2011.Book60 - The Sorceror's House (Wolfe)

Pretty good Wolfe. Not too crazy. The twist fooled me, but I expected something weirder.

2011.Book59 - Big Questions (Nilsen)

Very good graphic novel. Weird stuff with birds, snakes, owls, pilots, etc.

2011.Book58 - Upside of Irrationality (Ariely)

Pretty good pop sci.

2011.Book57 - State of Wonder (Patchett)

Excellent novel. Highly recommeded.

2011.Book 56 - Home Fires (Wolfe)

Good Wolfe. Not too much under the surface in this one

2011.Book 55 - Moonwalking with Einstein (Foer)

Excellent non-fiction about memory athletes.

2011.Book54 - Deathless (Valente)

Very good fairy tale fantasy. (Some small editing errors, surprisingly)

2011.Book53 - Changes (Butcher)

Excellent Dresden fantasy. Non-stop action.

2011.Book52 - Essential Groucho (Marx)

Pretty good humour/bio. Groucho's humour wears thin after a while.

2011.Book51 - Vimy (Berton)

Excellent history. "Was it worth it? No."

2011.Book50 - The Cappuccino Years

Below-average humour.

2011.Book49 - Night of the Gun (Carr)

OK memoir

2011.Book48 - The History of Hell (Davis)

Interesting academic study

2011.Book47 - Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (Wodehouse)

Blandings is very good, elsewhere is OK. A little Wodehouse goes a long way.

2011.Book46 - Eating the Dinosaur (Klosterman)

(Mostly) shallow think about (mostly) interesting subjects.

2011.Book45 - Men's Style (Smith)

Pretty good style book. Not too dry.

2011.Book44 - Dreaming to Some Purpose (Wilson)

Good auto-biography. He has some great ideas, but turned into a UFO crank near the end. I would say he would've been well-served to pick up some statistics, but I'm not sure how Bayes would handle the paranormal. His description of his writer's life sounds like doing a lot of hard work to not much effect. And it's probably no longer even possible to make a living that way.

2011.Book43 - Curtains (Jokinen)

Pretty good memoir about working in a funeral home. "Delivered through time".

2011.Book42 - Nice Recovery (Juby)

Very good recovery memoir.

2011.Book41 - Borderlands (Lundy)

Pretty good travelog on the Canada/US and Mexico/US borders. Not optimistic.

2011.Book40 - War (Junger)

Good embedded reporting from Afghanistan

2011.Book39 - The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (Grann)

Good investigative journalism. I liked Frederic Bourdin and the Aryan Brotherhood the best.

2011.Book38 - The Road (McCarthy)

Pretty good. Ending kind of pulls the punch, but it's really about only people. Only.

2011.Book37 - The Mind Parasites (Wilson)

Pretty good. SF version of Wilson's ideas.

2011.Book36 - The Steel Remains (Morgan)

Very good epic fantasy, with a surprising amount of gay alien sex.

2011.Book35 - Forgotten God (Chan)

Pretty good.

2011.Book34 - Black Man (Morgan)

Good SF.

2011.Book33 - Small Gods (Pratchett)

Pretty good Pratchett. He often seems to lose it a bit in his finales, but pretty good.

2011.Book32 - The Outsider (Wilson)

Very interesting stuff.

2011.Book31 - Quarantine (Egan)

Excellent SF. Maybe the worst thing about the Copenhagen interpretation being bogus is that it would wreck the plot of this novel.

2011.Book30 - The National Dream (Berton)

Good Canadian history.

2011.Book29 - The Heroin Diaries (Sixx)

Drugs are boring. Skips recovery.

2011.Book28 - The Pale King (Wallace)

Very good Wallace. Typically digressive, smart, a little funny, sad, inspiring.

2011.Book27 - Julian Comstock (Wilson)

Excellent. Fantastic post-apocalypse-nineteenth-century story. Wow.

2011.Book26 - Reflex (Gould)

Very good thriller masquerading as SF. A little button-pushing

2011.Book25 - Jumper (Gould)

Excellent SF/thriller. Not really SF by the Ken MacLeod definition (humans using tools), but it is by the R. Scott Bakker definition (an expanding world)

2011.Book24 - Wyst (Vance)

Pretty good SF.

2011.Book23 - Marune (Vance)

Pretty good SF. Good story obscured by pedantic style (annoying footnotes -- and I love footnotes)

2011.Book22 - Trullion (Vance)

Good old-school SF. More about characters than environment or tools, so maybe not "echt" SF.

2011.Book21 - The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)

Very good weirdo fantasy. Lots of jokes about Moscow literary establishment that I didn't get.

2011.Book20 - The Blade Itself (Abercrombie)

Pretty good gritty fantasy.

2011.Book19 - Kraken (Mieville)

Very good weird fantasy. Better in retrospect. The page-by-page experience is not as good as the memory.

2011.Book18 - Love Wins (Bell)

Pretty good. Hard to argue with.

2011.Book16 - The Tipping Point (Gladwell)

Pretty good. Interesting stories, don't really back up the theory.

2011.Book15 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)

Good. Classic, apparently. Quite silly.

2011.Book14 - Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)

Very good. Ludicrous

2011.Book17 - Kill Shakespeare (Del Cor, McCreary)

Pretty good comic.

2011.Book13 - Surface Detail (Banks)

Very good SF.

2011.Book12 - Blood's a Rover (Ellroy)

Good historical thriller. Tons of plot. Terse.

2011.Book11 - White-Luck Warrior (Bakker)

Spectacularly awesome. Wow.

2011.Book10 - Best Served Cold (Abercrombie)

Very good new-style epic fantasy. Revenge, betrayal, violence, sex, and humour.

2011.Book9 - Room (Donoghue)

Pretty good. First half's button-pushing thriller. Second half's goal-less fish-out-of-water.

2011.Book8 - John the Baptizer (Hansen)

OK. Sort of interesting, but not very interesting.

2011.Book7 - For the Win (Doctorow)

Some good stuff.

2011.Book6 - Tooth and Claw (Walton)

Excellent. Slow start, spectacular finish

2011.Book5 - The Miracle of Theism (Mackie)

Spectacular. Analytic (?) philosophy

2011.Book4 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Decent on second read.

2011.Book3 - The School of Essential Ingredients (Bauermeister)

Pretty average. Food-concerned.

2011.Book2 - Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes (Watts)

Relentlessly pessimistic short stories. The one about the whales was morbidly hilarious.

2011.Book1 - The Misenchanted Sword (Watt-Evans)

Very good "real" fantasy.