Journey's End

Well, it's officially done. I have just set down Patick Ness' A Monster Calls, which you must read (you will cry), which makes 52 for 52. I was dimly worried that I would finish this one just in time, only to count up to find one missing and have to spend New Year's Eve powering through something else...

The blogging certainly got a bit lax towards the end (okay, a lot lax), but the reading continued, and that's what matters. I want to share some more thoughts on a couple of them, and highlight the best books of this year, but that's for another time.

Though this had better not be the end! The last thing I now want to do is go back to not reading. If nothing else, I've amassed a large number of recommendations to work my way through, and reminded myself of many other books which I've read previously that I'd love to revisit, but haven't for reason of GRaBaW metrics. So, this is not so much the end of the journey, as a breathing point at the end of the first leg.

So, I wish you all a very happy New Year, and leave you with the full, final list of books.

Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman (2006)
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (2011)
The Revolution of Saint Jone - Lorna Mitchell (1988)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - John Le Carré (1974)
I Can Make You Hate - Charlie Brooker (2012)
Looking For Jake and Other Stories - China Miéville (2005)
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (1989)
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter (1979)
Jobs* - Walter Isaacson (2012)
The Plague - Albert Camus (1947)
Ready Player One* - Ernest Cline (2011)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969)
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Phillip Pullman (2010)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (1931)
Storm Front* - Jim Butcher (2000)
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman (2005)
Fool Moon* - Jim Butcher (2001)
Iron Man: Extremis - Warren Ellis (2006)
Ultimate Thor Vol.1 - Hickman, Pachego & Vines (2010)
How To Eat Out - Giles Coren (2001)
How To Be A Woman - Caitlin Moran (2011)
In The Garden of Beasts* - Erik Larson (2011)
Pirate Cinema - Cory Doctrow (2012)
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter (2012)
The Illustrated Man* - Ray Bradbury (1951)
The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter (2013)
The Player of Games - Iain M Banks (1988)
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (1985)
Stardust - Neil Gaiman (1998)
The Knife of Never Letting Go* - Patrick Ness (2008)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane* - Neil Gaiman (2013)
Facing Violence - Sgt. Rory Miller (2011)
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (2008)
Terra* - Mitch Benn (2013)
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (2009)
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (2010)
Fables vol.1: Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham (2002)
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader - Neil Gaiman (2009)
Feed - M T Anderson (2002)
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood (2003)
Carrie* - Stephen King (1974)
The Android's Dream* - John Scalzi (2006)
The Graveyard Book* - Neil Gaiman (2008)
Fortunately, the Milk... - Neil Gaiman (2013)

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin (1969)

Boneshaker* - Cherie Priest (2009)

Reading Like A Writer - Francine Prose (2012)

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan (2002)

Celtic Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs (1892)

Consider Phlebas* - Iain M Banks (1987)

Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)

A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness (2011)