VOL I - 2009-2010
Read of the Year: Berlin Diary - William Shirer
Novel: Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
Short Fiction: The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe
Play: Macbeth - William Shakespeare
History: American Future - Simon Schama
Thinker Award: The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Political: Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Auto/Biography: Berlin Diary - William Shirer
Travel: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Theroux
Local Book: All Because of Him - Klara Anderson
Largest Read: War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Shortest Read: African Diary - Bill Bryson
Oldest: The Annals of Imperial Rome - Tacitus
Bizarre Title: Blackshirts in Devon - Todd Gray
Shredder Award: Blood Bowl - Matt Forbeck
TOP TEN READS: 2009-2010
1. Berlin Diary (Autobiography) - William Shirer
2. Lord Jim (Novel) - Joseph Conrad
3. Rights of Man (Political) - Thomas Paine
4. The American Future (History) - Simon Schama
5. Wuthering Heights (Novel) - Emily Bronte
6. The Annals of Imperial Rome (History) - Tacitus
7. Macbeth (Play) - William Shakespeare
8. The Selfish Gene (Science) - Richard Dawkins
9. War & Peace (Novel) - Leo Tolstoy
10. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (Travel) - Paul Theroux
VOL II - 2010-11
Read of the Year: The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner
Novel: The Sound & The Fury - William Faulkner
Short Fiction: Dubliners - James Joyce
Play: Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Poetry: Poems - Wilfred Owen
History: Postwar - Tony Judd
Thinker Award: Voices of Peace - Anna Keirnan (ed.)
Political: Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Auto/Biography: The Frock Coated Communist - Tristan Hunt
Local Book: Cornwall: A History - Philip Payton
Largest: Post War - Tony Judd (850 pages)
Shortest: Duke of Cornwall - Michael Williams (80 pages)
Oldest: The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
Bizarre Title: Flushed With Pride - Wallace Reyburn
Shredder Award: Duke of Cornwall - Michael Williams
TOP TEN READS: 2010-2011
1. The Sound & The Fury (Novel) - William Faulkner
2. Common Sense (Political) - Thomas Paine
3. Poems (Poetry) - Wilfred Owen
4. The Communist Manifesto (Political) - Marx & Engels
5. The Catcher in the Rye (Novel) - J.D. Salinger
6. Postwar (History) - Tony Judt
7. Julius Caesar (Play) - William Shakespeare
8. Oryx & Crake (Novel) - Margaret Atwood
9. Rubicon (History) - Tom Holland
10. The Middle Parts of Fortune (Novel) - Frederick Manning
VOL III - 2011-2012
Read of the Year: The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
Novel: Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Short Stories: Tales of Mystery & Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Play: Henry VI Part Three - William Shakespeare
Poetry: Prufrock and Other Observations - T.S. Eliot
History: Ceremonial Time - John Hanson Mitchell
Thinker: God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
Political: Earth In Mind - David W. Orr
Auto/Biography: The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
Graphic Novel: Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Longest: Fantastic Four Vol.1 - Stan Lee & Jack Kirkby (550 pages)
Shortest: Writing Comics - Alan Moore (50 pages)
Oldest: Henry VI Part One - William Shakespeare (1591)
Oldest: Henry VI Part One - William Shakespeare (1591)
Oddest Title: Once I Was A Washing Machine - Federation of British Writers
TOP TEN READS: 2011-2012
1. The Drowned and the Saved (Autobiography) - Primo Levi
2. Love in the Time of Cholera (Novel) - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Watchmen (Graphic) - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
4. Lord of the Flies (Novel) - William Golding
5. Notes from Underground (Novel) - Dostovesky
6. Down and Out in Paris and London (Auto) - George Orwell
7. God is Not Great (Philosophy) - Christopher Hitchens
8. Ceremonial Time (History) - John Hanson Mitchell
9. Lunar Park (Novel) - Bret Easton Ellis
10. The Course of German History (History) - A.J.P. Taylor
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