Another six months gone, time for another evaluation. I seem to be reading less and less lately.
Here's how things stand:
# Elric of Melniboné (The Eternal Champion Vol
~ Michael Moorcock
# Orlando ~ Virginia Woolf
# Fictions ~ Jorge Luis Borges
# Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ~ Haruki Murakami
# The Night Watch ~ Sergei Lukyanenko
# The Elephant Vanishes ~ Haruki Murakami
# Birthday Stories ~ Ed. Haruki Murakami
# The Epic of Gilgamesh
# Stranger Things Happen ~ Kelly Link
# The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque ~ Jeffrey Ford
# Temeraire ~ Naomi Novik
# Only Revolutions ~ Mark Z. Danielewski
# Fury ~ Salman Rushdie
# The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ~ Michael Chabon
# Old Man’s War ~ John Scalzi
# The Jewels of Aptor ~ Samuel R Delany
# The Chains That You Refuse ~ Elizabeth Bear
# The Ladies of Grace Adieu ~ Susanna Clarke
# The Iliad ~ Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
# The Odyssey ~ Homer, trans. Robert Fagles
# The Divine Comedy ~ Dante Alighieri
# Kafka on the Shore ~ Haruki Murakami
# Air ~ Geoff Ryman
# Trial of Flowers ~ Jay Lake
# Nova Swing ~ M John Harrison
# The Troika ~ Stepan Chapman
# Pale Fire ~ Vladimir Nabokov
# Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West ~ Cormac McCarthy
# Little, Big ~ John Crowley
# Learning the World ~ Ken MacLeod
# The Empire of Ice Cream ~ Jefrey Ford
# Secret Life: the Select Fire Remix ~ Jeff VanderMeer
# The Android’s Dream ~ John Scalzi
# Worldwired ~ Elizabeth Bear
# The Master and Margarita ~ Mikhail Bulgakov
# Volapük ~ Andrew Drummond
# Lanark - A Life in Four Books ~Alasdair Gray
# Dune ~ Frank Herbert
# The Time Machine ~ H G Wells
# The Lies of Locke Lamora ~ Scott Lynch
# Carnival ~ Elizabeth Bear
# Heart-Shaped Box ~ Joe Hill
# The Court of the Air ~ Stephen Hunt
# Evil for Evil ~ K J Parker
# Black Juice ~ Margo Lanagan
# Brasyl ~ Ian McDonald
# The Long Price volume 1 ~ Daniel Abraham
# The Somnambulist ~ Jonathan Barnes
# Splinter ~ Adam Roberts
# Accelerando ~ Charles Stross
# Count Zero ~ William Gibson
# The Player of Games ~ Iain M Banks
# Pirate Freedom ~ Gene Wolfe
# Black Sheep ~ Ben Peek
# The New Weird ~ Ed. by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
# A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire ~ Glen Cook
# Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer ~ Ben Templesmith
I make that 57 books, up 9 from six months ago, and up 14 from a year back. Things are definately getting worse.
33 of these books have been on my pile for longer than 1 year, and remain unread.
24 books are new to the pile since one year ago; 16 of those were added within the last six months.
I have read 7 books in the last year that did not appear on the lists in this thread (as they were bought and read within the six month period).
I have, if I've got these calculations right (I lost this entire post, had to start again, and didn't want to go to the effort of working it all out a second time, so the above numbers are from memory) bought 36 books in the last year, and read only 22.
Oh dear.
Where have you been? 
