Christmas reading

Here's my list:

Fiction

• George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
• Mal Peet, Life: An Exploded Diagram
• Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Essays

• John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead
• Best American Science Writing 2011

Memoir

• Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth [in progress, perilously close to being ditched]

Non-fiction

• Pippin Barr, How to play a video game
• Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
• Mary Gabriel,  Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the birth of a revolution

Posting will probably be infrequent as I make my way through this pile - see you in 2012!