Books/ Magazines Read in 2005 (amended)

[Compiled & posted on 28 Feb 2006]

The list includes only books and magazines (AV items are excluded).

• Total items read in 2005 = 91 items
• Fiction Vs Non-fiction = 79% Fiction Vs. 21% Non-fiction
• Subject composition (top 3 in terms of %) = Fantasy 23%, Science Fiction 23% (21 items each); Society/ Contemporary Fiction 15% (14 items); Military 4%, Art 4%, Science 4% (4 items each)
• Items from Singapore Collection = 9 (10% of total read)
• Formats = Books 48% (44 books), Magazines 12% (11 magazines), Graphic Novels 40% (36 graphic novels)
• Value of items as per Amazon.com prices (excluding Out of Print items) = USD$1,019.13 (or SGD$1,654.35, as at 28 Feb 2006 conversion rates)

Titles read in 2005:
1. 9-11: Artists respond – Vol 1
2. 9-11: Emergency relief
3. A bit of earth/ Suchen Christine Lim
4. A life force/ Will Eisner
5. A morbid taste for bones (a Brother Cadfael series)/ Ellis Peters
6. AD & D (Asian Defence & Diplomacy)/ Feb 2005 vol 12 no.2
7. Aliens: Stronghold/ Dark Horse Comics
8. American Gods/ Neil Gaiman
9. Analog Science Fiction & Fact/ Jan-Feb 2005
10. Asian geographic/ n27, issue 5, 2004
11. Asimov’s Science Fiction/ Apr-May 2005
12. Asimov’s Science Fiction/ Feb 2005
13. Asimov’s Science Fiction/ Jan 2005
14. Asimov’s Science Fiction/ Mar 2005
15. Asimov’s Science Fiction/ Dec 2004
16. Astronomy/ Aug 2005
17. Astronomy/ Oct 2004
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel/ Dai Sijie
19. Cities/ (ed. Peter Crowther)
20. City people notebook/ Will Eisner
21. Concrete: Killer smile/ Paul Chadwick
22. Concrete: Think like a mountain/ Paul Chadwick
23. Digital Painting/ (pub. Ballistics/ digital artists master class)
24. Dreaming down under/ edited by Jack Dann & Janeen Webb
25. Fax from Sarajevo: A story of survival/ Joe Kubert
26. Finding Ben: A mother’s journey through the maze of Asperger’s/ Barbara Lasalle
27. Firebirds: Anthology of original fantasy and Science Fiction/ Sharyn November (editor)
28. Fistful of colours/ Suchen Christine Lim
29. Getting results: Five absolutes for high performers/ Clinton O. Longnecker & Jack L. Simonetti
30. Google power: Unleash the full potential of Google/ Chris Sherman
31. Heartland/ Daren V. L. Shiau
32. Hellboy: Seeds of destruction/ Mike Mignola
33. Hellboy: The chained coffin & others/ Mike Mignola
34. How to draw and sell comic strips for newspapers and comic books/ Alan McKenzie
35. Insider’s Singapore: The alternative city guide/ David Brazil
36. Iron Council/ China Mieville
37. Isn’t Singapore somewhere in China, luv? Stories about Singaporeans abroad/ Josephine Chia Over
38. King Rat/ China Mieville
39. Kite runner/ Khaled Hosseini
40. Last day in vietnam: A memory/ Will Eisner
41. Lila: An inquiry into morals/ Robert M. Pirsig
42. Lonely planet norway
43. Marching to Valhalla/ Michael Blake
44. New Spring (A Wheel of Time novel)/ Robert Jordan
45. Norway rough guide
46. Orbiter/ DC Comics
47. Perdido Street Station/ China Mieville
48. Reading & the reference librarian: The importance to library service of staff reading habits/ Juris Dilevko & Lisa Gottlieb
49. Reinventing comics: How imagination and technology are revolutionizing an art form/ Scott McCloud
50. Samurai cat goes to hell/ Mark E. Rogers
51. Scientific American/ Dec 2003
52. Seabiscuit/ Laura Hildebrand
53. Seventeen/ Colin Cheong
54. Sleeper: Out in the Cold/ Ed Brubaker & Sean Philips
55. Space Usagi/ Stan Sakai
56. Star Wars: Chewbacca/ Dark Horse Comics
57. Star wars: X-wing rogue squadron. Mandatory retirement
58. StormWatch Vol. 1. Force of nature/ Warren Ellis
59. Stormwatch. Vol. 2. Lightning strikes
60. Stormwatch. Vol. 3. Change or die
61. Stormwatch. Vol. 4. A finer world
62. Stormwatch. Vol. 5. Final orbit
63. Stormwatch. Team Achilles. Book 1
64. Stormwatch: Team Achilles book 2
65. Tangerine/ Colin Cheong
66. Terry Pratchett’s The light Fantastic
67. The Alchemist/ Paulo Coelho
68. The complete Concrete/ Paul Chadwick
69. The dreamer (A graphic novella set during the dawn of comic bks)/ Will Eisner
70. The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein/ Robert A. Heinlein
71. The fifth mountain/ Paulo Coelho
72. The five star stories (vol 10)/ Mamoru Nagano
73. The green man: Tales from the mythic forest/ Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (editors)
74. The last heros/ W. E. B. Griffin
75. The matrix comics Vol 2
76. The reef/ Nora Roberts
77. The Sandman: Endless nights/ Neil Gaiman
78. The Sandman: The wake/ Neil Gaiman
79. The Scar/ China Mieville
80. The secret history/ Donna Tartt
81. The seige of Singapore/ Lim Thean Soo
82. The Sgt. Rock archives Vol. 1/ DC Comics
83. To kill a mockingbird/ Harper Lee
84. Tuesdays with morrie/ Mitch Albom
85. Understanding comics: The invisible art/ Scott McCloud
86. Void decks and other empty places/ Colin Cheong
87. Walk like a dragon: Short stories/ Goh Sin Tub
88. We, the media: Grassroots journalism by the people, for the people/ Dan Gillmor
89. Wildcats Version 3.0: Brand Building
90. Wildcats Volume 3: Serial boxes
91. X-wing Rogue Squadron: Mandatory Retirement/ Michael A. Stackpole

Almost-read in 2005
Nil - I guess I was pretty selective this year.

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