I’m not entirely certain why I’m feeling the need to create a list of the books I’ve been reading, but for the curious, here it is:

• Josie Dew: A Ride In The Neon Sun
• Rosemary Sutcliff: Dawn Wind
• Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid
• Josie Dew: Saddled at Sea
• David Millar: Racing Through The Dark
• John Grisham: The Runaway Jury
• Bradley Wiggins: In Pursuit of Glory
• Susan Chitty and Thomas Hinde: The Great Donkey Walk
• Lance Armstrong: It’s Not About The Bike
• David Gemmell: The Hawk Eternal
• David Gemmell: Ironhand’s Daughter
• Ellen MacArthur: Taking on the World
• Tess Gerritsen: The Apprentice
• Trudi Canavan: The Magician’s Apprentice
• Josie Dew: Slow Coast Home
• Mo Hayder: The Treatment
• Stephen King: The Stand (Complete and Uncut)
• Michael Morpurgo: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea
• Alastair Humphreys: Thunder and Sunshine
• Alastair Humphreys: Moods of Future Joys
• Rosie Swale-Pope: Just a Little Run Around the World

2011 (114 books)

• Josie Dew: The Wind in my Wheels
• Ruth Rendell: A Sleeping Life
• Josie Dew: Long Cloud Ride
• Aron Ralston: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
• Nevil Shute: Requiem for a Wren
• Jesse Kellerman: The Brutal Art
• Evelyn Prentis: A Nurse in Action
• Tess Gerritsen: The Surgeon
• Jonathan Stroud: The Ring Of Solomon
• Yasuyuki Ozeki: Against the Wind
• Mo Hayder: Birdman
• Ruth Rendell: From Doon with Death
• Kate Fox: Watching the English
• Steven Saylor: The Venus Throw
• Evelyn Prentis: A Nurse in Time
• Lynda La Plante: Cold Shoulder
• David Attenborough: Life On Air
• John Grisham: The Firm
• Ruth Rendell: Wolf to the Slaughter
• Stephen Cartmell: From Aintree To York
• Tom Clancy: Clear and Present Danger
• Bernard Cornwell: Stormchild
• Ruth Rendell: Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter
• Terry Darlington: Narrow Dog to Carcassonne
• Helen Hollick: Shadow of the King
• Helen Hollick: Pendragon’s Banner
• Helen Hollick: The Kingmaking
• Hugh Ambrose: The Pacific
• Stephen King and Peter Straub: The Talisman
• Ruth Rendell: Simisola
• Stephen King: The Dead Zone
• John Grisham: The Last Juror
• Malcolm Saville: The Sign of the Alpine Rose
• William Goldman: The Princess Bride
• Robert Harris: Pompeii
• Mary Norton: The Complete Borrowers Stories
• Caiseal Mór: The Water of Life
• Caiseal Mór: The Song of the Earth
• Caiseal Mór: The Circle and the Cross
• Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman: Long Way Down
• Colleen McCullough: The Song of Troy
• Philip Pullman: The Amber Spyglass
• Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife
• Philip Pullman: Northern Lights
• Arthur C. Clarke: Dolphin Island
• Rosemary Sutcliff: Outcast
• Bernard Cornwell: Excalibur
• Bernard Cornwell: Enemy of God
• Bernard Cornwell: The Winter King
• Nick Thorpe: Eight Men and a Duck
• Simon Scarrow: The Generals
• Simon Scarrow: Young Bloods
• Yasmine Galenorn: Changeling
• Ellen MacArthur: Taking on the World
• David Gemmell: Stormrider
• David Gemmell: Ravenheart
• David Gemmell: Midnight Falcon
• David Gemmell: Sword in the Storm
• Kate Adie: The Kindness of Strangers
• Tim Severin: Corsair
• Paul Brickhill: The Great Escape
• Yasmine Galenorn: Witchling
• JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
• CJ Sansom: Sovereign
• Robin Hobb: Fool’s Fate
• Robin Hobb: Golden Fool
• Robin Hobb: Fool’s Errand
• Francis Chichester: Gipsy Moth Circles the World
• Lawrence Watt-Evans: Dragon Venom
• Lawrence Watt-Evans: The Dragon Society
• Lawrence Watt-Evans: Dragon Weather
• Phillip Pullman: Once Upon a Time in the North
• John Grisham: The Pelican Brief
• Ranulph Fiennes: Mind over Matter
• Maggie Furey: Dhiammara
• Maggie Furey: Sword of Flame
• Maggie Furey: Harp of Winds
• Maggie Furey: Aurian
• Tony Perrottet: Route 66 AD
• David Gemmell: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend
• Rosemary Sutcliff: The Lantern Bearers
• Rosemary Sutcliff: The Silver Branch
• Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the Ninth
• Bernard Cornwell: Stonehenge
• David Gemmell: The Swords of Night and Day
• David Gemmell: White Wolf
• Richard Adams: Watership Down
• Polly Evans: Kiwis Might Fly
• John Grisham: The Last Juror
• David Gemmell: Waylander II
• Malcolm Saville: Saucers over the Moor
• Reinhold Eggers: Colditz: The German Story
• Mark Wallington: 500 Mile Walkies
• David Gemmell: Waylander
• Tim Moore: French Revolutions
• Trudi Canavan: The High Lord
• Trudi Canavan: The Novice
• Trudi Canavan: The Magicians’ Guild
• Ian Aitch: A Fete Worse Than Death
• Tamora Pierce: Shatterglass
• Tamora Pierce: Cold Fire
• Tamora Pierce: Street Magic
• Tamora Pierce: Magic Steps
• David Gemmell: The King Beyond the Gate
• Malcolm Saville: Lone Pine London
• David Gemmell: Quest for Lost Heroes
• Polly Evans: It’s not about the Tapas
• Stephen Potts: Compass Murphy
• Donna Jo Napoli: Stones in Water
• Malcolm Saville: Wings Over Witchend
• Rosemary Sutcliff: The Witch’s Brat
• Polly Evans: Fried Eggs with Chopsticks
• JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit
• Bill Bryson: Notes from a Big Country