For the record …
Read:

• Snuff, Terry Pratchett
• Ark Royal, Mike Rossiter
• The Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
• The Crow Road, Iain Banks
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Kate Summerscale
• On Writing, Stephen King
• Pig’s Progress, Jeanette Sears
• Peace and War, Joe Haldeman
• Time Riders, Alex Scarrow
• A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
• Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold
• Death of the Scharnhorst, John Winton
• The Recollection, Gareth L. Powell
• Margrave of the Marshes, John Peel
• The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind
• The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry
• Whitehall: The Street that Shaped a Nation, Colin Brown
• Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy, Andy Briggs
• The Deserter, Peadar Ó Guilín
• The Death of Dalziel, Reginald Hill
• David, Mary Hoffman
• Young Sherlock Holmes: Black Ice, Andrew Lane
• Midwinter of the Spirit, Phil Rickman
• The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
• A Good Hanging and Other Stories, Ian Rankin
• Blood Fever, Charlie Higson
• Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
• An April Shroud, Reginald Hill
• A Clubbable Woman, Reginald Hill
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• The Woodcutter, Reginald Hill
• Lob, Linda Newbery
• Degrees of Freedom, Simon Morden
• Reave the Just and Other Tales, Stephen Donaldson
• Scorpia Rising, Anthony Horowitz
• Theories of Flight, Simon Morden
• Equations of Life, Simon Morden
• The Mammoth Book of Life Before the Mast: Firsthand Accounts of Naval Warfare from the Age of Nelson and Fighting Sail, ed. Jon E. Lewis
• The Vivero Letter, Desmond Bagley
• Scrimgeour’s Scribbling Diary: The Truly Astonishing Diary and Letters of an Edwardian Gentleman, Naval Officer, Boy and Son, Alexander Scrimgeour
• The City and the City, China Miéville
• The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
• Iron Tears: America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire: 1775-1783, Stanley Weintraub
• I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett
• The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography, Claire Harman
• Mr Golightly’s Holiday, Salley Vickers

Gave up on:

• Wormwood, G.P. Taylor

Watched:

• The Eagle Has Landed
• There Will Be Blood
• Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
• Jagged Edge
• Taken
• The Next Three Days
• The Eagle
• Source Code
• Runaway Jury
• The Long Good Friday
• The Duchess
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Ipcress File
• Consenting Adults
• The Great Buck Howard
• Tron: Legacy
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The American
• The Good German
• Made in Dagenham
• Arachnophobia
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Kes
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• The Social Network
• Despicable Me
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
• True Grit
• Walk the Line
• Red
• Wall-E
• Jaws
• Keeping Mum
• Wall Street
• Shrek Forever After
• The Girl Who Played with Fire
• The Talented Mr Ripley
• The Men Who Stare at Goats
• The King’s Speech