Hannah Swithinbank

Books

1. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon
2. Platform – Michel Houellebecq
3. Confessions of a Lapsed Standard Bearer – Andrei Makine
4. Clarissa Oakes – Patrick O’Brian
5. Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon
6. A Miracle at Speedy Motors – Alexander McCall Smith
7. South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami
8. Once Upon the River of Love – Andrei Makine
9. Ghostwritten – David Mitchell
10. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
11. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
12. Gentlemen of the Road – Michael Chabon
13. Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
14. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
15. The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
16. A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Shutting Out the Sun – Michael Zielenziger
18. Human Love – Andrei Makine
19. Number9dream – David Mitchell
20. The Algebraist – Iain M. Banks
21. Spook Country – William Gibson
22. Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
23. New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
24. Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
25. The Careful Use of Compliments – Alexander McCall Smith
26. We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
27. Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
28. Dance Dance Dance – Haruki Murakami
29. Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
30. Angel: Before the Fall – Joss Whedon and Brian Lynch
31. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: Volume 1 – Joss Whedon
32. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: Volume 2 – Joss Whedon
33. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
34. An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge – John O’Farrell
35. The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathan Lethem
36. Empire of the Sun – J. G. Ballard
37. Anathem – Neal Stephenson
38. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight: Volume 3. Wolves at the Gate – Joss Whedon
39. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

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…

Films

1. Charlie Wilson’s War
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Sweeney Todd
4. Lust, Caution
5. Definitely, Maybe
6. Juno
7. The Nines (DVD)
8. There Will Be Blood
9. Surf’s Up (DVD)
10. Son of Rambow
11. 21
12. In Bruges
13. Iron Man
14. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
15. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
16. Mamma Mia
17. Wall-E
18. The Dark Knight
19. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
20. The Duchess
21. Brideshead Revisited
22. Burn After Reading
23. Vicky Christina Barcelona
24. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
25. Quantum of Solace
26. Waltz with Bashir
27. Twilight

The 2007 list