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did you read "Gone-Away World" twice?? imlad Send a noteboard - 01/01/2010 07:23:16 PM
And I'd say that someone really likes Conan Doyle ;)
Although I still claim I did not participate in the challenge per se, I see the value of keeping a record of what you read, and being able to see what other people read. It is interesting. Mine were

Do Butlers Burgle Banks? -- P. G. Wodehouse
American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
Little Dorrit -- Charles Dickens
Denis Duval -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy
Weir of Hermiston -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Absolute Sandman vol 1 -- Neil Gaiman
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
The Book With No Name -- Anonymous
Franz Kafka. A Biography -- Max Brod
The Politics of Friendship -- Jacques Derrida
The Work of Mourning -- Jacques Derrida
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- James Joyce
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
PopCo -- Scarlett Thomas
Time and the Other -- Emmanuel Levinas
The Last Watch -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience -- Howard Caygill
The Lost World -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What do you care what people think? -- Richard P. Feynman
1066 and All That -- Walter Carruthers Sellar & Robert Julian Yeatman
The Dark Volume -- G. W. Dahlquist
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Two Other Stories -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Phases of Dickens -- J. Cuming Walters
The Good Terrorist -- Doris Lessing
The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway
Soul Music -- Terry Pratchett
The D. Case -- Charles Dickens, Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini
Maurice Blanchot -- Ulrich Haase & William Large
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong -- Pierre Bayard
The Space of Literature -- Maurice Blanchot
Moving Pictures -- Terry Pratchett
Coraline -- Neil Gaiman
Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down from the Stars -- Frank Key
The Last Dickens -- Matthew Pearl
Glasslottet -- Amitav Ghosh
Ibid: A Life -- Mark Dunn
Edwin Drood: Antichrist in the Cathedral -- John Thacker
Arthur Conan Doyle -- Jacqueline A. Jaffe
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir -- John Lamond
Memories and Adventures -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle -- Pierre Nordon
Something Rotten -- Jasper Fforde
The Pursuit of Crime. Art and Ideology in Detective Fiction -- Dennis Porter
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters -- Daniel Stashower, Jon L. Lellenberg, Charles Foley & Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Arthur Conan Doyle
S/Z -- Roland Barthes
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.K. Rowling
The Turn of the Screw -- Henry James
My Man Jeeves -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Baroness Orczy
Talk to the Hand -- Lynne Truss
Unseen Academicals -- Terry Pratchett
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Last Cavalier -- Alexandre Dumas
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Muriel Spark
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner -- James Hogg
Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe
Endgame -- Samuel Beckett
The Importance of Being Earnest -- Oscar Wilde
The Decay of Lying -- Oscar Wilde
Mr Bliss -- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Gone-Away World -- Nick Harkaway
The Count of Monte-Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas


I could have sorted them into dates, as I kept a record in my calendar, but I can't be bothered to get up from the sofa and get it.
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