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About My Library

I've got lots of books, but like many like-minded people on librarything, I can always use more:)It's a fairly varied collection though still quite dominated by a lot of children's/YA lit that I like to re discover from time to time.

Top 10 Favourite Reads of 2009:
Fables- Bill Willingham
Lottery and Other Stories- Shirley Jackson
Lonely Werewolf Girl- Martin Millar
To Say Nothing of The Dog- Connie Willis
Complete Saki- Saki
Gormenghast- Mervyn Peake
The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque- Jeffrey Ford
Perdido Street Station- China Mieville
Baron in the Trees- Italo Calvino
The City of Lost Books- Walter Moers

Top 10 of 2010:
The Land of Laughs- Jonathan Carrol
Homelands- Bill Willingham
Bridge of Birds- Barry Hughart
Hunchback of Notre Dame-Victor Hugo
Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
A Drowned Maiden's Hair- laura Amy Schlitz
13 and a 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
Uncle Silas- Sheridan Le Fanu
Lanark- Aliasdar Gray
Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie

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