My year in reading

Inspired by my friend Emma, I've been reviewing my year in reading. I collect (almost) all the books, and (almost) everything I think about them on Goodreads.

I can't quite be arsed recording everything here again, so here are some screenshots:

Overall, the differences between 2010 and 2011 seem to be:

• more poetry
• more YA
• less science
• more World War One memoirs
• less contemporary fiction

I'm not sure what the 2012 focus will be. In the meantime, here are the books I gave 5 stars this year:

• Meg Rosoff, There is No Dog
• Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat
• Margaret Mahy, Memory
• Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
• Robert Graves, Goodbye to all that
• Colette, Cheri and The Last of Cheri
• W.H. Auden, Another Time
• Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands
• Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie
• Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Answers
• Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution (December 29 2010, but hey ...)