Books

Almost there now 😀 Explanation of format and markers is here.

This year I started writing down the authors on tie-in novels in addition to the series they were from.

2008
01. Jeannette Walls – The Glass Castle

02. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein [School]

03. Charmed (Jeff Mariotte) – Mirror Image [Dutch]
04. Star Trek (Keith R.A. DeCandido) – Articles of the Federation [re-read]
05. Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin [School]
06. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast 3)

07. Julie Kenner – Carpe Demon (Demon Slayer Mom 1)
08. Susan Albert – Hangman’s Root (China Bayles 3) [Dutch]
09. Susan Albert – Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles 4) [Dutch]
10. Susan Albert – Rueful Death (China Bayles 5) [Dutch]
11. Patricia Briggs: Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson 2)
12. William Shakespeare – Anthony & Cleopatra

Starting with this play, a friend and I began the massive job of reading all of Shakespeare’s plas together. Out loud. We each take roughly half of the speaking parts and there we go 🙂 We made a playlist, so to speak, by taking turns picking a play. We then also get first pick of characters in the plays we chose. It’s SO much FUN!

13. Lindsay Sands: A Quick Bite
14. William Shakespeare – Macbeth

15. William Shakespeare – Hamlet
16. William Shakespeare – Romeo & juliet

17. Terry Pratchett – Making Money (Discworld 31)
18. William Shakespeare – King Lear
19. Terry Pratchett – Thud (Discworld 30) [re-read]

20. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty 1) [re-read]
21. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty Goes to Washington (Kitty 2)
22. David & Leigh Eddings – The Elder Gods (The Dreamers 4) [Dutch]
23. David & Leigh Eddings – The Treasured One (The Dreamers 2) [Dutch]
24. David & Leigh Eddings – Crystal Gorge (The Dreamers 3) [Dutch]
25. David & Leigh Eddings – The Younger Gods (The Dreamers 4) [Dutch]

26. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty Takes a Holiday (Kitty 3)
27. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty and the Silver Bullet (Kitty 4)
28. Karen Chance – Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer 1)

29. Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart – The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch
30. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Could Read backwards (The Cat Who 1) [Dutch] [re-read]
31. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Played Post-Office (The Cat Who 6) [Dutch] [re-read]
32. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (The Cat Who 7) [Dutch] [re-read]
33. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (The Cat Who 8) [Dutch]
34. Elizabeth Bear – Dust

35. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Went Underground (The Cat Who 9) [Dutch] [re-read]
36. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Lived High (The Cat Who 11) [Dutch]
37. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Said Cheese (The Cat Who 18) [Dutch]
38. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Robbed the Bank (The Cat Who 22) [Dutch] [re-read]
39. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Brought Down the House (The Cat Who 25) [Dutch] [re-read]
40. P. Nowee – Arendsoog en de man zonder verleden {Eagle-Eye and the Man without a Past} [Dutch]

Arendsoog (Eagle-Eye) is a series of adventure books for boys, written a long time ago (I have about ten of these books that used to belong to my father when he was young). They are about a young rancher in 19th century America with his Native American friend White Feather. It’s a bit like those Karl May books but then really geared towards kids. It’s pretty obvious they were written a long time ago based on how the books portray White Feather, but if you ignore that it’s a nice read to kill a little time. I recently bought this one (and three others) for a few euros. They are cheap mass-market reprints of the older works and suit their purpose (as a quick bedtime read) perfectly.

41. Stephenie Meyer – Twilight (Twilight 1)
42. Stephenie Meyer – New Moon (Twilight 2)
43. P.Nowee – Arizona Arendsoog {Arizona Eagle-Eye} [Dutch]

44. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Mexicaans avontuur {Eagle-Eye. Mexican Adventure} [Dutch]

Explanation of format and markers is here.

I didn’t read anything in January so there’s only 11 bookclots. Also, can you tell I love Discworld? 😀

2007
01. Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
02. Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

03. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6)
04. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter 1) [Dutch] [re-read]
05. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber (Harry Potter 2) [Dutch] [re-read]
06. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter 3) [Dutch] [re-read]
07. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter 4) [Dutch] [re-read]
08. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) [re-read]

09. Terry Pratchett – Interesting Times (Discworld 17) [re-read]
10. Terry Pratchett – Thief of Time (Discworld 26) [re-read]
11. Terry Pratchett – Maskerade (Discworld 18) [re-read]
12. Terry Pratchett – Going Postal (Discworld 29) [re-read]
13. David & Leigh Eddings – Polgara the Sorceress [re-read]

14. Terry Pratchett – Pyramids (Discworld ) [re-read]
15. Henny Thijssing-Boer – Jouw liefde is mijn geluk (Geluk is als de wind; Een huis met open deuren & Leven met jou) [Dutch] [re-read]

A book of my mothers’ that I had read when I was about 14ish and decided to re-read. It’s what the Dutch call a streekroman, which is kinda like a romance novel in that they center on the relationship and they always get each other in the end but these very specifically take place in rural countryside areas (and often on farms that regularly feature whole dynasties) or small(er) towns. It’s still being written today but the period it takes place in is usually some years ago without all the comfort of nowadays, this can be all the way back to early 20th century or as late as the 60s, 70s or 80s, as long as we’ve not entered that whole computerised everything era.

16. Duistere Parels [Dutch] <anthology>
17. Terry Pratchett – The Colour of Magic (Discworld 1) [re-read]

18. Laurell K. Hamilton – Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake 1) [re-read]
19. Laurell K. Hamilton – The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake 2)
20. Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
21. Terry Pratchett – The Wee Free Men (Discworld YA 1 ) [re-read]
22. Laurell K. Hamilton – Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake 3)
23. Tanith Lee – Biting the Sun <Contains Don’t Bite the Sun & Drinking Sapphire Wine>

24. Laurell K. Hamilton – The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake 4)
25. Terry Pratchett – A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld YA 2)
26. Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire 1)
27. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Could Read backwards (The Cat Who 1) [Dutch] [re-read]
28. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Played Post-Office (The Cat Who 6) [Dutch] [re-read]
29. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (The Cat Who 7) [Dutch] [re-read]
30. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Went Underground (The Cat Who 8) [Dutch] [re-read]
31. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Robbed the Bank (The Cat Who 22) [Dutch] [re-read]
32. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Had 14 Tales (The Cat Who Special) <short stories>
33. Carrie Vaughn – Kitty and The Midnight Hour (Kitty 1)
34. Patricia Briggs – Moon Called (Mercy Thompson 1)
35. Rachel Vincent – Stray (Faythe 1)

36. Kim Harrison – Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows 1) [re-read]
37. Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things
38. Kim Harrison – The Good, The Bad And The Undead (The Hollows 2) [re-read]

39. Dolf Verroen – De verschrikkelijke schoolmeester {The Horrible School Teacher} [Dutch] [re-read] <Children’s book. I read it when I was a wee one and re-read it cause I was, at the time, studying to be an elementary school teacher. Same goes for the next two books.>
40. John Marsden – So Much To Tell You [Dutch] [re-read]

41. Ellen Tijsinger – Nikolaj [Dutch] [re-read]
42. Terry Pratchett – Wintersmith (Discworld YA 3)

43. Kim Harrison – Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows 3) [re-read]
44. Kim Harrison – A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows 4)

45. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner [Dutch]

We’re getting closer, slowly…. Again, for explanation of format and markers, see here.

I didn’t read anything in January and June hence the number of bookclots being only 10.
Also, I know I read Terry Pratchett’s Monstrous Regiment this year but can’t find it on the list. Probably because I forgot to write it down at first and then couldn’t remember where it should go.

2006
01. Terry Pratchett – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Discworld YA 0)
02. Maarten Rijkens – I Always Get My Sin [Dutch] <funny little book about mistakes Dutch folk make when speaking English>

03. Colin White & Laurie Boucke – The UnDutchables
04. Judith Barad & Ed Robertson – The Ethics of Star Trek

05. Ursula LeGuin – The Earthsea Quartet
06. Fantastic Adventures January 1943 <really big magazine I got from a second hand shop>

07. Kim Harrison – Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows 1)
08. Steve Gallagher – Saturn 3
09. Bruna SF Jaarboek Ganymedes 1 [Dutch] <anthology>
10. Dan Simmons – Hyperion (Hyperion 1)
11. Kim Harrison – The Good, The Bad And The Undead (The Hollows 2)
12. Kim Harrison – Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows 3)

13. Dan Simmons – Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion 2)

14. Terry Pratchett – Jingo (Discworld 21) [re-read]

15. Maria Oomkes – Bidden in de theedoek {Praying in a Tea Towel} [Dutch]
16. Ken Macleod – Learning the World
17. Maria Oomkes – Het huis dat lachtte {The House that Laughed} [Dutch]
18. Terry Pratchett – The Fifth Elephant (Discworld 24)

19. Terry Pratchett – Thud! (Discworld 30)
20. Star Trek – The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse

21. Dan Simmons – Endymion (Endymion 1)
22. Dan Simmons – Rise of Endymion (Endymion 2)

23. Maria Oomkes – Mijn ei en ik {My Egg and I} [Dutch]
24. Star Trek:TNG – X Planet (X-Men Crossover)
25. Star Trek:TNG – 5 – Strike Zone
26. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – De avonturen van Sherlock Holmes {The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes} [Dutch]
27. Star Trek:TNG – Immortal Coil
28. Star Trek:TNG – I, Q

See here for explanations of the format and markers.

I read this insane amount of books because I spent the first four months of the year studying abroad. I’m quite the introvert and not all that social so I spent a lot of time in my dorm with my laptop filled with e-books.

2005
01. Mary Gentle – Grunts
02. Terry Pratchett – Interesting Times (Discworld 17) [re-read]
03. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman – Good Omens
04. Star Trek:DS9 – Worlds of Star Trek I: Cardassia & Andor
05. Star Trek:DS9 – 02 – The Siege
06. Star Trek:DS9 – 03 – Bloodletter
07. Star Trek:DS9 – 04 – The Big Game
08. Star Trek:DS9 – 05 – Fallen Heroes
09. Star Trek:DS9 – 06 – Betrayal
10. Star Trek:DS9 – 07 – Warchild
11. Star Trek:DS9 – 08 – Antimatter
12. Star Trek:DS9 – 09 – Proud Helios
13. Star Trek:DS9 – 10 – Valhalla
14. Star Trek:DS9 – 11 – Devil in the Sky
15. Star Trek:DS9 – 12 – The Laertian Gamble
16. Star Trek:DS9 – 13 – Station Rage

17. Star Trek:DS9 – 17 – The Heart of the Warrior
18. W.G. Hoskins – The Making of the English Landscape [school]
19. Star Trek:DS9 – 18 – Saratoga
20. Star Trek:DS9 – 19 – Tempest
21. Phil Farrand – The Nitpickers Guide for Next Generation Trekkers
22. Phil Farrand – The Nitpickers Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers
23. P. Cornell, M. Day & K. Topping – The New Trek Programme Guide
24. Terry Pratchett – The Colour Of Magic (Discworld 1) [re-read]
25. Terry Prattchett – The Light Fantastic (Discworld 2) [re-read]
26. Terry Pratchett – Equal Rites (Discworld 3) [re-read]
27. Star Trek:DS9 – 21 – Trial By Error
28. Star Trek:DS9 – 24 – The Rebels: Conquered
29. Star Trek:DS9 – 25 – The Rebels: Courageous
30. Star Trek:DS9 – 26 – The Rebels: Liberated
31. Charmed – Something Wicca This Way Comes
32. Star Trek:ENT – 01 – Broken Bow
33. Star Trek:ENT – 02 – By The Book
34. Star Trek:ENT – 04 – Shockwave
35. Star Trek:ENT – 05 – Surak’s Soul
36. Star Trek:ENT – 06 – The Expanse
37. Star Trek:ENT – 07 – Daedalus 1
38. Star Trek:ENT – 08 – Daedalus 2
39. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) [re-read]
40. Star Trek:VGR – 02 – The Escape

41. Star Trek:VGR – 03 – Ragnarok
42. J.R.R. Tolkien – The Silmarillion
43. Star Trek:VGR – 04 – Violations
44. Star Trek:VGR – 05 – Incident at Arbuk
45. Star Trek:VGR – 06 – The Murdered Sun
46. Star Trek:VGR – 07 – Ghost of a Chance
47. Star Trek:VGR – 08 – Cybersong
48. Star Trek:VGR – 10 – Bless the Beasts
49. Star Trek:VGR – 11 – The Garden
50. Star Trek:VGR – 12 – Chrysalis
51. J.R.R. Tolkien – The Fellowship of the Ring [re-read]
52. Star Trek:VGR – 13 – The Black Shore
53. Star Trek:VGR – 14 – Marooned
54. Star Trek:VGR – 15 – Echoes
55. Star Trek:VGR – 16 – Seven of Nine
56. Star Trek:VGR – 17 – Death of a Neutron Star
57. Star Trek:VGR – 18 – Battle Lines
58. Star Trek:VGR – 19 – Dark Matters: Cloak and Dagger

59. James Blish – Star Trek
60. Larry Nemecek – The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion
61. Star Trek:VGR – 20 – Dark Matters: Ghost Dance
62. Star Trek:VGR – 21 – Dark Matters: Shadow of Heaven
63. Mike Ashley (ed.) – Comic Fantasy <anthology>
64. John de Lancie & Peter David – I, Q
65. Terry Pratchett – Wyrd Sisters (Discworld 6) [re-read]
66. Terry Pratchett – Mort (Discworld 4) [re-read]
67. Marc Okrand – Klingon for the Galactic Traveler

68. H. Feenstra – Duizend jaar Gronings taallandschap {A Thousand Years of Gronings Language Landscape}
69. Louisa May Alcott – Little Women [re-read]
70. Jana Riess – What Would Buffy Do?
71. Patrick Moore – Teach Yourself Astronomy

72. Dan Brown – Deception Point
73. Dan Brown – Digital Fortress
74. Beowulf [school]
75. Alan Dean Foster – Star Trek Log 10
76. Terry Pratchett – Men At Arms (Discworld 15) [re-read]
77. Terry Pratchett – The Last Hero (Discworld Special)
78. Star Trek:DS9 – Avatar 1
79. Star Trek:DS9 – Avatar 2
80. Star Trek:DS9 – Unity
81. Laurell K. Hamilton – Guilty Pleasures [Dutch]

82. Trudi Canavan – The Magician’s Guild (The Black Magician 1)
83. Trudi Canavan – The Novice (The Black Magician 2)
84. Trudi Canavan – The High Lord (The Black Magician 3)

85. Raymond E. Feist – Prince of the Blood

86. Stephen Hawking – A Brief History of Time
87. Tina Caspari – Een paard leert stappen (Romana & Ragebol 1) {A Horse Learns its Way} [Dutch] <children’s book I re-read in a moment of boredom, just like the next one 🙂 >
88. Tina Caspari –  Een paard apart (Romana & Ragebol 2) {One of a Kind Horse} [Dutch]
89. Raymond E. Feist – The King’s Buccaneer
90. Francoise Appels – Tussen Deventer en Epse. 10.000 jaar bewoningsgeschiedenis van het plangebied Epse-Noord.{Not a literal translation but this is a book about the 10.000 years of habitation of a particular Dutch region I was excavating in that summer} [School]
91. James Clemens – Witch Fire (Banned and the Banished 1) [Dutch]

92. Terry Pratchett – Going Postal (Discworld 29)
93. David Langford – The Unseen University Challenge. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Quizbook
94. Terry Pratchett – The Truth (Discworld 25)
95. Lev Grossman – Codex
96. Star Trek:DS9 – Worlds of Star Trek II: Trill & Bajor
97. Star Trek:DS9 – Worlds of Star Trek III: Dominion & Ferenginar

98. Terry Pratchett – Men At Arms! (Discworld 15) [re-read]

99. Star Trek – Articles of the Federation
100. Star Trek – The Lost Era – Catalyst Of Sorrows
101. Jasper Fforde – Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next 2)

2003 (December)
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings [Dutch] <3-in-1 volume>

2004
1. Patricia Cornwell – Cruel and Unusual (Kay Scarpetta 4 ) [Dutch]

2. Robert Silverberg (ed.) – Far Horizons <anthology>
3. Toon Kortooms – Help, de Dokter Verzuipt {Help, the Doctor is Drowning} [Dutch]
4. Terry Pratchett – Nightwatch (Discworld 27)

5. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) [Dutch]
6. Star Trek:DS9 – The Search

7. Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon 2)

8. Max Barry – Jennifer Government
9. Elizabeth Hess – Lost and Found [Dutch]

10. Juliet E. McKenna – The Thief’s Gamble (The Tales of Einarinn 1) [Dutch]
11. Juliet E. McKenna – Swordman’s Oath (The Tales of Einarinn 2) [Dutch]
12. Juliet E. McKenna – The Gambler’s Fortune (The Tales of Einarinn 3) [Dutch]
13. James Mallory – Merlin: The Old Magic (Merlin 1) [Dutch]
14. James Mallory – Merlin: The King’s Wizard (Merlin 2) [Dutch]
15. James Mallory – Merlin: The End of Magic (Merlin 3) [Dutch]

16. Harlan Ellison (ed.) – Dangerous Visions <anthology>
17. Diana Wynne Jones – The Year of The Griffin
18. Diana Wynne Jones – The Dark Lord of Derkholm
19. Terry Pratchett – The Wee Free Men (Discworld YA 1)
20. Terry Pratchett – Jingo (Discworld 21) [re-read]

21. J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit