librarything end-of-year poll of books read - there are a lot more over on the community if you look. There is a slight discrepancy between the list below and my own calculation of my end-of-year tally, in that the three Sophocles plays are taken together, as is each of the 2-in-1 Doctor Who books, and the two unpublished manuscripts are not listed. (I'm also still a little uneasy about the categorisation of the Lovejoy novels, which often crucially depend on his supernatural activity to tell real antiques from fakes, but am leaving them with non-genre for now.)
Poll #1888091
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51
Which of these 51 non-fiction books have you read?
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| The Bible |
   22 (22.7%) |
| The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell |
| 8 (8.2%) |
| A History of God by Karen Armstrong |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Ann Jacobs |
| 4 (4.1%) |
| The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| Packing for Mars by Mary Roach |
| 4 (4.1%) |
| The Hare With Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Bible: The Biography by Karen Armstrong |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| History of Christianity edited by Tim Dowley |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan |
| 3 (3.1%) |
| The Portable Greek Historians edited by M. I. Finley |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Stations of the Sun by Ronald Hutton |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Steampunk Bible by Jeff VanderMeer with S.J. Chambers |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Tickling the English by Dara O Briain |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Reign of Elizabeth 1558-1603 by J. B. Black |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Twilight Lords by Richard Berleth |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Young Elizabeth by Alison Plowden |
| 3 (3.1%) |
| The Word in the Desert by Douglas Burton-Christie |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Danger to Elizabeth by Alison Plowden |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Marriage with My Kingdom by Alison Plowden |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Why Can't Elephants Jump? by Mick O'Hare |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Great O'Neill by Sean O'Faolain |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Invention of Childhood by Hugh Cunningham |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Elizabeth Regina by Alison Plowden |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| How to Sharpen Pencils by David Rees |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Empire Stops Here by Philip Parker |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Making Ireland British 1580-1650 by Nicholas Canny |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity by Nicholas Hulot |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Jar Jar Binks Must Die... by Daniel M. Kimmel |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| Representing Autism by Stuart Murray |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Not of This World? by Glenn Jordan |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005 by David P. Becker |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Russian Phoenix: The Story of Russian Christians, 988-1988 by Francis House |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall by John Major |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Comic Strip Companion: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 - 1979 by Paul Scoones |
| 2 (2.1%) |
| Catholics in Western Democracies by John Henry Whyte |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Collins Business Secrets - Interviews by Heather Salter |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Pawns of Peace: Evaluation of Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997-2009 by Gunnar Sørbø, Jonathan Goodhand, Bart Klem, Ada Elisabeth Nissen, and Hilde Selbervik |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The Treason and Trial of Sir John Perrot by Roger Turvey |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Broadstairs Heydays and Nowadays by Nick Evans |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| Dealing with a post-BRIC Russia by Ben Judah |
| 1 (1.0%) |
| The continent or the open sea: Does Britain have a European future? by David Rennie |
| 1 (1.0%) |
Which of these 48 non-genre fiction books have you read?
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| A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 23 (11.2%) |
| War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy |
| 14 (6.8%) |
| The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 7 (3.4%) |
| Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus The Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonnus by Sophocles |
| 11 (5.3%) |
| Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald |
| 7 (3.4%) |
| The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James |
| 10 (4.9%) |
| Hard Times by Charles Dickens |
| 14 (6.8%) |
| Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 14 (6.8%) |
| The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling by Henry Fielding |
| 10 (4.9%) |
| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie |
| 2 (1.0%) |
| The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco |
| 2 (1.0%) |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte |
| 11 (5.3%) |
| Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Washington Square by Henry James |
| 5 (2.4%) |
| Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian |
| 10 (4.9%) |
| Independent People by Halldor Laxness |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian |
| 5 (2.4%) |
| Q by Luther Blissett |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner |
| 6 (2.9%) |
| The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett |
| 4 (1.9%) |
| A Good Hanging and other stories by Ian Rankin |
| 2 (1.0%) |
| Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Watchman by Ian Rankin |
| 2 (1.0%) |
| Beggars Banquet by Ian Rankin |
| 3 (1.5%) |
| Blood Hunt by Ian Rankin |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling |
| 2 (1.0%) |
| The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Bleeding Hearts by Ian Rankin |
| 2 (1.0%) |
| Last Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton |
| 11 (5.3%) |
| The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Not a Creature Was Stirring by Jane Haddam |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Gold from Gemini by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Jade Woman by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Sleepers of Erin by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Very Last Gambado by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Tartan Sell by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Great California Game by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Vatican Rip by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Public Prosecutor by Jef Geeraerts |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Firefly Gadroon by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Paid and Loving Eyes by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka |
| 4 (1.9%) |
| The Other City by Michal Ajvaz |
| 2 (1.0%) |
| Lust, Caution: And Other Stories by Eileen Chang |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| The Ten Word Game by Jonathan Gash |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania by Winston Churchill |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Scotch on the Rocks by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond |
| 1 (0.5%) |
Which of these 60 sf and fantasy books have you read?
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| The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 32 (8.5%) |
| Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 33 (8.8%) |
| A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle |
| 32 (8.5%) |
| The Princess Bride by William Goldman |
| 27 (7.2%) |
| Sphere by Michael Crichton |
| 9 (2.4%) |
| Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb |
| 14 (3.7%) |
| Grendel by John Gardner |
| 6 (1.6%) |
| Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn |
| 11 (2.9%) |
| Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett |
| 10 (2.7%) |
| The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon |
| 7 (1.9%) |
| Snuff by Terry Pratchett |
| 9 (2.4%) |
| Faerie Queene by A. Hamilton |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler |
| 7 (1.9%) |
| Embassytown by China Mieville |
| 14 (3.7%) |
| Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones |
| 9 (2.4%) |
| Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks |
| 5 (1.3%) |
| Among Others by Jo Walton |
| 9 (2.4%) |
| Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay |
| 5 (1.3%) |
| The War of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien |
| 5 (1.3%) |
| Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss |
| 4 (1.1%) |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlof |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| Slow River by Nicola Griffith |
| 4 (1.1%) |
| The Sharing Knife: Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold |
| 9 (2.4%) |
| Morgoth's Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| Sauron Defeated by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| Rule 34 by Charles Stross |
| 7 (1.9%) |
| The War of the Jewels by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand |
| 8 (2.1%) |
| Powers by Ursula Le Guin |
| 8 (2.1%) |
| The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre |
| 6 (1.6%) |
| Dagger Magic by Katherine Kurtz |
| 7 (1.9%) |
| Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey |
| 6 (1.6%) |
| Deadline by Mira Grant |
| 4 (1.1%) |
| The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction 24 edited by Gardner Dozois (2007) |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction 25 edited by Gardner Dozois (2008) |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| The End Specialist by Drew Magary |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| The Godmother's Apprentice by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough |
| 5 (1.3%) |
| The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 2007 edited by George Mann |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord |
| 4 (1.1%) |
| The Waters Rising by Sheri S. Tepper |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| Yearwood by Paul Hazel |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| The Islanders by Christopher Priest |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| The Best Science Fiction of the Year #4 edited by Terry Carr (1975) |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| Spectrum IV, ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (1965) |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| Countdown by Mira Grant |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| Osama by Lavie Tidhar |
| 3 (0.8%) |
| By Light Alone by Adam Roberts |
| 4 (1.1%) |
| Being Human: The Road by Simon Guerrier |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| Conquest of the Amazon by John Russell Fearn |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| Stories from Ancient Egypt by Joyce A. Tyldesley |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| Revise the World by Brenda W Clough |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| Out of Nowhere by Gerald Whelan |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| Postscripts Special BSFA members Sampler Edition edited by Peter Crowther |
| 2 (0.5%) |
| The Poison Factory by Oisin McGann |
| 1 (0.3%) |
| Countdown Annual 1972 |
| 1 (0.3%) |
Which of these 72 Doctor Who and related books have you read?
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| 1st Doctor: Doctor Who - The Daleks: Script by Terry Nation |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 1st Doctor: The Eleventh Tiger by David McIntee |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 1st Doctor: The Plotters by Gareth Roberts |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 1st Doctor: Doctor Who - The Gunfighters by Donald Cotton |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 2nd Doctor: Dying in the Sun by Jon De Burgh Miller |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 2nd Doctor: Invasion of the Cat-People by Gary Russell |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 2nd Doctor: Wonderland by Mark Chadbourn |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 2nd Doctor: Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen: Script by Gerry Davis |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 2nd Doctor: Combat Rock by Mick Lewis |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 2nd Doctor: The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 2nd Doctor: The Colony of Lies by Colin Brake |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 4th Doctor: Shada by Gareth Roberts and Douglas Adams |
| 6 (3.2%) |
| 7th Doctor: All Consuming Fire by Andy Lane |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 7th Doctor: Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| 7th Doctor: Strange England by Simon Messingham |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 7th Doctor: First Frontier by David A. McIntee |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 7th Doctor: St. Anthony's Fire by Mark Gatiss |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 7th Doctor: Falls the Shadow by Daniel O'Mahony |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 7th Doctor: Parasite by Jim Mortimore |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 7th Doctor: Warlock by Andrew Cartmel |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 7th Doctor: Set Piece by Kate Orman |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 7th Doctor: Infinite Requiem by Daniel Blythe |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 7th Doctor: Sanctuary by David A. McIntee |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Blue Angel by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Taking of Planet Five by Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| 8th Doctor: Frontier Worlds by Peter Anghelides |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 8th Doctor: Parallel 59 by Natalie Dallaire and Stephen Cole |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Shadows of Avalon by Paul Cornell |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Fall of Yquatine by Nick Walters |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 8th Doctor: Coldheart by Trevor Baxendale |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Space Age by Steve Lyons |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Banquo Legacy by Andy Lane and Justin Richards |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 8th Doctor: The Burning by Justin Richards |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| Alt!9th Doctor: Scream of the Shalka, by Paul Cornell |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 9th Doctor: 2006 Doctor Who Annual edited by Clayton Hickman |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 10th Doctor: Peacemaker by James Swallow |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 10th Doctor: The Sontaran Games by Jacqueline Rayner |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 10th Doctor: The Taking Of Chelsea 426 by David Llewellyn |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| 10th Doctor: Autonomy by Daniel Blythe |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 10th Doctor: The Krillitane Storm by Christopher Cooper |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| 10th Doctor: Code of the Krillitanes by Justin Richards |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 11th Doctor: Borrowed Time by Naomi Alderman |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 11th Doctor: Touched by an Angel by Jonathan Morris |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 11th Doctor: Paradox Lost by George Mann |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| 11th Doctor: Alien Adventures (The Underwater War by Richard Dinnick, Rain of Terror by Mike Tucker) |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 11th Doctor: Sightseeing in Space (Web in Space by David Bailey, Terminal of Despair by Steve Lyons) |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 11th Doctor: The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012 by Clayton Hickman |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 11th Doctor: The Art of Death by James Goss |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 11th Doctor: Monstrous Missions (Terrible Lizards by Gary Russell, Horror of the Space Snakes by Jonathan Green) |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| 11th Doctor: Darkstar Academy by Mark Morris |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 11th Doctor: Day Of The Cockroach by Steve Lyons |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 11th Doctor: The Nu-Humans by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 11th Doctor: Dark Horizons by J.T. Colgan |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| 11th Doctor: The Empty House by Simon Guerrier |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| 11th Doctor: The Sleepers in the Dust by Darren Jones |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| Doctor Who: The Time Traveller's Almanac by Steve Tribe |
| 1 (0.5%) |
| Torchwood: SkyPoint by Phil Ford |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| Torchwood: Almost Perfect by James Goss |
| 7 (3.7%) |
| Torchwood: Into The Silence by Sarah Pinborough |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| Torchwood: Bay Of The Dead by Mark Morris |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| Torchwood: The House That Jack Built by Guy Adams |
| 5 (2.7%) |
| Torchwood: Risk Assessment by James Goss |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| Torchwood: The Undertaker's Gift by Trevor Baxendale |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| Torchwood: Consequences by James Moran, Joseph Lidster, Andrew Cartmel, David Llewellyn, and Sarah Pinborough |
| 4 (2.1%) |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Time Capsule by Peter Anghelides |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures: The White Wolf by Gary Russell |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Shadow People by Scott Handcock |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures: Children of Steel by Martin Day |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| The Sarah Jane Adventures: Judgement Day by Scott Gray |
| 3 (1.6%) |
| River Song (as Melody Malone): The Angel's Kiss by Justin Richards |
| 2 (1.1%) |
| Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax: Devil in the Smoke by Justin Richards |
| 2 (1.1%) |
And finally, which of these 21 graphic stories have you read?
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| The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley |
| 4 (6.9%) |
| Return of the Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley |
| 1 (1.7%) |
| Habibi by Craig Thompson |
| 4 (6.9%) |
| Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill |
| 2 (3.4%) |
| The Unwritten Vol. 3: Dead Man's Knock by Mike Carey and Peter Gross |
| 3 (5.2%) |
| The Unwritten Vol. 4: Leviathan by Mike Carey and Peter Gross |
| 3 (5.2%) |
| The Unwritten Vol. 5: On to Genesis by Mike Carey and Peter Gross |
| 3 (5.2%) |
| X'ed Out by Charles Burns |
| 1 (1.7%) |
| Digger, Vol. 1 by Ursula Vernon |
| 4 (6.9%) |
| Digger, Vol. 2 by Ursula Vernon |
| 4 (6.9%) |
| Digger, Vol. 3 by Ursula Vernon |
| 4 (6.9%) |
| Digger, Vol. 4 by Ursula Vernon |
| 3 (5.2%) |
| Digger, Vol. 5 by Ursula Vernon |
| 3 (5.2%) |
| Digger, Vol. 6 by Ursula Vernon |
| 3 (5.2%) |
| Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 5 by Fumi Yoshinaga |
| 6 (10.3%) |
| Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 6 by Fumi Yoshinaga |
| 5 (8.6%) |
| At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft and I.N.J. Culbard |
| 1 (1.7%) |
| Aldébaran, tome 1 : La catastrophe by Leo |
| 1 (1.7%) |
| Aldébaran, tome 2 : La Blonde by Leo |
| 1 (1.7%) |
| With the Light: v. 5: Raising an Autistic Child by Keiko Tobe |
| 1 (1.7%) |
| Barbaraal tot op het bot by Barbara Stok |
| 1 (1.7%) |
And if you haven't, please give me recommendations for 2013.
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