Book 50: A Brief History of Time (Hawking)

Interesting stuff.

Book 49: Pushing Ice (Reynolds)

OK SF. Some cool ideas, but protagonists were annoying power-loving heirarchs.

Book 48: Half a Crown (Walton)

Very good conclusion to the series.

Book 47: The Prefect (Reynolds)

Very good standard SF. No singularity: no real AI.

Book 46: Swiftly (Roberts)

Pretty good. Weird sex made it icky.

Book 45: The Warrior Who Carried Life (Ryman)

Wow, really strange and cool.

Book 44: Titans of Chaos (Wright)

Meh. In love with the system.

Book 43: Salt (Roberts)

Very cool SF. Anarchists and fascists.

Book 42: Peer Gynt (Ibsen)

Weird modern-ish play.

Book 41: Yellow Blue Tibia (Roberts)

Fantastic science fiction.

Book 40: Fugitives of Chaos (Wright)

Good fantasy. In the struggle of art v. ideology, art wins, but ideology pokes its nose in occasionally.

Book 39: Humpty Dumpty (Knight)

Weird. Well-written but very confusing, as probably intended.

Book 38: Twenty-Piece Shuffle (Paul)

Wealth and poverty.

Book 37: The Enchantress of Florence (Rushdie)

Very good fantasy. Potato witches, indeed.

Book 36: Orphans of Chaos (Wright)

Pretty good fantasy.

Book 35: Infoquake (Edelman)

Lame SF. The future as seen through the lens of a 90s web-marketer.

Book 34: Undomestic Goddess (Kinsella)

Fluffy.

Book 33: Matter (Banks)

Very good SF.

Book 32: Kidnapped (Stevenson)

Classic adventure in Scottish hielands

Book 31: Raymond and Hannah (Marche)

Kinda boring literary stuff.

Book 30: Soon I Will Be Invincible (Grossman)

Very good, semi-literary superhero stuff. Fun.

Book 29: Making Money (Pratchett)

Good discworld.

Book 28: The Last Colony (Scalzi)

Also good, funny, semi-military SF

Book 27: The Android's Dream (Scalzi)

Good, funny, semi-military SF

Book 26: Year of Wonders (Brooks)

Pretty good plague novel.

Book 25: The Mists of Everness (Wright)

Pretty good. Marred by silly, naive politics.

Book 24: The Last Guardian of Everness (Wright)

Excellent. Alternatively terrifying and goofy.

Book 23: The Light Fantastic (Pratchett)

Pretty good Discworld novel.

Book 22: The Armageddon Rag (Martin)

Lame and boring. Maybe his fantasy stuff's better?

Book 21: Carpe Jugulum (Pratchett)

Funny and true.

Book 20: The Judging Eye (Bakker)

A little slow to start, but then excellent.

Book 19: Neuropath (Bakker)

Freaky.

Book 18: Gomorrah (Saviano)

Excellent non-fiction on organized crime in Naples. Truly wretched.

Book 17: The Thousandfold Thought (Bakker)

Awesome.

Book 16: The Warrior-Prophet (Bakker)

Excellent epic fantasy.

Book 15: God in a Cup (Weissman)

Fawning and trivial look at third wave "coffee guys" (Intelligentsia, Counter Culture, Stumptown)

Book 14: The Darkness That Comes Before (Bakker)

Very good fantasy: bleak but gripping

Book 13: Inspiration and Incarnation (Enns)

Good discussion of NT use of OT (not grammatico-historical by a long shot)

Book 12: Sunshine Sketches (Lewis)

Good somewhat humourous stories about rural Ontario.

Book 11: An Evil Guest (Wolfe)

Good. Lots of action, Lovecraft ending, baffling shout-out to Cory Doctorow. I think there's more to this book than I got, maybe because I've heard people say there's always lots to Wolfe.

Book 10: The Golden Transcendence (Wright)

Excellent finish to the trilogy. High-quality far-future SF.

Book 9: The Worldly Philosphers (Heilbroner)

Interesting overview of economics.

Book 8: The Shack (Young)

Poorly written, low-quality theodicy. Protagonist does not have his wits about him, for which I blame the author.

Book 7: The Light Ages (MacLeod)

Average fantasy. Victorian era + Magic + Revolution should have been awesome, like Susanna Clarke meets China Mieville, but it was kind of flat.

Book 6: Dream (Selby)

Very good. Introductory comments by Aronofsky are just wrong, but author's preface is interesting ("Living the dream" v "Living the life")

Book 5: Hamlet (Shakespeare)

Canonicity puts it beyond categorization.

Book 4: The Phoenix Exultant (Wright)

Excellent sequel to The Golden Age. Hero's a bit more sympathetic now. And a couple of funny parts.

Book 3: The Golden Age (Wright)

Excellent far-future post-Singularity SF. Good stuff on remaining human (or not). And a kind of cool lost-memory detective story. Cliffhanger ending.

Book 2: Pirate Freedom (Wolfe)

Very good historical novel. Doesn't seem as weird and layered as usual for Wolfe, but maybe it's just going over my head.

Book 1: The Birth House (McKay)

OK historical novel.