Wednesday, January 1, 2014

books read in January 2014

Fiction is in red.

1. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
2. Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler
3. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You, Eli Pariser
3. The Water Room, Christopher Fowler (Bryant and May are like Statler and Waldorf if they were British and solved crime. I adore them)
4. The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, Olivia Laing
5. Strong Poison, Dorothy Sayers
6. Seventy-Seven Clocks, Christopher Fowler
7. Ten Second Staircase, Christopher Fowler
8. Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, Katy Butler
9. Have His Carcase, Dorothy Sayers 
10. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose
11. Trent's Last Case, E.C. Bentley
12. The Complete Stories, Dorothy Sayers
13. The Nine Tailors, Dorothy Sayers
14. White Corridor, Christopher Fowler
15. The Victoria Vanishes, Christopher Fowler
16. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings (written in cliches and entirely mediocre)
17.  Is There No Place on Earth For Me?, Susan Sheehan (amazingly reported, but so heartbreaking I'm not sure I'll ever read it again)
18. Orientations, W. Somerset Maugham
19. The Circle, W. Somerset Maugham
20. Bryant & May On the Loose, Christopher Fowler 
21. Denial: A Memoir of Terror, Jessica Stern
22. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran
23. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, Sara Gran
24. Bryant & May Off the Rails, Christopher Fowler