Books Read In 2006 Is Dead. Long Live Books Read in 2007!

By eerie coincidence or, if you prefer, by sneaking in a couple of short ‘uns at the end, I have read exactly 100 books this year. That’s about 2 a week – not bad. So, by way of marking the occasion, here are my closing thoughts on the year’s reading:

Best Book. No, bugger it, best 12 books – Midnight’s Children, The Swimming-Pool Library, Little Dorrit, Right Ho Jeeves, The Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, London Orbital, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Monsieur Monde Vanishes, Vile Bodies, A Room With A View, I Married A Communist

Worst Book – The Da Vinci Code

Longest Book – Little Dorrit

Shortest Book – Asterix the Gaul

Non-fiction percentage – 27 (or 29 if you include the Bible ones)

Books featuring Mormons as arch-villains – 3

Australian books – 4, all non-fiction, plus the last couple of Coetzee’s even though he’s a South African

Resolution for 2007 – Read more Aussie fiction

Cheers, thanks for reading. It’s been literary.