the end of the world - 8.2
- Craig Sherbourne - muck - 6,9
- Mark Haddon - the curious incident of the dog in the night - 7.0
- Anthony Burgess - a clockwork orange - 7.0
- William Golding - the lord of the flies - 7.9
- Edith Wharton - ethan frome 8.7
- Kahil Gibran - the prophet - 7.3
- Jennifer Johnston - how many miles to babylon - 8.0
- Albert Camus - the outsider - 8.2
- Albert Camus - the fall - 8.0
- Janice Galloway - foreign parts - 7.0
- Barrington Stoke - twocking - 6.9
- Ernst Hemingway - to have and have not - 7.8
- Johnathon Coe - 9th and 13th - 6.9
- Imre Kertez - faithlessness - 7.6
- Clement Greenberg - the harold letters - 7.8
- Noam Chomsky - rogue states - 7.4
- Truman Capote - breakfast at tiffanys - 9.0
- Truman Capote - the grass harp - 6.9
- Truman Capote - unanswered prayers - 9.1
- P.K Dick - do androids dream of electric sheep? 8.0
- P.K Dick - ubik - 6.9
- P.K Dick - the man in the high castle - 7.4
- Alais Thomas - the sin eater - 5.2
- D.H Lawrence - love among the haystacks - 7.0
- John Burger - G - 7.9
- Mariana Lewycka - a short history of tractors in ukranian - 7.2
- Ann Enright - the gathering - 7.6
- Rawi Hage - deniros game - 7.4
- Samuel Beckett - first love - 7.7
- Samuel Beckett - complete plays - 8.7
- William Shakapear - Complete plays - 8.3
- William Shakspear - other works - 7.9
- Samuel Beckett - Murphy - 7.1
- Flan O'brien - the third policeman - 7.8
- G.R.R Martin - a dance with dragons - 8.6
- I.M Banks - consider phelbous - 6.4
- I.M Banks - use of weapons - 8.2
- I.M Banks - the player of games - 5.9
- Patrick De Witt - the sister brothers - 8.0
- Edsi Edugyan - half blood blues - 8.2
- A.D Miller - snowdrops - 6.0
- Julian Barnes - the sense of an ending - 8.1
- Stephen Kellman - Pidgeon english - 5.7
- J.D Salinger - the catcher in the rye - 8.5
- Chinua Achebe - things fall apart - 7.5
- Anton Peroec - void - 6.9
- I. M Banks - excession - 7.0
- J.D Salinger - short stories - 7.5
- Orson Scott Card - enders game - 8.8
- Nadine Gordimer - the conservationist - 6.9
- Ray Bradbury - something wicked this way comes - 6.8
- Stefan Sweig - chess - 7.4
- W.B Yeats - poems - 7.9 End Of 2011
- Albert Camus - 7.0 2012
- Jane Austin - love and friendship - 8.0
- Virginia Wolfe - mrs dalloway - 7.5
- John Banville - the newton letter - 6.0
- Rody Doyle - ha ha ha - 6.5
- Rody Doyle - the commitments -7.8
- P.K Dick - time out of joint -7.0
- P.K Dick - selected stories - 7.6
- Ernst Hemingway - across the river and into the trees - 7.0
- J.G Ballard - the drowned world - 6.0
- Fred Mustard Stewart - elis island - 6.9
- Fred Mustard Stewart - the titan - 8.5
- Jonathan Franzen Cohen - everything is illuminated - 7.3
- Harper Lee - to kill a mocking bird - 8.0
- George Eliot - silas mariner - 7.5
- Philip Roth - everyman - 8.3
- Phillip Roth - sabaths theater - 8.8
- Johnathon Franzen - the corrections - 9.4
- H.G Wells - war of the worlds - 5.8
- Ricahard Matheson - i am legend - 8.7
- Walter M Miller - a canticle for lebowitz - 7.3
- Pat Frank - alas babylon - 7.4
- O.S Card - speaker for the dead - 7.7
- Alice Walker - the color purple - 7.1
- Brandon Sanderson - the final empire - 7.8
- Brandon Sanderson - the well of ascension - 7.6
- Brandon Sanderson - the hero of ages - 7.8
- Max Brooks - world war z - 4.0
- Simon Singh - fermats last therom - 9.7
- Kurt Vonnegut - slaughter house 5 - 8.6
- Marilynn Robinson - gilead - 7.0
- John Hersey - a bell for adano - 8.0
- Suzanne Collins - the hunger games - 7.7
- Kurt Vonnegut - cats cradle - 6.5
- Suzanne Collins - hunger games 2 - 6.9
- Suzanne Collins - hunger games 3 - 5.5
- Kurt Vonnegut - breakfast of champions - 7.0
- Herman Melville - moby dick - 8.7
- Douglas Adams - hitchikers guide 1 - 8.0
- Douglas Adams - hitchikers guide 2 - 7.5
- Marios Vargos Lylosa - the feast of the goat - 9.2
- L.F Baum - wizard of oz - 7.0
- Ray Bradbury - farenheit 451 - 7.1
- Alison Moore - the lighthouse - 8.8
- Saul Bellow - mr samuels planet - 8.4
- Debrah Levy - swimming home - 8.6
- Jeet Thayil - narcopolis - 7.2
- Tan Twang Eng - the garden of evening mists - 8.3
- Pierre Boulle - planet of the apes - 7.5
- Mary Shelly - frankenstein - 8.9
- David Brin - the postman - 8.6
- James S A Corey - leviathan wakes - 7.7
- William Golding - rights of passage - 6.8
- Jams A Corey - calibans war - 7.9
- Richard Feynman - surely your joking - 8.1
- Yann Martel - life of pie - 8.5
- Marios Vargos Lylosa - death in the andes - 7.0
- Steig Larson - the girl with the dragon tattoo - 8.5
- Steig Larson - the girl who played with fire - 8.3
- Steig Larson - the girl who kicked the hornets nest - 7.9
- Graham Swift - shuttlecock - 8.1
- Joseph Conrad - heart of darkness - 8.0 2013
- Kevin Barry - city of bohane - 7.8
- Robert Jordan - a memory of light - 8.6
- Stephen Crane - red badge of courage - 7.7
- Philip K Dick - maze of death - 7.8
- Richard Matheson - a stir of echoes - 5.8
- Philip K Dick - flow my tears the ploiceman said - 7.5
- Richard Matheson - what dreams may come - 5.5
- C.S Lewis - a greif observed - 6.9
- Edith Wharton - the bunner sisters - 8.6
- Edith Wharton - the touchstone - 7.9
- Emily Bronte - Agnes grey - 8.0
- Dan Simmons - Hyperion - 7.9
- Saul Bellow - him with his foot in his mouth - 8.5
- Bret Easton Ellis - imperial bedrooms - 7.8
- Bret Easton Ellis - less then zero - 7.7
- Edith Wharton - summer - 8.2
- John Updike - witches of eastwich - 7.9
- Primo Levi - the periodic table - 7.9
- Mourid Barghouti - i saw ramallah - 7.2
- J.M Coetzee - the childhood of jesus - 7.8
- Gabriel Garcia Marques - love in the time of cholera - 8.9
- Gabriel Garcia Marques - 100 years of solitude - 6.8
- Gore Vidal - live from golgoth - 6.9
- Mario Vargos Lylosa - the war of the end of the world - 8.5
- Murruy Bail - eucalyptus - 6.8
- J A Corey - abadons gate - 7.8
- Hillary Mantel - Wolf Hall - 9.0
- Vladimir Nabakov - original of laura - 7.7
- Paul Auster - new york trilogy - 7.1
- Johnathan Franzen - freedom - 9.6
- Marios Vargos Lylosa - dream of the celt - 7.4
- G.R.R Martin - the sworn sword - 8.0
- G.R.R Martin - the mystery night - 8.0
- Brandon Sanderson - the emperors soul - 7.3
- G.R.R Martin - fever dream - 8.6
- G.R.R Martin - kingdom of worm - 7.2
- Joe Ambercrombie - the blade itself - 7.7
- Joe Ambercrombie - before they are hanged - 7.8
- Joe Ambercrombie - last argument of kings - 7.9
- Sebastian Junger - the perfect storm - 8.7
- Sebastian Junger - war - 8.4
- William Maxwell - time will darken it - 9.0
- Phillip Roth - indignation - 8.5
- P.D James - the children of men - 8.5
- Andrzej Sapkowski - the last wish - 8.3
- Andrzez Sapkowski - blood of elves - 8.5
- Andrzez Sapkowski - times of contempt - 8.6 2014
- Hillary Mantel - bring up the bodies - 9.6
- Ruth Ozeki - a tale for the time being - 8.4
- Tom Mccarthy - C - 7.8
- Philip Roth - the ghost writer - 8.5
- John Allen Paulos - mathematical innumeracy - 8.1
- Kurt Vonnegut - short stories - 7.8
- Kevin Barry - dark lies the city - 8.9
- Brandon Sanderson - words of radiance - 8.5
- Chuck Palunuick - non fiction - 7.7
- Chuck Palunuick - short stories - 7.8
- Dan Simmons - the fall of hyperion - 8.0
- Lawrence Krauss - a universe from nothing - 8.2
- Richard Dawkings - the blind watchmaker (sometime-2011) - 8.7
- Richard Dawkings - the greatest show on earth (sometime-2012) - 7.9
