{read in 2008}

  1. The Complete Short Stories of Saki
  2. Locked Rooms - Laurie R. King
  3. Murder in the Marais - Cara Black
  4. A Case of Two Cities - Qiu Xiaolong
  5. The Mule's Foal - Fotini Epanomitis
  6. Fetters of Fire - Bertha M. Clay [re-read]
  7. Sliver of Truth: A Novel - Lisa Unger
  8. The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy - Evelyn Waugh
  9. The Bay of Angels - Anita Brookner
  10. What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
  11. Paris after the Liberation: 1944-1949 - Antony Beevor
  12. The Rockingdown Mystery - Enid Blyton [re-read]
  13. Arabella - Georgette Heyer
  14. The Rubadub Mystery - Enid Blyton [re-read]
  15. Falling Slowly - Anita Brookner
  16. These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer
  17. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
  18. Horse Under Water - Len Deighton
  19. The Act of Roger Murgatroyd - Gilbert Adair
  20. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
  21. One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
  22. They Call Me Naughty Lola: The LRB Personal Ads
  23. The Alienist - Caleb Carr
  24. Silent in the Sanctuary - Deanna Raybourn
  25. Disarmed: The Story of the Venus de Milo - Gregory Curtis
  26. Edie: An American Biography - Jean Stein
  27. Death of an Expert Witness - P.D. James [re-read]
  28. Female Chauvinist Pigs - Ariel Levy
  29. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - G.K. Chesterton
  30. Devil's Cub - Georgette Heyer
  31. Worrals Goes East - Captain W E Johns [re-read]
  32. The Inspector and Mrs Jeffries - Emily Brightwell
  33. Dead Sleep - Greg Iles
  34. Welcome Death - Glyn Daniel
  35. Frederica - Georgette Heyer
  36. Stasiland - Anna Funder
  37. A Friend in the Kitchen: Old Australian Cookery - Colin Bannerman
  38. Famous Trials - H. Hodge & J. H. Hodge (eds.) [re-read]
  39. Sinister Service - W. E. Johns [re-read]
  40. The Corinthian - Georgette Heyer
  41. The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer
  42. Cousin Kate - Georgette Heyer
  43. Covet - Tara Moss
  44. A Perfect Evil - Alex Kava
  45. Murder on the Eiffel Tower - Claude Izner
  46. The Convenient Marriage - Georgette Heyer
  47. A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
  48. Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
  49. Around the World With Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis
  50. Regency Buck - Georgette Heyer
  51. Snow Blind - P. J. Tracy
  52. The Closers - Michael Connelly
  53. Echo Park - Michael Connelly
  54. April Lady - Georgette Heyer
  55. Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel - Julian Symons
  56. The Night Ferry - Michael Robotham
  57. Powder and Patch - Georgette Heyer
  58. Hiroshima - John Hersey
  59. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë [re-read]
  60. Alamein to Zem Zem - Keith Douglas
  61. Tintin and the Secret of Literature - Tom McCarthy
  62. Pentimento - Lillian Hellman
  63. The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
  64. My Blue Notebooks: The Intimate Journal of Liane de Pougy
  65. Before the Fact. A Murder Story for Ladies - Francis Iles
  66. Stamboul Train - Graham Greene
  67. Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver
  68. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  69. The Man in the Queue - Josephine Tey [re-read]
  70. The Victorian House - Judith Flanders
  71. 1939: The Last Season - Anne De Courcy
  72. Death of a Ghost - Margery Allingham
  73. The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
  74. The Secret Servant - Daniel Silva
  75. Roseanna - Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
  76. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
  77. Last Seen Wearing - Hillary Waugh
  78. The Foundling - Georgette Heyer
  79. My Favorite Mystery Stories - Maureen Daly [re-read]
  80. Cotillion - Georgette Heyer
  81. Smallbone Deceased - Michael Gilbert
  82. The Journal of Dora Damage - Belinda Starling
  83. Department of Dead Ends - Roy Vickers
  84. Malice Aforethought - Francis Iles
  85. The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris - Edmund White
  86. That Kind of Woman: Rebellious Stories by Colette, HD, Anaïs Nin, Virginia Woolf & others
  87. Faceless Killers - Henning Mankell
  88. Love in Amsterdam - Nicolas Freeling
  89. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  90. Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories - Jacques Futrelle
  91. The Miernik Dossier - Charles McCarry
  92. The Red House Mystery - A. A Milne
  93. The Leavenworth Case - Anna Katharine Green
  94. The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes
  95. Because of the Cats - Nicolas Freeling
  96. The Man in the Corner - Baroness Orczy
  97. Love of Fat Men - Helen Dunmore
  98. Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell - Georgina Howell
  99. Gun Before Butter - Nicolas Freeling
  100. The Man Who Ate Everything - Jeffrey Steingarten
  101. Best Max Carrados Detective Stories - Ernest Bramah Smith
  102. A Question of Proof - Nicholas Blake
  103. Cat Among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie [re-read]
  104. Passenger to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie [re-read]
  105. Rest and be Thankful - Helen Macinnes [re-read]
  106. The Venetian Affair - Helen MacInnes [re-read]
  107. Hidden Target - Helen MacInnes [re-read]
  108. Cloak of Darkness - Helen Macinnes [re-read]
  109. Fifty Years of Europe - Jan Morris
  110. Agent in Place - Helen MacInnes [re-read]
  111. Sultry Climates: Travel & Sex Since The Grand Tour - Ian Littlewood
  112. Ride a Pale Horse - Helen MacInnes [re-read]
  113. It Must've Been Something I Ate - Jeffrey Steingarten
  114. Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu [re-read]
  115. The Room In The Dragon Volant - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
  116. Where Eagles Dare - Alistair MacLean [re-read]
  117. Women of the Left Bank - Shari Benstock
  118. Ice Station Zebra - Alistair Maclean [re-read]
  119. The Disappearing Floor - Franklin W. Dixon [re-read]
  120. The Unconquerable - Helen MacInnes
  121. The Double Image - Helen MacInnes [re-read]
  122. Corfu - Robert Dessaix
Books in red are by Australian or semi-Australian authors.