January: Arguably - Christopher Hitchens
February: Platform - Michel Houllebecq; Slaughter's Hound - Declan Burke
March: The Complete Essays of George Orwell; The Art of Fielding - Chad
Harbach; The Red Queen - Matt Ridley
April: Vanished Kingdoms - Norman Davies; The Nameless Dead - Brian McGilloway
May: Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel; Manhunt - Peter Bergen
June: 2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson
26 comments:
Somehow, I missed Declan's book, but did some recon, and now want to read it! Thanks for the tip-off.
Nice list. Haven't read a single thing on it.
I think the rest of us have to wait till August to read Declan's book, Sean. But you can preorder it from Book Depository. Amazon shows it, but without a pre-rder option.
Kim Stanley Robinson is a great writer. I read the Mars trilogy a few years ago...Will put 3212 on the list.
I hear nothing but good things about 3212 in my neck of the woods.
Sean
It will be out very soon.
Seana
Thank you for the tip!
Verymessi
Its a very good book but his Greenie Political Correctness leads him into some odd logic: they can terraform Mars and Venus (!) but they cant fix global warming on Earth with innovative solutions.
Seana
In your neck of the woods it will be huge.
I think mhy neck of the woods would take this as a backhanded compliment.
Seana
Perhaps.
Well, my neck of the woods probably wouldn't care.
Looking forward to Declan's.
Though you didn't necessarily ask...
Here are my top 10 books of the year so far. Read in 2012 not limited to those published in 2012.
El Gavilan by Craig McDonald
Everything I Tell You is a Lie by Fingers Murphy
Growing Up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
Immobility by Brian Evenson
Jonah Man by Christopher Narozony
Raise a Holler by Jason Stuart
Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet
You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin
Zombie Bake Off by Stephen Graham Jones
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Brian
Ahhh, Brian's book is the on list! He said he's sending me a copy but so far no show...
Please dont tell me anything about it, but I'm glad Evenson's written another good one!
Brian
Ahhh, Brian's book is the on list! He said he's sending me a copy but so far no show...
Please dont tell me anything about it, but I'm glad Evenson's written another good one!
It's 2312, innit?
Craig
Whoops. Yeah course it is. Cos its set exactly 300 years in the future. I'll change it. I'll also try and post a review of it next week but I'm still processing it if you know what I mean.
For obvious reasons, I am not the hugest participant in Amazon, but I thought you might be interested to know that I got an email from them today saying that if I liked Fifty Grand, I might also like some other books. The first one was The Cold,Cold Ground, followed by a lot of the other ones, including the kids' ones.
I hope this means that a lot of other people are getting the same email.
Fifty Grand was an excellent book, by the way. You tend to give it a bit of short shrift, but there is a lot in it.
I am thrilled by your number one selection which my wife gave me for my birthday and laughed herself silly reading Why Women Aren't Funny. I am circulating an honorific adjective after the contentious one : Hitchensian. And the first guy I thought of to apply it to happened to bring me two books by Brendan O'Carroll last time we met, the first of which Mammy had me in spasms within 5 minutes. Great Dublin stuff.
Seana
I did not get this email. Amazon's engines are wildly inconsistent. I dont know what they do over there, but its better than a poke in the eye isnt it?
Big Sean
What about Hitchian? I dont know I just think it scans a little better...
Books and I aren't getting along at the moment, nothing seems to keep my interest lately, but my favorite I've read this year I think is Dennis LeHane's The Given Day.
I'm also wishing Laurie R King would write another stand alone and really looking forward to Declan's new one.
Glenna, you're making me think I should give The Given Day a try. I wasn't all that happy with his last Kensey/Gennaro novel, but I have a feeling he bowed to fan or maybe publisher pressure on that one.
Seana, I'm with you on Moonlight Mile. I think you'll like The Given Day though, it's The best one of his I've read
Yey! I've always liked him, and even Moonlight Mile I was willing to give the slight benefit of the doubt.
I've read the grand total of one book for pleasure this year and that was A Visit from the Goon Squad which was brilliant.
I missed the Brian McGilloway book entirely; bookdepository here I come.
I've read the grand total of one book for pleasure this year and that was A Visit from the Goon Squad which was brilliant.
I missed the Brian McGilloway book entirely; bookdepository here I come.
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