 | Havoc, in Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Buy used from: £0.01 Excellent start to the year, gripping and moving
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 | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 What is all the fuss about? The parts about the Holy Family are mildly interesting whatever about the accuracy, but the rest? phhaa
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 | Red Gold by Alan Furst
Buy used from: £1.50 Not too bad, not too great either..
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 | Jiving at the Crossroads: Shock of the New in Haughey's Ireland by John Waters
Buy used from: £0.01 A strong account of the actual & perceived gaps between the power centre of Ireland and the rest of the country.
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 | The Last Family in England by Matt Haig
Buy used from: £0.01 Mildly diverting until the last quarter or so when it picks up a good bit.
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 | Booked by Tom Humphries
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Good collection from my favourite Irish journo, good cause too
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 | Made in America by Bill Bryson
Buy used from: £0.01 So much info, very well put across
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 I'll have to read this again, not sure I got the sense of reading the 'definitive American novel' at all
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 | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Buy used from: £9.27 This is Quality writing, note capital Q
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 | Marathon Man (Bloomsbury Film Classics) by William Goldman
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the best trillers I've read
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wasn't expecting much of this, but was more than pleasantly surprised, great stuff
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 | True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans by Joe Queenan
Buy used from: £0.01 Describes what all sports fans feel at some stage or another, eughhaaggghh
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 | Leviathan (Faber Fiction Classics) by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.99 Great opening line, great book, great writer
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 | Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £0.01 Disappointed in this, did they give him the Booker for Enduring Love?
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 | 30 Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair's War by Peter Stothard
Buy used from: £0.01 Interesting, would have been more so if I read it earlier I suspect.
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 | Europe Since 1870: An International History by James Joll
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £2.50 A history classic, though I only read as far as 1918, decided then to start on next one.
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 | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Powerful, read description of Battle of Verdun and be left reeling
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 | Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Buy used from: £0.01 A lovely little book, funny and sad, great intro to Auster.
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 | About the Author by John Colapinto
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Really grips you at the start, but inevitably fades a bit thereafter, still recommended though
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 | Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F. X. Toole
Buy used from: £1.39 Superb story telling, gripping, moving, hilarious, devastating
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (International Writers) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £1.17 You don't read this, you immerse yourself in it
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 | The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.01 First Graham Greene novel I've read, will read more.
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 | The Barracks (Faber Fiction Classics) by John McGahern
Buy used from: £0.29 McGahern's first, writing is superb, but too much youthful bitterness overshadow it methinks
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 | The Lifelong Season by Keith Duggan
Buy used from: £43.56 Alternative views of the GAA, Frank McGuigan's story particularly affecting and Irish
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 | Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.59 Nice, some funny moments, but nothing spectacular
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