Hannah Swithinbank

Books
In 2005 I read a little over a book a week. Last year I read a book on average once a fortnight. Given my ridiculously large pile of books that need reading, I think I need to aim at the former once again…

1. Pedant in the Kitchen – Julian Barnes
2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
3. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susannah Clarke
4. Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony – Eoin Colfer
5. The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
6. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana – Umberto Eco
7. First Among Sequels – Jasper Fforde
8. Making History – Stephen Fry
9. Inkspell – Cornelia Funke
10. Night Soldiers – Alan Furst
11. Coraline – Neil Gaiman
12. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
13. Will – Will Greenwood
14. Gun, with Occasional Music – Jonathan Lethem
15. The Woman Who Waited – Andrei Makine
16. The Crime of Olga Arbyelina – Andrei Makine
17. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
18. Atonement – Ian McEwan (re-read)
19. Un Lun Dun – China Mieville
20. The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
21. A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
22. Seeker – William Nicholson
23. The Thirteen Gun Salute – Patrick O’Brian
24. The Nutmeg of Consolation – Patrick O’Brian
25. Finding My Feet – Jason Robinson
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling (re-read)
27. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling (re-read)
28. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling (re-read)
29. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling (re-read)
30. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling (re-read)
31. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling (re-read)
32. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
33. The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
34. Love Over Scotland – Alexander McCall Smith
35. The World According to Bertie – Alexander McCall Smith
36. Quicksilver – Neal Stephenson (re-read)
37. The Children of Hurin – J.R.R Tolkien
38. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
39. Old School – Tobias Woolf

Films

1. The Last King of Scotland
2. Blood Diamond
3. Hard Boiled (DVD)
4. Pan’s Labyrinth
5. Brick (DVD)
6. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (DVD)
7. Hot Fuzz
8. The Illusionist
9. Babel
10. Amazing Grace
11. The Lives of Others
12. Spiderman 3
13. 28 Weeks Later
14. Zodiac
15. The Curse of the Golden Flower
16. Ocean’s Thirteen
17. L’Appartement (DVD)
18. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
19. Shooting Dogs
20. The Bourne Ultimatum
21. Atonement
22. Ratatouille
23. Elizabeth – The Golden Age
24. Stardust
25. Black Sheep
26. The Darjeeling Limited
27. American Gangster
    
28. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The 2006 List