Read and Appreciated in 2004
A Year’s Best List
In no particular order:
- Kalpa Imperial, Angélica Gorodischer
- Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, Matt Ruff
- The House on Moon Lake, Francesca Duranti
- Midnight Lamp, Gwyneth Jones
- Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett
- Midwinter Nightingale, Joan Aiken
- The Confusion, Neal Stephenson
- The System of the World, Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- Berlin Noir (March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem), Philip Kerr
- The Golden Transcendence, John C. Wright
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel
- English Passengers, Matthew Kneale
- The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Steven Sherrill
- Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
- The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
- The Little Black Book of Stories, A. S. Byatt
Anne Sydenham lives in Australia and maintains the Jerusalem Dreaming, an Edward Whittemore tribute web site.
Copyright © 2005 by Anne Sydenham.





