Best books you've read in 2004
 

Since this is being done in other forums with other subjects, I was just wondering about books.

I'm not good at knowing when a book has been published - so let's do it for the best you've read - be it published this year or 10 years ago, okay?

This should be very interesting :D

So, for me:

Fiction
Behind The Scenes At The Museum, by Kate Atkinson
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
The Shadow Of The Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Something Rotten, by Jasper Fforde
To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf

Non-fiction
Jane Austen, by Claire Tomalin
The Brontës: A Life In Letters, edited by Juliet Barker
Anne Frank's Diary

Also The Da Vinci Code gets a special mention because it's the most grabbing book I've read this year - simply couldn't put it down.

And I'm currently reading Wives And Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell and it's looking like it will made it into the list :D

The Probability Broach by L Neil Smith
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
Star Wars Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover

Adrian

Mafia, the complete history of a criminal underworld - Jo Durden Smith
Gangland Glasgow - Robert Jeffrey
Tongs ya bass - not sure exactly who by. can't be bothered looking but it very possibly could be Jeffrey again.

not really into fiction as you might have sussed but by coincidence, a girl i work with told me i should really read the da vinci code last night so i think i will over the new year.

Lol mine post also poste twice :?

Jim are u too drunk or am i seeing too many of ur same posts :? :?

Jim, before you read Davinci Code, read Angels and Demons which is the first book in the series. I thought Angels and Demons was a lot better, but maybe that is because I read it before Davinci. Anyway, I recommend both.

I really enjoyed "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom. It is a book that makes you appreciate life. :D

nah it was taking ages for the posts to upload so i was stopping and refreshign which has obviously stuck a coupla posts up twice.

Jim's got studying to be doing so no drink until thursday night.

Da Vinci Code & Angels & Demons, although you can see the recycling going on...

Odd Thomas by Koontz, Wolves of Calla by King, The Lord Golden - trilogy by Hobb. I can't name just one.

Ice

"Shadows over Baker Street", Cthulhu stories in the world of Sherlock Holmes, by different authors.

Nat

Talking with serial Killers by Christopher Berry Dee . i loved this book ,it gave a good description of most of the murders that these people did and an insite to how they think .very interesting