A note on scores: I don’t really believe in giving books numerical scores, for reasons that should be self-evident, which is why I don’t do so in the actual reviews. But they can be useful to get a quick impression of what I thought about a book when scanning a list, so I use them on this page and this page only.

FICTION

Adams, John Joseph
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse – 5/10

Adams, Richard
Watership Down – 7/10

Adiga, Aravind
The White Tiger – 10/10

Amis, Kingsley
Lucky Jim – 6/10

Asimov, Isaac
Foundation – 3/10

Atwood, Margaret
The Blind Assassin – 7/10
The Year of the Flood – 7/10

Ballard, J.G.
The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard, Vol. I – 5/10

Banks, Iain M.
Culture series
1. Consider Phlebas – 7/10
2. The Player Of Games – 7/10
6. Look To Windward – 7/10

Banville, John
The Sea – 4/10

Barnes, Julian
The Sense of an Ending – 7/10

Birch, Carol
Jamrach’s Menagerie – 9/10

Bisson, Terry
Bears Discover Fire – 5/10

Bowles, Paul
The Sheltering Sky – 5/10

Brooks, Max
World War Z – 8/10

Calvino, Italo
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller – 3/10

Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game – 7/10

Carey, Peter
Bliss – 5/10
True History Of The Kelly Gang – 8/10

Chabon, Michael
A Model World – 5/10
Wonder Boys – 6/10
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – 10/10
Gentlemen of the Road – 8/10
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union – 9/10

Christopher, John
The Sword of the Spirits
The Prince in Waiting – 6/10
Beyond the Burning Lands – 8/10
The Sword of the Spirits – 7/10
Other
The Death Of Grass – 9/10
The Guardians – 7/10

Clarke, Arthur C.
2001: A Space Odyssey – 6/10

Clarke, Susanna
Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell – 10/10

Coelho, Paulo
The Alchemist – 5/10

Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace – 10/10
Diary of a Bad Year – 7/10

Cronin, Justin
The Passage – 7/10

Danielewski, Mark Z.
House of Leaves – 5/10

Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe – Unable to rate

DeWitt, Patrick
The Sisters Brothers – 8/10

Dick, Philip K.
The Man In The High Castle – 4/10

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – 6/10

Edugyan, Esi
Half-Blood Blues – 7/10

Ende, Michael
The Neverending Story – 8/10

Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex – 10/10

Farmer, Philip Jose
Riverworld series
2. The Fabulous Riverboat – 4/10
3. The Dark Design – 0/10
4. The Magic Labyrinth – 0/10

Foer, Jonathan Safran
Everything Is Illuminated – 4/10

Gaiman, Neil
American Gods – 7/10
Stories – 7/10

Garland, Alex
The Beach – 8/10
The Coma – 7/10

Gibson, William
Sprawl trilogy
1. Neuromancer – 10/10
2. Count Zero – 8/10
3. Mona Lisa Overdrive – 8/10
Bigend books
1. Pattern Recognition – 7/10
Other
Burning Chrome – 8/10

Graham, Brandon
King City – 8/10

Grossman, Lev
The Magicians – 10/10
The Magician King – 9/10

Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – 10/10

Haggard, H. Rider
King Solomon’s Mines – 5/10

Heller, Peter
The Dog Stars – 9/10

Hemingway, Ernest
The Torrents of Spring – 6/10
The First 49 Stories – 8/10
For Whom The Bell Tolls – 8/10
The Old Man and the Sea – 6/10

Hammett, Dashiell
The Maltese Falcon – 6/10

Heinlein, Robert
Time Enough For Love – 4/10
Citizen of the Galaxy – 7/10

Herbert, Frank
Dune – 6/10

Hilton, James
Lost Horizon – 5/10

Hoban, Russell
Riddley Walker – 8/10

Hollinghurst, Alan
The Stranger’s Child – 6/10

Homer
The Odyssey – Unable to rate

Household, Geoffrey
Rogue Male – 6/10

Hunt, Stephen
The Court of the Air – 3/10

Ishiguro, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go – 9/10

Kelman, Stephen
Pigeon English – 6/10

Kennedy, Cate
The Best Australian Stories 2010 – 8/10

Kerouac, Jack
On The Road – 6/10

Kibuishi, Kazu
Flight: Volume I – 7/10
Amulet: the Stonekeeper – 7/10

King, Stephen
Dark Tower series
1. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger – 7/10
2. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three – 9/10
3. The Dark Tower III: The Wastelands – 9/10
4. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard And Glass – 7/10
5. The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla – 7/10
6. The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah – 5/10
7. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower – 5/10
The Bachman books
The Long Walk – 9/10
Novels
11.22.63 – 6/10
Short story anthologies
Night Shift – 8/10

Kipling, Rudyard
Kim – 5/10

Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Left Hand of Darkness – 5/10
The Tombs of Atuan – 6/10

Lee, Harper
To Kill A Mockingbird – 10/10

Lethem, Jonathon
Gun, With Occasional Music – 7/10
Amnesia Moon – 7/10
As She Climbed Across The Table – 7/10

Mantel, Hilary
Wolf Hall – 5/10

Martel, Yann
Life of Pi – 10/10

Martin, George R.R.
A Song of Ice and Fire
1. A Game of Thrones – 9/10
2. A Clash of Kings – 8/10
3. A Storm of Swords – 9/10
4. A Feast For Crows – 7/10
5. A Dance With Dragons – 8/10

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
The General In His Labyrinth – 4/10

McCarthy, Cormac
Blood Meridian – 10/10
The Road – 10/10

McHugh, Maureen F.
China Mountain Zhang – 8/10

Melville, Herman
Typee – 4/10
Moby-Dick – 10/10

Mieville, China
Bas-Lag books
1. Perdido Street Station – 7/10
2. The Scar – 7/10
3. Iron Council – 6/10

Miller, A.D.
Snowdrops – 7/10

Miller, Andrew
Pure – 7/10

Miller, Walter M. Jr
A Canticle for Leibowitz – 5/10

Mitchell, David
Ghostwritten – 10/10
Number9dream – 9/10
Cloud Atlas – 10/10
Black Swan Green – 10/10
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – 10/10

Moore, Alan
Watchmen – 10/10
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. I – 8/10
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. II – 8/10

Murakami, Haruki
Kafka On The Shore – 1/10

Ness, Patrick
A Monster Calls – 8/10

Niven, Larry
Ringworld – 6/10

Nix, Garth
Sabriel – 5/10

Novik, Naomi
Temeraire – 1/10

Ondaatje, Michael
The English Patient – 9/10

Palahniuk, Chuck
Fight Club – 8/10

Powers,Tim
The Anubis Gates – 5/10

Pratchett, Terry
Discworld series
36. Making Money – 7/10
Miscellaneous
Nation – 7/10

Priest, Christopher
The Space Machine – 6/10
A Dream of Wessex – 6/10
Inverted World – 9/10
Fugue For A Darkening Island – 5/10

Pullman, Philip
Sally Lockhart books
1. The Ruby in the Smoke – 4/10
His Dark Materials
Once Upon a Time in the North – 6/10

Reeve, Philip
Mortal Engines series
1. Mortal Engines – 10/10
2. Predator’s Gold – 10/10
3. Infernal Devices – 10/10
4. A Darkling Plain – 10/10
Fever Crumb series
1. Fever Crumb – 7/10
2. A Web of Air – 7/10
3. Scrivener’s Moon – 7/10
Other
Here Lies Arthur – 8/10

Robinson, Kim Stanley
The Memory of Whiteness – 5/10
2312 – 7/10

Rodda, Emily
Rowan of Rin – 8/10

Rogers, Jane
The Testament of Jessie Lamb – 9/10

Rushdie, Salman
Midnight’s Children – 5/10

Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye – 6/10

Scott, Kim
That Deadman Dance – 7/10

Sebold, Alice
The Lovely Bones – 4/10

Simmons, Dan
Hyperion Cantos
1. Hyperion – 9/10
2. The Fall of Hyperion – 9/10
3. Endymion – 8/10
4. The Rise of Endymion – 7/10

Smith, Zadie
The Book of Other People – 7/10

Stephenson, Neal
Snow Crash – 8/10

Stevenson, Robert Louis
David Balfour books
1. Kidnapped – 8/10
Miscellanous
Treasure Island – 6/10
The Black Arrow – 5/10

Strahan, Jonathan
The Starry Rift – 5/10

Thompson, Hunter S.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – 10/10

Thompson, Sam
Communion Town – 4/10

Unsworth, Barry
Sacred Hunger – 8/10

van Loon, Julienne
Road Story – 5/10

Vandermeer, Jeff
City of Saints and Madmen – 6/10
Shriek: An Afterword – 5/10

Varley, John
Metals trilogy
1. Steel Beach – 8/10
2. The Golden Globe – 10/10
Miscellanous
The Barbie Murders – 7/10

Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse Five – 8/10

Winton, Tim
In The Winter Dark – 7/10

Wolfe, Gene
The Book of the New Sun
The Shadow of the Torturer – 8/10
The Claw of the Conciliator – 7/10
The Sword of the Lictor – 7/10
The Citadel of the Autarch – 7/10

Wyndham, John
The Day of the Triffids – 10/10
The Kraken Wakes – 10/10
The Chrysalids – 9/10
The Midwich Cuckoos – 10/10

NON-FICTION

Bryson, Bill
The Lost Continent – 8/10
Down Under – 7/10

Crombie, Steve
Lost On Earth – 6/10

Dahl, Roald
Going Solo – 9/10

Diamond, Jared
Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – 7/10

Fermor, Patrick Leigh
A Time Of Gifts – 8/10

Gill, AA
AA Gill Is Away – 8/10
Previous Convictions – 8/10
AA Gill Is Further Away – 8/10

Gombrich, E.H.
A Little History of the World – 8/10

Guevera, Che
The Motorcycle Diaries – 5/10

Horne, Donald
The Lucky Country – 7/10

Hughes, Robert
The Fatal Shore – 8/10

King, Stephen
On Writing – 8/10

Knudsen, Nancy
Shooting Stars and Flying Fish – 5/10

Orwell, George
Books
Down And Out In Paris And London – 9/10
The Road To Wigan Pier – 8/10
Homage To Catalonia – 9/10
Essay collections
Shooting An Elephant And Other Essays – 8/10
Penguin collected edition
1. An Age Like This – 7/10
2. My Country, Right or Left – 7/10
3. As I Please – 8/10

Read, Paul Piers
Alive – 7/10

Simon, Ted
Jupiter’s Travels – 7/10

Spiegelman, Art
Maus – 10/10

Sulkowsky, Zoltan
Around the World on a Motorcycle, 1928-1936 – 5/10

Twain, Mark
Following The Equator: Volume I – 7/10
Following The Equator: Volume II – 6/10

Uhlig, Robert
Long Way Round – 7/10

Watson, Don
American Journeys – 7/10

Zinn, Howard
A People’s History of the United States – 7/10