Read:
Gave up on:
- Snuff, Terry Pratchett
- Ark Royal, Mike Rossiter
- The Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
- The Crow Road, Iain Banks
- The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale
- On Writing, Stephen King
- Pig's Progress, Jeanette Sears
- Peace and War, Joe Haldeman
- Time Riders, Alex Scarrow
- A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
- Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Death of the Scharnhorst, John Winton
- The Recollection, Gareth L. Powell
- Margrave of the Marshes, John Peel
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind
- The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry
- Whitehall: The Street that Shaped a Nation, Colin Brown
- Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy, Andy Briggs
- The Deserter, Peadar Ó Guilín
- The Death of Dalziel, Reginald Hill
- David, Mary Hoffman
- Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice, Andrew Lane
- Midwinter of the Spirit, Phil Rickman
- The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
- A Good Hanging and Other Stories, Ian Rankin
- Blood Fever, Charlie Higson
- Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
- An April Shroud, Reginald Hill
- A Clubbable Woman, Reginald Hill
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- The Woodcutter, Reginald Hill
- Lob, Linda Newbery
- Degrees of Freedom, Simon Morden
- Reave the Just and Other Tales, Stephen Donaldson
- Scorpia Rising, Anthony Horowitz
- Theories of Flight, Simon Morden
- Equations of Life, Simon Morden
- The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast: Firsthand Accounts of Naval Warfare from the Age of Nelson and Fighting Sail, ed. Jon E. Lewis
- The Vivero Letter, Desmond Bagley
- Scrimgeour's Scribbling Diary: The Truly Astonishing Diary and Letters of an Edwardian Gentleman, Naval Officer, Boy and Son, Alexander Scrimgeour
- The City and the City, China Miéville
- The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
- Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783, Stanley Weintraub
- I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
- The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography, Claire Harman
- Mr Golightly's Holiday, Salley Vickers
Gave up on:
- Wormwood, G.P. Taylor
- The Eagle Has Landed
- There Will Be Blood
- Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
- Jagged Edge
- Taken
- The Next Three Days
- The Eagle
- Source Code
- Runaway Jury
- The Long Good Friday
- The Duchess
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Ipcress File
- Consenting Adults
- The Great Buck Howard
- Tron: Legacy
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The American
- The Good German
- Made in Dagenham
- Arachnophobia
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Kes
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- The Social Network
- Despicable Me
- Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- True Grit
- Walk the Line
- Red
- Wall-E
- Jaws
- Keeping Mum
- Wall Street
- Shrek Forever After
- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- The Talented Mr Ripley
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- The King's Speech