Did This Last Year

So another year has come and gone with far less blogging than I should be doing.  For the record 82 books last year which was better than 2012.

Is this thing on?

Well time to fire this thing up again.  For the record only read 54 books in 2012.  No real point in doing a best of post.  Looking back on the list nothing really jumped out as being mind blowing.  As for the reason behind the low number well let's just say there been a few distractions over the past year.  So to a better 2013.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year let it be better than last.  Didn't really do enough reviews here to make it worthwhile to do a best of post.  So this is more a placeholder to remind myself that I did read 218 books in 2010.

Best of the year 2009

Following my usual tendencies this post is a little late.  Last year I read 196 books.  About half of those have been reviewed on the blog.  I'll probably turn out a few more in the upcoming days.  Of those books I read and reviewed here are the best.

• ARC Shades Of Grey by Jasper Fforde
• WWII Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II by Stephen Budiansky
• Biography/autobiography The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight
• RacingHitler's Motor Racing Battles: The Silver Arrows under the Swastika by Eberhard Reuss
• Fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
• Classic Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada

Best of 08

Here are the best of the 251 books I read in 08.

• Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
• Decent Interval: An Insider's Account Of Saigon's Indecent End by Frank Snepp
• Cindy in Iraq: A Civilian's Year in the War Zone by Cynthia I. Morgan
• Winston Churchill- Soldier: The Military Life of a Gentleman at War by Douglas Russell
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914 by William C. Fuller JrWith
  
• Every Mistake by Gwynne Dyer
• The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
• On Secret Service East of Constantinople by Peter Hopkirk

2007 Book Awards

Here are my choices for the best of 2007. These are books I've reviewed. They weren't necessarily published in the last year but as the NBC summertime slogan goes "its new to me".

Science Fiction and Fantasy

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

Honorable Mention

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

Thriller

Wheels of Fire by Terence Strong

Iraq

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

World War II

Killing Hitler: The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death by Roger Moorhouse

2006 Book Awards

Here are my choices for the best of 2006. These are books I've reviewed. They weren't necessarily published in the last year but as the NBC summertime slogan goes "its new to me".

Best World War II book.

Lukacs, John The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler

Best book on Afghanistan.

Fletcher, Arnold Afghanistan: highway of conquest

Best book on Iraq.

Rosen, Nir In The Belly of the Green Bird : The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq

Honorable mention to.

Schultheis, Rob Waging Peace: a special operations team's battle to rebuild Iraq

Best book on the Holocaust.

Bartov, Omer Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

Best book on Insurgency/Counterinsurgency, Partisan and Guerrilla Warfare.

Hammes, Thomas X. The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century

Best humor book.

Fforde, Jasper The Eyre Affair

Honorable mention to.

Pratchett, Terry Thud! a novel of Discworld

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